Much of politics is preference and opinion, with one person giving weight to one set of arguments while another accepts the opposing set of arguments. In the 2016 presidential election, some were more offended by what Donald Trump said and did than what Hillary Clinton said and did. On the other side, some were more negative about Clinton’s words and acts than Trump’s. Some liked the idea of reducing government regulations; some wanted all the regulations kept and desired even more. Some see the value in laying a pipeline; some see the problems.
Out of all the different issues, two facts (not preference and opinion) must forevermore affect the votes of those who still have a heart and soul. The first is that abortion is murder and the second is that any support of the Democratic Party that endorses the murder of the unborn as part of its platform is an accessory to murder and guilty as well.
The first fact:
At conception, the fertilization of an egg by a sperm results in a new human life, a unique individual. That’s a scientific and medical fact. Even many abortionists agree that abortion is killing, murder, the taking of a human life.
Dr. Jerome LeJeune, who was a pediatrician and professor of genetics in Paris, testified before a Congressional subcommittee, saying, “after fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being” and that this “is no longer a matter of taste or opinion,” and “not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence…. Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.” 1
Moore and Persaud, in their book on embryology, wrote, “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo)…. his highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.”2
In an article for the California Medical Association, Dr. Malcom Watts wrote, “…it has been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous until death.”3 The source where this was found says it was a pro-abortion piece.
Dr. Bertran Wainer, an abortionist who founded an abortion clinic said, “Abortion is killing. Nobody can argue with that. When the fetus is inside the uterus it is alive and when the pregnancy terminated it is dead – that by any definition is killing. … I think abortion is the destruction of something which is potentially irreplaceable, human and of great value, which is the tragedy of abortion. But it is not of greater value than the woman seeking the abortion.”4
Professor Hymie Gordon of the Mayo Clinic testified before a Senate committed in 1981, saying, “By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception” and “unequivocally, that the question when life begins is no longer a question for theological or philosophical dispute. It is an established scientific fact.” “…it is an established fact that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception.”5
W.J. Larsen, in a book about human embryology, wrote, “In this text, we begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes, which will unite at fertilization to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual.”6
Carol Everett was the administrator of four abortion clinics and owned two. She said, “Every woman has these same two questions: First, ‘Is it a baby?’ ‘No’ the counselor assures her. ‘It is a product of conception (or a blood clot, or a piece of tissue)’ Even though these counselors see six week babies daily, with arms, legs and eyes that are closed like newborn puppies, they lie to the women. How many women would have an abortion, if they told them the truth?”7
In their book on embryology, O’Rahilly and Muller wrote, “Fertilization is an important landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.”8
Before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981, Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth of Harvard Medical School testified that a human life begins at conception and supported her testimony by references to more than twenty embryology and medical textbooks. She said, “It is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive…. It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception.”9
An abortionist said, “I can now say openly that I do think I am ending a life every time I do an abortion, but I do it as someone who has certain skill which is put at the disposal of a woman who does not want her pregnancy to continue.”10
Bruce Patten’s textbook on embryology states, “Almost all higher animals start their lives from a single cell, the fertilized ovum (zygote)…. The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual.”11
Notice their words: it is no longer a matter of taste or opinion…scientific fact, which everyone really knows…Abortion is killing. Nobody can argue with that…. …the question when life begins is no longer a question for theological or philosophical dispute. It is an established scientific fact. …It is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive.
Thus, C.W. Kischer, who was a professor of anatomy and human embryology could make the sweeping statement, “Every human embryologist, worldwide, states that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization (conception).… We exist as a continuum of human life, which begins at fertilization and continues until death.”12
What is killed during an abortion is a living, unique human being and is thus murder.
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1 http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Mar/8/scientists-attest-life-beginning-conception/
Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session April 23-24, 1981.
2 Moore, K. and T.V.N. Persaud. 1998. The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (6th ed.), W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.
come from here: http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/scienceabortion.html
3 http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/how-are-abortions-done
4 Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 59
5 Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981. http://naapc.org/why-life-begins-at-conception/ ,
Part was found above and part was found the book: The Life and Death Debate: Moral Issues of Our Time By James Porter Moreland, Norman L. Geisler p.34,35
6 Larsen, W.J. 1998. Essentials of Human Embryology, Churchill Livingstone, New York.
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/scienceabortion.html
7 Carol Everett “A Walk Through an Abortion Clinic” ALL About Issues magazine Aug-Sept 1991, pg. 117 http://liveactionnews.org/is-it-a-baby-clinic-workers-respond/
8 O’Rahilly, R. and F. Muller. 1996. Human Embryology & Teratology, Wiley-Liss, New York. http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/scienceabortion.html
9 http://clinicquotes.com/scientists-speak-before-the-senate-human-life-begins-at-conception/
10 Anonymous “Personal View” British Medical Journal 1984, 289: 1377
http://clinicquotes.com/abortionist-ending-life/
11 Carlson, Bruce M. Patten’s Foundations of Embryology, 6th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, p. 3) http://liveactionnews.org/life-begins-at-conception-science-teaches/
12 Christine Watkins, editor The Ethics of Abortion (New York: Greenhaven press, 2005)
http://clinicquotes.com/embryologist-everyone-knows-life-begins-at-conception/
