Abortion 7 Essay Research Paper All of

Abortion 7 Essay, Research Paper

All of the arguments against abortion boil down to

six specific questions. The first five deal with the

nature of the zygote-embryo-fetus growing inside a

mother’s womb. The last one looks at the morality

of the practice. These questions are:

1.Is it alive.

2.Is it human.

3.Is it a person.

4.Is it physically independent.

5.Does it have human rights.

6.Is abortion murder.

Let’s take a look at each of these questions. We’ll

show how anti-abortionists use seemingly logical

answers to back up their cause, but then we’ll show

how their arguments actually support the fact that

abortion is moral.

1. Is it alive.

Yes. Pro Choice supporters who claim it isn’t do

themselves and their cause a disservice. Of course

it’s alive. It’s a biological mechanism that converts

nutrients and oxygen into biological energy that

causes its cells to divide, multiply, and grow. It’s

alive.

Anti-abortion activists often mistakenly use this fact

to support their cause. “Life begins at conception”

they claim. And they would be right. The genesis of

a new human life begins when the egg with 23

chromosomes joins with a sperm with 23

chromosomes and creates a fertilized cell, called a

zygote, with 46 chromosomes. The single-cell

zygote contains all the DNA necessary to grow into

an independent, conscious human being. It is a

potential person.

But being alive does not give the zygote full human

rights – including the right not to be aborted during

its gestation.

A single-cell ameba also coverts nutrients and

oxygen into biological energy that causes its cells to

divide, multiply and grow. It also contains a full set

of its own DNA. It shares everything in common

with a human zygote except that it is not a potential

person. Left to grow, it will always be an ameba -

never a human person. It is just as alive as the

zygote, but we would never defend its human rights

based solely on that fact.

And neither can the anti-abortionist, which is why

we must answer the following questions as well.

2. Is it human.

Yes. Again, Pro Choice defenders stick their feet in

their mouths when they defend abortion by claiming

the zygote-embryo-fetus isn’t human. It is human.

Its DNA is that of a human. Left to grow, it will

become a full human person.

And again, anti-abortion activists often mistakenly

use this fact to support their cause. They are fond

of saying, “an acorn is an oak tree in an early stage

of development; likewise, the zygote is a human

being in an early stage of development.” And they

would be right. But having a full set of human DNA

does not give the zygote full human rights -

including the right not to be aborted during its

gestation.

Don’t believe me. Here, try this: reach up to your

head, grab one strand of hair, and yank it out.

Look at the base of the hair. That little blob of

tissue at the end is a hair follicle. It also contains a

full set of human DNA. Granted it’s the same DNA

pattern found in every other cell in your body, but

in reality the uniqueness of the DNA is not what

makes it a different person. Identical twins share

the exact same DNA, and yet we don’t say that

one is less human than the other, nor are two twins

the exact same person. It’s not the configuration of

the DNA that makes a zygote human; it’s simply

that it has human DNA. Your hair follicle shares

everything in common with a human zygote except

that it is a little bit bigger and it is not a potential

person. (These days even that’s not an absolute

considering our new-found ability to clone humans

from existing DNA, even the DNA from a hair

follicle.)

Your hair follicle is just as human as the zygote, but

we would never defend its human rights based

solely on that fact.

And neither can the anti-abortionist, which is why

the following two questions become critically

important to the abortion debate.

3. Is it a person.

No. It’s merely a potential person.

Webster’s Dictionary lists a person as “being an

individual or existing as an indivisible whole; existing

as a distinct entity.” Anti-abortionists claim that

each new fertilized zygote is already a new person

because its DNA is uniquely different than anyone

else’s. In other words, if you’re human, you must be

a person.

Of course we’ve already seen that a simple hair

follicle is just as human as a single-cell zygote, and,

that unique DNA doesn’t make the difference since

two twins are not one person. It’s quite obvious,

then, that something else must occur to make one

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