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Lives outweigh womens' rights
By William Moore
Her heart started belting
when she was less than a
month old. and s\ ill continue
doing so until the end of her
life
By the time she was a month
old, she had a brain, eves. ears,
mouth, kidneys, liver and um
bilical cord
Commentary
Bs the age ol a mouth and a
halt her brain w as produr mg
deter.table brainwaves The first
movements ol her body and
limbs ocr urred then as well al
though it will be another three
months before her mother no
tices movement
She moves through hei
warm, buoyant world with a
delightful. eass gfai e ill
what has been desi rifled as the
"in uli‘m wait/ She responds
to a wide arras of stimuli in
cluding pain touch cold
sound, light and taste She gets
hit i ups and sin ks her thumb
She wakes and sleeps and gets
bored with repetitive stimuli
Although she is a living
growing human being, the
i hild pit tured above has no
rights, no choice, no control
over'what happens to her hods
In spite of legal "safeguards
in practice she can be killed le
galls up to the moment of her
birth
In the w ords of Dr A AN
Liles. professor of fetal physiol
ogs National Women's Hospi
tal. Auckland, New Zealand
"This then is the fetus that sti
bium and indeed we each
were. This is the fetus sve look
after in modern obstetrics, the
same baby sve are caring lor be
fore and after birth, who before
birth can be ill and need diag
nosis and treatment inst like
any other patient
" This is also the fetus whose
existence and identity must be
so i allouslv ignored or oner
getu alls denied bs advocates
of abortion
Information and quotations
above from i)r Liles’s book, \
(.Vise Against Abortion
l)r |erome Lejeune. svoriel-re
novvned genetic ist and protes
sor of genetics .it the Faculty of
Medicine in Paris. ri-< »■ n11 \ tes
litifii during the Tennessee tro
/ell embryo i use I'he follow mg
cm erpls translated from
French arc from the transi ript
ot (flat trial
(J I believe that in your opin
ion the fetus is a human being7
A It is not tm opinion It is
the teai lung of all the genetii s
that 1 was given There's no
doubt it's a human being be
cause it cannot be a chimpan
zee being, so it's a human be
mg
(J So you oppose abortion?
A I dislike to kill a member
ot mv own km. no doubt And
beside that I'm a I rent h doi tor;
I have sw orn the oath ot I lip
poi rates and Hippocrates lour
hundred v ears before the ( tins
tian era made an oath that thou
shall not give poison, thou
shall not procure abortion That
means that the size ol the pa
tient does not matter a patient
is a patient That is the Hippo
i ratic oath
Q Ho you regard an early lui
man being as having the same
moral rights as a later human
being such as m\self7
A 'toil have to excuse me.
I'm verv very direi t As far as
your nature is i oncerued. 1 can
not see any differeni es between
the early human being you
were and the later human being
you are because in both i axes.
\ on were and vou are a member
ol our species What defines a
human being is it belongs to
our species, so an early one or a
late one has not i hanged from
spei ies one species to another
species It belongs to our kin
That is <i definition And I
would say very prer iseh th.it I
have the same respect, no mat
ter the amount ot kilograms
and no matter the amount ol
differentiation ol tissues
Q Dr l.ejeune let me make
sure 1 understand w hat you are
telling us. The z.vgote should
be treated with the same re
spec t as an adult human being7
A Pm telling you it is a hu
man being, and then it is a Jus
lice who will tell whethei this
human being has the same
rights as the others. II you
make a difference between hu
man beings It is up to you
prove the reasons that you
make the different e Hut as a
genetic 1st you ask me whether
this human being is human,
and I would tell you that he
cause it is a being and being
human, he is a human being
11 Will you i oni file I )r I.e
jeune there are other very ills
tinguished si lentists, men who
are as learned as you. who have
thought and who have at a ess to
the same si ieritifii information
that you have, who t unit: to a
different i out lusion about the
moral rights or moral dots to
the zygote?
A t )h yes hut not about
w hether or not is s a human be
dig
lliologli.nllv there is no
question that eat h human Ide
begins his ni her existent e at
i one eption This new indivitlu
al is exreedingiy vulnerable at
this stage ot his or hei life
needing sjiei ial protet tion and
mu tin ing 1 ai ll ol u started
life III |list tins wa\ and the
reason we are still living is that
we ourselves, nurtured and
protec ted bv our mothers Does
a child forfeit the very right to
exist simply by reason of this
vulnerability'
W illiam Moore, is a member
ni the classified stall at I hr I an
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