Abortion
n Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was
permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no
longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along
with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United
Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical
Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost
respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This
declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo
in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an individual
human being? The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful
thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of
us who would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry aloud for
it's own protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to
life in the last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments
of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science -
Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life
has been created. Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide
their knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of
science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new
human being is created. A new human being who...
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