Abortion- Scientifically Speaking
Hello, everyone 
I will spare you from my personal views on abortion, however, I will speak of it in scientific terms.
Those of you who have taken Biology or Life Science in school might remember a scenario like this during your first week:
Teacher: “Class, how can we tell if something is alive?”
The class goes through some characteristics that they see in everyday life forms, but fails to come up with a comprehensive definition.
Teacher: This is how we can tell.
The teacher begins to write on the board.
The Four Conditions Common to all Life Forms
- All life forms contain DNA.
- All life forms are able to sense and respond to changes in their environment.
- All life forms have a means to extract energy from their environment and process it.
- All life forms have a method of reproduction.
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So, if there are four conditions by which we can tell if something is alive, perhaps we can apply this to infants in the womb. If they fail to fulfill any of these conditions, then the pro-choice people are correct. If they fulfill each of these conditions, then the pro-life people are correct. Let’s examine this, and see how babies in the womb score.
- Babies contain human DNA, each half of the set donated by each of the parents, which are human, and so give their child human DNA.
- Babies are able to sense sensations such as pain from very early into gestation, and at all stages are able to sense the presence of food given by their mother. Having sensed this food, their cells take it in and process it.
- Babies have an umbilical chord through which they recieve food, and they are capable of performing the energy-processing function of respiration.
- Babies, at all stages, are capable of cellular reproduction, in both Mitosis and Meiosis. And once their bodies have developed, they posess eggs in the womb, and sperm in the testes, and as a Scottish scientist has found, they are viable to be planted in a barren woman’s womb and are capable of being fertilized.
So, babies do fulfill the qualifications of life at all stages after all. I will leave it here, and let you draw your own conclusions as to how ethical abortion is.
God bless,
~Lily
