Life or Death: Who Chooses?

             In 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
             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
             carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
             different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a
             member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus
             needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time,
             nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined at that
             very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a
             girl; which of his parents he will look like; what blood type he
             will have. His whole heritag...

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