Pro-Life Editorial Response :: essays research papers

Dear Mr. Shawn Nauman,This letter is in response to your March 1, 1995 editorial regarding abortion. It mustiness have been very tough at times, growing up with parents who were so young and unprepared for a child. I must commend your parents for doing much(prenominal) a wonderful job of raising a son who grew up to be so vocal with his opinions and thoughts. I realize with your mother be a teenager at the time of your conception, and with the timing of her pregnancy, with regards to the infamous hard roe v. Wade decision, that the issue of abortion is perhaps an issue that is very personalized one. You make some heart-touching statements in your writing, such as, she gave up her life so that she could give me mine, and I have the pleasure of surviveing I am living because she loved me. I must admit though, it caught me entirely tally guard when I got to the point in your column that you revealed that you were indeed pro-choice. You look like the perfect candidate for someone who would be preaching pro-life. Mr. Nauman, I ask you, how does your conscience allow you to encourage pro-choice behavior when you know that abortion means murdering a compassionate existence? You may issue that a fetus does not fit the profile of a human being because the fetus is not a living human being before birth. Basic biological knowledge easily defeats this statement. Once spermatozoon enters into the vagina, it travels through the cervix and into the Fallopian tubes. Conception usually takes place in the outer(prenominal) third of the Fallopian tube. A single sperm penetrates the mothers egg cell and the ontogeny child gets half of its genetic in giveation, in the form of DNA, from the mother, which resides inside in the egg, and half from the father, which is found in the sperm. The resulting single cell is called a zygote. The zygote spends the next few days traveling down the Fallopian tube and divides to form many attached cells. A ball of cells is produced, each cell including a copy of the genes that will guide the development of the baby. Once about 32 cells have developed, biologists term the maturation baby as a morula. With extra cell division, the morula becomes an outer shell of cells with an attached inner group of cells. The developing baby now enters the "blastocyst" stage.