the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are

thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay

waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the

murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient--the

accomplice to the murder. This is the murder of an innocent child by a

procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent

child's heart. People must no longer ignore the scientific evidence that

life begins at the moment of conception. People can no longer ignore the

medical and emotional problems an abortion causes women. People must stop

denying the facts about the procedure, and start hearing the silent screams

The argument by the pro-abortion side is that the unborn child is not

truly a child. Many people who are pro-abortion justify their beliefs

through the concept that a fetus is only a blob of tissue until it is born,

or the statement: life begins at birth. Abortion is not as simple as

removing a "blob of tissue" (as the pro-abortion activists put it) from a

woman's body. Abortion is the destruction, dismembering and killing of a

human life--an unborn baby. "But it is scientific and medical fact based on

experimental evidence, that a fetus is a living, growing, thriving human

being, directing his or her own development" (Fetal Development). A fetus is

not just a blob of tissue, rather a fetus is Latin for "offspring or young

one." Human life begins at fertilization, therefore it is wrong to murder

the innocent child in the womb. At a US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee

meeting, most scientists said that life begins at conception or implantation

of the embryo. No scientist at the meeting claimed that life begins at birth

(Factbot). Professor Hymie Gordon of the Mayo clinic stated "' . . by all

criteria of modern biology, life is present from the moment of conception'"

(Fetal Development). In a 1963 Planned Parenthood pamphlet entitled 'Plan

Your Children' it states "an abortion kills the life of a baby after it has

begun. It is dangerous to your life and health" (Factbot). Even though

abortion is dangerous to a woman's life, and it kills her baby, Planned

Parenthood still offers it as a safe solution. This statement contradicts

what most abortion clinics say. It is not possible for abortion to be

offered to women as a safe solution, when it not only puts her life in

danger, but it also kills her child.

Not only has science proven that a fetus is truly a human, the simple

facts also confer abortion kills the life of a human being. Life begins at

conception because of the fact that life in the womb does not change at

birth. There are no special procedures or changes that occur during birth to

magically change the fetus to a baby. It is already a baby--a human life.

"'If a fertilized egg is not by itself a full human being it could not

become one, because nothing is added to it,'" said Dr. Jerome Lejeune

(Factbot). Most of all the development also takes place before one is born.

Of the 45 generations of cell divisions before adulthood, 41 have taken

place before a person is born (Factbot). Fertilization is just the beginning

of a long process of growing and maturing. "Life in a continuum. From the

moment the egg is fertilized a new life has begun. All of the genetic

information is present to construct a unique individual. Gender, physical

features, eye color have already been determined. The baby's heart begins

beating regularly at 24 days. Babies in the womb hiccup, cry, play, and

learn" (Factbot). Life continues from the day of fertilization until death.

Nothing is added to a person during a lifetime. "'Conception confers life

and makes that life one of a kind,'" said Dr Landrum Shettles father of in

vitro fertilization (Factbot). Abortion is wrong because it ends the life of

a human being. The day of conception marks the beginning of a new human

life. "'The zygote is the first cell of a new human being,'" said Keith L.

Moore. There is no way that the fetus is just a "blob of (Factbot) tissue."

Scientific and medical facts prove that the fetus is living. They prove that

the fetus is a person, a human, and functions separate from the mother.