Barbara J. Stock
Nurse Barbara's Biology 101 for abortion advocates
By Barbara J. Stock
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) compared all unborn babies to the first stage of their development, a zygote. Mr. Nadler, as a Registered Nurse of 24 years, I can tell you nothing could be farther from the truth. The comparison of a single cell to the complex and fully functioning baby of only three months gestation is not only ignorant, it's an outrage.
One has to wonder if abortion advocates have even had high school biology. When the sperm enters the egg it becomes a zygote. Two haploid cells — or cells that carry only half the compliment of chromosomes or DNA material of a normal cell — join to begin a life's journey that could last a few days or a hundred years. When those two cells join the result must be human. It can be nothing else. Its DNA dictates that.
The joining of those two unique cells produces the full amount of chromosomes that will never be repeated — ever! In all of history — in all the time man has been on this planet — there have never two humans exactly alike. Twins look alike and do have the same DNA but are they really completely alike? If you have ever met twins, you know they are two very different humans who just happen to look alike.
Approximately half of all zygotes never make it past that stage. For whatever reason, nature decided that the conditions were not ideal and, instead of implanting in the uterus, this tiny life never survives the first challenge. The potential mother never knows and her life goes on blissfully unaware that had conditions been slightly different, she would be pregnant.
Once implanted in its mother's uterus, the tiny zygote now becomes an embryo. But still, nearly 12% will not survive. Most natural abortions or miscarriages occur in the first trimester. When the embryo has safely made it to eight weeks it becomes a fetus, which is Latin for baby. Eight short weeks — a mere two months — but what an amazing first two months of life.
At 18 days the tiny heart that will beat billions of times over an 80-year lifespan, begins to beat. By 21 days a circulatory system is pumping blood that may or may not be the same type as its mother. Thumb sucking has been photographed as early as seven weeks. A response from a touch to the skin has been witnessed as early as six weeks and by nine weeks, its tiny fingers will grasp an object placed in its hand.
Before the end of the first three months of life it will swallow amniotic fluid and produce urine from functioning kidneys. All its body's systems are functioning. It has fingernails. It can smile.
Yet, in light of all this evidence there are still those who want people to believe that this miracle — the ultimate of nature's design — is nothing. Described by pro-abortion advocates as "a blob of cells" this baby is already developing a personality.
This tiny human has no rights under our laws. It will live or die on the whim of his mother or an attacker.
There are presently two bills before Congress that have the pro-abortion people in a state of panic. One is the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" which has been passed twice by the House and stalled in the Senate and the other is the "Born Alive Act." Abortion advocates know that if a developing baby is acknowledged as being human and awarded protection under our laws, their case for abortion on demand for any reason will be on very shaky ground indeed. It is their worst nightmare that Americans will begin to see an unborn baby as human. How does one accept the baby as human when wanted and nothing, when it is not? Their answer — continue to insist that an unborn baby under all circumstances...is nothing.
The abortion mill's congressional protectors sit before women whose unborn babies were killed by drunk drivers or boyfriends who intentionally kicked their own baby to death while still in its mother's womb and insist that their babies were not human. It doesn't matter to pro-abortion legislators if the baby was three months into life or nine. It has no rights. It is not a human life and thus, the killer is guilty of nothing except assault on the mother. As a crumb to the grieving mother, a slightly harsher punishment will put the murderer in prison for a few more months. That is the best they can do. Anything more will put their slavish devotion of the "woman's right to choose" in jeopardy.
The "Born Alive Act" would protect those fragile souls born alive after a failed abortion. Struggling to live, these tiny babies are set aside and left to die. Often they cry and struggle for hours, alone and ignored. Some are tossed in the garbage so that their annoying pleas for life don't attract attention. There have been reports of abortionists actually plunging needles into their hearts to spare the mother the trauma of hearing her baby cry before it dies. What is their justification for these inhuman acts? A woman has come to them with the expectation that she will have a dead baby when the procedure is done. That is her "right."
Rep. Nadler grudgingly voted for the "Born Alive Act" to "avoid the slander from the pro-life people of being in favor of infanticide." Slander? What else could you call tossing a living, breathing, often-crying newborn in the trash?
The pro-abortion conglomerate in America is beginning to realize that as more information comes out — as amazing ultra-sound pictures are published — their case of "it's not a baby" is collapsing around them. As they protest these bills they expose themselves for what they are: heartless, soul-less creatures who can look a woman mourning the murder of her baby in the eye and tell her to get over it. Her baby was nothing. Its life was nothing and whoever killed her son or daughter is guilty of nothing. For political gain and to line their campaign war chests many — including Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CAL) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) — oppose these bills because they feel these bills undermine a woman's "right to choose." These bills cloud the issue of what is human life and what is not.
Abortion advocates must convince people that a baby kicked to death by an attacker days from birth or an aborted yet living baby left on a cold counter or dumped into a trash can to die is nothing. It's garbage and nothing more. Its only crime was that it was deemed unworthy of life by lawmakers who will never have to listen to its pitiful plea for life, justice and protection under the law.
© Barbara J. Stock
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) compared all unborn babies to the first stage of their development, a zygote. Mr. Nadler, as a Registered Nurse of 24 years, I can tell you nothing could be farther from the truth. The comparison of a single cell to the complex and fully functioning baby of only three months gestation is not only ignorant, it's an outrage.
One has to wonder if abortion advocates have even had high school biology. When the sperm enters the egg it becomes a zygote. Two haploid cells — or cells that carry only half the compliment of chromosomes or DNA material of a normal cell — join to begin a life's journey that could last a few days or a hundred years. When those two cells join the result must be human. It can be nothing else. Its DNA dictates that.
The joining of those two unique cells produces the full amount of chromosomes that will never be repeated — ever! In all of history — in all the time man has been on this planet — there have never two humans exactly alike. Twins look alike and do have the same DNA but are they really completely alike? If you have ever met twins, you know they are two very different humans who just happen to look alike.
Approximately half of all zygotes never make it past that stage. For whatever reason, nature decided that the conditions were not ideal and, instead of implanting in the uterus, this tiny life never survives the first challenge. The potential mother never knows and her life goes on blissfully unaware that had conditions been slightly different, she would be pregnant.
Once implanted in its mother's uterus, the tiny zygote now becomes an embryo. But still, nearly 12% will not survive. Most natural abortions or miscarriages occur in the first trimester. When the embryo has safely made it to eight weeks it becomes a fetus, which is Latin for baby. Eight short weeks — a mere two months — but what an amazing first two months of life.
At 18 days the tiny heart that will beat billions of times over an 80-year lifespan, begins to beat. By 21 days a circulatory system is pumping blood that may or may not be the same type as its mother. Thumb sucking has been photographed as early as seven weeks. A response from a touch to the skin has been witnessed as early as six weeks and by nine weeks, its tiny fingers will grasp an object placed in its hand.
Before the end of the first three months of life it will swallow amniotic fluid and produce urine from functioning kidneys. All its body's systems are functioning. It has fingernails. It can smile.
Yet, in light of all this evidence there are still those who want people to believe that this miracle — the ultimate of nature's design — is nothing. Described by pro-abortion advocates as "a blob of cells" this baby is already developing a personality.
This tiny human has no rights under our laws. It will live or die on the whim of his mother or an attacker.
There are presently two bills before Congress that have the pro-abortion people in a state of panic. One is the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" which has been passed twice by the House and stalled in the Senate and the other is the "Born Alive Act." Abortion advocates know that if a developing baby is acknowledged as being human and awarded protection under our laws, their case for abortion on demand for any reason will be on very shaky ground indeed. It is their worst nightmare that Americans will begin to see an unborn baby as human. How does one accept the baby as human when wanted and nothing, when it is not? Their answer — continue to insist that an unborn baby under all circumstances...is nothing.
The abortion mill's congressional protectors sit before women whose unborn babies were killed by drunk drivers or boyfriends who intentionally kicked their own baby to death while still in its mother's womb and insist that their babies were not human. It doesn't matter to pro-abortion legislators if the baby was three months into life or nine. It has no rights. It is not a human life and thus, the killer is guilty of nothing except assault on the mother. As a crumb to the grieving mother, a slightly harsher punishment will put the murderer in prison for a few more months. That is the best they can do. Anything more will put their slavish devotion of the "woman's right to choose" in jeopardy.
The "Born Alive Act" would protect those fragile souls born alive after a failed abortion. Struggling to live, these tiny babies are set aside and left to die. Often they cry and struggle for hours, alone and ignored. Some are tossed in the garbage so that their annoying pleas for life don't attract attention. There have been reports of abortionists actually plunging needles into their hearts to spare the mother the trauma of hearing her baby cry before it dies. What is their justification for these inhuman acts? A woman has come to them with the expectation that she will have a dead baby when the procedure is done. That is her "right."
Rep. Nadler grudgingly voted for the "Born Alive Act" to "avoid the slander from the pro-life people of being in favor of infanticide." Slander? What else could you call tossing a living, breathing, often-crying newborn in the trash?
The pro-abortion conglomerate in America is beginning to realize that as more information comes out — as amazing ultra-sound pictures are published — their case of "it's not a baby" is collapsing around them. As they protest these bills they expose themselves for what they are: heartless, soul-less creatures who can look a woman mourning the murder of her baby in the eye and tell her to get over it. Her baby was nothing. Its life was nothing and whoever killed her son or daughter is guilty of nothing. For political gain and to line their campaign war chests many — including Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CAL) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) — oppose these bills because they feel these bills undermine a woman's "right to choose." These bills cloud the issue of what is human life and what is not.
Abortion advocates must convince people that a baby kicked to death by an attacker days from birth or an aborted yet living baby left on a cold counter or dumped into a trash can to die is nothing. It's garbage and nothing more. Its only crime was that it was deemed unworthy of life by lawmakers who will never have to listen to its pitiful plea for life, justice and protection under the law.
© Barbara J. Stock
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