• politics,  Ramblings

    Science, Abortion, and a Pro-Life stance

    Snagged from a social media site. “Scientifically speaking, a distinct human life exists from conception onward. Life, because it meets the biological criteria for life; human, because it contains the human genome and is at the beginning of a human lifecycle; distinct, because its genome is different from the mother’s and (barring accidents, disease, or malice) it will continue to exist even after its mother’s death. Suggesting that natural miscarriage is the same as abortion is like suggesting that no-fault accidental deaths are the same as murder. Suggesting that contraception is the same as abortion is like suggesting that parts of something are equal to the whole of something: Give…