When does life begin? 2 letters
Letter-writer Belinda Mays writes that a human embryo isn’t a human being. Then what is it?
Killable. She writes that a seed isn’t a tree or caterpillar a butterfly. By extension, are an infant or adolescent disposable?
If you don’t want an acorn, you can throw it away. Even a tree isn’t conscious life. Currently in the United States, if a mother doesn’t want to deliver, she can trash that too. The former’s not immoral. The latter is. The former’s treeicide. The latter’s homicide.
Alive human fetuses aren’t merely potential human beings. They are human beings – despite abortionists’ insane illogic to the contrary.
Lastly, Ms. Mays (who herself wasn’t aborted either when she was a seed or conceived) writes that she believes every woman has the right to consider what’s best for her when deciding about abortion – a medical procedure. She means an execution.
Walter Smetana, Highlands Ranch
Terms such as embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, toddler, boy/girl, teen, man/woman, adult, middle-aged, and elderly do not define humanness, merely stages of human life. Stage of life does not define the nature of a being, whether it is an acorn or oak tree, caterpillar or butterfly, embryo or human being. Genetic code does. Science has demonstrated irrefutably that the genetic code of the living being is there at the moment of conception and that the entire genetic code for a unique human being is present in each and every of its cells.
Sadly, in our time, what “potential” an embryo or fetus has is not for humanness, as letter-writer Belinda Mays’ line of thinking contends, rather it is for life itself beyond this stage, depending on the so-called “right” of his/her female parent to choose life or death for him/her.
The “access to medical procedure,” as Ms. Mays euphemistically calls it, ends the life of a unique, innocent human being. It is arrogance to present this heinous act as anyone’s “right.”
Becky Jennings, Centennial