As I write this, it's been a little over a week since the Value Them Both amendment was defeated. I wrote the following on election night...
I am disappointed that we lost the Value Them Both vote tonight. But it will not ruin my day. I will keep on fighting, till the day I die, just like I have every other day prior to this. In fact it will make me work harder. We have to. We may have lost the battle but we didn't lose the war. We've been fighting this battle for many years. We're used to it.When my Ohio State Buckeyes give up a touchdown on the opening drive, they don’t give up. They get up off the ground and keep fighting. Eventually, they win the game!
God has a plan! I don't know what it is. What I do know is that in the end we win. Just like my Buckeyes, I too will get up off the ground and continue to fight. I don't know how long it will take, but I'm ready to do what it takes.
It's just a matter of getting there. Someone has to take a stand for the unborn baby in the womb who has no voice!
Why do I fight? Let me ask you this. If there is something that you are so passionate about that you know it is true? Did you remain silent or did you feel like you had to shout it out to the whole world? Was this cause so important that perhaps you could make a difference, and maybe even save the lives of others?
If you are silent about your beliefs because you are worried someone will be offended, then your beliefs are not that important to you, but rather what people think about you is. When you stand up for what's right and true, you will receive both hate and love, but everyone will know what you are fighting for.
To me, Abortion is one of those issues. When discussing abortion, what everyone avoids is the discussion of what is in the womb. Basic science tells me that its a human being. Catholic doctrine and the Bible tell me that its wrong to kill any human being no matter what the stage of development.
Go back to your basic science and answer two questions.
What is in the womb?
What is abortion?
If you can answer honestly answer those questions looking at the science of human development, looking at photos of preborn babies in the womb, watching videos of doctors describing abortion, and looking at pictures of aborted babies and then honestly answer those questions, I can almost guarantee that you will be pro life.
Fr. Frank Pavone of "Priests for Life" says that America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion. That is my goal. To go back to the roots, define the issue, and show America the truth of what abortion is.
I am willing to have that discussion with anyone as a Facebook Messenger or email.
The sad thing is that those who support abortion rights use linguistic gimmickry, changing definitions, to avoid answering the questions and to dehumanize what's in the womb
They call abortion a choice, a right, or a medical decision about their body but they don't tell us what that choice, right or decision is. And when you ask them, you are the bad guy, you are stupid, or you are playing games with them.
They use terms like fetus (which is actually a stage of human development), clump of cells, or parasite to define what's inside the womb while ignoring terms like human and baby.
Most importantly, they ignore the right to life of the developing human being as a separate, and unique individual with its own DNA and body parts.
Recently I had a discussion with someone on Facebook. A Facebook friend of mine posted the following...
"Women have spoken, our body is our choice! The Government, rather Federal or State can't make our Decisions for us!
So I asked the question...
"The choice to do what. "
A friend of hers answered...
"To make a medical decision between a woman and her Dr that is not anyone else's business."
I asked...
"What is that medical decision? A medical decision to do what?"
He answered...
"Have you been in a coma for the past 6 months or do you have early onset dementia? Legit question since I need to know if I have to sit you down and explain like I would my 4yr old granddaughter.
My reply...
"Just answer my question. The choice to do what? What is that medical decision? "
He answered...
"Not playing your game go try to rope someone else in."
My reply...
"I'm not playing games. I'm trying to get you to engage in an honest discussion based on facts, which you seem unwilling to do. Usually when someone asks a question you don't answer it with another question. Seems like you are the one playing games. I'll answer it for you. Is it the right to have an abortion? My next question...what is an abortion?"
His answer...
"An abortion is the removal of a mass of parasitic cells
A mass of parasitic cells that if allowed to continue to grow may or may not form into a baby
My reply...
"That's not what medical science says...
Life Begins at Fertilization
The following references illustrate the fact that a new human embryo, the starting point for a human life, comes into existence with the formation of the one-celled zygote:
"Development of the embryo begins at Stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oocyte and together they form a zygote."
[England, Marjorie A. Life Before Birth. 2nd ed. England: Mosby-Wolfe, 1996, p.31]
"Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception).
"Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being."
[Moore, Keith L. Essentials of Human Embryology. Toronto: B.C. Decker Inc, 1988, p.2]
"Embryo: the developing organism from the time of fertilization until significant differentiation has occurred, when the organism becomes known as a fetus."
[Cloning Human Beings. Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Rockville, MD: GPO, 1997, Appendix-2.]
"Embryo: An organism in the earliest stage of development; in a man, from the time of conception to the end of the second month in the uterus."
[Dox, Ida G. et al. The Harper Collins Illustrated Medical Dictionary. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993, p. 146]
"Embryo: The early developing fertilized egg that is growing into another individual of the species. In man the term 'embryo' is usually restricted to the period of development from fertilization until the end of the eighth week of pregnancy."
[Walters, William and Singer, Peter (eds.). Test-Tube Babies. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 160]
"The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote."
[Langman, Jan. Medical Embryology. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1975, p. 3]
"Embryo: The developing individual between the union of the germ cells and the completion of the organs which characterize its body when it becomes a separate organism.... At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote), a new life has begun.... The term embryo covers the several stages of early development from conception to the ninth or tenth week of life."
[Considine, Douglas (ed.). Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. 5th edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976, p. 943]
"I would say that among most scientists, the word 'embryo' includes the time from after fertilization..."
[Dr. John Eppig, Senior Staff Scientist, Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel -- Panel Transcript, February 2, 1994, p. 31]
"The development of a human begins with fertilization, a process by which the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote."
[Sadler, T.W. Langman's Medical Embryology. 7th edition. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1995, p. 3]
"The question came up of what is an embryo, when does an embryo exist, when does it occur. I think, as you know, that in development, life is a continuum.... But I think one of the useful definitions that has come out, especially from Germany, has been the stage at which these two nuclei [from sperm and egg] come together and the membranes between the two break down."
[Jonathan Van Blerkom of University of Colorado, expert witness on human embryology before the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel -- Panel Transcript, February 2, 1994, p. 63]
"Zygote. This cell, formed by the union of an ovum and a sperm (Gr. zyg tos, yoked together), represents the beginning of a human being. The common expression 'fertilized ovum' refers to the zygote."
[Moore, Keith L. and Persaud, T.V.N. Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects. 4th edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1993, p. 1]
"The chromosomes of the oocyte and sperm are...respectively enclosed within female and male pronuclei. These pronuclei fuse with each other to produce the single, diploid, 2N nucleus of the fertilized zygote. This moment of zygote formation may be taken as the beginning or zero time point of embryonic development."
[Larsen, William J. Human Embryology. 2nd edition. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1997, p. 17]
"Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. Thus the diploid number is restored and the embryonic genome is formed. The embryo now exists as a genetic unity."
[O'Rahilly, Ronan and M�ller, Fabiola. Human Embryology & Teratology. 2nd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1996, pp. 8, 29. This textbook lists "pre-embryo" among "discarded and replaced terms" in modern embryology, describing it as "ill-defined and inaccurate" (p. 12}]
"Almost all higher animals start their lives from a single cell, the fertilized ovum (zygote)... The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual."
[Carlson, Bruce M. Patten's Foundations of Embryology. 6th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, p. 3]
"[A]nimal biologists use the term embryo to describe the single cell stage, the two-cell stage, and all subsequent stages up until a time when recognizable humanlike limbs and facial features begin to appear between six to eight weeks after fertilization....
"[A] number of specialists working in the field of human reproduction have suggested that we stop using the word embryo to describe the developing entity that exists for the first two weeks after fertilization. In its place, they proposed the term pre-embryo....
"I'll let you in on a secret. The term pre-embryo has been embraced wholeheartedly by IVF practitioners for reasons that are political, not scientific. The new term is used to provide the illusion that there is something profoundly different between what we nonmedical biologists still call a six-day-old embryo and what we and everyone else call a sixteen-day-old embryo.
"The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena -- where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation -- as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'"
[Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World. New York: Avon Books, 1997, p. 39]
I continued...
here's some more basic science for you.
Prenatal development is the process in which an embryo or fetus (or fetus) gestates during pregnancy. Normal prenatal development lasts about 38 weeks and is divided into three stages: germinal, embryonic, and fetal. During these three stages of gestation, the original single-celled zygote develops into an embryo and then fetus
Zygote 0-2 weeks
Embryo 3-8 weeks
Fetus 9-weeks to birth
After birth
Infancy (neonate and up to one year age)
Toddler ( one to five years of age)
Childhood (three to eleven years old) - early childhood is from three to eight years old, and middle childhood is from nine to eleven years old.
Adolescence or teenage (from 12 to 18 years old)
Adulthood.
"We can go back and forth all day is why my statement of I am not playing your stupid game. I can cite medical journals that state otherwise more recent ones to be exact. You are not going to get me to change my mind or anyone else for that matter so just leave it alone we voted and you lost."
My reply...
"then cite one for me. Don't just say it. Prove it. Show me the quote or give me the link that shows all of my sources are wrong. Once again I'm not playing games here. It seems like you are. Maybe you can't handle the truth. "
He never did respond or cite any medical journals. I continued...
Here are some amazing photos of those babies in the womb. With modern science we actually have a window to the womb. With a laparoscopic camera we get great pictures. We actually know what's in the womb and it's not a mass of parasitic cells. Its actually a growing and developing human being. Check them out. That's what you want women to have a choice to make a medical decision to have dismembered, decapitated, and ripped from the womb.
https://www.priestsforlife.org/graphic-images/?gid=1&sid=1
what's amazing is that we've had that technology to take pictures of the growing and developing baby for a long time. Check out the cover of Life Magazine from April 30 1965. Sure doesn't look like a mass of parasitic cells.
That's the science! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see it. From the moment of conception/fertilization, we know beyond a doubt that what's in the womb is human. When has it ever been okay to kill another human being? But that's what our society does. Why? For political reasons? Since 1973 there have been 63 million babies aborted in the United States. When have you ever seen the science in the newspaper or on the nightly news? The mainstream media refuses to give us a platform to educate Americans. Let's get the word out. Share this information with everyone you know. Let's open up that window to the womb so America can see it.
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