The article you are about to read was written (as an answer to a letter in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Voices column August 4, 2009), by a registered nurse (now retired) who spent many years teaching student nurses the courses dealing with the functioning of the human body, particularly the procreation process and the formation of a new human being, known as an unborn baby. The writer of  the letter to Voices expressed the following idea: [H] he didn't think a baby at three months in utero was a living soul until it was born, and breathed, because he hadn't considered that it had to be alive while it was developing. He thought only when it was born that then God breathed the breath of life into it. So therefore it wasn't a living soul till it started breathing.  

The writer explains very well the origin of the new baby from the moment of conception to birth. If you think abortion is only a medical procedure, remember that you and each and every person began just as the article explains and abortion would have terminated your life if your mother had so chosen.

 As you remember, Adam and Eve were not born as babies. They were never babies. They were Created adults, and yes, God did breathe into their nostrils the breath of life, and they became a living soul. This was the beginning of human evolution. He also made them male and female, and told them to multiply and replenish the earth. So He intended His creation of humanity to continue by the fertilization of the female sex cell, (ovum), by the male sex cell, (the sperm.), which grows and develops as human babies. Not as oak trees, fish, tomatoes, or whales. So God’s human Creation continues on by babies developing in its mother’s womb. But they are still His Creation, made in his image. He is the one who gave them life, at Conception, therefore it only makes sense that at the same time that he gave them life, He also gave them a “living soul” at the same time. With an acorn, you only get an oak tree, and with the human seed you get only humans. It’s impossible to get anything else.

Regardless of what the Evolutionists say, there is no evolving from one species into another species. The word “evolution” simply means change over time. That happens every time a child is born, and it is biblical. Everything produces after its own kind, Genesis 1:20-25. Then he created man, verses 26-28, and it stands to reason that humans create humans (read verse 28 again)  and they don’t come from any other origin any more than a horse creates a cow.  No species “evolves” from another species.  That’s Darwinism. Darwinism is only speculation, and has never been observed. Never! Nor has any fossil ever been discovered of one species evolving into another species. The “missing link” is still missing, as is the whole chain.

 The definition of the human fetus in my Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, says it is a child in utero from the third month to birth.  Very simply, in the first two weeks of pregnancy, the cells are multiplying fast, forming a  morula (resembling a berry) called  blastocyte. Blastocyte gives rise to the principle organs. And from the beginning of the 3rd week through 8 weeks, it is called [an] embryo. Embryo is defined as “The young in the early stage of development.” The embryo grows to about four inches in length by the beginning of the fetal stage. But at no time, between the fertilization, thru the blastocyte, embryo, fetal stage and birth is it not human life. Keep in mind that it must be alive in order to develop. If it is not alive, it would have to be the opposite of life, which is dead. It has to be one or the other. And dead things do not grow or develop, but rot instead.

 The fetus must develop in its mother womb, but it is not a part of her body. It is a girl or boy, who has its own limbs, brain, fingerprints, heart, blood, internal organs, etc. It has everything it needs at that time. (It’s all in the genes) Its sex, skin color and own genetic code is a genetically distinct human which has come into existence, all at the exact moment of fertilization, called Conception.  And like all of us, it is completely unique. There never was, nor never will be another exactly like it. The mother’s and the baby’s blood never mixes. If it did, half the time it would be fatal to both.  It inherits from its father too. And approximately half the time it’s a different sex and a different blood type from its mother. You cannot safely mix two different types of blood in the blood vessels of a human body, neither the mother’s or the baby’s as it would kill them. Nothing else is added to this developing baby, except nourishment, fluids and oxygen, removal of its waste, all done by osmosis, by their blood being  in very close proximity; exchanging between her blood in the uterus, and baby’s blood in the placenta, which has attached itself to the uterus. That is the only thing else needed for this nascent being to continue developing throughout its life, until its death, (in some cases 100 years or so later). It became a human soul at the same time as it was given life, at conception. It does not breath air until birth of course, for if it tried, it would drown. For it develops in a sac of water (called amniotic fluid). (But it has to have oxygen to live, and it gets its oxygen from its mother, also by osmosis,). In plain English, its mother’s blood carries these things to and from the baby. She is one who eats, and breaths oxygen for it, and gets rid of its waste. Learn about osmosis. Please look it up so you can understand it. The simplest way that I can think of to describe it is, as the bloods are closest in the uterus, its blood absorbs, oxygen and nutrients and fluid from its mother’s blood, and its waste is absorbed into the mother’s blood in reverse, which eliminates it at the same time it eliminates hers.

The Bible, as well as the 14th amendment of the Constitution, gives it the right to have its God given life, protected from that moment. The unborn child is simply another human being, indistinguishable in every way from any of us, except in size and maturity. Its a genetically complete human being from conception. This is found in countless medical, biological and scientific writings. Sonograms show these living organisms in the womb, to be “homo sapiens, (human species)” moving, sucking its thumb, sleeping, etc. It will jump, or jerk at the sound of loud noises, or be lulled to sleep by soothing music, etc. It is still so small that the mother is not aware of its movements until the 3rd trimester. That is the first time she feels it move. But its been alive, and moving since conception. And God dearly loves them all.

Certainly they are not a tree, or anything else. Even the earliest abortions stop a beating heart and terminate measurable brain waves. One week after a woman has missed her first menstrual period, the embryo already has a primitive beating heart, pushing its own blood, and its brain and nervous system is developing. It is “in” its mothers body, but they each have their own (and always different) genetic code, so they are two different people. This is the way God planned and created it.

We have an awesome God. He is the source of all the intelligence in the world. Remember, He looked at his Creation, and found it “good”. I used to tell my students, if they didn’t believe in God, they would after our study of the human body. Teachers aren’t allowed to tell them that anymore. Some ignoramuses’ think that would be the starting of a theocracy. They had rather think that all this marvelous Creation happened as an accident. That after the big bang, (if it happened), it rained for 25 million years, and melted the rocks, and a one celled Ameba crawled out of the melted rock and it started the whole process of life. (This came from a dumb rock?)
      It’s extremely rare when a woman's life is threatened by pregnancy. Pregnancy is not a disease. But when two lives are threatened (as it would be in the case of a tubule pregnancy) and only one can be saved, (if the mother dies, certainly the child will also) the doctors must save that one life. Its always been that way, even before Roe vs. Wade. (Mental conditions are not a valid excuse for abortion. In fact, it has been found that if a mental disorder is present, it too often is further complicated by abortion. No mental disorder has ever been cured by abortion. ) Some of the worlds most prominent scientists and physicians testified to the U.S. Senate (1981) that life begins at conception. Everything it will ever need, every body part, is present right then. I have 5 films on abortion including “The Silent Scream” narrated by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, founder of NARAL, now ardently pro-life and dedicated to exposing the truth about Abortion. It is a Sonogram of an actual 12 weeks old fetus being aborted on Real-time Ultrasound. The baby can be seen peacefully moving and sucking its thumb, until invaded by the suction tip. Then it opens its mouth as if to scream, and you see its desperate, agitated movements, as it attempts to escape the abortionist’s suction curette, which tears it apart piece by piece. 

According to this nation’s founding principles and Biblical teaching, life is unquestionably sacred and has inherent value. Maybe it would help to read Psalm 139. Especially verse 13-16. If you approve of abortion, then you are approving a woman having her baby butchered. For ready or not, if she is pregnant the unborn child is already here, (if that were not the case there would be nothing for the abortionist to kill) and she has no choice but to “have the baby.” The question is [to all], “Will she choose to be the mother of a live baby, or a dead one?” Even a baby resulting from rape or incest is still a live human being made in God’s image, and given life by Him. Who besides God has the right to take a life? And especially when it cheats that person out of the only life it will ever have on this earth. [To all who have read this], I hope this information is helpful to you, and clears up your idea of when and how God begins a human life.
© 08-05-2009 JS