Science says abortion is the killing of a human being

It's interesting that when pro-abortion folk talk about abortion they're always using euphemisms; termination of the pregnancy, blob of cells, right to choose.

That's because science is clear; every abortion kills a human being:

“[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being.”

Keith L. Moore, Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008. p. 2.


“Although life is a continuous process, fertilization… is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new genetically distinct human organism is formed when the chromosomes of the male and female pronuclei blend in the oocyte.”

Ronan O’Rahilly and Fabiola Miller, Human Embryology and Teratology, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001. p. 8.


“[All] organisms, however large and complex they might be as full grown, begin life as a single cell. This is true for the human being, for instance, who begins life as a fertilized ovum.”

Dr. Morris Krieger “The Human Reproductive System” p 88 (1969) Sterling Pub. Co

Of course we all know this because we learned it in High School biology class. At the instant of conception a new unique set of human DNA is produced and it's that DNA that defines all of the physical aspects of that new human being.

At no point is a woman's unborn daughter part of her body.  One of the reasons the umbilical cord exists is to isolate a woman's daughter from her immune system because at the most fundamental biological level the mother's immune system recognizes her daughter as "not self" and would attack and kill her if it could.

That an unborn child depends on her mother is true but it's also true after a child is born.

From conception on human life is a continuum with no breaks or sudden changes.

When we're born we don't become independent; that's why when abortionists leave babies who survived an abortion out on a table and deny them care they, the babies, die.

Heck in America today kids aren't independent of their parents until long after they're out of college in many cases.

But the point is that every abortion, according to science not the Pope, is the willed killing of a human being.

That's simply not something honest informed people can disagree about.

To back that science up here's some photos of what those "blobs of cells" look like.

Remember abortion is legal through when a woman is in labor or around 40 weeks. Science agrees that at least by 20 weeks the unborn feel pain but new studies show that in fact the unborn feel pain much earlier than that.

At 8 weeks:

At 16 weeks:

 At 20 weeks: