I"m writing about abortion, the rights, the innocent babies, and the society we live in. There are a few more important things issues in this country today than abortion. Combine a society that is partially governed by religion with scientifically uneducated community and the fever of catchy slogans and both sides and this divisiveness is almost acceptable. Given the current advances in science, this is only likely to get worse. All of the rhetoric around abortion has confused the real issue. In essence abortion is a medical procedure with ethical implications. Any argument on the legality of abortion that is based on different ethical values is doomed to come to a standstill.
The key issue of debate on abortion involves the meaning of what it is to be alive. This is a question that politicians and scientists have tried to answer often, but one that can easily be answered by scientists. Life does not begin at birth, conception, or any time in between. Life is a perpetual process that has evolved since the first humans appeared on earth. It is meaningless to say that a fertilized egg is any more alive and conscious than an unfertilized one. The real issue is the expendability of human life. It would be difficult for one to argue that an unfertilized egg should be preserved as a precious life. It would be equally difficult for someone to say that it is perfectly acceptable to kill an unborn baby that is fully developed and deliverable. The ethics debate lies somewhere in between. So when does an egg become something more? Well I believe that scientifically speaking, even after the baby is born, it is still not knowledgeable as a full-grown animal like a cow, which is considered to be fully expandable to humans. If we decide to apply the same standards, then are we not bound to make killing even newborns perfectly legal? Well I believe that there is where science ends and ethics begins.