In Roman times, abortion and destruction of unwanted children was permissible. As our civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, the U.S. along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneva at the same time stated that the utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an individual human being? .
The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws can alter this. Those of us who would seek to protect the human who is still too small to cry aloud for it's own protection have been accused of having a 19th century approach to life in the last third of the 20th century. But who is reality is using argument of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science-Make no mistake that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow their emotional passion to override their knowledge can deny it only those who are irrational or ignorant of science doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make him or her being uniquely different from any other human being and yet, irrevocably member, as we all are, of the great human family. The fetus grows into a baby, a child, and an old man, aided by time, nutrition, and a suitable environment. It is determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a girl; which of his parents he will look like; what blood type he will have. His whole heritage is forever fixed.