When Does an Embryo Become a Human Person?

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Abortion is the deliberate act of terminating the life of the unborn child. It is a cruel process that is not any different from murder, because the criminal mind of the person destined to commit abortion quickly discounts the intrinsic human values of this unborn child and regards its death as inconsequential.

Gianna’s mother was 17 years old and she was 7 ½ months pregnant with Gianna when a decision to terminate her pregnancy using saline abortion crossed her mind. The decision to abort Gianna from this point on was unstoppable. Testifying before a US government Committee hearing on the subject of abortion, Gianni emotionally said, “I am the person she aborted…I lived instead”. By the time Gianna had been inside her mother’s womb for 7 ½ months, her body parts were clearly developed. She was actually a person in her own rights.

Being considered a person at 7 ½ months doesn’t suggest in anyway that an embryo is not a person at 5 weeks, as the abortion apologists may want us to believe. It may be true that at 5 weeks, the body parts could not have yet been fully developed, but the foundations of the nervous systems, including the brain will have been established.  The development of all the parts of an embryo begins at conception when the ovum or the egg cell is fertilized by the sperm cell.

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The original single cell begins the truly amazing process of constructing into a fully formed human person almost immediately at conception. The nature of this construction process is determined by our genes, which are segments of the DNA. Thus, the miraculous process of conception entails programming a human being at the stage of one cell into a unique person for the entire life of that human being. The question, “when does an embryo become a human being” ought to be answered from the perspective of conception itself because as soon as fertilization has occurred, a full human being is in the making and killing such a person must be considered as murder.

Recently I learnt that a celebrated Abortionist Doctor was murdered for his long-term involvement in terminating pregnancies. Am sad that he was simply murdered-in my view, he should have been sent to life imprisonment without parole because in his absolute ignorance, he did not believe that an embryo was a person with feelings of joy and pain. He murdered them without ever having the slightest feeling of the helpless cry of the thousands of the unborn Americans whose lives he nipped off at their budding point