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Abortion - Term Papers

Abortion

The human ovum (egg) is clearly alive when it enters the fallopian tubes. A women releases one about every month between puberty and menopause - a few hundred in a lifetime. The majority these are destined to die and be released from the body. Although the ovum is a form of life, there is a public consensus that it is not.
Millions of male sperm are liberated during a typical sexual encounter. They are also clearly alive. Viewing them under a microscope shows them to be energetic swimmers. Sperm are very much alive and kicking. But, again, a public consensus exists that they are not human life.
The meeting of sperm and ovum often causes conception. Among woman without an IUD, about ...

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or extremely serious injury to the mother. Unfortunately, there is no consensus of when that event occurs.
Many people believe that happens at conception. That is, a just-fertilized egg is a full human being and should be protected as such. Some hold this belief because of their religious faith. Their religion teaches that a soul enters the fertilized egg at the instant of conception, and the cell becomes a human person at that time because of the presence of the soul.
Others point out that shortly after conception, a unique DNA code is formed which will remain unchanged through the life of the fetus, and throughout the potential later life, after birth. They might say that the presence of a unique DNA code converts the egg into a human person. Some people feel that this transition to human life happens at a certain stage in the development of the fetus: when the fetus loses its gill slits and tail and begins to look like a baby, when the fetus is able to live outside the ...

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Added: 9/29/2005 04:21:33 PM
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