Analysis Of A Zygote

“So many eggs that have the potential to become human beings, are being flushed down the toilet or soaked up in napkins every month,” said a wise older man from New Haven, Connecticut, “It disgusts me that so many babies are being killed every month. Imagine that your 26-year-old daughter has been getting her

Pro-choice advocates argue that in early pregnancy when the “zygote” is just a mass of cells, there is no way to let it claim rights; Also 50% of pregnancy’s that are aborted are within the first 8 weeks of gestation when the zygote had less animation, brain function and cells than most insects. If you take building into consideration, you can access that you are going to need blue prints, contractors and basic details regarding the building; the blue prints are completely different from the actual building which is concrete, sheet rock, metal and glass. In the same idea a zygote is the blue print for the actual human being, the chromosomes are a blue print in the way that they are a map to evolve into human life but are not exactly human yet, chromosomes are in the human egg and sperm long before they are mixed, so is that to say that every time a man ejaculates or a woman receives her menstruation they are causing a baby to die?

Therefore, it explains why it is wrong to kill a person while they were and infant as it is to kill them now. The conclusion of this argument is that because abortion involves killing fetuses and fetuses have FLOs for exactly the same reason infants have FLOs, and then abortion is immoral.

. One of the reasons why many scientists have chosen to define implantation as the beginning of pregnancy is because half of all zygotes do not survive beyond two weeks even if no action is taken to destroy them and so un-implanted zygotes are not considered necessarily viable (3). According to the Mayo Clinic, the morning-after pill prevents pregnancy from occurring because it does not terminate a developing zygote implanted on the uterine wall (1). According the American Bioethics Advisory Commission, preventing a zygote from implanting in the uterine lining, is technically abortion because life and pregnancy begin with conception (2). The American Heritage dictionary defines conception as the "formation of a viable zygote by the union of the male sperm and the female ovum; fertilization" (10). . Even this definition leaves room for interpretation about whether or not a zygote is viable, but for those who believe that every fertilized human egg is a human life, the debate here is identical to the debate over whether or not surgical abortion should be legal. It is a question of how human life is defined, when it begins, and under which circumstances, if any, it is permissible to end it. In polls, most Americans have demonstrated a preference for earlier abortions over later ones (7). For those who see more shades of gray in such matters, the question becomes, is the morning-after pill a better, more humane, and safer option, than

Science tells us that from the moment of fertilization, a fetus is a human. Despite this, however, there is a swarm of controversy surrounding question, when does a fetus become a human? Many people believe that once a baby is conceived, it is considered a living human being. Many of these people believe that whether or not a fetus is a human is chiefly a scientific question. “The question as to when a human being begins is strictly a scientific question, and should be answered by human embryologists - not by philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, politicians, x-ray technicians, movie stars or obstetricians and gynecologists” (Irving). While Irving has a valid point in saying that whether or not a fetus is a human is a question mainly for

Just like Egnor and Fisher, many pro-life advocates feel passionately about their stance and some like Oliver Lindor fear ‘If personhood can be removed from preborn lives, what’s to stop us from removing it from others?” (Lindor, 2015). They feel as though a baby, a human life, is formed the second a sperm and ovum merge. On the other hand, feminists such as Marianna Karakoulaki contest this idea. She cites that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has a clause which states “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. She puts emphasis on the fact that the clause says “born” not conceived. This issue is currently and will continue to be important to many people.

“The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a most monstrous crime to rob it of the life, which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man 's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light. “ (Calvin, 1984)

One of the main arguments in Marquis’s paper has to do with the moral wrongness of deliberately killing a fetus. He begins his article by asking the question “why is it wrong to kill us?” (Marquis, 1989, p. 4). He responds to this question by saying murdering adults is not right since it denies them of their valuable futures. He then makes the connection that a fetus’s future incorporates everything that is in an adult's future experiences by saying Fetus’s will be able to have a “future like ours” (Marquis, 1989 p. 5). By this he is saying fetuses will experience the same enjoyments and participate in the same activities that adults do given that fetuses develop into normal functioning adults. He then goes on to give other possible explanations as to why abortion is wrong, but he is not done yet. Marquis’s gives several other arguments regarding the moral wrongness of aborting a fetus. Marquis later anthologized his paper, writing updated versions to objections that were initially raised against his argument. For almost every objection he indicated some type of substantial problem. Yet after all of these objections, I still believe there is new commentary to add.

Even the language of conception and gestation have been hijacked by politics and religious fundamentalists. All unborn are called “fetuses.” This clearly shows the ignorance of basic human biology. The newly fertilized egg is a zygote --- not a fetus and not a human being. It is a few cells with potential but no distinguishing characteristics and no ability to feel anything. A zygote becomes a blastocyst, which is a zygote that has reached a certain number of cells but has not yet stuck to the uterine walls. Five weeks after conception, snug in the uterine tissue it becomes an embryo. It does not become a fetus until it is ten weeks old and has ears and some facial features. Society laughs at people who call zebras “horses” and yet tolerates the word fetus for zygote, blastocyst and embryo. Getting the language right can help laypeople realize that a zygote or blastocyst is not a baby.

With every advance come greater restrictions, a greater sensitivity to society. It is only recently that there has been a differentiation between a fetus and a

opposite claim; that the unborn child, because it is a developing human being, possesses a moral status

Finally, I would like to share my stance on abortion. My stance is pro-life and it will stay that way. Abortion goes against my religion and all my moral values. As I can see, people are losing their sense of moral values due to the quick fix of abortion. I believe life begins at the moment of conception and fetus’ can feel pain during an abortion. “By the time a baby is conceived, he or she is recognized by God, as demonstrated in Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee...(“Should Abortion Be Legal,” 2015). No matter how the child is conceived, I believe it should not be aborted because it is “life” and we all have a right to life. At the moment of conception, the sperm and egg create a zygote. A zygote is composed of

Scientist, Doctors, the Bible (History), Senate and Pro-choice / Planned Parenthood all agree that an embryo is a person from the moment of

A woman has a right to her own body is an idea more and more women are realizing, but that idea ignores the unborn child's right to his or her own body. Never, in modern times, has the state granted to one citizen the right to have another killed in order to solve their personal, social, or economic problems. The embryo is its own being that should have it's own rights to protect it. The zygote is a unique genetic being.

Page 1 Child Growth and Development: "Life's Greatest Miracle" Paragraph In the video Life's Greatest Miracle, I was informed about how children are conceived, how they develop in the mothers body, and how amazing child birth can be. In the beginning it takes you through the steps of how sperm travels as for looking for an egg to fertilize. Although, in just one teaspoon of sperm there can be over 300 million sperm cells, only around 40% of them are usable. The other 60% can be deformed such as having two tales. The sperm can reach the Fallopian tube within 30 minutes, but it can be a 2 day swim just for sperm to reach an accepting egg. After the sperm that was strong enough to make it through the rough travel have met up with an egg, they