Making a baby

October 30, 2023

Ways to reproduce:

Assemble parts piece by piece
Use a mold
Photocopy
Start as a seed and grow

I often wonder if abortion supporters would oppose it instead if humans began life as microscopic little bodies with two arms, two legs, a fully-formed head, etc. If the child looked like a baby only very, very tiny.

As it is, we begin life as one cell that quickly divides and multiplies and gradually morphs through various alien-looking shapes into a recognizable human form. But really, how else could it happen?

Abortion advocates maintain that until the unborn being reaches a certain point in development he/she/it has no inherent right to life, and is not even truly human because the child lacks certain features of a fully-developed born child. But this seems to presume that human reproduction is inferior to other methods of reproduction that produce immediate results. As if there were any other way for a new human being to begin life than as a tiny seed.

Can you imagine if when a sperm and egg unite within the woman the new cell immediately and with blinding speed balloons into a fully-formed baby like a blow-up toy? No sooner had the couple laid back spent and satisfied than out pops a baby. This would surely crater the cases of uncommitted sex.

Or if scientists were able to take the couple’s DNA, mix it into a batch of “humano-compound,” pour it into a baby mold, and within hours or maybe days present them with their progeny.

Or perhaps enter their desired characteristics and a drop of their DNA into a 3-D printer?

Of course these options are ridiculous and impossible. The actual mode of producing a new human is the only possible mode, and it is amazing in its precision and practicality. When people recognize this, I believe it testifies to them that the child at every stage of pre-born development is just as human and worthy of protection as at birth.

Time and a process are needed for a human to develop and grow, not to become a human.

And because a new human must start as a tiny seed, it is human from the very start.