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Science & Religion: Our source of life and truth

By | Published April 23, 2009

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Submitted by Lyndsay Sullivan

I am a person who places a lot of stake in science. If I am able to prove something came from something else, then I believe it. The science of life is not any different for me, and I see science as a source of truth.

I used to believe in the idea of a woman’s choice to have an abortion, but that was before I put two and two together. I know from science that the zygote is a combination of the DNA, making it a unique set of cells that are distinct from any other set of cells in the world. This set of cells develops into a fetus, which then develops into an infant. Pro-abortion advocates would attempt to distinguish these cells as simply a clump of cells that can be discarded, which is the basis of the woman’s right to choose.

This bothered me because now I faced a dilemma: How does someone have the choice to end someone else’s life? If I believe in a woman’s choice, in her ability to abort a fetus, and I believe that
science is a viable source for truth stating that a fetus is a unique set of cells that develops into a real human infant, then I am at an impasse. I didn’t have a way to explain how two statements of fact can contradict one another. Pro-abortion advocates told me that a fetus is not a baby, when science clearly would negate that statement. In the end, it just didn’t add up.

The other thing that bothered me about the pro-choice movement was that I realized that one of the people in the abortion situation has no choice. From the time of conception to birth, the developing child has no choice as to its living or dying conditions. The evidence was too strong for me to not become pro-life. It was not a political issue; it was a truth that I couldn’t deny. Science and truth cannot contradict one another; they actually fulfill one another.

  • Kate Stachowiak

    random fact: if a pregnant woman is murdered it is called a double murder
    but if a woman has an abortion it is called pro-choice…doesn’t make sense.

  • Kate Stachowiak

    random fact: if a pregnant woman is murdered it is called a double murder
    but if a woman has an abortion it is called pro-choice…doesn’t make sense.

  • Anoni Mous

    It is just a bunch of cells! Not a baby! And I hate when pro-lifers don’t even accept the mother’s life argument. So it’s better for a baby to grow up with no mother and a father who just had to go through his wife dying? Really people…

  • Anoni Mous

    It is just a bunch of cells! Not a baby! And I hate when pro-lifers don’t even accept the mother’s life argument. So it’s better for a baby to grow up with no mother and a father who just had to go through his wife dying? Really people…

  • Bodane

    Really? Another abortion article? Is that all Catholic’s have to complain and constantly argue about these days? I feel like i cant go a freaking day without hearing about abortion. We are sick of the issue. Cant something be going on in this world that warrants some attention, other than an article every other newspaper about why abortion is bad? We get it, you hate abortion. We dont all agree, get over it. Yikes, whos teeth you gotta pull to get originality around here.

  • Bodane

    Really? Another abortion article? Is that all Catholic’s have to complain and constantly argue about these days? I feel like i cant go a freaking day without hearing about abortion. We are sick of the issue. Cant something be going on in this world that warrants some attention, other than an article every other newspaper about why abortion is bad? We get it, you hate abortion. We dont all agree, get over it. Yikes, whos teeth you gotta pull to get originality around here.

  • Lianna Mueller

    Duhawks for Life is trying to create more awareness on campus of the pro-life issue, as it is such a large issue, especially in the past few months. We are trying to get different people’s reasons why they are pro-life, looking at the issue from different angles. I hope that you have at least found some points to think about in the different articles.

  • Lianna Mueller

    Duhawks for Life is trying to create more awareness on campus of the pro-life issue, as it is such a large issue, especially in the past few months. We are trying to get different people’s reasons why they are pro-life, looking at the issue from different angles. I hope that you have at least found some points to think about in the different articles.

  • Mel Waller

    Abortion is an issue that can never be talked about enough. People may get that we hate abortion, but they don’t get that it really is an unborn child that is being slaughtered. Its the silent holocaust. God is not about to bless our country while we continue to kill our unborn children. The opposition likes to play with semantics. Fetus is a correct term for the unborn but it desensitizes the reality of it being an unborn child. Pro-choice is nothing but Pro-death as that is the end result and the unborn child has no choice in the matter and many of those unborn children would have grown up to be women. There is no greater issue in the world today than stopping the slaughter of innocent unborn children. Lord have mercy!

  • Mel Waller

    Abortion is an issue that can never be talked about enough. People may get that we hate abortion, but they don’t get that it really is an unborn child that is being slaughtered. Its the silent holocaust. God is not about to bless our country while we continue to kill our unborn children. The opposition likes to play with semantics. Fetus is a correct term for the unborn but it desensitizes the reality of it being an unborn child. Pro-choice is nothing but Pro-death as that is the end result and the unborn child has no choice in the matter and many of those unborn children would have grown up to be women. There is no greater issue in the world today than stopping the slaughter of innocent unborn children. Lord have mercy!

  • j_bell

    As someone who was once very strongly pro-life, I must disagree with your statement, Mel, that says “Pro-choice is nothing but Pro-death”. Some people do not feel the same as you do about abortion.

    I believe there are situations where an abortion is possibly a better option for some. You cannot deny there are women that become pregnant that are not capable of taking care of a child. Yes, I fully understand their options. Adoption, giving up the baby, getting help from family…I know them. But there are still some mothers that will NOT go through with those options. You cannot deny the inhumanity that happens in our world. I strongly believe that an abortion in such instances may be more beneficial than the potential life a child may be brought up in. Yes, the physical care may be provided. Babies that are born addicted to drugs can be weaned off of them. But the psychological damage that can occur is so painful to watch. The childhood years are crucial to the development of a human being, and if they are filled with pain and abuse, adulthood is severly altered. Is it worth putting another human being through such suffering?

    You must also respect that not everyone shares your religious views. That may be hard for some of us to understand. I have been raised Catholic and have only attended parochial school. But you have to respect that some people truly do not see fetus as a child. I am in no way asking you to give up your fight and back down. But I am asking that people in general are more respectful of the other view. Passion is not a negative trait, but respect and consideration for other’s views should go along with it. Judge not lest ye be judged.

  • j_bell

    As someone who was once very strongly pro-life, I must disagree with your statement, Mel, that says “Pro-choice is nothing but Pro-death”. Some people do not feel the same as you do about abortion.

    I believe there are situations where an abortion is possibly a better option for some. You cannot deny there are women that become pregnant that are not capable of taking care of a child. Yes, I fully understand their options. Adoption, giving up the baby, getting help from family…I know them. But there are still some mothers that will NOT go through with those options. You cannot deny the inhumanity that happens in our world. I strongly believe that an abortion in such instances may be more beneficial than the potential life a child may be brought up in. Yes, the physical care may be provided. Babies that are born addicted to drugs can be weaned off of them. But the psychological damage that can occur is so painful to watch. The childhood years are crucial to the development of a human being, and if they are filled with pain and abuse, adulthood is severly altered. Is it worth putting another human being through such suffering?

    You must also respect that not everyone shares your religious views. That may be hard for some of us to understand. I have been raised Catholic and have only attended parochial school. But you have to respect that some people truly do not see fetus as a child. I am in no way asking you to give up your fight and back down. But I am asking that people in general are more respectful of the other view. Passion is not a negative trait, but respect and consideration for other’s views should go along with it. Judge not lest ye be judged.

  • Voyce O. Reesin

    Also, there is the fact that to most, pro-life ends after the child is born. Torture is okay, death penalty is fine, treating other people terribly, that’s great! As long as they’ve already been born, it’s fine, they don’t need anything!

  • Voyce O. Reesin

    Also, there is the fact that to most, pro-life ends after the child is born. Torture is okay, death penalty is fine, treating other people terribly, that’s great! As long as they’ve already been born, it’s fine, they don’t need anything!

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