Whose Body Is It Anyway?

Whose Body Is It Anyway?

A genetically distinct human being is brought into existence at conception. Once fertilization takes place, the zygote is its own entity, genetically distinct from both mother and father. The newly conceived individual possesses all the necessary information for a self-direct development and will proceed to grow in the usual human fashion, given time and nourishment. It is simply untrue that the unborn child is merely “part of the mother’s body.” In addition to being genetically distinct from the time of conception, the unborn possesses separate circulatory, nervous, and endocrine systems. [1]

[1] John G. Davis, Abortion and the Christian (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Co., 1984), 23