If we are supposed to “Follow the science,”
Science says the baby’s body is not the mother’s body.
Watch our Truth in Two to find out the argument “It’s my body” is not true (full text, afterword follows).
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FULL TEXT
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” is a United Nations document that assumes some ideas preexist others. Here’s what I mean. The idea that all people have worth, value, and dignity is a preexisting idea. The idea is in the first line of the U.N. document. Any group or nation which defends the rights of all people begins with the preexisting belief in the preciousness of humanity. But some people who will assume rights for all people think the idea is equal to the phrase “reproductive rights,” used in the abortion industry. Folks unthinkingly accept the polite phrase “reproductive rights” as a preexisting right; and, one that trumps the human rights of the baby in the womb. They will repeat untrue statements about pregnancy saying, “No one can tell me what to do with my body!” But that’s just it. The being in the womb is not your body. It’s the body of another human person in your uterus.
Let’s be very clear. When a child is conceived in the womb, the baby has a totally different DNA structure than that of the mother. In 21st century science, we can identify a human person by their DNA. Just watch any kind of crime drama. Science tells us that the person in the womb of the mother is distinctive, different, a whole ‘nother person. And that person has preexisting worth. Now you can reframe arguments by changing words or their definitions.
But let’s be honest. When you say “reproductive rights” you are talking about “abortion.” If you refer to the “fetus” in the womb, you’re talking about a “person” with distinctive DNA. The preexisting rights of every human person are rights also given to children in the womb. For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, president of the Comenius Institute, personally affirming that human rights can only be given by God.