By Diane M. Hoffmann
Wow! I’ve got to write about this right now.
There’s been some thinking by many that one can abort a
fetus up to a certain point in the development of the embryo, based on the
belief that a baby is not a baby up until a certain amount of days or weeks.
Even some call that threshold a point at which the soul enters the fetus.
By the way, they call it a fetus to make their beliefs and
talks more palatable, but they don’t realize that the word fetus means infant
or baby.
In the book “24 Hot Potatoes in the Church Today” I wrote that
life begins at conception – and that’s based on science. The discussion entails the fact that a human
embryo is exactly that: a human being. It is not a plant or an animal, at any
point of the development, but a human being made in the image of God. And that
it is, from the very beginning point when the husband’s semen enters the wife’s
egg – at that very moment, life begins.
Now, wow, new scientific reports came out to show that point even
some more.
Scientists had thought that embryos could only keep developing
if they were safely in the womb and receiving instructions from the mother's
body. For decades scientists have been able to study human embryos in their
labs, but they were never able to keep them alive outside a woman's womb for
more than a week. This made it impossible for researchers to make long-term
studies about human development in the embryonic stage.
But now new research and discoveries have made it possible
to keep human embryos alive in the laboratory about a week longer than ever
before. Scientists call this a step that will yield important insights in this
area of their studies about the development of embryos.
But to those who already knew that life begins at
conception, this new discovery is further proof of it. How? In the words of Ali Brinvalou, an
embryologist at Rockefeller University
in New York, "All the
information necessary and sufficient to have the embryo move forward is already
contained within those handful of cells...that was a very big
surprise to us and to the field." (Underline is mine).
Why was it a surprise to them? That's because the seventh
day of development is the time when the human embryo becomes embedded within
the body of the mother -- when it becomes implanted in the womb”, says the
Zernicka-Goetz group who did the research.
It was known to the scientists that the seventh day of
development is the time when the human embryo becomes embedded within the body
of the mother -- when it becomes implanted in the womb. So, it was believed
that because they could not keep an embryo alive for more than seven days, the
“handful of cells” were not sufficient on their own to contain life. So this new discovery that the embryo is able
to continue living passed that seven-day period, only shows further the
scientific reality of life beginning at conception.
The more science discovers, the more it makes the Word of
God look scientific. However, at the
same time, for those who believe that experimenting on human embryos is morally
wrong, these experimentations are of real concerns. We should enjoy what God
created not dismantle it.
You can read the full article at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=368.
/dmh
Blessings,
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Diane M. Hoffmann, B.Th., M.Th., Ph.D./Th.
Author of "24 Hot Potatoes in the Church Today"
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