NEW LIFE

 

“The Constitution is neither pro-life nor pro-choice … and leaves the issue to the people to resolve in the democratic process,” Kavanaugh said.

That is the legality of it in a nutshell. Constitutionally speaking, this (along with most other things) belongs to the States and to the People.

The scientific information available today is not the same as what was available fifty and more years ago. Scientists have captured on film what is referred to as the *spark of life* when an ovum is fertilized by a sperm.

That tiny burst of energy signifies that the joining of the genetic information carried by the male and female gametes is generating an entirely new and unique combination that will develop into a person whose final chromosomal identification carries the signature halves contributed by those two gametes.

From the instant the chromosomal halves join into a single complete DNA strand, the replication begins and the development of an individual commences.

That's the science of it, and it's irrefutable.

That spark? Apparently it's zinc 'exploding' and it creates a sort of *halo* announcing the newly-forming individual.

That having been said, it is also irrefutable that the means of preventing conception and terminating pregnancy have been around for a long LONG time. Mother Nature herself provides the ways, and humankind has known (and presumably used) those ways for heaven only knows how long. It's not like this is a recent sort of thing.

The fact that I live in the United States which is governed by the Constitution, in conjunction with the science and the history (and the admonition to *judge not*), means (to me) that you are as free as I am to make your own choices. I don't have to agree with yours any more than you have to agree with mine - but we had both dang well better respect each other's rights to not make the same choices.

The only caveat I would add to that, if I could, would be that ALL of us, when making a decision about ANYTHING, search out as much information as we can, and do some long hard thinking, BEFORE we choose.