{"id":158583,"date":"2016-12-28T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=158583"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:43:59","slug":"former-abortion-nurse-answers-questions-students-ask-abortion-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortion-nurse-answers-questions-students-ask-abortion-class\/","title":{"rendered":"A former abortion nurse shares her responses to students’ questions about abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent article <\/a>in The Torch<\/em>, nurse Cynthia Isabell, who once assisted in abortions, writes about how she talks to her students about the abortion issue.\u00a0\u00a0 Students often ask her what she thinks about abortion. When she tells them she is pro-life, they usually ask her the same few questions.<\/p>\n

The first question she says they ask her is, \u201cWhen does life begin?\u201d<\/p>\n

She answers:<\/p>\n

I respond with, ‘You know the answer to this question.\u00a0 How do you tell if something, such as a cell, is alive or not?’ \u00a0The students\u00a0answer correctly that ‘living cells\u00a0grow and\u00a0multiply.’ And so of course I must remind them of what they already know: that growth and multiplication is exactly what\u00a0is happening after the egg and the sperm join\u00a0to form the zygote.\u00a0Within twenty-four\u00a0hours\u00a0of conception\u00a0the\u00a0zygote\u00a0is\u00a0dividing rapidly into many cells\u00a0which will\u00a0differentiate to form different parts of the human body.<\/p>\n

Dead things do not do this.\u00a0\u00a0Dead cells do not\u00a0replicate their DNA\u00a0and\u00a0multiply\u00a0into more cells. They\u00a0do not differentiate\u00a0to become a brain, a heart, the liver, the skin, muscle and bone. Life begins at conception, when the fertilized egg begins to grow<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is obvious, then, that the preborn child is alive.<\/p>\n

The students then ask, \u201cWhen can it be considered a human?\u201d<\/p>\n

She responds by asking the students:<\/p>\n

‘What determines whether we are a human,\u00a0rather than a bird or a zucchini?’ \u00a0The answer to\u00a0this is simple and they correctly reply that it is ‘our genetics, our DNA.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, the preborn baby has human DNA. It does not have the DNA of a bird or rat. Isabell says:<\/p>\n

When the egg and the sperm join, this is the beginning of a new human, with its own set of DNA which also includes hair color, eye color, skin tone,\u00a0fingerprints,\u00a0and a multitude of other individual characteristics.\u00a0\u00a0The baby is genetically different from the mother, having only half of the DNA coming from\u00a0her, and half from the father; a\u00a0distinct human being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isabell has now established that abortion kills a living human being.<\/p>\n

At this point, though, the questions do not end. The students ask her why a woman shouldn\u2019t be allowed to do whatever she wishes with her body.<\/p>\n

Isabell\u2019s answer is that it is not just the mother\u2019s body involved in an abortion. The child has his or her own body. She points out that a fetus does not simply grow inside the mother like an internal organ. The placenta and umbilical cord must separate the baby from the mother. The placenta and umbilical cord, she says, are vital because the baby has a different circulatory system than the mother. The baby\u2019s blood and the mother\u2019s blood must never mix. If they do, serious complications can occur.<\/p>\n