What science have I ignored?
Not this:
Nature, or whatever you choose to call it, has shown an 'enlightened' explanation of the moment that life begins.
The most recent scientific discovery has 'highlighted' the moment at which the organism is a living human being....hence, any disruption beyond that moment is murder.
Practice what the pro-abortion fanatics will say: they will attach no significance to the discovery, and continue to claim that life does not begin until the developing human being is out of the womb and able to survive on its own. Of course, the same definition would allow the slaughter of year old infants.
Any rationalization aside, this discovery 'lights' the way to the only civilized way to deal with abortion.
..... we now must recognize that life begins at the moment sperm joins with egg...and any abortion should only be permitted prior to said event.
Here are the details.
“Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg
Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film.
An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.
Scientists had seen the phenomenon occur in other animals but it is the first time is has been also shown to happen in humans.
“To see the zinc radiate out in a burst from each human egg was breathtaking.”
Professor Teresa Woodruff, Northwestern University
Not only is it an incredible spectacle, highlighting the very moment that a new life begins, the size of the flash can be used to determine the quality of the fertilised egg.
Researchers from
Northwestern University, in Chicago, noticed that some of the eggs burn brighter than others, showing that they are more likely to produce a healthy baby.
“It’s a way of sorting egg quality in a way we’ve never been able to assess before. “All of biology starts at the time of fertilization, yet we know next to nothing about the events that occur in the human.”
The bright flash occurs because when sperm enters and egg it triggers calcium to increase which releases zinc from the egg. As the zinc shoots out, it binds to small molecules which emit a fluorescence which can be picked up my camera microscopes.
Over the last six years this team has shown that zinc controls the decision to grow and change into a completely new genetic organism.
In the experiment, scientists use sperm enzyme rather than actual sperm to show what happens at the moment of conception.
In a companion paper published in Scientific Reports on March 18, a zinc spark is shown at the precise time a sperm enters a mouse egg.
This discovery was made by Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern. Little is known about the events that occur at the time of fertilization, because it is difficult to capture the precise time of sperm entry.
The study will be published April 26 in
Scientific Reports."
Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg
