Everyone wants an equal share of rights—that is fine. But, sometimes the rights of one person may form an eclipse over the rights of another. It is medically and scientifically proven that fertilization is the beginning of a genetically unique human individual. Although abortion gives women the freedom of choice, the termination of a human pregnancy violates the fourteenth amendment that protects all live material persons.

Pro-choice advocates have understandable concerns for the well being of the pregnant mother, the unborn baby, and the society in which it would live. Those who support pro-choice will admit that the planet will not be able to support too many more people. They say that if abortion is kept legal in America, a limit may not need to be set for the amount of offspring each couple can have as China does. They do not think there is a need to make mothers feel guilty by accusing them of killing an unborn baby. Another concern is that if abortion were illegal, people would try to perform their own abortions with disastrous consequences. If abortion were outlawed, pro-choice advocates would worry that people who want abortions would not be able to support their offspring.

Jerome Lejeune, a French pediatrician and geneticist, testified at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and stated, "After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being... [This] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion... It is plain experimental evidence" (qtd. In Bender, David, Bruno Leone, and Tamara L. Roleff, eds. Abortion: Opposing Views. California: Greenhaven, 1997. pg16). A former abortionist named Bernard Nathanson once ran the largest abortion clinic in the world. He became actively opposed to abortion because of the medical evidence that human life begins at conception. Pro-and anti-abortion expert witnesses appeared at a hearing on a Human Life Bill in 1981. Dr. Sean 0' Reilly, scientific advisor to the committee and Professor of Neurology and Director of the Neuro-Biology Research Training Program at George Washington University in Washington, DC, summarized their testimony on this point. He explains that fertilization is the start of a human existence. He also says that any other conclusion would not be supportable in anyway—scientifically or rationally. Without medical or scientific knowledge it can be hard to decipher a fine-line of when a fetus or embryo becomes human. An honest guess could be that human life starts at quickening (the time that fetal movement can first be felt). A philosophical guess could be that human life starts when a couple can have sex, but do not; thus, preventing a chance that a human could have been conceived. It is now known that human life begins at conception. Therefore, legalized abortion cannot be justified. Since abortion is legal, there is no basis for a law against killing your neighbor.

It is not that a baby's choice is more important than a woman's choice; it is that a baby's life is more important than a woman's aches and pains for nine months. Adoption is always an option.

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