Quando começa a Vida Humana? Alguns Testemunhos

Após uma professora universitária (literatura) da UMa, ter dado recentemente o seu fantástico e iluminado contributo científico à questão "quando começa a vida" ao proferir uma barbaridade técnica ( “o feto não é uma vida humana” "é vida, mas não é humana". ok. então o que é? vida piscícola??), decidimos publicar aqui alguns contributos da verdadeira comunidade científica internacional, sobre essa mesma matéria. É que num assunto tão delicado é melhor deixar a ciência aos experts, em vez de recitar do "biologia para tótós".

Muitos especialistas reputados internacionalmente das áreas da genética e biólogia têm dado o seu testemunho de que a vida humana começa com a concepção. Em 1981 um comité do Senado Americano convocou vários cientistas, e colocou-lhes essa mesma questão: Quando começa a vida humana? Dois dos médicos que testemunharam referiram o seguinte:

1. Dr. Hymie Gordon, Director do Departamento de Genética da Clínica Mayo: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception."

2. Dr. McCarthy de Mere, médico e professor universitário (Direito) da Universidade de Tennessee: "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."

Testemunho do "Pai da Genética"

Dr. Jerome Lejeune, conhecido como o 'pai da Genética' também testemunhou perante o órgão legislativa estadual de Louisiana (1990) que a vida humana tem o seu início no momento da concepção. De seguida, um extracto do seu testemunho:

Dr. Lejeune explained that within three to seven days after fertilization we can determine if the new human being is a boy or a girl. "At no time," Dr. Lejeune said, "is the human being a blob of protoplasm. As far as your nature is concerned, I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were, and are, a human being."

Dr. Lejeune also pointed out that each human being is unique -- different from the mother -- from the moment of conception. He said, "Recent discoveries by Dr. Alec Jeffreys of England demonstrate that this information [on the DNA molecule] is stored by a system of bar codes not unlike those found on products at the supermarket...it's not any longer a theory that each of us is unique."

http://www.fondationlejeune.org/eng/Default.asp

Um Bebé de 8 Semanas

Paul E Rockwell, médico:

"Eleven years ago while giving an anesthetic for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy (at 8 weeks gestation), I was handed what I believe was the smallest living human ever seen. The embryonic sac was intact and transparent. Within the sac was a tiny human male swimming extremely vigorously in the amniotic fluid, while attached to the wall by the umbilical cord. This tiny human was perfectly developed, with long, tapering fingers, feet and toes. It was almost transparent, as regards the skin, and the delicate arteries and veins were prominent to the ends of the fingers."

Dr. Rockwell continues, "The baby was extremely alive and swam about the sac approximately one time per second, with a natural swimmer's stroke. This tiny human did not look at all like the photos and drawings and models of 'embryos' which I had seen, nor did it look like a few embryos I have been able to observe since then, obviously because this one was alive! When the sac was opened, the tiny human immediately lost his life and took on the appearance of what is accepted as the appearance of an embryo at this stage of life (with blunt extremities etc.)."

The statement by Paul E. Rockwell, M.D., an anestheasiologist, was quoted by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke in their Handbook on Abortion.