Can you believe that one day you didn’t even exist, and the next day you did? Yep, it’s true. But when exactly did you become a “human being”? Let’s find out…
I don’t even look human, just a couple of cells divided. I guess that’s not when it happens.
I don’t even have all the building blocks to be human, right?
My heart isn’t even beating, whatever that means.
No one can hear me, so I must not be there.
No one can feel me moving, therefore I must not be real.
I can’t even find my own thumb, so what good am I?
And why won’t these long things stop moving? Human’s can’t possibly do this!
I don’t even have bone structures like you! [sigh]
No, not human yet.
Nope. Man, this is taking forever…
Still not yet! Wait, let me just get this little booger I shouldn’t have since I’m not human…
Who keeps kicking me!?
I promise you, I’m not ticklish!
What is all that squeezing & pushing, am I human yet?
Why is everyone yelling? And what’s that strange “he he ha ha” sound?
YESSSS, I’m finally human! I wish that had happened like, 9 months ago or something!
We are all called to respect all human life from conception to natural death. That means from helping the mother with prenatal care, to supporting adoption, to helping with the necessities for life of food, clothing and shelter. We must care for the mentally and physically disabled, and care for the elderly until their natural death. Jesus commands us to “love one another” and “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you.” We all deserve respect and dignity no matter who we are, and we should give others nothing less.
The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is aconstitutive element of a civil society and its legislation:
“The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.”
“The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined…. As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child’s rights.” (ccc 2273).
Hard not to lose patience with those who still insist you aren’t human until you’re born. Those who still want to deny your humanity are the SCIENCE DENIERS, the FLAT EARTHERS!!!