produce a now highly controversial film called The Silent Scream. The movie, which was viewed by tens of thousands of people, presented the same movie of a ?live action ultrasound of an ongoing abortion.? After watching the movie, countless doctors became pro-life, including the doctor who performed the abortion shown in the movie. After the movie?s dbut, Dr. Nathanson offered his opinion of the movie to the audience. He told them, ?This movie proves a fetus can feel and does feel pain.? He also went on to say:You can see from the moment the tip of the suction machine starts to move, the fetus knows it and starts to scuttle to the top of the uterus? you can see the heart speeding up, you can see the limbs moving faster, you can see the child moving more rapidly. Even the breathing increases. So there is no question this child feels pain, and actually senses danger. The fetus can feel and sense pain, but of course after the suction machine tears off the unborn child?s head and crushes it, along with the dismemberment of the rest of the body life can no longer exist.2. Life does not begin at conception. What is life? Life is existence and exercising functional powers. A fetus exists. A cell exists. Both perform functional powers, and after conception the lone cell begins to split within minutes. Striving to live, the cells continue to split and double until a child is developed and even after that, new cells are created until death.An acorn (egg) is nothing when it is by itself, but when it is placed in a safe environment like a pot (womb), surrounded by dirt (fluids) and sprinkled with water (sperm) life can then begin. After the water makes its way into the seed roots start to form, and at that very moment we can say, ?It is growing. It is living.? This should also be true for a fetus. Once the cells begin to divide the cells should be considered a fetus or rather, be called a living human being. The combination of our ...
