Posted on 03/02/2008 1:38:07 PM PST by wagglebee
MEXICO, February 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A former attorney general and human rights commission chairman is claiming that unborn children in the earliest stages of development are not human, and are in fact chimpanzees.
Dr. Jorge Carpizo McGregor claims that "for the topic of abortion, there are very important scientific advances that prove that the DNA of chimpanzees is 99 percent identical to that of a human being. The difference between ourselves and chimpanzees is one percent, this quantity that makes the difference is the central nervous system."
"Before twelve weeks of gestation, there is no cerebral cortex, that is to say, there is no human being, the cortex is formed around the 25th week. This is a very important piece of information because those who attack abortion say that a human being is being killed and it isn't true."
"That's ridiculous," said Dr. John Shea, medical advisor to Canada's Campaign Life Coalition. "This is the most ignorant remark I think the man could possibly make. He must be totally ignorant of science."
Dr. Shea was shocked to hear that a prominent attorney was claiming that the only difference between a chimpanzee and a human being was in the nervous system. "That's so ignorant that I don't know where to begin," he told LifeSiteNews. "The organism is different in every single way" he said, and added that "a person is different in a trillion different biochemical ways. It's ludicrous, ludicrous. It's on it's face, ridiculous."
In reality, the nervous system begins to form well before the 25th week. During the first four weeks, the neural tube begins to form, which is the beginning of the central nervous system. During the fifth week, the brain begins to grow.
Carpizo, who is a former attorney general of Mexico and former head of Mexico's human rights commission, has acted as a legal advisor to the government of Mexico City, which is defending its recent legalization of abortion before the nation's Supreme Court. The current head of the National Human Rights Commission is one of the parties disputing Mexico City's law. A decision on the matter is expected within days.
Carpizo is planning on putting forth his ideas in a new book, which he will introduce in March, called "Human Rights: Abortion and Euthanasia".
Oh, lawyers know all kinds of “science”. Like John Edwards “channelling” the dead for his jury trials. Yep, whenever I have a medical or health question I always call a lawyer first.
I can't help it! I am laughing! Was he looking at ultra-sounds to determine this? What was he smoking at the time? :;grin::
Actually, I thought the hairiness was another difference....I don't recall my kids being born looking as hairy as a chimp, but...memory could serve me wrong?! ::grin:: Ludicrous!
Do they do science different south of the border than we do here? (tongue in cheek)
well we certainly can’t abort any chimps! That would be cruel and speciesist!
He proposes an interesting concept. What are we at two weeks, barnacles? Maybe a potted plant at four weeks? A sea anenome at eight? Rabbit at twelve? Nine months of evolution.
Well if we just chop off an adult’s arm or a leg and then it’s an incomplete human being so not technically human...
So can we get PETA on board the pro-life train?
Hey there, JC, that's an insult to, uh, me...or, wait, an insult to chimpanzees...yeah, something like that...
Well, Princeton University has Peter Singer, who argues for personhood status for apes, while denying it to unborn and newborn and disabled or terminally ill human beings.
Maybe this guy was in Singer’s class.
No biology necessary- just diabolically twisted arguments.
MUST READ BOOK IN THIS FIELD:
Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives
http://www.amazon.com/Dehumanizing-Vulnerable-When-Games-Lives/dp/0919225195
I gave you a warning! Yes, an abortion is really terrible. The fetus is a live, living baby!
Did you look at the Baby Samuel pictures? Now that’s a real miracle in my way of thinking.
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