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".
What an idiot!
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And with two human parents, they magically turn into chimpanzees and then *poof* magically turn back into humans again as they grow!
What a freaking moron. This guy ought to be disbarred and any medical professional who supports this lunacy should be stripped of his license to practice.
Some folks will stop at nothing to legitimize abortion.
In his own gestation, he is correct.
Socalist/humanist agenda sinks to a new low.
Jorge Carpizo McGregor is a Chimpanzee.
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The DNA of an unborn human baby is 100% human.
I guess he’s still a chimp if that’s his idea of critical thinking.
How bizarre. It’s almost impossible to believe that anyone could say something this incredibly ignorant with all of the scientific discoveries to date.
And unborn person has a visible cerebrum by the 4th week of prenatal development.
By the twelfth week, the child's head comprises half of his total weight and the brain is highly articulated.
He is correct, as regards attorneys.
But in all seriousness, this undercuts the very concept of human rights, human dignity, even human identity. From this guy's perspective, human identity is an intermittent thing, existing only when a fully-loaded cerebral cortex is optimally developed, active, and manifest, and fading like a light on a rheostat whenever you are not at the highest pitch of documented thinkitude.
Everybody is at low level of cogitation when inattentive, distracted, or even dreaming. I guess your humanness just fades and flickers on and off like that.
My advice to this Mexican politico: never, never fall asleep. If you do... (visualize cutting motion with finger across the neck.)
1. Human embryos can be transplanted into female chimps and a chimp should grow
2. Some time in gestation we lose a pair of chromosones
3. We also lose opposible toes, massive muscle girth, freakishly long arms, body hair, red butts, and 100s of other things.
Yeah, the abortionistas had better think twice before adopting this line of thinking. After all, you can get in trouble for killing a chimpanzee.
That's much lighter a name than I'd use for him.
On the surface, this sounds like such a joke, I looked to see if it was written on scrappleface or the Onion or some such.
Then you read this claim and try to apply it to their twisted logic. And realize that the Culture of Death is so committed to their cause, so completely devoted to the slaughter and cannibalism of our children that this freak's interpretation will be embraced and distributed among the least educated to completely remove the human aspects of the nascent child. It's very easy to convince a scared pregnant girl that even though the stick turned blue, not only is it not a baby, yet, it's not even human, yet. No brain! No pain! No worries.
We've been through this before: "a mass of cells", "a clump of tissue", "IT isn't alive until IT's born", etc. The sentient human to some of these types (anti-messiah BHO stands out in front on this, without apology, doesn't he) doesn't even exist at birth... they'd take it well beyond the formative years. Wait, they have: eugenics & euthanasia.
I am curious though, how the animal activists will take this. As coleus has reminded us many a time, Roe and the Endangered Species Act were both thrust upon us in 1973. Now that the unborn child has been not compared to, but designated as, an endangered species... uh?
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