Tiny Life

Charli's first picture. 9 weeks old. Her actual size about the size of a quarter. She was kicking her little numbs like crazy.

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Biologically at conception, there is life.

At conception, all the DNA of a unique person---who has never walked the earth or taken a breath or heart has beaten---is present.

All the information for growth is now present from *this* stage in life until the grave.

Gender is set. Hair and eye color is set. Skin color is set. It's all there. Everything is in place. All that is left is time to grow.

Within hours there is growth---cell division. The baby *continues* to grow tiny bit by tiny bit---without the aid of the mother's body.

Around 10 days after conception, the baby implants to the mother's body and grows rapidly over the next 39 weeks, until the baby triggers labor.

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We ALL start life like this. We ALL start when a single sperm meets up with a single egg, and *huzzah!* there is a new set of DNA in the world that has never been there before.

We ALL start out smaller than this period:

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ALL of us.

If we ALL start out the same, we ALL follow the same development process, we ALL go through the same stages of growth, and eventually we ALL turn into beautiful kicking newborns, toddlers, kids, preteens, teens, young adults, adults, and elderly.

Comparing a human that is 1 hour old after conception to a human that is 2, 5, 16, 40 weeks old after conception, or to a 1 year old, or to a 7 year old or to any age is an improper comparison that ignores human development.

It is an improper argument to compare any fetal life to a severed arm or other tissue belonging to another person.

It is improper to hold fetal life to the same standards of "living" and "personhood" used for newborns, children, adults.

It is an improper argument to say fetal life is suffering from a disability.

Kind of get what I'm saying people? 1 hour after conception baby is doing what a baby the age of 1 hour after conception can do---growing, and not a whole lot else.