By Warren M. Hern, M.D.
Director of the
Boulder Abortion Clinic.
Reprinted with author's permission from The Colorado Statesman, July 27, 2007.
An egg is a person. No, an egg is a chicken. A fertilized human egg is a person. An acorn is a tree. A seed is an apple. A set of plans is a house. A blastocyst is a "pre-born baby." An adult human being is a "pre-dead corpse." Up is down. Black is white. War is peace. Facts are not important. Belief is what matters. And people who know the truth will tell you what to believe.
Anti-abortion fanatics have been saying for decades that a human embryo - or even a fertilized human ovum - is a person. The "Human Life Amendment" was introduced in Congress in 1975 by Senator Jesse Helms. It defined a fetus as a person. Colorado's anti-abortion fanatics now want to define a fetus as a person existing "from the moment of fertilization." Their purpose, of course, is to outlaw all abortions.
