Where does the abortion argument begin? If one is intending on writing an ebook on the subject, a decision about this must be made. As I had decided to weigh in on the abortion argument (as a pro life advocate), I immediately found myself eyeball to eyeball with the fertile egg. Even though I knew what it was from all my science classes, it had been decades since I had stopped - to really look at it. And now that man has invaded the fertile egg's domain (in labs or in the womb), it is imperative to determine what it really is. So, ... what is it?

For starters, the fertile egg is the result of a successful merging of an egg and sperm cell. But, there is something quite astounding about this union. The sperm cell, left to itself, it is incapable of growing into anything else. So also, the egg cell. As solitary cells, they soon expire. But, once merged, they burst into a phenomenally complex life form. And that complex life form is already genetically complete inside that single fertile egg. With nourishment and time, each fertile egg will become a unique adult - 100% of the time. All this from two obscure ... powerhouses.

Some have called the human fertile egg, "potential human life." Scientifically, this is an untenable statement. It is not "potential human life" - it is human life. It is nothing else and it cannot become anything else. The fertile human egg is simply, and only, the earliest stage of human life.

But there is something even more basic about a fertile egg. It is living matter. This may sound like a stupid observation, but it is actually quite significant. Many things are not alive. Most of the matter on our planet is not alive. In fact, there may be no other living matter in the universe. If all living matter was weighed against the nonliving matter, it would not amount to a speck of dust on the cosmic weighing scale. A fertile egg is an exceedingly rare piece of living matter in a universe dominated by inorganic matter.

The "Life Element"

The human body is composed of twenty-eight elements. None are alive. None of them even hint at being alive. Carbon is not alive. Iron is not alive. Lead is not alive. Calcium is not alive. Arsenic is not alive. None of the other twenty-three elements that make up our body are alive either. And it is error to refer to these elements as "dead." That infers "life" is in some way a part of their sphere. Organic chemistry is itself composed of elements that are, in and of themselves, inorganic. Life, whatever it is, is alien to every element. How any combination of non-living elements is alive ... is a total mystery. When present, the "life element" is obviously there - but, it continues to elude the scientist's grasp.

If the fertile egg does not contain all of these twenty-eight elements, then this "life element" is all the more remarkable. It attracts the missing elements at the appropriate times, and in the appropriate quantities, in the construction of the body. It is "feeding" on the inorganics around it. But, too much lead, iron or arsenic will result in the "life element" vacating the matter in which it resides - as will too little of these elements. This is too astounding to comprehend.

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