Name: 實戰練英文 | 墮胎 = 謀殺⁉️能否墮胎在於有無靈魂、意識、或痛苦？ 劍橋醫學生對胚胎瞭若指掌，Charlie 能講贏他嗎？ | 劍橋聯盟激辯 | 長文、註解、大字版、中英對照
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Our next question is from Kai Bevan at Trinity Hall.

My question to you, I mean, I'm a medical student, and I'm going to throw out the big A word.

I know you get asked about it a lot, but I want to hear from you what your opinion is on abortion.

But about abortion specifically, why do you think abortion is wrong specifically?

Okay, so this is where we get to the question, right?

Because what is it about murder you say is wrong?

Well, because it's a human being, not just because it has consciousness or because it's of a certain age, because it's a human.

What is it that gives human being this moral worth?

I can imagine it's because it is a human being because that is a soul.

I mean, again, the Greeks postulated that it is the entirety of your being.

I mean, every civilization has had a different belief, but agreed upon ethical monotheism, which is the creed of the West and what the birth certificate of my country articulates, that every human being is more than just matter.

It's more than just a clump of cells, but it also has an invisible element to you that will live beyond you.

So, I mean, can you say that comes from the Bible or where else do you get that?

Ethical monotheism, which is the creed of the West.

And again, the Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

The founders were explicitly believed, not in a secular morality, but a divinely given one, of at least this idea that there is a God and you are not him.

And let me ask you, what is the first stage of human development?

So the first, I mean, this is the thing, right?

We can take it from the sperm being generated in the father and the oocyte being generated in the mother, right?

The only thing that happens at conception is these two cells fuse.

The DNA coding at the zygote, hold on, time out.

Meaning, can you differentiate the DNA coding between the mother and the zygote if you examine it under a deoxyribonucleic acid analysis, can you?

Only purely because the addition comes from the father.

You have, the father has his own genome, the mother has her own genome.

This is why you have the same characteristics, similar ones to your mother, similar ones to your father.

That's why you have similar characteristics to your siblings.

So when you ask me, where does a human being come from?

I can say to you it starts at conception, but all conception is these two cells joining,  But these two cells were created, the mother's cells were created long before, they were created when she was a fetus.

So there's none of this DNA being produced, right?

So we can't, we can't, the only thing that happens at conception is these two cells fuse.

Now this idea that that means that for some reason suddenly that moral worth comes in, but it wasn't there before when you had these two cells who had half the DNA, but suddenly there's a sort of a switch.  Yes, something magical happens at that point.

I promise you, I'm not trying to score points.

We call it the miracle of life for a reason.

We've not been able to yet replicate human life development outside of the womb.

We call it the miracle of life because yes, it's something beautiful.

It's an incredible thing that happens, of course, but it's not incredible in the sense we don't know what's going on.

There's no new DNA being coming out of nowhere.

Isn't there a separate DNA, though, than the mother?

Yes, but it's not the father's DNA either.

I mean, again, this comes from what you define as where life starts.

You can say life starts at conception, but I'm telling you, I believe that's just an arbitrary point, right?

That's just the moment these two cells fuse.

So the way DNA is arranged in a cell is it's arranged in chromosomes.

Chromosomes are paired up, so you have one from the mother, one from the father, typically, in a healthy individual, right?

Now, you can take those maternal chromosomes out, and you can find that this is who the person's mother is, and you can do the same with the father.

Now, the reason you are different to your mother and father is because some of those chromosomes express genes that are different from each other, and so those genes interact, and that's what gives rise to you, right?

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實戰練英文 | 墮胎 = 謀殺⁉️能否墮胎在於有無靈魂、意識、或痛苦？劍橋醫學生對胚胎瞭若指掌，Charlie 能講贏他嗎？ | 劍橋聯盟激辯 | 長文、註解、大字版、中英對照

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實戰練英文 | 墮胎 = 謀殺⁉️能否墮胎在於有無靈魂、意識、或痛苦？ 劍橋醫學生對胚胎瞭若指掌，Charlie 能講贏他嗎？ | 劍橋聯盟激辯 | 長文、註解、大字版、中英對照

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實戰練英文 | 墮胎 = 謀殺⁉️能否墮胎在於有無靈魂、意識、或痛苦？劍橋醫學生對胚胎瞭若指掌，Charlie 能講贏他嗎？ | 劍橋聯盟激辯 | 長文、註解、大字版、中英對照