Question

At what point between conception and birth do you consider an organism a human being?

• Include support for your stance.
• Discuss whether or not evidentiary support from others could persuade you to change your position on this issue? Why or Why not?
• Explain how you may discuss this in a clinical setting with a patient who has opposing views.
• Address how professional language can impact your role as a Nurse when discussing controversial topics.

Answer 1

Life begins at fertilization with the embryo's conception.'Development of the embryo' begins at stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oozyte and together they form a zygote.'Human development' begins after the union of male and female gamates or germcells during a process called fertilization.Rather the human embryo is a human being in the embryonic stage.The adult that is you is the same being who, at an earlier stage of your life,was an adolescent,and before that a child,an infant,a fetus and an embryo.Even in the embryonic stage,you were a whole,living member of the species Homo Sapiens.A fetal heart beat may first be detected by a vaginal ultrasound as early as 5 to 6 weeks of gestation.According to International Journal of Sociology and Socialpolicy 1999, the bigining of human being is briefly described.To begin with,scientifically something very radical occurs between the processes of gamatogenesis and fertilization,the change from a simple part of the human being(sperm) and a simple patr of the another human being(oozyte) simply possess the human life.To understand this,it should be remembered that each kind of living orgsanism has a specific number of chromosomes that are charecteristics of each member of a sprecies,that is 23 each for sperms and oozytes,which will later unite tto form germ cell with 46 chromosomes.