IV. Evidence presented to the Supreme Court proved that the fetus is human.
It is our task in the next subsequent subsections to show how clearly and conclusively modern science--embryology--fetology--genetics--perinatology--and all of biology--establishes the humanity of the unborn child.
We submit that the data not only shows the constitutionality of the legislatures efforts to save the unborn from indiscriminate extermination, but in fact suggests a duty to do so. We submit also that no physician who understands this will argue that the law is too vague, uncertain or overboard for he will understand that the law calls upon him to exercise his art for the benefit of his two patients: mother and child. Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Supreme Court of the United States, October, 1971. p.7
A. The child is significantly different from its mother.
(1) "Even before implantation in the wall of the uterus the unborn child is responsible for the maintenance of the pregnant state in maternal metabolism, (1) The child whose tissue is antigenically different from the mother sets up protective mechanisms to prevent maternal immunologic responses from causing fetal distress. (2) The newly formed child has a remarkable degree of metabolic autonomy. (3) The fetal endocrine system functions autonomously. Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Supreme Court of the United States, October, 1971. p.7
(2) Modern obstetrics has discarded as unscientific the concept that the child in the womb is but tissue of the mother. Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Supreme Court of the United States, October, 1971. p.7
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