I shall take the pains to type this quite long excerpt from a bulletin that was given to me; it belongs to Precious Life Pro-life training programme. I hope it will further convince you.
ANSWERS TO “PRO-CHOICE” THINKING
1. The Pro-choice philosophy says “we have the choice to abort a child”
It is a proven medical and scientific fact that the “choice” some people accept is the killing of a person. Defenders of slavery used this same strategy- “I’m not going to own a slave, but I don’t have a right to tell you what to do”. Abortion is the killing of a human being. The choice is always wrong.
Dr Jerome Lejeune- “Father of modern Genetics”- told the American Senate, “To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion… it is plain experimental evidence”
Dr Hymie Gordon, Chairman, Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic added; “by all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception”.
Dr McCarthy de Mere, Medical Doctor and Law professor, University of Tennessee testified, “The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception”
Dr Alfred Bongiovanni, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine concluded, “ I am no more prepared to say that these early stages represent an incomplete human being than I would be to say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty…. Is not a human being”.
2. The Pro-choice philosophy says, “The government has no right to interfere in someone’s personal choices”.
The government restricts choices all the time. Do you have a choice to steal, to drive drunk, slander other people? Every abortion kills a person who is a unique individual. That is a proven medical and scientific fact. Simply calling something a personal “choice” doesn’t make it right.
3. The Pro-choice philosophy and abortion industry say “the government has no right to interfere in the toughest decision a woman will ever make”
Well, killing your own child should be a tough decision. If a man were thinking of killing his 10 year old daughter to collect on an insurance policy, it is logical to assume that it would be a tough decision for him to make but that does not mean it should be Legal.
4. The Prochoice Philosophy says that the government has no right to force a woman to have a child
Can you imagine a man on trial for killing his five year old saying “the government has no right to force me to have a child”? Legally protecting the lives of the unborn has nothing to do with forcing a woman to have a child. Once a woman is pregnant, she has already brought a child into the world; she is already a mother.
5. The Pro-choice philosophy says “ The government should not be involved in the practice of medicine”
First, telling doctors they cannot kill someone is not practising medicine; its common decency. Second the medical profession and drug industry are the most highly regulated businesses. The glaring exception is the abortion industry which is virtually unregulated. A school nurse can’t give a child aspirin without her parents’ permission but she can take her to get an abortion without her parents ever knowing.
6. Pro-choice thinking says “ The government has no right to tell a woman what she can or can’t do with her body”
The baby inside her mother is a separate individual from her mother with her own genetic code, blood type, finger prints, brain, beating heart, nervous system. The child in the womb feels pain independent from her mother, can be awake while she is asleep, can be healthy while her mother is sick. The baby in the womb is her own person. By the way, the government does regulate some things we can go with our own bodies. We can’t sell our bodies for sex, sell our organs to people in need for transplants or put certain drugs into our bodies.
7. The Pro-choice philosophy says “ A woman cannot be free unless she has the right to abortion”
What kind of freedom is it to be able to kill your own child? Abortion is not a sign that women are free but that women are desperate and have been fed a lie.
8. Pro-choice thinking says” Why should a foetus have more rights than a woman?”
This is the abortion industry’s sleazy way of pitting mothers against their own children. Once a woman has conceived a child, she has brought a new life into the world that is as fully human as she is. The right to life does not depend on size or age but on being a human person. Does a toddler have a greater right to live than an infant? A teenager more of a right to life than a toddler? Does a strong, intelligent adult deserve to have more rights than a handicapped child? If the billion- dollar abortion industry would stop pitting women against their own children and begin to show even a little compassion for the child in the womb, countless women would be saved from a lifetime of pain and regret and countless children would be saved from death.
1. The abortion industry and Pro-choice mind-set say “if a woman is carrying a child with a handicap, she should not be forced to have it. Handicapped children lead terrible lives”
People with disabilities are no less human than any other people. They have the same rights to life as a healthy person. Can you imagine a drunk driver who kills a handicapped child saying “he should be let off the hook because the “quality of life” of the child he killed was not up to his standards? Do you really feel qualified to determine the quality of life of another person and then decide if he should live or die? That is exactly what you are doing if you say handicapped children should be aborted.
2. What about a single mother who just can’t afford another child?
Poverty is no excuse for killing children. What if a woman had four kids and lost her job? Does this give her the right to drown two of them? To suggest that someone’s right to life can be denied because of his financial status is disgusting. The “poverty deserves death” idea of the abortion industry is another one of its sleazy strategies. Pro-life organisations have opened thousands of help centres for mothers in need. The abortion industry has opened zero; it just makes billions from killing the children of the poor.
3. Pro-lifers talk about late term abortion as if they were common
They are very common. One abortionist in the USA has admitted to killing OVER 10 000 babies between 24-36 weeks. Another has admitted to committing so many late term abortions, he can’t remember the number. Both of these doctors admitting these statements are available on audio tape.
4. The abortion industry and pro-choice smoke-screen say “no one can prove when life begins. It’s up to the woman to decide based on her own beliefs”
No modern medical, scientific or biology text says that life begins at any other time other than conception. Life is a continuum from the moment of conception until death. We have different names for the stages of life: zygote, foetus, infant, toddler, teenager, adult, middle ager, elderly, but they are ALL STAGES OF HUMAN LIFE. Can a woman decide that her child is not fully human until she can walk on her own? Would it be OK for her child if it is what she believed? It is a proven medical and scientific fact that life begins at conception. All of your genetic material was present at the moment of conception; nothing was added later. A person is a person no matter how small.
5. The abortion industry and Pro-choice rhetoric say “Pro-lifers talk about abortion as killing a baby. That is not true. There is a foetus but not a baby”
The word “foetus” simply describes a stage of development of human life. When the person moves from the inside to the outside of the womb, it is called a different name such as infant or new-born despite the biological fact that fundamentally, no change has taken place. As time goes on, the person will be called by different names but at no stage is she more or less human. When they talk about a child in the womb whom they do NOT intend to kill, even pro-choice people call her a baby. But if they intend to kill her, they attempt to dehumanise her by calling her a “product of conception”, “a clump of cells” or “a potential life”. Have you ever heard a pregnant woman say “my clump of cells just moved” or “my product of conception just kicked”? Or has a couple ever looked at an ultrasound of their baby in the womb and said, “Look! You can see the potential life’s heart beating and sucking her thumb”? Nothing is created at birth. It is a person who comes out of her mother and it is a person who is killed in every abortion.
6. The abortion industry says “The world has a major problem with overpopulation. So how would we feed these children when millions are starving?”
The philosophy that is acceptable to kill certain completely innocent human beings in order to accomplish social objectives is not only the very definition of evil, its irrational and ineffective. In Britain, we are talking about a country of affluence that kills over 600 children a day, mostly for convenience. The number of children in Britain or Ireland who would one day starve to death for all practical purposes is zero. To kill millions of children to keep a tiny fraction of them from being hungry is lunacy.
The children in the world who are starving to death are almost as exclusively in third-world nations where regressive regimes cause pain and destruction through corruption and political disputes. It is a well proven fact that people do not starve to death because of overpopulation or because there is not enough food in the world. The Earth produces more than enough food to feed every man, woman and child. Killing children through abortion won’t overthrow a totalitarian regime; it won’t allow free enterprise in other countries. It won’t improve farming techniques, won’t build roads, and won’t improve food distribution systems. Using abortion as a solution to poverty does allow nations and individuals to pass the buck onto the poor and frees them from their responsibility to help those in need and reinforces a “death-as-a-solution” philosophy that just leads to more poverty and broken lives.
7. Why won’t pro-lifers do something to help people who are already born?
There are many free-crisis pregnancy centres funded and staffed entirely by pro-life people. Each provides some or all of the following: friendship, counselling, adoptions, and help for mums to continue their education, post abortion counselling and many other free services. On the other hand the billion dollar abortion industry offers one choice: a dead baby!
Pro-life organisations provide real help for mums. They are in it for the long run. They keep in touch with many of the mothers and help in any way they can, even years after the mothers have given birth. WHY? Because these mothers who choose life deserve love and support but even more than that, they become like family. Sometime you should try holding a baby who was saved from abortion and see if you could ever believe in “choice”.
The billion dollar abortion industry and pro-choice mind-set say pro-lifers don’t help women in need. This is a blatant lie. Maybe someone should ask those who make millions from abortion what they do to help society apart from killing children.
8. Some children lead terrible lives. Wouldn’t it be better if they were aborted? What about all of the children who will be abused because they are unwanted? We need to make sure every child is a wanted child.
Do you really want to suggest we eliminate some child abuse that might occur sometime in the future by executing the potential victims today? That makes about as much sense as eradicating wife- beating by killing all married women. Of course this type of question completely ignores the fact that abortion itself is the ultimate example of child abuse. Since abortion in Britain was made legal in 1967, children have been killed by the tens of thousands, yet child abuse has increased dramatically. If abortion is going to reduce the number of children when is this going to happen? Close to 7 million children have been killed in Britain since 1967. How many more children have to be killed before this plan begins to work?
9. Abortion must be allowed for rape and incest
Rape and incest are hideous crimes. People who commit them should be punished. Nevertheless, a baby who results from rape or incest is an innocent human being with the same rights to life as everyone else. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Why should we add the crime of murder to these crimes? We should not kill a child for the sins of his father. Killing an innocent human being is never justifiable.
10. What gives you religious people the right to force a woman not to have an abortion?
A person does not have to be especially religious to say it’s wrong to kill a child any more than you have to be religious to say it is wrong to steal money. In reality, abortion is a civil and human rights issue. Just because so many people are motivated by their religious beliefs to oppose the killing of children through abortion does not make it a religious issue. If the argument is that abortion should be off limits to the law because people with religious beliefs oppose it, shouldn’t everything in the Ten Commandments be off limits to the law; e.g. murder or theft?
11. The Bible and Jesus never say anything about abortion
The vast majority of behaviours that are immoral and illegal today are not mentioned in the Bible. Jesus did not give us a laundry list of every offence and sin against God. The Bible and Jesus didn’t mention stock manipulation and child pornography, but it is safe to conclude that Jesus spoke against theft and lust. The Bible and Jesus repeatedly warn against doing harm to children, shedding innocent blood, committing murder, etc. The Bible and Jesus are also perfectly clear that God is the Author and Originator of all life from the moment of conception both in the Old and New Testaments. There is never a distinction between born and unborn people, nor is there any different language used to describe them.
The unborn child is always referred to in the exact same manner as the born child. Logically, we have no choice but to accept the fact that God views them as the same and intends for us to treat them in the same way.
Psalm 139:13- You it was who fashioned my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Luke 1:15- And he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Isaiah 49:1- The Lord called me before I was born, He named me from my mother’s womb.
Genesis 25: 22- The children pressed on each other in the womb.
Jeremiah 1: 5- Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.
Psalm 22:10- From my mother’s womb you have been my God.
Hosea 12:3- Even in the womb Jacob supplanted his brother.
Mt 25: 40- Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my people, you did it to me.
Mt 19: 17- If you would enter life keep the commandments
Exodus 20:13 “YOU SHALL NOT KILL”
JESUS SAID “WHATEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST F MY PEOPLE, YOU DO UNTO ME”
ABORTION IS THE KILLING OF A PERSON WHO IS COMPLETELY LOVED BY GOD, HAS AN IMMORTAL SOUL AND IS OUR SISTER AND BROTHER.
Precious Life, Making a Difference; Pro-life Training Programme.
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Some people give excuses that if one is not prepared to be a parent one has the choice to "terminate" pregnancy, issues like the age of the woman (e.g a teenager) and income are usually given as reasons why abortion is o.k. In the first instance I believe if a teenager thinks she is mature enough to have sex then she should be mature enough to be a mother, after all that's what puberty is all about, our organs develop for that specific function; to house an unborn child so she should also be ready to take responsibility for her actions, moreover society is trying to teach the youth responsibility and strength of character so this is a very good way to do it. In the case of incest and rape like I said in an earlier post ,the government or society needs to take action, the culprit needs to be dealt with accordingly, however one needs to understand its not the child who did the act, the child became a product of the act and is completely innocent. So should one blame the child for the criminal offence?
There are more tangible reasons why abortion is not o.k but these are a few of them. No one is judging those who have had or think its o.k. We are all entitled to our opinions but its very reasonable to try to make one understand that this act kills a human being. No matter the location or the size, the human foetus has the same characteristics and features as a born baby and same as a full grown man or woman, it will not grow into a dog, cat or plant. So if we all agree that a new born baby is a human being, I don't think its difficult to understand that the baby in the womb is more than just a potential life.
