The Abortion Debate

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The Abortion Debate

• The TRUTH about abortion and what YOU can do
  about it

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Introduction

• Hi, Im me
• Why am I doing this?
• Personal Reasons
• I believe God wants me to make a difference, and
  this is a cause worth fighting for
• The example of my mother as a pro-life advocate
• The encouragement of my husband Matt
• For my son Wesley

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Baby Wes on the inside (20 wks)
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Baby Wes on the inside (28 weeks)
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Baby Wes on the outside (newborn)
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Baby Wes on the outside (5 months)
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Can you prove something is morally wrong?

• There are no absolutes.
• I cant speak a word of English.
• Morals are just personal opinions, so you
  shouldnt force your morals on people.

• Is that statement absolutely true?
• Arent you speaking English to say that?
• Whats wrong with forcing morals on people?
  Thats just your opinion!

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Self-defeating
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Is there a moral difference?

• ADOLF HITLER

• MOTHER THERESA

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Conscience Test

• Morally GOOD or Morally BAD?

• Racism and slavery
• Killing innocent teenagers for fun
• Premarital Sex
• Living together before marriage
• Cheating on a test

What about ABORTION?
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How do we know whats morally right or wrong?

• Moral intuitions (conscience)
• The Bible
• Our society (parents, teachers, reformers)

• BUT, consciences can become insensitive and
  perverted
• BUT, Bible verses can be twisted out of context
• BUT society can be WRONG!

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Whats the solution?

• Be honest with yourself and with God.
• Conform your conscience to the BIBLE and to
  TRUTH, NOT vice versa!

• The wrath of God is being revealed ..against
  human beings who suppress the truth by their
  wickedness Rom. 118
• Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but
  be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  Rom. 122

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There is Grace for those who have had abortions

• If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just
  and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness.
• 1John

• Norma McCorvey (of Roe v. Wade) is now a
  Christian!

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Normas own words

• My conversion is one for the ages. The timing
  was preciseOperation Rescue was next door to my
  clinic for less than a year but it wasn't until I
  had a regenerated heart that the truth of what
  abortion does could find a place in my intellect.
  Once that truth took hold, there was no turning
  back.
• "I'm one hundred percent sold out to Jesus and
  one hundred percent pro-life," I like to say. "No
  exceptions. No compromise."
• http//www.leaderu.com/norma/

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Abortion affects YOUR generation

• 1/3 of your generation has been wiped out by
  abortion
• If you were born after 1973, you are a survivor
  of the abortion holocaust
• Will your generation CONTINUE the holocaust, or
  STOP it?

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Abortion affects YOUR generation

• By age 15, only 13 of teens have ever had sex.
  However, by the time they reach age 19, seven in
  10 teens have engaged in sexual intercourse.
• Nearly half (46) of all 15-19-year-olds in the
  United States have had sex at least once.
• Facts on American Teens' Sexual and Reproductive
  Health

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Abortion affects YOUR generation

• Each year, almost 750,000 women aged 15-19 become
  pregnant
• There were 214,750 abortions among
  15-19-year-olds in 2002

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Abortion affects YOUR generation

• Nearly a third of all teen pregnancies end in
  abortion.
• 29 of pregnancies among 15-19-year-olds ended in
  abortion in 2002, compared with 21 among all
  women

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reasons teens give most for having an abortion

• concern about how having a baby would change
  their lives
• inability to afford a baby now
• feeling insufficiently mature to raise a child

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This is the HUMAN RIGHTS issue of our time

• Abortion

• Other Human Rights Issues

• 49,551,703 babies aborted in US since 1973
• 1.3 million per year
• 3,700 a day

• 6 million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust
• 7.8 million Africans brought as slaves to the
  Americas

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Dehumanization

• Unborn babies products of conception, blobs
  of tissue, fetus, its
• Abortion termination of pregnancy or
  therapeutic abortion

• Jews inferior race, vermin, parasites,
  disease
• African slaves
• chattels,' 'property,' 'beasts'
• Native Americans
• "non-persons," "savages," and "Satan's
  partisans"

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Roe V. Wade - 1973

• Planned Parenthood used Norma McCorvey (Roe) as
  their test case and said she was raped
• The decision said abortion was only legal before
  viability unless the mothers life or health was
  in danger
• The court claimed that an unborn child has no
  rights

• BUT, she wasnt really raped and DIDNT end up
  having an abortion
• Doe vs. Bolton said health of the mother could
  be ANYTHING (abortion on demand)
• The court later decided that rocks and trees have
  rights, but not babies!

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Whats behind the pro-choice agenda?

• Freedom to have sex without any consequences
• Attack on sex and the family as God created them
  to be
• Radical feminist agenda (think theyre helping
  women)

• Eugenics (get rid of certain races to have a
  purer human race)
• Money, money, money
• abortion doctors 200,000 a year
• Clinics 1 million/ year
• Planned Parenthood 300 million from taxes/ 1
  million from abortions

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Margaret Sanger founder of Planned parenthood

• If we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic,
  he can go among them with enthusiasm... His work,
  in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro
  profession...  We do not want word to go out that
  we want to exterminate the Negro population...
  letter to colleague Dr. Clarence J. Gamble

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Former Abortionists speak out

• There are two reasons why people get involved in
  the abortion industry. The first is money. The
  second is because they really feel that its
  helping women. But even those people who get
  involved because they think its helping women
  at some point in time convert to the fact that
  its all about money. Eric Harrah (abortionist)
• I finally realized, we werent helping womenwe
  were destroying them and their children. Carol
  Everett (clinic owner)

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Whats the debate about?

• The key in the debate is whether or not an unborn
  baby is a human person with rights or not
• Pro-life argument
• 1) It is morally wrong to kill innocent human
  life.
• 2) Abortion kills innocent human life.
• 3) Therefore, Abortion is morally wrong.
• (The pro-choice argument challenges the 2nd
  premise by saying babies in the womb arent fully
  human or full persons with rights, so abortion
  isnt murder.)

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Whats the debate about?

• Premise 1
• It is morally wrong to kill innocent human life.
• This premise is a basic moral principle. It does
  not require justification.
• Premise 2
• Abortion kills innocent human life
• Lets see if abortion fits this description
• Abortion is killing something
• That something is not guilty of any crimes
• So the only question left is Is the unborn child
  a human life?

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Arguments for the Pro-life position

• Life begins at conception (science and the Bible)
• A baby is a human being with potential, not a
  potential human being.

• The only difference between an unborn baby and
  you is time, location and development

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The Baby in the womb

• 1st trimester
• 2nd trimester
• 3rd trimester

• Types of abortions done during each trimester

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Abortion Myths

• A baby is just a blob of tissue
• Abortions dont hurt the mother
• There are no long term effects of abortion
• The choice is between a woman and her doctor

• A woman has a right to do whatever she wants with
  her own body
• You cant have an abortion for any reason
• Abortion isnt an issue for guys

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Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen

• I am happy to be alive. I almost died. Every day
  I thank God for life. I do not consider myself a
  by-product of conception, a clump of tissue, or
  any other of the titles given to a child in the
  womb. I do not consider any person conceived to
  be any of those things.
• Today, a baby is a baby when convenient. It is
  tissue or otherwise when the time is not right. A
  baby is a baby when miscarriage takes place at
  two, three, four months. A baby is called a
  tissue or clumps of cells when an abortion takes
  place at two, three, four months. Why is that? I
  see no difference. What are you seeing? Many
  close their eyes...
• Testimony of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen
  before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House
  Judiciary Committee on April 22, 1996.

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Former director of abortion clinics Carol
Everett

• Every woman has two questions, Is it a baby?
  and Does it hurt? The abortionist must (lie and
  ) answer No. The women were told that we were
  dealing with a product of conception or a glob
  of tissue. They were told that there would be
  only slight cramping, whereas, in reality, an
  abortion can be excruciatingly painful.
• from physiciansforlife.org

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Just a blob of tissue?

• I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion
  wasn't about 'products of conception.' It wasn't
  about 'missed periods.' It was about children
  being killed in their mother's wombs. All those
  years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was
  wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was
  wrong. No more of this first trimester, second
  trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion--at
  any point--was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully
  clear.
• Norma McCorvey

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What about guys?

• Ive seen guys drop girls off at the abortion
  clinic, pay for the abortion, sit around and wait
  until they hear the suction machines start then
  they know its over and theyre gone. Wont even
  take her home!
• What I did see was this little game that was
  played, where the men would come in with these
  girls and say, "Oh, honey, right now is not the
  right time to have the baby, but go ahead and
  have the abortion and well have another baby and
  get married soon." Then, as soon as the abortion
  was over with, hed dump her.
• former abortion doctor, now Christian, Eric
  Harrah
• (Abortionfacts.com)

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Guys can make a difference for good
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Answering Pro-Choice arguments

• People seeds /violinist arguments
• We cant know when life begins
• What about rape, incest and the life of the
  mother?

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Is it wrong to kill your kid?

• Since Roe v. Wade, child abuse has increased
  proportionately with the skyrocketing rate of
  legal abortions
• David Reardon
• After all, if its all right to brutalize ones
  offspring before birth, why not after?
• Francis Beckwith

Two-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony, allegedly
killed by her mother Casey
From Politically Correct Death by Francis
Beckwith
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I believe this is a CAUSE Jesus wants US to be
involved in

• For the love of Christ compels us
• 2 Cor. 514
• Whatever you did for the least of theseyou did
  for me Matt. 2540
• Rescue those being led away to death Proverbs
  2411

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will You speak for our smallest people?

• A persons a person no matter how small.
• Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who

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Will you be an abortion abolitionist?

• Quote from William Wilberforce
• The grand object of my parliamentary existence
  is the abolition of the slave trade. Before this
  great cause all others dwindle in my eyes.
• If it please God to honor me so far, may I be the
  instrument of stopping such a course of
  wickedness and cruelty as never before disgraced
  a
• Christian country.

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How can You get involved?

• Promote abstinence (and practice what you
  preach!)
• Encourage pregnant friends to choose life
  (adoption, keep the baby)
• Start a pro-life club
• Help out at a crisis pregnancy center
• Get involved in the pro-life movement
• Abort73.com
• Rock4life
• Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust

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Teens Choosing life!
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Pro-Life activist Kortney Blythe

• Myspace.com (prolife kortney)
• U tube (survivorsclt)
• PO Box 5278 Riverside CA 92517 (Checks to
  Survivor Kortney Blyte on rememberance line)

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Why would doctors do abortions?

• The average doctor who does abortions one day a
  week at a clinic averages 25-40 abortions.
• The average abortionist makes 100,000-250,000 a
  year.
• An average clinic that performs roughly around
  8,000 abortions will gross approximately 1
  million a year.
• Planned parenthood gets over
• 300 million a year from taxes
• Abortionfacts.com

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Abortion in China

• 7 million abortions per year
• 69 of single women have had premarital sex
• 20-55 of single women surveyed have had at least
  one abortion
• Some women surveyed have had six or seven or more
  abortions
• One child policy ratio of 119 boys per 100 girls
  under age five (as high as 130100)
• From Asia Times Online

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Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen

• I have met other survivors of abortion. They are
  all thankful for life. Only a few months ago I
  met another saline abortion survivor. Her name is
  Sarah. She is two years old. Sarah also has
  cerebral palsy, but her diagnosis is not good.
  She is blind and has severe seizures. The
  abortionist, besides injecting the mother with
  saline, also injects the baby victims. Sarah was
  injected in the head. I saw the place on her head
  where this was done. When I speak, I speak not
  only for myself, but for the other survivors,
  like Sarah, and also for those who cannot yet
  speak ...

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The Truth aboutPlanned Parenthood

• Margaret Sanger founder of Planned Parenthood
• Launched birth control movement because of her
  biases on class and race
• Opened her first clinic in a poor section of
  Harlem
• Published on the concept of eugenics (trying to
  improve the human race by selective breeding
  like Hitler)
• If we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic,
  he can go among them with enthusiasm... His work,
  in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro
  profession...  We do not want word to go out that
  we want to exterminate the Negro population...
  letter to colleague Dr. Clarence J. Gamble

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The Truth aboutPlanned Parenthood

• In 2003, Planned Parenthood Federation of
  America extinguished the lives of 244,628 unborn
  babies making the organization more deadly than
  leukemia, brain cancer, skin cancer, diabetes,
  car accidents, Alzheimers disease, and HIV/AIDS
  combined. In the seven years from 1997 to
  2003, Planned Parenthood received more than 1.49
  billion from American taxpayers. Tragically, in
  its annual reports, the organization also admits
  that it has performed 1,398,574 abortions during
  that time period alone.  
• "Making a Bloody Fortune Profiling Planned
  Parenthood"

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The Truth aboutPlanned Parenthood

• Has performed 3.5 million abortions since 1970
• 1/3 of Planned Parenthood's annual income comes
  from abortions (surgical abortions accounted for
  104 million of the 302.6 million its offices
  brought in)
• Tax dollars accounted for 265.2 million in 2003
• Total profits over 18 years 538 million
• For every adoption referral made, it performed
  138 abortions
• Abortiontv.com