Public Issues

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Public Issues Christian WorldviewMarch 2007
Forum

• Abortion Whats Happening Today?

Guest Speaker Terrie Combs - Clinic Director,
Life Choices of King County
It is a poverty that a child must die, so that
you may live as you please. -- Mother Theresa
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Public Issues Christian WorldviewMarch 2007
Forum

• Abortion Whats Happening Today?

Program 600 - 610 Intro/Option Ultrasound
Pgm 610 - 630 Guest Speaker - Terrie
Combs 630 - end Questions
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Option Ultrasound Programby Heartlink, a Focus
on the Family Ministry
Public Issues Christian WorldviewMarch 2007
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• As of 2004, 350/2300 Pregnancy Resource Centers
  (PRC) across the U.S. used ultrasound
• 79 of women considering abortion decide to keep
  baby after viewing ultrasound
• Ultrasound machines cost 25K - 45K
• OUP Provides 80 of machine purchase/training
  cost for PRCs
• First machine received by PRC in CO 5/2004
• FoF hopes to implement 650 more PRCs by 2010
• Want to help? Contact local PRC and ask if they
  have an ultrasound machine or know of Option
  Ultrasound Program

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Life Choices of King County
Public Issues Christian WorldviewMarch 2007
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Want More Information?
Public Issues Christian WorldviewMarch 2007
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• Life Choices Pregnancy Clinics
• Free confidential testing and counseling
• Clinics in U-District, Federal Way, Tacoma, more
• www.lifechoices.net
• Heartlink
• Latest progress with the Option Ultrasound
  Program
• Materials
• Testimonials
• www.heartlink.org
• Human Life of Washington
• Working to protect life at all stages
• Good information source regarding all life issues
  (e.g. stem cell, euthanasia, etc.)
• www.humanlife.net
• Optionline
• 24 hour help line
• Clear information about abortion procedures
  real risks (including RU-486 "Abortion Pill")
• Post-abortion assistance
• www.optionline.org
• CitizenLink

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Questions?
Public Issues Christian WorldviewMarch 2007
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Conclusion
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History Facts You May Not Know

• A babys heart begins beating 21 days after
  conception it can survive outside its mother at
  20 weeks
• After legalization (Roe v. Wade) in 1973
• Annual reported abortions doubled after the first
  20 years to 1 million
• Child abuse cases more than quintupled (5x) to
  870,000 by 2004
• Births to unmarried women grew to 1.4 million by
  2004
• RU-486 is not the morning after pill, which is
  concentrated birth control. RU-486 aborts a
  confirmed pregnancy.
• Comparing deaths of reproductive-age people with
  new births, the U.S. population is presently in
  sharp decline

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U.S. Statistics

• Women age 20-24 obtain 32 of all abortions
• The highest rate is 18-19 year old women, 56
• Rape incest are cited as the reason for approx.
  1 of all abortions each year
• 1 in 6 claim to be evangelical Christians
  (200,000)
• 1/2 say it is their only means of birth control
• 14 of all abortions are paid for with public
  money