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Defending The Pro-life Position |
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DEFINITION:
it is the deliberate termi-nation of pregnancy by removal of the
fetus from the womb. |
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NOTE: it
sounds innocuous because it is the pregnancy that is terminated. However, in an abortion, not only is the
pregnancy terminated, so is a life! |
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Suction Aspiration |
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Saline Injection |
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Hysterotomy |
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Dilation and Curettage (D & C) |
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Dilation & Evacu-ation (D & E) |
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Partial Birth Abortion (D & X) |
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Prostaglandin |
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RU 486 |
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Amniotic fluid is removed and replaced with a
toxic saline solution |
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Baby ingest the toxins and dies 1-2 hours later
from salt poisoning, dehydration, and hemorrhaging |
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24 hours later the mother goes into labor
delivering a dead baby |
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Chemical burning of the skin causes a painful
death for the baby |
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Used in last trimester |
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Baby removed as in a Cesarean birth |
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Baby set aside and allowed to die or killed by a
deliberate act |
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Used on 80%
of abortions up to 12th week of pregnancy |
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Mouth of the cervix is dilated |
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Hollow tube with knifelike edged tip is inserted
into the womb |
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A suction machine with force 28 times greater
than a vacuum cleaner literally rips the developing baby to pieces and
sucks the remains into a container to be disposed |
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Dilate cervix to allow the insertion of
curetta—a loop-shaped knife—into the womb |
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Instrument scrapes placenta from the uterus and
cuts baby apart; pieces are drawn through the cervix |
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Baby is re-assembled to be sure that all parts
are accounted for |
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If parts are left inside, the mother could bleed
or become infected |
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Used between 12 and 24 weeks |
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The child is cut to pieces by a sharp knife, as
in D & C |
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The child is much larger and far more developed |
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The child weighs as much as a pound and is as
much as a foot in length |
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Prostaglandin hormones injected into womb or
released in |
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Vaginal suppository cause uterus to contract and
deliver baby prematurely |
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Sometimes a saline solution is used to kill baby
before the premature birth |
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Synthetic steroid used 5-7 weeks after
conception |
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Deprives baby of vital nutritional hormone
progesterone |
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Child starves to death as nutrient lining of the
womb sloughs off |
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Delivery of a dead baby |
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Not safe |
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Prolonged Bleeding |
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Severe Cramps |
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Nausea |
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Diarrhea Headache |
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Skin Rash |
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Vomiting |
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Conception? |
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Implantation? |
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Brainwave Activity? |
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Viability? |
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Partial Birth? |
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Birth? |
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Personality Development? |
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Scriptural Argument |
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Scientific Argument |
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Logical Argument |
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The unborn created by God (Ps. 139:13) |
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The life of the unborn is protected by the same
punishment for injury or death as that of an adult (Ex 21:22) |
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Christ was human from the point of conception |
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Unborn children possess personal characteristics
such as sin (Ps. 51:5) and joy that are distinctive of persons |
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Personal pronouns used to describe unborn
children (Jer. 1:5) |
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God knows the unborn (Jer. 1:5, Ps. 139:15-16) |
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The unborn are called by God before birth (Gen.
25:22-23; Judges 13:2-7; Isa. 49:1) |
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Unborn babies called “children” (Luke 1:41, 44;
2:12, 16; Ex. 21:22) |
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Biology demonstrates that life begins at
conception |
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Medical technology demonstrates unequivocally
that life begins at conception |
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Immunology demonstrates that life begins at
conception |
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Treatment of the fetal disorders demonstrates
that life begins at conception |
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First Month |
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Conception:
All Human Characteristics Are Present |
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Heart Muscle Pulsates at Three Weeks |
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Head, Arms, and Legs Begin to Appear |
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Brain Waves Can Be Detected |
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Nose, Eyes, Ears, and Toes Appear |
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Heart Beats and Blood Flows |
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Skeleton Develops |
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Unique Fingerprints |
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Sensitive to Touch on Lips and Has Reflexes |
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All Bodily Systems Are Present and Functioning |
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Third Month |
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Swallows, Squints, and Swims |
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Grasps With Hands, Moves Tongue |
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Sucks Thumb |
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Feels Organic Pain (8 to 13 Weeks) |
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Fourth Month |
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Weight Increases Six Times |
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Grows up to Eight to Ten Inches Long |
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Hears Her Mother's Voice |
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Fifth Month (Viability) |
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Skin, Hair, and Nails Develop |
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Dreams |
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Can Cry If Air Is Present |
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Can Live Outside the Womb |
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Contradictions in the murder laws |
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Contradictions with the Endangered
Species Act |
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Pro-choice arguments cannot be used in any other
area of life without grave consequences |
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Planned Parenthood admitted that life begins at
conception |
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Faye Wattleton of NOW admitted that life begins
at conception |
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Delivering live babies |
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Medical problems for the mother |
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Breast Cancer |
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Post-Abortion Syndrome |
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Infertility |
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Choice is greater than life |
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Financial considerations are greater than life |
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Convenience is greater than life |
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Personal future well being is more important
than the baby’s future |
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My quality of life is more important than the
baby’s life |
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Rejection of God |
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Acceptance of evolution |
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Devaluation of human life |
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Selfishness |
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Covetous |
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If you're pregnant, it's a baby. If it's not a baby, you're not pregnant! |
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Women, not men, die from complications due to
abortion. |
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Feminists are working harder than any other
group to defend and serve men who want sex without commitment or
responsibility. |
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Partial-birth abortion is purely elective and
never performed for health reasons. |
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Pro-choice is not about pregnancy rights. It's about the right to kill the preborn
baby that the mother does not want. |
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The reasons more companies are including
abortion in their health coverage is that one abortion is less expensive
than years of medical coverage. |
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The only part of the woman's "body"
that is removed in an abortion is what is removed during menstruation: her
blood. The rest is a baby. |
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Tumors cannot move their arms, legs, toes, or
eyes. |
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People cannot reasonably believe that aborting a
baby is more humane than giving the baby life with an adoptive family. |
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Women do not want to take their husbands to
their class reunions and introduce them to the fathers of their aborted
children. |
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Abortions are at their lowest level since 1976. |
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There are 527 fewer abortion mills than in 1986. |
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11% Of medical training facilities are teaching
abortion procedure - down from 56% in 1987. |
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Abortionists are getting older (the graying of
the industry) with no young doctors to replace them. |
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Many abortionists, administrators, employees,
and nurses are leaving the abortion industry. They are revealing the horror
of an unregulated health industry. |
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Use pictures where possible |
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Use vivid stories |
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Remember that women are the second casualty of
abortion |
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Keep a good disposition |
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Have sympathy for those contemplating or who
have had an abortion |
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In Helping the Cause |
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Volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center |
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Donate items to these centers (CPC’s) |
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Be open to adoption |
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Vote only for pro-life candidates |
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Share information with people |
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Hand out literature |
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Sue abortionists for medical problems |
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Notes