Abortion

Before I start, I urge anyone who is taking the time to read this to always make it a point to research, research and research any topic you hear in school, or on the news, or read in a magazine or newspaper that you are even the slightest bit interested in. There are points taught in public schools that cover only one side of any given subject. Rarely is the entire spectrum of a given subject covered completely. The topic of abortion hit me after a recent debate on a current story out of Canada. I won't go into details on the story, I'll just state that a judge in Canada ordered a couple to terminate life support for their baby boy claiming "the best treatment for the boy is to let him die". (1) I've seen multiple people on forums and blog sites defended this judge's order, saying that the parents should not be so selfish and let the child go. Also, the parents should "think about the baby's feelings and not their own". These people all share something in common. They all belong to a political group that overwhelmingly supports abortion. How can you claim that it is selfish for a parent to want to prolong their child's life for a time, so that the child may be able to rest at home with the family for the time the child has left, yet it is not selfish for a young mother to murder another human life, simply because she does not want to deal with the stress that comes with parenthood? I don't use the term "murder" lightly. The Latin word "fetus" means "offspring" or "hatching of young". (2) Kathy Sparks, who worked in a Granite City, Illinois abortion clinic, with whom author Gloria Williamson did an interview and wrote a book on, said during the interview... "Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask what her baby was like at a certain point in the pregnancy: Was it a baby yet? Even as early as 12 weeks a baby is totally formed, he has fingerprints, turns his head, fans his toes, feels pain. But we would say, 'it's not a baby yet, just tissue, like a clot.'" (3) "In fact many women will come to me considering abortion, and I have been personally told that I am to turn the monitor away from her view so that seeing her baby jump around on the screen does not influence her choice." (4) These are the words of Shari Richards, another worker at an abortion clinic. A Dallas women, Carol Everett actually had an abortion, than went on to run five abortion clinics. She admits that she and her staff, like most abortionists, routinely lied to the pregnant girls who came to them. She wrote in an article for "All About Issues" magazine, "Every woman who walks into the clinic has two questions. Does it hurt? and Is it a baby? No, the counselor assures her. It's a blood clot or a ball of cells. Even though these counselors see six-week babies daily, with arms, legs, toes and eyes that are closed like newborn puppies, they lie to the women. How many people would have an abortion, if we told them the truth?" In a testimonial to students at Vanderbilt University, she wrote "I cannot tell you one thing that happens in an abortion clinic that is not a lie"(5) A lot of people have responded to my pro-life stance by saying that there is no way to know when a life begins and that it's just a religious stance and not a scientific fact. It amazes me at how people, who have done little to no research on the matter, all of the sudden know so much about it. It is a undisputed biological scientific fact that human life begins at conception.(6) Conception is the union of the father's sperm and the mother's ovum. The process is called fertilization. From the very moment of conception, the fetus has all of the genetic information that the baby will have for the remainder of his or her lifetime. This new human is a defined sex and is alive, complete and growing. The fetus has the same 46 chromosomes he or she will have until death. Fetuses are living humans separate and unique from their mothers. If scientifically they are human, don't they deserve the same rights that every other human is entitled to? I can understand that there are bad men out there. There are men that may rape a young woman, in the process impregnating her, but less than 1% of all abortions are products of rape.(7) "I agree that there is never a situation in the law or in the ethical practice of medicine where a pre-born child's life need be intentionally destroyed by a procured abortion for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. A physician must do everything possible to save the lives of both of his patients, mother and child. He must never intend the death of either" This declaration was created by the public policy department of American Life League, Inc. It was circulated to members of the medical and scientific communities for review and endorsement. 116 members of the medical and scientific communities signed this. Their signed statements are on file at American Life League, P.O. Box 1350, Stafford, VA 22555 - (8) Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, stated publicly that in his thirty-eight years as a pediatric surgeon, he was never aware of a single situation in which a pre-born child's life had to be taken in order to save the life of the mother. He said the use of this argument to justify abortion, in general, was a "smoke screen," (9) Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers admitted he "lied through his teeth" when he claimed late-term abortions were uncommon and used only in the most extreme situations. He admitted partial birth abortion was almost always performed on healthy mothers with healthy babies. (10) Of course abortion is a touchy subject and being a Christian, I obviously am against it completely. However, there are other factors. Being a parent I couldn't imagine anyone agreeing to terminate the life of a child, if they know the truth. Women who go through this procedure are almost always lied to. Told that the baby will not feel the pain and that the baby is not even formed when scientifically, this is not true. Scientifically the baby is completely formed and growing. I'll refrain from going into detail on how abortions are carried out. I'll refrain from the photos of the fetuses inside the mother's womb during some of these procedures. It isn't something anyone should have to see. A mother has the right to do what she will with her body, but the fetus is not her body. It is completely separate genetically from the mother. The mother can choose to eat what she wants, but cannot choose to murder another human life. There really should be no debate on the subject. People who support abortion should be forced to justify their support of murder. Many people have no clue of the scientific facts that go along with the subject and public schools will never teach all of the facts. Sometimes, it's more than just about facts. Sometimes it's about what is right for the country. All of the Constitutional laws in place today were not always laws. It all started with our Founding Fathers doing what they thought was morally right for the people of America. (1) http://www.foxnews.com... (2) http://en.wikipedia.org... (3) Gloria Williamson "The Conversion of Kathy Sparks" Christian Herald January 1986 p 28 (4) John Ankerburg Show, March 7. 1990 (5) Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies, Gregg Jackson 2006 (6) http://www.princeton.edu... (7) www.epm.org/.../abortion-right-when-pregnancy-due-rape-or-incest/ - although there are many websites and sources that will comfirm this fact. (8) http://www.abortiontv.com... (9) aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18533&posts=3 (10) http://en.wikipedia.org...