<*The Facts of Pro-Life* >
by Lynn K. Murphy
(This is a book).
Copyright 1991 by Lynn K. Murphy
D E D I C A T I O N A N D B E N E D I C T I O N
This book is dedicated to the 30,000,000 babies that have died
from legal abortion in the United States since it was legalized
in 1973.
It is also dedicated to the babys' mothers, and to the
abortionists, and to the abortion advocates and funders. I pray
that they will repent so that God will forgive them for what they
have done and so that they may therefore be able to enjoy the
fruits of Heaven.
For many of them, those will be the only fruits they will ever be
able to enjoy.
This is a series of articles. To move to a new article, search for the word Article.
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S* without page numbers
Art #
1 Abortion, An Overview
Abortion in the United States (A table of statistics)
Protest Signs
To Abort or Not To Abort (An analogy)
A Cartoon
2 Abortion Semantics that are Killing Our Children
3 Fetal-Tissue Experimentation, More than on Dead Tissue
4 Abortion and Your Church, Why They Let the Killing Go On
5 Planned Parenthood: Megakilling Exposed
6 The Killing Centers, How They Mass Produce Death
7 From Abortion to Infanticide, a Step Already Taken
8 What God Says about Abortion
9 The Killing Centers, How They Don't Counsel Their Patients
10 The Psychological and Physical Complications from Abortion
11 Abortion and the Law
12 The History of Abortion
13 The Pregnant Mother in Need, What You Can Do
14 How Birth-Control Pills and IUD's Kill
15 The Victims of Abortion: The Baby and the Parents
16 What the Choice of Abortion Really Means
17 The Abortion Industry: Megabucks from Megadeaths
18 The Pro-Life Movement, Where it is and Where it's Going, Join Us
19 What You Can Do About Abortions
20 How Abortions are Done
21 Sexuality Education: How it Contributes to Abortion
22 How Abortion is the American Holocaust
23 The Pro-Life Rescue Movement
24 Reasons Women Give for Abortion
25 How the Secular Media is Extraordinarily Pro-Abortion
26 Fetal Development
27 Father, Forgive the Abortionists For They Know Not What They Do
28 How Abortion in America Is Like Slavery in America Was
29 Abortion and the Public-Opinion Polls
30 Adoption, the Forgotten Choice
31 Summary of Key Issues
Article 1
*A B O R T I O N
The Pro-Life Position
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Since 1973, when abortion was legalized in the United States, there have been
approximately 32,000,000[1] (thirty-two million) abortions here. Of those who
realize this, pro-choice people do not view this as bad, people neutral on the
abortion issue aren't sure how bad it is, and pro-life people feel that it is
32,000,000 deaths. That is why they call themselves pro-life instead of anti-
abortion or anti-choice.
The dividing line between pro-life and pro-choice is the issue of whether the
preborn baby is a separate life, or whether he or she is a part of the
mother's own body. (I use the term "mother" instead of "woman" because a
woman becomes a mother when pregnancy begins, not when birth occurs.) Those
who believe that he is a separate life naturally think abortion is
immoral--the abortion kills that separate human being. Those who think he is
a part of the mother's body consider abortion to be merely a removal of a part
of her own body and therefore unrelated to the killing of a separate person.
It will be shown below that the preborn baby is a separate person. Pro-choice
people are unable to provide any evidence that he is a part of the mother's
body.
The issue of whether the preborn baby is separate became important with the
1973 (<Roe v. Wade>) US Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. The
Constitution guarantees persons the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. People favoring abortion rights attained their goal of legalizing
abortion on demand (that is, on request) by convincing the Supreme Court to
rule that a preborn baby is not a person. Therefore, the preborn baby was no
longer entitled to life. It must be noted that the Supreme Court's decision
was a legal one, not a medical, scientific, or moral one; medically and
scientifically the preborn baby is still a person.
As time passed and the concept of non-personhood for the preborn permeated
society, many people gradually began to believe the slogans coming from the
National Organization for Women and from Planned Parenthood that the preborn
was merely a part of his mother's body. After all, if he isn't a person, what
else could he be but a part of her body? And who could be against a woman
controlling her own body?
There are several difficulties with this. First, he's not a part of her body.
Scientific and other evidence that I will present later proves this.
Second, if we for the moment accept the pro-life position that he is a
separate life, then we have a conflict of legal direction. The laws of the
United States are founded on the Judeo-Christian Ethic, or more generally, on
the Bible. In other words, our laws are based on morals established before
the United States came into existence. The Bible says not to steal, so we
have laws against theft. It says not to bear false witness, so we have laws
against perjury. However today, unfortunately, many people are evaluating the
law-morality relationship in reverse; they think that the law defines the
morality. Thus, to them if abortion is legal, then it is moral. The fact
that there are conflicts that easily arise with this line of reasoning doesn't
enter their heads. For instance, adultery is legal but immoral. Putting your
parents in a convalescent home and forgetting them is legal but immoral.
However, pro-*lifers* would never say that just because abortion is legal, it is
moral, and we would ask a pro-choicer, "If rape had become legal at the same
time that abortion became legal, would rape now be moral?"
Third, although it is a nice and very catchy slogan that a woman has the right
to control her own body, this isn't true even separate from the abortion
issue. For instance, a woman doesn't have the right to attempt suicide or to
take illegal drugs without having legal repercussions. She doesn't have the
right to display her nude body in a shopping mall. And she doesn't even have
the right in many places to take her body across a street except between two
white lines and with the permission of an electronic signal.
*THE PREBORN BABY IS A SEPARATE LIFE*
It is appropriate now to prove that the preborn baby is not a part of his
mother's body, but rather is a separate life. Previously some people argued
that the preborn wasn't life at all, but that is no longer an argument. Also,
it used to be argued that he wasn't human. But no woman has ever given birth
to a baby that was anything but human. Furthermore, species type is
determined by the parents' genes, and the parents are humans.
These are the proofs and common-sense reasons that a preborn baby is a
separate life:
1. The baby can die without the mother dying. The mother can die
without the baby dying. (He can be removed if old enough.)
2. Dr. Hymie Gordon, the chief geneticist of the Mayo Clinic, perhaps
the most prestigious medical clinic in the world, says he is
separate.[2]
3. Fertilization occurs when sperm unites with egg. Then
implantation on the uterus occurs. Clearly life begins at
fertilization. (If this wasn't so, then birds could not be
born--birds' eggs don't implant. Implantation isn't necessary for
life.) Since life begins without implantation, the life is a
separate one.
4. If a live, human fertilized egg is to become a part of the
mother's body, then his own separate life would cease upon
implantation as he became a part of her life. We know that this
doesn't happen, because nine months later, he is born with his own
separate life. Therefore, he didn't become a part of his mother's
body. His life was separate all the time.
5. The preborn baby has his own functioning brain.
6. The preborn baby has his own functioning heart.
7. The preborn baby has a separate blood supply. This can even be of
a blood type different from his mother's, one incompatible with his
mother's blood. (The blood of the baby doesn't mix with the mother's
blood. Food material and waste material transfer between the two in
the placenta.)
8. The preborn baby always has his father's chromosomes. How, then,
could he be a part of a woman?
9. If the preborn baby <is> a part of the mother's body, and if the
preborn baby is a boy, then the mother would have two sexes.
10. Suppose we have a test tube, and in the test tube we fertilize
an egg and the egg implants on the test tube wall. Is the preborn
baby a part of the test tube's body? Of course not. Since the same
thing happens inside a woman, then how could the preborn baby be a
part of the woman's body?
11. Suppose we have a test tube, and in the test tube we fertilize a
black woman's egg with a white man's sperm. Then suppose we
artificially inseminate an oriental woman with this. Does the
oriental woman now have three races? Does the baby now have three
races? Of course not. After he is born, would the Oriental woman
revert to having one race? Would the baby revert to having two? Of
course not! Therefore, the baby always was a separate life.
12. Medical science has proven absolutely that a preborn baby
undergoes excruciating pain during his abortion. This can be seen
with a sonogram. A sonogram is like an X-ray in that it can see
inside a person. In addition a sonogram permits motion pictures, not
just still pictures, to be made. Two movies[3], *The_Silent_Scream* and
*Eclipse__of_Reason*, were made of actual abortions. What was recorded
on tape was motion pictures of what the baby was going through in the
uterus. It is like a horror movie. Two ways babies are aborted are
to burn them to death chemically inside and outside of their bodies,
and to crush their skulls and tear off their arms and legs. However,
the mothers don't feel this pain. Conclusion: The preborn baby is a
separate life. (The abortionist who did the abortion for *The Silent
Scream* and the *Eclipse of Reason* had previously done thousands of
others. But after seeing on film what he had been doing, he gave up
his extremely lucrative practice and never did another abortion.)
13. Most people know in their hearts that the preborn baby is a
separate life. For years, perhaps, they've denied that feeling, but
they've known. They have taken in the pro-choice slogans and
accepted them intellectually, but still, they've known.
*IS ABORTION A WOMEN'S ISSUE?*
The pro-choice rhetoric is that abortion is a women's issue. This is natural
considering that they feel that the preborn baby is a part of a woman's body.
But pro-life people, since they understand from the above twelve points that
the preborn baby is a separate human being, consider abortion to be far more
than a woman's issue. They consider it to be mostly a babys' issue. They
concede that to abort or not to abort will greatly concern and affect the
mother, and they have great compassion for the mother no matter what her
decision is, but they say that once she becomes pregnant, the overwhelming
concern must be for the right of the baby to live. That is where the term
"Right to Life" comes from in many pro-life organizations' names.
Pro-life men often get comments like, "Since you're not a woman, what business
is this of yours?" This question ignores several critical facts. First, as
I've shown, this is not just a women's issue, it is a babys' issue or a
right-to-life issue. Second, polls show that women are more likely to be
pro-*life* than are men[4]. Third, approximately one half of the people in the
pro-life movement are women. Fourth, approximately one third of the women who
are active in the pro-life movement have had abortions.[5] Fifth, pro-life men
know that many of their own sons and daughters have been killed by abortion.
*ABORTION HURTS WOMEN*
Pro-abortion and pro-life people both say that abortion hurts women. Let's
see first what the pro-abortion people say.
Planned Parenthood, the world's and nation's largest provider of abortion,
said in its Department of Education <3-Year Plan and Long Range Program Goals
1990 - 1993>:
"A number of . . . studies and surveys (including the Reardon/WIC Study and
the Grant Survey) have shown that the incidence of post-procedural trauma for
abortion clients may be as high as 91 percent of all cases."
A Planned Parenthood brochure entitled <PLAN YOUR CHILDREN for health and
happiness> says, "An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It
is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when
you want a child you cannot have it."
This is what pro-life and other experts say:
The <Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology>, May, 1985, said that abortion is the
sixth leading cause of maternal death in this country.
A Wynn and Wynn Study shows that 3 - 5 percent of aborters are left sterile.[6]
Several researchers show that many aborters may never want intercourse again
and many are forever frigid. Thus, they may never connect with love and
marriage.
Dr. Joel Brind, Endocrinologist, said in a December 3, 1992 press release,
"There is a clear relationship documented in medical journals showing that
women aborting their first pregnancy are at a much higher risk of developing
breast cancer than women who carry their pregnancy to term." Presumedly, it
took some time to determine this: Women mostly abort early in life, and get
breast cancer later. Brind cited four sources in the medical literature.
Following are many more complications: Infection, hemorrhage, cervical damage,
damage and loss of other internal organs, perforation of the uterus, menstrual
irregularity, headaches, dizziness, blood clots, AIDS from blood transfusions,
AIDS from increased drug and needle use (see list below of psychological
damages showing increased drug use), increased probability of future
miscarriages, stillbirths, sterility, ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, menstrual
disturbances, other bleeding, shock, coma, peritonitis, cold sweats, and many
more.
Cincinnati Suiciders Anonymous reports that 1,800 of their 4,000 suicide-prone
women have had abortions.[7]
The Speckhard study reported that 65% of Spekhard's patients who had abortions
were suicidal and that 31% made attempts at suicide.[8]
The most serious psychological damages that occur can be lumped under the
condition known as Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS), which is a part of a larger
class of disorders called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The PAS victim,
through the process of denial, blocks the natural grieving process of the
death of her child and often denies her own responsibility in the abortion.
The denial or suppression blocks the healing process and blocks the
possibility of forgiveness for herself and the others who have been involved
in her decision and her abortion. The trauma often manifests itself as a
breakdown of function in the psychological, physical, or spiritual areas.[9]
Dr. Vincent Rue, a clinical psychologist, likened abortion victims to "walking
time bombs" and said that little is heard of PAS problems because there is a
massive denial among professionals.
Following is a long, long list of the psychological damages. Not every mother
who aborts has damage, but many have more than one of these problems because
of the abortion: increased child abuse and child neglect, suicidal behavior,
anger/rage, feeling of being raped, worsening self-image, sexual coldness,
fear of touching babies, nervous breakdown, promiscuity, constant thoughts
about the child, loneliness, fear of making decisions, hallucinations related
to the abortion, nightmares, increased drug and alcohol use by 50% of
aborters, feelings of craziness, flashbacks, decreased ability to experience
emotions, inability to communicate, feeling victimized, fear that others will
learn of the abortion, guilt (55% experience it), anxiety, depression, grief,
sadness, regret, loss, repeat abortions (though illogical), unwillingness to
continuing pursuing their life's goals, inability to sustain intimate
relationships, hatred of people connected with abortions, Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder (20% have it severely and 50% moderately), and many, many
more.
Women have a 58% greater risk of dying during a later pregnancy.[10]
These are the effects on future babies, if any: premature births,
complications during labor, more child abuse and neglect, and more handicapped
babies.[11]
This is what some of the victims of abortion say:
Teresa L. Fangman, victim, says, "When I was 16 I was shuffled through an
assembly-line abortion. I was number 13 of 17 who went through the morning
session at one abortion clinic. Physically, I had no problems with my
abortion, but emotionally, I created a 'living Hell' that continues on a daily
basis. I'm not sure the tears will ever stop. I've been waiting almost 11
years now and they never cease."[12]
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Carol Everett, former clinic owner says, "The last 18 months I was involved in
the abortion industry we maimed to the point of major surgery one woman out of
every five hundred. Let me define maimed. Hysterectomy, colostomy because her
uterus had been perforated (punctured), and her bowel pulled through her
children. We never took them to the closest hospital. We never called an
ambulance. An ambulance is a terrible advertisement in front of an abortion
clinic."[13]
In another case, Carol Everett says, "And the second time he went in with
those big forceps he perforated her uterus and he pulled her bowel out through
her vagina."[13]
From Dayton Women's Health Center, Iowa: "Mary was rushed to the hospital
after her abortion due to profuse bleeding. The attending physicians
discovered 'the entire front of her uterus was blown away.' After the surgeon
removed the damaged uterus, they explored her abdominal cavity. Behind her
liver they found the decapitated head of a 24 week old pre-born child."[14]
*WHAT DO THE POLLS SHOW?*
Results of polls depend on several factors, such as who took the poll, where
the poll was taken, when the poll was taken, who paid for the poll, what
income-class was polled, which sex was polled, which races were polled, and
under which conditions the respondent was asked to comment on, that is, should
abortion always be illegal, illegal except for cases of rape and incest, or
for birth control, etc., or should it be illegal in the second trimester of
pregnancy, or in the third?
Probably for you, the most important issue is what a legitimate cross section
of Americans feel about whether abortion should be allowable as a woman's
primary method of birth control. Almost all polls, including those sponsored
and paid for by pro-choice organizations, conclude that between 67% and 89%[15]
of the people feel that abortion should be illegal for this purpose.
*WHAT REASONS DO WOMEN GIVE FOR THEIR CHOICES TO ABORT?
*
Ninety-eight percent say it was simply because they didn't want the baby, that
is, they aborted for birth control. Since 67% to 89%[16] of Americans feel that
abortion for this purpose should be illegal, a democratic election today to
determine whether abortions for birth control purposes should continue to be
allowable would result in them becoming illegal. Ninety-eight percent of the
abortions would never occur. This is approximately 1,764,000[17] abortions per
year.
This does not mean that the population in the United States would start
increasing by 1,764,000 per year. It simply means that a few million people
would stop using abortion as their sole birth-control method and would begin
using other methods.
Part of the 98% of the women who have had an abortion just because they didn't
want the baby are those who chose to abort because the current preborn baby
wasn't the sex the mother preferred. One of the difficulties with this is
that when the mother aborts a girl, she is taking away the rights of another
"woman." (The dictionary defines <woman> as any female human.) The mother
prevents the female baby from having the right to "control" her own body.
There are also abortions for fetal handicaps. There is more to be said on
this subject than should be covered in this paper; but note that this author
knows of nine sets of parents that have severely handicapped children. *None*
of these parents believe in abortion of handicapped preborn babies. I know of
no situation where the parent of a handicapped child is pro-choice.
Four other reasons given for having abortions are for rape, incest, fetal
abnormality, and life of the mother. The total of abortions for these reasons
comprises about 2% of abortions. Unfortunately many hard-line pro-choice
people try to justify all abortions on the basis of this 2%.[18] Pregnancies
due to rape are, for medical reasons such as menstruation and stress,
extremely rare. They occur in approximately 1 case of 15,000.[19] Pro-choice
people agree with this figure.
*ARE PRO-LIFE PEOPLE OUT OF TOUCH WITH SOCIETY AS PRO-CHOICERS WOULD HAVE YOU
BELIEVE?*
Not by a long shot. If we're talking about non-activists, I've already
pointed out that polls show that the vast majority of the people agree with
pro-lifers that abortions for birth control, which are almost all abortions,
should not be allowed. But let's talk about activists. Let's see some
comparisons of typical pro-choice activists and typical pro-life activists:
______*The_Pro-Choice_Activist*________
Is usually paid to be an activist.
One might be pro-choice without pay,
of course, but it is part of their
jobs to fight for abortion rights.
They get paid to train people, they
get paid for public relations, and
they get paid to lobby and to give
speeches and radio and TV talk shows.
On a related subject, the well-funded
pro-choice organizations often
recruit picketers in newspaper
advertisements. These picketers are
paid.
The pro-choice activist is usually
either atheist, agnostic, or pagan.
The pro-choice activist deliberately
hurts organizations that fund them
but then quit funding. When AT&T
stopped giving to Planned Parenthood
after giving $600,000 in 10 years[20],
pro-choice called a nationwide
boycott against AT&T. They also
called a nationwide boycott against
Dayton-Hudson when that company tried
to stop their funding of Planned
Parenthood. Apparently the funding
of pro-choice, once initiated, is a
lifetime, non-negotiable commitment.
_______*The_Pro-Life_Activist*_________
Is seldom paid to be an activist.
The pro-life activist almost always
feels that he or she is called upon
by God to be a pro-life activist.
There is no money to pay her; pro-
life, unlike pro-choice, is not
funded by tax dollars. Often the
money for activism comes from the
activist herself.
But this is the critical difference:
Whereas the pro-choice activist often
*earns* her income being an activist,
the pro-life activist often *gives up*
a career, often lucrative, to be a
pro-life activist. If the pro-choice
activist earns $75,000 per year, and
the pro-life activist gives up
$75,000 per year, the pro-life person
loses $150,000 per year in a
comparison. Multiply this times the
many, many years the battle has been
going on. The pro-life activist is
willing to make this sacrifice
because he or she feels called by God
to do this.
The pro-life activist is almost
always Christian or Jewish. In
meetings, pro-life activists pray for
pro-choice activists. This is more
than praying that they stop the
killing, it is also praying to God
that He forgive the pro-choice
activist.
The typical pro-choice response to
this is, "STOP!"
With rare exception, pro-life
organizations have not sought grants.
*WHAT ARE SOME IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT ADOPTION?*
Because adoption agencies are often not required to report adoptions to any
government agency, accurate figures on adoption are not available.[21] Experts
in the adoption area, however, have estimated the following:
1. There are about 75[22] sets of prospective parents on adoption
waiting lists for newborn babies for every 1 newborn available.
While the babies die, prospective adoptive parents agonize because
they can't have a family to raise.
2. In California for every 1 newborn baby available for adoption,
approximately 150 are aborted.[23]
3. For the most part, sex-education classes give very little emphasis
to adoption as a possible choice for a pregnant teenager.
*WHAT IS PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND WHO WAS MARGARET SANGER?*
Planned Parenthood does several things, all of them objectionable to many
pro-life people. However, the thing they do that is objectionable to all
pro-life people is that they kill babies.
Planned Parenthood is the number-one provider of abortions in the United
States and the world.
The well-meaning people who contribute to Planned Parenthood's non-abortion
activities are kidding themselves that their money won't be used for
abortions. If Planned Parenthood wants funds for abortions, they can transfer
existing monies from contraception education (for instance) into abortion, and
then ask for money for contraception education. Thus, the grant money they
would receive for contraception education in reality would also pay for
abortions. Similarly, funds donated to Planned Parenthood's Unrestricted
Funds also pay for abortions.
Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. According to the book,
*Grand Illusions, The Legacy of Planned Parenthood*, by George Grant, she often
broke and circumvented the laws; wanted to eliminate the poor, the Blacks, the
Hispanics, and the Jews through both euthanasia and abortion; and indulged in
occult practices. In Sanger's own book, *Woman and the New Race*, page 63,
Sanger said "the most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its
infant members is to kill it."
Planned Parenthood still vigorously extols the "virtues" of Margaret Sanger
and even has a Margaret Sanger Clinic and a Margaret Sanger Award.
*WHAT ABOUT FETAL EXPERIMENTATION?*[24]
This occurs regularly across the United States, and it is much, much more than
doing experiments on parts of already dead babies. The experimentation often
begins on the baby long before the "abortion." Usually, these are experiments
to test new drugs. Later, when the baby is supposed to have been aborted, he
is instead taken alive to a secure area of the hospital where the experiments
continue until either the baby dies from the experiment or is murdered. Since
the baby was "aborted", the live baby "never existed". There was no birth
certificate; therefore there is no death certificate.
Fetal-tissue research with brain tissue, such as the research into Parkinson's
Disease, is useless without good brain tissue. Unfortunately, the only good
brain tissue is that which is removed from the baby while the baby is still
alive![25]
*WHAT ARE SOME MISCELLANEOUS FACTS ABOUT ABORTION?*
1. Abortion is legal in *all* nine months of pregnancy. It is legal in
every part of the United States for any reason whatsoever.[26]
2. Polls show that one in four women who abort will later mostly
regret that decision and that one in two will later have guilt
because of aborting.[27] Female suicide in pregnant mothers is far
more rare than in women who have had abortions.[28] Cincinnati
Suiciders Anonymous reports that 1,800 of their 4,000 suicide-prone
women have had abortions.[7]
3. When a baby is not wanted by the mother, he or she is often wanted
by the father and is always wanted by potential adopters. And the
baby always wants the mother, father, or adopters.
4. *All* preborn babies, if they knew their danger, would be pro-life.
5. The argument that abortion should be legal when the preborn baby
is too young to be viable outside the womb is a non-sequitur
argument: Abortion takes place inside the womb; the preborn baby is
always viable if left there undisturbed.
6. The Bible provides only two excuses for killing. One is execution
by the state for a valid conviction of murder. The other is self-
defense. Thus, for a Christian, Jew, or Moslem, or for a country
(such as the US) based on the Judeo-Christian Ethic, there is only
one valid excuse for abortion: To save the life of the mother, that
is, self-defense.
7. Approximately one in 3.5 pregnancies end in abortion. In some
cities, the rate is one in two, or 50%.[29]
8. Abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States,
causing 46% of the deaths.[30] Abortion kills as many people as the
next twelve causes combined.[31] This includes heart disease
(second), cancer (third), and stroke (fourth).[32] Abortion lowers the
average life expectancy from 75 years to 41.
*NOTES*
1. 32,000,000 abortions since 1973: Data from *New Dimensions*. Their source
was Alan Guttmacher Institute 1990 report, "Abortion and Women's Health."
Alan Guttmacher is *pro*-abortion. *New Dimensions* actually reports fewer than
32,000,000, but Dr. J.C. Willke, founder of National Right to Life Committee,
Inc. feels that the usually quoted figures for abortion should be increased by
approximately 12.5% to account for illegal abortions. These abortions, done
for income-tax evasion purpose or other reasons, are not reported.
2. Hymie Gordon's quote that the preborn's life is separate can be obtained
from the Mayo Clinic.
3. It is well known among the abortion industry how they kill babies. The
two movies, *The Silent Scream* and *Eclipse of Reason*, were produced by Bernard
N. Nathanson and are available from many pro-life organizations, some found in
these notes.
4. "California ProLife News", September, 1990 reports, "Women consistently
poll more pro-life than men, by an average of about 6% in 25 national polls
from 1973 - 1985." Copy available by phoning (916) 442-8315.
5. From personal experience of Nola Jones, founder of Victims of Choice, P.
O. Box 6268, Vacaville 95696-6268.
6. <British Medical Journal>, March 3, 1973, Wynn and Wynn, "Some Consequences
of Induced Abortion to Children Born Subsequently.
7. Testimony of The Cincinnati Group of Suiciders Anonymous to the Cincinnati
(Ohio) City Council: "The Cincinnati Group of Suiciders Anonymous has seen
5,260 members in 35 months. Over 4,000 were women of whom 1,800 or more had
had abortions."
8. *Psycho-Social Stress Following Abortion*, Ann Speckhard (Kansas City, MO.,
Sheed & Ward, 1987, page 57).
9. J. Denton Collins, M.A., M.F.C.C. MK19363
10. <Aborted Women-Silent No More>, David Reardon, 1987.
11. <Family Planning Perspectives>, May-June 1983, vol. 15, no.3., "Impact of
Vacuum Aspiration Abortion on Future Childbearing: A Review", Hogue, Cates and
Tietze.
12. Personal testimony to Lynn K. Murphy.
13. Transcript of Carol N. Everett by *Women's Lobby* on KFIA Radio sometime in
January, 1990.
14. <Legalized Abortion, Safe & Simple For Whom?>, a 1989 tract by Victims of
Choice.
15. From this author scanning a great number of polls on this subject. A
poll which shows 89% is from the L.A. Times, March 19, 1989 and Boston Globe,
March 31, 1989.
16. This is a figure almost always quoted by pro-life and pro-abortion.
17. An abortion rate of 1,600,000 is used by substantially all pro-life and
pro-abortion groups. This should be increased by 12.5% per note 1.
18. 2% is 100% - 98%. 98% is from Item 7.
19. This figure was reported in the newspapers when the Governor of Louisiana
was choosing whether to pass or veto a pro-life bill. He vetoed it because it
did not allow abortions in the case of rape. His main critic, a legislator,
said that the governor wanted to let thousands die just because the 1 woman in
15,000 that got raped would get pregnant from that. (See *Contra Costa Times*,
Page 1B, 7/7/90.) Also, "Minnesota Life Conclave, National Right to Life
News", 12/77 says there were no pregnancies in Minnesota from 4000 rapes.
Also, from William A. Lynch, MD, of National Federation of Catholic
Physician's Guild in "Comments on Medication to Prevent Pregnancy after Rape":
There were no pregnancies from rape in Buffalo in the 12 years from 1955 -
1967, and there were no pregnancies from rape in Pennsylvania in the 30 years
from 1937 - 1967.
20. $600,000 was given in 10 years to Planned Parenthood by AT&T is
information from Pro-Vita Advisors, Thomas Strohbar, P. O. Box 292813, Dayton,
OH 45429. It is also a matter of public record, since income-tax returns by
AT&T had to be filed on that.
21. Personal communication from James W. Brown, Chief of Adoptions Branch of
State of California, Department of Social Services (916) 323-0524.
22. Per item 12, this figure is not touted to be explicitly accurate. The
figure is a conservative compromise between numbers bandied about, to wit:
John Willke in his book, *Abortion Questions and Answers,* quotes Senator Gordon
Humphrey on page 312: "An estimated two million couples . . . plus one million
single persons. This means that there are at least 60 homes (available) for
every child adopted." Willke adds, "Double or triple this because these
couples would take two or three babies each, if available." Another figure
bandied about is 200 - 300 sets of parents on waiting lists per newborn
available. Therefore, my figure of 75 is very likely quite conservative.
23. Planned Parenthood (pro-abortion) says there were 350,000 abortions in
California in a recent, unspecified year. A November 8, 1990, letter from
James Brown, described in item 12, says that there were approximately 2,300
adoptions in California in fiscal year 1988-1989.
350,000/2,300 = 152 Use 150.
24. All of Chapter 25 of *Abortion Questions and Answers* by John Willke.
25. "Voices for the Unborn", December, 1992, p. 11.
26. This can be proven directly from the Supreme Court Decisions themselves
or from the February, 1990 issue of *The Defender*, a publication of The John
Ankerberg Show, phone (615) 892-7722.
27. From "California ProLife News", September, 1990. Phone (916) 442-8315.
28. *Abortion Questions and Answers* by John Willke, page 125: "Suicide is rare
among pregnant women, but much more common after induced abortion."
29. The *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992* (for 1988 data), page
75, shows that the national average abortion rate was 401 abortions for every
1000 live births, and the California abortion rate is 594 abortions per 1000
live births. The 401 of 1,401 *pregnancies* is equal to 1 in 3.49.
The one-in-two for cities comes from The Precious Feet People, Item #541.
(Address: P. O. Box 730, Taylor, AZ 85939) This is a chart of 18 US cities
where the one-in-two figure is valid.
30 - 32. Item 8 shows 1,800,000 abortions in the US every year.
The following is from *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page
82. It is data for 1989.
*Rank_Excluding_Abortion* ___________*Cause_of_Death*____________ *Numbers_of_Deaths*
1 Heart Disease 733,800
2 Cancer 496,200
3 Stroke (Cerebrovascular Disease) 145,500
4 Accidents (all types) 95,000
5 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 84,300
6 Pneumonia and influenza 76,600
7 Diabetes mellitus 46,800
8 Suicide 30,200
9 Chronic liver disease, cirrhosis 26,700
10 Homicide and legal intervention 22,900
11 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis 21,100
12 Atherosclerosis 19,400
Subtotal 1,798,500
Other causes of death 352,000
Total 2,150,500
Since the abortion deaths are approximately 1,800,000 per year, they are more
than the next twelve causes of death combined.
46% is found as follows: Actual total deaths are 1,800,000 + 2,150,500 =
3,950,500. 1,800,000/3,950,500 x 100 = 45.6%. Round off to 46%.
Lowering life expectancy from 75 to 41 is found as follows:
In a given year, the number of years that 2,150,500 people had lived to 75 is
2,150,500 x 75 = 161,287,500. In a given year, the number of years a preborn
baby had lived outside the womb is 1,800,000 x 0 = 0. The total number of
these (people times years) is 161,287,500 + 0 = 161,287,500. The total number
of people dying is, from previous paragraph, 3,950,500. Therefore the life
expectancy is (161,287,500 people x years)/3,950,500 people = 40.8 years per
person.
Article 2
*Abortion Semantics that are Killing Our Children
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
"Pregnancy prevention!" said the high school principal. "Let's start a sex-
education class that teaches our kids pregnancy prevention. We don't want
them to get pregnant."
A noble goal, we all agree. But then suppose the school begins a program
based on a Planned Parenthood or other pro-choice designed program. Pro-
choice people use different semantics than we are used to hearing; they
redefine the words. Whereas pregnancy prevention to us means to prevent
pregnancy from ever occurring, to them it also means to prevent it from
continuing. Allow me to illustrate.
Teenager Janet gets pregnant. So far, there is no problem; she wants the
baby. But then she changes her mind; she doesn't want him. Now she has an
unwanted pregnancy, so she goes to Planned Parenthood. There, the pregnancy
is prevented: She has an abortion. So what does the high school principal
want to teach?
The term sex education is also a difficult term. Do you think it means
teaching biology and contraception? Sometimes it does, but very often it is
much, much more. It is better termed sexuality education. Often it is a
course on how to have sex and get sex, including positions, seductions, and
removing inhibitions. It teaches our children to be loose, free, and
promiscuous. It is not surprising to pro-life organizations that, contrary to
public opinion, sex education does *not* result in a decrease in pregnancy, but
an increase. Many courses are given not to decrease pregnancy, but to
increase sexuality. With the resulting increase in pregnancy there is, of
course, an increase in abortion. In today's society, it could hardly be
otherwise. Those who doubt this should answer the question, "Why, when we
have so much sex education, is teenage pregnancy and teenage abortion at an
all-time high?" Or answer the question, "Why does the United States, even
though a "Christian" nation, have the highest teenage abortion rate in the
world?"
There are many more semantic problems with the abortion controversy. Pro-
abortion people continually use such terms as choice for killing, removal for
the abortion procedure, pregnancy interruption, humaneness, products of
pregnancy, mass of protoplasm, women's rights, reproductive freedom, and
back-alley butchery.
Choice is a big word. We all want the freedom to make choices. America was
founded on freedom. However, there are some choices we should not be allowed
to have. We are not allowed to rape or murder children or adults. Why should
we be allowed to murder preborn babies? Pro-choice people merely answer by
saying that the law says so. But does that make it right? Should the law
define the morality, or should the morality define the law? If killing
innocent, defenseless human beings in the womb is immoral, shouldn't we be
against it regardless of the law?
What about the pro-choice term, removal? That sounds pretty innocent, right?
But what are we removing and with what consequences?
The answer to which brings us to the terms, products of pregnancy, products of
conception, mass of protoplasm, blob, obstruction to menstrual flow, and the
contents of the uterus. Are these things all that human beings are? In a
limited sense it is valid to use some of the above terms, but not when the
purpose is to try to dehumanize babies so that they can be killed. The
product of conception is a human being!
Pregnancy interruption. Now there's a good one. Let's interrupt the
pregnancy, as though we can continue it later anyway, or as though there are
no consequences of doing this. Never mind that a human being will have his
arms and legs ripped off and his skull crushed, and all this without
anesthetic. God said, "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shall love thy neighbor
as thyself." Is there any neighbor closer to a pregnant woman than her
preborn baby? Shall we *just* interrupt the pregnancy?
Humaneness is also a good one. It refers to the alleged humaneness of the
mother, of course. We are supposed to be humane by allowing her to have an
abortion. But what about the baby? Following is a good example of someone's
use of the word humane. It is given to us via a leading American medical
journal by Dr. Michael S. Burnhill. He referred to abortion as "a
consistently high quality, humane service."[1]
Referring to abortion as a woman's right sickens me. Almost everyone wants
equality and rights for women. But women should not have the right to kill a
human being. Pro-abortion people continually bandy their words around, but
there is no depth to their meanings. Digging deeper into the term, women's
rights, shows us that it is the right to an abortion, a right to murder a
human being. It is even the right to murder a miniature woman.
The term reproductive rights is also the right to have an abortion. Who wants
to remove the *actual* reproductive rights of a
woman? I certainly don't. The difference is that, once a woman becomes
pregnant, she has already reproduced! So there really is no issue of
reproductive rights within the abortion controversy.
How about the term, controlling her own body? Whose body? A woman, abortion
advocates proclaim, has the right to control her own body. But abortion kills
another body, not to mention the fact that the woman who got pregnant without
wanting to had already lost control of her body. Otherwise she wouldn't have
gotten pregnant.
Let us not forget back-alley abortion or back-alley butchery. These
formidable words bring pictures to our minds of narrow alleyways filled with
garbage cans, some of them tipped over, and a foraging black cat or two, and
at least one drunk who some beautiful, underprivileged, pregnant woman must
step over in order to interrupt her pregnancy or exercise her reproductive
rights. "Let's not go back to the old days!" scream the pro-aborts. But 90%
of all illegal abortions in the old days were performed in modern doctors'
offices by licensed physicians.[2] They weren't back-alley at all. Some were,
of course, but let's divorce ourselves for the moment from the pro-abortion
rhetoric and call this situation what it is, whether back alley or not. Using
our own words, let's describe what the pro-aborts want: They want to keep
abortion legal so that a woman who wants premeditatedly to murder her preborn
baby can do it without danger to herself. There is no other way to put it.
Should we, as a society, protect her right to murder?
Did any of you readers notice something terribly missing in the above
paragraph? That you would miss this is the goal of the complainers about
returning to back-alley butchery. What about the baby? Currently, we don't
have much back-alley butchery. We have butchery in respectable doctors'
offices and hospitals, paid for by your insurance money and your hard-earned
taxes.
Why do we have this distortion in semantics? There are at least two reasons.
One (collectively) is money, power, and prestige. Abortion is a multi-billion
dollar industry. Those who run it have power over the personnel they employ,
and they don't want to lose that. And they have prestige in the community.
They have seized the "moral and humane" high ground and have no intention of
releasing it.
Another reason is for the sake of their own consciences. Instead of thinking
for themselves and admitting they're wrong and repenting, they use the phrases
of their coworkers and peers. In this way they can get a good night's sleep,
resting their righteous heads on a pink or blue silk pillow of humaneness as
they relax from a hard day of doing good works. Now they can fall asleep with
a clear conscience.
Notes:
1. Michael S. Burnhill, "Humane Abortion Services: A Revolution in Human
Rights and the Delivery of a Medical Service," *Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
42 (September-October 1975)*: 438.
2. Dr. Mary Calderone (Former President of Planned Parenthood), "Illegal
Abortion as a Public Health Problem," *Amer. Jour. of Health*,
vol. 50, July 1960, p. 949.
Article 3
*Fetal-Tissue Experimentation, More than on Dead Tissue
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
We can often read these days about the benefits for society of fetal-tissue
experimentation. Many people say that such experimentation is of tremendous
benefit to mankind and will result in great strides toward curing such
terrible diseases as Parkinson's Disease and Diabetes. While there may be
some truth to these claims, mostly they are exaggerations, but one real
problem with experimentation on fetal tissue is that it's not always on dead
tissue. It's on live preborn babies, babies who are supposed to be killed by
abortion. After their birth, the experiments continue with these babies until
they either die from the experiments or are killed by the doctors. Either
way, they must die: Since they are not supposed to exist, they therefore must
never be discovered to be alive.
Another big problem with fetal-tissue experimentation is that the existence of
experimentation serves somewhat to inhibit the hoped-for end or reduction of
abortion, that is, some people will always want abortion to continue so that
the experimentation can continue. This is inappropriate for several reasons,
two of them being that our doctors will still be able to get bodies from legal
abortions and from overseas, and that research is also carried out overseas.
This article concentrates on live experimentation, however. An excellent book
on this subject is *Beyond Abortion, A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation* by
Suzanne M. Rini. I quote from that book:
Researcher's various specialties and inquiries called for using
fetuses at various stages of development and in basically three life
situations as they related to the abortion schedule:
*The live in-utero* [still in the mother] *fetus*. The testing of drugs,
of prenatal diagnostic techniques, of vaccines, of hypotheses about
the effects of diet, stress, and maternal factors are some of the
research objectives for this "class." These types of experiments
have two phases: administering the drug, prenatal test, caloric
deprivation, etc. to the still-living, in-utero fetus, and then
examining the dead fetus, upon abortion, to assess the effects. In
some cases, the fetus is actually killed by the experiment rather
than by the abortion.
*The viable fetus, ex-utero* [born]*, still living after the abortion.
*This fetus would be analogous to a premature infant, except that the
fetus would not be permitted to survive the experiment, whereas, most
premature, wanted infants are helped to independence through medical
technology. The viable fetus was included in several early,
documented experiments but this class of fetus was disallowed for
nontherapeutic experimentation with government funds once federal
regulations were devised in 1976. However, these regulations do not
govern experiments done with private monies.
*The "previable" fetus, ex- or in-utero.* This fetus is defined by the
federal regulations as one about to be or already aborted (but
aborted with some vital signs and therefore still living). To meet
this criterion, the fetus must be on the abortion schedule up to and
including the second trimester, and weigh no more than 400 grams
(about one pound).[1]
Ms. Rini also shows a category of *The Dead Fetus*. This article is not about
this category.
One of the funders of research done upon live, preborn babies is the March of
Dimes. The March of Dimes is dedicated to ending birth defects. The March of
Dimes advocates and encourages abortion as a method to end birth defects.
After all, if you're not born, you're not born defective, and therefore, the
end justifies the means.
It is extremely ill-suited to want to kill handicapped preborns when just a
few days later the same person would be born and be identified as "special" or
"developmentally disabled," or "differently abled." While March of Dimes
personnel might want to call these terms "excuses," it is nonetheless true
that Jesus teaches us to have compassion on the needy; He doesn't teach us to
kill them.
One of the research projects developed mainly by the March of Dimes via live,
fetal experimentation produced the medical procedure called amniocentesis.
With amniocentesis a mother can tell if she is carrying a handicapped baby.
However, the procedure certainly killed many children during its development,
the procedure itself can kill the baby even if he is normal, the procedure can
show that a handicap exists when it actually doesn't (then the mother kills
the normal baby), and the procedure is dangerous to the mother. By the time
the preborn baby is old enough to be tested, it is too late for his mother to
have an abortion without her having more risk than if she were to carry the
baby to term.
Following are some other cases of fetal experimentation. All of these are
from the book mentioned above.
In 1973 and 1976 the "Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism"
reported that fifty-four babies of ten to twenty-five weeks gestation
were delivered alive by hysterotomy and that immediately after
delivery each was cut open and that sex organs and adrenal glands
were removed for experimentation.[2]
This was illegal where it was done, but it is legal in many of the states.
Dr. Jerald Gaull, at the being time Chief of Pediatrics at the New
York State Institute for Basic Research in Mental Retardation at the
Willowbrook home in Staten Island, was making periodic trips to
Finland "to experiment on aborted but still-living fetuses." He
severed the nerve connections between brain and body, then surgically
removed the brain, lungs, liver and kidneys for study and
dissection.[3]
In another case,
Experiments on the brains of unborn infants at the University of
Rochester Medical Center were reported in "Science," Aug. 27, 1971.
Researchers removed brain sections from babies of ten to nineteen
weeks gestation, and kept the brain sections alive for five months,
subjecting them to exhaustive tests.[4]
I wonder how much pain and/or anxiety a brain can feel. Probably quite a lot.
In the following case, reported by "The Arizona Republic" on March 2, 1981,
those involved violated the law. But note that they wouldn't have violated
the law had the experiments been done in other states. Here is a small
sampling of what happened:
Pregnant women volunteered for E.R. Squibb & Sons Laboratories'
experiments involving hypertension medication . . . Drs. Robert
Tamis, Robert Wechsler and Mark Gross purportedly provided free
abortions to 14 women . . . in return for cooperation in the testing
of a Squibb-manufactured drug called Nadolol.
Women were given the drug for five days. Each day, the women were
examined, blood was drawn and amniotic fluid was taken from the
womb. . . . On the fifth day, the abortion procedure was begun at
the center, where the women were injected with prostaglandin
solution. They then were taken to Doctors Hospital, where the
fetuses were delivered.
. . . the report mentioned that two former nurses at the clinic said
Squibb paid the center $10,000.[5]
The prostaglandin solution mentioned above is one of the favorites of doctors
who profit from fetal research. When "properly" administered, it enables the
birth of a live baby when he is supposed to be dead. The mother may not know
that the baby is alive and to be experimented upon. Indeed, Dr. Joseph
Fletcher, *ethicist*, said, "*The mother is not entitled to the death of her
fetus.*" Dr. Fletcher works for the federal government's National Institute of
Health.
In the case below, a two-pound infant was delivered alive and, says the doctor
involved:
Irregular gasping movements, twice a minute, occurred in the middle
of the experiment, but there was no proper respiration. Once the
perfusion was stopped, however, the gasping respiratory efforts
increased to 8 to 10 per minute. The fetus died 21 minutes after
leaving the circuit.[6]
The infant survived a total of five hours. The doctor received a professional
award for his work.
Now I present a case of experimentation with live abortions even before
abortion was legalized in the United States.
Wilhamine Dick, testifying at the Shapp Abortion Law Commission
Hearing of March 14, 1972, said Pittsburgh's Magee Women's Hospital
"packed aborted babies in ice while still moving and shipped them to
experimental labs." In a later interview, Ms. Dick added, "It was
repulsive to watch live fetuses being packed in ice while still
trying to breathe and move, then being rushed to some laboratory and
hear a medical student later discuss the experience of examining
various organs of a once-live baby."[7]
So there it is: fetal-tissue experimentation. All along Americans have
assumed that the experimentation was on the pieces of already dead babies.
Now we know better. Now we know that babies are deliberately aborted alive so
that doctors can experiment on them until they die. In many cases the
experiments begin on the baby before he is born and then continue after he is
born, whether this is known by the mother or not. He is supposed to be
aborted, but remember the words of Dr. Joseph Fletcher, the ethicist: "The
mother is not entitled to the death of her fetus." So he is born alive and
secreted off to a remote corner of the hospital. There, the experiments on
him continue until the experiments kill him or until they are completed. Then
the baby is of no further use to anyone and becomes a burden. He is unwanted.
He is therefore murdered. There is no death certificate, of course. That
would be too confusing: There was no birth certificate.
Fetal experimentation, along with many, many other problems associated with
abortion, will *never* cease to be problems unless **you** do something about them.
Please call American Life League now and ask how you can help. Their phone
number is (703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. *Beyond Abortion, A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation* by Suzanne M. Rini,
Avon, NJ: Magnificat Press, 1988, pp. 1,2.
2. Ibid, p. 30.
3. Ibid, p. 32.
4. Ibid, p. 32.
5. Ibid, p. 37.
6. Ibid, p. 74.
7. Ibid, p. 81.
Article 4
*Abortion and Your Church
Why They Let the Killing Go On
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
The answer to this issue lies in four levels: Satan, your denomination's
governing body, your local church's governing body, and you.
We all know that one of God's commandments is "Thou shalt not kill." And we
know also that Mark 12:30,31 tells us, "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all
thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely
this, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other
commandment greater than these." And there is no neighbor closer to a woman
than her preborn baby.
And this is certainly enough proof for me to believe that Satan is very busy
in our churches to keep abortion alive.
Did you know that there are several Christian denominations whose governing
bodies are officially pro-choice? Actually the term pro-choice is better
called pro-death, since the pro-choice person favors the right of a mother to
kill her preborn baby whenever she chooses.
Some of the denominations pretend to take no stand on the abortion issue.
However, no stand is actually a stand for abortion. They are choosing to let
a woman choose whether she should kill her baby.
Below are some of the denominations and/or religions that, in terms of
favoring a woman's choice to abort for any reason she may have, are pro-
death.[1] The figures in parenthesis, if any, are the numbers of adult members
of that church.
American Ethical Union
American Humanist Association
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (1,132,510)
Episcopal Church (2,775,424)
Jewish: The Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative)
Jewish: Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Reform) (1,300,000)
Jewish: United Synagogue of America (Conservative) (1,250,000)
Lutheran Church in America (2,910,281)
Presbyterian Church in the US (823,143)
The Pennsylvania Council of Churches
The United Church of Christ (1,696,107)
The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
(3,092,151)
Unitarian Universalist Association (170,510)
United Methodist (9,400,000)
Young Women's Christian Association of the USA (YMCA)
The reason that some denominations are pro-death is that they don't want to
divide the church. It matters less to them that they have divided the church
from God than whether they would divide the church members from their
denomination. They try to appease everyone, and in doing so, only appease
Satan. To prove this, I need only to quote 2Timothy 4:1-5 where God is
charging Timothy to preach. "I charge thee therefore before God, and the
Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and
his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, *out of season*; reprove,
rebuke, exhort with *all* longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts *shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away
their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.* But watch thou in
*all* things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make *full* proof
of thy ministry." (The underlining is mine.)
One might also consider Matthew chapters 5 and 6 where Jesus preaches against
adultery, lust, fornication, anger, hatred, and hypocrisy. While these aren't
directly about abortion, they demonstrate that Jesus cared less about dividing
churches than about preaching against sin. Furthermore, John 8:59 describes a
crowd to which Jesus was preaching that became so offended they "took up
stones" to kill Him. Surely, Jesus thought He was doing the right thing. Why
don't our preachers think He was?
Sometimes a denomination will try to fool you. They will write their
abortion-position statement so that pro-death members will understand that the
denomination is on their side and pro-life members will also understand that
the denomination is on their own side. As one example, I present a recent
position statement of Church of the Brethren:
Brethren oppose abortion because it destroys fetal life. Let it be
clear that the Brethren ideal upholds the sacredness of human life
and that abortion should be accepted as an option *only* where all
other possible alternatives will lead to greater destruction of human
life and spirit.
However, we confess that we are part of a society that contributes to
abortion by denying parents the support and assistance they need. We
further confess our lack of compassion, our condemnation of those who
differ with our view of morality, and our need to coerce and compel
others to our way of thinking.
Thus, our position is not a condemnation of those persons who reject
this position or of women who seek and undergo abortion. Rather, it
is a call for Christ-like compassion in seeking a creative
alternative to abortion.
(Continuing) We support persons who, after prayer and counseling,
believe abortion is the least destructive option available to them,
that they may make their decision openly, honestly, without the
suffering imposed by an uncompromising community.
They start pro-life; they end pro-death. What are they?
Your local church is also at fault. Do they have a program teaching pro-life,
helping pregnant women get Christian counseling, or providing funds for
pregnant women so that they can afford to have their babies? Probably not!
One reason may be that your whole denomination might be pro-death. Another
reason may be that your local church's governing body may not want to divide
the church. Or perhaps it's because *you* never asked them to get involved.
An activity or a program has to start with someone. Should it be your pastor?
We can reasonably answer "yes" only with qualifications. His primary job
should be and is to spread the word of salvation. After taking care of that
responsibility and many others, he isn't going to have a lot of time or energy
left to invent something more for himself to do.
That is where you must come into the picture. Before you begin, you should do
several things. First, find out what your church is doing, if anything.
(Don't worry too much about the official position of your denomination. That
does not have to take authority over your local church.) Then, make a plan
for a program to work against abortion. Continue by determining who the
members of your congregation are that would support your plan and/or help
implement it. Find out the positions of your pastor and the members of your
church council or other governing body. Then, get on the agenda for one of
their meetings.
During the meeting, be prepared for resistance and try to know ahead of time
what it will be and how you can counter it. Expect that people will express
strong concern about dividing the church. Tell them how your program won't be
divisive; tell them that pro-choice people won't *have* to be involved in the
program either as participants or spectators and that (if true) the program
doesn't mandate that the pastor speak on the subject. If they say to you, "If
we let you speak on pro-life, we will have to let people speak on pro-choice",
answer back, "Who says we have to?" The <equal time> concept they may be
thinking of applies to election for government offices, not to churches.
At the meeting be prepared to answer peoples' objections with quotations from
the Scriptures and with secular arguments.
Plan with diligence. You may get the opportunity to save lives!
Do you want to know the real reason your church isn't doing anything? Is it
because they're pro-death? Is it because they're lazy or didn't think of it?
I seriously doubt it.
It's because *you* didn't ask them to.
For more information on how to help your church become active in pro-life,
call American Life League at (703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. *Abortion, the Bible and the Church*, T.J. Bosgra, several pages.
Article 5
*Planned Parenthood: Megakilling Exposed
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Since abortion was legalized in the United States in 1973, Planned Parenthood
has legally killed approximately 5,000,000 babies here. This is my proof:
Since 1973, we have had approximately 32,000,000 abortions.[1] "As the nation's
largest single provider of abortions, Planned Parenthood performs about 7.5
percent of all abortions in the United States (but provides prenatal care to
just one tenth of one percent of all women having babies)."[2] 7.5 percent of
32,000,000 is 2,400,000, but I'm still counting.
"In 1984, 88,824 abortions were performed in Planned Parenthood abortitoriums.
Planned Parenthood also referred another 99,961 women for abortions."[3] I
admit I'm not going to be exact here, but defer judgment. If they referred
99,961 and killed 88,824 themselves, then they referred 1.125 times as many as
they personally killed. Since they killed 2,400,000 personally, and they
referred for the deaths of 2,400,000 times 1.125 more, then they were
accomplices in the deaths of 2,700,000. 2,400,000 plus 2,700,000 is more than
5,000,000.
One could argue that the 7.5 percent may not apply to every year of Planned
Parenthood's involvement or that the ratio of referrals to personal kills
wasn't always that high. If you want to, go ahead. Perhaps you could drop
the 5,000,000 to 4,500,000, but the title of this article remains valid:
Megakilling is exposed. On the other hand, one could argue that the 7.5
percent and the ratio may have been higher than I've shown. Perhaps they've
killed 6,000,000.
Do you argue that abortion isn't killing? Many people, believe it or not,
actually do. Well, I've made *my* accusation against Planned Parenthood. Let's
see what *Planned Parenthood* says about abortion:
"An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun."[4]
What else does Planned Parenthood say about abortion? They say many things.
One of them is the lie that they don't try to talk the mothers into having
abortions. At the same time, they call themselves "clinics" and "health-
service providers." But I continue the quote above: "It (abortion) is
dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when you
want a child you cannot have it." And they also say that in 1988 they
performed 111,189 abortions and provided prenatal care to only 3,415 mothers.[5]
That means for every one woman receiving prenatal care from them, more than 32
others received abortions.
I find it very hard to understand why they can call themselves a health-
service provider when in 1988 they endangered the life and health of 111,189
women and made some of them sterile and while they deliberately killed 111,189
babies.
What does it mean to kill 5,000,000 babies? Many people have a hard time
visualizing the sizes of big numbers. Imagine you're on a long vacation in
your car. You're in a rural section of country that still has those old,
wooden telephone poles. They look like crosses, crosses perhaps representing
the graves of babies. With these crosses 240 feet apart, a typical distance,
how far would you have to drive to pass 5,000,000 of them? Across your state?
From Mexico to Canada? From New York to Los Angeles? I wish we were so
fortunate. I'm sorry to say so, but you would have to drive around the world
nine times. And I don't mean you could skip over the oceans.
Yet, this only scratches the surface of Planned Parenthood's killing.
Although it is the world we've driven around eight times to represent their
killings, we've only represented their killings in the United States.
Worldwide, the figures are many times higher.
Yet, even this only scratches the surface. So far I've only been talking
about abortions where procedures were involved. You're not going to like this
at all, but I have to tell you that all IUD's always work, and all birth-
control pills sometimes work (2 - 10% of the time) by aborting human beings,
not by preventing pregnancy.[6] Planned Parenthood recommends IUD's and birth-
control pills the way a child recommends candy.
If you have been involved with IUD's and birth-control pills, don't worry. If
you believe that Jesus died for you, God will forgive you. However, you must
remember that repentance (or turning away from) is required first.[7] You *must
*repent. Furthermore, if you have been involved without knowing what you were
doing, you should be in the clear. For Jesus, as he was hanging on the cross
said, referring to His executioners, "Father, forgive them; for they know not
what they do."[8]
What great news for you and me! If the Father would forgive the executioners
of His Son, surely we can also be forgiven.
All those abortions! Who pays for them, Planned Parenthood? Of course not.
You do. The mothers pay for some, of course, but Planned Parenthood takes in
well over $100,000,000 per year of your tax money and untold millions of your
health-insurance money, and there is nothing you can do about it. You *must*
pay to kill babies.
The funding comes from state taxes, local taxes, your health-insurance
company, and state-run insurance programs for the "poor." One example of the
latter is the MediCal program in California. They provide $30,000,000
annually to the abortion industry. However, a person doesn't have to be poor
to qualify for a MediCal abortion. Even if she is a millionaire, she only has
to say that she doesn't want anyone to know she's having an abortion.
California's privacy laws then enable Planned Parenthood and other killing
organizations to charge the taxpayers for the kill.
Proverbs 24:11 tells us "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those
staggering toward the slaughter."
When will the slaughter end? When *you* reach out to help. To find out how you
can help, call American Life League at (703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
2. "Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1990," US Dept. of Commerce, p.
62.
3. "Facts about Planned Parenthood," American Life League.
4. "Plan Your Children For Health and Happiness," Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, 1963.
5. "Planned Parenthood 1989 Services Report, *PPFA*," pp. 9 - 11.
6. "HLI REPORTS," April 1990, p. 4. and *many* other publications.
7. Luke 13:5 and Revelation 2:22.
8. Exodus 20:13.
Article 6
*The Killing Centers
How They Mass Produce Death
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Pro-choice people call them health centers or women's clinics, but pro-life
people call the abortion facilities what they really are: Killing Centers.
In these Killing Centers, located across the nation, approximately 4,900[1]
babies are killed every day of the year.
Greatly contributing to this enormous death rate is the assembly-line
processing taking place in many of these Centers, processing that almost
always excludes adequate counseling, or for that matter, any counseling. The
mothers going to these facilities are poorly informed going in and poorly
informed when their babies are killed. Later, more than half of them admit to
having guilt about aborting and more than one fourth mostly regret the
abortion.[2] (An excellent reference on the subject of the inadequate
counseling in Killing Centers, as well as many other topics, is *Aborted Women,
Silent No More*, by David C. Reardon. Phone 1 217 546-9522.)
What do I mean by assembly-line processing? It's the method perfected by
Henry Ford to mass-produce his early cars. With abortion the women are
processed similarly. The sequence itself isn't necessarily bad--it's not much
different from what regular hospitals use to process most of their
patients--but with abortion there is usually no emotional warmth given to
either the mother or, of course, to the other victim. From the abortionists'
viewpoint, this is fully logical: The abortionist doesn't think he is doing
anything wrong; no warmth is called for.
What is called for in his opinion, and in the opinion of the Killing Center's
owners and managers, is speed and efficiency. A certain William Brennan (not
the same William Brennan who as "Supreme" Court justice voted to legalize
abortion) wrote a book entitled *The Abortion Holocaust, Today's Final
Solution*. This book makes a tremendous case for abortion in America being
extraordinarily like the Jew-killing in Nazi Germany was. I quote from page
38 of that book where Brennan makes comparisons of Nazi techniques and
American techniques:[3]
In the Nazi death camps annihilation as an assembly-line enterprise
came of age. According to holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg: "A man
would step off a train in the morning, and in the evening his corpse
was burned and his clothes packed away for shipment to Germany."[6]
Today, a woman can enter an abortion clinic on her lunch hour and, by
the time she is due to return to work, all the remnants of her unborn
baby's body and intrauterine life support membranes are obliterated
by an assembly-line process which would make even the most avid Nazi
technician gasp in awe!
Auschwitz inmates injected with lethal doses of phenol died quickly:
"two or three prisoners in one minute." The speediest of the phenol
technicians was Josef Klehr who "injected two prisoners at a time."[4]
Dr. Ming K. Hah, reputed to be the fastest abortionist in Chicago,
vacuums the unborn to smithereens at breakneck pace: eight abortions
per hour, forty per day. His productivity rate is so impressive that
he sometimes performs two abortions simultaneously.[5]
At the Auschwitz crematorium, 17,280 corpses were disposed of "per
twenty-four hour shift. And the ovens, with murderous efficiency,
functioned day and night."[7]
Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, former director of a large abortion clinic
in New York City, described how proficiently his mill operated: From
eight in the morning until midnight, seven days a week, doctors
working in ten operating rooms performed vacuum aspirations on an
endless parade of pregnant wombs. . . . Doctors regularly worked 12-
hour shifts.[8]
Mr. Brennan's book was published too soon to include one other interesting
comparison. Just as at the Auschwitz crematorium where 17,280 corpses were
disposed of, in 1988 in Los Angeles a dumpster was found with approximately
17,000 aborted babies in it.[9]
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Now let's hear from the former owner of a chain of Killing Centers in Texas.
This is Carol Everett, who closed her lucrative business upon finding our Lord
Jesus Christ. During an interview in January, 1990, she said[10]:
We expected to do 40,000 abortions in 1984, and that would have meant
a million dollars in my pocket, and that's all I thought about. We
worked seven days a week. Sunday was our most profitable day. They
just run in and run out--you can work a skeleton crew, and I answered
the telephone 24 hours a day. I was very concerned that we might
miss a call at 2 AM in the morning, we knew that the sooner we got
that girl in the better the chances of completing the abortion were,
so I wanted to be able to say, "Bring your money, I'll see you at
eight." It was a perfectly miserable situation. The people inside
that abortion clinic are post-aborted in their own right. The
doctors, the nurses, everyone in there hurts, and there's just a lot
of chaos inside the clinic.
I always, and I taught my employees to think, we're helping the
mother, we're helping the mother, we're helping the mother. I think
the most traumatic thing I ever saw was one time when we were doing a
third-trimester abortion we saw a baby's hand close. And even the
nurses just fell back away from the table. It was too much for us.
We knew we were destroying life. But we always told ourselves it was
the woman's right to choose and we were helping her.
We must get involved. We must get involved in the political process.
That's very important. That's the way to save the most babies and
women. Stop abortion. But, more than that we've got to get out
there and minister to those women. We got to take these women into
our homes. We've got to take them into our lives. We've got to pray
for and heal the post-aborted woman. We've got to pray for the
abortionist, because of course if he'll come out and come to know
the Lord it's all over. But it's time to get involved on some level.
If you want to get involved, please call American Life League at
(703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
2. "California Pro-Life News, September, 1990."
3. *The Abortion Holocaust, Today's Final Solution*, William Brennan, Landmark
Press.
4. Bernd Naumann, "Auschwitz: A report on the Proceedings Against Robert Karl
Ludwig Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt,"trans. Jean Steinberg
(New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1966), pp. 151, 295.
5. Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick, "Dr. Ming Kow Hah: Physician of Pain,"
*Chicago Sun-Times*, November 15, 1978, pp. 1, 4-5.
6. Raul Hilberg, *The Destruction of the European Jews* (Chicago: Quadrangle
Books, 1967), p. 555.
7. Olga Lengyel, *Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz* (Chicago and New York:
Ziff-Davis, 1947), pp. 68-69.
8. Charles Remsberg and Bonnie Remsberg, "Second Thoughts on Abortion from the
Doctor Who Led the Crusade for It," *Good Housekeeping*, March 1976, p. 130.
9. Los Angeles County Health Department.
10. Interview on *Women's Lobby* program of KFIA radio sometime in January,
1990.
Article 7
*From Abortion to Infanticide, a Step Already Taken
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
To the pro-life activist, there is no substantial difference between abortion
and infanticide; they both kill innocent, defenseless, human life. However, I
will be speaking herein about infanticide after birth.
And I will be speaking of it in today's times in the United States. However,
first a little history is appropriate and interesting.
There is nothing new about infanticide; The practice was probably begun at
nearly the same time that infants came to exist. In fact, in situations where
parents didn't want their children, infanticide used to be preferred over
abortion. The reason for this is very simple: Until recently, abortion was
much more dangerous for the mother than at present. One way that our
ancestors tried to abort their babies was by taking a poison that, they hoped,
was strong enough to kill the baby but not strong enough to kill her mother.
Another way was to physically abuse the baby in the mother's womb. Just as
it is today, it was reasoned that all considerations be given to the mother at
the expense of her unwanted children. When the killers chose not to kill by
abortion, they would usually accomplish their dirty deed by leaving the born
baby outdoors so that the elements would kill her. I used the pronoun, <her>,
because often families preferred to have boys. So they killed the girls. We
do this today also, only now, even though we call our ancestors barbaric, we
kill our babies in the womb and call ourselves humane.
After advanced techniques of killing children in the womb were developed,
mothers were in far less danger from abortion. Therefore, abortions began to
outnumber the murders of already-born children. Today, there are 1,800,000[1]
abortions annually in the United States and approximately 60,000,000[1] annually
in the world. In the United States abortion is the leading cause of death,
killing more people than the next twelve causes combined[2] and lowering the
average life expectancy from approximately 75 to 41.[3]
Infanticide in the world and in the United States is a big problem. There are
several ways to consider infanticide. One is to consider it as a part of the
abortion procedure, especially when something goes wrong with the abortion.
For instance, in the hysterotomy procedure, which is an early Caesarean
section, the abortionist cuts open the mother's abdomen and womb. Then he
cuts the umbilical cord and kills the baby in the womb by strangulation or
some other method. However, the actual death may take up to five minutes, and
the abortionist is a busy and a very highly paid person. Why abide by
technicalities? So, often he cuts the cord and takes the baby out alive.
Then he will kill him by smothering him with the placenta or drowning him in a
bucket of water.
Another way to consider infanticide is by the reason for killing. Usually the
reason is because the born baby is found, unexpectedly, to be handicapped.
Logic apparently dictates to the killers that, since killing the handicapped
in the womb is "justified," it is also "justified" to kill him outside of the
womb. The term for this is an innocent-sounding one, one that makes it sound
no worse than abortion, which many people think is a good term. The term is
post-natal abortion. It's just another term for murder.
Nobel Laureate James Watson, the man who cracked the genetic code, defends
infanticide. He says, "Because of the present limits of such detection
methods, most birth defects are not discovered until birth. If a child were
not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be
allowed the choice . . . the doctor could allow the child to die if the
parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering."[4] Many of his
colleagues feel that Dr. Watson is too conservative; they prefer thirty days.
And then there's Barbara Smoker, President of the National Secular Society and
Vice-Chairman of the British Humanist Association. She said, "The situation
of a newborn baby is very different from that of the same baby, even a few
weeks later. . . . At birth the baby is only a potential human being and at
that point it is surely the humane and sensible thing that the life of any
baby with obvious severe defects, whether of body or brain, should be quietly
snuffed out by the doctor or midwife. This should not be a decision referred
to the family. . . ."[5]
Lastly, we hear from Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, who wrote
in her own book: "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of
its infant members is to kill it."[6] Note that the infant qualified to die
doesn't even have to be handicapped. She is qualified solely because she is
in a large family. Very likely, there is a branch of Planned Parenthood in
your neighborhood, and very likely they designed the sex-education/abortion
curriculum being taught to your children in school. And on the issue of
killing *in* the womb, Planned Parenthood does more abortions than any
organization in the nation and in the world.
Whether abortion or infanticide is justified against the handicapped is a big
topic, too big for this article. Let it suffice that the pro-life movement
does not think it is justified. I personally know of nine handicapped
children, none of whose parents would consider aborting a handicapped child,
and I don't know of any parents of handicapped children who would abort.
Furthermore, there has never been a single organization of parents of mentally
retarded children that has ever endorsed abortion.[7] It is also interesting
that Beethoven's mother had very, very good reasons to believe that her son,
Ludwig, would be handicapped. Actually, in later years he developed deafness.
However, this was not a handicap for him.
There is also infanticide financed by drug companies. This is how this works.
A drug company "needs" to test a new drug. It might be a drug for babies, or
it might not be. Maybe they just want to determine its toxicity. Therefore,
perhaps before the baby's birth or perhaps after or both, a physician drugs
the baby. This baby, you must understand, doesn't exist. He is never
actually legally born. He is physically born, of course, but he is supposed
to be an abortion: He is supposed to be dead. His next stop is supposed to be
the hospital dumpster or incinerator or garbage disposal. Instead, he is
secreted off to a remote corner of the hospital. There, the experiments on
him continue until the experiments kill him or until the experiments are
completed. Then the baby is of no further use to anyone and becomes a burden.
He is unwanted. He is therefore murdered. There is no death certificate, of
course. That would be too confusing: There was no birth certificate.
This, in a nutshell, is infanticide today in America. I could go on and on
describing court cases and giving testimonials of handicapped people who are
very glad to be alive, but space will not permit this. Let it suffice that I
close by commenting that infanticide will continue to grow in America. It is
unstoppable, that is unless **you** act. Please call American Life League now and
ask how you can help. Their phone number is (703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
2. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
3. By personal calculation from statistics in Note 2 plus figure of 1,800,000
abortions per year. (See note 1.)
4. "Children from the Laboratory," J. Watson, "AMA Prism," Ch. 3, p.2, May,
1973.
5. *The Times*, January 22, 1973.
6. Margaret Sanger, *Woman and the New Race* (New York: Brentano's, 1920), p.
63.
7. Mrs. Rosalie Craig, Testimony before Ohio Legislature, 1971.
Article 8
*What God Says about Abortion
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Even though the word <abortion> doesn't appear in the Bible, God says a lot a
about it. For instance, He shows that the preborn baby is a human being made
by Him. One of the central issues in abortion is whether the preborn baby
actually is a human being. If he isn't, then you aren't killing a person by
having an abortion, and therefore abortion isn't supposed to be very bad. But
God shows that he is a person:
Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust
again? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and
sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your
providence watched over my spirit. Job 10:8-12 (NIV)*
Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one
form us both within our mothers? Job 31:15 (NIV)
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous
are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not
hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in
the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet
unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned
for me, when as yet there were none of them. Psalm 139:13-16 (NKJV)
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I
sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah
1:5 (NKJV)
Also, when Mary was meeting John the Baptist's mother, Elisabeth, the Bible
tells us:
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with
haste, into a city of Juda; And entered into the house of Zacharias
and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth
heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and
Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she spake out with a
loud voice, and said, "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is
the fruit of the womb." Luke 1:39-42 (KJV)
Besides that, do you know anyone born of a human who isn't human?
Should a woman ever choose to have an abortion except perhaps for self-
defense? You decide.
Thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20:13
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is
the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou
shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment
greater than these. Mark 12:30,31 (KJV)
And there is no neighbor closer to a woman than her preborn baby.
Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon,
and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they
ripped open the women with child in Gilead. . . ." Amos 1:13 (NKJV)
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may live . . . Deuteronomy 30:19
(KJV)
Never despise one of these little ones; I tell you, they have their
guardian angels in heaven, who look continually on the face of my
heavenly Father. Matthew 18:10 (NEB)
Still, you may wonder about babies conceived as a result of rape or incest.
Read what God says about this:
So the Lord said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the
mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord?"
Exodus 4:11 (NKJV)
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd
among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter,
"What are you making?" Does your word say, "He has no hands."? Woe
to him who says to his father, "What have you begotten?" or to his
mother, "What have you brought to birth?" This is what the Lord
says--the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: concerning things to
come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about
the work of my hands? Isaiah 45:9-11 (NIV)
And what does God say about abortionists, or even those of you who favor
choice?
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck,
and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these
little ones. Luke 17:2 (KJV)
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all
the people shall say Amen. Deuteronomy 27:25 (KJV)
But your eyes and your heart are intent only upon your own dishonest
gain, and on shedding innocent blood and on practicing oppression and
extortion. Jeremiah 22:17 (NAS)
Should you do anything to help stop the slaughter?
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering
toward slaughter. Proverbs 24:11 (NIV)
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not
himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worth of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much
is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
committed much, of him they will ask the more. Luke 12:47-48 (KJV)
Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin. James 4:17 (KJV)
If you would like to help, call American Life League at (703) 659-4171. Since
abortion was legalized in 1973, there have been 32,000,000 of God's children
murdered in the United States. Will you let your neighbor murder hers?
* Abbreviations:
KJV King James Version
NIV New International Version
NKJV New King James Version
NEB New English Bible
NAS New American Standard
Article 9
*The Killing Centers
How They Don't Counsel Their Patients
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Pro-choice people call them health centers or women's clinics, but pro-life
people call the abortion facilities what they really are: Killing Centers.
In these Killing Centers, located across the nation, approximately 4,900[1]
babies are killed every day of the year.
Greatly contributing to this enormous death rate is the assembly-line
processing taking place in many of these centers, processing that almost
always excludes adequate counseling, or for that matter, any counseling. The
mothers going to these facilities are poorly informed going in and poorly
informed when their babies are killed. Later, more than half of them admit to
having guilt about aborting and more than one fourth mostly regret the
abortion.[2]
The main difficulty with the counseling is that the mothers are poorly
informed, or deliberately misinformed about the status of their preborn baby.
Perhaps the primary reason for this is that the pro-abortion counselors don't
actually know what the status really is. Their rhetoric to the general public
always classifies the preborn as a blob, a mass of protoplasm, an obstruction
to menstrual flow, an "it," or a problem, *never* as a human being. Yet
pictures of aborted or miscarried preborn babies clearly show them to have
human shapes as early as six weeks from fertilization. At that age you can
even tell that they are not it's. Most abortions don't even take place until
that age.
Other pro-aborts do know what the baby is, and don't care. They equate
legality with morality, reasoning that there is nothing immoral about killing
a baby if there is nothing illegal about it.
According to a survey done by David Reardon[3], information which many
respondents believe would have been a crucial factor in their final decisions
was denied to them. More than 90% of them stated that the biological nature
of the fetus had not been discussed during their counseling sessions, and only
2% said that fetal development had been even moderately discussed. The pro-
abortion response to this is that mothers coming in for counseling are already
well informed, but 90% of the mothers surveyed claimed to have little or no
prior knowledge of fetal development.
Regarding being adequately informed about the abortion procedure, more than
80% of the mothers reported that little or no discussion of risks had taken
place, and only 8% believed their counselors had adequately discussed the
surgical risks of the procedure.
Furthermore, 40% to 50% of the mothers surveyed were wavering in their choice
and were actually hoping for another option when they first went to speak with
the counselor. Since there are 1,800,000[1] abortions every year in the United
States, therefore perhaps 900,000 lives could have been saved by proper
counseling. Perhaps even more could have been. Surely even some of the
mothers who had not been wavering would have seen the truth about what
abortion does (it kills a baby) and therefore chosen not to kill.
Here are some of the specific answers to specific questions in the above-
mentioned survey:
*When asked:*
"Were you encouraged to have an abortion by [your] counselor?", 27%
said, "Very much."
"Would your choice have been different if any or all of the above had
encouraged you differently?", 76% said, "Very much." "Above" here
means counselor, parents, other family members, husband, boyfriend,
social worker, doctor, or friends.
"Did the clinic, doctor, or counselor help you to explore your
decision?", 3% said, "Very much", and 84% said, "Not at all."
"Do you feel their opinions were biased? If so, for or against
abortion?", 79% said, "For."
"Were you encouraged to ask questions?", 2% said, "Very much."
"Were your questions thoroughly answered to your satisfaction?", only
4% said, "Very much."
"Do you believe there was information you were not given or were
misinformed about?", 73% said, "Very much."
"Were risks and dangers discussed?", only 4% said, "Very much."
Thus, it would seem that a more appropriate title for this article would be
"The Killing Centers, How They Don't Counsel Their Victims." Surely the
mothers as well as the babies are victims. The mothers themselves say so.
However regarding the babies, one question not asked by the survey was whether
the mothers were aware of the pain that the babies experience during the
abortion. Scientific evidence[4] has proven that they experience excruciating
pain. Although no anesthetics are ever given, the babies are usually killed
by cutting or tearing off their arms and legs and crushing their skulls. In
late-term abortions they are sometimes killed by chemically burning them to
death inside and outside of their bodies.
Wouldn't you like to help provide the mothers with better counseling? If you
would, please call American Life League at (703) 659-4171. You could save
lives, pain, and grief.
Notes:
1. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
2. "California Pro-Life News," September, 1990.
3. *Aborted Women, Silent No More*, David Reardon, pp. 16,17 & 333-336,
copyright 1987. Quoted with permission from Good News Publishers/Crossways
Books (Wheaton, IL) and Loyola University Press (Chicago, IL).
4. The movies "Silent Scream" and "Eclipse of Reason" by Bernard Nathanson,
former abortionist.
Article 10
*The Psychological and Physical Complications from Abortion*
by Lynn K. Murphy
Mothers suffer many psychological and physical complications from abortion.
Although the general public is unaware that these complications occur,
psychological damage to the mothers occurs in approximately 95% percent of the
women who have abortions, and physical damage occurs in approximately 45%.[1]
David Reardon, famed researcher, notes that there are over one hundred
complications associated with abortion.[2] This does not include death of the
baby: This is not a <complication> of abortion, it is a goal.
*What the Experts Say about Damage*:
Pro-abortion and pro-life people both say that abortion hurts women. Let's
see first what the pro-abortion people say.
Planned Parenthood, the world's and nation's largest provider of abortion,
said in its Department of Education <3-Year Plan and Long Range Program Goals
1990 - 1993>:
"A number of . . . studies and surveys (including the Reardon/WIC Study and
the Grant Survey) have shown that the incidence of post-procedural trauma for
abortion clients may be as high as 91 percent of all cases."
A Planned Parenthood brochure entitled <PLAN YOUR CHILDREN for health and
happiness> says, "An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It
is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when
you want a child you cannot have it."
This is what pro-life and other experts say:
The <Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology>, May, 1985, said that abortion is the
sixth leading cause of maternal death in this country.
A Wynn and Wynn Study shows that 3 - 5 percent of aborters are left sterile.[3]
Women have a 58% greater risk of dying during a later pregnancy.[4]
These are the effects on future babies, if any: premature births,
complications during labor, more child abuse and neglect, and more handicapped
babies.[5]
From Dayton Women's Health Center, Iowa: "Mary was rushed to the hospital
after her abortion due to profuse bleeding. The attending physicians
discovered 'the entire front of her uterus was blown away.' After the surgeon
removed the damaged uterus, they explored her abdominal cavity. Behind her
liver they found the decapitated head of a 24 week old pre-born child."[6]
*Psychological Damage*:
The most serious psychological damages that occur can be lumped under the
condition known as Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS), which is a part of a larger
class of disorders called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The PAS victim,
through the process of denial, blocks the natural grieving process of the
death of her child and often denies her own responsibility in the abortion.
The denial or suppression blocks the healing process and the possibility of
forgiveness for herself and the others who have been involved in her decision
and her abortion. The trauma often manifests itself as a breakdown of
function in the psychological, physical, or spiritual areas.[7]
Dr. Vincent Rue, a clinical psychologist, likened abortion victims to "walking
time bombs" and said that little is heard of PAS problems because there is a
massive denial among professionals.
Following is a long, long list of the damages. Not every mother who aborts
has damage, but many have more than one of these problems because of the
abortion: child abuse, child neglect, suicidal behavior, anger/rage, feeling
of being raped, worsening self-image, sexual coldness, fear of touching
babies, nervous breakdown, promiscuity, constant thoughts about the child,
loneliness, fear of making decisions, hallucinations related to the abortion,
nightmares, increased drug and alcohol use, feelings of craziness, flashbacks,
decreased ability to experience emotions, inability to communicate, feeling
victimized, fear that others will learn of the abortion, guilt, anxiety,
depression, grief, sadness, regret, loss, repeat abortions, unwillingness to
continuing pursuing their life's goals, inability to sustain intimate
relationships, hatred of people connected with abortions, and many, many more.
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Regarding the suicidal behavior, Cincinnati Suiciders Anonymous reports that
1,800 of their 4,000 female members have had abortions.[8] Psychologist Anne
Speckhard made a study (not necessarily in Cincinnati) that showed that 65% of
her subjects reported thoughts of suicide, and 31% actually made suicide
attempts.[9]
American Rights Coalition reports that almost all of the above damages have
been reported by over one-half of the women who have had abortions.[1] Can you
bear to read the testimony of even one of them? This is the testimony of
Teresa L. Fangman:
When I was 16 I was shuffled through an assembly-line abortion. I
was number 13 of 17 who went through the morning session at one
abortion clinic. Physically, I had no problems with my abortion, but
emotionally, I created a "living Hell" that continues on a daily
basis.
I'm not sure the tears will ever stop. I've been waiting almost 11
years now and they never cease. It's difficult to lay your head down
at night knowing I "chose" to allow someone to invade my body and
remove my child. If I had known then that it would be difficult to
sleep at night and that every time I saw a child about the same age
as the one I got rid of, my insides would flinch, or that I would
feel I had to have another child to "justify" my actions as a
teenager, I hope and pray I would have made another decision.
I hope that by sharing what abortion did to me will save one woman
from the low self-esteem and continual self-abuse that was a direct
result of my abortion.
*Physical Damage*:
Physical damage to the mother is also very common. There are several reasons
we don't hear much about this. First, most abortions are done in clinics
whose records are insufficiently inspected. When a complication occurs, the
clinics really have no incentive to turn themselves in. Second, deaths from
abortion generally are not reported as deaths from abortion. Rather, the
death might be from a "perforated (punctured) uterus" or "internal bleeding."
Thus, abortion seems safe.
Following is a long list of the physical damages that can occur as a result of
abortions: death, infection, hemorrhage, cervical damage, damage and loss of
other internal organs, perforation of the uterus, menstrual irregularity,
headaches, dizziness, blood clots, AIDS from blood transfusions, AIDS from
increased drug and needle use (see above list of psychological damages showing
increased drug use), increased probability of future miscarriages,
stillbirths, sterility, ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, menstrual disturbances,
other bleeding, shock, coma, peritonitis, cold sweats, and much more.
Dr. Joel Brind, Endocrinologist, said in a December 3, 1992 press release,
"There is a clear relationship documented in medical journals showing that
women aborting their first pregnancy are at a much higher risk of developing
breast cancer than women who carry their pregnancy to term." Presumedly, it
took some time to determine this: Women mostly abort early in life, and get
breast cancer later. Brind cited four sources in the medical literature.
As with the psychological damages, a woman may not have physical damage, or
she may have more than one type of physical damage. She may also have both
physical and psychological damage.
Allow me to provide a good example of physical damage. My above testimonial
was from an abortion victim. This one is from a former abortion-clinic owner.
That is, she was an owner. Then she met Jesus Christ, and now she can admit
the truth about what she had been doing[10]:
The last 18 months I was involved in the abortion industry we maimed
to the point of major surgery one woman out of every five hundred.
Let me define maimed. Hysterectomy, colostomy because her uterus had
tract repair because they had perforated her uterus and cut her
children. We never took them to the closest hospital. We never
called an ambulance. An ambulance is terrible advertisement in front
of an abortion clinic. We started an IV so we'd have a vein if she
would protect the clinic and the doctor. One that we knew couldn't
afford any adverse advertising, so they wouldn't call the press, and
wouldn't let their nurses. And then we knew the family would
participate in the cover up, you see, the family finds out about
call the press. And there's a built-in cover-up in the abortion
industry.
[On another case]: This young woman was a 21-year-old model, tall
and willowy, I remember, and she danced in and said take care of my
problem. We put her on the table to do a late, second trimester
abortion. My job was to hold the baby in place while two of these
doctors did the D and E. Dilation and Evacuation process. That's
where you go inside the uterus with big forceps, crush the baby
inside the uterus, pull it out in pieces, reconstruct it to be sure
you have all the pieces, and the abortion is over. No live births
this way. But it's necessary to push this baby down into those
instruments. And that was my job. I had my hand on that woman's
and I just pushed down and it stopped. The first time the doctor went
in, he pulled out placenta and that's perfectly normal. And the
second time he went in with those big forceps he perforated her
uterus and he pulled her bowel out through her vagina. Now we've got
some problems. This baby is still alive. The baby has not been
touched. But the mother must be transported. She's got to be put in
a hospital. We cannot take care of this problem. So we started an
IV, put her in my car, took her about 25 miles across Dallas to a
hospital that we'd never been to before, that we knew would protect
us. The doctor called in six of his friends. Seven doctors operated
on her. I awaited outside of course, imagining the attorneys coming
out of the woodwork. And when the doctor came out he said "Carol we
don't have a problem." I couldn't understand that. But he explained
that all of his doctor friends had decided to write up the records as
though it had been an abdominal pregnancy. Not an intra-uterine
pregnancy. Now, of course the complication of colostomy would be
justified by that because it would have happened anyway. But the
reality again is that no doctor would have started that abortion had
the baby not been perfectly inside that woman's uterus. And I had my
hand on that uterus. I know a baby was inside that uterus. Then the
doctor had an affair. A 47-Year-old doctor had an affair with this
21-year-old girl. So she wouldn't sue us.
Lastly on complications, the mothers' future babies, if any, can also have
problems, such as prematurity and low birth weight. Premature babies have a
lower probability of survival than do full-term babies.
*Conclusion*:
Abortion isn't the clean, safe procedure that pro-choice makes it out to be.
It is living Hell for the mothers, and of course, for the babies. And
abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing more
people (babies) than the next twelve causes of death combined, including heart
disease and cancer.[11] Think of all the mothers and babies who suffer!
If you would like to help stop this, please call American Life League at (703)
659-4171. They will show you what you can do. If *you* don't help, who will?
Notes:
1. American Rights Coalition Statement of Facts.
2. *Aborted Women: Silent No More*, David Reardon, p. 92., copyright 1987.
Quoted with permission from Good News Publishers/Crossways Books (Wheaton, IL)
and Loyola University Press (Chicago, IL).
3. <British Medical Journal>, March 3, 1973, Wynn and Wynn, "Some Consequences
of Induced Abortion to Children Born Subsequently.
4. *Aborted Women-Silent No More*, David Reardon, 1987.
5. <Family Planning Perspectives>, May-June 1983, vol. 15, no.3., "Impact of
Vacuum Aspiration Abortion on Future Childbearing: A Review", Hogue, Cates and
Tietze.
6. <Legalized Abortion, Safe & Simple For Whom?>, a 1989 tract by Victims of
Choice.
7. J. Denton Collins, M.A., M.F.C.C. MK19363.
8. Testimony of Cincinnati Suiciders Anonymous before Cincinnati, OH city
council.
9. *Psycho-Social Stress Following Abortion*, Ann Speckhard (Kansas City, MO.,
Sheed & Ward, 1987, page 57).
10. Transcript of Carol N. Everett by *Women's Lobby* program on KFIA Radio
sometime in January, 1990.
11. Non-abortion deaths from From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States,
1992*, page 82, for 1989. Abortion deaths are 1,800,000 per year, a figure
accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-abortion if
increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
Article 11
*Abortion and the Law*
by Lynn K. Murphy
Do you know during what part of a pregnancy abortion is legal? Is it the
first third, the first half? Can it be done for any reason, or only for rape,
incest, and life of the mother? What does the law say about abortion, and how
did the law turn out that way? These are the issues I shall explore in this
article.
I regret to inform you that abortion is legal at any time during the pregnancy
right up to the second of birth, that it can be done for any reason
whatsoever, and that this is true in all the states and territories of the
United States.
And *none* of this came about because of the approval of the voters.
The legal status of abortion was determined for us by the United States
"Supreme" Court, and they did their dirty deeds in 1973. In 1970, a certain
woman named Norma McCorvey became pregnant. She lived in Texas, and in that
state she attempted to find a way to kill her preborn baby and get away with
it. She tried to do this through her state's legal system, and she failed.
Therefore she appealed to the United States "Supreme" Court.
As we all know, the legal system moves very slowly. It wasn't until three
years later that her case was heard. Ms. McCorvey presumedly would have had
her pregnancy last three years so that she could kill her daughter, but it
didn't work that way. The baby was born and given up for adoption. It is
ironic that even though this particular baby was given for adoption, the
"Supreme" Court didn't mandate that "unwanted" children must be born and given
for adoption, but only mandated that they could be killed. And it is
interesting that Ms. McCorvey's daughter, who is now 22 years old or older, is
staunchly pro-life![1]
For the legal proceedings, Ms. McCorvey, presumedly for security, used a
pseudonym, Roe, instead of her real name. Thus, the court case is known as
<*Roe* v. Wade>. The <Roe v. Wade> decision, reached on January 22, 1973, denied
the personhood of the preborn (which took away all his rights) and permitted
abortion during any time of the pregnancy.[2] The mother could have the
abortion provided that the physician recommended it. He could recommend it
for any reason. Pregnancy was divided into three trimesters (thirds) and it
was mandated that there could be no restrictions on abortion during the first
trimester except that it had to be done by a licensed physician, and that
abortions during the second and third trimesters had to be done by a licensed
physician in a hospital. Later court decisions removed the hospital
restriction. Supposedly, although Ms. McCorvey (Roe) had previously alleged
that she had become pregnant because of rape, the "Supreme" Court didn't
consider this. However, McCorvey later admitted she had lied.[3]
The <Roe v. Wade> decision, unfortunately, wasn't the only mayhem levied against
Americans by the "Supreme" Court on that scandalous day in 1973. On that same
day, they made their equally infamous <Doe v. Bolton> decision.[4] This decision
decreed that abortion was now the mothers' decision, not the physicians'. In
other words, it expanded the criteria of <Roe v. Wade> to include any reason the
mother would care to give, instead of what the physician would care to give,
regarding her health. A mother would only need to claim that to have the baby
would be a difficulty. Thus her health would be affected; thus she could have
an abortion. She could do this because of alleged problems with money,
emotions, time, job, career, or readiness. In other words, she could now kill
her baby for her own convenience. Furthermore, she could now kill him with a
clear conscience: It was legal.
This type of killing is called abortion on demand, and really means abortion
on request.
Prior to the "Supreme" Court decisions of January 22, four states had recently
liberalized abortion laws. These were New York, Colorado, California, and
Washington. Of these, it was only in Washington (state) that the laws were
changed because of the vote of the people. In the other three, they were
changed because of the legislatures.
After the "Supreme" Court decisions, this didn't matter. The decisions
negated all state laws that had in any way restricted abortion.
As time passed, the killing rate increased markedly. In the first full year
after abortion became legalized, 763,476[5] babies were legally murdered. In
recent years it has been 1,800,000 per year.[6] Abortion is now commonplace,
and it is widely accepted. A huge number people began to feel, without
thinking for themselves, that the law defined the morality instead of the
morality defining the law. Therefore, with the intense lobbying of pro-
abortion organizations such as Planned Parenthood, National Organization for
Women, and American Civil Liberties Union, our various state legislatures have
passed laws in sympathy with the "Supreme" Court decisions.
The purpose of this was to ensure that the killing will remain legal even if
the "Supreme" Court reverses itself. To state this another way, if a given
state could eliminate all their laws that prohibited abortion, if <Roe v. Wade>
was reversed abortion would be still be legal in that state. Those who
believe in "Thou shalt not kill" don't like this.
Recently, this procedure has been reversed in a few states and Puerto Rico.
Some restrictions on abortion have been passed in Utah and Pennsylvania, for
example. If these restrictions would be unchallenged, they would *not* be
allowable by <Roe v. Wade> or <Doe v. Bolton>. What is going on here is that
these state laws will be challenged by pro-aborts all the way to the "Supreme"
Court. Then, we will see whether <Roe v. Wade> and <Doe v. Bolton> can be
overturned. The "Supreme" Court of today is different from the "Supreme"
Court of 1973. Perhaps, with our considerable prayer, we can save the lives
of countless, innocent human beings.
Actually, in a case known as <Planned Parenthood v. Casey>, the restrictions in
Pennsylvania mentioned above were tested in the "Supreme" Court. The Court
ruled that Pennsylvania and any state can make laws that require informing the
mother of the risk of her abortion, of the facts on fetal development, of the
alternatives to abortion, and of the medical benefits available if she gives
birth. The states can also make laws specifying a compulsory waiting period
between the examination and the kill, informing a parent of a child's upcoming
abortion, getting permission from a parent for a child's upcoming abortion,
and compulsory reporting of abortion statistics to the state. All this is
very good. Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood won on the most important point:
Spousal-notification or father-notification of an abortion cannot be required.
Thus, abortion is still a woman's decision. Thus, <Roe v. Wade> and <Doe v.
Bolton> were upheld very strongly.
A comment about Planned Parenthood's attitude is very appropriate. Planned
Parenthood fought against all the points in the above paragraph. Thus, we can
see that they simply do not care about the women, the teenagers, the parents,
or the babies. Planned Parenthood cares about one thing: Keeping baby
killing legal. They continuously and vigorously fight for this in the courts,
legislatures, and other governing bodies across the nation.
Since abortion was legalized, approximately 32,000,000[6] babies have been
killed in the United States. This is by far the leading cause of death,
outstripping the next twelve causes (including heart disease and cancer)
combined.[7] And these deaths were *not* for rape, incest, fetal handicap, or
life of the mother. Of the 32,000,000, there were only about 600,000
abortions for those reasons.[6]
How big is 32,000,000? What does it mean to kill 32,000,000 babies? Many
people have a hard time visualizing the sizes of big numbers. But imagine
you're on a long vacation in your car. You're in a rural section of country
that still has those old, wooden telephone poles. They look like crosses,
crosses perhaps representing the graves of babies. With these crosses 240
feet apart, a typical distance, how far would you have to drive to pass
32,000,000 of them? Across your state? From Mexico to Canada? From New York
to Los Angeles? I wish we were so fortunate. I'm sorry to say so, but you
would have to drive around the world fifty-eight times. And I don't mean you
could skip over the oceans.
And how long will the killing continue? Until **you** help stop it. There are
many, many things you can do. Please call American Life League at (703) 659-
4171.
Notes:
1. *Cincinnati Enquirer*, June 26, 1989.
2. Supreme Court decision 410 US 113, 1973.
3. *The Washington Post*, September 9, 1987.
4. Supreme Court decision 410 US 179, 1973.
5. "Abortion Surveillance Report," The Center for Disease Control.
6. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
7. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989,
with comparison with 1,800,000 abortions per year.
Article 12
*The History of Abortion
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
As long as there have been humans, there have been abortions. This article is
about the history of abortion, or more specifically about the history of
induced abortion, which is deliberate, as opposed to spontaneous abortion,
which is a miscarriage.
Although there has always been induced abortion, our ancestors may not have
been any more barbaric than today's people who believe that a mother has the
right to kill her preborn babies. These two classifications of pro-choice
people, ancestors and contemporary, are not usually vicious, but rather they
do not understand the humanity of the preborn. Today's pro-abortion person,
however, has far less excuse for not understanding. Thousands of years ago
medical science, when it existed, did not know the facts about the preborn.
Today it does. Today's pro-abortion person needs only to listen to the
doctors telling them that the preborn is, from the moment of fertilization, a
live human being and is separate from the mother's body. Then, if they want
to continue to be pro-abortion, they will have to own-up to the fact that they
favor killing. Long ago, things were more confused.
At some unknown time in history, the term "quickening" was invented.
Quickening originally meant "when formed" and referred to when the soul was
formed. Early Christian church Fathers argued considerably about when
quickening occurred. Nonetheless, they seemingly all condemned abortion at
all times of a pregnancy. The penalty they imposed for aborting was up to
approximately seven years of public penance, with the more severe sentencing
for abortions after quickening (not that they knew when quickening was).
As civil governments replaced ecclesiastical (church) law, quickening was
redefined from "when formed" (referring to the soul) to "felt life" (referring
to feeling the baby moving). The opinion in vogue during this period was that
the baby wasn't alive until quickening. Nonetheless, all abortion was
condemned. Abortion prior to quickening was punishable as a misdemeanor;
abortion after was a felony.
Until two millennia ago (2,000 years ago), abortion was uncommon. Parents
chose to kill their babies after they were born instead of before. The reason
for this is very simple: Abortion methods were very dangerous to the mother.
There were two basic abortion methods. One was for the mother to take a
poison. "Hopefully", the poison was just the right dose and just the right
type to kill her baby, but not to kill the mother. The other method was to
physically abuse the mother's abdomen. This might have been abuse from the
outside or abuse on the inside. Often, of course, the baby would be delivered
alive. And often, of course, this baby would be then killed.
But because the mother was endangered by abortion, infanticide was the method
of choice. Why should a woman, the reasoning went, subject herself to danger
when all she wants to do is avoid having an unwanted child? Today, we too
sometimes make the choice for infanticide. In late-term abortions, many times
the procedure really isn't an abortion at all. The doctor will perform an
operation similar to a Caesarean. He is supposed to kill the baby before he
lifts him out. But often he lifts him out and then kills him. Since killing
by abortion is "moral", this killing is "moral" also. But in addition, since
killing outside of the womb is moral, undoubtedly doctors have also lifted out
babies from the hospital nurseries and killed them. There really is very
little difference.
After the year 1750 a technique of killing preborn babies was developed which
allowed the murderer to kill, relatively safely for the mother, by inserting
sharp instruments into the womb. The word, <safely>, is a relative one. No
abortion even today is totally safe for the mother, but the new technique
enabled many women to choose to kill their babies by abortion instead of by
infanticide. This was, obviously, of great significant physical advantage to
the mothers, and it was also a great emotional advantage. Now the mothers
would no longer have to see and perhaps hold their own baby and then
personally execute him by whatever means she could emotionally withstand. The
abortion rate skyrocketed.
Although it was in 1677 that it was discovered that seminal fluid contained
sperm cells, it wasn't until approximately 1850 that the scientific community
fully accepted the fact that sperm unites with egg in a process that causes
babies. In fact, even for a short period after 1677, scientists drew pictures
of sperm cells showing little men curled up in the heads of the cells.
As a result of the breakthrough in understanding, the American Medical
Association understood the humanity of the preborn and understood that he was
alive at all times, and they therefore pushed hard for the enacting of laws
prohibiting abortion.[1] Subsequently, all states passed laws banning it, and
in addition they made the crime a felony regardless of the alleged quickening.
The crime of abortion was generally enforced only against the abortionists,
not against the mothers. Whether this is right or wrong is an issue not
suited for this article, but I comment that pro-life today also does not favor
prosecuting women who have abortions, but only prosecuting the abortionists
and their accomplices.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's, there was a growing trend in the United
States to allow abortion on demand (request). In fact abortion laws were
considerably liberalized in Washington (state), California, Colorado, and New
York during these years. Unquestionably, the people of the United States were
overwhelmingly pro-life. However, in 1973, against the wishes of the vast
majority of voters, the United States Supreme Court "justices" shocked the
nation by decreeing in its <Roe v. Wade> and its <Doe v. Bolton> decisions that a
woman could kill her baby for any reason whatsoever as long as the baby hadn't
been born yet.
Since that time, approximately 32,000,000[2] babies have been murdered in the
womb in the United States. While many people think that this is moral because
it is legal, good Christians who understand that a preborn is both human and a
life separate from the body of the mother, realize that it is highly immoral.
They know that there is someone more Supreme than the "Supreme" Court, and He
tells us "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself."
Is there any closer neighbor to a pregnant woman than her preborn baby?
The history of abortion is still being made. One day, with your help,
support, and prayer, the carnage can be stopped. In the meanwhile, abortion
will continue to be the greatest cause of death in the US, and this is true
even when considering only the abortions done for ordinary birth control.
This almost totally preventable cause of death kills more people in the US
than the next twelve causes combined, including heart disease and cancer, and
lowers the life expectancy of Americans from 75 to 41.[3]
If you want to get involved in pro-life, please call the following number for
a referral to an organization in your area that will meet your criteria for
how you want to help. American Life League: (703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. <Roe v. Wade>, US Supreme Court, 1973, VI, 6, p. 26.
2. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion.
3. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989,
plus personal calculation from statistics in Note 2 plus figure of l,800,000
abortions per year.
Article 13
*The Pregnant Mother in Need
What You Can Do
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
I am a writer of pro-life (anti-abortion) material. As such, this article
does not describe what all pregnant mothers in general need, but only pregnant
mothers that may be considering having an abortion. I think most of you
realize that abortion kills an innocent, defenseless human being, but by far
most of the mothers who abort do not think so. We realize that God said,
"Thou shalt not kill"[1] and "Love thy neighbor as thyself"[2], and since there is
no neighbor closer to a mother than her preborn baby, we must do whatever we
can to convince her to give birth.
And what does this entail? Quite a lot, actually. Don't be dismayed,
however. If you are going to help, you won't have to start from scratch;
usually what needs to be done is already being done to a limited extent by
Christian pregnancy-counseling organizations across the nation. My focus is
therefore to show you what you can do if you want to join their efforts.
Believe me, they need your help! During the next twenty-four hours, 4,900
babies will die from abortion in America!
The primary Christian counseling organizations are the Crisis Pregnancy
Centers, affiliated with the Christian Action Council, and Birthright. (Do
not confuse Christian counseling with that of other groups such as Planned
Parenthood. Unlike the other groups, Christian counselors *do not* recommend
abortion.) Christian agencies typically provide tests to determine whether a
woman or girl is pregnant, and then if she is, they provide her with
information about fetal development and about abortion in hope that she would
not choose to kill her baby. In addition the counseling organizations try to
meet the mothers' needs. Since abortion is legal for *any* reason at *any* time,
the mother can choose to have an abortion by any rationale. For instance, she
may not be able to afford maternity clothes or baby clothes. So the
counselors give these to her. Or she may have been told by her parents,
husband or boyfriend that he would kick her out of the home if she didn't have
an abortion. So the counselors find a home she can live in for free for a
while.
As they counsel the woman, they don't project the attitude that the woman is a
vicious killer, and they do not even use the word "kill." Instead they teach
her about fetal development. Many of you are like I am. Somehow we have
always known that the preborn baby is a human being and actually looks like a
baby. But pro-choice professionals actively and aggressively teach us and our
children that this is not the case. They teach that the preborn is a blob, a
mass of protoplasm, an "it," an obstruction to menstrual flow, or a problem.
If that was all the preborn baby was, and if abortion didn't hurt women, I
guess I too would be pro-abortion. The pro-life counselors educate the
mothers by showing them pictures of the development of the preborn, week by
week and month by month, and by talking with the mothers.
This also nullifies another problem that the pro-abortion people create. They
teach that the preborn is a part of the mother's body. If this was the case,
then abortion might be no worse that having an appendix removed or having a
nose job. The pictures of the baby developing in the womb clearly show that
he is a separate human being. Thus, an abortion kills a person.
As the pro-life counselor talks with the mother, she hopes to become friends
with her. This is a very important facet of the counseling. The mother is
usually young and almost always frightened. She feels that both physical and
emotional pain are inevitable. She may be afraid of losing her boyfriend if
she stays pregnant, or of telling her parents that she's pregnant, or of
having a deformed baby, or she may wonder how she can finish school. Some or
all of these fears may become actualities for her, but the counselor can help
her cope. The counselor has already had experiences with other girls like her
and may have had her own bad experiences. The counselor knows the best ways
to tell parents, she knows the facts on the likelihood of deformities
occurring, and she knows about programs to help young mothers finish school.
But perhaps equally important is that just being a loving friend really helps
the mother to feel better about continuing the pregnancy.
One of the mother's needs may concern money. The counselors do not give her
money, but will usually be able to give her maternity clothes, baby clothes
and furniture, strollers, bassinets and cribs, and vitamins. Aside from the
material value of these things, the giving also reinforces friendship.
Other things available from most pregnancy centers are information on how
abortions are done, information on the complications of abortion, education on
alternatives to abortion (such as adoption), referrals for adoption and foster
care, referrals for medical care and other needed services, referrals for
employment, guidance in developing and keeping good relationships with the
people in her life, information on support groups and childbirth classes, and
lay counseling from women who have already had an abortion. This last item is
very important. Severe physical and emotional problems often occur as a
result of abortion.
How can you help? There are many, many ways. First, check my referrals below
to see if there is a Christian pregnancy counseling organization near you that
you would like to assist. If you want to help, don't worry about not knowing
how: *they'll train you!* This is what you can do for them:
Clerical/secretarial/bookkeeping, single mothers' support group, childbirth
support group, childbirth instructions, labor coaching, fundraising, job
counseling/job opportunities, hospitality for training sessions, parenting
instruction, lay crisis counseling, answer hotline phone, provide housing for
needful moms, janitorial/groundskeeper, clothing sorter, and more.
What else can you do? You can pray and you can give. They need everything a
pregnant mother needs and everything a baby needs, from clothing to furniture
to diapers to books on raising babies.
And they need money. Whereas Planned Parenthood and others who kill our
children get well over $100,000,000 per year in your tax money to do this,
neither the pro-life-only counseling centers nor any pro-life groups are
entitled to support by the taxpayers. However, you can give money directly to
pro-life organizations. You should *not* give money to pro-life through United
Way even if you specifically designate you that are giving to a specific pro-
life organization! This is because United Way won't give all your donation to
whom you choose, but will spread part of it around to others, including
Planned Parenthood!
You can also try to get your church to help. Your congregation may contain
many members who would like to give their time and/or money to help stop the
killing, and perhaps your church would even want to contribute funds.
Lastly, if there is no Christian pregnancy counseling organization in your
area, you can start one! It's not impossible; many people have done it before
you. Call one of the referrals below. They'll be glad to help!
Christian Action Council
Phone: 703 237-2100
101 W. Broad St., Suite 500
Falls Church, VA 22046
Birthright
Phone: 800 848-5683
686 N. Broad
Woodbury, NJ 08096
Do **not** call Planned Parenthood.
Notes:
1. Exodus 20:13.
2. Mark 12:31.
Article 14
*How Birth-Control Pills and IUD's Kill
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Believe me, I hate to have to tell you this, but you know those birth-control
pills and intrauterine devices (IUD's) that you've been using? They often
work by abortion. They kill a human being. The Pill doesn't always work this
way, but the IUD does.
Fertilization occurs when the sperm enters the egg. According to almost all
doctors, human life begins exactly at this time. The embryo that is formed
begins to grow, and then, between seven and nine days later, he or she
implants on the wall of the uterus (womb). This process of implantation is
called conception.
At this point I need to clarify some terminology. People often say that life
begins at conception, but they equate conception with fertilization. Because
they do not realize that there is a difference between the two, they use the
word conception, but are actually referring to fertilization. Life begins at
fertilization.
All IUD's, and occasionally all birth control pills, work by preventing the
fertilized embryo, which is fully a human being, from implanting on the wall
of the uterus. Thus, the baby has no place to go but out of the mother's body
and, perhaps, to Heaven. The issue of whether he goes to Heaven is somewhat
in dispute, some claiming that he does, some claiming he waits in limbo, and
some admitting that there really isn't any way to know for sure.
The subject matter of the Pill or IUD working by aborting undoubtedly touches
many of you deeply: many of you have used or are using the Pill or the IUD.
You need to keep in mind two things: 1) According to the Bible, you're not
guilty for doing things you didn't know are sinful, and 2) even if you knew,
you'll still get to Heaven if you repent. Since many people don't know what
repent actually means, I'll tell you. It means to turn away from. You must
stop using the Pill or IUD.
The best evidence that you will be forgiven for sinning in ignorance is found
in Luke 23:34. Here, Jesus is hanging on the cross for the sins of all of us,
including His executioners, and He says concerning His executioners, "Father,
forgive them; for they know not what they do." What great news for you and
me! If the Father would forgive the executioners of His Son, surely we can
also be forgiven.
But now that you know what you do, you must no longer do it. For Luke 13:5
tells us, "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish." And Revelation 2:22 says, "Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and
them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent
of their deeds." Adultery, according to my dictionary, means more than
marital infidelity; it also means spiritual infidelity, or disobedience to
God. Lest you feel you can continue to use the Pill or IUD for a while and
then repent, keep in mind 1 Thessalonians 5:2: "For yourselves know perfectly
that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night." Will you be
ready?
*How the Pill works*:[1]
There are three categories of mechanisms through which the Pill accomplishes
its birth-control effects.
1. The activity of the hormones in the Pill tends to suppress
ovulation. I.e., eggs may not be formed.
2. Alterations in the female genital tract, including hostile changes
in the cervical mucus, make it more difficult for the sperm to reach
the egg.
3. The lining of the uterus is altered in such a way that
implantation is made impossible. (Fertilization has already
occurred. Thus, the baby dies from abortion.)
Obviously, if mechanisms one and two fail, mechanism three causes the birth
control. Fortunately, mechanisms one and two succeed between 90 and 98
percent of the time. Unfortunately, the Pill therefore works 2 to 10 percent
of the time by killing a human being. For the average woman using the Pill,
this means that she has about one abortion each year.
Prior to October, 1988, Pills were available that were more than 98% effective
with the first two mechanisms. These Pills, however, caused certain medical
problems for the women who were taking them. Therefore, they were replaced by
the Pills currently in use. It is unknown how many abortions the old Pills
caused per year for the average woman.
*How the IUD works*:[2]
These devices kill by means of the copper or progesterone contained in them,
which interfere with enzymatic processes and therefore implantation of the
baby onto the mother's womb.
*What you can do*:
Obviously, if you are currently using the Pill or the IUD, you can stop. You
can also pray, asking for forgiveness. Then, you can see to it that this
information is distributed to your church congregation. (If *you* don't do
this, nobody else will either.) Although it is perfectly true that all us
Christians will be forgiven for our sins if we repent, this does not mean that
we shouldn't show others that they are sinning. By Jesus's death, our sins
are forgiven, but the fact of forgiveness is *not* a justification for sinning;
it is a grace. Therefore, neither you, I, nor members of our congregations
should sin, knowingly or unknowingly.
People everywhere need to know that the Pill and the IUD kill innocent,
defenseless human life. God said, "Thou shalt not kill,"[3] and "Thou shall
love thy neighbor as thyself."[4] There is no closer neighbor that a mother's
preborn baby.
Even though it would be good to inform your congregation, are you apprehensive
about doing this? Then remember James 4:17: "Therefore, to him that knoweth
to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
Notes:
1. "The Pill and the IUD," a tract by The Couple to Couple League.
2. "Pharmaceutical Companies: The New Abortionists," Human Life International
Reprint 16.
3. Exodus 20:13.
4. Mark 12:31.
Article 15
*The Victims of Abortion: The Baby and the Parents
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Abortion is a legal act, but a heinous crime. It is a crime against God,
against the baby, and against the parents even though at least one of the
parents seeks it.
Often when a woman or girl has gotten pregnant, it was because she knew that
she'd had no need to abstain from sex or to use a birth-control device, and
she knew she had no need because abortion is so readily available. She knew
abortion could be her birth control. Society tells her that abortion is a
simple, painless procedure, and that because it is legal, there is nothing
wrong with it.
The fetus, pro-choice people tell us, is merely a blob, or a mass of
protoplasm, or an obstruction to menstrual flow. It is never a baby. A
pregnant girl who doesn't want a baby will accept that because she doesn't
want her pregnancy to be a baby and because she doesn't think for herself.
She wants her fetus to be a blob. That way she won't be killing someone by
having an abortion. There are many ways to prove that the fetus is an actual
baby, but I think that if the pregnant girl, or even you, would think about it
for a moment, you would find that you just know in your heart that he is. You
know that the baby is a live, human being.
Abortion kills that baby. There are many ways to kill a preborn baby, all of
them painful to the baby. Anesthetics are not used. To use anesthetics would
be to admit that what is being killed is more than a mass of protoplasm.
Those who profit from abortion don't want their victims to know this--it would
cause the abortion providers to lose business.
The primary way of killing a baby is with "suction aspiration." In this
fifteen minute procedure, a powerful suction tube is inserted through the
vagina. The baby is torn to pieces and sucked into a jar. He is then flushed
down the toilet or sink.
A variation on this is used when he is too big to pass through the suction
hose. Instead the abortionists reaches into the womb with his tools and tears
the baby's arms and legs off. When the head is too big to pass through the
undilated vagina, he crushes it. Later, a nurse reassembles the body parts to
make sure none were left inside the woman, and then she throws the remains in
a dumpster. In Los Angeles in 1988, approximately 17,000 dead, mutilated
babies were found in a dumpster.[1]
Salt poisoning is another method. Here, the womb is injected with a saline
solution. The baby chemically burns to death from inside and outside of his
body. His experience may last forty-eight hours, and in some cases he may be
born alive. Usually, this "problem" is then solved by illegal murder. And
why not? The goal was to have a dead baby. That goal was not attained, and
the abortionist knows he won't be prosecuted even for the illegal murder.
I must point out to you something very unexpected: The way, and the only way,
that IUD's work is by abortion, and from two to ten percent of the time this
is also how the birth-control pills work.[2] In these cases the IUD's and pills
do not prevent fertilization, but they abort the formed human being.
If you have been using these devices, you can be forgiven. I believe you will
be forgiven for "knowing not what you do" as Jesus asked for forgiveness of
His executioners (Luke 23:34), and if you have known what you've been doing
but repent (turn away from) you will be forgiven because Jesus says so. See
Luke 13:5 and Revelation 2:22.
You also would like to know that a baby who is aborted because of an IUD or
birth-control pill is too young to feel pain. However, you may feel mental
anguish because of the abortion.
Abortion isn't necessarily easy on the mother. Although many mothers have
abortions and say they have no problems with it, many suffer for a lifetime.
There are both physical and emotional complications.
Some of the physical ones are death, perforation of the uterus, scarring of
the uterus, an increase in (later) tubal pregnancies, sterility, much greater
likelihood of future miscarriages, future Rh difficulties, adherent placenta,
infections, blood clots, and even hepatitis and AIDS from blood transfusions.
Those are physical difficulties of the mother. The future babies, if any, can
also have problems, such as prematurity and low birth weight. Premature
babies have a lower probability of survival than do full-term babies.
Emotional difficulties are also very common after an abortion. The initial
feelings after an abortion may include relief that the "procedure" is over,
but later the mother may learn the truth about what she has done. Then she is
filled with guilt and remorse. She may have child after child to try to make
up for her sin, or she may commit suicide.
Statistics show that suicide among *pregnant* women is extremely rare, but
Cincinnati Suiciders Anonymous reports that 1,800 of its 4,000 women members
have had abortions.[3] Perhaps this would help explain why the suicide rate in
this nation is twice the homicide rate.
There are hundreds of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers affiliated with or run
by the Christian Action Council and Birthright that strive to prevent the
occurrence of victims of abortion, and there are even pro-life organizations
established to help the women victims who have already had an abortion. For
instance in Venus, Texas, there is Women Exploited by Abortion, and in
Nashville, Tennessee is American Rights Coalition. Women exploited by
Abortion is primarily educational. American Rights Coalition, however, offers
more direct help. Through their toll-free hot line, a woman experiencing
either physical or emotional difficulties can get a referral to pro-life
doctors and pro-life attorneys. If there is to be a lawsuit, the only fee is
a percentage of the settlement that the court orders. If the abortion victim
loses, there is no fee.
I've talked about two victims so far, the baby and the mother. Did I leave
anyone out? Society won't hardly let us realize this, but the father is also
a victim. Granted, it is often the father who insists that the mother have an
abortion, but this isn't by any means universal. Often, the father tries to
stop her. Often he feels and knows that the baby is a live, defenseless human
being, his son or daughter. He knows that the act of abortion kills his son
or daughter. And he knows that, besides to argue with the mother, there is
nothing he can do to stop it. Even society in general is against him. They
call it a women's issue and none of his business. Besides, men aren't
supposed to have feelings. And who in society, including social workers,
attorneys, and judges, would ever consider the following choice as appropriate
for the mother: Let the father raise the child. Or if the father is deemed
unfit, what about the almost forgotten choice, adoption? There are
approximately 75 sets of parents on waiting lists to adopt newborns for every
1 newborn available for adoption.[4] Meanwhile, the killing goes on!
Thus, we have seen who the victims of abortion are. God too is a victim.
However, I can't know how He reacts to this sin. Abortion, by the way, is the
leading cause of death in the United States. In the United States more people
(babies) die from abortion than all people do from the next twelve leading
causes of death combined, including heart disease and cancer.[5] The baby death
rate is 1,800,000 per year, or 4,900 per day.[6]
Have you been involved with an abortion? Have you been pro-choice? Don't
worry. Jesus died on the cross *for you*. However, you must remember that you
must believe that He did, *and you must repent*.[7] To repent means to turn away
from. You must turn away from the heinous sin of abortion.
Notes:
1. Los Angeles County Health Department.
2. "HLI REPORTS," April 1990, p. 4.
3. Testimony Cincinnati, Ohio, City Council by The Cincinnati Group of
Suiciders Anonymous.
4. There are many literature sources for this, but because of adoption secrecy
laws, none are accurate. Estimates run from 60 to 300.
5. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
6. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
7. Luke 13:5 and Revelation 2:22
Article 16
*What the Choice of Abortion Really Means
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Choice. What a great word! We can choose chocolate, choose Jesus, or choose
choice prime rib. Our nation's founders gave us choice when they provided for
our freedoms. Our constitution guarantees us freedom of speech, freedom of
religion, and freedom of press. However aren't we, even those of us who
aren't Christians, supposed to use our freedoms responsibly? If we choose
adultery, is that a responsible choice? If we choose abortion, is that a
responsible choice?
Some would say, "Yes." But by far most of these people don't understand what
the choice to abort really means. They don't understand what abortion really
is.
Abortion is the deliberate killing of innocent, defenseless, human life in the
womb. God forgives us sinners, but only if we repent[1]. If you have had an
abortion, helped someone decide to have one, or are pro-choice, you must learn
and accept what abortion really is. You must then confess your sin and repent
(turn away from) now, "for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think
not."[2]
Pro-choice people deny the humanity of the preborn. They consider him to be a
blob, a mass of protoplasm, an obstruction to menstrual flow, a problem, and
most seriously, a part of the woman's body. But if he is a separate life,
abortion kills a human being. The pro-choice people are wrong, the preborn
baby is *not* a part of his mother's body. There are many ways to prove this,
some secular, some Biblical.
For instance, a preborn baby has his own brain, heart, and blood supply. His
blood may be of a different type than his mother's. He always has his
father's chromosomes. How could he be a part of his mother? If the baby is a
boy and *is* a part of his mother's body, then his mother would have to have two
sexes. There are many more secular arguments to prove the separateness, but
I'll give just one more.
Suppose we have a test tube, and in the test tube we fertilize a Black woman's
egg with a Caucasian man's sperm. Then suppose we artificially inseminate an
Oriental woman. Does the preborn baby now have three races? Does the
Oriental woman now have three races? When the baby is born, does he change
back to having two races? Does the Oriental woman change back to having one?
The answers are no, no, no, and no. Therefore, preborn babies are never a
part of their mother's bodies. Therefore, abortion kills a separate human
being.
For scriptural proof of the humanity and separateness of the preborn, I offer
you without comment, but with my own underlining, the following quotes from
the Bible:
"Did not he who made me *in* the womb make them? Did not the same one form us
both *within* our mothers?" Job 31:15 (NIV)
"Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and
sinews." Job 10:11 (NIV)
"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me *in* my mother's womb."
Psalms 139:13 (KJV)
"Before I formed you *in* the womb I knew you; *before* you were born I sanctified
you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV)
"For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the
*babe* leaped in my womb for joy." Luke 1:44 (KJV)
Thus, we see that without question the preborn baby is a human being, and not
merely a part of his mother's body. Besides, you already knew this in your
heart.
I must point out to you something very unexpected: The way, and the only way,
that IUD's work is by abortion, and from two to ten percent of the time this
is also how the birth-control pills work.[3] In these cases the IUD's and pills
do not prevent fertilization, but they abort the formed human being.
If you have been using these devices, you can be forgiven. I believe you will
be forgiven for "knowing not what you do," as Jesus asked for forgiveness of
His executioners (Luke 23:34), and if you have known what you've been doing
but repent (turn away from) you will be forgiven because Jesus says so. See
Luke 13:5 and Revelation 2:22.
For a moment, let's not consider what the fetus is. Let's just say that
someone removes him from the womb. He will now die, no matter whether he's
human or was a part of his mother. Removed appendixes die, removed tumors
die, and removed fetuses die.
Therefore, if the preborn is a human (and we have shown that he is), he dies.
A human being dies. More completely, since his death is brought on purposely,
he is murdered.
This is abortion; this is a woman's choice. However, there is even more to
abortion.[4] What about the pain the baby has when he is being killed?
Although he is incapable of feeling pain if aborted by the IUD or birth-
control pill, in many other abortions he does feel it. The most common way of
killing him is to tear off his arms and legs by suction or with forceps. In
later-term abortions his skull is crushed to make him fit through the vagina.
Anesthetics are never used on the baby.
And the mother suffers too. There are many physical and emotional
complications to abortion. Sometimes even her death occurs, and very often a
woman will realize too late what she has actually done. The emotional scars
may never heal.
Even Planned Parenthood, the nation's and world's largest provider of
abortions says that abortion hurts nine out of ten women who have one.[5]
And let us not forget about fetal research. This is far more than just
research on already dead babies. Research, financed by the drug companies,
begins in the womb. "And why not?" they would reason. "After all, if
abortion is legal, then there can't be anything wrong with disturbing the
fetus." So they do their drug testing. Often, when the baby is to be
aborted, he is, without the knowledge of his mother, purposely born alive.
Then he is secreted away into a remote part of the hospital where the research
can continue until it kills him or he is murdered. It must be one or the
other: Officially he never existed.
So now we all know what abortion really is. I'm all for choice, but not this
choice. Let the woman choose not to have sex. Let her choose to use a
condom. But God said, "Thou shalt not kill," and he meant it. Let her not
choose to kill. Let her choose to raise her baby, to let him be adopted, or
to let his father have him.
And if you have been pro-choice, let you choose to understand, accept,
confess, and repent. For Mark 12:30,31 tells us, "And thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,
and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is
like, namely this, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none
other commandment greater than these." And there is no neighbor closer to a
woman than her preborn baby.
Notes:
1. Luke 13:5 and Revelation 2:22.
2. Luke 12:40
3. "HLI REPORTS," April 1990, p. 4.
4. Information available in hundreds of medical books.
5. Planned Parenthood's Department of Education <3-Year Plan and Long Range
Program Goals 1990 - 1993>, written in 1989.
Article 17
*The Abortion Industry: Megabucks from Megadeaths
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
"Megadeaths? Be serious," you might be saying. "I know abortion has been
around awhile, but it's legal, it's just a procedure. What are you talking
about?"
Abortion was legalized by the "Supreme" Court in 1973, and since that time
32,000,000[1] babies have been killed by abortion in the United States. The
current death rate in the United States is approximately 1,800,000[1] per year.
There are several other ways to express these statistics:[2] 32,000,000 is
approximately the population of our 22 least populated states; 1 in 3.5
pregnancies end in abortion[3]; one in eight Americans have been killed by
abortion; we have 4,900 abortions per day; it would take 25,600 football
fields, not counting end zones, to bury all the bodies six feet apart[4]; if
one telephone pole represented one death, we would have to encircle the Earth
58 times to represent the US deaths from abortion[5]; although almost totally
preventable, abortion is the leading cause of death in the US, exceeding the
next twelve causes combined, including heart disease and cancer[6]; abortion
has killed 28 times more Americans than Americans were killed in all of our
wars combined[7]; abortion causes 46% of the deaths and lowers the life
expectancy of Americans from approximately 75 to 41.[8]
This is Megadeath.
Now, what about the Megabucks? The abortion industry is big, big business,
grossing well over one billion dollars annually. While not all of the
abortion-giving organizations exist to make a profit, many do. Much of the
income comes from you. You pay taxes to kill babies. In California, for
example, state taxes pay for more than 100,000 deaths annually.[9]
This, unfortunately, is merely the tip of the iceberg. Other sources of money
are the mothers, "charitable" foundations, and the insurance companies. In
1989 the so-called charitable foundations gave $29,000,000 to abortion and sex
education in the US.[10] From the data available, it is impossible to say how
much of this went into abortion and how much into sex education, but generally
speaking it doesn't matter much. Most people think that sex education is a
good thing; they think it prevents pregnancies and therefore decreases
abortions. But it doesn't. Sex education teaches far more than biology and
basic how-to knowledge. Many of the courses also teach our children how to be
sexual, uninhibited, free, loose, and promiscuous. In one example of this,
students, with both sexes together, are forced by peer pressure to brainstorm
the various terms for their bodys' sexual parts. Often, those who refuse to
participate for Christian or any other reasons are expelled from school. As a
result of this program and many others, sex education has had an effect
opposite to what the general public has wanted. There is more evidence of
this later in this article.
Sex education has dramatically increased the pregnancy rate and the abortion
rate. As many of you can remember, teenage pregnancy twenty years ago was
uncommon. That was when sex education programs were just beginning to be
taught in our schools. We all know that now teenage pregnancy is an epidemic
in the United States. The United States has the highest teenage abortion rate
in the world. Information shown later proves that sex education caused this
epidemic.
As I previously said, insurance companies are sources of money for abortion.
Undoubtedly, the reason for this is that it is cheaper for an insurance
company to pay to have a baby killed than to pay for prenatal care for the
mother and then pay for delivery.
There are also other profits from abortion. There is the personal profit of
the abortionists and employees who make their "living" from killing. Also,
many people gain positions of great power, authority, and prestige from their
professional positions. Some of these people educate and lobby our media
representatives, legislators, Parent-Teacher Associations, and school boards,
and more. Undoubtedly, many of these "upstanding" members of our society
obtain considerable job satisfaction from this.
While all the great money takers continually espouse the great "virtues" of
abortion, it is nonetheless true that they would hardly bother to say anything
at all if there was no money to take.
One of the former takers was Carol Everett. She owned a chain of Killing
Centers in Texas, but since those days she has found Jesus and repented. On a
radio interview on January 22, 1990, she said, "I believed I was helping
women, and I honestly thought in the beginning that God had me there to help
those women. The reality was that it was just a money game. Abortion is the
largest uncontrolled industry in this nation today. It is based on the
dollar, and that's all." She went on to say the following in that interview:
You have one abortionist in the California area who blatantly says he
charges $8,000 for what is actually a third-trimester abortion. So,
it's a numbers game. The last month I was in the abortion industry,
we did 545 abortions, and 545 times $2,500, that's $13,625, my income
for the last month I was in the abortion industry. And that was a
bad month. [Note that Ms. Everett made a mistake in her mathematics
and in later years shows an income of approximately $160,000 per
month.] I expected in the year 1983 to make somewhere between 250 and
260 thousand dollars, and in 1984 we were going to expand. We
expected to do 40,000 abortions in 1984, and that would have meant a
million dollars in my pocket.
Later, she talked about the birth-control pill:
We deliberately gave them a low-dose pill with a high rate of
pregnancy, knowing they wouldn't take the pill properly. They would
be sexually active once a week before the pill, five to seven times a
week after the pill. They'd get pregnant, and when they came back,
abortion, abortion, abortion. *You cannot separate family planning
from abortion. The entire agenda of Planned Parenthood, the largest
abortion provider in the nation, is to get our young people sexually
active younger and younger.* We actually wanted to get three to five
abortions out of each teenager between the ages of 13 and 18. It's a
planned agenda. *Contraceptives equal abortion.*
Ms. Everett went on to talk about lying to their patients, telling many of the
ones that weren't pregnant that they were pregnant so that they could sell
them abortions, and, through both physical manipulations of their abdomens and
mental manipulations , scaring the living daylights out of women so that they
would choose to abort. (Is abortion really a woman's choice, or is it the
abortionist's choice?)
Ms. Everett concludes by talking about botched abortions, which she says were
common, and Killing Centers' cover-ups of the problems. The cover-ups, she
said, show the complicity between the law-enforcement community, the medical
community, and the abortionists.
Pro-aborts also get money in other ways. For instance, while America judged
and condemned Adolf Hitler for making lamp shades from the skins of the Jews,
Americans made, sold, and bought paper weights consisting of aborted babies
encapsulated in plastic. A company in Australia makes pendants and earrings
containing actual, small aborted babies.
Another way the greed manifests itself is through fetal experimentation.
Fetal experimentation, which is a rapidly growing part of abortion, includes
far more than experiments on already-dead babies. It includes experiments on
live babies before they are born and on live babies after they are supposedly
aborted. The live babies, which the mothers usually think are dead abortions,
are secreted away to some remote corner of the hospital where drug-testing and
other experiments, begun on him before his birth, are continued. A test
lasts until the baby dies from it or until he is no longer wanted. He is then
murdered. As you might expect, this too results in the exchange of Megabucks.
I ask you, what do we really have here? Abortion, a Woman's Choice? or The
Abortion Industry, Megabucks from Megadeaths?
Notes:
1. A figure accepted as approximately correct by pro-life and pro-abortion.
2. A few of the figures are referenced below; a few are calculated by the
author from the referenced figures.
3. The *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992* (for 1988 data), page
75, shows that the national average abortion rate was 401 abortions for every
1000 live births, and the California abortion rate is 594 abortions per 1000
live births. The 401 of 1,401 *pregnancies* is equal to 1 in 3.49.
4. A football field is 100 yards by 160 feet.
5. For telephone poles 240 feet apart.
6. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
7. US Census Bureau statistics.
8. By personal calculation from statistics in Note 6 plus figure of 1,800,000
abortions per year, a figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-
life and pro-abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
9. "California ProLife News," March, 1991, P. 6.
10. "Report on Foundational Giving to Abortion and Contraception in the United
States in 1989," by Lynn K. Murphy, p. Tables 3, 4, and 6.
Article 18
*The Pro-Life Movement
Where it is and Where it's Going
Join Us!
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
There have always been pro-life people, but we can only recognize pro-life as
a movement in the United States since about 1970. During the late 60's and
early 70's, there was a growing tendency in some states to allow women to kill
their children in the womb, and in fact abortion laws were considerably
liberalized in Washington (state), California, Colorado, and New York during
these years. As a reaction to that, the pro-life movement began.
At first it was only a small effort. But in 1973 the United States Supreme
Court shocked the nation by decreeing in two court cases that a woman could
kill her preborn baby at any time during her pregnancy and for any reason.
One of these cases was the <Roe v. Wade> decision, reached on January 22, 1973.
By this decision, the "Supreme" Court denied the personhood of the preborn
(which took away all his rights) and permitted abortion during any time of the
pregnancy.[2] The mother could have the abortion provided that the physician
recommended it. He could recommend it for any reason. Pregnancy was divided
into three trimesters (thirds) and it was mandated that there could be no
restrictions on abortion during the first trimester except that it had to be
done by a licensed physician, and that abortions during the second and third
trimesters had to be done by a licensed physician in a hospital.
The <Roe v. Wade> decision, unfortunately, wasn't the only mayhem levied against
Americans by the "Supreme" Court on that scandalous day in 1973. On that same
day, they made their equally infamous <Doe v. Bolton> decision.[4] This decision
decreed that abortion was now the mothers' decision, not the physicians'. In
other words, it expanded the criteria of <Roe v. Wade> to include any reason the
mother would care to give, instead of what the physician would care to give,
regarding her health. A mother would only need to claim that to have the baby
would be a difficulty. Thus her health would be affected; thus she could have
an abortion. She could do this because of alleged problems with money,
emotions, time, job, career, or readiness. In other words, she could now kill
her baby for her own convenience. Furthermore, she could now kill him with a
clear conscience: It was legal.
This type of killing is called abortion on demand, and really means abortion
on request.
As a result of this, pro-life organizations began to pop up. Probably all of
these organizations were Christian based, although there is presently a group
called Atheists for Life. The fastest-growing pro-life group was the National
Right to Life Committee. This group currently has approximately 3,000
chapters and affiliates and an unknown number of members. Of equal virtue,
and perhaps larger, is American Life League, having 56 affiliates and 250,000
members.
These two organizations are by far the largest educational pro-life groups in
the nation. They also have lobbying arms that engage in a considerable amount
of political activity. Another very large group is the Pro-Life Action
League. This group concentrates on education, picketing, and rescue.
There are many functions of pro-life groups. Other than educational and
lobbying functions, there is also counseling and supplying the material needs
of pregnant women, picketing, prayer, blockading, boycotting, adoption, and
lobbying our church leadership to turn them away from death.
The educational function consists of creating and distributing literature to
the media and the general public, and holding public events to show the people
and the lawmakers that millions of people are pro-life. For example, on the
seventeenth anniversary of <Roe v. Wade>, pro-lifers held a rally at the
Washington Monument. Approximately 350,000 people showed up. This was the
biggest political rally the United States had ever seen.
Lobbying activities include drafting pro-life legislation for introduction to
the state and federal legislatures, filing legal briefs for court cases,
lobbying legislators about pro-life and pro-abortion bills, and encouraging
pro-life people to run for political office and helping them campaign.
Counseling is perhaps the largest pro-life activity. The primary counseling
organizations are the Crisis Pregnancy Centers, operated by the Christian
Action Council, and Birthright. These agencies typically provide tests to
determine whether a woman or girl is pregnant, and then if she is, counseling
to try to convince her not to kill her baby. As a part of this, the
counseling organizations try to meet the mothers' needs. Since abortion is
legal for any reason at any time, the mother can choose to kill her preborn
baby for any reason, no matter how trivial. For instance, she may not be able
to afford maternity clothes or baby clothes. If this is a particular woman's
meed, the counselors give these to her. Or she may have been told by her
husband or boyfriend that he would kick her out of the home if she didn't have
a abortion. So the counselors find a home she can live in for free for a
while.
Although Birthright and Crisis Pregnancy Centers handle other people's crises,
they have their own, that being money. Whereas Planned Parenthood and others
who kill our children get well over $100,000,000 per year of your tax money to
do this, neither the counseling centers nor any pro-life groups are entitled
to support by the taxpayers. If we had $100,000,000 for just one year,
through education we could probably convince enough voters and legislators to
end abortion that year.
Pro-life groups also picket. This is usually done at the Killing Centers,
which, by the way, are probably located in *your* neighborhood. Picketing is
usually done on kill days. (Fortunately, not every "clinic" kills every day.)
Occasionally, we also picket the homes of the abortionists. Often, we will
even picket with children who are carrying a small casket.
A part of picketing includes prayer. We pray not only that there be no
killing, but we pray for the salvation of the mothers, the clinic operators,
and the abortionists. The clinic operators and the abortionists often demand
that we stop this.
Pro-life also blockades. Also called rescue, blockading is an extension of
picketing to actually physically putting our bodies between the abortionist
and his or her intended victim. The scriptural basis for blockading comes to
us from Proverbs 24:11, "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those
staggering toward slaughter." (NIV). The largest rescue group is Operation
Rescue.
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Rescue is the by far the most confrontational pro-life activity, and it often
results in trespassing arrests, jail terms, and fines. Recently in Portland,
Oregon, individual members of Advocates for Life were ordered via a civil suit
to pay $8,000,000 to a Killing Center for punitive damages. Naturally, the
pro-lifers will not pay--their money would go toward killing. Because of
heavy fines and jail terms, the rescue movement is weakening, but it is still
a long way from ending. The resolve to rescue is still very strong.
Boycotting within the pro-life movement is in its infancy, and a great deal
more needs to be done. Many corporations and foundations give money to death.
Perhaps worse, almost every medical-insurance company pays for abortions.
Their reasoning is that it is cheaper to kill (my term) the baby than to
provide the longer-term care needed to bring him out alive. The pro-life
movement severely needs a large, Christian network that will keep its members
informed on whom to boycott.
Pro-life activism in adoption mostly takes the form of referrals to adoption
agencies and attorneys. The reason for this is that the structure for getting
babies adopted has always existed and will continue to exist without the help
of already-overworked pro-life volunteers. The two primary settings from
which pro-lifers refer are counseling centers and the Killing Centers where
we picket and blockade.
Unfortunately, one necessary (but mostly absent) pro-life activity is lobbying
our church leadership to be pro-life. Incredibly, many denominations have
officially abandoned God's commandments not to kill and to love your neighbor
as yourself. (There is no closer neighbor to a mother than her preborn baby.)
Sometimes they haven't abandoned scripture, but rather do not understand that
the preborn baby is an actual, live human being. Instead, they have accepted
the pro-abortion rhetoric that he is merely a blob or a mass of protoplasm.
* Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1991. Co-sponsors:
Robert Packwood and Brock Adams.
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In addition, the church leadership is also afraid to be controversial and
thereby lose membership. But isn't it a sin to allow, and sometimes even to
encourage your church members to kill each other? I ask that you pray that
God forgives them, for they know not what they do.
Although pro-life organizations work mostly in anti-abortion, they also work
against infanticide and euthanasia. Infanticide, the killing of already-born
babies, is a growing problem. Some of the murders are done as part of
abortion procedures where the baby is removed from the womb alive to simplify
the procedure, and then killed, and some are done where the baby is removed
alive so that drug experiments can be done on him. If the experiments don't
kill him, the doctors will kill him when the child becomes unwanted. They
have to: He doesn't legally exist.
Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of older, born humans that other humans
decree have insufficient reason to live. The pro-euthanasia movement is
presently in its infancy, but it is gaining strength rapidly. One of its
magnanimous dangers is that, just as the "justifications" for abortion
expanded to "justify" infanticide, euthanasia will certainly expand to include
those people who are in some way objectionable to whoever is in charge.
Euthanasia is, of course, what Adolf Hitler practiced. Time will tell who
will be on the hit list in America. Will it be Republicans? the elderly?
Christians? those who harm the environment? you?
Pro-life needs *your* help. There are many, many types of functions you can
fulfill, and there are many organizations that want *you*. Below is a partial
list which includes what these organizations do. Most people who choose to
help choose to belong to a pro-life organization and work through it. The
table below is a list of the major pro-life organizations in the United
States. If you would like to join one of these organizations, do not be
dismayed that they are far from you: Some have many branch offices or
affiliates. The four that have the most of these are American Life League,
National Right to Life, Christian Action Council, and Birthright.
*Pro-Life Organizations and What They Do*
Y = yes blank = no B = yes for Before-birth counseling P = yes for Post-abortion counseling
*Educate* *Politics* *Counsel* *Picket* *Rescue * *Adpt_Refrl* *Chrch_Lobby*
American Life League, Inc. Y Y Y
Phone: 703 659-4171
P. O. Box 1350
Stafford, VA 22554
Bethany Christian Services Y B P Y
1 800 BETHANY or 616 459-6273
901 Eastern NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Birthright Y B Y
1 800 848-5683
686 N. Broad
Woodbury, NJ 08096
Christian Action Council Y Y Y Y Y
including Crisis Pregnancy Counseling
Phone: 703 237-2100
101 W. Broad St., Suite 500
Falls Church, VA 22046
Concerned Women of America Y Y B Y
Phone: 202 488-7000
122 C Street NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20001
Human Life International USA Y Y Y Y
Phone: 301 670-7884
7845 E. Airpark Road
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
John Cardinal O'Conner's Y B P Y
Respect Life Program
Phone: 914 693-4345
1 Cross Road
Ardsley, NY 10502
National Pro-Life Religious Council Y Y Y
Phone: 202 626-8800 (same as below)
419 7[th] St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
National Right to Life Y Y P Y Y Y
Phone: 202 626-8800
419 7[th] St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
Operation Rescue Y Y Y
Phone: 803 821-8441
P. O. Box 27
Summerville, SC 29484
Pro-Life Action League Y Y Y Y
Phone: 312 777-2900
6160 N. Cicero #210
Chicago, IL 60646
Do *not* volunteer at Planned Parenthood!
Article 19
*What *You* Can Do about Abortion
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Abortion became legal in the United States in 1973, and since that time
32,000,000 babies have been killed here.[1] And there is something *you* can do
about it. The things you can do can be broken down into two categories, how
you could participate in established organizations and how you can act on your
own.
Aside from material in the Bible, my favorite quotation is "Everyone said,
'Somebody has got to do something about that!' Then I realized that *I* am
somebody."
The various pro-life organizations have many functions: educational,
political/lobbying, counseling and supplying the material needs of pregnant
women, picketing, prayer, blockading, boycotting, adoption, and lobbying our
church leadership to turn them away from death.
The educational function consists of creating and distributing literature to
be given to the media and the general public, and in holding public events to
show the people and the lawmakers that millions of people are pro-life. For
example, at a pro-life rally held at the Washington Monument, approximately
350,000 people showed up. This was the largest political rally the United
States had ever seen.
Political activities include drafting pro-life legislation for introduction to
the state and federal legislatures, filing legal briefs for court cases,
lobbying legislators about pro-life and pro-abortion bills, and encouraging
pro-life people to run for political office and helping them campaign.
Counseling is perhaps the largest pro-life activity. The primary counseling
organizations are the Crisis Pregnancy Centers, operated by the Christian
Action Council, and Birthright. These agencies typically provide tests to
determine whether a woman or girl is pregnant, and then if she is, counseling
to try to convince her not to kill her baby. As a part of this, the
counseling organizations try to meet the mothers' needs by providing them with
maternity clothing, vitamins, a temporary home when necessary, and much more.
Pro-life groups also picket. This is usually done at the Killing Centers,
which, by the way, are probably located in *your* neighborhood. Picketing is
usually done on kill days. (Fortunately, not every "clinic" kills every day.)
Occasionally, we also picket the homes of the abortionists. Often, we will
even picket with children who are carrying a small casket.
A part of picketing includes prayer. We pray not only that there be no
killing, but we pray for the salvation of the mothers, the clinic operators,
and the abortionists. The clinic operators and the abortionists often demand
that we stop this.
Pro-life also rescues. Also called blockading, rescuing is an extension of
picketing to actually physically putting our bodies between the abortionists
and his or her intended victim. The scriptural basis for rescue comes to us
from Proverbs 24:11, "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those
staggering toward slaughter." (NIV).
Boycotting within the pro-life movement is in its infancy, and a great deal
more needs to be done. Many corporations and foundations give money to death.
Most of this money goes to Planned Parenthood.
Pro-life activism in adoption mostly takes the form of referrals to adoption
agencies and attorneys. The reason for this is that the structure for getting
babies adopted has always existed and will continue to exist without the help
of already-overworked pro-life volunteers.
Unfortunately, one necessary pro-life activity is lobbying our church
leadership to be pro-life. Incredibly, many denominations have officially
abandoned God's commandments not to kill and to love your neighbor as
yourself. (There is no closer neighbor to a mother than her preborn baby.)
Sometimes they haven't necessarily abandoned scripture, but rather do not
understand that the preborn baby is an actual, live human being. Instead,
they have accepted the pro-abortion rhetoric that he is merely a blob or a
mass of protoplasm.
In addition, the church leadership is also afraid to be controversial and
thereby lose membership. But isn't it a sin to allow, and sometimes even to
encourage your church members to kill each other? We pray that God forgives
them, for they know not what they do. We hope that you join us in that prayer
and in praying that they repent.
Pro-life desperately needs *your* help in saving life. Please join one of the
groups shown below. This is an alphabetical list of a few organizations and
indications of what they do. Because some of the activities above, such as
prayer and boycott, are done automatically by all of us, they are not included
below.
Most people who choose to help choose to belong to a pro-life organization and
work through it. The table below is a list of the major pro-life
organizations in the United States. If you would like to join one of these
organizations, do not be dismayed that they are far from you: Some have many
branch offices or affiliates. The four that have the most of these are
American Life League, National Right to Life, Christian Action Council, and
Birthright.
*Pro-Life Organizations and What They Do*
Y = yes blank = no B = yes for Before-birth counseling P = yes for Post-abortion counseling
do I want a title?
*Educate* *Politics* *Counsel* *Picket* *Rescue * *Adpt_Refrl* *Chrch_Lobby*
American Life League, Inc. Y Y Y
Phone: 703 659-4171
P. O. Box 1350
Stafford, VA 22554 THIS IS THE SAME TABLE AS JUST EARLIER PAGE. SOMETHING HAS TO GO.
Bethany Christian Services Y B P Y
1 800 BETHANY or 616 459-6273
901 Eastern NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Birthright Y B Y
1 800 848-5683
686 N. Broad
Woodbury, NJ 08096
Christian Action Council Y Y Y Y Y
including Crisis Pregnancy Counseling
Phone: 703 237-2100
101 W. Broad St., Suite 500
Falls Church, VA 22046
Concerned Women of America Y Y B Y
Phone: 202 488-7000
122 C Street NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20001
Human Life International USA Y Y Y Y
Phone: 301 670-7884
7845 E. Airpark Road
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
John Cardinal O'Conner's Y B P Y
Respect Life Program
Phone: 914 693-4345
1 Cross Road
Ardsley, NY 10502
National Pro-Life Religious Council Y Y Y
Phone: 202 626-8800 (same as below)
419 7[th] St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
National Right to Life Y Y P Y Y Y
Phone: 202 626-8800
419 7[th] St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
Operation Rescue Y Y Y
Phone: 803 821-8441
P. O. Box 27
Summerville, SC 29484
Pro-Life Action League Y Y Y Y
Phone: 312 777-2900
6160 N. Cicero #210
Chicago, IL 60646
Do *not* volunteer at Planned Parenthood!
If you were to become associated with any of these organizations there would
be functions you could fulfill: secretarial, clerical, telephone, filing,
picketing, blockading, making signs, fundraising, prayer, research, activating
churches, writing letters, educating the media, counseling, and many more.
Even if you choose not to join an organization, there is still much that you
can do: pray, learn, educate, activate your church, organize others, write to
your doctors and legislators, write letters to the editor of your newspaper,
start a crisis pregnancy center, collect baby and maternity clothes, offer you
home as a temporary shelter for a pregnant woman who has been ejected from her
own home because she won't have an abortion, speak at your business or civic
club or schools, lobby your school board to stop teaching abortion, run for a
position on your school board or other, put pro-life books in school and
public libraries, pass out tracts to students as they enter or leave their
campuses, provide a billboard, lobby a "charitable" foundation or corporation
to stop giving money to abortion, and more. Many pro-life organizations do
these things and you can do them with them, or you can do them on your own.
Your help is desperately needed. Furthermore, God practically commands you to
help. He says,
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering
toward slaughter. Proverbs 24:11 (NIV)
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not
himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worth of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much
is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
committed much, of him they will ask the more. Luke 12:47-48 (KJV)
Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin. James 4:17 (KJV)
Notes:
1. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
Article 20
*How Abortions Are Done
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Abortion is the number-one cause of death in the United States. More people
die of abortion than from the next twelve causes of death combined[1]. This
includes heart disease and cancer. Annually, 1,800,000 of our children are
killed.[2] This article explores the methods used to kill them.
The method chosen depends primarily upon the age of the preborn baby.
Abortion is legal under all circumstances in the United States and during the
*entire* nine months of the pregnancy right up to the moment that natural birth
would occur. Because the size of the baby varies considerably during the
pregnancy, methods used to kill the newly formed babies are different from the
methods used to kill the older ones.
In the very early-term abortions, the method of choice is Menstrual
Extraction. These abortions are often done before a woman, if pregnant, would
be able to produce a positive pregnancy test. The procedure is to insert a
suction tube into the uterus (womb) and vacuum out the life. The suction is
twenty-nine times more powerful than a home vacuum cleaner.
In later abortions, those up to three months, the preferred method is Suction
Aspiration. This is similar to Menstrual Extraction, except here the baby is
too large to fit through the suction tube. Also, the placenta has formed.
(The placenta, later called afterbirth, is the supplier of nutrients to the
baby and the receiver of wastes from the baby.) The placenta is also too
large to fit through the suction tube. Therefore, a knife-like edge is added
to the tip of the suction tube. To make the baby small enough, suction is
used to tear off his arms and legs, and then the placenta is cut from the wall
of the uterus and sucked away with the body parts. Approximately eighty
percent of all abortions are by this method.
Medical science has proven that the pre-born babies can and do suffer pain at
the age of eight weeks after fertilization. The Suction Aspiration method is
used from the age of two or three weeks through three months, which is
thirteen weeks. Many of the abortions are done before the age of eight weeks,
but since it takes time to for a woman to feel she needs a pregnancy test,
time to schedule one, time to decide whether to have an abortion, and then
time to schedule one, a very great many of the abortions take place after the
age cutoff (eight weeks) when a baby would feel the pain.
Anesthetics are never used on the baby during any kind of abortion.
Therefore, annually in the US well over 1,000,000 babies suffer excruciating
pain during their deaths.
After the age of three months, kills are made by several methods. One of
these is a Prostaglandin Abortion. Prostaglandin is a chemical developed and
sold by Upjohn Company, and it causes the mother to have violent contractions
which force the baby out of the uterus.
Somewhat similar is the Salt-Poisoning or Saline Abortion. In this method
salt is injected into the uterus via a long needle stuck through the mother's
abdomen. The salt chemically burns the baby to death inside and outside of
his body. Some of these babies survive this attempt to kill them and are born
alive. The abortionists define these as "complications" or "problems" and
almost always kill them after they are born. Because of these
"complications," Saline Abortions are rare now.
But when a doctor or a drug company wants a live baby to experiment on, he can
still easily get one. This is done with the prostaglandin method described
above. The baby's mother may or may not know that her baby is destined for
experimentation and that the experimentation will continue until the baby dies
or is unwanted and therefore murdered.
Perhaps the favorite killing method of some abortionists is the Digoxin
Induction method. This method requires a little precision, and therefore may
be a day's highlight, a reprieve from the dull, boring routine of slaughtering
by the brute methods. This method involves using ultrasound imaging on the
baby to find his heart and to guide a needle into his heart. The chemical,
digoxin, is injected into his heart to kill him. Then the mother delivers a
dead baby.
Another method is Dilitation and Curettage (D&C). (This does not by any means
mean that all D&C operations are abortions.) The D&C involves cutting up the
baby and the placenta and scraping the results into a basin. Bleeding is
usually profuse. This dismemberment is "necessary" in order to allow passage
of the body parts through the vagina.
Another method is the Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E). This is very much like
the D&C, except that brute force is used instead the butcher knife. The
abortionist inserts his instruments into the uterus and rips the baby's arms
and legs off, snaps his spine, and crushes his skull. After this procedure, a
nurse reassembles the body parts to make sure that none were left inside the
mother.
Pro-choice people call this procedure and the others "a woman controlling *her
own* body" or "a woman's right."
Very-late-term abortions are done by a Hysterotomy, also called Caesarean
Section. These are supposed to be different from the Caesarean sections that
are used to deliver live babies. The mother is supposed to be cut open, the
doctor is supposed to cut the cord, and the baby is supposed to be killed by
strangulation and then removed. But the way it usually works is that the
mother is cut open, the cord cut, and the baby removed. Then he is strangled.
There are also many methods of abortion that *appear* to be only birth control.
One of these is the pill, RU-486. This pill, also called the "morning after
pill" may soon be available in the United States. This is the pill you often
read about in your newspapers. Do not let pro-abortion rhetoric fool you.
This pill is *not* a birth-control pill. It works only by abortion. Although
pro-life people do not want this killer authorized for use in the United
States, the use of this pill would have one good side effect: It might reduce
the abortion rate by allowing the mother to see the result of her abortion.
She would see her small, dead baby in her toilet and then tell her friends
what an abortion really is.
Also, and I hate to tell you this, IUD's (Intrauterine Devices) work only by
abortion. In addition, all birth-control pills work by abortion approximately
two to ten percent of the time. If you have been using these, you can still
be forgiven. I say this for two reasons. If you didn't know what you were
doing, remember that Jesus said on the Cross, speaking about His executioners,
"Father forgive them; for they know not what they do."[3] But if you did know,
then it's still not too late to repent (turn away from). Jesus said, "I tell
you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish,"[4] and "Behold,
I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great
tribulation, except they repent of their deeds."[5] Adultery, according to my
dictionary, means more than marital infidelity, it also means spiritual
infidelity, or disobedience to God. Lest you feel you can continue to use the
Pill or IUD for a while and then repent, keep in mind 1 Thessalonians 5:2:
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief
in the night." Will you be ready?
What do you think of the violence of abortion? What do you think of the fact
that babies never get an anesthetic? Now you can see why I am a pro-life
activist. Would you like to join me? If so call American Life League at
(703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
Abortion deaths from Note 2.
2. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
3. Luke 23:34.
4. Luke 13:5.
5. Revelation 2:22.
Article 21
*Sexuality Education: How it Contributes to Abortion
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
The typical person is unfamiliar with what sex education is all about. If you
ask this person, "What should we do about the record-high teen-pregnancy
rate?" or "What's the answer to stopping abortion?", the answer is almost
always, "We need more sex education--if only our children knew about
contraception, our problems would be mostly solved. They wouldn't get pregnant
and they wouldn't need abortions." That is totally wrong. Not that it has to
be wrong: there are good sex-education courses. Mostly, they teach chastity.
If you would like more information about chastity-type programs that could
be used for your children's schools, call Birthright at 1 800 848-5683.
I remember that twenty-five years ago teenage sex and teenage pregnancy were
very rare. Therefore, so were teen abortions. Twenty-five years ago we
didn't have sex education being taught to our children in school. Now we do,
and now it seems as though about once every month we read about the
astronomical rates of teen sexual activity and abortion.
For instance, one study[1] by the Center for Disease Control showed that in 1970
(the earliest figure available) the percentage of girls having had premarital
sexual intercourse before their sixteenth birthday was 4.6 percent, and that
in 1988, the figure was 25.6 percent. Meanwhile, in 1974, the first full year
that abortion was legal, there were 763,467[2] abortions in the United States,
and in the years since 1987 there have been approximately 1,800,000 per year.[3]
Although I was unable to find figures for how many of the 763,467 abortions
were on teenagers, the pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute reported that
for 1987 25.5 percent of all abortions were on teenagers. 25.5 percent of
1,800,000 is 459,000 abortions by teenagers. Thus, it would be hard to
believe that teen abortion hasn't skyrocketed since abortion was legalized in
1973. *1973 was a year when sex education was being introduced into our
schools at a very fast rate.*
However, since this isn't complete proof, let's see what others have said
about this issue, others who have made special studies of the situation. One
publication[4] says ". . .those who use contraception are more likely than those
who do not to resort to induced abortion." Famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey
noted that ". . . we have found the highest frequency of induced [deliberate]
abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses
contraceptives."[5] In a report to the U.S. House Select Committee on Children,
Youth and Families on Sex Education programs, it was found that pregnancy and
abortion rates are higher among teens who participated in family planning
programs. Those states which spent the most on family planning showed the
largest increases in abortions and births out of wedlock. Those which didn't
participate in these programs had lower rates. States which emphasized sex
education programs found abortion, not contraception, was reducing births
among teens.[6] In 1968, before abortion was legalized, the then-president of
Planned Parenthood, Dr. Guttmacher, said ". . . We find that when an abortion
is easily obtainable, contraception is neither actively nor diligently
used. . . there would be no reward for the woman who practices effective
contraception. . . . Abortion on demand relieves the husband [boyfriend] of
all possible responsibility; he simply becomes a coital animal."[7] (Boyfriend
is my word.) Then, immediately after the <Roe v. Wade> and the <Doe v. Bolton>
Supreme Court cases legalized abortion on demand (request) for any reason and
for any time during the pregnancy, Dr. Guttmacher continued: "We have won a
splendid victory but the enemy, though vanquished is not liquidated . . .
Don't discharge your troops." Then he concluded: "Then how can the Supreme
Court's decision be absolutely secured? The answer to winning the battle for
elective abortion once and for all is Sex Education."
In addition, a current study[8] shows that for every 1,000 girls who take
Planned Parenthood-type sexuality education, 113 get pregnant before marriage,
but for every 1,000 girls getting abstinence sex education, only 4 get
pregnant before marriage.
Planned Parenthood, by the way, is the primary teacher of sex education in the
United States. In addition, it is this organization that has designed most of
the sex-education programs for use in the United States and it teaches the
teachers of the classes. Planned Parenthood teaches contraception in class
and hands out birth-control devices to our children in class, but as we saw
above, the former president of Planned Parenthood said "contraception is
neither actively nor diligently used." Planned Parenthood also provides more
abortions than any other organization in the nation! Can you see the
connection?
Now let's learn about some of Planned Parenthood's sex-education programs.
Mary Calderone is a former Planned Parenthood medical director. She said,
"Mere facts and discussion are not enough. They need to be undergirded by a
set of values."[9] So far so good, but unfortunately they're neither society's
nor Christian values. As one example, in a particular class the teacher had
two kids come forward. She knew the kids were strong Christians, but she
nonetheless gave them a hypothetical scenario that they were supposed to
resolve with the class: He was supposed to have gotten her pregnant. Having
been told all the advantages of having an abortion, they were supposed to
decide that (not whether) abortion was the best answer. But when their answer
was to tell the teacher that each of us has to accept the responsibility of
our own sin, the teacher gave them a failing grade for the exercise. Planned
Parenthood calls this program "Values Clarification."
In their "Peer Facilitation" program, teens with leadership abilities are
recruited and trained to apply pressure on the rest of the children. They do
things like brainstorm terms for penis, breast, intercourse, vagina,
homosexuality, and more.[10] They also watch pornographic films.[11
]
In its "Sensitivity Training" program, Planned Parenthood attempts to break
down your home training by having mixed groups of students discuss "Virginity,
Oral-Genital Sex, Intercourse, Masturbation, Sterility, Group Sex,
Homosexuality, Extra-Marital Relations, Abortion, and Nudity--with
acquaintances, with family, with the opposite sex, with the same sex, and with
close friends."[12] Those members of the group who refuse to change "are
considered non-conformists or deviants."[13] In some schools, failure to
participate in these classes results in the student being suspended from
school.
Planned Parenthood also has a "Role Playing" program, a psycho-therapeutic
technique used to change personalities. In one example of their role-playing,
students are asked to act-out having a discussion with a homosexual. At the
conclusion they are to come to a conclusion of what should be the most
constructive result of the scene. We have already seen that to Planned
Parenthood, to be constructive is not the same thing as to be moral.
In their "Positive Imaging" program, Planned Parenthood tries to establish
guided and fantasy imagery in the students' minds. In one scenario, they are
told to have fantasies involving "sexual feelings about people of the same or
opposite sex, parents, brothers and sisters, old people, animals, nature,
inanimate objects, and almost anything you can imagine."[14] Surely these
fantasies are to involve having sexual activity with these people, or else
they would have never been called "sexual feelings" in the first place. Nor
would they be taught in sex-education classes.
Another difficulty with Planned Parenthood's sex-education programs and those
of most others is their use of terminology. They change the definitions of
terms and phrases. For instance, what to us is actually an innocent,
defenseless preborn baby, is to them a blob, a mass of protoplasm, or an
obstruction to menstrual flow. Or how about the term "pregnancy prevention"?
That's preventing fertilization, right? Not necessarily. It can also mean
the prevention of the *continuation* of a pregnancy. For example, teenager
Janet gets pregnant. She wants the baby. There is no problem yet. She
changes her mind (often with the help of Planned Parenthood); she doesn't want
him. Now she has an unwanted pregnancy. Now the pregnancy is prevented: She
has an abortion.
Thus, we have seen something of what sex education is like in America. Is it
any wonder that, contrary to public opinion, more sex education has increased
sexual activity and abortion? For the most part, our nation's sex-education
classes do not stop with merely teaching biology and basic sexual functions.
They go on (and on and on) teaching our children to be free, loose, easy,
sexual, and promiscuous. And remember what the former president of Planned
Parenthood said: ". . . We find that when an abortion is easily obtainable,
contraception is neither actively nor diligently used." The end to that
statement surely should be, ". . . abortion is used instead."
Is it any wonder that abortion is the number-one cause of death in the United
States, outstripping the next twelve causes combined?[15]
Notes:
1. *Contra Costa Times*, Jan 5, 1991, p. 1B.
2. "Abortion Surveillance," Center for Disease Control.
3. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life
and pro-abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal
abortions.
4. *Abortion*, Malcolm Potts, p. 491.
5. "Abortion in the United States," Alfred Kinsey.
6. "The Forum", p. 3, November, 1991. "The Forum" Address is P.
O. Box 1258, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
7. Symposium; March 27, 1968; "Rutgers Law Review," Vol. 22.
8. *Has Sex Education Felled our Teenagers?"*, Dinah Richard
9. Calderone and Johnson, p. 226.
10. "Peer Education in Human Sexuality," Planned Parenthood of
Metropolitan Washington, p. 16.
11. *Grand Illusions, The Legacy of Planned Parenthood*, George
Grant.
12. Eleanor S. Morrison and Miln Underhill Price, *Values in
Sexuality* (New York: Hart Publishing Company and A & W
Publishers, 1974), p. 100.
13. Sandalyn McKasson, "Sex and Seduction in the Classroom," in
Richie Martin, ed., <Judgment in the Gate: A Call to Awaken the
Church> (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1986), p. 97.
14. "What is Sexual Fantasy?" *What's Happening* (Atlanta: Emory
University, Grady Memorial Family Planning Program, 1976), p. 4.
15. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page
82, for 1989. Abortion deaths from note 3.
Article 22
*How Abortion is the American Holocaust
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
The answer to this can be explained in two ways. One is by showing the deaths
that abortion has caused; another is by comparing abortion in the United
States to what we all already know was a holocaust, the Nazis' killing of the
Jews.
Abortion was legalized by the "Supreme" Court in 1973, and since that time
32,000,000 babies have been killed by abortion in the US. The current death
rate in the US is approximately 1,800,000 per year.[1]
There are several other ways to express these statistics:[2] 32,000,000 is
approximately the population of our 22 least-populated states; 1 in 3.5
pregnancies end in abortion[3]; one in eight Americans have been killed by
abortion; we have 4,900 abortions per day; it would take 25,600 football
fields, not counting end zones, to bury all the bodies six feet apart[4]; if
one telephone pole represented one death, we would have to encircle the earth
58 times to represent the US deaths from abortion[5]; although almost totally
preventable, abortion is the leading cause of death in the US, exceeding the
next twelve causes combined, including heart disease and cancer[6]; abortion
has killed 28 times more Americans than Americans were killed in all of our
wars combined[7]; abortion causes 46% of the deaths and lowers the life
expectancy of Americans from approximately 75 to 41.[8]
I call this an American Holocaust! Other people call it "choice" or a
"woman's right."
One concern people sometimes have about abortion is that, they feel, if we
hadn't had abortion, the US population would now be 32,000,000 higher. That
is absolutely incorrect. Ninety-eight percent[1] of all abortions are for the
purpose of birth control. If abortions had never been made legal, therefore,
something approaching 98% of 32,000,000 babies would never have been conceived
in the first place. 98% of 32,000,000 is 31,360,000 babies.
As we all know, Germany had their own holocaust. Approximately 6,000,000
Jews, Gypsies, and others were executed. These executions were not, however,
merely at the hands of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Just as the majority of
today's Americans ignore abortion, the typical German in Hitler's era ignored
the execution of the Jews.[9] Thus, both their murders and ours are more than
at their leaders' hands, but are also the responsibilities of the citizens.
As a matter of fact, just as today we call our killing "choice," the German
masses called their killings "selection." The word "selection" was one of the
words deliberately used to disguise the fact that the Jews were being
exterminated. The word "choice" disguises the fact that abortion too means
killing.
There are dozens of other parallels between us today and Germany then. For
instance, consider how the two holocausts became legal. They both became
legal because the victims were relegated to a non-human or a sub-human status.
In May, 1923, Adolf Hitler said, "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but not
human."[10] Franz Stangl, former commandant of the Treblinka Killing Center
said in 1971, "It had nothing to do with humanity--it was a mass. I rarely
saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass."[11] In America, one of
many people who dehumanized the preborn baby was Columbia University
sociologist Dr. Amitai Etzioni, who said the fetus is "not alive, not human,
and basically a piece of tissue"[12] and that any preborn within four and one-
half months of fertilization is in the "subhuman stage." I personally have
seen miscarried fetuses at age three months, and they look just like born
babies, but smaller. Nonetheless, Etzioni's opinions and others' swayed the
morally corrupt minds of the "Supreme" Court to decree in their decision which
legalized abortion that the preborn are not persons.
That they are not persons is a strange concept for "justifying" abortion. The
"justification" comes from the US Constitution, Amendment 16, which I hereby
quote in part: ". . . nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty,
or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of laws." Notice the word "person." If
you're not a person, you can be denied life.
Here are a few of many more comparisons:
*Quotations from Nazi Germany* *Quotations from Contemporary America*
"Fifty-nine thousand persons were evacuated by "The uterus was evacuated." (Dr. David Edelman &
July 31." (Warsaw, Poland, 1942) colleagues, 1974)
"The Baron de Hirsch ghetto would have to be "The uterine cavity was emptied." (Dr. A.K.
emptied." (Max Merten, 1943) Mukerjee, 1973)
"The removal of the Jewish element." (Hans "Remove the products of conception." (Dr. Thomas
Frank, 1943) Dillon & colleagues, 1974)
"The treatment was administered to the "Abortion as a treatment for the sexually
children of the Harr-Eglfing Institution." transmitted disease of unwanted pregnancy."
(Dr. Pfannmuller, 1945) (Dr. Willard Cates & colleagues, 1976) My note:
It is interesting that when the pregnancy *is*
wanted, it is no longer a disease.
"The authority of physicians is enlarged to "The abortion decision in all its aspects is
include the responsibility for according a inherently and primarily a medical decision and
'mercy death (to) incurables.'" (Hitler's basically responsibility for it must rest with the
Euthanasia Order, September, 1939. physician." (US Supreme Court, <Roe v. Wade>)
"The physician is merely an instrument as in "The physician is only the instrument of her
the case of an officer who receives an order." decision." (Dr. Bernard Nathanson, 1974) He was an
(Dr. Karl Brant, Doctor's Trial, 1947) abortionist but is now a great pro-life leader.
"The accused did not act wrongly because they "I did nothing which was illegal, immoral or bad
were carrying out the laws of the land." medicine. Everything I did was in accordance with
(Hadamar Euthanasia Hospital Trial, 1945) the law." (Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, 1975)
So there we have it, the excuses of both sides. The last one is of particular
interest. There we find the supporters of Jew killing and the supporters of
baby killing equating legality with morality. Often legality and morality are
equal, and that is why most of our laws have been passed. However, they are
not always equal. Adultery is legal but immoral; homosexuality is legal but
immoral; it is legal to put your parents in a convalescent home and forget
about them, but it is not moral. Killing Jews or babies was/is legal, but it
is not moral.
Is the law supposed to define the morality, or the morality the law? Prior to
the legalization of abortion in the US in 1973, almost everyone considered
abortion to be immoral. Then the "Supreme" Court made its infamous decision.
Now, since abortion is legal, many of us think it is moral. However, prior to
1973 abortion was still exactly what it is today, the killing of a
defenseless, innocent human being. Therefore, notwithstanding the opinion of
five men in a courtroom, abortion is still just as immoral as it has ever
been.
Since 1973 it has been immoral enough times that we could represent the number
of deaths by stringing the cross-shape of telephone poles 55 times around the
Earth!
Notes:
1. Figures accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-abortion
if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
2. A few of the figures are referenced below; a few are calculated by the
author from the referenced figures.
3. The *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992* (for 1988 data), page
75, shows that the national average abortion rate was 401 abortions for every
1000 live births, and the California abortion rate is 594 abortions per 1000
live births. The 401 of 1,401 *pregnancies* is equal to 1 in 3.49.
4. A football field is 100 yards by 160 feet.
5. For telephone poles 240 feet apart.
6. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
7. US Census Bureau statistics.
8. By personal calculation from statistics in Note 6 plus figure of 1,800,000
abortions per year.
9. Personal conversation with Holocaust Center for Northern California. (415)
751-6040.
10. C.C. Aronsfeld, *The Nazi Design Was Extermination, Not Emigration,*,
Patterns of Prejudice" 9 (May-June, 1975):22.
11. Sereny, *Into That Darkness*, p. 201.
12. Amitai Etzioni, "A Review of The Ethics of Fetal Research," Society,
March/April 1976, p. 72.
Article 23
*The Pro-Life Rescue Movement
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Right-to-life people use several methods to save the preborn from destruction.
Among them are prayer, leafletting, advertising, public relations, rallies,
boycotting, picketing, and rescuing. Rescuing is the deliberate, physical
blocking of the doors of a Killing Center. Rescuers get in the way of women
seeking abortions; they get between the mother and the executioner.
The justification of rescue can be found in the Scriptures. Proverbs 24:11
(NIV) says, "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering
toward slaughter."
In spite of this, some theologians maintain that there should be no rescue.
They maintain that to rescue violates trespass laws and that God commands us
to obey man's laws. Rescuers counter by saying that God does not compel us to
obey man's laws when they conflict with God's laws. And we ask those who say
we should always obey man's laws whether these people would trespass by
entering a burning building to rescue a born child from being burned to death.
This question is quite analogous: one of the ways babies are murdered in the
womb is by burning them to death with chemicals.
Rescuing has many facets. First, there is planning. A date and rescue site
must be determined and volunteers must be found. The planning stage is
usually carried out in secret. This is because the rescues are more
successful when they are surprises: The targets are unprepared and the police
aren't staffed-up. Because the rescue organizations have been infiltrated by
pro-aborts, the bulk of the rescuers aren't even told ahead of time where they
will rescue. The planners designate a meeting place just before the time of
the rescue. Pro-lifers show up and are told where the rescue will be, and
then they caravan to the Killing Center.
Some of the volunteers will decide to be at the forefront of the confrontation
and will be willing to be arrested, if necessary, to save a life. They never
purposely get arrested and they never want to get arrested. However, they
have two goals they feel they must meet whether arrested or not: to prevent
killings that day and to shut down the Killing Center permanently. Many of
those arrested have families to support or raise. Nonetheless, both the
lawbreaker and the families agree that the baby's lives must be saved.
Sometimes, the rescuer gets years in prison and thousands of dollars of fines.
Sometimes these fines are to be paid to the Killing Centers. For instance,
Advocates for Life in Portland lost a court case to Planned Parenthood and
were ordered to pay them more than $8,000,000. This money is to come from the
pocketbooks of the individual rescuers. As usual, the pro-lifers decided not
to pay; to pay would cause more murders. Thus, the pro-lifers may go to jail.
At the Killing Center there are more rescue activities than just blockading.
There are peaceful picketing, sidewalk counseling, and, most important,
prayer. Sidewalk counseling is witnessing to the potential victims (the
mothers are victims too) about what they are doing. Witnessing isn't
necessarily religious, and may include offers of assistance and information
about fetal development.
Many times a woman has an abortion because she doesn't understand that her
baby is a human being separate from her own body. Many have never thought
about what the baby actually is. For all they know, it is just a blob or a
mass of protoplasm. This is what pro-abortion people tell them.
And many times the woman has an abortion because her husband or boyfriend
demands it. Often ultimatums are given, ultimatums such as "If you don't have
an abortion, I'm leaving you," or "If you don't have an abortion, you'll have
to move out." Often the rescuer will know of a rent-free home that the mother
can live in temporarily.
At every well-organized rescue, there are people who have certain functions.
An overall leader coordinates activities. One person is assigned to talk with
the police, if the police are willing to talk. And one person is designated
to interact with the press. This is a very important function. The press is
almost always pro-abortion, and the Killing Center's personnel and the police
are often interviewed. Since the press is pro-abortion, it's quite natural
that they would write their stories as though the pro-life people are
criminals and anti-women. That's one reason the rescuers have a person
assigned to meet the press. Another reason is to get the pro-life message
publicized.
When possible, the pro-abortion people take countermeasures against rescues.
Often, they infiltrate pro-life groups to learn about plans. When they
succeed with this, they have people show up to harass the pro-lifers.
Many times these people are paid to do this harassing--they are employees of
the Killing Centers. Also many times these pro-abortion harassers are
recruited by advertising in newspapers. Much of the money to pay them comes
from your taxes and from "charitable" foundations.
Rescuers are *never* violent, even when attacked.
Presence at a rescue can be exciting, and dangerous. For instance, pro-
abortionists, perhaps because they are generally unchristian, sympathize
considerably with homosexuals. They "morally" support them, and the gays
"morally" support the killing. One way the gays do this is to show up at the
rescues. On several occasions these homosexuals, many of whom have AIDS, have
charged into the masses of rescuers and bitten them.
So why do the rescuers go on? Why do they struggle with the danger, the jail
terms, the fines, and the losses of their incomes? The main reason is that
they feel called upon by God to do their fine work.
Article 24
*Reasons Women Give for Aborting
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing more
people than the next twelve causes combined.[1] This includes heart disease and
cancer. Every year in the United States 1,800,000 babies are killed by
abortion.[2] What do you think some of the reasons are that women give for
having their abortions? "I wanted to kill?" "All my friends do it?" "I
didn't know I was killing?" There are many reasons that women give, and
intertwined with them are severe problems with reasoning and semantics. But
most important, every reason ignores the fact the every abortion kills a human
being.
In 1973 the United States "Supreme" Court legalized abortion in every state
and territory for *any* reason the mother would give and for *any* time during the
pregnancy. (I put "Supreme" in quotes because only God is Supreme.) More
recently, several states have passed legislation that severely restricts
abortion. Mostly, these laws are not effectual. The laws made by the
"Supreme" Court are the ones that control abortion. Therefore, in any state,
as soon someone tries to enforce one of the states' restrictive abortion laws,
it is challenged in court instead of being enforced. Eventually the
challenges will reach the "Supreme" Court, and it will decide the legality of
the states' laws. In the meantime, the states' laws will be unenforceable.
In 1973 the "Supreme" Court ruled in two cases, <Roe v. Wade> and <Doe v. Bolton. >
The overall effect of their two rulings is that nobody can be denied an
abortion. This is called abortion on demand, which means abortion on request,
and is different from a therapeutic abortion, which is one to save the life of
the mother. The key wording in the Court's decision provides that the
mother's mental well-being should not be jeopardized by carrying or bearing a
child. In effect, what this translates into is that a mother can merely say
to an abortionist something like, "I want an abortion because I don't want to
be inconvenienced by being pregnant."
Actually, she doesn't even have to give a reason. If any reason legally
justifies the abortion, then there is no point in even asking why she is
having one.
It needs to be clarified that, for the most part, women don't give as a
reason, "I want to kill." This is because most of them don't even realize
that killing is the issue. They have been told in their sex-education classes
and told by your newspaper and television that the preborn baby is a blob, a
mass of protoplasm, an obstruction to menstrual flow, an "it," or a problem.
Therefore, to them having an abortion is not killing. Were they told the
truth, abortion might be cut to 1% of today's level.
The truth revolves around whether the preborn baby is human, but it revolves
more around the issue of whether he is *separate* from the mother. For the most
part he isn't considered human because he is considered a part of the mother's
body. This is demonstrated by the well-used slogan that pro-abortion people
scream at pro-life picketers, "It's part of my body." If he is a part of her
body, then automatically the issue of his humanity is really no issue at all,
and therefore abortion may not be so bad. However if he is a separate life,
abortion kills a person. Here are a few facts that prove that he is a separate
life:
The preborn has his own brain, his own heart, a separate blood supply that may
be of a different blood type than his mother's, and his father's chromosomes,
and. If he is a boy, he has a penis. So if he is a part of his mother's
body, then she would have two sexes. (Feminists don't like to hear this
argument.)
Several other arguments can be given, but I'll give just one more: Suppose
you fertilize a Black woman's egg with a Caucasian man's sperm in a test tube
and then inseminate an Oriental woman with this. Does the preborn baby now
have three races? Does the Oriental woman now have three races? When the
baby is born, does he change back to having two races? Does the Oriental
woman change back to having one? The answers are no, no, no, and no.
Therefore, preborn babies are never a part of their mother's bodies.
Therefore, abortion kills a separate human being.
Nonetheless, women claim that with abortion they are controlling their own
bodies. This, of course, ignores the fact that they got pregnant in the first
place because they lost control of their bodies.
When a mother comes into the Killing Center to have her baby killed, she does
not give reasons like "I want to control my own body," or "the fetus is not a
person," or "it's my right to choose." The usual reasons regards the fact
that the pregnancy or the baby will inconvenience her. She will say things
such as, "I just don't want a baby right now," or "I'm just not ready," or "I
can't afford a baby," or "It would be embarrassing," or "I don't want to tell
my parents I'm pregnant," or "My boyfriend will dump me if I don't have an
abortion," or "Having a baby will interfere with my plans (career, vacation,
buying a new car, etc)."
However, notwithstanding this mother's ignorance about fetal development, a
logical question to ask is, "Do any of the above reasons justify killing?"
Because God says "Thou shalt *not* kill"[3] and "Love thy neighbor as thyself"[4],
my answer is "No!" There is no neighbor closer to a mother than her preborn
baby. If she "isn't ready," or "can't afford," or "would be dumped," or
"would be embarrassed," etc., then she has other choices besides the choice of
abortion. She can let the father have the baby, she can let the baby be
adopted, or she can keep him in spite of the pressure. We must also keep in
mind that in the future when she has sex, she can choose not to rely on
abortion for her birth control.
Statistics accepted by both pro-life and pro-abortion show that approximately
98% of all abortions are performed because the mother didn't bother to use a
birth-control device; she relied on abortion to get her out of trouble.
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Yet, without realizing it a great many people "justify" *all* abortion on the
basis of the other 2%. The question most often asked of a pro-life activist
is, "If you had a fourteen-year-old daughter and she got raped, wouldn't you
want her to have an abortion?" However, abortions for the reason of rape plus
incest plus the life of the mother plus the handicap of the baby are what
comprise only 2% of all abortions. In fact, pregnancies from rape are, for
stress and other medical reasons, very rare. For example, no pregnancies from
rape were even reported in the entire state of Pennsylvania in the 30 years
from 1937 - 1967.[5]
"However, what about the question?", you ask. Would I want my 14-year old
daughter to have an abortion if she was raped? No! Why punish the baby for
the crime of his father? Would the baby's death apprehend the criminal?
Would it convict him? Would it imprison him? Is the baby guilty of
something?
Occasionally, a mother has an abortion because the baby will be deformed.
There are many problems with killing for this reason. First, the test that
determines whether he will be deformed can kill the baby even if he isn't
deformed. Second, the test is unreliable and doesn't measure the extent of
handicap. Third, the mother has to decide for the baby how deformed is too
deformed. Fourth, by the time the test can be made, abortion is far more
dangerous to the mother than giving birth is.[6] Fifth, the "morality" of
killing deformed preborns comes only from pro-aborts and much of the general
public: Organizations that exist to help handicapped children are against
killing preborn, handicapped babies. Sixth, God said, "Thou shalt *not* kill"
(My underlining). The only excuses for killing are self-defense and
conviction of certain crimes. Seventh, Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor as
thyself." Eighth, Jesus told us time and time again to show compassion on the
needy. He didn't tell us to kill them. This is what the Good Samaritan story
is all about. Replace the injured man in the parable with the handicapped
baby. Shall we help him, or shall we kill him or let his mother kill him?
One of the reasons that mothers almost never give for killing the baby is that
she is later going to abuse him. Yet, this too is a reason society uses to
"justify" abortion. Only extraordinarily rarely do people get abortions for
that reason. And we should also keep in mind that abortion itself is child
abuse, the ultimate child abuse.
One way to summarize some of the reasons women give for killing their children
is to say that they do it because the babies are unwanted. However,
nationally there are about seventy-five sets of parents on waiting lists for
every one newborn baby available for adoption.[7] Furthermore, should we as a
society allow some groups of citizens to kill other citizens just because they
aren't wanted by the first group?
One of the primary questions in the minds of pro-life activists is, "Who's
next?" Will it be the elderly, the under-five year olds, the Republicans, the
Christians? Will it be you?
Notes:
1. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
Abortion deaths from Note 2.
2. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
3. Exodus 20:13.
4. Mark 12:31.
5. "Comments on 'Medication to Prevent Pregnancy after Rape'," William A.
Lynch, MD. National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guild.
6. New York State Medical Society.
7. There are many literature sources for this, but because of adoption secrecy
laws, none are accurate. Estimates run from 60 to 300.
Article 25
*How the Secular Media are Extraordinarily Pro-Abortion
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
The idea that the media always present both sides of issues and do so fairly
is a thought that many people, if not most, accept. But when was the last
time you saw an article on abortion that either didn't obviously sympathize
with abortion proponents or against abortion opponents?
Perhaps the most extraordinary example of media prejudice on abortion, or
perhaps on any subject ever, concerned the 1989 Rally for Life. This event
was held in Washington, DC, at the Washington Monument. One purpose of it was
to show the people, the press, and the politicians how much public support
there was for ending abortion. About 350,000 people showed up. This was the
biggest political rally ever held in the United States.
Pro-life people know that the media is prejudiced and that they lie.
Therefore, at one point in the rally they faced the bleachers holding the
reporters and chanted, "Tell the truth! Tell the truth! . . ." Meanwhile,
CNN reported that the attendance was a mere 60,000, and several others
reported figures near 200,000.
It was the *Washington Post*, however, that was the most odious. It must be
recognized that the *Washington Post* is the newspaper most looked into by our
legislators; it is here that many of them find their "truths" so that they can
decide how to vote. In the previous year, the *Post* covered an abortion-*rights*
rally, giving it extraordinary coverage. Prior to the rally, they published
five stories in five days leading up to the event, published a 6,550-word
cover story in their magazine section, and published a map showing the march
route, road closings, parking, and more. The day after the rally they
published five more stories, with three pictures, and had enough text to fill
three pages. A great deal of the material was on the front page.
The *Washington Post* covered the 1989 pro-life rally with one small article
which they buried in their Metropolitan Section. This section doesn't even
get into all the issues of the paper they sell.
I could fill an entire book with other specific examples, but instead I will
discuss classifications of prejudice. The information below, as well as that
above, is from articles appearing in the *Los Angeles Times* in a series of
articles published from July 1 to July 4, 1990. The articles were written by
David Shaw, and to get this information he interviewed 100 journalists and
activists on both sides of the abortion issue. He says:
The media consistently frame the [abortion] debate in terms that
implicitly favor abortion-rights advocates.
Pro-abortion legislative and political victories are given much more
prominence than are pro-life wins; ditto for rallies and marches.
When events are favorable to the pro-life side they are either
sometimes ignored or given minimal attention by the media.
First Amendment questions as they relate to pro-life activities have
been largely ignored, precisely the kind of issues that the media
ordinarily have been long sensitive to.
Pro-abortionists are characterized more favorably and quoted more
often.
Most of the major papers' opinion-editorial pages run more pro-
abortion commentary by a margin of 2 to 1.
Surveys have shown that between 80 and 90% of reporters favor the
right to abortion.
The United States Constitution, as you know, permits freedom of speech and
freedom of the press. (Press means newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and
more.) However, the freedom to say what you want or print what you want in
the public forum does not imply neutrality. The Constitution does not say
that the press cannot take sides on an issue. Nor does it say that it must
present both sides.
The reader should also note that the media are heavy contributors of money to
Planned Parenthood.
Perhaps the reason the media is so pro-abortion is that they are so closely
tied to needing their own freedom, the freedom of press. They might consider
themselves to be hypocritical to favor one freedom but not all. Yet that
can't be the whole answer, because there are freedoms that they wouldn't want
us to have, like the freedom to choose to kill reporters.
One result of their prejudice is that the pro-life arguments are usual-ly not
printed, and pro-life columnists are not hired or syndicated. The readers,
thinking the media are neutral, have no reason to disbelieve the information
they read, hear, or see. This information is generally that pro-choice is the
only thing that makes any sense.
While news stories of homicides get front-page coverage across the nation at
least once per week, there is essentially no coverage of all the murders of
our preborn children. This is, to some extent, quite understandable. To
include the obituaries of the 4,900 murders by abortion that we have every day
in this nation, the papers would have to have seventy-five pages of obituaries
every day of the year. News stories about the executioners and the health-
"service" organizations that the reporters so dearly love, and news stories
about the mothers would then have to be stuffed into each day's newspaper to
perhaps a thickness of six feet--the depth of a child's grave.
Reporters! Are you listening?
Article 26
*Fetal Development
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Incredible as it may seem, most mothers who have abortions do not realize that
there is actually a baby inside of them. They believe what pro-choice/pro-
abortion people tell them, that the preborn is a blob, a mass of protoplasm,
an "it," an obstruction to menstrual flow that is correctable by a minor
procedure, or a problem. Pro-abortion people in general do not recognize that
the preborn baby looks like a baby, is a baby, is alive, is human, and is
separate from the mother's body.
If the preborn is what pro-abortion people claim he is, (and provided abortion
wouldn't hurt women), then there is little wrong with abortion (but abortion
does hurt women). But if he is an actual human baby, then abortion kills him.
That is why it is so important for you and others to know about fetal
development. We are commanded by God to love our neighbor as ourselves and
not to kill. Is there any neighbor closer to a mother than her preborn baby?
The first step in the development of a baby is fertilization. This is when
the sperm enters the egg. Usually there is only one egg, and hundreds of
thousands of sperm. The egg only lets one sperm enter. Then the egg secretes
a chemical that hardens the shell so that no more can enter.
At this point we have a live human being. We know that he is alive, because
he grows. We know that the fertilized egg is human because it contains only
human chromosomes and because no woman has ever given birth to any baby that
wasn't human.
We also know that this baby contains genes and chromosomes from his father.
This, combined with the fact that he is free-floating is proof that he is not
a part of his mother's body. Thus, to abort is to kill a human being, not to
have an amputation of a part of a woman's body.
We also know that at this point, the point of fertilization, the baby is
viable: All he needs to enable him to continue living is to be left alone.
Seven to nine days after fertilization, the fertilized egg attaches himself to
the wall of the uterus (womb). This is called conception. Thus,
fertilization is not conception. Those people who say that life begins at
conception generally do not know that conception isn't the same as
fertilization, and they actually mean that life begins at fertilization.
Doctors also say that life begins at fertilization.
The purpose of conception is to enable the baby to receive nutrients from his
mother and to discharge waste products to his mother. Immediately upon
conception, the baby develops an umbilical cord. This comes out of his navel
and is attached to the placenta. The placenta is an organ that develops and
grows as the baby grows and provides the biological facilities needed to
enable the transfer of nutrients and wastes between the baby and the mother.
Throughout the growth of the baby, the placenta is about his size. The
umbilical cord is merely a set of "tubes" that allow the passage of the
nutrients and wastes between the baby and the placenta. Much later, when the
baby is born, the placenta will be ejected from the uterus and will be called
afterbirth.
After conception, the baby is still not a part of his mother, and he never
will be. There are many ways to show this: The preborn has his own brain, his
own heart, a separate blood supply that may be of a different blood type than
his mother's, his father's chromosomes, and, if he is a boy, he has a penis.
If he is a part of his mother's body, then she would have two sexes.
(Feminists don't like to hear this argument.)
Several other arguments can be given, but I'll give just one more: Suppose
you fertilize a Black woman's egg with a Caucasian man's sperm in a test tube
and then inseminate an Oriental woman with this. Does the preborn baby now
have three races? Does the Oriental woman now have three races? When the
baby is born, does he change back to having two races? Does the Oriental
woman change back to having one? The answers are no, no, no, and no.
Therefore, preborn babies are never a part of their mother's bodies.
Therefore, abortion kills a separate human being.
At the moment of conception, the baby is the size of a dot. Just three weeks
after fertilization (or no more than two weeks from conception) his heart
begins to beat. By the end of the fourth week after fertilization, he is about
the size of an apple seed and has the beginnings of a spinal column, nervous
system, kidneys, liver, and digestive tract. He is now 10,000 times larger
than when first formed.
At six weeks all his vital organs are present, and he has fingers, toes, and
the beginnings of teeth. His arms and legs move and he has brain waves.
At eight weeks, although his mother may not even know she is pregnant yet, to
abort him will now cause him excruciating pain. Anesthetics are never used
for baby killing.
By ten weeks he has fingerprints and he sucks his thumb. By twelve weeks he
inhales and exhales the amniotic fluid that surrounds him, and his face begins
to look like mom's or dad's.
At twelve weeks he has all his body parts. He will spend the remaining time
in the womb just growing bigger. At about seventeen weeks he is large enough
for his mother to begin to look pregnant, and he continues to grow very
rapidly.
Then, at forty weeks, his big day arrives. Out he comes, formed by God and
loved by God and us. He now has the chance to find the Lord himself so that
he too can have salvation. But just yesterday his mother could have legally
killed him. Abortion is legal in the United States at *any * time during the
pregnancy and for *any* reason. The reason doesn't even have to be given.
That is, it doesn't have to be given to man, but it will have to be given to
God. While that doesn't necessarily mean the mother won't go to Heaven, I for
one would hate to have to face Jesus with my violations of two commandments,
"Thou shalt not kill"[1] and "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself"[2].
Notes:
1. Exodus 20:13.
2. Mark 12:31.
Article 27
*Father, Forgive the Abortionists
For They Know Not What They Do
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Sound familiar? These are almost the exact words given by Jesus as he died on
the cross. There He was at Calvary, nailed on a cross with two malefactors on
crosses next to him, and referring to His executioners said, "Father, forgive
them; for they know not what they do."[1]
What great news for you and me! If the Father would forgive the executioners
of his Son, surely we can also be forgiven. And so can the abortionists.
However, we must keep in mind that the Bible doesn't say we will be forgiven
without conditions. In fact, it gives one very clear condition: We must
repent, or turn away from, our sins.[2] Perhaps this didn't apply to Jesus's
executioners; Jesus didn't say it did. But it clearly applies to us, meaning
you, me, and the abortionists.
Fortunately, this doesn't mean we must never sin. It only means we must try
our hardest not to sin. And fortunately, it doesn't mean we we'll go to Hell
for committing sins that we don't know are sins. Thus, we come into
descriptions of where the abortionist and his or her accomplices fit.
The abortionist almost always knows of the humanity and aliveness of the
preborn baby, and he therefore knows that he is killing a baby. Therefore, he
surely is violating at least two commandments, and perhaps three. One that he
violates for sure is "Thou shalt not kill"[3]. Another is associated with
money. There is ample evidence in the Scriptures that God considers the
inordinate pursuit of money to be idolatry. It is a pursuit of something as a
substitute for pursuing God. The pursuit of money is often what keeps an
abortionist killing even when he knows he is killing. Abortion is an
extremely lucrative business. The other two commandments that are applicable
for this abortionist are from Mark 12:30,31: "And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with
all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like,
namely this, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other
commandment greater than these." And there is no neighbor closer to a woman
than her preborn baby.
Some of the abortionists' accomplices also fit into the category of knowingly
killing the babies, but probably most of them don't know what they are doing.
And, incredible as it may seem, some abortionists don't know what they are
doing either. A few years ago a former abortionist, Bernard Nathanson,
convinced a practicing abortionist to allow video-taping of an actual
abortion.[4] This wasn't a movie of the external happenings, but a movie of the
internal activities. A device called a sonogram was used to make moving-
picture images of the preborn baby as he was being killed. The abortionist
who did this kill had previously killed about 10,000 other babies. One would
think that by this time he would have seen enough blood and body parts to know
what was going on, but he didn't. The abortionist, sticking a long, sharp
object through the mother's vagina and into the womb, repeatedly nudged the
baby with the point in order to get his reaction, if any, on tape. The baby
had a reaction, all right. He tried desperately to escape, turning and
twisting and screaming without sound. But there was nowhere to hide.
Finally, the abortionist jabbed him good and hard, and the baby jerked and
ceased his violent struggles. And so did the abortionist, and so did his
accomplice. That was the last abortion they ever did. Finally understanding
what they were doing, they gave up their lucrative practice.
Other accomplices have better excuses for not knowing what abortion is. These
people, who don't see the abortions taking place, range from blood-pressure
takers to bookkeepers to receptionists to Killing-Center owners and landlords.
To them, abortion is merely a procedure, a woman's right, a choice, the
removal of an obstruction to menstrual flow, or a profit. One of the missions
of pro-life is to educate these people about abortion. It is not our
intention to make them understand so that they would go to Hell if they kept
on with their work, but to close the Killing Centers. We have been somewhat
successful.
Pro-lifers actually pray for the abortionists. We pray that they will
understand, we pray that they will stop what they are doing, and we pray for
their salvation. Often, they angrily demand that we stop!
Most often when we teach the truth about abortion, we teach secular facts.
Most pro-abortion people do not believe in the humanity and separateness of
the preborn baby. Therefore to teach them that God says, "Thou shalt not kill"
is meaningless to them; that commandment applies to humans and they don't know
yet that the preborn is human.
The separateness issue is of primary importance. If the preborn is merely a
part of his mother's body, even if a human part, then abortion could almost be
justified. By analogy, what is wrong with a woman getting rid of an appendix,
another part of her body? But if the preborn is a separate life, then
abortion kills a person.
To prove the separateness is easy: The preborn has his own brain, his own
heart, a separate blood supply that may be of a different blood type than his
mother's, his father's chromosomes, and, if he is a boy, he has a penis. If
he is a part of his mother's body, then she would have two sexes. (Feminists
don't like to hear this argument.)
Several other arguments can be given, but I'll give just one more: Suppose
you fertilize a Black woman's egg with a Caucasian man's sperm in a test tube
and then inseminate an Oriental woman with this. Does the preborn baby now
have three races? Does the Oriental woman now have three races? When the
baby is born, does he change back to having two races? Does the Oriental
woman change back to having one? The answers are no, no, no, and no.
Therefore, preborn babies are never a part of their mother's bodies.
Therefore, abortion kills a separate human being.
But incredibly, there are many people who, though they hear, do not believe.
(Note that I do not feel that I am as good as Jesus when He made similar
statements.) One time I was in a room with about fifteen pro-choice people,
and we were arguing about abortion and separateness. I gave the above proofs
and several others about the separateness, and I gave them one hour to
dispute any of the claims and/or to give any proofs that the preborn *is* a part
of a mother's body. None of my claims were disputed, and no proofs of non-
separateness were even offered. Nonetheless, not one of the pro-choice people
in that room changed their position on abortion.
Both of the malefactors on the crosses next to Jesus knew that they were
guilty, but only one of them repented. I close by quoting Luke 23 again,
beginning this time at verse 39:
And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying,
If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering
rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the
same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due
reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he
said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou
be with me in paradise.
Pro-life prays that the abortionists make it. Would you please pray with us?
Notes:
1. Luke 23:34.
2. Luke 13:5 and Revelation 2:22.
3. Exodus 20:13.
4. *Silent Scream*. Another abortion tape by Nathanson is *Eclipse of Reason*.
Article 28
*How Abortion in America Is Like Slavery in America Was
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
What a strange idea, comparing abortion to slavery! However, the legal basis
for the United States previously permitting slavery is exactly the same as the
legal basis for the United States currently permitting abortion. That basis
is the dehumanization, or subhumanization of the victims. Just as many people
prior to the Civil War didn't believe that the Negroes were fully human, even
some present readers of this article don't believe that preborn babies are
fully human. If slaves weren't human, why should the owners have cared if
they were owned, controlled, worked like cattle, beaten, bought, sold, and
killed as the owner chose? If our preborn babies aren't human, why should we
care if they are killed? We kill cattle and sheep, why not other non-humans?
Well, maybe not cats and dogs. That would be inhumane! The Humane Society
would come after us!
The legalization of abortion occurred not by the legislative process through
the voters, but by a "Supreme" Court decision. (That alone should make us mad
enough to fight against abortion.) The legal basis for "validating" both
abortion and slavery was the denial that the victim is a person. In 1973 in
its dehumanizing, <Roe v. Wade> decision the "Supreme" Court ruled that the
preborn were not persons. In 1857 the "Supreme" Court said in its <Dred Scott
>decision that Negroes were not persons. Abolitionists (those who wanted to
abolish slavery) objected, of course, but they were told to mind their own
business. They were told things such as "Don't impose your morality on us,"
"You don't have to own a slave if you don't want one," and "The Supreme Court
has ruled that it's legal, so don't tell us it's immoral." And pro-lifers get
told the same things today about abortion and babies. An interesting
variation used against men is "You can't have a baby. Go mind your own
business!" The <Dred Scott> decision stood for eight years. Then, in 1865, the
Supreme Court decision was overturned by the Civil War.
In the Southern states prior to the Civil War, persecution of the
abolitionists was severe. In Louisiana there was a law stating: "Whosoever in
any public discourse, from the bar, the bench, the pulpit, the stage, or any
place whatsoever, shall make use of language in any private discourse or shall
make use of signs or action having a tendency to produce discontent among the
colored population, shall suffer imprisonment and hard labor not less than
three years and not more than twenty-one years or death at the discretion of
the court."[1] Horrible, isn't it? Try to help a slave, go to jail or die.
I'm sure one of the white Southerners would have said, "Well, righteousness is
righteousness!"
In 1990 Senators Alan Cranston, Robert Packwood, and Brock Adams introduced a
bill to the United States Congress to make blockading an Abortion Killing
Center a felony. Well, righteousness is righteousness!
Pro-lifers would feel that a person convicted of this transgression would be
guilty of felony life saving.
We have seen the parallels in non-personhood and also in persecution of the
abolitionists against slavery and of the abolitionists against abortion. But
what about the attitudes of the opposition to the abolitionists of each era?
Angelina Weld, slavery abolitionist, said in her very famous book, *American
Slavery, As It Is*, ". . . the slaves in the United States are frequently
flogged with terrible severity, have red pepper rubbed into their lacerated
flesh, and hot brine, spirits of turpentine, etc., poured over gashes to
increase the torture; that they are often stripped naked, their backs and
limbs cut with knives, bruised and mangled by scores and hundreds of blows
with the paddle, and terribly torn by the claws of cats (whips) drawn over
them by their tormentors; that they are often hunted with bloodhounds, shot
down like beasts, or torn in pieces by dogs; that they are often suspended by
the arms and whipped and beaten until they faint . . . and sometimes until
they die; that their ears are often cut off, their eyes knocked out, their
bones broken, and their flesh branded with red hot irons; that they are
maimed, mutilated, and burned to death over slow fires."[2]
Public reaction to this surely was, "Inflammatory rhetoric! Lies! Semantics!
They're not humans anyway! Why don't you go find something useful to do! Get
out of here before I call the police!"
Today pro-life abolitionists say, "During the abortion procedures, always
without anesthetic, depending on when the choice to kill is made, the babies
are sliced by the surgeons' knives, their arms and legs are pulled off their
bodies and their skulls are crushed to make the bodies fit through the
undilated vagina, their eyes are knocked out, their bones broken, and they are
maimed, mutilated, and burned to death with chemicals."[3]
Public reaction to this has always been, "Inflammatory rhetoric! Lies!
Semantics! They're not humans anyway! Why don't you go find something useful
to do! Get out of here before I call the police!"
The leaders of this public reaction have been, unfortunately, the secular
press. Members of the press are overwhelmingly pro-abortion. They simply
cannot see the truth about what abortion really is. To them it is merely a
choice or a woman's right, never one of the brutal murders they like to put on
the front page. I personally find it difficult to rationalize how an abortion
isn't also a brutal murder. In spite of the fact that there have been
32,000,000[4] of these in the United States since abortion was legalized, the
press denies the truth. And as long as they keep doing this, many millions of
people will remain ignorant of what the truth actually is. Abortion will
continue.
Are you a pro-abortion member of the press? If you have a typical reading
speed of 200 words per minute, while you were reading this article nineteen
babies have been murdered by abortion in the United States. Will you support
that by not reporting it?
Here the comparison of slavery with abortion ends. Slavery was ended by the
people because the people cared enough to free the defenseless victims from
their tyranny. Now in our twentieth year of legal abortion, we people have
shown that we do not care enough about the tyranny against our preborn,
defenseless, precious babies to free them. What a sad testimony against the
typical American, and the typical Christian!
Notes:
1. "Constitution and Address of Kentucky Society for the Gradual Relief from
Slavery," Olive Branch--Extra, (December 23, 1833).
2. Weld, p. 9.
3. There are literally hundreds of books describing these as abortion methods.
4. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
Article 29
*Abortion and the Public-Opinion Polls
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
The importance of public-opinion polls on abortion or any other subject cannot
be overemphasized. The results are more than just interesting reading, but
are flags flying in the wind: Politicians and others look at them to see which
way to vote.
Therefore, the importance of having honest polls cannot be overemphasized.
And to a very large degree, the polls about the abortion issues have *not* been
honest. The most famous instance of dishonesty was perpetrated by a certain
Bernard N. Nathanson. Dr. Nathanson is a former abortionist, claiming to have
presided over 60,000 deaths. Then he turned pro-life and admitted that as
president of the predecessor to the National Abortion Rights Action League he
deliberately invented the results of a public-opinion poll. His purpose was
to present it to the United States Supreme Court in 1973 so that they would
legalize abortion on demand (request). It's hard to know how much effect this
lie had on the decision, but the Court <is> sensitive to public opinion, and
they did legalize abortion on demand.
*What the polls show*:
Results of polls depend on many things, such as who took the poll, where the
poll was taken, when the poll was taken, who paid for the poll, what income-
class was polled, which sex was polled, which races were polled, and under
which conditions the respondent was asked to comment on, i.e., should abortion
always be illegal, illegal except for cases of rape and incest, or for birth
control, etc., or should it be illegal in the second trimester of pregnancy,
or in the third? (By the way, it is legal any time during the pregnancy and
for any reason whatsoever.)
Probably for you, the most important issue is what a legitimate cross section
of Americans feel about whether abortion should be illegal for purposes of
ordinary birth control. Almost all polls, including those sponsored and paid
for by pro-abortion organizations, conclude that between 67% and 89% of the
people feel that abortion should be illegal for birth control purposes.[1]
Here are some other results. They are from a Gallup Poll of 1991 in which
2,174 adults were questioned face-to-face with 200 questions. The results
are: 26% were found to be strongly pro-life, 16% moderately pro-life, 16%
strongly pro-choice, 16% moderately pro-choice, 23% neutral, and 3% didn't
know. On another subject: 50% of the women and 60% of the men favored consent
for abortion from the biological father. (The law prohibits consent or non-
consent of the father to have legal effect.) When asked a question regarding
which term best describes their feelings about abortion, 41.4% of the women
and 31.9% of the men called it murder. (This makes me wonder why this is
called a women's issue.) 69% of the respondents favored parental consent for
abortions by minor mothers (assuming that abortion is okay in the first
place), and 86% favored informing the pregnant mother of the medical facts
about abortion. (This seldom occurs.)
*How and why polls can be distorted*:
Your first concern should be whether the above poll is distorted. I don't
think that it is, but if you want to decide for yourself you may obtain a copy
of it by calling 202 289-6901. It is sixty pages long.
Why do polls get distorted? One reason is that a pollster may not realize he
or she is being prejudicial. But probably the biggest reason is that the
pollster is being controlled by the person who pays his bill. There's a
conflict of interest.
Suppose there is an organization that believes that a woman should be allowed
to have an abortion, and this organization has a name or a reputation that
makes it obvious that they would really like it if the results of the poll
showed that Americans in general agreed that abortion is okay. Then they come
to you, the pollster, and offer you $250,000 to conduct a poll on the subject.
What are you going to do? Remember now, next year they might want you to do
another poll. So what would you do? Disappoint them? A lot of you would say
<yes>. But do you think you could stick with your <yes> when they dangle a
quarter of a million dollars in your face?
So how is the cheating carried out? There are several ways. One would be to
select who you poll so as to get the answers the payer needs. For instance,
if you want to show support among Americans for abortion, you could poll the
workers of The Abortion Institute. Perhaps The Abortion Institute would even
make their employees' phone numbers easily available to you. The payer might
even tell you that you must use them.
Alternatively, they could tell you to conduct a poll through a feminist
magazine, such as *Ms*. Think how different the answer would be if it was
conducted through a male-prejudiced magazine, if there are any.
Another good way to prejudice the answer is to tailor the questions so that
you almost can't help but get the answers you want. For instance, the
following question was used by a poll for the National Abortion Rights Action
League:
The decision on whether or not to perform an abortion rests
with the consenting patient, and should be performed by a
licensed physician in conformance with good medical practice.
Do you agree or disagree?
Over 90 percent agreed, and the National Abortion Rights Action League
therefore presented the results, though not the question, as proof that
Americans supported abortion rights. But the question doesn't ask if a person
agrees that abortion should be allowed, it asks whether he or she understands
what the law says, which is that the decision rests with the consenting
patient and should be performed by a licensed physician, etc.
Here's another example: The New York Times and CBS News Poll took two polls.
One of them was
Do you think there should be an amendment to the Constitution
prohibiting abortions, or shouldn't there be such an amendment?
Sixty-seven percent said there shouldn't be. But then when they took out the
word abortion and put in the word life, look what happened. Here was the
question:
Do you believe there should be an amendment to the Constitution
protecting the life of the unborn child, or shouldn't there be such
an amendment?
This time only thirty-four percent said there shouldn't be, even though each
question really asks the same thing.
What if I were to ask you the question, "should the decision for an abortion
be made entirely between a woman and her physician?" What would you answer?
For three reasons, most of you would probably answer <yes>. First, the question
doesn't allow you to say that there won't be an abortion. Second, "the woman
and her physician phrase" implies a friendly, competent, and professional
relationship, and third, you'd say <yes> just because the law says that this is
their decision. You're actually being asked to say if you know the law. A
better question would be "Should the law continue to say that the decision for
an abortion, if any, should be made entirely between a woman and her
physician, or alternatively, should abortion be considered murder?"
*Conclusion*:
We have seen what the results of a valid poll are and what some of the reasons
are that polls and pollsters can and do lie to us. (Again, if you do not
believe that the 1991 Gallup poll results are valid, you may attempt to
disprove it by getting a copy of it.) My conclusion is that the people do not
want abortion in this nation.
There is one more figure of importance, a figure accepted by both pro-life and
pro-abortion: Approximately 98% of all abortions are solely for purposes of
birth control. Since 67% to 89% of Americans believe that abortion for this
purpose should be illegal, a democratic election today would result in
abortion being made illegal.
Note:
1. From this author scanning a great number of polls on this subject. A poll
which shows 89% is from the L.A. Times, March 19, 1989 and Boston Globe, March
31, 1989.
Article 30
*Adoption, the Forgotten Choice
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing more
people than the next twelve causes of death combined.[1] At the same time as
1,800,000[2] babies are deliberately killed every year, many parents languish in
despair that they will never be able to raise a family: There aren't enough
babies to go around.
There are about 75[3] sets of prospective parents on adoption waiting lists for
newborn babies for every 1 newborn available. In California for every 1
newborn baby available for adoption, approximately 150[4] are killed by
abortion.
There are many reasons for this. The primary one is that the status of the
preborn has been degenerated to one of sub-humanity. Just as the legal basis
for "justifying" slavery in the United States and Jew-killing in Nazi Germany
was to classify the victims as non-persons, our preborns were classified as
non-persons by the "Supreme" Court. As such, they were no longer entitled to
rights, including the right to live.
Even further degradation of his status has occurred since the Court made its
decision in 1973. Abortion advocates generally refer to the preborn as
potential persons, masses of protoplasm, blobs, its, obstructions to menstrual
flow, problems, and other degrading names, whereas pro-lifers refer to them as
innocent, defenseless human beings and God's children.
A big part of the problem of having such a large death rate and therefore not
having babies available for adoption rests with our schools' sex-education
classes. For the most part, sex-education classes give very little emphasis
to adoption as a possible choice for a pregnant teenager, and for the most
part they aggressively teach her that her best choice, and often her only
choice, is abortion. The teachers' forcefulness with rhetoric is readily
accepted by our children. Our children don't have the benefit of the
knowledge we grew up with--that preborn babies are human. It must be realized
that even the oldest teenager today wasn't even born yet when it became
"moral" to kill babies. And you should also note that 25.5%[5] of all abortions
are on teenagers. The United States has the highest teenage abortion rate in
the world.
But realize too that there can be no valid pro-abortion rhetoric that ending
abortion would flood the nation with more babies than could be adopted. For
one thing, even pro-aborts agree that 98% of all abortions are for birth
control. Thus, if abortion would be outlawed, something approaching
1,568,000 babies would never be conceived; thus they would never be born.
Women would use other methods of birth control, and the abortion rate could
drop to about 30,000 - 40,000 per year.
Another reason we wouldn't be inundated with babies is that there are about
2,000,000 people in America wanting to adopt a baby.[6] In fact, the demand for
babies is so enormous that many Americans are forced to find a baby in another
country. They then go to that country and adopt him and bring him home. The
cost can be staggering.
Still others advertise across the nation, hoping and praying that some woman,
somewhere, will decide to let her baby live and enable a loving family to
raise him. They will often pay her expenses and buy her things she wouldn't
otherwise buy, and they will pay all the medical and legal expenses.
The fact that there are loving families who desperately want a baby is an
issue that the pro-aborts refuse to understand. In fact one of their slogans
that they use to "justify" abortion in their own "hearts" is "Every child a
wanted child." But extraordinarily few babies are unwanted. They may not
be wanted by their own mothers, but they are often wanted by their fathers and
they are desperately wanted by people who want to adopt. The very few who are
unwanted are Black babies with Down's Syndrome or Down's babies with heart
defects.[4] In fact, there is an adoption waiting list for Caucasian babies who
have Down's Syndrome, but who don't have heart defects, that has fifty
families on it for every one baby available.[7]
What must you do if you want to adopt? First, consider changing your
standards. Healthy Caucasians, for instance, are the most difficult to get.
Consider a Black baby, even though it will also be difficult to find one of
these. Also, consider how much money you can spend. You can probably get by
with spending only about $1,000 by going to a public agency, but you will have
a low probability of success with them. If you are able and willing to spend
from $15,000 to $50,000 on alternative methods, you will have much greater
possibilities for success. The difference is that with the public agencies,
the social workers select the adopting parents. Because of the scarcity of
babies and surplus of parents wanting to adopt, they put very severe
qualifications on who will be awarded a baby. Alternatively, if you advertise
locally and get an answer, all you have to do is convince that one mother that
you will be a good parent and that you will pay her bills. Or if you seek a
baby from a foreign country, you will probably find one that is easy to get
because he or she is homeless. There are problems with advertising for
babies, however. Some women string-along many eager couples all at once, and
then keep the baby anyway.
Two other alternatives are to work through private agencies or attorneys.
Here too, you're chances of success are low. Also, your expenses will be much
higher than with public agencies. Your costs will be between $5,000 and
$10,000.
All this is very discouraging, but there are things you can do to greatly
increase your chances. These things can be summarized in two words: Take
control! This is how:
1. Pray.
2. From the Resource List below, learn almost everything about
adoption.
3. Pray.
4. Talk with agencies and attorneys in your area to decide which way
to find your baby.
5. Pray.
6. Decide issues of open adoption verses closed adoption (issues not
discussed herein).
7. Pray.
8. Put out the word you want a baby! This means go to your local
Crisis Pregnancy Center, or even your local Planned Parenthood
Killing Center and tell them you want a baby. Phone every church in
your area. Most pastors counsel women on abortion and sometimes know
of available babies.
9. Pray and wait.
*Resource List*:
Bethany Christian Services, 901 Eastern Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503;
(616) 459-6273.
Holt International Children's Services, Box 2880, Eugene, OR 97402; (503)
687-2202.
The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Box 33053, Washington, DC 20033.
*Notes*:
1. From *Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
2. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if increased by 12.5% to account for illegal abortions.
3. There are many literature sources for this, but because of adoption secrecy
laws, none are accurate. Estimates run from 60 to 300.
4. Planned Parenthood reported 350,000 abortions in a recent, unspecified
year. In a personal communication to the author, James W. Brown, Chief of
Adoptions Branch of the State of California, Department of Social Services
[(916) 323-0524] reported only 2,300 adoptions in California for fiscal year
1988 - 1989.
5. The pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute.
6. "Citizen", Focus on the Family, December 17, 1990.
7. "The Michael Fund Newsletter."
Article 31
*Perspectives on Abortion
by Lynn K. Murphy
*
Abortion is easily the number-one killer of Americans, ending more lives than
the next twelve causes of death combined including heart disease and cancer.[1]
This article examines some of the many issues within the abortion controversy.
*Abortion Hurts Women*:
Both pro-life and pro-abortion experts agree. Let's see what the greatest
pro-abortion expert of them all says:
Planned Parenthood, the world's and nation's largest provider of abortion,
said in its Department of Education <3-Year Plan and Long Range Program Goals
1990 - 1993>:
"A number of . . . studies and surveys (including the Reardon/WIC Study and
the Grant Survey) have shown that the incidence of post-procedural trauma for
abortion clients may be as high as 91 percent of all cases"
A Planned Parenthood brochure entitled <PLAN YOUR CHILDREN for health and
happiness> says, "An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It
is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when
you want a child you cannot have it.
Since it is a conflict of interest for Planned Parenthood to admit this, it is
*very* believable. Therefore, it isn't necessary to show what pro-life experts
say.
*Viability*:
The issue of viability should never have become an issue. Viability means
whether a premature baby will live outside the womb. In 1973, when the United
States "Supreme" Court made its decision that made abortion legal, they deemed
it important that the viability (in that year) was twenty-five weeks after
fertilization. But now, because of advancements in medicine, the age of
viability is about twenty weeks.
It's difficult to understand why the Court bothered to be concerned about
viability: They went on to make abortion just as legal after viability as
before. A mother can have an abortion at any time during her pregnancy and for
any reason.
Another reason viability shouldn't be important is that neither a baby born
twenty weeks after fertilization, nor a two-year-old, nor a teenager, nor you
or I are viable without help. Just as a preborn baby still in the womb needs
the help of his mother, you and I could not survive without the people around
us who grow our food and make our clothing and much more. Therefore, the
viability of a newborn should not even be considered unless we too must be
considered expendable.
However, by far most important, the viability argument is totally unrelated to
what happens with abortion. What difference does it make whether a baby can
live *outside* the womb? Abortion takes place *inside* the womb! Leave him
alone, and he'll be just fine!
*Who's Body*?
One of the pro-abortion slogans is "A woman has the right to control her own
body." One thing this ignores is that this is a false statement anyway. For
instance, a woman doesn't have the right to cross a street except between two
lines and with the permission of an electric signal. I could give many other
examples, such as taking illegal drugs, but the really big distortion is that
it's not her body; it's the body of a defenseless, innocent, and separate
human being.
The issue of separateness is very important, for if the baby is a part of the
mother, then abortion kills a baby, but if he is separate, it doesn't. Here
are some proofs of the separateness:
The preborn has his own brain, his own heart, a separate blood supply that may
be of a different blood type than his mother's, his father's chromosomes, and,
if he is a boy, he has a penis. So if he is a part of his mother's body, then
she would have two sexes. (Those feminists who are pro-abortion don't like to
hear this argument.)
Several other arguments can be given, but I'll give just one more: Suppose
you fertilize a Black woman's egg with a Caucasian man's sperm in a test tube
and then inseminate an Oriental woman with this. Does the preborn baby now
have three races? Does the Oriental woman now have three races? When the
baby is born, does he change back to having two races? Does the Oriental
woman change back to having one? The answers are no, no, no, and no.
Therefore, preborn babies are never a part of their mother's bodies.
Therefore, abortion kills a separate human being.
*Imposing morality*:
Pro-lifers are often told, "Don't impose your morality on us!" However, it's
not just our morality, it's also God's. He is the one who first said, "Thou
shalt not kill"[2] and "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself."[3] (There is no
neighbor closer to a woman than her preborn baby.) Through the Judeo-
Christian Ethic, God's morality originally defined this nation's laws against
murder. A valid answer to the pro-abortion person is, "Don't impose your
'morality' on your baby!"
*Abortion because of rape, incest, life of the mother, or fetal handicap:*
According to both pro-life and pro-abortion people, only 2% of all abortions
are for purposes of rape + incest + fetal handicap + the life of the mother.
All the rest are for purposes of birth control; thus, approximately 1,764,000
of the 1,800,000[1] annual abortions in the US are for birth control. Polls
show, depending on who paid for the polls, that between 67% and 89% of
Americans are against abortion for birth control.[4] Thus, a democratic
election today would result in legislation that would practically end
abortion.
But pro-abortion people try to justify *all* abortion on rape, incest, fetal
handicap, and life of the mother. This, as we have seen, is totally
unwarranted. But what about rape or incest, what should we do about those
pregnancies? I say let the babies live, and I say this because God says it.
There can be no better reason for anything. Besides, why kill the baby for
the crime of his father? Does this apprehend him? Does it convict him? Does
it put him in jail?
*Every child should be wanted:*
I agree. But extraordinarily few are unwanted. They may not be wanted by
their own mothers, but they are often wanted by their fathers and they are
desperately wanted by people who want to adopt. The very few who are unwanted
are Black babies with Down's Syndrome or Down's babies with heart defects.[5]
There are about 75[6] sets of prospective parents on adoption waiting lists for
newborn babies for every 1 newborn available. While the babies die,
prospective adoptive parents agonize because they can't have a family to
raise.
In California for every 1 newborn baby available for adoption, approximately
150[6] are killed by abortion.
For the most part, sex-education classes give very little emphasis to adoption
as a possible choice for a pregnant teenager.
*No child should live in poverty*:
Should we therefore kill all children who do?
Can anyone substantiate that rich people are happier than middle-class people
who are happier than the poor?
Did Jesus teach us to be compassionate and generous toward the poor, or to
kill them?
*Every woman should have the right to choose*:
To choose what? No one should have the right to choose to kill another
person. And what about the father's rights? He doesn't have the legal right
to choose to not have his son or daughter murdered if the mother chooses
abortion.
*Conclusion*:
These are a few of the issues surrounding the abortion controversy. Since
abortion was legalized in the US in 1973, there have been 32,000,000[8] babies
killed here. Wouldn't you like to help stop this? If so, call the
organization at the bottom of this article.
I close by quoting God:
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering
toward slaughter.[9]
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not
himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worth of
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much
is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
committed much, of him they will ask the more.[10]
Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.[11]
Please contact American Life League at (703) 659-4171.
Notes:
1. Abortion deaths are 1,800,000 per year. This is 1,600,000 deaths
multiplied times 12.5% to allow for illegal abortions. Other statistics from
*Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1992*, page 82, for 1989.
2. Exodus 20:13.
3. Mark 12:31.
4. From this author scanning a great number of polls on this subject. A poll
which shows 89% is from the L.A. Times, March 19, 1989 and Boston Globe, March
31, 1989.
5. "The Michael Fund Newsletter"
6. There are many literature sources for this, but because of adoption secrecy
laws, none are accurate. Estimates run from 60 to 300.
7. Planned Parenthood reported 350,000 abortions in a recent, unspecified
year. In a personal communication to the author, James W. Brown, Chief of
Adoptions Branch of State of California, Department of Social Services [(916)
323-0524] reported only 2,300 adoptions in California for fiscal year 1988 -
1989.
8. A figure accepted as approximately correct by both pro-life and pro-
abortion if illegal abortions are included.
9. Proverbs 24:11 (NIV).
10. Luke 12:47-48 (KJV).
11. James 4:17 (KJV).
That ends all of the 31 Articles.
