Abortion – Choice or Murder?

In this slide presentation author Robin Schumacher looks at abortion from a philosophical and biblical perspective.

Here are the points that Schumacher presents about abortion and whether the fetus is a person. At birth the fetus is considered a person, so at some time between conception and birth the fetus became a person. You can’t gradually become a person. You can’t be only part person. Therefore, at some point you become a full person. The logical time you became a full person is at conception:

1. Conception. If the fetus has human parents, how can he or she not be human? He or she doesn’t become a dog or a cat.
2. Brain activity begins. A car in the garage is still a car whether or not you start it.
3. Pain is felt. Are persons asleep in surgery not human?
4. Looks human. Appearance is insufficient to define a person. Some people have been disfigured but are still people.
5. Can function independently of mother. What about people dependent on kidney dialysis machines. Are they not persons?
6. Birth. All that has changed is the location.

In the following verses, the Greek word for “baby” is the same whether the baby is in the womb or delivered: a child.

• Luke 1:41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
• Luke 2:12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Here are some other Bible verses that refer to the womb:

• Isaiah 44:24 “This is what the LORD says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:…”
• Job 31:15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
• Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Schumacher goes on to contrast the early churches and biblical view of children (objects of joy) with the view held by Evolutionists/Atheists and Planned Parenthood (mutations to eradicate). Of course Christians view children as a reward from God: (Psalm 127:3) “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.”

Three Reasons Why Abortion Is Wrong and Pro-Life is Right

This week’s lesson is about why abortion is wrong. To start out, go to the Three Reasons section, where I provide three short videos on the following topics:

1. The Bible says that a human is in the womb.
2. Organ donor and fetal homicide laws clash with abortion laws.
3. Abortions place women at risk.

Who Wants to Become an Abortionist? Most Doctors Don’t!

Why has there been a sharp decline in medical students who train to perform abortions and doctors who actually perform abortions? Read on to find out.

In the January 2012 issue of Townhall magazine1₁ Daniel Allott quotes some revealing statistics:

• Most OB/GYNs (obstetrics and gynecology) surveyed (only 14%) are willing to perform abortions.
• Two-thirds (69%) of metropolitan counties in the United States and 97% of non-metropolitan counties have no abortion provider.₂

Why is that? Here are the three main reasons that doctors don’t like to perform abortions:

• Abortions don’t save lives or cure people.
• Abortion doctors are stigmatized by the profession
• The public is increasingly anti-abortion

Abortions don’t save lives or cure people

It’s easy to see why doctors and nurses would be appalled performing abortions. To perform a first trimester abortion you suck the developing baby’s flesh and blood through a tube into a bottle. To perform a second trimester abortion you use forceps to snap the spine and crush the skull and then remove each piece of the baby’s body. The assisting nurse must reassemble the torn pieces of the baby to make sure they didn’t leave any parts inside the womb. Imagine doing this a dozen or more times a day, and you can see why doctors and nurses get demoralized.

One abortion doctor quoted in the article tried to describe the hopelessness he felt, “Is this what the conscientious, dedicated OB- GYN had spent four years in college, four years of medical school, and at least four more years… in residency training to do?” ₃

Abortion doctors used to justify themselves by performing abortions in a hospital, not in some back alley, but this no longer is true. Most women use abortions as a form a birth control. Half of the 1.2 million women who annually have an abortion are receiving their second abortion, one quarter their third abortion, and fifteen percent their fourth abortion.

Abortion doctors are stigmatized by their profession

Most doctors want to keep it a secret that they perform abortions. As a result, 94% of all abortions are not performed in hospitals but in stand-alone clinics such as Planned Parenthood. They earn $155 million from performing 332,000 abortions per year.

The public is increasingly anti-abortion

Doctors are also stigmatized because the public has become more prolife recently. Gallup reports that 45% of Americans in 2011 consider themselves pro-life compared to 33% in 1996. Young people in particular are more prolife than ever. As a result, 1.21 million abortions were performed in 2008 compared to 1.61 million in 1990.₄

Why has the public become more prolife? Today, women can see their babies in the womb more clearly through high resolution and multidimensional ultrasound imaging. 75% of women change their mind once they see their baby on ultrasound. They can see the child kicking his feet and even sucking his thumb.

You can sum up why doctors don’t like performing abortions: It’s wrong. The public is catching on. Let’s continue the fight against abortions.

To Read More

Daniel Allott, A Dying Practice: The abortion industry is struggling to reconcile its existence with truths about the procedure that even its members find difficult to deny (Townhall, January 2012)

References

1. Daniel Allott, A Dying Practice: The abortion industry is struggling to reconcile its existence with truths about the procedure that even its members find difficult to deny (Townhall, January 2012)
2. Ibid, 46.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid, 48.