(sources stated below)
• Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]
• Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use.[9]
• In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.[2]
Abortion. Some say it is terminating a foetus, a non human. Some say it is killing a child, an unborn human child. The stats above are chilling when you put it all in perspective. What are the predominent reasons we as a human race practice this form of eugenics?
• The reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.[8]
This is the majority reasons. Interference, problems at home/marital and lack of money.
Is the foetus really just a scientific term for human being? How about, immenent life? How about just life? The science community likes to tote early developement as just a zygote, or splitting cells. Which in the first thirty hours of conception is true. Yet, that zygote, or splitting cells will not turn into anything other than human life. But, when does the average women find out she is pregnant?
When women have abortions (in weeks from the last menstrual period)
Eighty-nine percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, 2004.
12 WEEKS in!? On average. To put into perspective, within the third week the unborn already has a spinal cord, heart and central nervous system forming.
At this point, the blastocyst, or developing embryo, is looking for a spot to implant in the uterus. Early formation of the central nervous system, backbone, and spinal column has begun. The gastrointestinal system has also begun to develop with the kidneys, liver, and intestines forming. The heart has begun to form.
How is this not life?
Week 5:
The embryo’s tiny heart begins to beat by day twenty-one. The brain has developed into 5 areas and some cranial nerves are visible. Arm and leg buds are visible and the formation of the eyes, lips, and nose has begun. The spinal cord grows faster than the rest of the body giving a tail like appearance which disappears as the embryo continues to grow. The placenta begins to provide nourishment for the embryo.
Do we not have beating hearts as well? We are born, and out of the womb, does our heart not beat too?
Week 7:
Major organs have all begun to form. The embryo has developed its own blood type, unique from the mother’s. Hair follicles and nipples form and knees and elbows are visible. Facial features are also observable. The eyes have a retina and lens. The major muscle system is developed and the embryo is able to move.
We are a little halfway into when an average expecting mother would find out that she is indeed expecting.
Week 8:
• In repeated studies since the early 1980s, leading experts have concluded that abortion does not pose a hazard to women’s mental health.[14]
I have personally known a few woman, who after getting abortions, felt terrible. They felt drained and went into short and long depression.
• Seventeen states use public funds to pay for abortions for some poor women, but only four do so voluntarily; the rest do so under a court order.[20] About 13% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds[21] (virtually all from state governments).[22]
This doesn't just come down to a court ruling. In 1973, Roe vs. Wade just made abortion a legal and more instituionalized method. Reducing deaths prevalent from illegal abortions. Rogue doctors to hangars. Physically striking a woman in the abdomen to back alley meetings. Why would women take such huge life threatening risks? I look at it from a corrupt heart standpoint. Not only from the woman but from her supporting cast. Churches looked down upon out of wedlock pregnancy, as did most families. Shame and persecution would be waiting for this woman. When all she needed was love and support. We all make poor decisions. Some out of lack of education or lack of love. But when we are talking about life, an unborn one, we have to realize we are all defective. None of us are perfect. We as a human race have driven ourselves so far into denial that we justify killing life. We invent 'The Morning After Pill', we provide safe sex education thinking that a rubber and pills will fix a problem. Like putting duct tape and bubble gum to re-attach an arm. Then calling a foetus not viable, for what, life? Therefore justifying abortion. What else is it, but life. There is no other purpose but to form into a human being as we know and perceive ourselves today.
What about rape? What about HIV born babies? These are terrible situations. My heart grieves to even think about them. So, should we be in charge of dictating who lives and dies? Should we just take over God's soverign will and make our own. Shall we also develope a way to scan an unborn child and tell if this child will be an evil person like Hitler? Perform an abortion right then and there? Pregnancy from a rape is not something I want to think of. But, does a second wrong make things right? Do we go down a slippery slope of galvanizing the lack of love in our heart by continuing the mirage of we 'know better'. Do we?
It is important to note that the incidence of pregnancy as a result of rape is extremely small (one study put it at 0.6 percent).17 As philosopher Francis Beckwith astutely points out, "To argue for abortion on demand from the hard cases of rape and incest is like trying to argue for the elimination of traffic laws from the fact that one might have to violate some of them in rare instances, such as when ones spouse or child needs to be rushed to the hospital."18 If we had legislation restricting abortion for all reasons other than rape or incest, we would save the vast majority of the 1.8 million preborn babies who die annually in America through abortion.
"5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me."
Psa. 51:5
"Abortion involves killing because the zygote, which fulfills the criteria needed to establish the existence of biological life (including metabolism, development, the ability to react to stimuli, and cell reproduction), is indeed terminated"
"The living baby in the mothers womb is a human being because he or she is the product of human parents and has a totally distinct human genetic code. This truth that abortion terminates the life of a human being is substantiated by science:
As Dr. Micheline Matthew-Roth, a principal research associate at Harvard Medical Schools Department of Medicine, puts it, "It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception, when egg and sperm join to form the zygote, and this developing human always is a member of our species in all stages of its life."
Perhaps Dr. Hymie Gordon, professor of medical genetics and a physician at the prestigious Mayo Clinic, best summarized the perspective of science when he said, "I think we can now also say that the question of the beginning of life when life begins is no longer a question for theological or philosophical dispute. It is an established scientific fact. Theologians and philosophers may go on to debate the meaning of life or purpose of life, but it is an established fact that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception."
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:13-16"
sources:
http://www.wpclinic.org/parenting/fetal-development/first-trimester/
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/06/1/gr060108.html
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
http://www.equip.org
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