1. Is there life from conception?
YES.
At the moment of conception all the elements that create a new human being are present.
23 chromosomes of the father and 23 of the mother unite to form an absolutely unique human being, totally distinct from his parents, forming a new 46 chromosome cell. After a complex process has occurred with the fertilised ovum, some 30 hours after insemination, the cell division occurs. From that moment on any further formation of that child is purely a matter of development, growth and maturation.
For a seed to grow there must be life. Therefore for a child to grow there must be human life. If a baby is not alive, then why is he growing. If there is nothing there, why have an abortion!
"Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception (they defined fertilisation and conception to be the same) marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings".
Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress. 1st Session, p. 7.
2. If an abortion is carried out at an early stage, can the baby feel pain? YES!!!
A baby's heart starts beating between 18 and 24 days. At 20 days the foundations of brain, spinal cord and nervous system are laid down.
All living creatures have a nervous system and nerve endings, and it is because of and through these nerves endings that they can feel pain. (Because the abortionist has to piece together the broken fragments of what was once a living human being, abortions are not done before 8 weeks, simply because the baby is too small and parts of the body may be left in the mothers uterus causing infection and sterility. Also most mothers do not know they are pregnant until after the 6/7th week). Therefore as the baby grows and the nervous system becomes more complete the unborn child can most definitely feel pain.
At 8 weeks, and all abortions are performed after eight weeks, the baby is completely formed and suffers an unimaginable agony inflicted by the abortion. Films like The Hard Truth and The Silent Scream portray the suffering of these babies.
When you stick a baby with a pin, she will object. Her initial reflex recoil is exactly what happens in the womb after 8 weeks when the same child is painfully stimulated. Changes in heart rate and fetal movement also suggest that intrauterine manipulations are painful to the fetus.
"What the fetus feels" British Med. Journal Jan 26, 1980, pp233-234. "As early as eight to thirteen weeks gestation, the human fetus experiences organic pain".
V. Collins, M.D. American Board of Anesthesiologists.
3. What about a woman's "Right to Choose"?
The Right to Life is antecedent to all other rights. There are two different separate human beings involved in a pregnancy, and by allowing a woman to kill her child, you are denying that child the Right to Life and the 'Right to Choose' whether he can live or die.
Nobody has an unlimited right to do what they want and the right to choose can never supersede the most basic right to life.
Finally, remember that of the 50 million helpless, mute, innocent lives that are lost to surgical abortion every year, 28 million are little girls. (In Third World countries and in China, a far higher number of girls are aborted).
If by exercising your right to choose you will harm, injure, or, in the case of abortion, kill another human being then you cannot do as you choose. If for example, I wished to murder my neighbour, my neighbour's right to life would be more important than my wish or choice to kill him, and the law would prevent me from carrying out that wish. Laws are enacted to protect society from fundamental evils such as rape, assault and murder - therefore the law must protect our most defenceless citizens, the unborn children, from the horror of abortion.
4. Should abortion be allowed in the rape/incest cases?
NO!!!
Firstly, pregnancy from rape is very rare. Studies have given a figure of less than 1%.
Rape victims should be given every help and support whether or not they become pregnant; long term, compassionate counselling and assistance are needed to help to ease the trauma of such a terrible crime.
However, Abortion is not a solution to rape; it merely kills a child and creates two victims of rape.
People are led to believe that Abortion is needed, even essential, for rape victims. The opposite is true.
In the only known comprehensive study done to date by Dr. Sandra Makhorn in the USA, 85% of women who became pregnant through sexual assault, refused to have an abortion when it was offered to them.
Most of them said it was because they felt that abortion would be a second violation of their bodies. Some felt that it would be wrong to punish a baby for his father's crime.
Strangely these findings absolutely contradict the pro-abortion lobby's argument that all pregnant rape victims actively seek abortions.
Remember these studies were conducted in a country where abortion is considered normal - yet 85% of these women refused it when it was offered to them.
Many women said in Julie Makimma's excellent book "Sexual assault victims and their children" that although 10 years after the rape they had got over the trauma of rape they could not forget or forgive the terrible trauma of having an abortion.
The pro-abortion lobby actively use rape victims to further the pro-abortion cause. Kathleen De Zeean, a rape victim, says: "I feel personally assaulted and insulted every time I hear that abortion should be made legal for rape/incest victims. I feel we are being used, without being asked to tell our side"
Abortion following rape seeks to punish a child for her fathers crime. Any society based on justice cannot allow a system which condemns a child to death for the actions of another.
5. Is limited abortion - for rape victims, handicapped children etc. better that abortion on demand?
There is no such thing as limited abortion!
Arguments for limited abortion are used to introduce abortion on demand. In Britain, limited abortion was introduced in 1967 for rape victims, where the mother's health was at risk and for handicapped children. Now only .02%, only one in five thousand, of all abortions are performed for these reasons.
Similar patterns can be seen in almost all other countries which have abortion on demand, including the United States.
No matter what the reason for abortion - remember - the child always dies.
6. But aren't the "Pro-Choice" (Pro-Death) lobby for youth, for women and for the poor?
NO!!!
Abortion is war on youth because it kills the youngest and most defenceless of all young people - the unborn.
Abortion is war on women because it causes physical and mental ill-health. It leads to disrespect for women and attacks, such as rape, on women - in America where an abortion is performed every 23 seconds a rape occurs every 6 minutes. This is because where there is abortion, the traditional respect for women as nurturers of life and mothers, is broken down. Where there is no respect for life there can be no respect for women.
Abortion has been a war on the poor from the very beginning. Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood, the worldwide promoters of abortion, stated that "the kindest thing a large family can do to one of its members is to kill it". Planned Parenthood states that compulsory abortion and sterilisation should be legalised for the poor - if this seems like fantasy read the article in FC issue 9 detailing the atrocities carried out against Third World women by their respective governments with the backing of International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Abortion, far from being a compassionate caring service, is a money-making racket. The abortion industry is controlled and financed by millionaires like -
Rockerfeller Brothers
Ford Motor Foundation
Chase Manhattan Bank
International Planned Parenthood Ltd.
World Bank
Abortion has a devastating effect on society. When society accepts the murder of unborn children as a legal right, then that society's attitude towards murder in general will in time, change. United Nations figures show that Ireland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world. This is because it has not become numbed by the legalised butchery of abortion. In a society where human life is cheapened by abortion, all weaker members of that society are threatened by the uncaring anti-life mentality that abortion creates.
7. But won't pregnant women commit suicide if abortion is not available?
NO!
The Minnesota Maternal Mortality Committee studies conducted between 1950 and 1966 show that non-pregnant female suicides averaged 3.5 per 100,000 and pregnant female suicides averaged 0.6 per 100,000.
Suicide in pregnant women is extremely rare. Doctors Allan J. Rosenburg and Emmanuel Silver found in a study of three counties in Northern California that the number of suicides of pregnant women was roughly a sixth of that of non-pregnant women of the same age group.
A study in Sweden of 304 patients whose request for therapeutic abortion had been refused observed that not one actually committed suicide, although 62 indicated that they would if their request was refused.
This is naturally of relevance in Ireland at the moment. Records clearly show that suicide associated with pregnancy and early post natal period is very rare indeed. Whether it be effects of the hormone changes in pregnancy or some other factor, pregnancy is protective against suicide. Over the last 12 years for which records are available in the UK (1973-1984) there were only 14 such suicides in the whole of England and Wales; this included suicides up to one year of delivery. (A suicide rate of 1.9 per million births!)
In these cases the victims were psychiatrically ill at the time of their death, with schizophrenia and alcohol dependence being important factors. (British medical journal, 1991, vol. 302, pages 126 - 127) For comparison in the same 12 year period there were 5275 suicides in women aged 15-44 years (child-bearing years) in England and Wales. In order to make a valid comparison between these two figures, it is necessary to calculate the suicide rates per 100,000 pregnancies and 100,000 women of child-bearing age respectively. For suicide within 1 year of pregnancy/childbirth the figure is 0.19 per 100,000 births and for suicides in women of child-bearing age the figure is 3.5 per 100,000. i.e., the risk of suicide associated with pregnancy is 1/18 of that of non-pregnant women!
Furthermore, it has been shown that if the woman is suicidal in pregnancy, she is more likely to respond to proper psychiatric treatment than she is by having an abortion, which increases her depression and also increased the risk of severe post abortion psychosis. (Psychiatric journal of the university of Ottawa, 1989, vol. 14 pages 506 - 515).
8. Is the drug RU486 not an alternative to abortion?
NO!
RU486 is a drug that produces an abortion. It is taken after the mother misses her period. It's effect is to block the use of an essential hormonal nutrient by the newly implanted baby, who then dies. It does not prevent fertilisation. It is used only after the mother has missed her period and the baby is already 3 weeks old, with a beating heart. It is no longer effective after 6 weeks.
RU486 kills a developing unborn baby after her heart has begun to beat. The foetal heart begins to beat when the woman is four days late for her period. This pill is always administered after that, and up to her seventh week. Taken alone, the pills kill 85% of unborn babies. If followed with an expensive shot of prostaglandin, the toll goes to over 95%.
RU486 will cause the death of thousands of women in Third World countries. Prolonged and severe bleeding is common with this drug. In one major study, one woman in every hundred needed a D&C to stop the bleeding. This was in a tightly controlled clinical trial, in a very sophisticated atmosphere. In a Third World village the pills will be handed out by a health care worker, who then will leave. Because of preexisting anaemia in many women, severe and prolonged bleeding will be far more dangerous since in many areas there are no hospitals, methods of surgical stopping of the bleeding, and no transfusions available. Many of these women will bleed to death. At least one woman died from RU486 in France last year.
It also causes severe foetal deformity in surviving babies. It deprives the developing baby of vital nutrient hormone - progesterone - at the crucial time when the body structure and the organs are being formed. This powerful, poisonous, artificial steroid will kill most of these unborn babies, but not all. Those who survive will have a significant probability of major defects, including major limb deformities similar to those caused by the drug Thalidomide.
This drug may have an action similar to DES, which was used in the 60s to prevent miscarriage and which turned out to be a chemical time bomb. RU486 can also, in the body, react chemically to produce a free radical. This can combine with DNA, the genetic building blocks of our bodies. Through this mechanism foetal deformity can be produced at birth, and/or possibly show up 20 or more years later as a malformation or even cancer such as DES did. It is even possible that it could unite with maternal DNA to produce cancer or foetal defects in subsequent offspring.
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