Posted on 01/20/2004 2:15:21 PM PST by cpforlife.org
What a difference a year makes.
The map above has been updated to reflect the number of children murdered by surgical abortion in this past year, about 1.4 million in the U.S., roughly half the population of Mississippi, shaded in red. When added to the 17 states in black, this equals a population of 44,000,000. It's the sickening truth America,
44 MILLION innocent babies have been dismembered by surgical abortion since Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973.
The war on Terrorism:
To try to get some additional perspective on this number, lets look at the war on terrorism. Some 3,000 people died in the horrific attacks of 9-11-01. The number of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq since the war began last March of 2003 reached 500 in the last several days. Also earlier this month we suffered the 100th fatality in the U.S. military's two-year Afghan campaign. So we as a nation have lost some 3,600 people from the attacks of 9-11-01, AND all combat on the war on terror in the last 27 months. That is less than ONE DAY of killing for the abortionists.
What if every day, for the last two years, 3,600 Americans died at the hands of terrorists? Imagine if 2,600 service men and women were brought home in boxes every day; and terrorists butchered another 1,000 civilians here at home—every day. What would that do to our nation—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually?
Unimaginable.
From an unborn person’s perspective things are worse, much worse. Every day for the last 31 years, about 4,000 Americans HAVE died at the hands of terrorists!
About one out every fourth pregnancy in America is ended by abortion.
Abortionists are the most lethal and brutal terrorists in the world. Their kill rate is over 99%, far deadlier than any of Saddam’s henchmen. The pain abortionists inflict on unborn children older than 16-20 weeks is far more excruciating than the most vicious forms of torture Uday and Qusay ever used on their poor victims.
The last 31 years of “legalized” abortion has severely damaged this nation’s sense of basic right and wrong. As the CULTure of death metastasizes, nearly every imaginable attack against the Family and of innocent life has come to pass or is being seriously discussed.
Abortion is a very depressing subject, one we would prefer not to think about. But avoiding the topic and wishing it would go away is as effective as on any other deadly condition.
BUT WHAT CAN I DO TO STOP IT?
CLICK THIS LINK TO A LIST OF 56 DIFFERENT THINGS TO DO. THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE LIST FOR EVERYONE.
Beyond that there is only one thing (earthly speaking) that will end this culture of death. Comprehensive education, on the sanctity of life before birth, beginning in pre-K and lasting through high school. This will have to be done in order to have a sufficient populace who votes Pro-Life. There simply is NO other way to get the needed votes.
See #60.
You insist on ignoring the difference between a legal matter and a moral matter.
You are straying from my original argument that abortion is not legally a crime of murder. Remember, the original contention was that abortion was murder.
verity: "You are straying from my original argument that abortion is not legally a crime of murder. Remember, the original contention was that abortion was murder."
The fact is Government has no authority to decree a crime a "right". That is what Roe did by ignoring the Constitution and the facts of science.
You both seem to prefer the secular arguments, OK here are some answers to your request.
We will focus on 4 main areas
1. The unborn person as recognized by law.
2. That pro-abortionists admit that abortion kills babies.
3. The scientific facts of Life before Birth.
4. The importance of teaching our children about life before birth.
One False objection the Roe court had to the unborn as a person interpretation is the lack of precedent to support it. But there was a federal court precedent for the unborn as a person reading of the Fourteenth Amendment just 3 years before Roe v. Wade, though this fact was virtually ignored by Justice Harry Blackmun and the Roe Court.
From Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion
The common law basis of our system embodied in the principle of stare decisis and the just requirements of consistency in applying the law demand a respect for precedent. To this objection I offer two replies. First, there was a federal court precedent for the unborn person reading of Fourteenth Amendment before Roe v. Wade, though this fact was virtually ignored by Justice Harry Blackmun and the Roe Court.
In Steinberg v. Brown (1970) a three-judge federal district court upheld an anti-abortion statute, stating that privacy rights "must inevitably fall in conflict with express provisions of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."
After relating the biological facts of fetal development, the court stated that "those decisions which strike down state abortion statutes by equating contraception and abortion pay no attention to the facts of biology."
"Once new life has commenced," the court wrote, "the constitutional protections found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments impose upon the state the duty of safeguarding it."
Yet in commenting on the unborn person argument in Roe, Justice Blackmun wrote that "the appellee conceded on reargument that no case could be cited that holds that a fetus is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment." He did so despite the fact that he had cited the case just five paragraphs earlier!
The failure of both appellees and the Court to treat this case is both unfortunate and inexplicable. Second, while our system is based upon a reasonable and healthy respect for precedent, this has never prevented the Court from revisiting and modifying precedent when the erroneous foundation and unjust results of that precedent become manifest. Such is the case with respect to abortion and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Pro-Choice Advocates Agree that Abortion Kills Humans.
http://www.leaderu.com/humanities/casey/ch3.html#S4
Many abortion advocates have agreed that abortion kills human life: A 1963 Planned Parenthood brochure says that life begins at conception: This is a direct quote "An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun."
Similarly, Dr. Mary Calderone, former director of Planned Parenthood has stated that "abortion is the taking of a human life"
Dr. Magda Denes who performed two years of research in an abortion facility and compiled her results told a Chicago newspaper "There wasn’t an (abortion) doctor who at one time or another in the questioning did not say ‘this is murder.’"
When does life begin? We have ABSOLUTE Irrefutable truth, Scientific proof
http://www.roevwade.org/upl39.html
* In 1981, a US Senate committee held hearings on when human life begins. Speaking on behalf of the scientific community was a group of internationally known geneticists and biologists who had the same story to tell, namely, that human life begins at conception - and they told their story with a profound absence of opposing testimony.
Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth, Harvard medical School, gave confirming testimony, supported by references from over 20 embryology and other medical textbooks that human life begins at conception.
* "The Father of Modern Genetics" Dr. Jerome Lejeune told the lawmakers: "To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion ... it is plain experimental evidence. Human life begins at conception "
* Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman, Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic, added: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception."
Dr. McCarthy de Mere, medical doctor and law professor, University of Tennessee, testified: "The exact moment of the beginning of personhood and of the human body is at the moment of conception."
* Dr. Landrum Shettles, sometimes called the "Father of In Vitro Fertilization" notes, "Conception confers life and makes that life one of a kind." And on the Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, "To deny a truth [about when life begins] should not be made a basis for legalizing abortion."
* Professor Eugene Diamond on the Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade: "...either the justices were fed a backwoods biology or they were pretending ignorance about a scientific certainty."
14 weeks
15 weeks, Hey look this non-viable disposable blob of tissue is sucking it’s thumb
16 weeks
18 weeks
Let’s review the milestones of a person’s life before they are born:
· By the seventh day of life, the new person is planted in the uterus, home for the next nine months.
· By day 17, the blood cells and the heart are formed.
· By day 24, there is a heartbeat.
· By six weeks, the child’s nervous system is controlling their body. He or she now looks distinctly human. Throughout pregnancy the child is mostly in control--even to what day they will be born.
· By day 45, the baby has his own brain waves, which he will keep for life.
· By seven weeks, he has all the internal organs of an adult (though he weighs only one-thirtieth of an ounce and is less than one inch long.)
· By eight weeks, all external organs are formed, by nine to ten weeks, he can drink and breath amniotic fluid.
· From this age on is just a matter of time for growth. Before he is born, he can suck his thumb, cry (if he had air), and recognize his mother's voice and heartbeat.
· By the fourth month the child weighs about 5 ounces and is between 6 and 7 inches long. He has developing fingernails and eyelashes, and already has unique fingerprints that will remain the same for the rest of his life.
· At 32 weeks of gestation - two months before a baby is considered fully prepared for the world, or "at term" - a fetus is behaving almost exactly as a newborn. And it continues to do so for the next 12 weeks.
· By nine weeks, a developing fetus can hiccup and react to loud noises. By the end of the 2nd trimester it can hear.
· Just as adults do, the fetus experiences the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep of dreams.
· The fetus savors its mother's meals, first picking up the food tastes of a culture in the womb.
· Among other mental feats, the fetus can distinguish between the voice of Mom and that of a stranger, and respond to a familiar story read to it.
· Before the first trimester is over, it yawns, sucks, and swallows, as well as feels and smells. By the end of the second trimester, he or she can hear; toward the end of pregnancy, can see.
This so called “Women’s Right to Choose…to abort her baby” has as its foundation, three main points:
1. It must ignore universally acknowledged biological facts,
2. It denies federal and state laws that clearly identify the unborn as a person with rights.
3. It promotes a blatant lie that “It’s” a woman’s body” When clearly “IT” is her baby within her body.
Pro aborts often say: “Do not quote religious or moral codes” And yet the founder of NARAL used religious and moral codes as a wedge to create dissension against religious and moral leaders by their followers in favor of abortion. He also admitted to lying about every statistic to show a false need for legalized abortion. It’s all here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1030729/posts?page=12#12
“Abortion and euthanasia are crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.’" (The Gospel of Life, no. 73)
The single most important thing we can do as Christians is to teach our children about the sanctity of life before birth, and promote this to all of our friends and our families.
Note from a friend: I gave my 10-year-old daughter a little book filled with the most marvelous actual photos of unborn babies in all phases of pregnancy. When she started hearing about abortion, I would show her pictures of the tiniest, most perfectly formed little babies, and explain that some people didn't think these were actually little humans and it was ok to kill them. She was very disturbed and troubled by this. She said if everyone had this book, no one would ever kill their babies. And with that I MUST say that comprehensive education for school-aged children is THE MISSING KEY OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT .
Since the decision of Roe v. Wade, tens of millions of Christian school students could have received a Pro-Life education. This group would today constitute a huge voting block; and with them, the culture of death might have already been defeated.
We must start with being mindful that young children are naturally pro-life. Ask a young child who has a pregnant mother what is inside his mother's “tummy,” and he will likely respond that it is his baby brother or sister. It is so simple to a child.
The sad reality is that the duration of the abortion holocaust is prolonged by Christians who vote for pro-abortion candidates. This can only end with a new generation of Christians fully educated on the sanctity of Life before birth.
“The solution to ending the culture of death does not realistically lie with changing the minds of pro-abortion adults; it lies with preserving the 99+ % of children that are naturally pro-life on their first day of school.”
Roe v Wade is null and void. It is the invalid fiat ruling of 7 men. It has as much validity as the Dredd Scott decision or of the Nazi courts. It is the antithesis of both the Declaration and the Constitution. Yes it’s ruling has the effect of law, just as the case in Slavery and just as in the case in Nazi Germany. If it is not overturned it will one day be understood as one of the main factors in what would destroy our Republic.
Now verity & tpaine, I'm sure you will have great comebacks attempting to negate all my points. I will offer more:
Ten Legal Reasons to Reject Roe at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058038/posts
and
New Perspectives on the Defense of the Unborn as a Constitutional Issue at http://www.priestsforlife.org/government/intro.htm
Governments are transitory, they come and they go. The classification of certain acts as crimes has been consistent in the collective human conscience throughout written history, no matter how a particular government defines it at any given time. Killing innocent human beings without just cause has always been defined as murder by civilized men and women of all societies and nations. The same definition of murder still exists in modern America, only the definition of what constitutes a human being has been changed, and that by judicial fiat without the consent of the governed.
In 17th and 18th century America it wasn't a prosecutable crime for a slave owner to kill a rebellious slave because slaves were classified as property and not as human beings. I suppose you would say that it wasn't murder because the government of that time didn't classify it as such. After 1865 the same act was a prosecutable crime anywhere in the U.S. But the act was no less murder before that time than after, only the former slave's legal status was changed because the government in control at the time changed the law. Likewise, just because the U.S. government inpower at this particular period of time has re-classified unborn children as non-persons doesn't change the historical definition of murder as the taking of life without just cause.
Killing the innocent was murder in Nazi Germany and communist USSR although not defined as such by the governments of that time and place, and it's still murder in the US no matter what pro-abortionists like you say or want to believe.
The fact is Government has no authority to decree a crime a "right".
In Roe the USSC said that states could not ~decree~ early term abortion to be murder.. States were, & are, free to prosecute ~any~ murder indictment brought foward with due process.
That is what Roe did by ignoring the Constitution and the facts of science.
You are ignoring our constitutional due process, not I..
While we are terrorizing the unborn, we should not look for, nor expect, any respite from the terror which stalks us in the form of Islamic fundamentalism. Doesn't it strike anyone as incongruous that we are standing before God, pleading with Him to free us from this scourge and allow us to live in peace, all the while with the blood of over 30 million unborn babies dripping from our hands? Does anyone truly believe that our lives are somehow more valuable or precious to God than those of the unborn whom we have slaughtered?
God's response to us will be the same as it was to Cain: "Where is thy brother? What have you done to him?".
In Old Testament times, Israel periodically turned its back on God and disobeyed His laws. As a result, it was given over to pagan, barbaric attackers who plundered her and dragged her into captivity, exile and ruin.
The same has happened to us. As a result of our contempt for human life we have been given over to the assaults of barbarian armies. The degree and extent to which these attackers lay waste to our country and bring ruin to us, depends on our response to God's command "thou shalt not kill".
Cordially,
Early term abortion? The other premeditated companion case, Bolton, opened the loophole to allow the killing of the innocent up to the moment of birth. What Roe "gives", Bolton takes away, as evidenced by the SC's decision on the Colorado live birth abortion case. The question is though, does the USSC have the actual authority under the Constitution or any precedent whatsoever to decree such abominations? The answer from any civilized person is NO. Roe and Bolton are the worst, most irrational, and downright evil judicial decisions in the history of this nation.
Cordially,
I ask both of you, verity & tpaine, to please enlighten us.
The way I see it, if this were 1860, you would both be defending the abomination of slavery because the SCOTUS decided Dredd Scott and the "right" to own slaves was the law of the land.
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