abortions
...ers of abortions each year that I have already stated, but many of these abortions may happen in some back alley. A. Many people have not been educated to know what an abortion is. 1. An abortion is the expulsion of the products of conception before the embryo or fetus is viable. Any interruption of human pregnancy prior to the 28th week is known as abortion. B. Following are some startling quotations and statistics that most people are not aware of. 1. A pro-choice nurse of 10 years was assigned to an abortion clinic for three days. She thought this would not be a problem, but this is what she says about her experience: As she stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform an abortion on a minor who was six months pregnant. The baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving, his little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brain out. Now the baby was completely limp. She never went back to the clinic. But she is still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen. 2. 80% of these abortions are not for medical reasons, like to keep the mother alive or complications with the baby, but purely for elective and social reasons. The mother just simply decides that she doesn't want the baby. Has this become a form of birth control? C. With this type of procedure legal, are this causing confusion and the value of life to go down, in the minds of our generation, and the generations to come? Educating ourselves about this topic will help. Satisfaction Step II Abortion needs to be made a federal crime. A. Our community can help with this by education. B. In 1973, the Supreme Court passed a law 1. The act states that a physian, or anyone, commits a federal crime if they except for in the case that the mother's life is endangered, that is if no other medical procedure would take care of her. 3. Dr. Pamela Smith, Director of Medical Education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago, said, "There are absolutely no obstetrical situations encountered in this country which require a partially delivered human fetus to be destroyed to preserve the health of the mother." (Shafer, 1995) 2. A baby’s heart begins to beat at only 24 days after conception, and brain waves can be recorded at only 43 days. A baby can survive outside the mother only 6 months after conception. Visualization Step IV ...