Rejecting Abortion Using Obama's Argument

On Friday, January 23, Barack Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy -- this means that Americans are now paying for abortions all over the world. Not only this, but Obama's adminstration promises to sign into law the FOCA (The Freedom of Choice Act), an act that would practically remove all state-level restrictions on abortion.

Our president stated in his Call to Renewal address, "Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all."

It seems, then, that our president ought to ban abortion if a valid argument, apart from religion, can be made as to why it is an immoral act. While many would say this cannot be done, it is actually very easy to make such an argument.

In fact, it is not only possible to make an argument, but to make the argument very well, and quite strong. "In his book Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, Randy Alcorn notes a number of completely secular arguments for why abortion should be prohibited by law [one of them being that m]edical textbooks and scientific reference works consistently agree that human life begins at conception. Some of the world's most prominent scientists and physicians' testimonies to Congress have asserted this scientific fact.

One might add to Alcorn's remarks that there is without question considerably more scientific evidence for life beginning at conception than there is for global warming. Yet the president earnestly supports protection of the environment and dismisses the need for protecting the unborn. Is that reasonable?

"If there is uncertainty about when human life begins, the benefit of the doubt should go to preserving life," says Alcorn. "If a hunter is uncertain whether movement in the brush is caused by a person, does this uncertainty lead him to fire or not to fire? If you're driving at night and you think the dark figure ahead on the road may be a child, but it may just be the shadow of a tree, do you drive into it or do you put on the brakes? If we find someone who may be dead or alive, but we're not sure, what is the best policy -- to assume he is alive and try to save him, or to assume he is dead and walk away?"

What faith group or atheists would honestly say go ahead and fire at the unknown object behind the bush, go ahead and drive into the dark and unknown figure on the road, or even walk away from the person that has questionably fallen dead or alive -- even if it's me? Whether a person of faith or not, the right to life is not something theoretical or hypothetical -- it's personal and fundamental to all...and an unjustifiable or careless breach of that right is universally agreed to be a crime."

President Obama, the case has been efficiently and sufficiently made by many people. Please, look at the facts, and repeal and prohibit those laws advancing the termination of the life within the womb.

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Immigrants keep customs - prefer sons over daughters

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 1/18/2009 4:05:00 AM

Researchers contend sex-selection abortions are reducing female births, and some of that is occurring in the United States.

Female babies are being aborted largely by Asian immigrant families in America, based on the age-old cultural prejudices in their home countries. Bill Saunders of Family Research Council is saddened but not surprised.

"We know that around the world in countries of their origin there is a fair amount of sex-selection abortion, in India and China in particular," he notes.

Saunders also notices the irony of the situation. "Pro-life people are often accused of being anti-woman," he points out. "The fact of the matter is legalized abortion is resulting in the disappearance of what demographers call the 'girl child' around the world because a lot of potential parents are using medical technology to abort the girls."

These women, according to Saunders, receive sonograms to determine the baby's sex and often choose to abort the baby if it is a girl. He adds that there is nothing illegal about that process. "Here in America you can have an abortion any time and for any reason, except partial-birth abortion," he says.

Saunders believes sex-selection abortion is especially prevalent among the immigrant groups if they have had a girl first, and then want only a boy for the second child.

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YouTube Censorship

The pro-life group Live Action is taking issue with YouTube over allegations of censorship.

Spokeswoman Lila Rose had posted videos proving that a caller offered donations to Planned Parenthood on the basis of using the money to abort black babies; and that the organization accepted the offer, in some cases "gleefully." But YouTube, according to a report from LifeNews.com, has blocked four videos over the past two months, labeling them as "inappropriate content."

"Those videos were up for over seven months. They garnered national media attention," says Rose. "They had together 160,000 views, and in just the past few weeks YouTube, one by one, has been taking them off [and] has been banning them from the website," she argues.

To Rose's knowledge, the videos did not violate YouTube policies. "[W]e are definitely concerned about this censorship. The videos need to be back up," she continues. "They tell an important story for the American public to know about this huge corporation that gets taxpayer money...."

Rose contends that Planned Parenthood receives roughly $300 milllion in taxpayer funds each year.

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One of the videos mentioned is one included in this post over here.

Baby Survives Abortion

Baby Pronounced Dead Lives After Hours in Cooler

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital's refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and then we saw her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's mother.

The baby was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother's pregnancy because of internal bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we don't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said.

The baby was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.

Motti Ravid, a professor of internal medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature inside the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

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What Does This Mean?

Over the past week and a half we've seen that size does not equal value, level of awareness does not make someone more or less human, where you are has no bearing on who you are, and degree of dependency does not affect personhood.

The end result of this is that the most common arguments for abortion are defeated, and we see that the unborn is human. As humans their life needs to be respected. Abortion is not the way to go about "getting rid of your problem." There are many couples in the world who want to have children but are unable to. Adoption is a great way to give your child life, and save yourself a lot of heartache, while fulfilling the dream of someone else. You have a choice. Choose life.



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Dependency

The past several posts we've seen how size does not equal value, level of self-awareness does not make someone more or less human, and where you are has no bearing on who you are. The last commonly thought of difference between us and the fetus is degree of dependancy. After all, the unborn is dependent on its mother for nutrition. But we see that minors are dependant on their parents or guardians, and the elderly often dependant on their children - or diabetics dependent on insulin.  So why would a fetus being dependent on his/her mother make him or her less human? It doesn't. Dependency on someone or something does not make one have more or less human or un-human.


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The Environment

Size does not indicate value, and level of self-awareness does not make someone more or less human. So what is another commonly thought of different between the fetus in the womb, and you? Well, environment, of course! But this also does not affect human nature. You do not change in nature if you walk across the street or if you go to another country or if you visit outer space. So if you can travel these great differences and still remain a human, why would 8 inches down a birth canal suddenly make one human? It doesn't. Where you are has no bearing on who you are.

Next time we will look at one more difference between us and the fetus.


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