ABORTION : THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT : PART 1

Last Updated : March 19, 2009

History Of This Series, 1973 Roe v. Wade Ruling, War Against
Life Begins, The Perpetrators, 46,000,000+ Unseen Victims In
USA Since 1973, 1.3 Million Annual US Abortions, Legality Of
Late-Term Abortions, Fetal Viability, Shocking Comparisons,
Fetuses Do Feel Pain, The Hippocratic Oath Condemns Abortion,
Roe v. Wade Not Overturned In 36 Years, Abortion & Politics,
Barack Obama's Position On Abortion, Freedom Of Choice Act,
G. Bush's Efforts To Contain Abortion, Bill Clinton's Record,
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Supreme Court & Appeals Court
Appointments, Child Custody Protection Act & Its Exceptions,
Parental Consent & Parental Notification, South Dakota Bills,
Defining An Abortionist, Right To Privacy Deception & Cover,
Due Process Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Fundamental Rights



Introduction:

The following series is the result of a writing project that
spans a period of approximately fourteen years. It began as
a series of online conversations that I had with members of
our BBS, (Bulletin Board Service), during the early to mid
1990's. These various conversations were eventually combined
into a lengthy article entitled "Abortion, Birth Control And
Promiscuity", and published on our Endtime Prophecy Net web
site in 1997. From that time until now, I have occasionally
held other online conversations regarding abortion, via our
Endtime Discuss Group Exchange, (EDGE), Mailing List, our
Endtime Prophecy Org Messageboard, our Armageddon FreeShare
server, and via other online avenues which I've frequented.
At the same time, over the past twelve years since I first
published "Abortion, Birth Control And Promiscuity", I have
also continued to expand my personal understanding of the
abortion issue, and have solidified my position regarding
it.

In light of the new information that I have acquired, since
several years ago, I have been wanting to update my original
article, but just contemplating the sheer magnitude of the
job before me made it difficult to begin. Thankfully, as a
result of recent online conversations which centered on this
same issue, I was finally motivated to put my hands to the
plough, (or more accurately, to the keyboard), and to tackle
this project once and for all.

This series is basically divided into two sections. Without
becoming overly burdensome or filled with weighty, confusing
legalese which perhaps only a legal scholar would be able to
understand, the first part of the series examines the legal
and political aspects of the abortion issue in recent years.
It also briefly and simply explains how the right to obtain
an abortion became the law of the land in 1973. The latter
half of the series changes gears, and addresses some of the
arguments and questions which have been posed by some of the
individuals with whom I've communicated over the years, and
offers Biblical responses to their inquiries and challenges.

Please understand that due to the very depth and complexity
of this issue, this series does not claim to examine every
single facet of the abortion debate. You won't find every
single state law discussed in these pages. You may not find
every single argument, either in favor of abortion, or else
against abortion, examined herein. However, it is my opinion
that sufficient information has been provided here, to assist
you in making an informed and knowledgeable choice regarding
the issue of abortion.

It is my hope and prayer that you will find the following
series enlightening and informative, and that it will have a
positive effect on your life. In addition to reading this
series, I encourage you to avail yourself of the additional
information and files which are to be found in the abortion
section of the Endtime Prophecy Net website. Finally, if you
are blessed by what you are about to read, please consider
sharing the URL to the series with your friends far and wide.
Thank you so much! You may just save an unborn child!

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It was thirty-six years ago, in January of 1973, that the
United States Supreme Court made a ruling which is legally
known as 410 U.S. 113. Today, most people know this historic
ruling as Roe v. Wade. With the stroke of a pen, a terrible
war was initiated; the execution of which doesn't rely upon
bombs, or jets, or guns, or tanks, but rather upon a group
of men and women, who when they entered their profession,
took a vow to protect, to preserve, and to save life. In an
utterly bizarre twist of their pledge, and their duties as
the guardians of life, over the past thirty-six years, they
have made a mockery of their chosen profession, and have in
fact been directly responsible for taking the lives of an
estimated forty-six million innocents in the United States
alone; and this is only the figure for acknowledged legal
abortions.

Rarely, if ever, will you see their victims, and much less
hear them; because their lives are snuffed out before they
have even had a chance to come to term, and take their first
small breath. Such is the cruelty and barbarity of legalized
abortion. The tragedy of this war against life, is that it
is relentlessly waged in a nation which claims to be founded
upon Christian principles, which teach us that all life is
sacred in the eyes of our Creator. To this day, this ungodly
war continues to be carried out under a cloak of deception
by its perpetrators, and feigned ignorance by their willing
accomplices, the would-be mothers and fathers.

According to figures that were released in 2001 by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control, and also by the Alan Guttmacher
Institute, the aforementioned figure means that an estimated
1.3 million legal abortions have been performed in the United
States every year for the past thirty-six years. Based upon
that annual average, the prolifeaction.org website provides
the following breakdown regarding at what stage of gestation
these abortions have occurred:

Gestational Age --- Percentage - Yearly Total

Less than 9 weeks - 57.9% ------ 752,700
9-10 weeks -------- 20.3% ------ 263,900
11-12 weeks ------- 10.2% ------ 132,600
13-15 weeks -------- 6.2% ------- 80,600
16-20 weeks -------- 4.3% ------- 55,900
21+ weeks ---------- 1.5% ------- 19,500

As you can see, this means that just over eighty-eight per
cent of all abortions occur during the first twelve weeks of
a woman's pregnancy. The "Center for Bio-Ethical Reform" web
site provides slightly different percentages. Consider the
following:

Gestational Age --- Percentage

Less than 9 weeks - 52%
9-10 weeks -------- 25%
11-12 weeks ------- 12%
13-15 weeks -------- 6%
16-20 weeks -------- 4%
21+ weeks ---------- 1%

While I find all of the above figures troubling, the last one
is the most alarming of all. It tells us that 1% to 1.5%, or
16,450 to 19,500 annual abortions in the United States, occur
after the twentieth week of pregnancy. Folks, we are talking
about a fetus that is five months old, or possibly older. If
nothing else in this series motivates you to strongly oppose
abortion, then it's my sincere hope that this one figure will
give you sufficient reason to want to oppose it. As you can
plainly see, when we discuss the issue of abortion, we aren't
always talking about "just a clump of cells", as many people
ignorantly claim. If you are wondering why it is even legally
possible for a woman or minor teen to obtain an abortion at
such a late stage of fetal development, it is because Roe v.
Wade ruled that a woman can abort her baby for any reason, up
until, in the words of the court document, "the interim point
at which the fetus becomes viable." The Supreme Court defined
the word "viable" as being:

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"potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit
with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about
seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24
weeks"

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The US Supreme Court also held that even after the point of
viability has been reached, abortion must still be available
to a woman, when it is needed to protect her health. That is
why late-term abortions are legally possible within the USA.

I'd like to ask you to stop and think about that total figure
for a moment:

46,000,000 legal abortions in the USA since 1973

46,000,000 unborn children slaughtered since 1973



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