Deuteronomy 12:31: “You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every
abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their
sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.”
Leviticus 18:21: “You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane
the name of your God: I am the Lord.”
Session 2 – Abortion Pt.2
What are the differences between the fertilized egg (or unborn child) and us?
Sled Size
Level of development
Environment
Degree of dependency
Do any of these things justify an abortion?
Most of these things can be applied to a baby/toddler as well
Potential Human or Human with potential?
When you are looking at an unborn baby, some people
look at it like a car assembly
Would you say the first few parts to a car makes a car? Or is it just a car in the making?
It’s not like a car line though
It’s more like film that needs to be
developed
It’s not that the picture is being made, it’s that the picture is there,
it just needs to be developed
Why do doctors still offer the abortions?
In 2009, the average cost of a nonhospital
abortion with local anesthesia at 10 weeks
of gestation was $451 (AGI).
1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they
have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
The fact that people are willing to kill a baby for money shows you just how sinful
the human race is
“I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and similarly I will not give
a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.”
“οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον, οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαι συμβουλίην τοιήνδε ὁμοίως δὲ οὐδὲ γυναικὶ πεσσὸν φθόριον δώσω. ἁγνῶς δὲ καὶ ‧
ὁσίως διατηρήσω βίον τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ τέχνην τὴν ἐμήν.”
You’ve heard of the Hippocratic Oath?
The oath has some issues, but it got this right
Psalm 82:3-4: "Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Shouldn’t we mind our own business?
How can Christians do this?
Legislation and creating laws that prevent abortions is one way
Helping those who are pregnant and struggling is another way!
What about those who kill abortion doctors?“The murder of Doctor George Tiller is an abhorrent act of violence, and his family is in our thoughts and prayers
at this tragic moment. Federal law enforcement is coordinating with local law enforcement officials in Kansas on the investigation of this crime, and I have directed the United States Marshals Service to offer protection to other appropriate people and facilities
around the nation. The Department of Justice will work to bring the perpetrator of this crime to justice. As a
precautionary measure, we will also take appropriate steps to help prevent any related acts of violence from
occurring.” - US Attorney General Eric Holder
Would it be consistent with
our Biblical beliefs to believe it is wrong to kill
an abortion doctor?
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012,
in Newtown, Connecticut when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult
staff members
If you had a gun and were at the school when the shooting took place, would you kill the man
shooting the children?
Would you be seen as a murderer or hero by our public for killing the man shooting the children?
Why would the unborn child be less entitled to being defended as those children in the school?
I am NOT saying to go kill abortion doctors, I am saying if we really believe what we say, it would be no
different than killing a murderer who is shooting children
Abortions also are very harmful to the mother
In 2007, 6 women died as a result of complications from known legal induced abortion
The September 17, 2003 abortion saw Milton
Nathanson, then employed by Hodari, do an abortion on
Johnson. She died the next day from "anoxic encephalopahy
due to cardiac arrest" resulting from the abortion, according
to official reports.
Lead researcher Dr Robbert van Oppenraaij presented his findings before the collegium of
scientists today at the annual European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in
Amsterdam. He says one induced abortion raisers the risk of premature birth in a next pregnancy by 20 percent. Two or more abortions raises the risk
by 90 percent and doubles the risk of a very premature birth, at 34 weeks or less.
Many studies have been done to show the massive emotional impact that an abortion can have on the
mother AND the father
Abortion also has an economic impact The calculated annual impact on national income of 1,500,000 economically active
additional lives would be… Men: $24,409 (1) X .474 (2) X 1,500,000 (3) X 2.5 (4) = $43,386,997,500
Women: $10,899 (1) X .526 (2) X 1,500,000 (3) X 2.5 (4) = $21,498,277,500TOTAL additional annual national income: $64,885,275,000
Since 1973, approximately 50 million potential American children have been aborted. If they had all lived, their economic impact in the year 2008 (in 1984 dollars) would
have been roughly:Men: 50,000,000 X $24,409 X .474 X 2.5 = $1,446,233,250,000Women: 50,000,000 X 10,899 X .526 X 2.5 = $716,609,250,000TOTAL: $2,162,842,500,000
Assuming that approximately 20% of income is absorbed by Federal taxes of one sort or another, these never-to-
exist taxpayers would have generated nearly $116 billion in tax revenues in that year (2010) alone.
Rebuttals to the common reasons to have an abortion
- The women should have the right to choose, - it’s her body
Germany was Hitler’ country, does that mean
he is justified for killing the Jews inside his
country?
Exodus 20:13 - “Thou shalt not kill.”
No it’s not her body
“Less than half of teens who become mothers before age 18 graduate from high school. College students who become pregnant and give birth are also much
less likely to complete their education than their peers.”
- Negative Impact on the Mother's Life
They should have been more careful first off…
Don’t murder a baby for your mistake…
Adoption is always an option once the child is born…
This view is also inconsistent, why shouldn’t it carry to outside the womb? If a child become a
negative impact after they are born why can’t they be killed then by the mother?
Obviously the answer is because murder is wrong
and even if she doesn’t want to, the mother has a
responsibility to take care of the child, or give them up for adoption if they can’t
- Financial Instability
This should also apply to kids outside the womb then…
The claim that people having abortions are poor and can’t afford the child are also exaggerated…
Who's having abortions (income)? Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions;
Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%;
Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.
The majority of people having abortions can afford the child… the other ones who cannot should
consider adoption!
- Abortions done early on isn’t murder
52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th
week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and
1% of all abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.
But if what we’ve already discussed is true, the age of the baby (1 week or 25 weeks) doesn’t change
that it’s murder
The majority of abortions are done when the baby is older then you see in this
picture! And you can clearly tell it’s a human!
Scientists know that it’s a human from the point of conception! Just because its less developed doesn’t mean its not a living person, you’re more developed
than you’re child, but that doesn’t mean your child isn’t alive!
- The baby can’t survive on it’s own so its not alive in the normal sense
You’re two year old child can’t survive on his/her
own…
You naked/alone with no supplies on the North Pole can’t survive either…
A paralyzed person can’t survive alone either…
What if you were stuck there… and someone had the opportunity to save you? Would it be wrong not to?
- Peer pressure from family and friends
Peer-pressure from her husband/boy friend
Peer pressure from your friends
Peer pressure from your family (parents)
It doesn’t matter what they think or want, its wrong to kill the baby.
- Has all the children she wants/Other family responsibilities
As if life should always goes the way we planned
and “wanted it to”
If you decide you don’t want the baby realize that there
are thousands of people who will take the baby
- If the baby can’t feel pain then it’s okay
As if the definition of a person is dependant on our ability to feel pain
There are many ways that you can be killed that don’t involve pain… that doesn’t mean we should legalize
those ways
And if feel pain is the definition of a person and who has rights than why doesn’t this apply to all the
animals too? They feel pain in the same way
Some harder ones to answer…
- What if the child is from rape?
Weather the child is from rape or normal means doesn’t change the fact it’s a child
If you want to kill someone when a girl gets pregnant from rape, I vote we kill the rapist, not
the innocent child!
- The pregnancy may remind the mother - of the awful event
What if she has the memory of the event after the child is born? Is it different?
This excuse is over-used, only 1% of abortions occur due to rape!
The problem is people don’t want to accept that the unborn child should have the same rights as those
who have been born
- What if the mothers life is threatened? How serious is the threat?
- What if the mother and child will both - die in the pregnancy
If there is no doubt that both the mother and child will die in the pregnancy, I think aborting the child is
justified to save the life of the mother.
However, it would have to be a great risk, not just the standard chance of dying in child birth
The final claim that we must deal with
If mothers can’t get legal abortions that just means they will do it illegally which will cause many moms to have medical problems and die from unsafe methods
This brings up the entire question of why we make laws then?
If it was legal to murder elementary children, how many of us are going to start doing it?
No one will do it… except those who were already planning on it. So why should it be illegal? The same
number of people will do it either way
After all, the fact that it’s illegal to shoot kids leads most people who do it to commit suicide or be shot
by someone else who’s trying to stop them
Why don’t we legalize it then?
Because it’s wrong. The end.
If women choose to have abortions privately, that’s their choice… but it should be illegal and punishable by law if indeed it’s murder
Psalm 82:3-4: "Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Memory Verse
Ezekiel 16:20-21: “And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you
sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter that you slaughtered my
children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?”
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