In this episode, Pastor Raef goes through a lengthy list of common questions surrounding abortion in America. Use the Table of Contents below to navigate to the questions you're most interested in.

Table of Contents

• When does life begin (Christianity & Science)? 5:10
• Isn’t the pro life movement just men’s efforts to control women? 20:44
• Was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, a Eugenicist? 25:48
• How many abortions occur each year and what phase of development do they occur in? 32:17
• Aren’t abortion and miscarriage morally equivalent? 36:41
• What are the reasons women get abortions? 40:53
• Are late term abortions real and how do they work? 48:00
• Are late term abortions legal? 59:48
• What was the history of Roe v. Wade? 1:06:37
• What about ectopic pregnancies and life of the mother? 1:16:22
• What about a child with physical complications? 1:26:08
• Planned Parenthood does far more than abortion? 1:27:59
• What about all the children that will go into foster care if we end abortion? 1:31:04
• What about rape exceptions? 1:34:38

Resources

• https://www.prolifewi.org/blog/2021/7/7/explaining-the-exceptions-life-of-the-mother
• https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-control-the-black-population
• https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx
• https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/23/racism-eugenics-margaret-sanger-deserves-no-honors-column/5480192002/
• https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/07/28/margaret-sangers-extreme-brand-eugenics
• https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/1374628/episodes/new
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-pritzker-signs-sweeping-abortion-protections-law
• https://beta.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=077500550HArt%2E+1&ActID=3987&ChapterID=64&SeqStart=100000&SeqEnd=1100000