Intro
This past Tuesday marked the 46thanniversary of one of the most infamous Supreme Court decisions in our nation: Roe v. Wade.
In this decision, our supreme court decided that children within the womb were not “human persons” and therefore were not protected under the constitution’s guarantee of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Since then, approximately 1.3 million abortions have been performed every year.
108,333 abortions per month.
25, 000 abortions per week
3561 abortions per day.
50x the amount of deaths caused by every American war combined.
While in recent years the pro-life movement has gained some ground, the “pro-choice” crowd has grown increasingly more audacious and bold in their demand for abortions on demand.
The same day as the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, New York legislature passed the “Reproductive Health Care Act” allowing mothers to “abort” their children up until birth.
In celebration of this event, Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo called for the World Trade Center to be lit up pink.
So, the day that you go in to give birth to your child could actually be the day that you slaughter them if you so decide—and the only difference is location.
Why discuss such a heinous topic on Sunday morning?
Because our children are being told that abortion is something to celebrate; about freedom, liberty, and “Women’s reproductive rights.”
Abortion is such a naturally heinous act that they must couch it in language that makes it palatable and acceptable.
Because of this, we need to show how abortion is scientifically indefensible, Biblically unacceptable, and morally reprehensible.
If we prove this–and we will–then no claim to rights to privacy or women’s choice matter—because it is an entirely different human being whose right to life usurps their right to privacy.
SCIENTIFICALLY INDEFENSIBLE
In his pre-election interview with Rick Warren, President Barak Obama said that it was “above his pay grade” to determine when life begins.
Is life’s starting point so uncertain? Can we really not know when it begins? Not according to Doctor Hymie Gordon (former chairman of the Department of Medical Genetics at Mayo Clinic) said back in 1981 on a panel before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.
“But now we can say, unequivocally, that the question of when life begins is no longer a question for the theological or the philosophical dispute. It is an established scientific fact. Theologians and Philosophers may go on to debate the meaning of life or the purpose of life, but it is an established fact that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception.”
Why is it that Dr. Gordon can be so certain?
Maybe because at the very moment of conception the 46 chromosomes that are necessary for every human being are present.
The 23 chromosomes from the mother and the 23 from the father come together at the moment of conception to make a new human being. (One slide with embryo)
At this moment, the embryo has its own unique DNA strand that no one else in the world will have (One slide with embryo)
At the moment of conception, it immediately has its own sex.
Even more interesting, slightly more than 50% of children conceived are boys—how then can this be a mere appendage of the mother when this embryo has completely different DNA and sex?
Not only that, but within a couple of weeks after conception, the baby has its own blood type which never mingles with the blood of the mother and might be a different blood type from the other.
Within the first few weeks after conception, the young baby has its own fingerprints—separate and distinct from their mother and every other human being in the world.
As mentioned, the embryo has all of the genetic material that it will ever need at the moment of conception; the only elements that are added, until the day they die, is food and water—no other material is needed for growth and development as a human.
As they develop from that point:
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