"Abortion Kills Children": Truth or Deception?

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by Robert Staddon

They stood erect, lined up along each side of the highway, grimly facing
the oncoming traffic. Some were old enough to remember a myriad of such
protests in the past twenty-eight years. Others were quite young and
innocently smiled at each passing vehicle. Each held a sign which made
their cause blatantly clear to all who passed by: "Abortion Kills
Children." Perhaps they did not realize the full implications of what
they were claiming. Were they implying a women had no right to privacy?
Were they saying a fetus was a real person and not just a potential
person? Were they claiming that the Supreme Court was wrong? The
incensed response of some who drove by made clear that this is one of
the most controversial issues of our day. Does abortion kill children?

In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade that the
government had no business interfering with a woman’s right to choose if
she should have an abortion. They cited the Fifth Amendment of the
Constitution, which allegedly guaranteed her right to privacy.
Consequently, it was asserted that a women should have a right to
control her own body. Abortions were made legal because no one had any
business interfering with what a woman chose to do with her body. This
decision was personal. Intruding on people’s private problems was not
the Government’s responsibility. While forcefully declaring a women’s
rights, however, the court breezed over the important issue of whether
or not a fetus is actually a person.

There is no dispute that before conception there is no person.
There is no dispute that after birth there is a person. There is no
dispute that during the intervening period of nine months there is
something living in the mother’s womb. Is it a person or only a
potential person? Scientifically, we have a problem. Although we can
measure the development from a cell to a baby, we cannot prove when it
becomes a person because that is beyond science. Some claim that it is a
human being from the moment of conception. To others it becomes a human
being at the point of viability, when it can survive outside the womb.
Still others state that it is still only a potential human being until
the moment of birth. Considering it logically, however, we find that
location is the only real difference between a baby in the womb and a
baby in the world. What distinctions are there between a baby not yet
born and a baby born prematurely which would allow one to be killed and
the other left alive? What makes someone a person?

Studying our nation’s history, we find that this is not the first
time that the personhood of human beings has been debated. Scientists in
the 1800's attempted to prove that Negroes were physiologically
inferior. In addition, the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision
concluded that although they may have been human biologically, a slave
was not a legal person because he was not a citizen. Thus, he could not
be protected by the Fifth Amendment: "No person shall ... be deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." In their ruling
they stated, "... a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this
country, and sold as slaves. . . were not intended to be included under
the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can, therefore, claim none
of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and
secures to citizens of the United States." This brings to light a
striking parallel between the logic used to defend slavery and that used
to defend abortion. Clearly, they thought a black man only became a
legal person when he was set free. Now, an unborn baby only becomes a
person at birth. A slave owner supposedly had a right to do what he
wanted with his own property and a woman now supposedly has a right to
do what she wants with her own body. As in our day, people imagined that
the personhood of a human being should depend on public opinion. So much
for equality. It took the American Civil War and the passage of the
Fourteenth Amendment to finally restore African-American’s their
unalienable rights. "If we don’t learn from history, we are bound to
repeat it."

As we learn from our nation’s history, the Supreme Court can be
wrong. A woman’s right to privacy exists only if the fetus is not a real
person. If indeed an unborn child really is a human being, the
government must protect his life. The Court cannot confer the so-called
"right to abort" on one class of people (pregnant women) by depriving
another class (children in the womb) of a more fundamental right. Our
nation has declared in the Declaration of Independence that we are
endowed by our Creator with an inalienable right to life, which is
protected under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Legally, the right
to life must supersede the right to privacy. As Abraham Lincoln so
simply put it, "No one has the right to choose to do what is wrong."
Thus, the abortion dispute hinges on one single issue: is the unborn a
person or only a potential person? The dictionary defines a person as a
human being. So the question is this, when does a human being become a
human being? The answer is simple: A living thing is itself and not
something else, and it remains itself as long as it exists. "A human
being becomes a human being when it becomes a being. The fact is, when a
thing is something it never becomes something else. The development that
we see in our life from a single cell into maturity is dictated by the
kind of being we happen to be. It can develop into twins or triplets. It
can attach itself in a way that it ends up killing the child. But what
it cannot do is to become something other than what it is, and that is
the point. It is a human being. From the time this separate being comes
into existence it is a human being and it is a human being throughout."
From an embryo, to a baby, to a child, to an adult, to a senior citizen
the only thing that changes is what it looks like. Perhaps the
pro-choice movement is right and the uproar since 1973 has all been over
nothing. If, however, they are wrong, the unprecedented killing of
innocent children known as abortion is the most horrible holocaust our
nation has ever experienced.

Copyright © 2002 by the author

--
J Young
jdyo...@ymail.com

Mozilla Firefax (Not Responding)

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May 27, 2012, 5:48:53 PM5/27/12

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“Abortion foes never want

To admit the fact they won’t confront:

Those unviable tissues that they treasure

Are not babies by any measure.”

-- K.S. Spalding

chibiabos

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May 27, 2012, 6:00:11 PM5/27/12

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In article <5lqn4c....@news.alt.net>, <jdyo...@ymail.com> wrote:

> They stood erect,

Now we know why this article was so appealing to you.

-chib

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Member of S.M.A.S.H.
Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor

elizabeth

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May 27, 2012, 10:27:53 PM5/27/12

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On May 27, 3:00 pm, chibiabos <c...@nospam.com> wrote:

> In article <5lqn4c.3v1.1...@news.alt.net>, <jdyou...@ymail.com> wrote:
> > They stood erect,
>
> Now we know why this article was so appealing to you.
>
> -chib
>
> --
> Member of S.M.A.S.H.
> Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor

Well, if you can't get anything else erect ... of course you would
want to destroy women ... you know a lot of rapists can't get it up
and use that as an excuse to brutalize women ... if they can't rape
using the usual weapon, they find other ways to destroy a woman, and
forced gestation is the worst form of rape.

W.T.S.

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May 28, 2012, 1:28:27 AM5/28/12

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In article <5lqn4c....@news.alt.net>, Jerk...@Liar.com says...
>
> by Robert Strapon
>
SNIP!
Snipped at first bit of lying bull shit, pro-lie, forced-birther, anti-
choice nonsense, why repost?
>
Summary: "J" and friends still embrace the big lie, so what else is
new?
>
P.S. Abortion is still beautiful and natural, that never changes.
>

Abortion and sterilization, they save the lives, health and futures of
women and men alike!
>
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/print/14481
>
http://www.jennyjerrome.org/
>
http://tinyurl.com/3j3fkch
>
http://www.egalitarian.biz/Plan-B--Remedy-of-a-Lifetime.html
>
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm
>
Breed like rabbits, live like pigs, die like rats!
>
Modern Christian: Someone who can take time out from
complaining about "welfare mothers popping out babies we
have to feed" to complain about welfare mothers getting
abortions that PREVENT more babies to be raised at public
expense.
>
http://www.imnotsorry.net
>
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17gbnyv0yzhevjpg/original.jpg
>
http://tinyurl.com/7q2ft38

SkyEyes

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May 28, 2012, 1:40:17 AM5/28/12

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On May 27, 1:08 pm, J <jdyou...@ymail.com> wrote:
> by Robert Staddon

Forced birther propaganda snipped.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
BAAWA Knight of the Golden Litterbox
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net OR
skyeyes nine at yahoo dot com

Paul Duca

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May 28, 2012, 8:53:35 AM5/28/12

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On May 27, 4:08 pm, J <jdyou...@ymail.com> wrote:
> I do admit...obsessing over that question is the ONLY thing I have
> to occupy myself.
>
> --
> J Young
> jdyou...@ymail.com

Jason

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May 28, 2012, 3:20:42 PM5/28/12

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In article
<14e668c0-b708-4c01...@x10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, Paul
Duca <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

OK--the person that is obsessing over that question and NOW stop obsessing
since I will provide the answer.

Abortion Kills Children: Truth or Deception.

Where do children come from? The answer is that all children were once
unborn babies or fetuses.

When an unborn baby (or fetus) is aborted--it caused the unborn baby (or
fetus) to be killed (or aborted).

That means that abortion kills unborn babies.

That also means that Abortion Kills Children. It's the truth and is not a
deception. So--stop obsessing over that question.

Abortion stops a beating heart.

Abortion=Murder

tirebiter

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May 28, 2012, 3:28:40 PM5/28/12

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On May 28, 3:20 pm, Ja...@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:
> In article
> <14e668c0-b708-4c01-9965-fe2455c04...@x10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, Paul

Jason's back like a bad penny and lying his little heart out as
always.

I guess his Usenet addiction is uncontrollable.

Your god commits hundreds of times more abortions than all the doctors
combined, liar Jason.

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a.a. #2273