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(Love Unleashes Life<\/a>) Have you ever been asked a question where the answer changed your life? An audience member once told me about a time she applied to work at a chastity missionary organization in America. During the interview she was asked, \u201cIf we don\u2019t accept you for this position, what else would you do?\u201d Without skipping a beat she answered, \u201cI\u2019d go to Africa and work with the poor.\u201d Later that day she couldn\u2019t get that question\u2014and her answer\u2014out of her mind. She realized what her true heart\u2019s desire was, she withdrew her application, and went to Africa to serve the poor. Just as how answering one question led this young woman down a path very different from her original plan, I believe applying the power of questions to the abortion debate can help those who answer realize that Roe v. Wade, far from being a good legal decision, is actually against reason.<\/p>\n

Here are questions we can ask:<\/p>\n

1. From what point are we measuring viability?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When discussing Roe v. Wade, people often talk about viability, some arguing that abortion is acceptable if the child cannot survive outside the womb. It is generally considered that a pre-born child is viable around 24 weeks. But consider the label 24 weeks\u2014and what that implies: To get to 24 weeks implies we started counting the passage of time 24 weeks prior. So what happened then?\u00a0Sperm-egg fusion, otherwise known as fertilization.<\/a>\u00a0Since we are counting time from there, that is actually a concession that life does not begin at 24 weeks<\/em> but rather 24 weeks prior<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2. If abortion is allowed for a woman\u2019s life after viability<\/em>, why not bring the child out alive rather than dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abortion supporters will often point out that abortion after viability sometimes \u201cneeds\u201d to happen because a pregnant woman will die without an abortion. Since, at such later stages of pregnancy, the child could survive outside the womb, why kill the child? Why not remove the living child and place him or her in an incubator?<\/p>\n

3. Does a negative pregnancy test result ever lead to an abortion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We know the answer is \u201cobviously not.\u201d So what is it that a positive test is telling a woman? It is indicating that the pregnant woman\u2019s body is not the only body present; rather, that there is another individual present. And just who is that individual? A child. And not just any child. Her child. So a related question we must ask is this: What do civil societies expect of parents?\u00a0 Don\u2019t we expect parents to care for their offspring, not kill their offspring? <\/a><\/p>\n

4. If abortion is about a woman\u2019s right to her own body, when does the right begin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several years ago, The Economist magazine had a cover story about 100 million women missing from the world as a result of sex-selective abortion and infanticide<\/a>.\u00a0Isn\u2019t it interesting that abortion is often touted as being pro-female and yet so many females are being destroyed in the womb<\/a> precisely because their sex chromosomes are xx? Don\u2019t pre-born females have a right to their<\/em> bodies?<\/p>\n

5. What is the legal standard when a woman sentenced to death is pregnant?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every American state in which the death penalty is legal prohibits the execution of pregnant women.<\/a>\u00a0Moreover, the United Nations\u2019 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states, \u201cSentence of death shall not \u2026be carried out on pregnant women.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0People sometimes debate whether guilty individuals should get the death penalty, but people always agree that innocent individuals should not get the death penalty. To withhold capital punishment from a guilty woman for the sole reason that she is pregnant is to make a concession that within her body is an innocent child.<\/p>\n

6. What do abortion procedures and promoters tell us about abortion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the National Abortion Federation\u2019s textbook on abortion (\u201cA Clinician\u2019s Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion\u201d) in chapter 10 (co-authored by abortionist Martin Haskell) it refers to \u201cFetocidal Techniques.\u201d What is the meaning of the root word \u201ccide\u201d? It means to kill. We do not kill that which is not living. So to speak of killing the fetus is yet another admission about the pre-born child: Namely, that she is living.<\/p>\n

That chapter on D & E abortions after 12 weeks also refers to \u201csome pregnancy elements\u201d such as \u201cthe spinal cord and calvarium.\u201d Spinal cord and calvarium of who? Clearly not the pregnant woman. Those are the body parts of the child. If we acknowledge these major parts<\/em> of the child, all the more shouldn\u2019t we acknowledge the child<\/em> to whom they belong?<\/p>\n

Next, while Planned Parenthood is known for committing abortions, interestingly even they, several decades ago, made a startling admission:\u00a0In a 1952 brochure of theirs on birth control<\/a> they answered the question, \u201cIs [birth control] abortion?\u201d by saying, \u201cDefinitely not\u2026An abortion\u2026 kills the life of a baby after it has begun.\u201d<\/p>\n

7. What became of Roe in Roe v. Wade?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people are unaware that the very woman, Norma McCorvey, who is represented as the Roe in Roe v. Wade, never had the abortion that brought her case to the Supreme Court to begin with. Moreover, she later became pro-life and wanted the decision reversed.<\/p>\n

8. What is the greatest love\u2014and its opposite?<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are questions asked over at abort73.<\/a>\u00a0From a Christian perspective, the greatest love is seen in the person of Jesus Christ: \u201cNo one has greater love than this, to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends\u201d (John 15:13) and \u201cThis is my body given for you\u201d (Luke 22:19). Even the non-religious accept this standard; citing, for example, the firefighters who ran into the burning buildings on 9-11. Their actions were also an example of the greatest love. If the greatest love says, \u201cThis is my body given for you\u201d then the opposite of the greatest love says, \u201cThis is your body given for me.\u201d\u00a0Whereas motherhood selflessly declares, \u201cThis is my body given for you,\u201d<\/a> its opposite, reflected in abortion, selfishly demands, \u201cThis is your body given for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at Love Unleashes Life<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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