Abortion: Legal Murder

A Nation Stained With Blood!

Psalm 106:38

“And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and

daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of

Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.”

Abortion and “The Law”

Roe Vs Wade – January 22, 1973

The alias "Jane Roe" was used for Norma McCorvey, on whose behalf the suit was originally filed, alleging that the abortion law in Texas violated her constitutional rights and the rights of other women.. The defendant was the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, Henry B. Wade.

Roe Vs Wade – January 22, 1973

The Court's decision in this case was that the Ninth Amendment, in stating that "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people," protected a person's right to privacy.

Abortion and “The Law”

• The Supreme Court ruled that a woman, in consultation with her physician—and free from government interference--has a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy; that is, before viability.

• In 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court reaffirmed the right to abortion. However, by giving states the right to enact restrictions that do not create “undue burdens” on women seeking abortions, the ruling significantly weakened the legal protections previously afforded women and their physicians.

Abortion and “The Law”

• Currently, 35 states enforce parental-consent or notification laws for minors seeking abortions.

• Congress has barred the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for abortions, except when the woman’s life would be endangered by a full-term pregnancy, or in cases of rape or incest.

• Seventeen states use public funds to pay for abortions for some poor women, but only four do so voluntarily. The rest do so under court order.[20] About 13% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds[21] (virtually all from state governments).[22]

Abortion and “The Law”

20 states have laws that could be used to restrict the legal status of abortion. 4 states have laws that automatically ban abortion if Roe were to be overturned. 13 states retain their unenforced, pre-Roe abortion bans. 7 states have laws that express their intent to restrict the right to legal abortion to the maximum extent permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the absence of Roe.

Abortion and “The Law”

Abortion is one of the most common medically performed procedures in the U.S.Every year, approximately 1.3 million abortions are performed in the U.S.

Sources: Guttmacher Institute; Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health;Care Net; Heartbeat International; National Abortion Federation – 2007

* Nebraska* Idaho* Maine* New Hampshire* Hawaii* Rhode Island* Montana* Delaware* South Dakota* Alaska* North Dakota* Vermont* Wyoming

More than the combined population of these states:

* Kentucky* Oregon* Oklahoma* Connecticut* Iowa* Mississippi* Arkansas* Kansas* Utah* Nevada* New Mexico* West Virginia

Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

Abortions… Since 1973

50,794,089

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

* Heart disease: 631,636 * Cancer: 559,888 * Stroke: 137,119

* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583

* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599 * Diabetes: 72,449

* Alzheimer's disease: 72,432 * Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326

* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344

* Septicemia: 34,234Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006

1.86 million

Abortions… Since 1973

50,794,089

Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

49 Million More Than Casualties of US Wars

CONFLICT SPAN TOTALSWar of Independence (1775-1783) 25,000 Quasi-War (1798-1800) 20Barbary Wars (1801-1815) 35War of 1812 (1812-1815) 20,0001st Seminole War (1817-1818) 302nd Seminole War (1835-1842) 1,500

Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 13,283

3rd Seminole War (1855-1858) 26Civil War (1861-1865) 623,026 Indian Wars (1865-1898) 919Spanish-American War (1898) 2,446 Philippine War (1898-1902) 4,196Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901) 37Mexican Revolution (1914-1919) 35Haiti Occupation (1915-1934) 146World War 1 (1917-1918) 116,708 World War 2 (1941-1945) 407,316Korean War (1950-1953) 36,914 Vietnam War (1964-1973) 58,169 El Salvador (1980-1992) 20Beirut (1982-1984) 266Persian Gulf Support (1987-1988) 39Invasion of Grenada (1983) 19Invasion of Panama (1989) 40Persian Gulf War (1991) 269 Somalia (1992-1993) 43Bosnia 1995 12Afghanistan (2002-2009) 686+Iraqi (2003-2009) 4,299+

To date, over 1,314,000 Americans

have died while answering the Call in all four corners of the

world!

Abortions… Since 1973

50,794,089

Abortions… Since 1973

50,794,089

WORLDWIDEApproximately 42 Million per year Approximately 115,000 per day

May 7-10, 2009

Methods

Suction Aspiration

Dilation and Curettage (D&C)

Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)

All Inhumane!!!

Salt Poisoning (Saline Injection):

Prostaglandin Chemical Abortion:

Hysterectomy or Caesarean Section:

All Inhumane!!!

Methods

What Age

15-19 146,284 19.2%20-24 245,653 32.3%25-29 170,644 22.4%30-34 107,715 14.2%35-39 61,052 8.0%

Over 40 18,498 2.4http://www.abortionfacts.com/Statistics/age.aspNumbers for 1995

Abortions… Who Is Having Them?

According to Race

White 349,857 57.8Black 205,442 33.9Other 32,357 5.3

Unknown 17,720 2.9http://www.abortionfacts.com/Statistics/race.aspNumbers from 1995

Abortions… Who Is Having Them?

Marriage StatusNever married 64.4%

Married 18.4% Divorced 9.4%

Religious AffiliationProtestants 37.4%

Catholic 31.3% Jewish 1.3%None 23.7%

Evangelical 18%

Abortions… Who Is Having Them?

Income Status

Less than $15,000 28.7%$15,000 and $29,999 19.5%$30,000 and $59,999 38.0%

Over $60,000 13.8%.

Health Risks 6%Social 93%

Rape or Incest 1%

Reasons

Abortions… Who Is Having Them?

Having a baby could change her life 16%

Can't afford a baby now 21%

Relationship problems/single parenthood 12%

Not ready for responsibility 21%

To keep sexual activity secret 1%

Not mature enough 11%

Doesn’t want more children 8%

Husband or partner wants it 1%

Fetus has possible health problem 3% Woman has health problem 3%

Parents want it <1% Victim of rape or incest 1%

Other 3%

81% Follow Fornication

Abortions… Who Is Having Them?

Psalms 139:13-14“For You formed my inward

parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and

wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my

soul knows very well.”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Psalms 139:15,16“My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret,

and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw

my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they

all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet

there were none of them.”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Isaiah 44:2“Thus says the LORD who made you and formed you from the womb, who will

help you: 'Fear not, O Jacob My servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I

have chosen.”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Isaiah 44:24“Thus says the LORD, your

Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: ‘I am the LORD, who makes all things,

Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad

the earth by Myself.’”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I

sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet

to the nations.”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Job 31:15“Did not He who made me in the womb make

them? Did not the same One fashion us

in the womb?”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Job 10:18“Why then have You

brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye

had seen me!”

AbortionWhere Does Life

Come From?

Psalm 127:3“Behold, children are a

heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.”

Life Is a Gift From God!Abortion

Exodus 21:22,23“If men fight, and hurt a woman with

child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he

shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's

husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you

shall give life for life.”

AbortionUnder God’s Judgment!

2 Timothy 3:1,2“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,

boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.”

Underlying Problem…Abortion

2 Timothy 3:3,4“Unloving, unforgiving,

slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”

Without natural affection--KJV

Underlying Problem…Abortion

Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her

nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will

not forget you.”

Without Natural Affection

Underlying Problem…Abortion

Psalm 106:37,38“They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, and shed innocent blood, the

blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.”

Israel’s Great Sin!

Underlying Problem…Abortion

Today, millions of sons and daughters are

being sacrificed to the idols of humanism,

selfishness, and greed!Our nation has become

polluted with blood!!

Underlying Problem…Abortion

Our Great Sin!

Dealing With Abortion

Guilt and Depression or a Seared Conscience?

Alternative

“The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute tells us that the number of infants available for private adoption in the United States has been decreasing. The factors which have contributed to this change are, "increased access to contraception,” "changed social attitudes about unmarried parenting,” and the big one, "the legalization of abortion."

“Between 1989 and 1995, 1.7 percent of children born to never-married white women were placed for adoption, compared to 19.3 percent before 1973." In 1970 there were 89,200 new adoptive parents. In 1975, the last year for which such data is available, that number was cut almost in half to 47,700. The reason for the decline was due to the fact that "fewer U.S.-born white infants were available for adoption."

Alternative

“Only 2-3% of the more than 1 million teenagers who become pregnant this year will place their children up for adoption –

I was born May 2, 1954– to parents who were young (my mom was 17) and having difficulty just making ends meet. An “unplanned pregnancy?”

What if abortion had been legal then?

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