Are the Unborn Human

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Are the Unborn Human?

• a critical look into the nature of those not yet
  born,and the implicationsregarding abortion
• from the tract Do You Believe the Embryo/Fetus
  is not a Human Being?

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• The 19th century saw the United States embroiled
  in a fierce Civil War.

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• Brother was pitted against brother family
  against family. Hundreds of thousands of
  Americans were killed during this dark periodin
  our history
• not by foreign troops,but by our own people.

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• Of all the factors involved in the cause of this
  war, one stands out

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• Were the slaves human beings with certain
  inalienable rights guaranteed in the U.S.
  Constitution

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• or were they, according to a Supreme Court ruling
  of the day, mere property, entirely at the mercy
  of their owners?

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• Over a century later we see another Civil War
  waging in the United States.
• Again, brother fights brother, friends war
  against friends.

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• Again, hundreds of thousands are being killed on
  a battlefield,and again the question is

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• Are certain individuals human beings with
  constitutionally guaranteed rights
• or are they, according to a Supreme Court ruling
  of our day, mere property, at the mercy of their
  owners?

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• Our Civil War today is Abortion.

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• Those who today call themselves ProLife claim
  that the embryo and fetus are human beings,
• and that,therefore,they dodeserve aright
  tolife.

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• But isnt the ProLife cause really much ado
  about nothing?
• Arent they wasting valuable time and energy over
  a non-issue, turning back the clock?

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• Isnt the embryo or fetus only a mass of tissue,
  only potential human life?
• And arent the ProLife people giving this thing
  a higher priority than it deserves a higher
  priority than a womans right to both privacy and
  to do to her own body as she wants?

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• Those ProChoice people who deny the humanity of
  the unborn - and therefore guarantee them no
  right to life - have their reasons.
• Lets critically examine those reasons and see if
  we can come to logical conclusions regarding the
  nature of the unborn

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how well do it

• Well title each slide with a specific ProChoice
  reason, then look at it closely, like this
• I dont believethe embryo or fetusis human
  because

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it is onlypotential human life

• But a potential human being must be an actual
  something else.
• An actual what, though? A frog? a fish? a
  monkey?
• It clearly belongs to no other species than the
  human species.

potential X actual Y
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it is onlypotential human life

• And what criteria are used for defining this
  mysterious time at which this undefined potential
  human becomes an actual human?
• When does the change occur, and again
• What is it before it reaches humanness?

potential X actual Y
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it's only a mass oftissue and blood

• The heart starts to beat two to four weeks after
  conception. The tiny brain is already generating
  brain waves after 7 weeks

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it's only a mass oftissue and blood

• By the second month (when most abortions take
  place) the arms, legs, fingers, toes, ears, nose,
  mouth, muscles, organs, and bones are either
  formed or close to finish

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it's only a mass oftissue and blood

• It is clear to anyone who has ever seen one of
  the multitude of embryonic or fetal pictures
  available that this tiny entity is more than some
  nondescript mass.

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it isn't fully developed

• A four-year-old is not fully developed, either.
• A human is not fully developed until the late
  teens to early twenties, and even afterwards
  matures in different ways

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it isn't fully developed

• Can the stage of development really define what
  the being is?
• Is an adult more human than a child or merely
  more developed?
• Are those already born more human than the unborn
  or merely more developed?

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it isn't conscious

• Can consciousness be a universal human trait?
• If so, would a sleeping or anesthetized or
  comatose person be considered non-human because
  of his/her lack of consciousness?

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it isn't big enough

• Size defines humanness?
• A teenager is more human than an infant because
  of size?
• A basketball player is more human than a dwarf?

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it's inside the womb

• The location of an individual determines whether
  or not it is a human being?
• A fetus, the moment before birth, is not human,
  but immediately after birth becomes human?How?
  Why?

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it's inside the womb

• And is the child, when it is half way out, only
  half-human?

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it might be imperfect

• Like you and me?

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it doesn't look human

• Ones appearance determines humanness?

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it doesn't look human

• Is an ape more human than an embryo because it
  looks more human?

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it doesn't look human

• The important question here What is it? not What
  does it look like?

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it's dependent on the mother

• A three-week-old baby is totally dependent on
  another human, too. It is not able to survive
  alone outside the womb, either.
• It needs comfort and care and protection and
  food, etc., or it will die.

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it's dependent on the mother

• The total independence of anyone is a myth we
  are all dependent on someone or something other
  than ourselves.
• How can the one physical condition called
  dependence (by which we are all stricken)
  determine humanness?

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it's not viable

• The ability to survive outside the womb,
  viability, calls upon time place as the
  determining factors of humanness. How?

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it's not viable

• A 7-month preborn fortunate enough to be born in
  the 21st century has a decent chance of survival,
  therefore it is more human than..

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it's not viable

• a 7-month preborn in the 19th century which
  wouldnt have survived outside the womb
• thus, time defines humanness?
• and

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it's not viable

• A 6-month preborn fortunate enough to be near a
  medical center is viable, thus human, whereas

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it's not viable

• a 6-month preborn in a rural town on that same
  day is not viable because it wouldnt survive
  outside the womb.
• Thus, location defines humanness?

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it's not viable

• Does the preborn become more human as its mother
  drives near a hospital but then recede back into
  a nebulous non-human state the farther they drive
  from the emergency room?

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it's part of the woman's body

• The hands are the mothers? The heart? The brain?
• Taking that argument to its logical conclusion,
  (via the transitive relationship where if A is a
  part of B, and B is a part of C, then A is a part
  of C)

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it's part of the woman's body

• then a pregnant woman has four hands, four
  feet, two brains, and, if the fetus is a boy, the
  woman has both male and female genitalia.

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it's part of the woman's body

• Moreover, and very importantly, the unborn has
  its own unique genetic code in each of its cells
• not the mothers code, not the fathers code
  its own human genetic code.
• The fetus is in the mother, attached to the
  mother, but not part of the mother.

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it's only a bunch of cells

• So are we. We have trillions of cells, the unborn
  have from one to millions of cells. And their
  cells, like ours, all have purpose and function.
• The number of cells no more defines humanness
  than does size.

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it isn't wanted

• Some believe that an embryo or fetus is not to be
  considered a human life until the mother wants
  it.
• The obviousimplication hereis that
  onesfeelings determinethe nature ofthe object
  ofthose feelings

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it isn't wanted

• Therefore, a dog, no longer wanted or loved by
  its owner, becomes non-dog.
• A father no longer wants his teenage son, so the
  sonsuddenly becomesnon-human.
• This argument isactually held bysome
  educatedabortionists tojustify what they do.

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it isn't alive

• Its growing.Its developing.Its
  responding.Its functioning.Its burning food
  and oxygen.Its giving off waste products.Its
  cells are reproducing.
• These are properties of a living being.
• It is a Life.

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definition of a human being

• What is a universal definition of what makes a
  life a human life?
• A human is a living organism with human
  chromosomes independent of time or place.
• All humans already born fit into this definition.
• So do the unborn.

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three big choices

• There are these three choices
• The embryo/fetus is a human being.
• The embryo/fetus is not a human being.
• We do not know...

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human?

• IF IT IS HUMAN and we intentionally take the life
  of this innocent human being, then we commit
  murder.
• Those are strong words but, nevertheless, they
  are the sad, cold logical conclusion

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human?

• We can water it down and ignore the issue by
  calling it the termination of a pregnancy, but
  it is still the intentional taking of an innocent
  human life.
• This does not imply that a woman allowing an
  abortion has the heart of a murderer.
• But the action is murder.

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not human?

• IF IT IS NOT HUMAN, if it is not Homo sapiens,
  then to what species does it belong?
• If it is only potential human life, then what is
  it now?
• When does it suddenly become worth saving and why
  then??
• Again - What is it, if not human?
• Then maybe we dont know?

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dont know?

• IF WE DO NOT KNOW IF IT IS HUMAN, is it worth the
  risk?
• Is the possible taking of an innocent human life
  ever worth the risk?

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• This is no mere snobby exercise in logic it is
  truly a matter of life and death.
• There are 4000 abortions a day in the US.
• Over 50 million/year worldwide

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• If the fetus is human, this is a modern-day
  Holocaust.
• Our society is no better than Hitlers Nazi
  Germany.
• Hows that?!

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• Hitler convinced a blinded nation that there were
  individuals who were less than human, who were
  interfering and dispensable, and who did not have
  the right to live.

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• They allowed them no defense, no rights, no due
  process, and then slaughtered them by the
  millions.

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• Could the same be said of organizations like the
  National Abortion Rights Action League, Planned
  Parenthood, NOW, and dozens of others?

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• Have they blinded our nation by convincing us
  that there are people who are less than human,
  dispensable, and do not have the same rights to
  Life as you and I?

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• Have they put the rights and privileges of a
  Master Race - those already born - over the lives
  of a defenseless, unwanted race - the Unborn?

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the other victim

• We should also be concerned for the mother
  another victim of abortion.

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the other victim

• In closing her eyes to her childs true nature
  and in bowing to the pressures put upon her by a
  society which cares little for Life, she may be
  snuffing out the Light in her own soul.

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the other victim

• She needs to be told - before it happens - what
  her babys true nature is.
• Or, if it has already happened, she needs to know
  she can be forgiven

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• Abortion, which many ProAbortion advocates see as
  a simple clinical operation, is to us both the
  losing of a Life and the hardening of a Heart a
  hardening which may lead ultimately to the death
  of the Soul.
• To us, this is of great concern.

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• Please, wont you speak up for those who cannot
  speak, and take part in defending the
  Defenseless,at the same time delivering their
  mothers from a tragic choice?

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Somebody needs to now.
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• for further information and resourcesgo
  toswordandspirit.com ? prolife pages