Death in the Womb

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42 Million Annually
1.37 Million Annually
Death in the Womb
The Sin of Abortion
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EMBRYO the developing human individual from the
time of implantation to the end of the eighth
week after conception. (Merriam-Webster) FETUS
an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially
after attaining the basic structural plan of its
kind specifically a developing human from
usually two months after conception to birth.
(Ibid.)
Human Life
Embryo and Fetus
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Whether or not abortion should be legal turns on
the answer to the question of whether and at what
point a fetus is a person. This is a question
that cannot be answered logically or empirically.
The concept of personhood is neither logical nor
empirical It is essentially a religious, or
quasi-religious idea, based on ones fundamental
(and therefore unverifiable) assumptions about
the nature of the world. (Paul Campos, professor
of law at the University of Colorado, 2002)
Abortion
Changing the Debate
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The real question today is not when human life
begins, but, What is the value of human life?
The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs
of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have
been torn from its mothers body can hardly doubt
whether it is a human being. (President Ronald
Reagan, 1983)
Abortion
The Value of Human Life
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Pro-Abortionists Assume

• Difference between human life and being a person
  (possessing personhood)
• A time when the unborn is not a person, but is
  potential life (a potential person)
• Thus, they conclude that a human fetus does not
  possess personhood

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What can be Proved Empirically

• New human life begins at conception and is
  sustained by implantation
• Human life develops in the womb, leading to birth
• Human embryo and fetus is an individual, distinct
  human being not merely the mothers body

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What can be Accepted by Faith

• Human life is in the image of God, Genesis
  126-27
• Both in and out of womb, Luke 144 212
• Therefore, whether in or out of the womb, human
  life is in image of God

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What can be Accepted by Faith

• The life in the womb is distinct from the life of
  the mother, Luke 144
• Murder is the deliberate termination of innocent
  human life (in image of God), Genesis 96
• The deliberate termination of the life of the
  unborn human child is murder

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Argue with Science, not the Bible!

• Human life begins at conception
• Humanity of the embryo is a matter of medical
  science

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Ecuadorian Federation of Societies of
Gynecology and Obstetrics

• Science teaches that human life begins at
  conception. If it is also true that it is
  affirmed by religion, it does not for that reason
  cease to be a strictly scientific truth, to be
  transformed into a religious opinion.  He who
  denies that human life begins with conception
  does not need to contend with religion, but
  science.  To deny this certainty of biology is
  not to express a lack of faith, but a lack of
  basic knowledge of human genetics, something that
  is even known by the general public.
• (The 15 Conclusions of the Workshop on the
  Prevention of Abortion, FESGO, April 17, 2008)

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From the moment that the ovum is fertilized, a
new life is begun that is not part of the father,
nor of the mother, but rather a new human being
that develops autonomously Human life must be
respected from its conception, without
exceptions.
Human Life
Distinct in the Womb
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To affirm that the woman can do with her body
whatever she wishes, besides being a conceited
claim, has absolutely no basis in science the
embryo is not part of the body of the mother, nor
is the fetus an internal organ of her body the
DNA of the embryo is distinct from that of its
parents. (Ibid.)
Human Life
Distinct in the Womb
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In the Image of God

• When we are given life, Gen. 126-27 27
• The uniqueness of humanity God forms our spirit
  within us, Zech. 121
• Adam was a living being when his body lived
• Without the spirit we are dead, Jas. 226

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In the Image of God

• When we are given life, Gen. 126-27 27
• Since the unborn child is alive, we conclude that
  the spirit also exists even while the body is
  in its earliest stages of development
• WHEN DOES PERSONHOOD BEGIN?
• When new and unique human life exists (that
  did not previously exist)
• When it is possible for new human life to die

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• Each person made in womb, Job 3113-15
• Davids substance was known and seen by God when
  David was still unformed Psalm
  13913-16
• Divine intervention and formation of the person
  (Messiah) in the womb, Isaiah 491, 5

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• Children in the womb, Gen. 2521-23
• Children come to birth, 2 Kings 193
• Sons in and out of the womb, Ruth 111
  (Gen. 254)
• Woman is with child not with fetus
  Exodus 2122

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• Personal identity in womb (personhood)
• Job had identity in womb, Job 33
• Male-child elsewhere means a man or a human
  individual (Job 417)
• Job could have perished in the womb and been
  carried from the womb to the grave, Job
  1018-19

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• A mother (whether child is born or unborn)
• Mother of a dead baby, Num. 1212
• Mary was identified as a mother early in her
  pregnancy, Luke 143 (136, 56-57)

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• A baby before and after birth, Lk. 141, 44
• After conception (124) and before birth (157),
  in the 6th month of pregnancy (136), THE LIFE
  in her womb (141) WAS A BABY (brephos)
• John was a living human being (son) in his
  mothers womb and after birth, Lk. 136, 57
• Whether embryonic or in the manger, JESUS WAS A
  BABY (brephos), Luke 144 212, 16

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• Taking unborn human life is murder, Exodus
  2122-23
• Killing plant life is not murder, Gen. 129
• Killing animal life is not murder, Gen. 93
• Killing human life is murder, Gen. 96
• Life in the womb is not plant life or animal
  life, Gen. 125, 28 (according to its kind)
• Killing human life in the womb is murder

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Bible Evidenceof Human Life in the Womb

• Abortion is murder The taking of innocent human
  life
• To vehemently deny that life begins when
  conception begins is absurdI had to face the
  fact that in abortion, a human life of a special
  order is being taken.
• -Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former pro-abortionist
  who worked in an abortion clinic but quit and now
  opposes abortion

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Why do Women Have Abortions?

• Its legal. (Acts 529)
• Rape or incest. (1)
• Potential health problems of the mother or the
  child. (6)
• Social reasons (birth control/unwanted pregnancy,
  convenience, poor). (93)

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What Abortion Really Is

• The murder of innocent human life
• Result of having lost natural affection, Rom.
  131 2 Tim. 33 (unloving)
• Result of having lost respect for God and for
  human life God gave us (Acts 1725, 28 Rom.
  128-31)

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Answer to Unwanted Pregnancy is NOT

• Defining the new child out of existence
• Adding violence upon violence
• Replacing the physical pain and trials of health
  problems with the mental, emotional and
  psychological pain of abortion
• Discarding a new life because that new life is
  inconvenient or unwanted
• Adding sin upon sin Willful sin I can repent
  later (Heb. 1026-27)

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The Answer to
Unwanted Pregnancy

• Respect for the new life that now exists
• Solutions that honor the life of the child
• Repent of fornication if that has occurred, Acts
  1730

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The Answer to One who has Already had an Abortion

• God loves you and you can be forgiven (Lk. 2334
  Acts 236-38 1 Jno. 19)
• You can heal spiritually, emotionally and
  psychologically, Phil. 46-7, 13, 19

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• Unborn has identity, personhood and life
• Abortion is not a womans right
• Abortion terminates the rights of the child
• The blood of innocent millions cries out to God
  (Gen. 410 Matt. 218)

Life and Death in the Womb
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The LORD looked and was displeased that there was
no justice. He saw that there was no one, he was
appalled that there was no one to intervene
(Isa. 5915-16, NIV) See, the LORD is coming out
of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth
for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood
shed upon her she will conceal her slain no
longer. (Isa. 2621, NIV)
Choose Life!
Deut. 3019