Abortion in the
United States – Statistics
· There have been over 43 million
abortions since 1973.
· The annual number of abortions
went from 744,600 in the first year of legalization, to a high of
over 1.6 million in 1990. In 1997, there were 1,312,990.
· There were nearly 3,600 abortions
per day in 2000, 149 per hour, about one every 24 seconds.
· For every 1,000 live births,
there were 306 abortions in 1997.
· There were more that 140,000
second and third trimester abortions in 2000.
· In 2000, more children died
from abortion than Americans died in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War,
World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam
· A survey of women seeking
abortions indicated that only 7% of women cited typical “hard cases”
(rape, incest, or some health concern with either the baby or the mother)
as the primary reason they were seeking abortion.
· A June, 1999 Wirthlin Poll
found that 62% of respondents support legal abortion in only three or
fewer circumstances: when the pregnancy results from rape or incest, or
when it threatens the life of the mother.
· At an average cost of $372,
the abortion business is a $400 million a year industry.
· Nearly half of all abortions
are obtained by women who have already had at least one abortion. In 1994
and 1995, women who had already
had 3 or more abortions obtained
7%, or nearly 100,000, abortions each year.
7%, or nearly 100,000, abortions each year.
The center
for disease control estimated that there will be 1,312,990 little babies
murdered in abortion clinics this year. This means that 25,250 unborn babies
are killed every week in the U.S.A. America
Our passage
today refers to the practice of child sacrifice. As an Illinois
state senator, Obama opposed a bill to define as a "person" a fully
born baby who survived an abortion. In 2001, three bills were proposed to help
babies who survived induced labor abortions. One, like the federal Born Alive
Infants bill, simply said a living "homo sapiens" wholly emerged from
his mother should be treated as a "'person,' 'human being, ''child' and
'individual.'" On all these bills Obama voted present (He was present but
those babies were missing in operation kill the baby action”). Jeremiah warns of impending judgment because as
little babies would die, the people did nothing to end this horrible practice.
It is time for us as Christians and as human beings to do what it takes to end
this hidden holocaust!
Jeremiah’s warnings echo throughout
time. He saw a horrible practice and
warned that God would not let this kind of slaughter continue forever. Judgment was on its way.
Jeremiah 32:26-29
26 Then came the word
of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, 27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard
for me? 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and he shall take it: 29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall
come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs
they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other
gods, to provoke me to anger.
It is
important for us to examine the cause of this impending doom. You see, the people had turned away from the
One true God.
Jeremiah 32:30-33
30 For the children of
Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their
youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work
of their hands, saith the LORD. 31 For this city hath been to me as a provocat ion
of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this
day; that I should remove it from before my face, 32 Because of all the evil of the children of
Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to
anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and
the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned
unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and
teaching them, yet they have
not hearkened to receive instruction.
Now at this point, I am sure that some wild
eyed liberal will accuse this blogger of wanting to set up some kind of Theocracy. Let us continue to read. What was God so upset about. Yes, the people of God should have remained
true to Him in worship, but they had also began some hideous practices that
could not be ignored by a Just God.
Jeremiah 32:34-35
34 But they set their
abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. 35 And
they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and
their daughters to pass through the
fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my
mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
These folks
moved by the promise of prosperity and easier lives would put their little
babies on the metal hands of the idol to Molech or Chemosh. They would kindle a fire under these hands
and place the infant on these red hot hands in sacrifice. What in the world would possess human beings
to do such a thing? They were told that
this sacrifice would bring happiness and better crops. They were moved by sensuous sexual
rituals. This is not much different than
the motives for abortion today. The
couple had the baby because of an impure relationship and they seek to destroy
its evidence. A woman would rather kill
her own offspring than to sacrifice her financial and career goals. Things were
not all that different than the times of infant sacrifice.
Leviticus 18:21
21 And thou shalt not
let any of thy seed pass through the
fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:21
21 That thou hast
slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 20:26
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts,
in that they caused to pass through the
fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the
end that they might know that I am
the LORD.
Abortion is a crime against humanity
because the Bible teaches that life begins at conception.
Jeremiah 1:5
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew
thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto
the nations.
Luke 1:15
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the
Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled
with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
Luke 1:41-42
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth
heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was
filled with the Holy Ghost: 42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said,
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb.
Science shows us that life begins at
conception
Diary of an Unborn Baby
• Day 1 – fertilization: all human chromosomes are present; unique human life begins
• Day 6 – embryo begins implanting in the uterus
• Day 22 – heart begins to beat with the child’s own blood, often a different type than the mother’s
• Week 5 – eyes, legs, hands begin to develop
• Week 6 – brain waves detectable; mouth, lips present; fingernails forming
• Week 7 – eyelids, toes form; nose distinct, baby kicking and swimming
• Week 8 – every organ in place; bones begin to replace cartilage, fingerprints begin to form;
• Weeks 9 and 10 - teeth begin to form, fingernails develop; baby can turn head, frown
• Week 11 – baby can grasp objects placed in hand; all organ systems functioning; the baby has fingerprints, a skeletal structure, nerves, and circulation
• Week 12 – the baby has all of the part necessary to experience pain, including the nerves, spinal cord and thalamus; the baby is nearing the end of the first trimester
• Week 17 - baby can have dream (REM) sleep
• Week 20 – the earliest stage at which partial birth abortions are performed
"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer on how to cure.”
-- Harrison Hickman, pollster for the National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League
• Day 1 – fertilization: all human chromosomes are present; unique human life begins
• Day 6 – embryo begins implanting in the uterus
• Day 22 – heart begins to beat with the child’s own blood, often a different type than the mother’s
• Week 5 – eyes, legs, hands begin to develop
• Week 6 – brain waves detectable; mouth, lips present; fingernails forming
• Week 7 – eyelids, toes form; nose distinct, baby kicking and swimming
• Week 8 – every organ in place; bones begin to replace cartilage, fingerprints begin to form;
• Weeks 9 and 10 - teeth begin to form, fingernails develop; baby can turn head, frown
• Week 11 – baby can grasp objects placed in hand; all organ systems functioning; the baby has fingerprints, a skeletal structure, nerves, and circulation
• Week 12 – the baby has all of the part necessary to experience pain, including the nerves, spinal cord and thalamus; the baby is nearing the end of the first trimester
• Week 17 - baby can have dream (REM) sleep
• Week 20 – the earliest stage at which partial birth abortions are performed
"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer on how to cure.”
-- Harrison Hickman, pollster for the National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League
Now
let us get some perspective on the slaughter of American children through
abortion.
1.
Revolutionary war= 4,435 deaths
2.
Civil war (both sides) 498,332 deaths
3.
WWI 116,708 deaths
4.
WWII 407,316 deaths
5.
Korea 25,604 deaths
6.
Vietnam 58, 168 deaths
7.
Abortion deaths since 1973 4have reached over 52 million!
Let
us consider now the reasons for this kind of carnage:
·
25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want
to postpone childbearing
·
21.3% of women cannot afford a baby
·
14.1% of women have a relationship issue or
their partner does not want a child
·
12.2% of women are too young or their parents
object to the pregnancy
·
10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their
education or career.
·
All of these are similar to reasons for
sacrificing to Molech!
Brenda
Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse from Dayton ,
Ohio 11/17/95 ) about what she witnessed.
According to nurse Shafer, the baby was alive and moving as the abortionist
“delivered the baby’s body and arms - everything but the head. The doctor kept
the baby’s head just inside the uterus. The baby’s little fingers were clasping
and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors
through the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out in a flinch, a
startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks he might fall. The doctor
opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and
sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby was completely limp.”
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With forceps, the doctor turns the baby around in the womb
to be positioned feet first. The baby’s legs are pulled out into the birth
canal. The baby is alive at this point. .
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The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except
for the head, which remains inside the birth canal. The baby’s hands and feet
move
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The abortionist stabs the scissors into the base of the
baby’s skull. The scissors are spread to enlarge the opening. The suction
catheter is then inserted and the brains are sucked out, causing the skull to
collapse. The head slides out easily.
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ARE THE BABIES ALIVE DURING THE ABORTION?
Yes! On
IS THIS TYPE OF ABORTION RARE?
When this type of procedure first became public knowledge, those defending it said it was only done a few hundred times a year. Then Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers admitted on ABC’s “Nightline” (11/95) that he had lied when he asserted the procedure was used rarely and only on women whose lives were in danger. The reality is, this gruesome method of killing partially born babies is done many thousands of times a year. Abortionist, Dr. McMahon, admitted in 1995 to performing over 2000 partial birth abortions.
ARE THEY PERFORMED ONLY ON SEVERELY DEFORMED BABIES?
That is what the abortion industry would like you to believe. But Dr. Haskell said in a tape recorded interview with the AMA’s American Medical News: “...and I’ll be quite frank: most of my abortions are elective (not medically necessary) in that 20-24 week range ... In my particular case, probably 20% are for genetic reasons. And the other 80% are purely elective.” An article in the L.A. Times (
IS THIS TYPE OF ABORTION EVER DONE ON THIRD TRIMESTER BABIES?
Yes. While most babies are in their 20th to 24th week when aborted in this manner, babies are aborted as late as the ninth month! This was admitted to by abortionist Dr. McMahon who, in 1995, submitted to the House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee a graph and explanation that showed he aborted healthy babies even in the third trimester!
As disturbing as this sounds, these are the facts. In this country medical doctors are partially delivering babies and then killing them. These babies are inches from being born. Many could be born and placed directly in the loving arms of childless couples for adoption. Instead, they are cruelly killed. Some call this abortion. No matter what you call it, you cannot alter the reality - 4 more inches out of the womb and this act would be called murder.
Brothers
and sisters, we are stewards of our vote.
I believe that God will judge our apathy if we do not vote. I believe that every believer who knowingly
votes for an abortionist will answer to God some day for the blood of the
innocent. I am amazed that God has with
held His fierce judgment on our nation to this point. I do not believe that He will keep us safe
from destruction much longer. We cannot
afford to be ignorant or apathetic.
Conclusion:
James 4:17 Therefore to him that
knoweth to do good, and doeth it
not, to him it is sin.
An Abortion Survivor's Story
In September of 1975, a woman discovered that she was pregnant. Things were very difficult for her, as she was raising two sons, six and 15 years old. Their father had walked out on them and refused to help care for the boys financially, or in any other way. The only alternative for this woman, it seemed, was to abort this unexpected baby. After all, she could barely afford to feed the children she already had.
Between the months of September 1975 and January 1976, this woman had three therapeutic abortions in an attempt to rid herself of the unborn baby. These abortions, also known as a "salting out procedure" are performed by injecting a very large syringe into the woman's abdomen, removing a certain amount of amniotic fluid out of the womb, and then injecting three times the amount of saline back in, thus "burning" the baby out. For reasons only God knows, these abortions did not take and on
Unfortunately on
The truth only came to this girl when she was eighteen years old, married, and approximately five months pregnant with her first child. This girl needed and soon obtained her mother's medical records from the hospital that had treated her. Imagine her utter shock as she read about how her mother tried to terminate her unborn child three times. As the young girl read the medical documents, the new life inside of her was stirring and kicking as if to say "Mommy please don't get any ideas."
Today this young woman is 27 years old and is raising a family of her own. She is healthy and normal in every way, with no physical deformities of any kind.
I am the child that I have been writing about. My mother had no right to try and abort me, no matter what the circumstances were, no matter how inconvenient her pregnancy was. And if she was here with us today, I'm sure she would agree. Life is too precious to simply throw away. Now I can speak out against abortion from the baby's perspective. Any baby would choose life.
Amy
During the time it took to post this blog 150 little babies were murdered in the USA. What are you going to do about it?
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