Murder, Lies, and Hope

Psalms 139:14-16

This Sunday, January 22, marks 44 years since the 1973 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court decision legalizing the killing of unborn children. Since then, more than 57 million babies have been aborted in our nation.

Statistics

About one in three women will have an abortion by age 45.

Nearly two-thirds of women having abortions say they are Christians.

Almost half (49 percent) of abortions are among women and teens 24 years old and younger.

More than 85 percent of “abortion-minded” women will change their minds about having an abortion if they are allowed to see an ultrasound picture of their babies.

About 13 percent of American women are African-American, yet they account for more than 35 percent of all abortions.

Less than one in seven Caucasian pregnancies end in abortion, but almost one in two African-American pregnancies end in abortion.

Hispanic women account for 21 percent of all abortions.

About 85 percent of women who had abortions in the U.S. were unmarried.

(From Focus on the Family Website)

Myths

Myth: Abortion was a common and widely accepted practice throughout history.

False!

Myth: Women were dying by the thousands because of back-alley abortions.

The number of maternal deaths from all causes was 780 in 1972 (down from 7,267 in 1942).

Of the 780 maternal deaths, 140 were listed as “abortion deaths” by the National Center for Health Statistics, including in this number  deaths caused miscarriage (102).

Myth: Existing abortion laws targeted women.

False

Myth: The destruction of the fetus was never treated as infanticide in the American legal tradition

False

Myth: Our abortion laws are mainstream compared with the rest of the world.

False

Myth: Abortion is safer than childbirth

False

Myth: The country is divided on the issue of abortion

True and False

Objections

"Are you willing to adopt all these unwanted kids you don’t want aborted?”

“Why do you only care about babies before they are born?”

"Costs too much"

"Drain on the taxpayer"

Margaret Sanger

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

On blacks, immigrants and indigents:

"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born."  Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization

Abortion is the intentional killing of an innocent human being.

It is a LIE

It is Murder

Only Christ can give Hope