Abortion is murder!

Saturday, January 22, 2011 marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. According to the Southern Baptist Convention 47 million babies have been aborted since the legalization of abortion with Roe v. Wade. In honor of the courts historical verdict this post is pulled from "Why Pro-Life?" by Randy Alcorn, and will show what goes on in the womb during the early stages of pregnancy.

5-9 days: The new person burrows into the womb's wall for safety and nourishment. Already his or her gender can be determined by scientific means.

14 days: The child produces a hormone that suppresses the mother's menstrual period. It will be two more weeks before clearly human features are discernible, and three more before they're obvious. Still, he/she is a full fledge member of the human race.
18 days: The heart is forming and the eyes start to develop.
21 days: Heart is pumping blood throughout the body.
28 days: The baby has budding arms and legs.
30 days: The baby has a brain and has multiplied in size ten thousand times.
35 days: The babies mouth, ears, and nose are taking shape.
40 days: Preborn child's brain waves can be recorded and the babies heartbeat, which began three weeks earlier, can already be detected by an ultrasonic stethoscope.
42 days: The babies skelton is formed and the brain is controlling the movement of muscles and organs.

No matter how he or she looks, a child is a child. And, always, abortion terminates that child's life. The earliest means to cause abortion terminates that child's life. The earliest means to cause abortion, including Mifepristone (RU-486) and all abortion pills, are too late to avoid taking a life.

8 weeks: The hands and feet are perfectly formed.
9 weeks: The child will bend fingers around an object placed in the palm. Fingernails are forming and the child is sucking his thumb. The nine-week baby has already perfected a somersault, backflip, and scissor kick. The unborn responds to stimulus and may already be capable of feeling pain. Yet abortions on children at this stage are called "early abortions".

10 weeks: Child squints, swallows, and frowns.
11 weeks: He urinates, makes a wide variety of facial expressions, and even smiles.
12 weeks: The child is kicking, turning his feet, curling and fanning his toes, making a fist, moving thumbs, bending wrists, and opening his mouth.

All this happens within the first trimester, the first three month of life. In the remaining six months in the womb nothing new develops or begins functioning. The fully intact child ONLY grows and matures-unless her life is lost by miscarriage or taken through abortion. It's an indisputable scientific fact that each and every surgical abortion stops a beating heart and stops already measurable brain waves. What do we call it when a person no longer has a heartbeat or brain waves? Death. What should we call it when there is a heartbeat and there are brain waves? Life. Every abortion ends a human life. Abortion is murder.

-Information taken from "Why pro life?" by Randy Alcorn, pages 28-30.