The Truth About Abortion

By Dr. A.T. Puddicombe

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3900

1.4 million

50 million (since ’73)

THE VALUE OF LIFE

The expulsion or removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus (womb) at a stage of pregnancy when it’s incapable of independent survival (…usually before 28 weeks)

- Oxford Medical Dictionary

What’s an abortion?

Is “it” a human being?

13  My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body. 14  I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15  My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth. 16  Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

Psalms 139:

Is “it” a human being?

 29 ¶Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

Romans 8

5  Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

Jeremiah 1

Is “it” a human being?

1 ¶And the Lord said to Moses, 2  Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land; 3  And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.

Leviticus 20:

Is “it” a human being?

“Molech”:• Ammonite god worshipped by child sacrifices

• Note the curse associated with child sacrifices

A Pregnancy Time-line

One Second After Conception

The child has its own complete and distinct DNA(everything the baby is going to become, it is already, NOW!)

A Pregnancy Time-line

Four Weeks After Conception

- Heart has been beating for 10 days

- Intestines are forming

- Lungs are forming

- Eye’s have started forming

A Pregnancy Time-line

Seven Weeks After Conception

- Fingers and toes

- Sex Organs developing

- Full skeleton

- Thumb sucking has been documented

A Pregnancy Time-line

Eight Weeks After Conception- very organ is now in place- heart beat is audible to the

human ear- digestive juices- finger and footprints are clearly visible- responds to pain- the infant can make a fist- the kidneys begin to function

A Pregnancy Time-line

Twelve Weeks After Conception- Swallowing + ‘breathing’- Extremely sensitive to touch,

heat, sound, and pain and taste (week 13)

A Pregnancy Time-line

Sixteen Weeks After Conception- vocal cords are completely

developed- its own primitive eggs and sperm are formed

- it can urinate- all twenty milk-teeth buds are in place

A Pregnancy Time-line

Twenty Weeks After Conception- Can hear outside noise and

music

A Pregnancy Time-line

Twenty four Weeks After Conception- Can sweat- Has rapid eye movement

suggestive of dreaming

A Pregnancy Time-line

Twenty Eight Weeks After Conception

A Pregnancy Time-line

Thirty Two Weeks After Conception

A Pregnancy Time-line

Forty Weeks After Conception

A Pregnancy Time-line

…transformation animation

Is “it” a human being?

Foetus: “unborn baby”

"Women are not stupid . . . women have always known that there was a life there."

— Faye Wattleton, past President of Planned

Parenthood, NBC television broadcast, May 15, 1989

Is an abortion ever justifiable?What would you advise?

Scenario 1:Poor preacher and wife

+ 14 children

…plus 1 on the way!

KEEP THE BABY or ABORT IT?

JOHN WESLEY: Evangelism and Early Church reformer, Founder of the Methodist Church

Is an abortion ever justifiable?What would you advise?

Scenario 2:Father has syphilis, Mother has tuberculosis

1st child is blind, 2nd & 3rd are deaf, 4th has TB

…plus 1 on the way!

KEEP THE BABY or ABORT IT?

Ludwig Von Bethoven: One of the greatest musical geniuses that ever lived

Is an abortion ever justifiable?What would you advise?

Scenario 3:Pregnant, unmarried, churchgoing teenage girl.

Her fiancé is not the father of the baby!

What will people say?

KEEP THE BABY or ABORT IT?

The Lord Jesus Christ

HOW IS AN ABORTION CARRIED OUT?

“If they had known where their lives would have been today, over 95% of those women surveyed said they would not have chosen

abortion”- Reardon, page 25

over 90% of women surveyed felt they did not have enough information to make an "informed

choice," (p.16).

1.Suction Aspiration2. Dilation and Curettage 3. Dilation and Extraction4. IntrauterineProstagladin Injection5. Hyterotomy6.Partial Birth Abortion

Physical means

7.Partial Birth Abortion

Physical means

7.Partial Birth Abortion

Physical means

7.Partial Birth Abortion

Physical means

7.Partial Birth Abortion

Physical means

7.Partial Birth Abortion

Physical means

1. The Morning after pill (72hours)2. RU 486 (7 – 9 weeks)3. Methotrexate4. Saline Injection

Chemical means

A live crime…Abortion 101…

The result?

Physical:1. Death2. Breast Cancer3. Cervical Cancer and Liver cancer4. Uterine perforation5. Cervical Laceration6. Placental previa7. Complicated labour8. Ectopic pregnancies9. PID (30% of abortions)10.Others (“minor”): bleeding, chronic abdominal pains, etc

Consequences

Psychological1. Diminished respect for life2. Denial3. Alcoholism, smoking, drug abuse, eating disorders, sexual addictions, and other self destructive behavior4. Nightmares5. Destruction of trust between men and women6. Increased rates of divorce, domestic violence, and child abuse7. Feelings of guilt in both the mother and father 8. Sexual adjustment issues in marriage

Consequences

An After-Abortion Testimony

Letter from an unborn child

Abortion lies