Speech: Abortion is Murder

Speech: Abortion is Murder

I. Human Life Begins At Conception

II. Fetus Is Separate From Mother

III. Abortion Methods Are Cruel And Disgusting

IV. Abortions Are Unsafe

V. Immoral, Spoken Against In Bible

VI. Testimonies And Survivors

VII. Statistics

VIII. Alternatives

IX. Unusual Situations

I. Human Life Begins At Conception

a. 1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings to discuss when human life begins – majority of experts said at conception

b. Haploid sperm and egg are parts of the potential, zygote is life

c. Alive is having life, not dead

d. Human is belonging to Homo sapiens

e. A person is an individual human being

f. Fetus feels pain, can taste, hear, and smell

II. Fetus Is Separate From Mother

a. When blastocyst implants it suppresses mother’s immune reaction

b. Has its own unique genetic blueprint

c. Have been successfully formed and developed outside womb

III. Abortion Methods Are Cruel And Disgusting

a. Suction – plastic suction tube with knife-like tip

b. Dilation & Curettage (D&C) – cuts placenta and baby into pieces and scrapes them out

c. Dilation & Evacuation (D&E) – Tears apart baby with pliers-like instrument and crushes skull and removes from uterus

d. D & X (partial birth) – baby is delivered up to head, scissors are stabbed into the bottom of neck and then opened, suction is inserted to remove brains, skull collapses and head is pulled out

e. Hysterotomy – “early” Caesarian section

f. Salt Poisoning (saline) – injection of strong salt solution into amniotic sac, baby is poisoned, takes over 1 hr. to kill baby, mother delivers dead baby in a day or two, burns outer layer of baby’s skin, technique developed in concentration camps

g. Prostaglandin Abortions – induces lab...

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...ife could be spared. There are alternatives to abortion. The best is adoption. Over 200,000 couples are waiting to adopt a child each year but the availability of babies is less than 25,000. Releasing a child, unwanted by you, to an adoption agency you can save a life and make a couple’s dream come true. This was no one loses. This choice also teaches the mother responsibility because she has to carry her baby to full term. Abortion is not the only choice. This war over abortion has been waging over thirty years now. Both sides are tireless and fighting as furiously as they possibly can. One cannot help but be reminded of the anguished comment of a condemned Nazi judge, who said to an American judge after the Nuremberg trials, “ I never knew it would come to this.” The American judge answered simply, “It came to this the first time you condemned an innocent life.”