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Abortion stops a beating heart thousands
of times per day. A human heart starts beating 18-24 days after conception, before a woman even knows she is pregnant.
We here at WSTK-ITV are not condemning
anyone who has had an abortion, we do not have the authority to judge them. All we are saying is that life and the soul
of a baby in the womb is precious and sacred, it means something in this world, and we should think twice before taking that
life away. What was his or her life suppose to be? What does his or her life mean now? What was the baby suppose to learn?
Who was he or she suppose to affect?
Regarding Rape, Incest, and the life of
the mother:
No woman should ever have to make that
choice. No woman should never have to be violated against her own free will. But the biology--the life--of the baby
conceived is no different than any other baby conceived. Also, many women who have an abortion after a rape still feel
immense regret and go through the same feelings of rape as if they went through the painful act of abortion.
Many women who allow the child to live feel that they have been able to rise above the evil act of rape by having their child.
Nearly 1% of women getting abortions have been raped and we must always show them love and care, but if you realize that the
child is a human being how can killing him or her make the rapist act less painful?
And those instances where the mother's life
is actually in danger—where the baby or her will die--usually only occur at 5 months gestation or sometime afterward
where, if the baby were delivered and not killed through abortion, he or she would have at least a chance at living.
We
here at WSTK-ITV do realize that other instances, such as an ectopic pregnancy--where there is no chance of survival
for the baby and the mother's life is in danger require a different kind of attention. In these cases the baby can be
removed from the mother, and as he or she is too young to survive outside the womb will ultimately pass away.
We are in no way condemning those
1% of women who have to make these tough choices in cases of rape, incest, and illness. It is not our place to
judge them. Our goal is to spread the reality of life in the womb to the other 99% of women who may seek abortion
and their friends, relatives, boyfriend, husbands etc. through our media outreach ministry. Between 1/3 and 1/4
of all babies conceived are aborted. These little lives are snuffed out. If only we could all know the beauty that is in every
human life.
Regarding "Saving" children
from abuse, neglect, disease, a handicap etc. by taking their life by abortion:
By saying that one is saving children from
tough family situations, and those who may be born with drug addictions or HIV or a handicap, you are also saying that these
children are less human or less deserving of life than other "normal" babies. Before we try to "save" those babies by
killing them, maybe we should think of the beauty of their life, of the love of their friends, and their future impact on
the world. Are the children with the above "conditions" who live outside of the womb, who are newborns, toddlers, teens,
etc worth less because their lives seem much "harder" than our own. How many of us can really say they should not
be alive? A tough family situation, a handicap, having HIV or a pre-natal addiction to drugs does not doom a person's
life altogether. Are we willing to tell all those people who have been born "abnormal" that they don't deserve to live or
that their life is not as worthy or meaningful as our own? That it would have been better that they hadn't been
born? I believe those people would disagree.
If only we all could look at other human
beings no matter their race, health, sex, ability, etc. and say, "You are a human being. I acknowledge that you are
alive and that you have the same right to live as I have. Though I may not understand you completely, I respect you
as a fellow human being on this planet trying to overcome adversity just as I am, trying to find happiness just as I
am, crying and laughing just as I am, and above all else and most importantly you are alive just as I am because God
our heavenly Father has willed us to be alive.
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