Yes, even supporters of abortion know that killing a human being after birth is wrong. They just don't want to apply their knowledge to human beings before birth.

But because the "medical literature" is absolutely replete with examples of the individual personality of the unborn child, Dr. Nathanson concluded, "It is atrocious for anyone now to maintain that a fetus is simply a lump of meat, or something insignificant or an unprotectable life."

What did the new scientific knowledge mean for Dr. Nathanson?

"I have now concluded that in my work as head of the abortion clinic in New York, I presided over the death of 60,000 innocent human beings and the destruction of a like number of families."

Remember, this was the man who was once one of the world's most powerful pro-abortionists! He was like the apostle Paul was to the early Christians. Once a ferocious destroyer of unborn life, he then lent his influence to protecting it.

This is the "best" method of abortion because the victim remains unseen by all but the lab examiner. But the victim was a human being anyway.

Another doctor, William Raschbaum, former chief of Family Planning Services at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, stated that during a D&E abortion he often had the fantasy that the child was hanging onto the walls of the uterus with its tiny fingernails -- fighting to stay inside (ibid., p. 16).

Even though the surgeon literally carves up the unborn child in a D&E abortion, there still comes a point at which the child is too big even for this grisly method. After 20 weeks, a "saline" abortion must be used. It is the most physically painful for the mother. The doctor injects a salt solution into the uterus, which causes a stillbirth. The salt solution burns the child an ugly red. There are records of infants who have survived saline abortions and spent the first weeks of their life outside the womb in intensive care.

There is no abortion method widely practiced today which is not extremely cruel to the unborn child.

Such cruelty itself condemns abortion. Even men who are cut off from YEHOVAH God, given over to "reprobate minds," can know that "maliciousness" and "murder" are wrong, and come under "the judgment of God" (Romans 1:28-30).

Just as the movement for abortion on demand was just getting under way in the late 1960s, a number of people pegged it as something "in line with the toboggan-slide in morals." Events afterwards have shown, tragically, just how right they were.

The reasons for abortion have been liberalized. They now include things like "economic" difficulty or "emotional" distress. "Health" now includes almost anything. And now that parents are able to find out the sex of their children before birth, they are killing their children when they don't get what they want.

During the early stages of the abortion controversy, many opponents claimed that abortion would lead to worse horrors -- infanticide and the killing of all the weak and helpless. Supporters of abortion scorned the argument. But it has already been proved true!

Do you realize infanticide -- the killing of unwanted children after they are born -- is now widespread? Dr. C. Everett Koop, one-time surgeon-in-chief of Children's Hospital in Philadelphia exposed the "gentlemen's agreement" that existed in certain circles of the medical profession to let "defective" newborn infants die.

Dr. Koop wrote that since infanticide is was still a hush-hush subject, unless "you know someone who talks about his work in an intensive care unit for newborns, there is no way the public would know about this." Yet, Dr. Koop said, "reputable medical journals publish papers where authors acknowledge that they have engineered the deaths of babies under their care" ("Deception on Demand," by C. Everett Koop, Moody. May, 1980, p. 26).

Increased child abuse is another domino that has already fallen. Liberal abortion was supposed to decrease child abuse. It hasn't. Statistics are hard to come by because of the sensitive nature of the topic, but we know that in Britain, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children reported "increasing numbers of children are suffering appalling violence" (Daily Telegraph, June 3, 1979). In the United States, the Associated Press reported "it looks as if a hundred times as many child-abuse cases may occur annually as the 60,000 estimated less than a decade ago".

Dr. Koop believed that a society that kills at will its unborn children inevitably will see its born children as having lesser value also.

The next target is the elderly, and then later, all who are dependent or handicapped, or those who, in the chilling words of the pro-abortionists, "lack the capacity for meaningful life." (Mark that phrase "meaningful life." Someday it may be used to justify your killing!)

The point is, once you start killing unborn children, dismembering them, cruelly burning them in solution, you acquire a certain attitude. The attitude is that people who are "unwanted" ought to be done away with.

Widespread abortion is making us a society calloused, hard-hearted and selfish. If there are people around whom we do not want, the modern idea is to just do away with them. If you think this is too extreme a statement, listen to the frightening words of Dr. John Franklin, who used to head the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, who was one of the parties in a Supreme Court abortion case, as he was quoted in December; 1979, issue of Conservative Digest:

What horrifying words! If you are not "wanted," you do not have the prerequisite to live. What a terrible confirmation of the Bible prophecy that in the last days men would be "fierce," and "without natural affection"!

But Dr. Franklin is not alone. Other influential people are already extending the attitude of abortion to the rest of us!

Thus Francis Crick, a Nobel Prize winner was quoted as saying "no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment, and if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live" ("Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" by Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everett Hoop, Catholic Digest, March, 1989, p. 47).

You aren't even "human" unless you can pass "certain tests regarding genetic endowment"! How like Hitler's Germany! What a monstrous statement!

The abortion attitude is already being extended to newborn infants. Pro-abortionists themselves are becoming bolder in admitting the connection. Thus Dr. Robert Crist, testifying before the Louisiana state legislature, said that he was just as comfortable killing a newborn child a week old as a week before birth, and that only lawyers haggle over this point of birth as having any special significance ("A New Conscience of the Pro-Life Movement," Conservative Digest, December, 1979, p. 19).

The liberal, pro-abortion New Republic reflects the same attitude. The following words were taken from its July 2; 1977, editorial on abortion. The words accurately reflected the magazine's position. They also reflected just where the abortion attitude leads:

"Metaphysical arguments about the beginning of life are fruitless. But there is clearly no logical or moral distinction between a fetus and a young baby; free availability of abortion cannot be reasonably distinguished from euthanasia. Nevertheless we are for it. It is too facile to say that human life is always sacred; obviously it is not..." (emphasis added).

Here are pro-abortionists who realize that there isn't any "logical or moral" difference between unborn children and born children. Yet they still support abortion! We have come to the point in our society where influential people no longer even seem to care about murder!

Logically, if you favor abortion and you also realize that an unborn child is no different from a born one, then you also will permit the killing of a newborn child. But newborn children are really no different from other dependent people -- elderly or handicapped. What terrible results spring from the underlying premises of the pro-abortionists!

"Regard for human life is considered a test of civilization," writes Andrew Hacker in Harper's. Given the attitudes that have accompanied widespread abortion, it would appear that man's civilization now totters. Killing unborn children is now just another form of birth control.

Because many people, Mr. Hacker writes, "are casual about intercourse and seek to avoid its responsibilities," unborn children are slaughtered. About 1.2 million unborn children are killed in the United States each year -- somewhere between 40 and 50 million worldwide.

Doctors are now concerned with a growing incidence of "repeat abortions." It seems that we have now come to the point where promiscuous people aren't even willing to take any birth control precautions -- lest their precious lustful "spontaneity" be interrupted. It is easier to kill their unborn children.

One of the fascinating aspects to the abortion issue is that it has at long last provoked the last vestiges of humanity in our sick society. More than 30 years ago it was noticed that there weren't many "indignant, emotionally aroused well-organized protests" over new liberal abortion laws. Today, there are. There is a whole "prolife" movement going. It is one of the few hopeful signs in a society rapidly careening down the moral toboggan-slide. As the New Republic put it: "These misguided people represent the only major pressure group on the political scene whose cause is not essentially self-interest."

But as a matter of probabilities, the pro-lifers seem bound to lose. One of the most perverse facts of American law is that the right to kill your unborn child is more jealously protected than freedom of speech! In technical legal theory, the American Supreme Court is tougher on state laws that in some way restrict your right to kill your unborn child than -- it is on laws that restrict your right to express your ideas. The Supreme Court says your right to kill your unborn child is "fundamental" -- the most sacrosanct a right can be in American jurisprudence.

So the pro-lifers, to end the slaughter, seek to get around the Supreme Court by amending the Constitution. But it takes two thirds of both houses of Congress to amend the Constitution, and any good political scientist will tell you that at least a third of both houses will remain very much pro-abortion for years to come.

If you read Roe v. Wade, you realize that the reasoning behind it was both scientifically and legally wrong. It was scientifically wrong because it relied on scientific theories that are now outdated! As Dr. Nathanson put it:

"That Supreme Court decision is anchored in medical views that now quite frankly, are so anachronistic that we who work in perinatology [prenatal science] would be amused by them if it were not for the continuous slaughter that has resulted from their propagation."

The Court's decision is legally wrong because for hundreds of years the law of England and America recognized the personality of unborn children. Unborn children had rights both in property and personal injury law. Even today you can still give property to your unborn child. Just because the abortion laws of the 1800s were passed primarily for the sake of protecting the health of the mother didn't make their unborn children any less human. Yet it was that fact upon which the Court pounced to justify the slaughter of millions!

The time has come for the Supreme Court to repent. The Supreme Court can change its mind. It does not lay down the "law of the Medes and Persians" (see Daniel 6:8), which could not be changed once handed down. Just as the Court once declared that black slaves were "property" and not human beings, and had to repent of that, so it must repent of sanctioning the murder of millions of unborn human beings.

But even if the Supreme Court does not overturn Roe v. Wade, the time is coming when it will be overruled, anyway! When YEHOVAH God returns, the "Supreme Court of Heaven" will overturn Roe v. Wade and all laws contrary to YEHOVAH's good and perfect Law. At that time YEHOVAH God will pour out His blessings on the whole earth. There will be no abortion. There will be no need for abortion:

"And he [YEHOVAH God] will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy womb..." (Deuteronomy 7:13).

In the meantime, the slaughter goes on. The Non-Sectarian Committee for Life, a New York "prolife" organization, warned of where abortion is taking our society:

"Western society has abandoned its God and is lost in a void of moral anarchy. The civilization we know is threatened by a new Dark Age. By the turn of the century we will be confronted with abortions-by-demand-of-the-State and the death-by-decree of the sick and elderly. The planned birth, the planned lifespan and the planned death will be upon us. Let us resist this barbarous threat to man's existence, more dangerous than all the nuclear bombs."

While "abortions-by-demand-of-the-state" and "death-by-decree" of the sick and elderly did not become a reality by the turn of the 20th century, the sad fact remains that today in America (2011) 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child -- AND 93% OF ALL ABORTIONS OCCUR FOR SOCIAL REASONS (i.e., THE CHILD IS UNWANTED OR INCONVENIENT!!). An estimated 43% of all women in the United States will have at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old, and 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUS ABORTION. What an horrific commentary on our so-called civilized nation. And people have the audacity to think that YEHOVAH God will bless and protect our nation while this slaughter of the unborn continues unabated? The day of reckoning is fast approaching. 

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