An Inconvenient Truth

If it isn't a live human, the your not a pregnant human...

Abortion Defined...“The termination of a pregnancy... resulting in... the death of the embryo or fetus.” When did a human baby become a scientific term? When did a heart, mind, and soul become simply a lump of pulsating unborn flesh? It happened when society wanted to detach responsibility from action, moral impacts from decisions. In this speech lets scrutinize the pro-choice position, ask ourselves why is society willing to accept such a position, and finally see how best set we are to combat this position.

In order to understand this position, we must first understand the ideology that rationalizes it. No abortionist advocates what he or she considers murder. In fact, one of the leading abortion advocates Robert P. Tucker, who earned his Ph.D. in Theology said “In our society, "murder" is something everyone condemns, and all of us want to prevent. If abortion turns out to be "murder," the debate is over, the case is closed.” Murder simply defined is “The unlawful killing of one human by another.” The legal status of abortion is really what's in question here, so look at the second part of the definition. In order to avoid the label of murder, the abortionist must claim one of three things. Either A)- he is not a human, B)- the process of abortion isn't killing the baby, or C)- the unborn baby isn't a human one. However inhuman their vocation, abortion doctors and advocates do meet the criteria of being human, and not even a public relations reel will claim that the process of abortion isn't killing or depriving of life the unborn child. They do however dispute, the humanity of the child. Rather they contend that it is “An organism in early stages of development.” This denial of the human status goes much further. In partial birth abortion, the baby is allowed to develop entirely, it is then delivered with the exception of the head before the baby is then killed. The line drawn by the pro-choice advocate, and posted on their websites before the American people is that a baby is not human one, until it's head specifically passes through the birth canal. We have to ask the question, what mystic process does a baby go through as it's head passes through the birth canal? What endowment of humanity transpires? The simple scientific answer is no such mystic process exists. In fact, by the abortionists standard of life, my oldest brother Matthew Rodgers, delivered via C-section in 1985 walks the earth as a developing organism. You laugh at this because of its obviously not true. But it points to a sad reality, he never met the arbitrary, baseless standard that abortionists have set. The sad reality is, that standard was set to justify the killing of another human, set to ultimately to justify murder.

Having seen abortion for what it is, clear on its face, we have to ask the question, why? Why is society willing to look past the obvious truth, and accept this legalized murder? The sad simple answer is morals of convenience. Society as a whole has set out to detach consequences from decisions. Lawrence B. Finer in his article “Why Women Have Abortions” in the 2005 Edition of “Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health” found that fully 86% of women cite social stigma or discrimination as their reason for abortion. According to the Center for Disease Control the Average of 1.3 million abortions are performed each year in the United States. Take these two numbers and do the simple math. Roughly one million one hundred fifteen thousand children are murdered every year because their mothers are avoiding the consequences of their decisions. This number, ladies and gentlemen, is very simply unacceptable.

There is two steps we can all take which will cost all of you nothing, but will mean everything to many thousands of unborn babies. The first step is to debunk the rational of the process. If we accomplish this, many of those who follow the abortion process, like sheep drawn astray, will leave it simply because like Dr. Tucker said “In our society, "murder" is something everyone condemns, and all of us want to prevent.” This statement is born out in reality. Life News in March of 2006, reported that 84% of women intending on an abortion when confronted with an ultrasound of their live human baby refused to go through with an abortion. 

84% of women confronted with truth see whats right...

When confronted with the truth, most women don't have it in them to kill their baby. We as citizens have a duty to see life defined in such a way as protects these unborn babies. That responsibility will come in every time you vote, and who you vote for, every time you chose to, or not to talk about this issue with friends and family. The second step, easier, and just as important is eliminating the incentive for an abortion. Note the leading cause of abortion, 86% of the time it's social stigma or discrimination. People refusing to associate with women and girls because they got pregnant out of wedlock is one of the primary reasons many unborn babies are ending up dead. I know each and everyone of us can choose to treat such people with love, care, and acceptance while it still being apparent that the decision to get pregnant out of wedlock was the wrong one.

In conclusion, I ask that all of you be pro, about one choice. I ask you to choose, to accept, these mislead pregnant mothers, so we can protect, their defenseless unborn babies. Let us as a society not discriminate against pregnant mothers, but impose those same social pressures, which even now account for the lives of hundreds of thousands of babies, impose those same pressures against those who choose to murder the defenseless, unborn, human, babies.