Campaign: 7 Reasons To Choose Abortion
7 Reasons to Choose Abortion was written by Ray Comfort an award-winning filmmaker. When it comes to abortion Hopes Answer has adopted this platform to spread God’s Word and to change hearts. Hopes Answer’s brochures and literature is based on the 7 Reasons to Choose Abortion content.
Is abortion really an acceptable choice? The following are seven reasons most given to defend the choice for abortion:
- The inconvenience of pregnancy
- Incompetence of parents
- The baby has disabilities
- It is the woman’s body
- Rape or incest
- I am not ready for a baby!
- It’s not a baby
The Inconvenience of Pregnancy
Having a baby is no doubt a big disturbance to one’s life. Ask your mother. She was no doubt inconvenienced by you. You most likely made her nauseous, uncomfortable, and caused her pain as you came into this life. She was not selfish, and she did not abort you. She denied herself in many ways so that you could live.
Life is filled with inconveniences and disturbances. We get stuck in traffic, delayed at airports, have to wait in waiting rooms, wait in restaurants, and we are put on hold on the phone. Of course, we could take an offramp, cancel our flights, walk out of waiting rooms, forget the meal, or hang up the phone. it is no big deal to bail out but, bailing out of a pregnancy because of the inconvenience is a big deal. Therefore, you need to make sure you are making the right decision considering the six other reasons for taking that way of escape.
What if it is about more than inconvenience for nine months? There is also the problem of economic hardship that will be ongoing after the nine months of pregnancy and the child is born. One abortion provider sympathetically says.
Many critics of pro-choice forget or minimize such a hardship, but we must understand that when she can barely afford to get by with her current family, bringing an extra person to the household can stress all the others to the breaking point. Thus, this may mean the difference of saving the existing family.(1)
To kill your 24-week-old child, abortion providers will charge you a mere $3,275.(2)
Killing babies (abortion) is big business. You pay in dollars, but your baby pays with his or her life.
Incompetence of Parents
What if the parent feels like they would be a poor, incompetent parent? Many of us could be considered incompetent for one reason or another. Often, those who feel this way are either drug addicts, alcoholics, irresponsible with money, addicted to gambling, or they are just selfish; consumed with wanting to have a successful career. But something amazing happens just after a woman gives birth to a child. She has innate love for her offspring. At a moment, you feel that you would be considered an incompetent parent, but the very second you have that baby in your arms you will be overwhelmed with compassion for your helpless baby.
Planned Parenthood gives you many reasons for your incompetency, they appeal to your selfishness, saying that raising a child will cost you time and money:
There are many things to think about before deciding to have and raise a child. Once a person becomes a parent, she or he is responsible for another person for at least the next 18 years. Raising a child involves major commitment in time and money.(3)
Again, they are worried about where you spend your money.
The Baby Has Disabilities
What if the child has a disability? First, let’s define what is meant by “disability”. Would a club foot be a disability? What about a cleft palate? Or show reflexes revealing a potential developmental disability? What about Down Syndrome? Who defines what is or is not enough of a disability worthy of ending a child’s life?
If it is any or all of these and more, what would be the best way to terminate that child’s life? How would you do it if it was your job? Or do you think it would be more human to let trained individuals help you to either raise the child or have him or her raised in an institution that specializes in such cases?
In an opinion column titled, “Would you abort a disabled child?” the mother of an autistic child wrote,
Currently there is no parental genetic test for autism…. Such parental tests exist for other conditions such as Down’s syndrome. On learning their fetus could have this intellectual disability, between 70and 85% of pregnant women in the US choose abortion, writes Amy Julia Becker, whose 7-year-old daughter Penny has Down’s syndrome, in The Atlantic… If I had known before Charlie was born that he would be severely autistic, I would have still have decided to have him… I had long felt Charlie moving inside of me. With memories from my college days advocating for woman’s right to control her body echoing in my head, I said to myself, “Charlie’s not even born, but I can’t imagine life without him.”(4)
It's the Women's Body
A liver, heart, lungs, and kidneys are a part of a women’s body. These are called “vital” organs. She would die without them. A baby is not a vital organ. It is not even an “organ”, but rather a separate entity. This is why the implantation of the baby into the mother’s womb is designed to turn off key pathways in the mother’s immune system. If it did not, the mother’s immune system would attack the baby as a foreign tissue.
Each of us inherit genes from our parents, but we are unique and individual, made in the image of God. Our specific combination of DNA information has never been seen before and never will be again.
The following is the testimony of an expectant mother in Britain, talking about how her baby was distinct from her own body:
Not once during my pregnancy to date have I been asked when my fetus is due… The word “baby” was used by one and all without prompting from me from the earliest weeks of pregnancy, including within medical setting. The books and websites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of “the baby”, my midwife talks about listening to the baby’s heartbeat and at the 12-week scan, the time t which the majority of abortions are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my baby’s head and spine and tiny hands were pointed out on a screen.(5)
Rape or Incest
If you saw a mother leave a child in a car on a hot day, what would you do? Most of us would break the car window and rescue the child. It would be a crime to do nothing.
Would you break the window and then kill the innocent child, punishing him or her for the mother’s negligence? Of course not. That makes no sense, but that is what you would be doing if you take the life of your innocent child. It is the rapist who is the guilty person worthy of punishment, not your precious baby.
The trauma of sexual assault is very real, and there is no intention here to downplay that. But abortion carries it’s own variety of trauma. Women-even those who were victims of sexual assault-have reported years of physical, emotional, and psychological difficulty following their abortions. Abortion did not solve their problem; it merely created additional ones.(6)
I'm Not Ready for a Baby
Few feel ready to have a child. But as we have already mentioned, an amazing thing happens to a mother the moment her baby is placed into her arms. That’s because God created you to intuitively love your offspring.
As a child is aborted, a grisly process ensues. A medical abortion, for a baby up to ten weeks gestational age, starves the baby by blocking the hormones needed to nourish and sustain the lining of the mother’s uterus which nourishes the baby.
A first or second trimester abortion D&E or D&C abortion is done by either having the baby’s head ripped off, using a powerful suction hose, or by having it crushed and then ripped from the body. That’s how they professionally abort babies, and that’s how they will kill your baby between 13- and 24-weeks gestational age.
After 24 weeks (when a baby could survive out-side the womb with medical intervention), the baby is given an injection that causes cardiac arrest and the mother delivers the dead child.
You may not feel ready to have a baby, but the baby is already there and has done nothing worthy of such a violent death sentence.
It's Not a Baby
Nazi Germany justified the killing of millions of Jews by saying they were not human. That’s exactly what is done to try and justify the killing of children in the womb. Some abortion advocates say that unborn babies are non-human.
Is the fetus human, or is it just a clump of cells? To answer this important question, look at these stages from the time of fertilization through the first weeks of pregnancy:
At Fertilization – The baby’s sex and eye color, among many other features, are already determined. All of the genetic information that makes this unique, tiny human is present.
Week Two – The baby already has around 150 cells. It attaches to the wall of the uterus (womb).
Week Three – The placenta develops to provide nourishment.
Week Four – The baby’s neural tube, which will grow into a spine and brain, is forming and the heart is beating.
Week Five – The eyes, mouth, and ears are developing.
Week Six – Tiny hands and feet are visible.
Week Seven – The baby’s internal organs are developing.
Week Eight – The fingers, toes, eyelids, and nose are visible.
Week Nine – The baby’s facial features are clear and it can open its mouth.
Week Ten – About 3 inches long, your baby has finger and toenails and fuzzy hair.
Most Important in Life
What is most important to you in life? Let me guess, is it your happiness? More than likely it is. And that is understandable. You don’t want to be miserable, and stopping this pregnancy may help ensure that you are not.
There is something that is always far more important than happiness. It’s something called “righteousness”. Righteousness simply means doing the right thing. Let me illustrate why it’s more important than happiness.
If raping a woman makes a man happy, is rape okay? If being a pedophile makes a man happy, are his actions good? How about leaving a toddler to die in her hot car because the mother thinks that her happiness is more important than the child’s life? Or someone killing a baby in the womb, because her happiness is more important to her than doing the right thing?
Here now is our best argument in pleading for the life of your child, and we hope it works because your desire for happiness can dismiss all the above arguments. But this one isn’t so easily dismissed.
We have access to something that can override your desire to be happy. It is your conscience. It is so powerful it drives many to drink and even to suicide. To dull the voice is about a intelligent as taking the batteries out of your smoke detector because you don’t want it disturbing your sleep.
Our hope is that you continue to let us to speak to you (even if it makes you uncomfortable) and that you will to do so with a humble and honest heart. We are going to ask you some soul searching questions that will uncover for you the real reason you are considering abortion.
Here We Go
Do you think you are a good person? Most of us do. If so, here are those uncomfortable questions:
How many lies do you think you have told in your whole life? Have you ever used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Who ever looks upon a woman to lust for her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.” The Bible even says that if you hate your brother, you are a murderer. Have you ever gossiped about someone, failed to keep your word, been unthankful to God, dishonored your parents, had selfish thoughts (such as wanting to kill your own baby), been self-righteous (thinking that you are morally good when you are not), or failed to love others as much as you love yourself?
If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. And there will be no parole. So if you choose to kill your baby, you may get your happiness, but you will always have a nagging sense of guilt from your gagged conscience. The thought of “what if murdering an innocent child has angered God?” will always be there until death seizes upon you like an arresting officer, dragging you before the Judge of the Universe to answer for violating His Law. And there will be no escape. So, your temporary happiness will be gone forever. There will be no pleasure in Hell. You can bet your soul on that.
What then should you do? Fortunately, God is rich in mercy and He provided a way for guilty sinners to be forgiven. He became a perfect sinless Man in Jesus Christ, and suffered and died on a cruel cross, taking punishment for the sin of the world. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine by suffering and dying on the cross. If a guilty criminal has someone pay his fine, the judge can then legally let him go. It is because Jesus paid our fine that God can clothe us in righteousness and dismiss our case. He can commute our death sentence and let us live forever because of the suffering death and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God.
He rose from the dead and was seen by hundreds of eyewitnesses. Centuries before His birth, the Bible gave numerous prophecies about a coming Savior; Jesus fulfilled them all.
The Bible says,” God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16, NKJV). If you will repent and trust in Jesus alone, God will forgive every sin you have ever committed and grant you the gift of everlasting life. The moment you come to know Him, you will receive a new heart with new desires. You will truly be born again (see John 3: 1-5).
The miracle of being born again is that God will give you new desires and the power to fight against temptations to sin. This is because God will take away your evil and selfish heart (the root cause of you wanting to kill your child) and change it. He will give you a love that will consume you. You will look back at yourself and say, “How could I have even thought about doing such a wicked thing to my child?”
So first things first. Resolve to keep the precious child that God has given you. Second, bow your head and tell Him you are truly sorry for not only thinking of killing another human being, but for all of your sins. Then trust in Jesus as you would trust a parachute to save you. The reality of your walk with God will be as real as you make it. If you truly repent, you will truly come to know Him. If your repentance isn’t genuine neither will your relationship with God be genuine. You will just fool yourself.
Today, repent and trust Jesus, and God will grant you forgiveness and eternal life as a free gift. Then show your gratitude by obeying His command to be baptized. Be sure to also join a church and read the Bible daily.
Then read the Gospel of John. It will open your eyes to the most amazing and wonderful Human being to ever walk on this earth. You will never be the same once the eyes of your understanding are enlightened.
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Watch as author and award-winning filmmaker Ray Comfort addresses these seven questions, reasoning with college students and people on the street about whether such objections are justified. Seeing those who are ardently pro-choice change their minds in moments is both compelling and convincing.
Endnotes
- herchoiceclinic.com/abortion-clinics/abortion-reasons.html
- clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2014.06/much-abortion-cost-draft-theresas/
- plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/ask-experts/can-my-parents-take-me-in-for-an-abortion-if-i-say-no
- theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/abort-down-syndrome-child-society-shares-blame
- faith.org.uk/article/march-april-2006-the-inconvenience-of-pregnancy-a-mothers-experience
- all.org/learn/abortion/abortion-exceptions/exceptions-rape-and-incest/