Monday, September 07, 2009

Pro Life Apologetics

From This is the link.


PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENT:
"No one can really know that human life begins before birth."




PRO-LIFE ANSWER: Part III
Doctors know that human life begins before birth.

Talk to any good doctor and he will say that when he is treating a pregnant woman he has two patients ,not just one. He shows great care and concern not only for the mother,but for the smaller less viable patient, checking his movement, his position, his heartbeat.

After a life-saving surgery on an unborn child, the surgeon stated that such surgeries "make it clear that the fetus is a patient." Associated Press accompanied the story with a diagram from the New England Journal of Medicine, clearly showing the unborn to be a baby.

A remarkable cover story from Discover Magazine was called "Surgery Before Birth." It describes surgery on an unborn child:

A precise dose of anesthetic had put both the mother and the 24-week old fetus safely and limply to sleep. And now, lifting the little arm gently to rotate the one-pound body into position, pediatric surgeon Michael Harrison poised his scapel just under the rib cage. This astonishing intrusion on an unborn life took place on June 15, 1989; it was necessary because this tiny patient's diaphragm had failed to close as it should have.

Not the reference to the unborn as "patient." If the unborn is not a person, who is the patient being operated on? If the surgery is unsuccessful and the unborn's heart stops beating, did the patient die? The patient is referred to as "an unborn life," His arm, rib cage, and diaphragm are referred to by name. An anesthetic was used to put him to sleep. Elsewhere in the article, the author refers to his gender, and occasionally comes right out and calls him a "baby." The article ends by saying, "While fetal therapists wrestle with protocols...their effort to save tiny lives continue." Yet that same tiny life, not to be born for another four months, can be legally killed by abortion up to the moment of birth.

A prochoice editorial in California Medicine recognized that the position that human life does not begin at conception is politically and socially expedient for the prochoice movement, but that "everyone" knows it is simply untrue:

Since the old ethic has not been fully displaced it has been necessary to seperate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra-or extra-uterine until death.

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