WHAT IS ABORTION?

In its broadest sense, "abortion" is a word encompassing any lethal termination of pregnancy, whether (1) spontaneous and natural or (2) induced by deliberate intent. [see procreation glossary] [procreation timeline] 

Upon fusion of the sperm DNA of the male's chromosomes with the egg DNA of the female's chromosomes (conception), a new life of 46 complete chromosomes begins its cellular multiplication and defines (in my personal medical opinion) the beginning of a new life, biologically (it is referred to as a "conceptus"). This is now irrefutable...as all molecular biologists know! [see Noah Markham miracle]

For those whose religion springs from or is related to the Bible, that inspired book speaking 2000 years ago, the word goes even further: as God said to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:5...and if it is true for Jeremiah then the prophet proclaimed it in a way that would seem must be true for all other humans) "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart;...". When the conceptus implants into the endometrial lining on the inside of the uterus (uterus = womb) about 5 days after fertilization, the mother's state of pregnancy begins.

All other timing debates as to when life begins continue to mostly be be emotionally fought out in verbal & written expression (rather than debated as free and educated people) because of agenda undercurrents of legal/legalistic/secular/religious implication. The disrespect of other points of view is amazing! The vitriolic, profanity-filled, prejudicial and even almost violence-fomenting exchanges from pro-abortionists is hard to understand.

By social custom or convention, we use the term "miscarriage" for spontaneous, natural (biological) terminations of pregnancy. The conventional medical term for any unintended natural or intended termination of pregnancy through the uterus is "abortion". 

Blood first forms in the embryo within 3-4 weeks after conception. Intentional abortion is a shedding of innocent blood, and God, "...hates hands [the act] that shed innocent blood..." (Proverbs 6:17). Any human-caused death by any means (including the above shedding of blood) is a  "killing". [see "killing" chart] Whether spontaneously & naturally happening or as intentional human-caused abortions, the souls of these embryos & fetuses MAY be (are speculated by some) to be the source of Biblical cherubs. If you had an abortion, it may be a cherub in Heaven!!

Medical and demographic studies indicate the following:

Check this graphic in order to see what happened in 1998 in the USA for each 10,000 conceptuses (the biological "product of conception")...each group of 10,000 new, biologically very-early humans. In my >30 years as a practicing pathologist whose job is to look at the spontaneous abortion tissue with the naked eye & under the microscope, I can say that there is almost never any 1st trimester case naturally miscarried that is not one which "withered" or "blighted" (died) prior to miscarriage...over 99% show no evidence of being a living embryo at the point/time of miscarriage.

Lifestyle factors (alcohol, smoking, drugs, poor nutrition) have a significant impact of unknown dimension in the early waste of the 7,500 conceptions noted in the first part of the above-linked graphic. Some 92% of legally induced/intended abortions are said to occur in the first trimester; the total abortion rate is said to be about 34 per 100 live births (there were 4,158,212 total live births in the United States in 1990). Within the 30 years since legalization in 1973, there have been >40,000,000 deliberate legal abortions (sheddings of innocent blood...see God's prohibitions... [check this]) in the U.S.A.

In a joint report May 2003 by the Rand Corporation and The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, it was indicated that there are 400,000 frozen embryos (humans in suspended animation) in the 430 fertility centers in the USA...2.2% were scheduled to be destroyed (2.8% set aside for "research"). Check out some issues at  "Think about it on-line".

When I was a medical student in Charleston, S. C. in the late 1960s, there was a clinic janitor who went by the nickname of "Flush". It was said that his mother went to the bathroom and miscarried but did not realize it and flushed the toilet. My close friend had a grand-daughter born in 2003 weighing just over a pound who is doing well at age 8. In February of 2007, the news came that one of the world's smallest babies...the only one known to survive less than 23 weeks gestation...was going home. Amillia Sonja Taylor of Homestead, Florida was born 10/24/06 at Baptist Childrens' Hospital in Miami after only 21 weeks & 6 days gestation and weighing just over 9 ounces. By e-mail from family attorney Amy Bales on 2/14/08, Amillia is doing great at age 9!

Now consider what a late term abortion is: though determined in our society to be legal, is it not actually death at the hands of another human...a Biblical & societal "killing"? A very interesting story is that of singer Gianna Jessen (testimony), a late-term, saline-induced abortion survivor (see on line YouTube or other sources.

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