Session 1 – Answering Modern Day Questions

1. Session 1 – Answering Modern Day Questions This class series will cover a variety of topics that we find being debated in our World Debate (Politically and socially) This class we will be looking at the topic of Abortion (Pt.1 of 2) Other topics we will address in this class series are: Homosexual Movement (LGBT), Cloning, Euthanasia, Stem Cell Research, Environmentalism, Global Warming

2. When does the fertilized egg become a child? Understanding human embryology

3. Ovaries contain 400,000 eggs to begin!

4. Fertilization happens about here But you need to get the egg to the uterus But! You also have to get the sperm up the oviduct to the egg!

5. The sperm do swim, but are also moved upward by muscles How can the oviduct move the sperm up and the egg down?

6. Next we are going to zoom into this small region here in the oviduct and see what’s going on…

7. The egg would travel down the top of the picture above he cell wall There are trillions of little hairs (Cilia) that help move the egg down! How can these hairs get the egg down though? What kind of motion do they use?

8. Maybe they just go wild? Maybe they are like windshield wipers on a car going back and forth? It’s more incredible than that…

9. The egg inside the oviduct before fertilization

13. The miracle of fertilization 3 barriers to fertilization Sperm must penetrate the cumulus Then it has to get through the shell Then you have to make sure it’s the only sperm to get inside!

14. First cell division happens about half way down the oviduct By the time you reach 3 days it’s a ball of cells that enter the Uterus If the shell holding it together breaks you get twins

15. The Holocaust • The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by • the Allied powers. - The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jews - Hitler also targeted many other types of people

17. Life within Nazi concentration camps was horrible. Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor and yet given tiny rations. Prisoners slept three or more people per crowded wooden bunk (no mattress or pillow). Torture within the concentration camps was common and deaths were frequent. • While concentration camps were meant to work and starve prisoners to death, extermination camps (also known as death camps) were built for the sole purpose of killing large groups of people quickly and efficiently.

18. Prisoners transported to these extermination camps were told to undress to take a shower. Rather than a shower, the prisoners were herded into gas chambers and killed. (At Chelmno, the prisoners were herded into gas vans instead of gas chambers.)

19. The Nazis built six extermination camps: Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Majdanek (Auschwitz and Majdanek were both concentration and extermination camps.) Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz. In 1936 the German Supreme Court “refused to recognize Jews living in Germany as ‘persons’ in the legal sense.”

21. Abortion "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born." - Ronald Reagan  What does the Bible say about an unborn baby? Psalm 51:5-6 “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.”

22. Psalm 139:13-16 “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Abortion was justified because of evolutionary ideas

23. Abortion statistics WORLDWIDE Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000 At that rate we will kill the equivalent of the entire population of America ever 7 years

24. The holocaust (1933-1945) killed (on average) 500,000 Jews per year… abortion kills more than that in one week. The holocaust killed (on average) 1369 Jews per day… abortion kills babies 84x faster Where abortions occur:83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in developed countries.

25. In the United States Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700 It’s not just the secular world that has abortions Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical".

26. Why are women having abortions? 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur 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). Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended; about 4 in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-two percent of all U.S. pregnancies end in abortion. (AGI).

27. What stage are abortions happening at? Forty-two percent of providers offer very early abortions (during the first four weeks’ gestation) and 95% offer abortion at eight weeks. Sixty-four percent of providers offer at least some second-trimester abortion services (13 weeks or later), and 20% offer abortion after 20 weeks. Eleven percent of all abortion providers offer abortions past 24 weeks (AGI). 4 weeks

28. 7 weeks Baby born at 23 weeks is now a thriving toddler all set for pre-school

29. Let’s get one thing straight, according to science it’s a human "The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote."[Langman, Jan. Medical Embryology. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1975, p. 3] “The oviduct or Fallopian tube is the anatomical region where every new life begins in mammalian species. After a long journey, the spermatozoa meet the oocyte in the specific site of the oviduct named ampulla, and fertilization takes place.” Coy et al., Roles of the oviduct in mammalian fertilization, REPRODUCTION 144(6):649 (Oct. 1, 2012) (emphasis added).

30. Even the abortion doctors seem to think of it as a human… "I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks... with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages..."--Debra Harry "In fact many women will come to me considering abortion, and I have been personally told that I am to turn the monitor away from her view so that seeing her baby jump around on the screen does not influence her choice.“ • Shari Richards, quoted from the John Ankerburg Show on 3/7/90

31. "I look inside the bucket in front of me. There is a small naked person in there, floating in a bloody liquid- plainly the tragic victim of a drowning accident. But hen perhaps this was no accident, because the body is purple with bruises and the face has the agonized tauntness of one forced to die too soon. I have seen this face before, on a Russian soldier lying on a frozen snow-covered hill, stiff with death, and cold.“ -Magda Denes "We tried to avoid the women seeing them [the fetuses] They always wanted to know the sex, but we lied and said it was too early to tell. It's better for the women to think of the fetus as an ‘it’.” --Abortion clinic worker Norma Eidelman

32. "The first time, I felt like a murderer, but I did it again and again and again, and now, 20 years later, I am facing what happened to me as a doctor and as a human being. Sure, I got hard. Sure, the money was important. And oh, it was an easy thing, once I had taken the step, to see the women as animals and the babies as just tissue." --abortionist quoted from a radio talk show by John Rice in "Abortion" Litt D. Murfreesboro,TN. "The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby." --former abortion worker Debra Harry, quoted in the film "Meet the Abortion Providers" 1989

33. "Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask what her baby was like at a certain point in the pregnancy: Was it a baby yet? Even as early as 12 weeks a baby is totally formed, he has fingerprints, turns his head, fans his toes, feels pain. But we would say 'It's not a baby yet. It's just tissue, like a clot.'"--Kathy Sparks told in "The Conversion of Kathy Sparks" by Gloria Williamson, Christian Herald Jan 1986 p 28 "If a woman we were counseling expressed doubts about having an abortion, we would say whatever was necessary to persuade her to abort immediately." --Judy W., former office manager of the second largest abortion clinic in El Paso, Texas

34. What are the differences between the fertilized egg (or unborn child) and us? Sled Size Level of development Environment Degree of dependency Do any of these things justify an abortion? Most of these things can be applied to a baby/toddler as well

35. Memory Verse Psalm 139:14: “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”