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Modern Ethics : Abortion

Modern Ethics : Abortion. QUIZ. 1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she ’ s pregnant with the 15 th . They ’ re living in tremendous poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?.

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Modern Ethics : Abortion

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  1. Modern Ethics: Abortion

  2. QUIZ 1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with the 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?

  3. Answer If yes, you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19th century.

  4. QUIZ Question #2 2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. Of their four children, the first is blind, the second has died, the third is deaf, the fourth has TB. She finds she’s pregnant again. Given this extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?

  5. Answer #2 Answer = In yes, you would have killed Beethoven.

  6. QUIZ Question #3 3. The mother is an unwed college student in the Hippie Movement. The father is a recent immigrant from one of the poorest regions in the world. Wouldn’t an abortion be the best option?

  7. Answer #3 If yes, you would have snuffed out the life of the future president of the United States of America, Barack Obama

  8. QUIZ Question #4 4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby, and her fiancé is upset. Would you recommend abortion?

  9. Answer Question #4 If yes, you would have declared the murder of Jesus Christ.

  10. Kill Count: Jack Bauer“24” Kill Lists: Jack Bauer Season 6 Kill Count…

  11. Season 6 Kill Count = 49 Season 6 Kill Count = 49

  12. Kill Count: John Rambo Kill Lists: John Rambo

  13. Rambo Kill List = 438 Rambo Kill Count = 438

  14. Chuck Norris Kill Count = 948,195,198,739,193,938, 593,393,833,730,389,937, 375,163,389,937,375,163, 948,195,198,739

  15. Q# Does Jack Bauer, Rambo, and Chuck Norris kill innocent people or bad guys?

  16. The “Killing Fields” of Cambodiaperformed by the Khmer Rouge

  17. Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge Kill Count = About 2 million

  18. Hitler/Swastika picture

  19. Hitler Kill Count = About 6 million

  20. Stalin pic

  21. Stalin kill count Joseph Stalin Kill Count = At least 20 MILLION

  22. 1973 Supreme Court

  23. 1973 United States Supreme Court Kill Count = 48,589,993 http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html

  24. Canada map

  25. Canada’s population as of July 2008 = 33,212,696 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ca.html

  26. Canada population 33,212,696 (2008) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ca.html NC population 8,856,505 (2006)http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html SC population 4,321,249 (2006)http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45000.html MS population 2,910,540 (2006)http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28000.html Population = 49,300,990 Abortion Kill Count = 48,589,993

  27. Proverbs 24:11-12 “Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter, If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?”

  28. Proverbs 24:11-12 Duty to defend the Defenseless

  29. Pro-life? Q# How does Abortion differ from capital punishment?

  30. Q# How does Abortion differ from capital punishment? Capital punishment deals with the execution of guilty adults who have committed horrible crimes such as terrorism, murder, and treason, whereas abortion is the premeditated murder of an innocent, unborn child.

  31. The MAIN Q# Is a fetus actually a “person” in the medical and legal sense of the word? Q# Is a fetus actually a “person” in the medical and legal sense of the word?

  32. Q# “How can you even think to regulate what a woman can do with her own body?

  33. Q# What does medical science say? Is a fetus (unborn infant) a mere part of a woman’s body?

  34. The FACTS • 1. The infant has a completely different DNA code than the mother. • 2. The infant has a different set of fingerprints than the mother. • 3. The infant has a different and independent heartbeat than the mother. • 4. The infant has a different and independent brainwave than the mother. • 5. The infant, if allowed to come to term, is able, if given the proper care, to live independently of the mother. No ordinary “body part” is capable of this.

  35. Q# What does the Bible say about unborn infants? = God’s Word teaches that unborn children are fully human. Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” Galatians 1:15 “Even before I was born, God had chosen me to be His.” Psalm 139:13, 16 “For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb…Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.”

  36. Q# What does God’s Word say about unborn infants? Job 10.8-12 “Your hands shaped me and made me…Did you not clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life.” Isaiah 44.2 “This is what the Lord says—He who made you, who formed you in the womb.” Job 31:15 “Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One form us both within our mothers?”

  37. God gives children as a Gift “Children are a gift from God.” (Psalm 127:3) God gives children as a blessing “Children are a gift from God.” (Psalm 127:3)

  38. Q# What are the different kinds of abortions? 1. Spontaneous abortions *Unintended miscarriages 2. Induced abortions • Therapeutic – to save the mother’s life • Eugenic – deformed or handicapped • Elective – non-life threatening

  39. Q# What actually goes on in an abortion? ABORTION PROCEDURES Dilation and Curettage – cuts the baby to pieces with a sharp instrument called a curette.

  40. Q# What actually goes on in an abortion? Suction – 28 times stronger than a vacuum. The suction sucks the baby out into a jar.

  41. Q# What actually goes on in an abortion? Saline injection – the baby breathes in the salt and is poisoned by it while the acidic substance eats off the baby’s outer layer of skin. Usually it takes it about one hour to die. [1] Feinberg, J. S., Feinberg, P. D., & Huxley, A. 1996, c1993. Ethics for a Brave new world. Crossway Books: Wheatn, Ill.

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