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Abortion I

Abortion I. Objectives: Explain how pregnancy is broken into trimesters State the scope of the problem in the US and the world Identify and discuss Supreme Court Decision which made abortion the law of the land List the main pro-abortion arguments and refute them. Pregnancy.

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Abortion I

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  1. Abortion I Objectives: Explain how pregnancy is broken into trimesters State the scope of the problem in the US and the world Identify and discuss Supreme Court Decision which made abortion the law of the land List the main pro-abortion arguments and refute them

  2. Pregnancy • Begins when the sperm and egg unite normally in the fallopian tube • Broken into three trimester of three months each • Normal pregnancy lasts 40 weeks

  3. Reproductive System Fallopian Tubes Cervix

  4. Abortion • Any premature expulsion of a human fetus • Spontaneous • 1 out of every 5 pregnancies • Procured In the US 1.2 – 1.5 million per year 55 million worldwide these are not accurate numbers!

  5. Roe v Wade • Prior to 1973 abortion laws decided by each state • Planned Parenthood backs the case of Norma McCorvey • Jan. 22, 1973 two major decisions • Roe v Wade • Doe v Bolton

  6. Supreme Court • Roe vs Wade 1973 • Right to Privacy • Not a person • 1st Trimester no regulation • 2nd and 3rd some w/ health exceptions • Doe vs Bolton • Same day as Roe • Health = any factor (emotional, psychological etc..) • Strikes down any restrictions in all 50 states • Abortion now legal for any or no reason until live birth? • Babies aborted but alive?

  7. Methods of Abortion Various: • mechanical • Chemical • surgical abortions

  8. What is the function of Government? • Protect the weak • One mornings work at a teaching hospital

  9. How do we judge the health of a society? By its compassion for the less fortunate Viable baby after saline abortion

  10. Pro-abortion arguments • It’s not a baby, it’s a blob of tissue • Pro Choice or The government shouldn’t be able to tell me what I can do with my body • Don’t impose your morality on me • Rape/Health of the Mother • Over populated world

  11. The Forbidden Picture • Here's the picture that pro-abortionists and the media don't want you to see.

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