If something has a heartbeat and brainwaves, does that mean it’s alive?
What if it has feet, hands, and fingernails; is it just a clump of cells?
If it can hear you, move around, and feel pain, does that mean it’s okay to end it’s life?
And just because it can’t open it’s eyes or speak to you, does it lose all human rights?
Of course not.
Imagine a group of four friends. Each person is individual, unique, and irreplaceable. Any one of those people could go on to do outstanding things, like become president, fight for our country, or change peoples lives on a daily basis. In that group of four friends, one of those will be aborted before they ever had a chance to live. What if that had been George Washington? Beethoven? Benjamin Franklin? Or any other great person?
What if that had been you?
Just because a child can’t speak to you, tell you the pain it feels, or the voices it hears, doesn’t mean it’s stripped of all human rights. Majority of people believe that an unborn baby is merely a clump of cells that feels nothing, is immobile, and has no physical characteristics or appearances of a baby. They’re wrong. The earliest time you can get an abortion (or what abortion clinics advise) is approximately around six weeks. By that time the baby has an individual heartbeat and has already developed arms, legs, and a mouth. By seven weeks, fingers and toes begin to form, and the baby begins to make it’s first reflex movements. Also, brainwaves and nerve connections develop at this age. The baby starts spontaneously moving by week eight and starts developing movements such as hiccuping, frowning, squinting, furrowing the brow, breathing (without air), yawing, sucking, and more. By this time the baby is about the size of a thumb and has every organ inside its body. Of the 4500 structures in the adult body, 4000 are already present. By nine weeks, the baby’s eyelids and hands close if prodded and genitalia is now visible.
Abortions performed from conception to 9 week are called medical abortions. This procedure is done by orally or injecting a drug to kill the baby. The most common being mifepristone; a drug that destroys the connection between the baby and mother (the placenta) by breaking down the lining of the uterus. Following this, another drug is administrated, misoprostol, which is meant to induce labor so that the dead baby can be delivered. At times a suction aspiration is needed to complete the procedure when the drug doesn’t fully complete it’s course.
An estimated 43% of women will have at least 1 abortion by age 45.
And 52% of women having abortions are younger then 25.
Starting at ten weeks, fingerprints and fingernails begin their formation. Also, the connections between nerves and muscles have tripled since week nine. By week eleven the baby can swallow and even smile. By this time the baby is now practicing breathing and the vocal chords and taste buds form. With week twelve the baby can respond to skin stimulate. By week fourteen the baby is 4” from rump to crown. Take a look at your index finger, the average length for that finger is 4” long. Now Imagine a baby the size of that. Tiny, right?
This tiny human will be able to feel pain, just like you.
Abortions done from five to fourteen weeks are called vacuum aspirations. This is where a cannula (a plastic tube) is inserted through the cervix into the womb. A pump is attached to the other end and this tube is used to pull the baby through the tube. In many case the baby is too large to fit through the tube, which will consequently cause the tube to pull the baby into pieces in order to get the baby out. These pieces will later have to be identified to ensure the entire baby has been removed. In some cases the tube will not be able to dismember the baby and he/she will have to be pulled out using forceps. Sadly, when this is used, if the baby didn’t die in the womb, it will be left to die outside the womb.
Worldwide...
Approximately 42 million abortions are performed each year.
Approximately 1115,00 abortions are performed each day.
United Sates..
Approximately 1.37 million are performed each year.
Approximately 3,500 are performed each day.
That means 146 abortions are performed every hour.
Which means three abortions every minute.
Or one abortion every 25 seconds.
At sixteen weeks nostrils and toenails are now visible. In this stage the baby may begin to suck his/her thumb, turn somersaults, and begin to develop sleep habits. In baby girls the ovaries contain the beginnings of eggs.The baby is fully able to experience senses such as pain at eighteen weeks. In baby boys, the testes descend at week twenty. Also, at this time period the mom may be able to feel the baby kick, turn, or hiccup. Each side of the brain now has a billion nerve cells. Starting twenty five weeks in the baby will be able to hear, along with being able to fall asleep and stretch upon waking up. Babies as young as twenty five weeks have survive premature labor. About one in eight babies in the U.S. are born prematurely (less than 37 weeks gestation). Eyelashes will appear by week twenty-eight, along with the eyelids being able to open. By week thirty two the skin becomes pink and smooth and the pupils of the eyes respond to light. At thirty eight weeks the child triggers labor and birth occurs.
You can’t say a baby that is able to live outside the womb isn’t alive
Abortions performed from twelve weeks to birth are called dilation and evacuation (D&E). It is a procedure for larger babies in the thirty trimester that are unable to fit through the suction tube. During this procedure, the cervix is dilated and then forceps (an instrument that resembles tongs) are inserted into the womb and the baby is pulled into pieces in order to be removed. Larger babies are first killed, either by poisoning with an injection of digoxin or potassium chloride, or by cutting their umbilical cord and allowing them to bleed to death. By killing the baby first it softens the tissue of the baby, thus making it easier to pull apart during the evacuation.
In the United Sates, abortion is legal until the day of birth. Over 13,000 babies in the U.S. are killed each year after 21 weeks of gestation (late second trimester to the end of the third trimester). Of these 13,000 babies, many would have been able to survive outside their mother’s womb.
Our Goal
Our goal is to spread the word as much and widely as possible. We are going to travel and talk to local colleges, churches, and organizations with a table display of abortion and the truth behind it. Which we will be blogging our progress as we go, along with posting other abortion topic posts and testimonies from women who have had abortions or come close to it. Also, along with this table we are selling bracelets (much like the breast cancer awareness ones) that will have the phrase “I Choose Life” on it. By spreading these bracelets out to as much people as possible, we are attempting to spread awareness and truth about this growing tragedy. These bracelets are available for $2 a piece and all the proceeds will go towards purchasing a sonogram machine and other materials for local crisis pregnancy center Austin LifeCare (www.austinpregnancy.org). Many crisis pregnancy centers aren’t able to purchase sonogram machines and when young mothers who are choosing between abortion and birth don’t get a chance to see their baby, the majority end up voting for abortion. We’re hoping to change that, but we need your help. How can you help? Tell everybody you know about us and the bracelets, follow and spread our blog page around, and help spread awareness by purchasing a bracelet.
In 2003, more children died from abortion than Americans died in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars 1 & 2, the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars... combined.
If you have any questions, comments, or you want a list of sources used for this post please contact Avery Martin and Angela Bohm at: Ichooselife4them@gmail.com.
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