Abortion Prediction

[Prometheum_x]

When I hear the word abortion, my first thing I think of is a pregnant woman going to an abortion clinic in order to get rid of her child.

I think that it is very likely that this form of abortion will fall into disfavor in America. As our popular understanding of biology increases, many people who have supported abortion in the past will begin to see it for what it is and it will become a largely untenable social position.

However, I am afraid that we will win the battle and lose the war. While we may be able to effect a marked reduction in this form of abortion, even its illegalization, I think we will see a rise in the total number of deaths of unborn children.

This is because of various scientific endeavors. Whereas the procuring of an abortion requires a certain level of personal involvment - time, money, and emotional issues - the destruction of human embryos created in laboratories is an invisible, detached process.

 

[patricius]

Unfortunately, I believe you’re right. However, the Pope has indicated that the way to win this war is one battle at a time. So we should focus on the battles at hand, I suppose.

 

[Lisa_N]

Prometheum_x:

When I hear the word abortion, my first thing I think of is a pregnant woman going to an abortion clinic in order to get rid of her child.

I think that it is very likely that this form of abortion will fall into disfavor in America. As our popular understanding of biology increases, many people who have supported abortion in the past will begin to see it for what it is and it will become a largely untenable social position.

However, I am afraid that we will win the battle and lose the war. While we may be able to effect a marked reduction in this form of abortion, even its illegalization, I think we will see a rise in the total number of deaths of unborn children.

This is because of various scientific endeavors. Whereas the procuring of an abortion requires a certain level of personal involvment - time, money, and emotional issues - the destruction of human embryos created in laboratories is an invisible, detached process.

I agree with your overall premise that surgical abortion will become less acceptable but I don’t know that human embryos created and destroyed in the name of science would ever reach the levels of 4000 per day.

For one the technology is still quite expensive and it is not easy on the woman to have all the hormones and then have the “eggs” harvested. I’ve known several people who underwent IVF and it was not only very expensive but had some serious side effects. Further some of the hormones used to stiumulate superovulation have been tied to subsequent reproductive cancers, specifially ovarian.

OTOH people will always continue to have unprotected sex (darned cheap in comparison!) and will continue to have unplanned pregnancies. I don’t see these numbers declining much although we can hope that society changes so that an unplanned pregnancy does not result in an abortion.

Lisa N

 

[theTaxCollector]

Of course I’m not certain what will happen regarding abortion in America, but I can think of several possibilities:

1. The worst first…Abortion is kept legal and slowly we turn into the Dutch, who seem to have confused themselves completely. However, America’s tradition is to rebel, to fight back. This leads me to believe that eventually we would face another Civil War.
2. Most people conclude, via scientific discovery, that abortion is wrong. However, certain “practical” matters prevent it from becoming totally illegal (i.e. some conditions become law like “… in the first 12 weeks” or “…if Mom will definitely die.” An “unhappy” medium for those of us purists (and Catholics), but very possibly acceptable by a “majority”.
3. People begin to realize that we can choose evil or we can choose good (I think this used to be the case… but people today, well, I just don’t see it.) The ‘good’ choice with regards to abortion, of course, is to support both mother and baby.

Maybe number 3 is just my pipedream, but I prefer to believe that mankind is good at heart, even if nobody else believes it anymore.

Peace.

 

[NateHarburg]

What is unknown by many a Christian is that the daily rate is much higher that 4,500 because of the pill. All of the 40+ different types of contraceptive pills function both to prevent conception AND to procure abortion by causing the fetus to die. These chemical abortions go unrecorded. Read this excerpt from an article by Fr. Al Lauer:

“There are well over 12 million pregnancies per year in the USA. The actual number of pregnancies may be 3-5 million higher. However, we cannot obtain exact figures, primarily because of early abortions resulting from use of “the pill,” Norplant, Depo-Provera, the IUD, and other abortifacient “contraceptives.” But it is safe to say that over 12 million pregnancies occur per year in the USA. Three million of these pregnancies result in normal birth. One and one-half million are surgically aborted. This means that at least 7½ million babies are chemically aborted annually in the USA, depending on how many pregnancies and miscarriages there actually are. Thus, three out of four (or possibly four out of five) babies are killed by their parents through abortion each year in the USA alone. In the over twenty years of legalized abortion in the USA, there are at least 200 million new “Holy Innocents” (see Mt 2:16), children who have been killed by abortion. Moreover, there are many more “Holy Innocents” in the world. Some countries perform even more abortions than the USA.”

(the rest of the article can be found here: presentationministries.com/brochures/HopeHealing.asp)

Even if Father Al’s figures are wrong, the point is that there have been far more than 45,000,000 abortions in America’s history. Christians must know the truth about contraception, and that is why I’m giving up 2 months of my summer to tell them this truth. Check out www.crusadeforlife2005.com