- Begin by reading the summary in the update post, above.
- Then check out these helpful "Quicklinks" at the Principles and Choices website:
- Definitions for terms relating to social issues: PCS247.
- Quotes to ponder: PCS1491 and 1492
- Read about the Dred Scott decision at PCS241 and read "Roe v. Wade Is My Generation’s Dred Scott" for a comparison of the two Supreme Court decisions.
- Optional: "Volition" powerful video on this topic
- Complete the homework listed in the update.
- Check out the resources below for more.
- Person or not a person? Only one can be true of the same being in the same respect, at the same time.
Does where you are change what you are?Regardless of such quibbles, about whether Gosnell was killing the infants one second after they left the womb instead of partially inside or completely inside the womb—as in a routine late-term abortion—is merely a matter of geography. That one is murder and the other is a legal procedure is morally irreconcilable.
Kristen Powers, "Philadelphia abortion clinic horror," USA Today, April 11, 2013.
Tiny preemies as small as 8.6 oz and born as early as 21 weeks' gestation have survived. How can babies the same ages and sizes not be babies (persons) just because they happen to be inside their mothers' wombs?
"Baby Saybie" born at 23 weeks, 9" long and weighing just 8.6 oz. She IS a person.
Baby in womb at 28 weeks, ~15" long and weighing ~2.25 lb. HOW is he not a person??
- Laci and Conner's Law: Principles and Choices website, PCS243 treats an unborn child harmed during the commission of a crime as a separate victim.
- In 23 states, drug use during pregnancy is "child abuse." - pro-abortion source
- In 38 states, an unborn child killed during a crime is a separate homicide victim, i.e. a person. In at least 29 of these, this is true at all stages of gestation.
- Yet, Roe vs. Wade severely limits states in protecting unborn children from abortion. Therefore, a mother can choose to have this same child killed completely legally.
- 28 of the Best Signs From March for Life 2019 and more great signs here!
- Walk for Life West Coast Official Photostream and photos of Western Dominicans at the Walk
- How Gosnell’s House of Horrors Made Me Pro-Life by Ann McElhinney. Warning: This is an important story but also truly horrific. Sensitive readers may wish to stop at the paragraph that begins: "The humanity in all the pictures is unmistakable."
- ‘Gosnell’ DVD Best-Seller on Amazon