Pro-Life 101

Who has value?

* When does the heart start beating?heart * 6 weeks of development * 8 weeks: Hands and feet formed * 10 weeks: Facial expressions * 12 weeks: Child can do normal human motions * Imagine Ad Imagine Ad Nothing new will develop. The child will only grow in size and strength.

* 88% of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy * 22% of all pregnancies end in abortion * Currently, 1/3 of all women in the US will have an abortion by age 45. * Abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason *Source: Guttmacher Institute, 2011

* Surgical Abortions * Suction Aspiration/Curettage also D&C * Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) * Dilation and Extraction (D&X) * Chemical Abortions * RU 486 * The Morning After Pill

* Physical * Emotional * Spiritual

* Margaret Sanger’s Background * Early Days of Planned Parenthood

* In Her Own Words…. * “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.” * “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” * Abby Johnson Ad Abby Johnson Ad

* A Happy Place? A Happy Place? * Sex Education * Rape Cover Up * Cover Up of Underage Prostitution * Gendercide

* I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is "Abortion", because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, "Murder" by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts... - Mother Teresa

"Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life." Pope John Paul II "The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society Pope Benedict XVI

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” –Psalm 139: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”- Jeremiah 1:5 “And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” –Luke 1:41-42 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.” –Deuteronomy 30:19 “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” –Psalm 82:3-4

The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being... If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light. John Calvin Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed on this nascent life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Didache (AD 50)-“You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery… you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill what is begotten…” Tertullian (AD 197)- “In our case, murder being forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb…”, “Now we know that life begins at conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception…” St. Basil the Great (4 th Century)- “Those who give abortifacients for the destruction of a child conceived in the womb are murderers themselves, along with those receiving the poisons.” St. John Chrysostom (AD 391)- “Why then do you abuse the gift of God, and fight with His laws, and follow after what is a curse as if it were a blessing, and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder, and arm the woman that was given for childbearing into slaughter?” St. Jerome (AD 380)"Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it…”

Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person; among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life. –Catechism of the Catholic Church (2270)

“I know in my heart that if Uncle Martin were alive today, he would join with me in the greatest civil rights struggle of this generation – the recognition of the unborn child’s basic right to life!” –Alveda King, Niece of MLK Jr.

* Peaceful, Prayerful Presence * Sidewalk Counseling * 40 Days for Life * Educate Yourself * Other ideas

What? - We will be going to pray, sidewalk counsel, and peacefully stand up for the right to life outside an abortion clinic in Fort Worth. Abortions will be occurring during the time we are there. Bring your bible/prayerbook/rosary, etc. Who? - Anyone and everyone! When? - Saturday, August 11 th - 8am (meet at St.P2 at 7:30am!) Where? - Planned Parenthood abortion facility 301 South Henderson, Fort Worth, TX 76104

Students for Life of America (Turning the Tide) What does it mean to be Pro-Life?