Look at the picture on the front page again. See the scars, the beaten skin, and the state of the head, just as big as the body. This baby has not been mutilated for scientific reasons; this is how it was wrenched for the mother's womb. This child and many other children have been murdered by an operation called abortion. The operation causes death and pain, both emotional and physical, to the mother. There are positive alternatives to abortion; it is not the only way. There are two clear definitions of the word abort. The first, to give birth to an embryo or fetus before it has developed enough to survive. The second definition is to cause to be born at a stage of development too early to allow survival. It is our purpose to take care of those that cannot take care of themselves. If we allow abortions to continue we fail in our purpose. Abortion is wrong.
To allow an abortion is to kill a human. Dr. Hynie Gordon, the chairman of Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic stated, "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." (Conception is the fertilization of a cell.) To terminate the life of any human organism is to commit murder. Put these together, murder is illegal and abortion is murder. Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni concluded, "I am no more prepared to say that these early stages represent an incomplete human being than I would be able to say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty.is not a human being." If a person killed a child not yet subjected to puberty he or she would still stand trial for murder. There is very little difference between abortion and murder.
Guilt and depression are frequent effects of abortion. A national poll found that at least 56% of women having had an abortion feel a sense of guilt. (George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 1989, p. 28) A five year study shows that 25% of women who have had abortions turned to psychiatric care, versus 3% of women who had not.