"What about abortions performed early on during the pregnancies?" When does an early abortion stop being early? The notion of an "early abortion" is changing. Initially, non-Christians didn't consider a baby to be human until after birth. With the advent of prenatal imaging technology, that gave way to acknowledging the personhood of the baby prior to birth, and increasingly earlier in the pregnancy as those and other medical technologies advanced and continue to advance. The two photos below can easily be added to the earlier photos (graphic!). The first photo is of a 16 week old baby (early second trimester) and the second photo is of a baby who is just 8 weeks old (first trimester). What do you think? Do either of them not look like babies to you?
If you're considering an early abortion, consider this. A generation ago, before pre-natal imaging became popular, women routinely aborted babies during the third trimester after assurance that they will not be killing a baby. Today, they live with the guilt of having killed their own babies. If you have an early abortion today after assurance that you won't be killing a baby, how will you feel in a couple of decades when continued scientific advances redefine the baby you killed as a human being? Aren't the photos above evidence enough that the baby inside you is human? Please read this email from a woman who was about to take an early abortion pill but decided against it after visiting this page and the abortion is murder page. What about in cases of rape or incest? Should abortion be allowed after incest or rape?
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