| Can Abortion be Justified? | ||||||||||
| Why do some people believe that abortion can be justified in the case of rape? Some people believe that when rape results in pregnancy, abortion can remove the painful evidence of that rape� but will it? Will abortion erase the memory of the rape or heal the emotional and physical pain of the assault? Will abortion, in effect, erase the rape of a woman? Hardly. Rape is an act of violence inflicted upon a woman, but abortion, is an act of violence that a mother inflicts upon her own child. Through abortion, the mother becomes the aggressor, and also a murderer. �God has created each person�s inmost being while they were tiny shapeless embryos in their mother�s womb� (Psalms 139:13). |
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| The delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus. |
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| A spontaneous or intentional interruption of a pregnancy. | ||||||||||
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| Saline (salt water) is injected into the uterus. Then, the living fetus swallows the saline and the high-salt concentration �poisons� the fetus and kills it. |
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| This abortion is similar to the vacuum method, in which the ruptured fetus is removed with forceps. | ||||||||||
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| The cervix is dilated with Laminaria (a Japanese seaweed). Then, the seaweed is inserted into the cervical canal and a long, sharp, hollow, plastic suction tube is forced into the uterus. Lastly, the high speed suction pulls apart the fetus and sucks it into a jar. | ||||||||||