Answering the Myths

REPEAL 79 | Colorado Initiative

The same sound bites cycle over and over again. We've all heard them. Can we come up with some catchy phrases of our own?

Myth: "It's not a baby, it's just a 'fetus'"

Truth: A fetus is a baby.

Saying a fetus is not a baby would be like saying you are not a human because you are a "homo". Homo is the Latin word for human. Fetus is the Latin word for "young one", "offspring", or what we would call in English an infant or baby. An infant during fetal development is no less a living human being than they will be as a toddler or teenager. Fetal development, toddlerhood, or adolescence are just stages of human development. No one is less human at any stage in our development, or simply because we call ourselves by a different name.

Far from "just a clump of cells" or "blob of tissue", the first cell in a child's body is highly complex with their own complete and unique DNA that will be duplicated into every cell of their body. If we were to find even the first cell of a human being's new existence on any other planet, scientists would say we found human life! It is a scientific fact (96% of embryologists agree) that we are living human beings from the moment we are conceived.

Our schools are not teaching the difference between feelings and fact. It is a biological fact we are living human beings from the moment we are conceived - when two half-cell gametes combine to form one complete cell, a new living human being is celebrated by microscopic fireworks!

A complete human being, nothing will be added except time, nutrition, and oxygen as the new individual begins to grow within twenty-four hours, doubling in size until the young one's hundreds of organized cells implants in their mother's womb approximately five days after conception. The chemical communication from the child to the mother is quite complicated, as well.

By 21 days the child in embryonic development has a heartbeat, by 34 days we have detectable brainwaves, and by seven weeks from conception we will move away from touch to our face. Before ten weeks, all our organs are in place and beginning to function. We are tiny with fingers and toes, faces and fingerprints, and we can even tell already if we are a boy or girl (for those who know the difference). By the time we enter fetal development at ten weeks from conception, we can suck our thumb and do summersaults.

Myth: "A woman's choice."

Truth: actions have consequences

Sex leads to pregnancy. Because a woman has made her choice to have sex, we're now talking about the natural consequence of pregnancy that resulted from her choice. If a woman does not want to be pregnant, she has the choice not to engage in activity known to cause pregnancy. She can control her own body. She can decide that she does not want to be pregnant and act accordingly. While women claim they want control over their own bodies, and over their own reproductive choices, no one is stopping them - that is totally up to them to exert self-control and rational decision-making prior to engaging in activity known to cause pregnancy.

Our public schools are not teaching this logical cause-and-effect.

Myth: "Bodily Autonomy"

Truth: once pregnant, always a mother

It is illegal to force a woman to engage in activity that could cause pregnancy. Her body should not be violated. Neither should the child's body be violated. While those advocating for killing children say phrases like "bodily autonomy" it is really those of us defending the child in the womb advocating for it.

Once a woman is pregnant, her bodily autonomy and choices must take into account the bodily autonomy and choices of her child. Once she is pregnant, she is a mother responsible for the care of her offspring dependent on her for the only life they will ever have. And once pregnant, there is a father responsible for the family he has created.

Once pregnant, she is now a mother responsible for caring for her child. Just as we expect of any mother. That will always be her child. And she will always be that child's mother. The only question is what kind of mother she chooses to be.

Myth: "Reproductive healthcare"

Truth: abortion destroys lives.

Death to children and harm to mothers is not "healthcare". We need to consider what is healthiest for women and their child's safety. Pregnancy is healthy. Interrupting a healthy pregnancy is dangerous for the mother and deadly for the child.

No one wants to limit a woman's healthcare. A woman should be informed of all her options, risks, and alternatives to her healthcare. When talking about abortion, that is not healthcare, that is about making her less healthy and killing her child. Abortion causes death, not health. When a mother talks to an abortionist, the only option presented to her is ending her pregnancy by taking away the life of her child through abortion. Abortionists profit from exploited women, irresponsible men, and ending the lives of children. The death industry is a multi-billion-dollar business.

Myth: "Reproductive Choice"

Truth: reproductive choice

What a woman does to become pregnant is her reproductive choice. Once she is pregnant, she has already reproduced. Killing a child should never be an option for a mother, doctor, father, or anyone. Her options concerning reproduction are before she becomes pregnant. Once she becomes pregnant, she gets to decide what kind of parent she will be.

Myth: "No uterus, no opinion."

Truth: a father's issue.

When a man chooses to engage in activity that he knows can create a child, he is choosing the possibility of becoming a father and needs to be ready and willing to support that mother and his child. He has chosen to become one with her. He has chosen to engage in activity intended to create children.

Myth: "Right to abortion"

Truth: no right to murder.

Women do not have a moral or God-given right to murder their children. Created in God's image, every living human being has the unalienable right to continue living.

When killing children is no longer an option, a woman may think about the kind of man that may be the father of her child. Before engaging in that activity, she needs to be ready to take on the responsibility of potentially becoming a mother. If she's not ready for motherhood, she is not ready for what causes motherhood.

Myth: "My body, my choice."

Truth: not your body, not your choice.

It should never be a "woman's choice" to kill an innocent human being. Murder is illegal. We just need to stop exempting the youngest and most defenseless children from the laws we expect to protect the rest of us.

Myth: "Unplanned pregnancy"

Truth: poorly timed sex.

It was her choice to engage in activity she knew could result in a pregnancy. No one is "forcing her to carry a pregnancy". For a mother who seems particularly surprised or angry that she became pregnant, my first question is an honest one: did she consent to having sex? That tells me if it was sexual assault or if she made a choice of her own volitional will, which we as human beings are free to do. When she says yes, she is more readily able to accept the consequences of her own choice.

For those women where it was not their choice to engage in activity that could cause pregnancy, the death industry feeds on the exploitation and abuse of women so that these women are used over and over again in a cycle of abuse that trickles down to them perpetrating violence against their own young. She is victimized and then she victimizes others.

Pregnancies are not planned. The activities that could result in pregnancy may be planned.

Myth: "Stay out of my uterus."

Truth: only abortionists want in your uterus

It is not uncommon for women suffering trauma from an abortion to say they do not want men, or government, or whomever they think wants to limit what they have done in taking the life of their child in their personal business. I believe what they are really alluding to is the invasion of their body they felt when their child was taken from them. It is an unhealed wound. No one wants to be in her personal business.

Myth: "Life of the Mother"

Truth: best outcomes

It is not necessary to intentionally torture a child to death to save a mother's life. Early labor may be induced or C-section performed for best outcomes of all patients. If the child is expected to have a disability or die at birth, allow the child to live to their full potential the only life they will ever have. Provide comfort and love at birth and let their life fulfill the purpose for which God has created them.

Ending the cycle of violence

A child gives a woman who may be "looking for love in all the wrong places" someone to love, someone to live for, and a sense of connection and purpose. The child provides a catalyst that gives her focus outside herself - that matures her into love as a human being - as she enters her own developmental stage of adulthood.

When we take out the option of victimizing the child, it causes a stop in the cycle of violence. The one perpetrating the abuse onto a woman is then confronted with his own natural consequences such as child support and being brought to justice because a child is the proof that abuse happened. It also helps the woman who is being victimized to get out of the abuse and gives her purpose in protecting and caring for her child. A child is the only good that can come from a rape and can be her consolation from an abusive relationship.

A child often gives mothers new focus, purpose, and reason to be healthy and make good choices for themselves. Having a child also encourages her to reach for God. It's not a bad thing when an immoral woman becomes pregnant, as the child is often the best thing that could have ever happened to her. That child is a blessing to her. If she kills the child, she just keeps in the same activities as before and repeats the empty cycle.

A child's right to continue living.

Whenever you exempt a group of human beings from legal protections, you create crimes against humanity. And you do not know which next group of human beings could become exempt. It could be you. The same laws protecting these children are the same laws protecting us. If any innocent human being's right to live can be denied, any innocent human being's right to live can be denied.

Too many minors and young women feel they must regurgitate the slogans and arguments to justify what they have done in taking the lives of their children. Women often prefer to feel victimized rather than admit they victimized someone else.

Without the mercy and love of Christ, or a judge raising a gavel, it is really difficult for anyone to admit one's own guilt. It's easier to say it was someone else's fault, or the fault of circumstances such as "not being the right time" or the pregnancy not being "planned" or she "had no other choice".

Until we know we are guilty, we do not know we need God's mercy and grace. A woman says, "this is my body" to sacrifice her own child on the demonic altar of idolatry of self, wealth, health, or the worship of the abortion itself which is death. Jesus says, "this is my body" and allowed Himself to be broken for us so that we might live.

While abortion sacrifices someone else for one's self, love sacrifices one's self for someone else. We know this is love by the example of Christ who loved us so much that He sacrificed Himself for us - so we could be called sons and daughters of the Most High. No greater love has anyone than this.