No Excuse - Why we cannot keep abortion legal

There is no excuse for allowing the torture of children to remain legal. Here are the "Top Ten" excuses and why they are invalid for keeping abortion legal.

10. Excuse: "Abortion is necessary healthcare".

Answer: Abortion is not necessary and it's not healthcare. Women do not need abortion. Abortion kills one patient (the child) and causes unnecessary pain and suffering for the other patient (the mom) who is made less healthy. Abortion is the intentional killing of a child through poison or dismemberment. Doctors who have delivered babies and cared for pregnant mothers for decades confirm that poisoning and dismembering children through abortion is not necessary. Prior to abortion being made legal in Colorado in 1967, women's lives were saved, miscarriages (where the child has already died) were treated, and babies were delivered early or by caesarian section (c-section) to end the pregnancy with a living baby, instead of a dead or dismembered baby.

9. Excuse: A woman has a "right to choose" what she wants to do with her own body. 

   
   

Answer: A woman does have a right to choose what she does with her own body. She gets to choose when, where, and with whom she engages in activities that can cause the creation of a child. Once a child is created, the woman becomes a mom responsible to protect and care for her children. Abortion violates both the mother’s body and her child’s body to kill the child and harm the mother’s reproductive health.

8. Excuse: All women are "victims" of abortion, "coerced" against their will.

   
   

Answer: Ten percent of pregnant mothers are coerced to abort their children, and another fifty percent report that they felt pressured to abort. The solution to women being victimized by abortionists is to make abortion illegal, because it is illegal to coerce or pressure someone to do an illegal act, and those coercing can get caught. If someone is being coerced to break the law, there are already provisions in law for how judges treat victims of crime.

7. Excuse: Closing abortion clinics will prevent lower income women from health services.

Answer: There are currently fifteen community health clinics for every one abortion death facility (15:1). The funds propping up the death industry could be diverted to the actual health industry to save lives rather than purposefully destroy lives. Abortion clinics kill people. Closing abortion clinics will not prevent anyone from getting health services; it will discourage them from getting death services.

6. Excuse: We should "show compassion to women, not judgement".

Answer: We show compassion to women through pregnancy care centers, churches, and other services for pregnant moms. Making the act of killing children illegal does not judge anyone; it prevents abortionists and pregnant mothers from the judgment of sin that brings devastating consequences and permanent death to children. It is not compassionate to allow women to continue to be harmed by keeping it legal to kill their children.

5.       Excuse: It’s not the "right" time; people need more education.

Answer: It is always the right time to do the right thing. Law educates everyone. Human nature will not change, which is why we need law to educate and deter unwanted behaviors.

4.       Excuse: Women will just break the law so there won’t be enough jail beds to hold them.

Answer: Most law-abiding citizens will not break the law. Most women who chose abortion in the past say they never would have had an abortion had it been illegal and wish it had been illegal. Law teaches right from wrong and deters unwanted behaviors by providing the potential for unwanted consequences. It is up to a judge or jury if a law has been broken, who are the perpetrators and victims, and fair consequences based on testimony and evidence. Some mothers break the law to kill their three-year-olds; that isn't a reason to make it legal for anyone to kill all three-year-olds.

3.       Excuse: A woman should not be "forced to continue a pregnancy".

Answer: Unless a woman got pregnant through rape (accounting for less than 1% of all abortions), no one forced her to become pregnant. She knew she was engaging in an activity that could lead to the creation of a child. When a woman becomes pregnant, she becomes a mother. The natural outcome of pregnancy is the birth of a child. She made choices concerning her body that led to pregnancy and now has the natural outcome of carrying a child until birth. Once the child is born, she can choose other parents to raise her child through modern adoption, if she wants.

2.       Excuse: Shouldn't there be "exceptions for life of the mother, rape, and incest"?

Answer: It is not necessary to intentionally tear apart a child to save a mother's life. Abortion is more dangerous for a mother than delivering a living child. Abortion clinics do not save mothers' lives; they only kill children. When a woman is pregnant, there is more than one patient. In rape or incest, the perpetrator needs to be held accountable, and the innocent child should not suffer the death penalty for their father's crime. According to current Colorado law, if a rape is reported within forty-eight hours, the father pays child support without access to the child.

1.       Excuse: If abortion is illegal, there will be "back-alley abortions that will butcher women".

Answer: The abortionists who might choose to operate illegally are the same abortionists currently operating legally, without consequences when women die, become infected, need blood transfusions, and become infertile. Current abortion facilities do not have the same standards and regulations as legitimate healthcare and surgical facilities, so that women are already being butchered and dying along with their children. These legalized human butcher shops can be closed by making them illegal. "Back-alley" abortions will be illegal, as will abortion pills which currently cause one in ten women to need emergency room surgeries and can kill women with undiagnosed conditions.

These are the arguments we each hear and can repeat. The important question is, what do you say?

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 

(Philippians 4:8)

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Faye Barnhart is a Life Affirming Specialist and Co-Proponent of the Colorado Life Initiative. She was a women’s advocate for 19 years, served four pregnancy care centers in two states, a federal think tank on the co-occurrence of adult and child violence, was an aid at the state Capitol, and pursued a career in Communications. She raised her children as a single parent and is now married with an adopted special needs son and enjoys grandchildren, including a grandbaby who needed life-saving surgery at birth. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior and Lord as a small child and continues to seek His wisdom.