Why Pro-Life: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers

I just finished Why Pro-Life: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers by Randy Alcorn. I'm inspired, burdened, enlightened, confused, happy, sick to my stomach, and about a half a million other emotions.

Why Pro-Life

I could make a million posts on each chapter from this book, but I think I will just throw a few tidbits out there that I found really interesting, challenging, or thought-provoking.


"...every argument that appeals to a mother's inconvenience, stress, and financial hardship can be made just as persuasively about her 12-year-old, her husband, or her parents."

"...all of this happens in the first trimester, the first 3 months of life. In the remaining 6 months in the womb nothing new develops or begins functioning. The fully intact child only grows and matures- unless her life is lost by miscarriage or taken through abortion.

It's an indisputable scientific fact that each surgical abortion in America stops a beating heart and stops already measurable brainwaves. What do we call it when a person no longer has a heartbeat or brain waves? Death. What should we call it when there is a heartbeat and there are brain waves? Life. Every abortion ends a human life."


Is The Unborn Part Of The Woman's Body

"A body part is defined by the common genetic code it shares with the rest of its body. Every cell of the mother's tonsils, appendix, heart, and lungs shares the same genetic code. The unborn child also has a genetic code, but it is distinctly different from his mother's. Every cell of his body is uniquely his, each different from every cell of his mother's body. Often the blood type is different, and half the time it's gender is different."

Women's Rights

"In their publication The American Feminist, Feminist For Life features the beautiful face of a child and asks, "Is this the face of the enemy?" They argue that they stand on 200 years of pro-life feminist history, and that it wasn't until the 1970's that the women's movement embraced abortion...

...It's ironic that abortion has been turned into a women's rights issue when it has encouraged male irresponsibility and failure to care for the women and children.

...One of the ironies of feminism is that by its advocacy of abortion it has endorsed the single greatest means of robbing women of their most basic right-the right to life. Abortion has become the primary means of eliminating unwanted females across the globe.

The Right To Choose

"There are many things you are not pro-choice about-including whether someone has the right to choose to assault you, rob you, break into your house, steal your car, or cheat you in a business deal. It's self evident that people have the freedom to make these choices, but that doesn't mean they have the right to make them.


Does Abortion Harm a Woman's Health

"I read a newspaper editorial arguing that abortion is just another surgery, no different from a root canal or an appendectomy. But why don't people remember the anniversary of their appendectomy twenty years later? Why don't they find themselves weeping uncontrollably, grieving the loss of their appendix? And where are all the support groups and counseling for those who've had root canals?"

Does Abortion Prevent Child Abuse

"The argument that aborting a child prevents child abuse is true only in the same sense that killing a wife prevents wife abuse. Dead people can no longer be abused...but preventing their abuse by killing them is convoluted logic.

...Studies indicate that child abuse is more frequent among mothers who have previously had an abortion. Dr. Phillip Ney's studies indicate that this is partially due to the guilt and depression caused by abortion, which hinders the mother's ability to bond with future children."

What About Adoption

"Do women really want abortions? Frederica Matthewes-Green, past president of Feminists For Life, says, "No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off it's own leg. Abortion is a tragic attempt to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss.

...The National Council for Adoption estimates 1.3 million couples are waiting to adopt a child. Yet each year, while 1.3 million children are being killed by abortion, less then 50,000 new children are made available for adoption. This means that for every new adoptable child, thirty others are killed. For every couple that adopts, another 40 wait in line."