Take a Stand for Life
Prenatal Questions & Defending the Pre-Born
The life of a baby begins long before he or she is born. A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell. If the baby’s life is not interrupted, he or she will someday become an adult man or woman. Worldwide, millions of unborn babies are killed each year. In the United States alone, over 52 million unborn babies have been killed since the Roe v Wade decision of 1973. Since the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, abortion continues to claim the lives of too many unborn children.
Is human life sacred?
From the very beginning the Bible reveals that it is because human beings are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27).
If human life is sacred, when does it begin?
The Bible reveals God’s intense interest in each human life from before conception onward. God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee” (Jeremiah 1:5). Job said God “made me in the womb” (Job 31:15).
Answering Questions for Life
When Does Life Begin?
The Personhood Amendment, authored by Representative Brad Raffensperger, is our flagship piece of legislation and represents the ultimate policy objective of GRTL.
The Personhood Amendment would add language to the State Constitution that recognizes personhood beginning at the moment of fertilization. It would require two-thirds majority vote in both chambers to pass and then would have to be ratified by voters on the next General Election ballot.
Educational Resources from GRTL
Talking Points
If They Say, You Say...
Why are you against a woman’s right to choose?
You say…
A woman’s right to choose what? Ask them to finish their sentence. This will hopefully move the conversation away from the empty rhetoric of “choice.” Most everyone is for a woman’s right to choose many things – where to go to work, where to go to school, whom to marry, etc. however, no one should be in favor of the “choice’ of abortion because the sole intent of abortion is the death of an innocent human being. Women can’t legally choose to have their born children killed so why should it be legal for women to have the choice to have their unborn children killed?
Also, most women don’t really “choose” to have abortions. Paying $400 to have someone they’ve never met before end the life of their unborn child is not something women freely choose to do. Most women have abortions because they feel they don’t have the financial and familial resources to raise a child and feel they have no other options. When those in favor of abortion continually focus and rely on the word “choice”, they make a woman’s decision to have an abortion sound almost cavalier, like women want to have abortions the way others choose to have chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla. This is horribly misleading and totally ignores the real problems women in unplanned pregnancies face.
Prolife organizations and people want to offer real solutions to women in unplanned pregnancies.
Women should be allowed to control their own bodies and make their own reproductive lives.
You say…
This argument fails to recognize the scientific reality that a pregnant woman has already reproduced and the child growing inside of her is not part of her body, but a completely different human being with a different body and distinct genetic code. From the moment of conception a new, unique human being is present.
The word “conceive” is actually a synonym for the word “produce.” Just because an unborn child is temporarily living inside the womb of his mother and is dependent on her for sustenance doesn’t mean he is part of his mother’s body or that he can be killed because he’s defenseless and in the way.
No one knows when life begins.
You say….
If no one knew when a distinct human being comes into existence or if the unborn are alive, wouldn’t that actually be a good reason to make abortion illegal? Because if we’re not sure if the unborn are living human beings, then don’t women having abortions take the risk of possibly signing the death sentence of a living human being?
Before buildings are imploded, those destroying the building make sure there are no humans inside or in the near vicinity. A person who claims it’s okay to have an abortion because no one knows when life begins is like a structural engineer thinking it’s okay to implode a building before making sure no once is in it. If we’re not sure if the unborn are alive then we shouldn’t destroy them until we’re 100% positive they’re not. This is why in the first few days after September 11th, workers clearing the wreckage of the World Trade Center used their hands and buckets and not bulldozers because there was the possibility there could be living human beings underneath.
However, the above argument doesn’t really matter because people who take the time to actually try to find out when human life begins will find a ready answer in the scientific field of embryology. Major embryology textbooks and any scientist with the slightest knowledge of prenatal development will testify to the scientific fact that when sperm and egg combine at conception the life of a distinct human being has begun.
How can something be growing and developing and not be alive? What other things grow, develop, mature and are not alive?
The Wanted Child
When Love Wins
Moral Schizophrenia Confuses Rights
by Chuck Colson
When Janet Sheikhan first discovered she was pregnant, she and her husband were thrilled. But then, Janet received terrible news: A test showed the baby was severely deformed. On the advice of her doctor, Janet regretfully decided to have an abortion.
But when she asked to see her tiny aborted child, Janet was shocked to discover it was a perfectly-formed baby boy. Later she read the autopsy report, which confirmed the baby had not been deformed but was perfectly healthy.