Posted on 01/20/2003 2:15:04 PM PST by cpforlife.org
THE ABORTED STATES OF AMERICA
The map above has 17 states blacked out. The population of these states is equal to the 42,000,000+ reported "legal" surgical abortions since 1973. Perhaps this visual perspective helps one to grasp the number of people that are gone, dead—robbed of their God given, constitutional rights to life and liberty.
Each time a person is aborted and robbed of their rights; our rights and very lives become less secure. How many more innocent people will have to suffer horrible painful deaths before the nation accepts the truth that with abortion, we are destroying our country and our future.
Please go to our Pro-Life Education Page , to learn how you can help end this tragedy.
Actually, I could have selected a different combo for a wider coverage/land mass, and included the great state of Alaska in for "EVEN GREATER EFFECT." Instead I focused on the center of our Nation, "The Heartland" partly because I believe they are relativly more conservative/pro-life and it would mean more to them. Post#18 is great, but it has been done before; and I'm looking for new effective ways to illustrate the subject. People have mentioned "my state is in there!" There is a more personal connection with this than rows of letters or symbols.
You are the first person who claims to be pro-life and links this to "propaganda." I wonder why?
In short, the heartbeat, brain, and spinal cord indicated a living human being who possessed all the necessary organs to feel the PAIN OF ITS DEATH. Yup, at just 8 weeks.
At 12 weeks (just 3 months - the end of the first trimester), the baby is nearly fully formed, with fingers, toes, lips, eyes, etc., needing only nourishment, oxygen, and time to grow.
My children reacted to light and sound by the 4th month. By the 5th month, I could sing them to sleep.
I hemmoraghed in my 32nd week of my daughter's pregnancy (a full two months before her due date). She was only 4 lbs. 13 oz at birth. She was moved to a different hospital for her critical neo-natal care and did not improve while we were separated.
I demanded that the Doctor release me after only 2 days and immediately went to her side. After each visit, her stats jumped considerably. When I got to hold her, skin against skin, her face against my heart, and rock her for over an hour, singing, cooing, and kissing her the whole time, stroking her lovingly, not caring about anything but the precious blessing in my arms, her recovery was amazing. She went from needing a breathing machine, a feeding tube through her stomach, and multiple IVs to our loving home, free of everything, in just 12 days.
No one can tell me my exquisite daughter didn't know me; I saw the proof of our love with my own eyes. Yet there are people who thinks its okay to kill babies at 32 weeks, to force the mother into labor, stab a pointed instrument through the base of their head, suck out their brains, collapse their skull, and drag their body out for disposal in the garbage.
The only difference between my beloved daughter and those precious victims is that I VALUED her life while their mothers did not.
The quality of the people and the lives they lead, and the impact they have on the world around them is a of greater importance than visual beauty. I would rather surround myself with people of beautiful character and heart, than surround myself with breathtaking scenery.
Lack of mountains and beaches does not make the central US worthless. Maybe next time you could try to avoid alienating half of the nation simply because our land is not quite as scenic as the rest of the states'.
Then history isn't quite your bag, eh?
I'd prefer reckless procrastination. Or perhaps reckless optimism. How about reckless fertilization?
No, I don't.
You must be very young or if not then quite jaded to be so callous. With all due respect...I see you here quite a bit and you frequently post heartless comments. Is it a sport to you or are you simply cold?
Who would have believed in 1954 (the year "One Nation-Under God" was added to our Pledge of Allegiance; by a unanimous act of Congress-no less!)--That just 19 short years later we would have government sanctioned abortion through all nine months with 42,000,000+ million reported dead (many more unreported)
"Never, never will we desist till we. . . extinguish every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonor to this country"
William Wilberforce: Member of Parliament who led the fight for the abolition of slavery in Great Britain.
If you are not involved--Our Fellow Citizens-waiting to be born, need all the help they can get.
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