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Abortion Flashcards

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If abortion is outlawed, women will go to jail.

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What’s wrong with a law that says you can’t kill innocent human beings, or else there will be consequences?

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What should happen to a woman who gets an abortion? Jail? Death sentence?

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That depends on the specifics of the case. The abortion law will be tried by the same constitutional standard by which all other laws are adjudicated. It could be classified under a lesser degree of murder based on the stage of pregnancy.

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What about having to change the laws in all 50 states?

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Most states already have existing laws against the killing of fetuses; the only exception is abortion…so not much would change in terms of laws.

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How are fetal protection laws and abortion contradictory?

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The act of murdering an innocent human being is punished in one instance but glorified in another instance

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“Laws can’t stop all abortions”

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No, but they will stop most; rape laws don’t stop all rapes, does that mean we should legalize it? What makes you think most women won’t follow the law?

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“The Bible is silent on abortion and pro-lifers should be too”

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• It’s correct that the word ‘abortion’ is not in the Bible, but we can still draw proper inferences

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“Jesus never said anything about…”, “the Bible is silent about…”

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By that logic, are we expected to believe that anything not expressly forbidden in the Bible is automatically okay?

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“ESCR is more promising than adult stem cell research”

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Is that true? How many diseases is ESCR currently treating and how many is ASCR treating?

• as of 2009, ASCR is treating 75 known diseases, ESCR is treating none

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“Calling all cloning ‘reproductive’ confuses two very different things—therapeutic cloning to treat disease and reproductive cloning to make babies”

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All cloning is reproductive because all cloning produces a new human embryo; the only difference is how the new human is treated

• Do you know how cloning is done? And how is the specific act different in either case?

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“The unborn are human but they are not persons”

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By that logic, you believe there exists a specific group of human beings who can be set aside to be killed while others can’t?

• how did you conclude that there is a difference between a ‘human’ and a ‘person’?

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“Embryos and fetuses have no desire to go on living and therefore have no right to life”

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Slaves, due to cultural conditioning, may not have a desire to be free (similar to Israel in Egypt); but they are still entitled to it due to their human status—its an inalienable right of humans

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“All truth is socially constructed in language communities”

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Does that mean we cannot get outside of language to know what is truly real?

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“Pro-lifers are hypocritical if they don’t adopt unwanted babies”

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How does my unwillingness to adopt give someone the right to kill an unwanted baby?

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“Those abortion photos are fake”

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What does a real abortion photo look like?

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What is the moral implication of a pro-choicer being offended by an abortion photo?

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If abortion is not morally wrong, then there is little reason to be offended by an abortion photo

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“Back alley abortions”

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The law is supposed to make it more risky for one person to kill another innocent person…that’s the point. We don’t legalize crimes to make it safer for criminals to commit crimes.

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“Widespread resistance to abortion laws”

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Are we only supposed to protect people as long as it’s not too difficult or unpopular to do so? Can we do that for minorities?

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“Women will be forced to have illegal abortions”

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No one will force them, they choose it

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What are the stats for pre and post Roe v Wade abortion totals in the United States?

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Prior to 1967 there were about 210K illegal abortions (Barbara Syska, et al, “An Objective Model for Estimating Criminal Abortions…”, cited in Klusendorf, 158). Within seven years of legalization, the number of legal abortions rose to over 1.2 million annually (Stanley K Henshaw, et al, “Abortion Services in the United States…”, cited in Klusendorf, 158)

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Who was Dr. Mary Calderone?

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Former medical director for PP

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Give two citations for the claim that the vast majority of abortions are elective rather than medically necessary to save the mother’s life

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1) Akinrinola Bankole, et al, “Reasons Why Women Have Induced Abortions: Evidence from 27 Countries,” International Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, cited in Klusendorf, 30)
2) Dr. Warren Hern in his 1984 book, Abortion Practice (written 1990), which is a standard medical teaching text on late term abortion procedures

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Name two embryology textbooks which claim that the embryo is the first stage of human development

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1) The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology by Keith Moore and T. V. N. Persaud (2008)
2) Langman’s Embryology, 5th ed. by T. W. Sadler (1993) (Cited in Klusendorf, 35-36)

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Which former president of PP claimed that life began at birth and where is that found?

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Dr. Allen Guttmacher in his 1933 book, Life in the Making…

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Tolerance is a virtue if and only if…

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…people agree with you.

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If someone claims all religions are equally true, what does that mean about my religious truth claims?

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It means they cannot take objection with my religious views

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“Single issue” objection: pro-lifers should broaden their focus

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Just because pro-lifers cannot focus on all of society’s problems due to logistical constraints, doesn’t mean they should give up the cause.
Ask, “Have you ever gone fishing?”

Pro-life groups are already stretched to their limits; asking them to devote their limited resources elsewhere would cripple them

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“Pro-lifers should focus on the underlying issues that lead to abortions”

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All crimes have underlying issues, but just because theft and rape have underlying psychological issues doesn’t mean we legalize them

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“We should reduce the need for an abortion”

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Why? If abortion is morally permissible then who cares how many abortions are performed?

29
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What is the companion case to Roe v Wade?

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Doe v Bolton, decided the same day as Roe

30
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Does a woman have an absolute right to bodily autonomy?

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No, she cannot mutilate her own fetus or take medications that are known to cause harm to the fetus

31
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Who was Aliza Shvart?

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Yale student who in 2008 impregnated herself with donor sperm and then took abortifacient drugs; she then displayed the remains as part of an art project

32
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“We shouldn’t join with those who don’t hold to Christian doctrine to abolish abortion”

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  • social justice is about protecting the weak, not saving souls
  • Christians are not required to remain in the domain of “preaching”, we are commanded to uphold social justice
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“Laws cannot change a person’s heart”

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True, however it provides moral instruction apart from the gospel and thus makes people more receptive to the gospel

34
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Give one real life example of how laws provide moral training

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Child rearing: we train our children in moral habits before they are able to understand what morality is (Lewis’s analogy of a moral philosopher reared among sharpers)

35
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Give a historical example of morally opposite groups joining to fight evil

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WWII; abolition of slavery

36
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Give an example where an evangelical would join with a catholic or seventh day Adventist to save his own child

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If his own child needed medical help, he would take him to a catholic or other religious hospital; so why not join with one of those groups to help another person’s child?

37
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What did Gregg Cunningham say about co-belligerence?

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“It is cold comfort to a dead baby that we allowed him to die to avoid working with Catholics” (cited in Klusendorf, 230)

38
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“Kids shouldn’t see abortion pictures or videos”

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  • Is showing a picture worse than getting an actual abortion?
  • Schools show Schindler’s List
  • If a child is old enough to have an abortion, she is definitely old enough to see the consequences of it
39
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Who was Emmett Till?

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14 year old black kid from Chicago who went to Mississippi in 1955; he was beaten and shot in the head for flirting with a white woman. His mother held an open casket funeral which helped ignite the civil rights movement through Rosa Parks (the image of Till in the casket)

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How is ‘human being’ status determined?

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An examination of the chromosomes

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What is the main difference between the ‘construction’ view and ‘development’ view of human embryos?

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Living things aren’t constructed, they grow (develop). Inanimate objects must be constructed from the outside because they can’t internally direct their own development.

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How do we determine human identity?

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Scientifically, by examining the chromosomes; non-scientific methods are too subjective in the context of right-to-life issues

43
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Define the pro-life view

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The unborn (from embryo) are distinct, living, and whole human organisms capable of directing their own internal growth and development

44
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True or false: the pro-life view is determined by theology

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False, it’s based on embryology (science)

45
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List three historical documents that base their arguments on religious truth claims
(e.g. imago dei)?

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Declaration of Independence, Letter from the Birmingham Jail, and Lincoln’s second inaugural address

46
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Where do rights come from?

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The state? Society? God?; whatever the answer, the authority must be established objectively

47
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How do we address the ‘capacity’ argument?

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Ask: Which capacities and how much?

48
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What importance do capacities have in the abortion issue?

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They help us determine the kind of thing something is, not whether it has the right to life; capacities don’t add value to a person, merely identity

49
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What are stem cells?

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They are unspecialized, fast-growing cells that can reproduce themselves and grow new organs for the body; they can grow into almost any tissue

50
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What happens to an embryo when they harvest its stem cells?

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It dies

51
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What is somatic cell nuclear transfer?

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Cloning

52
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True or false: all body cells are somatic except for germ cells, e.g. testes and ova?

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True

53
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Describe the process of SCNT

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A female ovum is extracted and placed in a dish; the nucleus is removed and replaced with a nucleus from another person’s somatic cell; the genetically modified egg has 46 chromosomes and is stimulated to begin embryonic development; if placed in a womb, it could gestate to become a cloned human.

54
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“We shouldn’t let our ethics get in the way of scientific research on embryos”

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Does that apply to Hitler’s experiments on Jews, or the Tuskegee experiments of the 1930’s?

55
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Which state passed a law making it legal to make a cloned embryo, implant it into a woman’s uterus and gestate it through nine months of pregnancy?

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New Jersey, on January 4, 2004;

SB-1909

56
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Why do researchers and biotech companies want to harvest fetuses?

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Because embryonic stem cells are unstable and often form tumors, rendering them useless for research; stem cells in later term fetuses are much more stable

57
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“Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one!”

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Don’t like slavery? Don’t own a slave!

58
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What does ‘nephesh’ mean?

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Hebrew for ‘breathing creature’, used in Genesis 2:7

59
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What is the name of the pro abortion advocate who argues using the ‘breath’ argument?

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Roy Bowen Ward

60
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What is the date of Roe v Wade?

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January 22, 1973

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