Is 45,358,592 a big number?

This is taken in part from an essay my brother did for his freshmen English class recently, that I'm actually really proud of.

Is 45,358,592 a big number?

Well, just think that the combined populations of California and Michigan add up to about 45,358,592.

· By 2002, a reported 45,358,592 LEGAL abortions had occurred.  In almost a thirty year period, since abortion was first made nationally legal by a panel of men, that 45,358,592 babies have been killed because of the irresponsibility of the individuals that had sex and couldn't cope with the consequences.

· If that isn't a big number, just think that one baby is murdered about every 21 seconds in the United States alone. 

· About 5 babies are murdered every minute, 273 babies are killed every hour, and 6,559 babies are aborted every day. 

· 45,910 babies are aborted every week, 198,941 babies are aborted every month, and 238,729 babies are murdered a year. 

Most women don't have to drive more than one hundred miles from their home to murder their babies. (According to his research, my brother did, there's one about twenty minutes from our house.)

Quotes from his essay with some minor editing from me… What can I say? I'm his older sister and an ex "Newspaper Nazi", I couldn't help it, lol. ;)

"Many argue about what makes a human a human, but once the sperm and the egg come together, a human life has been formed.  Yes, the unborn baby does not look like a human…at this point.  What else in the cycle of development would set the unborn baby apart from the living human?  A human has 46 chromosomes that make up it's complete genetic code.  Once the sperm and the egg are united, the unborn baby has all 46 chromosomes that make up it's own unique genetic code, therefore it is a human.  Period.  NO QUESTIONS. Everything that makes a human uniquely a human is in every unborn baby.  It now has everything, except for food and other nutrition, to allow this fetus to grown into the person that it is meant to be.  You cannot argue that it is not alive because the heart begins to beat between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth day and electrical brain waves have been recorded as early as forty days.

There are some very disturbing ways of killing these innocent babies…One of the most popular third trimester abortions is called "brain suction" or the "D&X" method. These are done after 4 or 5 months of pregnancy.  The entire infant is delivered except for the head.  Then scissors are jammed into the base of the skull, into the brain.  This infant is old enough to feel pain.  Just imagine someone beginning to suffocate you and then stabbing you with a knife through the skull, through your tongue, through the roof of your mouth, up past the inside of your eyeballs then finally into your brain.  ... At this point, a tube is inserted into the skull, and the brain is sucked out. The now-dead infant is pulled out from it's mother."

Yay, little bro. :starts to hug brother and then thinks better of it: How many 15-year-olds do you know who talk honestly about topics like this?

"What about the child with disease who will die a slow death or live his life as a burden to his/her family you ask.  Some of these cases are tragic, some are also inspirational. We cannot assume the responsibility for killing an unborn child simply because the child has not yet been seen in public. The child's place of residence (family) does not change what abortion does: kill a human being.  If it is OK for an abusive person to kill a defenseless baby and not give it up for adoption, where it might have a chance at life, then who's to say that some random person off the street shouldn't be able to murder that same person for no reason.

       What is very surprising is that most abortionists themselves seem to know that they are destroying life, a human life, not a lump of tissue that means nothing to anyone.

       "We know it is killing, but the states permit killing under certain circumstances," Neville Sender says.  He runs an abortion clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by the name of Metropolitan Medical Service. 

       Warren Hern of Boulder Abortion Clinic in Boulder, Colorado says, "There is no possibility of denial of an act of destruction by the operator.  It is before one's eyes.  The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current."  

       Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers says, "Women enter abortion clinics to kill their fetuses.  It is a form of killing.  You are ending a life."

You would think that any doctor that wouldn't kill a newborn baby the moment that it was born.  But what separates that baby from being killed minute before it is born, or a minute before that, or a minute before that?  At what minute can anyone consider life to be worthless and the next minute for that life to be human?

There is only one answer to the question, "Is abortion acceptable?"  And that's NO!  No matter how many arguments anyone could put up for this issue, killing a 30 or 16 or 10 year old is no different from murdering a 30 or 16 or 10 week old baby.  I feel that the medical community should emphasize and find safe and effective birth control that would eliminate the need for abortion."

Work Cited
"Abortion." 3 October 2004. http://www.mccl.org/abortion_statistics.htm.
"Abortion, The Facts." 4 October 2004. http://www.abortionfacts.com/abortion/q_facts.asp, October 4, 2004