INTRODUCTION
1.   A step back into history.
     1.   Dr. Walter Alvarez, the late  medical columnist,  wrote
          in 1970:  "It  will probably  be many  years before  we
          (Physicians)  in   America  can   bring  ourselves   to
          chloroform  an  idiotic infant  or to  permit a  slowly
          dying patient to take an overdose of medicine.  What we
          will first have to  train ourselves  to do  will be  to
          leave by the patient's bed a lethal drug, which he  can
          take some night if he so desires.  But before this,  we
          will have to get  over our  firmly held  idea that  for
          some  reason  unknown  to  us,  we  feel strongly  that
          suicide is a grievous sin."
     2.   On February 17, 1972, Dr. William Gaylin, professor  of
          psychiatry  and  law  at  Columbia  University, told  a
          conference of  the American  Association of  University
          Women:  "It used to be easy to know what we wanted  for
          our children, and now the best for  our children  might
          mean deciding which ones to kill.  We've always  wanted
          the best for our grandparents, and now that might  mean
          killing  them.   We have  the awesome  knowledge to  do
          these things, and inevitably we shall be forced to  act
          on it."
     3.   In his 30-page paper challenging the "sanctity of life"
          principle at the Third Euthanasia  Conference, Dec.  5,
          1970, Dr. Marvin Kohl said: "The aim of this essay  is,
          first, to analyze different versions of the sanctity of
          life  principle  and  inquire  as  to  what,  if   any,
          justification  there  is  for  believing  that life  is
          sacred; and second, to exhibit certain contusions . . .
          which appear to be connected with the erroneous  notion
          that one ought never kill an innocent human being.
          "The following arguments are  evaluated and  rejected:
          that only God has absolute dominion over human life  .
          . . that it is always unjust to kill the innocent.
          "In some situations,  especially in  certain cases  of
          euthanasia,  morality  demands  the  killing  of   the
          innocent."
      4.   Dr. Lois Lobb, research director on mental illness at
          Patton State Hospital in California, told the National
          Enquirer, Mar. 25, 1974, that mercy killing "will be a
          reality within the next five years".
     5.   "All the signposts are up", says Dr. Lobb, who believes
          the  United States  is "showing  the same  sociological
          symptoms" as did Germany before the Nazi  extermination
          campaigns began.
     6.   "I  imagine  our  mercy  killing  laws  will  begin  by
          legalizing  death with  dignity," Dr.  Lobb declares. =20
          "Next I see these laws being expanded to accomplish the
          real goal --  get rid  of people  who are  a burden  on
          society."
     7.   "Eliminating the helpless will probably  come as  civil
          rights legislation",  she speculates,  "since a  recent
          Supreme Court ruling on abortions indicates life is  no
          longer sacred."
2.   News Items:
     1.   Because of intense opposition, the Upjohn Company  gave
          up   its  efforts   to  introduce   an  abortion   pill
          Prostaglandin (Prostin F2 and  Prostin E2)  in the  The
          US. Recently our  government lifted  its opposition  to
          testing  the  French  abortion Pill  in the  US. In  an
          unprecedented move, the Surgeon General authorized  the
          use of French research to speed up the  release of  the
          pill for use in this country.
     2.   The Administration has lifted the ban  on fetal  tissue
          research.
     3.   The United States government recently fined an Oriental
          immigrant,  confiscated his  new tractor  (on which  he
          still  owes $36.000)  prevented him  from planting  his
          tilled fields, and sentenced him  to one  year in  jail
          for running over a Kangaroo Rat.
     4.   The Federal Courts  are jailing  poachers for  stealing
          tortoise eggs.  Federal Courts have ruled that tortoise
          eggs have the same rights as live tortoises.
     5.   Congress  recently  passed a  law making  it a  federal
          crime to  picket or impede a person's entrance into  an
          Abortion clinic. The penalties include heavy fines  and
          a five year  jail sentence.  This law  only applies  to
          protesters  protesting  abortion.  All  other forms  of
          protest are still protected by the first amendment.
     6.   In May of 1994, a Wayne County,  Michigan jury  refused
          to enforce the Michigan Assisted Suicide law and  found
          Jack Kevorkian not guilty of assisted suicide.
3.   How do you feel about such statements?=20
4.   Where do you see these opinions taking us in the future?
A.   OUR UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT OPENED THE DOOR TO ABORTION.
     1.   January 22, 1973 was one of  the blackest  days in  the
          200 year history of the United States.
          1.   On  this  day  ("Black Monday")  our U.S.  Supreme
               Court ruled that the killing of an unborn baby  is
               an act protected by the Constitution of the United
               States.
          2.   In this landmark decision the  Court decided  that
               the  unborn  child  is  not  a  "person"  in   any
               "meaningful" or  "whole" sense,  and therefore  is
               not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
     2.   Let everybody  take note;  the Court  did not  conclude
          that  "meaningful"  or  "whole"  personhood  BEGINS  at
          birth; it said only that  "meaningful" personhood  does
          not begin BEFORE birth.
          1.   The  difference  between  these   two  ideas   are
               profoundly important.
          2.   In this ruling the Supreme Court did not recognize
               any  of  us  as being  persons in  the "whole"  or
               complete  sense; it  merely ruled  out the  unborn
               child as a person.
          3.   The question  that haunts  my mind  is, "How  long
               will it be before this same liberal Supreme  Court
               opens the door for the killing  other segments  of
               humanity  by  simply  defining   their  lives   as
               meaningless or incomplete.
     3.   QUESTION: Do you know  what "constitutional  ammendment
          the court based to right to abortion?
     4.   The stage is now set.
          1.   Whether the justices of our Supreme Court  realize
               it  or  not,  in  sanctioning the  mass murder  of
               millions of unborn children, they opened the  door
               to the wholesale  "termination" of  the aged,  the
               terminally  ill, those  afflicted with  hereditary
               diseases,  the  mentally  retarded,  the  severely
               handicapped, and the insane.
          2.   Also the Supreme Court, by ruling  that an  unborn
               baby  is  not  a "person"  and does  not have  the
               protection  of  the Constitution,  has opened  the
               door to the next chapter in  this gruesome  story:
               experimentation on "live" aborted babies.
          3.   Indeed, it is already a reality.
          4.   And why not experiment on them if the unborn  baby
               is merely a hunk of meat.
          5.   Many are concerned that  women may  be tempted  to
               abort children to  sell the  "tissue" to  research
               labs.
          6.   Some are concerned that unscrupulous doctors  will
               fool women into having abortions so they can  sell
               the "tissue."
     5.   Reported  cases  of experimentation  on "LIVE"  aborted
          babies:
          1.   Dr.  A.  Ammann  of the  University of  California
               transplanted  the  thymus  glands  of two  aborted
               babies into two older children.   The donors  were
               killed. (Time Magazine, Feb. 28, 1972, p. 54.)
          2.   Kidneys  from  aborted  babies are  being used  to
               study  male  development  at Dalhouse  University,
               Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  the   donor  humans   are
               killed." (British Medical News, April 2, 1973.)
          3.   Dr. R. Goodlin at Stanford University, California,
               did experiments  including "slicing  open the  rib
               cage of a still-living human  fetus (unborn  baby)
               in order to observe the heart action . . . some as
               old as twenty-four weeks . . . were used."  (Sworn
               testimony to Mary Swedsen, June 1, 1972.)
          4.   One woman anesthetist at Magee-Woman's Hospital in
               Pittsburgh testified, "It was  repulsive to  watch
               live fetuses (premature infants)  being packed  in
               ice while still moving and trying to breathe, then
               being rushed to a laboratory." (Testimony, of Mrs.
               W.   Pick,   anesthetist,  Pennsylvania   Abortion
               Commission,  the  Pittsburgh  Catholic,  Mar.  17,
               1972.)
          5.   Drs. Laphom and Marksberry report  that they  took
               human fetus brains and kept them alive as long  as
               five  months  in  experiments.    The donors  were
               killed. (Science, 1965.)
          6.   However, the  most grisly  experimentation that  I
               have  read  about was  done at  the University  of
               Helsinki, Finland by Dr. Peter  Adam, a  professor
               at Case, Western Reserve University in Cleveland.=20
               In this experiment, babies, 12 to 20 weeks of age,
               were  delivered  alive and  normal by  hysterotomy
               (Cesarean section).  Their heads were then cut off
               and  attached to  a machine  which pumped  various
               chemicals through the brain  circulation of  their
               severed heads. (Medical World News, June 8,  1973,
               p. 21)
     6.   Such  barbarianism  is  still being  practiced in  most
          countries right now.
          1.   In April of 1974 the U.S. House of Representatives
               voted 281 to 58 to  prohibit research  on a  human
               fetus "which has been  removed from  the womb  and
               which has a beating heart."
          2.   But I ask "WHY?"  Why restrict doctors at all from
               experimenting on live, aborted babies?
          3.   If an unborn baby  is as  one doctor  put it,  "so
               much  garbage",  then  why  should the  government
               restrict doctors from doing all of these things? =20
               There is no reason!!
          4.   Legislation  like  this   law  prohibiting   fetal
               experimentation is passed because our Congress has
               enough sense to realize (whether the Supreme Court
               does or not) that unborn babies are human  persons
               that should  be protected  from such  cold-blooded
               treatment.
          5.   The Clinton administration has  now rescinded  the
               ban.
B.   THE HUMANITY OF THE UNBORN CHILD
     1.   The  whole  issue  of abortion  and experimentation  on
          premature babies revolves around  one simple  question:
          "Is that which is growing inside of the mother a  human
          life, or is it merely  a 'piece  of meat',  a 'blob  of
          protoplasm', or just 'fetal tissue'?"
          1.   This is the question every person must answer.
          2.   It is one of the most important questions that you
               and I will probably ever be called upon to  answer
               in our lifetime.
          3.   Is the unborn being  growing within  the mother  a
               HUMAN LIFE?
               1.   Judge it to be a piece of meat, a blob of
                    tissue, then vote for abortion-on-demand,
                    fetal experimentation, and everything else
                    that goes with it.  Certainly God would have
                    no objections to that.
               2.   But -- if you judge it to be a HUMAN LIFE,
                    then before God you must do all within your
                    power to protect these helpless children.
C.   When does science say human life begins?
          1.   It is  both a  scientific and  Biblical fact  that
               human life begins at conception.
               1.   At the point of conception, when the 23
                    chromosomes of the male sperm unite with the
                    23 chromosomes of the female ovum, there is
                    created a new being that had never existed
                    before.
               2.   From this point (conception) not one cell
                    from the mother or the father will be added
                    to this new being.
               3.   All  that this new human being needs is
                    nourishment and time to grow.
               4.   The First International Conference on
                    Abortion held in Washington, D.C. in October,
                    1967 was composed of authorities in the
                    fields of biochemistry, obstetrics,
                    gynecology, genetics, etc., and here is their
                    conclusion:
                    "The majority (19 to 1) of  our group  could
                    find no point in time between  the union  of
                    sperm and egg,  or at  least the  blastocyst
                    stage, and the birth of the infant at  which
                    point we could say that this  was not  human
                    life  . .  . The  changes occurring  between
                    implantation, a six-week embryo, a six-month
                    fetus,  a  one-week-old child,  or a  mature
                    adult are merely stages  of development  and
                    maturation."
D.   What does the Bible have to say about the life  in the  womb
     -- Is it human?
     1.   In the record of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son  of
          God, as given in Matt. 1:18-25, verse 18 says, "When as
          his mother  Mary was  espoused to  Joseph, before  they
          came together, she  was found  WITH CHILD  OF THE  HOLY
          GHOST."
          1.   Ask yourself this question:   "Was  the 'child  of
               the  Holy  Ghost'  in  Mary's  womb merely  'fetal
               tissue' or 'a blob of protoplasm'?"
          2.   "What if Mary, at  the insistence  of Joseph,  had
               obtained  an  abortion?" "Would  an abortion  have
               meant only 'terminating a fetus'?"
          3.   Such an idea is not only unscriptural and ungodly;
               it is downright ABSURD!!
     2.   In Luke 1:39-44 we  read about  Mary going  to see  her
          cousin  Elizabeth  who  was  at  that  time  six-months
          pregnant.
          1.   In verse 41 the Bible says, "when Elizabeth  heard
               the salutation of Mary, the BABE (that is spelled,
               B-A-B-E) leaped in her womb."
          2.   Again in verse 44 the Bible  records Elizabeth  as
               saying, "the BABE leaped in my womb for JOY."
          3.   Just   exactly  what   was  it   that  leaped   in
               Elizabeth's womb?   A  piece of  meat, some  fetal
               tissue, the "product of pregnancy"?  Just what was
               it?
          4.   I'll take what God said about it.  He called it  a
               B-A-B-E, a baby.
     3.   By  divine  inspiration  Luke  used  this  same   word,
          "brefos", which is  translated "babe"  in Luke  1:41,44
          when he wrote Luke 2:16, "And they came with haste, and
          found Mary, and Joseph, and  the BABE  brefos lying  in
          the manger."
          1.   Therefore, we have the  word of  God Himself  that
               the life which is in the womb is recognized by Him
               as a  BABE, just  as much  so as  a new-born  baby
               lying in a crib.
          2.   If  you care  to check,  this same  Greek word  is
               translated "babe" again in Luke 2:12  and I  Peter
               2:2; "child"  in II  Tim. 3:15;  "infant" in  Luke
               18:15; and "young child" in Acts 7:19.
     4.   Many other passages demonstrate that God recognized the
          life within the womb as human.
          1.   God told Jeremiah, the prophet,  "Before I  formed
               thee in the  belly I  knew thee;  and before  thou
               camest forth out of  the womb  I sanctified  thee,
               and I ordained thee a prophet  unto the  nations."
               (Jer. 1:4,5)
          2.   Read what David said about  God's recognizing  him
               in the womb. (Psalms 139:13-16.)
E.   Human life is a continuum from conception until death.
     1.   Conception: Human life begins.
     2.   18-25 days: Heart begins to beat.
     3.   6 weeks: Baby begins to move; brain  waves are  already
          present and can be recorded on an electroencephalogram.
     4.   7 weeks: If the  baby's lip  is tickled,  he will  pull
          away.
     5.   8 weeks: Grabs, swims freely, electrocardiogram can  be
          used to record heart impulses.
     6.   10 weeks: At this stage the baby is so perfectly formed
          that he even has fingerprints.
     7.   12  weeks:  Breathes  (fluid),  sucks thumb,  swallows,
          tastes,  cries,  sleeps  and wakes,  all organ  systems
          function including mental.
     8.   Beyond 12 weeks: Nothing new is formed, the baby begins
          to grow rapidly.
     9.   Birth: Exists from the  womb; breathes  air; takes  his
          food by mouth.
     10.   1 year: Walks.
     11.   2 years: Talks.
     12.   7 years: Reads and writes.
     13.   9-15 years: Develops sexually.
     14.   18 years: Physical adulthood.
     15.   70+ years: Old age.
AT WHAT AGE WOULD YOU DRAW THE LINE AND SAY THAT A PERSON WAS NOT
HUMAN?
F.   HOW ABORTIONS ARE DONE
     1.   There are five basic types of  abortions: (1)  Suction,
          (2) D & C, (3) Prostaglandin,  (4) Salt-poisoning,  and
          (5) hysterotomy.
     2.   Doctors perform a suction abortion by first  paralyzing
          the muscle at the womb opening  (cervical muscle),  and
          then it is stretched open.
          1.   He  then  inserts  a  hollow plastic  tube with  a
               knife-like edge on the tip, into the womb.
          2.   The suction tears the  baby into  pieces, and  the
               scraps are then sucked into a bottle and  disposed
               of.
          3.   Pictures  of  suction abortions  show tiny  bodies
               that have been ripped to pieces, with little  arms
               torn  from  their  sockets, and  rib cages  pulled
               apart.
     3.   The  second  type  of  abortion is  the dilatation  and
          curettage, better known as a D & C.
          1.   When this operation  is performed  for reasons  of
               abortion, a surgical instrument  is inserted  into
               the womb  and the  baby is  literally scraped  out
               piece by piece.
          2.   Care is taken to remove  all of  the baby's  parts
               because of the danger of infection if not  cleaned
               out completely.
          3.   In order to assure that  all of  the baby's  parts
               have  been  removed  a  nurse  is  often asked  to
               reassemble the body and check for missing parts.
     4.   The prostaglandin method uses a  special drug  produced
          by the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Mich.
          1.   The  chemical, called  Prostin F2  Alpha, when  it
               works,  will  produce  labor and  delivery at  any
               stage of pregnancy.
          2.   Most babies, if they are large enough to withstand
               the trauma of labor, are born alive.
          3.   Of  course this  "complication" is  dealt with  by
               merely setting the child aside and allowing him to
               die.
     5.   The   fourth   type   of   abortion   is   called   the
          salt-poisoning method.
          1.   This  is  the  second  most  widely  used form  of
               abortion and is only used after the  child is,  at
               least, 16 weeks old.
          2.   A large needle is inserted  through the  abdominal
               wall of the mother  and into  the baby's  amniotic
               sac.
          3.   A concentrated salt solution is injected into this
               fluid surrounding the baby.
          4.   The baby breathes  and swallows  it, is  poisoned,
               struggles, sometimes convulses, and finally dies a
               horribly painful death.
          5.   The following day the mother delivers a dead baby.
          6.   Babies aborted by this method  are usually  called
               "candy apple babies" because of  their bright  red
               color,  a  condition  caused by  the caustic  salt
               solution which  literally burns  away the  child's
               outer layer of skin.
     6.   The fifth method of abortion is known as a  hysterotomy
          or Cesarean section.
          1.   Like the Cesarean section delivery, an opening  is
               made  in  the  abdominal  wall,  and  the baby  is
               removed.
          2.   The baby and the after-birth are discarded.
          3.   Babies aborted by  this method  are almost  always
               born alive.
          4.   They will  move about,  try to  breathe, and  some
               even cry.
          5.   One doctor I read about  who was  disturbed by  an
               aborted baby's attempts to cry simply dropped  the
               after-birth (placenta) over the  child's face  and
               smothered it to death.
     7.   Abortion Facts:
          1.   They occur at the rate of 4,400 every  day in  the
               United States.
          2.   Less  than  2%  are  don  because  the   pregnancy
               threatens the mothers life or  resulted from  rape
               or incest.
          3.   Abortion  is  legal  for any  reason --  including
               gender bias.
          4.   The repeat rate is  growing. 40%  of women  having
               abortions have had at least one previous abortion.
          5.   Approximately  30  million  abortions  have   been
               performed in the US.
     8.   That means that  over a  million and  a half  innocent,
          unborn children are killed every year in this country.
          1.   It was reported this month by Dr. Charles  Flowers
               of the University of Alabama  Medical Center  that
               over  2,300  abortions  were  performed  in   that
               hospital alone the year, 1975.
          2.   This figure was in contrast to the total number of
               7 that were  done in  that hospital  prior to  the
               Supreme Court's ruling, Jan. 22, 1973.

CONCLUSION
1.   When will the slaughter of the innocent unborn stop?
2.   In the last few years we here in  America, the  land of  the
     Free, have killed  more innocent  children than  all of  the
     Jews killed by Hitler and his forces.
3.   I am sure that there will be no let up in the killing  until
     you and I do something about it.
4.   One day you and I are going to face God in Judgment and give
     account  for  sitting back  and letting  the poor,  helpless
     children of this world be slaughtered by the millions.
5.   I close with these sobering thoughts from Dr. R. A.  Gallop,
     demographer and head of the Food Science  Department at  the
     University of Manitoba:
     "Once you permit  the killing  of the  unborn child,  there
     will be no stopping.  There will be no age limit.  You  are
     setting off a chain reaction that will eventually make  you
     the victim.
     Your  children  will  kill  you because  you permitted  the
     killing of their brothers and sisters.  Your children  will
     kill you because they will not want to support you in  your
     old age.  Your children will kill  you for  your homes  and
     estates.
     If a doctor will take money for killing the innocent in the
     womb, he will  kill you  with a  needle when  paid by  your
     children.  This is the terrible nightmare you are  creating
     for the future."

(Extensive  quotations  were  taken  from the  books: "The  Mercy
Killers" by Dr. Paul Marx, and "Handbook on Abortion" by Dr.  and
Mrs. J.C. Wilke., and notes by Ray Dutton, Sixth Avenue church of
Christ, Jasper Alabama)