Justin Wright, Sophmore at MHS, Gives Speech on Abortion in English

Should abortion be allowed? Do you think that if someone is defenseless, that another person should be able to kill him or her? Should they be able to cause someone to suffer? Of course not. Abortionists think that having an unwanted baby can be bad for the mother's health. They think that beautiful, innocent children may "pollute and over-populate the earth" if they are unwanted. They think that the mother should decide if she wants her baby or not. And these doctors don't even tell the mothers how much suffering it will cause for her baby. And, abortionists don't tell the mothers how terminating their pregnancy will affect her life for years to come. In the womb, the baby's heart begins to beat about 22 days from conception. Conception means forming, or being pregnant. Being pregnant means having a child developing in the body. This means that from the moment the egg is fertilized, it is a new life forming within the mother's womb. It doesn't even have to be a matter of morality; it just has to be a matter of ethics. There are ten gruesome ways to terminate a pregnancy. One way is suction aspiration, or vacuum cutterage. This is where a powerful suction tube with a sharp cutting edge is inserted into the womb. The suction dismembers the body of the developing baby and tears the placenta from the wall of the uterus, sucking blood, amniotic fluid, placental tissue, and all the baby's body parts into a collection bottle. Another way is dilation and cutterage. In this technique, the cervix is dilated or stretched to permit the insertion of a loop shaped steel knife. The body of the baby is cut into pieces and removed and the placenta is scraped off the uterine wall. A third way is partial-birth abortion. This is when the surgeon puts forceps into the womb, pulls the baby out by its leg; all except for the head, which is left in the womb. The surgeon then stabs the back of the baby's skull with scissors and spreads the tips apart, leaving a cleft so that the suction catheter can suck the baby's brains out. Since the baby's head is still in the womb during this procedure, the baby feels the pain and shock of the doctor pulling him out and then dies as the doctor stabs the scissors into the baby's skull. I have some visuals depicting this exercise. There are also medications and drugs that terminate the pregnancy at a very early stage. Even though the abortionist uses anesthesia, 97% of women felt pain during the abortion process. About 33% felt moderate to very severe pain. Clinical research provides evidence that having an abortion can cause psychological harm to a lot of women. "Women who report negative after-effects from abortion know exactly what their problem is" observed psychologist Wanda Franz, Ph.D. "They report horrible nightmares of children calling to them from trash cans, of body parts, and blood," Franz said. "When they are reminded of the abortion," Franz testified, "the women re-experienced it with terrible psychological pain ... They feel worthless and victimized because they failed at the most natural of human activities -- the role of being a mother." Is this what we want women to feel? Abortion is such a filthy way of getting out of the responsibility and joy of parenthood. In 2004, President Bush signed into law the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which states that any "child in utero" is considered to be a legal victim if injured or killed during the commission of a federal crime of violence. The bills definition of "child in utero" is "a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb." Out of 73,000 abortions: 21 women died 1 in 100 experienced infection complications 1 in 20 women experienced complications in a subsequent pregnancy 400% increase in tubal pregnancies 100% increase in miscarriages 4% increase in labor problems 83% increase in delivering problems 300% increase in premature deaths Over half the women who abort eventually need psychiatric treatment 5-10% of women go sterile after an abortion Women who have had an abortion have a higher incidence of suicide than other women. There are over 150 physical complications resulting from abortions: Bladder damage Bowels inadvertently sucked out besides the baby Cervical lacerations Coma Convulsions Embolisms Genital tract infections Hemorrhage Incomplete abortion Injury to the intestines Kidney damage Kidney loss Multiple organ removal Pelvic infection Pelvic removal Perforation of the bladder Perforation of the bowel And on and on... There are positive alternatives to abortion. You can keep the baby, and help it to grow into an adult. Or, adoption is a very good option as well. There are so many couples that are unable to have children who would do so much to be able to rear a small child. It is easier than we think to put a baby up for adoption. We need to urge out parents to vote pro-life because when we are of voting age, too many more babies will have been murdered. We need to save as many of these little children as we can. There have been over 40 million killings since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, and that is way too many. For more information on how to help win the war against this barbaric practice and protect the sanctity and beauty of life, talk to me.