Long Island Coalition for Life, Inc.
Oratory Contest
Pro-Life Speech on Abortion
by Mary Leya
2011
Environmentally Safe, Animal Friendly, Abortion Free!
If today I told you 20 trees in the rain forest were cut down,
Would you be mad?
If today I told you 20 puppies were killed,
Would you be sad?
If today I told you 20 women had an abortion,
Would you care?
Would you care that a human life was just killed or would you say "It's just tissue and it doesn't matter what happens to it". We live in a world where the environment and animals are considered more important than an actual human life. We are constantly told to "go green" or to donate money to an animal hospital, but do you ever see ads or commercials promoting adoption? People would rather not think about abortion. They wish to avoid the overwhelming horrible reality. They wish not to think of the brutality and sorrow that follows abortion.
No mother should be allowed to kill her child. This isn't about the mother's body; it's about the child's body. The baby is a temporary resident of the mother's body, not a part of it, and the mother has no right to terminate that baby's life as if it were just another part of her body. This isn't like removing a kidney. It's ending another human being's life. Faye Wattleton, then President of Planned Parenthood said "Women are not stupid ... women have always known that there was a life there."
Scientific studies have demonstrated that the growing human fetus feels pain and learns about the external environment while within. The brain works, the heart beats, pain receptors feel.
After a few torturous days in the pediatric ICU, a young couple opted to bring Gus home after it became evident that his condition was hopeless. The couple wanted Gus to be able to spend his last hours in the comfort of his own home away from monitors, alarms, needles and stethoscopes. Gus Koch was born to loving parents in December of 2008 with a rare condition called Zellweger's Syndrome. His parents were told even before he was born that Gus was not a healthy baby. After birth the full import of the heart-breaking news unfolded. Gus would need advanced medical care and even then, he might not make it. Doctors did everything to help baby Gus; they were heroic in their around the clock efforts to save his life. Finally, when there was nothing more medical science could do, Gus's parents brought him home. They held him every single moment- day and night - and they were fortunate to be able to love him and say goodbye. Gus Koch died in January of 2009 and while his parent's hearts are heavy with grief, they take enormous comfort in the fact that Gus is now in his rightful home in the sight of God. Gus's parents did not regret that he was born. They did not regret that they chose life and not an abortion. Gus was a human being who added to their lives. He was their own flesh and blood.
Every day we hear about people protesting for the environment or against animal testing, they believe in rights for the environment and animals but not for humans. Animal rights activists protest pain to laboratory rats, but support a woman's right to bring pain to her unborn baby. In 1999 a pro-life women in Louisiana wondered if whether or not doctors would perform abortions on animals too. She called several veterinarian clinics and asked if her cat could have an abortion. Each person she talked to acted stunned and put her on hold. Many doctors told her that they did not do abortions on cats they only spayed them. The doctors also told her of the many risks involved in her cat having an abortion and results might end up in her cat dying. Another doctor begged her to let her cat have the kittens saying that an abortion was unsafe and very risky. She contacted many other doctors all ending in the same conversation.
What makes some people think that there's no life until birth? Pro-choice proponents argue it's not a baby yet - it's just - "a sac of cells - not a human being." It isn't just cells. This embryo is a unique human, with a unique DNA sequence that will never be replicated. It is growing and developing at every moment while it is in its mother's womb.
Worldwide there are Approximately 42 Million legally induced abortions per year and approximately 115,000 legal induced abortions per day. This means that every 8 second, a baby is murdered.
Why would people want to abort their babies? Why would they choose above everything else to kill their child? People do this because they believe there is no other way to deal with their "problem". Abortion is more than just murder, its death without compassion, for the living creature, not yet named, who possesses pain receptors and is aware of his or her own suffering. Abortion is an intentional violent act that kills a defenseless, weak, unborn baby. Without any anesthesia, the baby is dismembered, torn apart, and vacuumed out of the mother. In the case of a near-term or partial-birth abortion, the baby is turned around and pulled partially out with its head still inside the mother. The abortionist then plunges a sharp object into the back of its neck and vacuums out the brain. People in prison who are sentenced to death are killed faster and with less pain then a poor baby, who's only crime was the misfortune of being conceived.
This is not a pleasant subject. It hurts to just imagine the horror, but if people would think of this before they consider abortion they might rethink their options.
But the question is why is abortion still legal? It is legal because this world makes it out as "the better thing to do". In reality the better thing to do would be to let babies live. Abortion is a disease that has spread violently around the world. The only way to stop this disease is to fight. We should fight by protesting and participating in the Right To Life March, and spreading the prolife message. We should fight abortion with as much passion and love as the people who fight for the environment and animals, and most of all we should fight for the rights of babies who cannot fight for themselves!
If today I told you 20 trees in the rain forest were cut down,
Would you be mad?
If today I told you 20 puppies were killed,
Would you be sad?
If today I told you 20 women had an abortion,
Would you fight back?
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