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Dennis L. Finnan, Commentator

THE ARGUMENT FOR LIFE


January 22nd 2003, marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of America’s ‘culture of death,” where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all human life is not sacred, and innocent unborn babies can be killed for any reason!”

 (January 19, 2003) I’m Dennis Finnan, host and speaker on the World, the Word & You! Broadcast and in a moment we’ll talk about the continuing ARGUMENT FOR LIFE…

…Greetings listening friends this “SANCTITY OF LIFE” WEEK, and welcome again to our weekly radio commentary designed with you in mind! I’m Dennis Finnan host and speaker on the World, the Word & You! Broadcast, coming your way with thirty special minutes of biblical commentary on the continuing abortion issue, coupled with some beautiful music for your listening enjoyment.

…well now it’s time to pause for our first moment of music, after which I’ll return with an exciting message from God’s Word for this special SANCTITY OF LIFE WEEK ahead. My message is entitled: THE ARGUMENT FOR LIFE…

… Dr. Robin Cook, a Medical Doctor turned popular novelist, wrote in one of his best selling novels called ‘Terminal,’ “DOCTORS WITHOUT CONSCIENCE ARE THE ULTIMATE EVIL.” Well, this ultimate evil has now been upon us for thirty long years. Yes, it’s shocking to say the least, this week marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s deadly rulings that legalized abortion-on-demand virtually dehumanizing unborn children. Today a woman and her doctor can kill her unborn child for any reason up to and through the moment of birth without any legal consequences. What has been the result? As Dr. Cook said, “The ultimate evil” is upon us! Why this very moment in January 2003, that I am speaking,

43,000,414 CHILDREN

HAVE BEEN MURDERED!

by their parents for no other reason than they were alive and an inconvenience to their mothers and fathers. Does that shock you, or are you like so many Americans, “numb and dumb” to this atrocity and holocaust of human life? Now I realize this issue will not go away by itself, and like most you may be tired of hearing about it. Yes, you can turn off this broadcast, switch stations, or push the delete button on your computer, or throw away the transcript of this message, but you cannot get away from the consequences abortion brings to all Americans. Therefore, I ask you to listen to me for these next 20 minutes or so, and then follow your heart. OK? Well to help us along in this serious matter, let’s listen to this light and uplifting music after which I’ll return with my talk for this special “Sanctity of Life” week to be observed…

…When does life begin? At birth or conception or somewhere along the way? Well this issue has been debated and ruled upon by our politicians and especially our American justices for thirty years! It of course brought us the “ROE V. WADE” & “DOE v. BOLTON” rulings that legalized the indiscriminate killing of one baby in America every 22 seconds, or 4,400 a day, or 1.6 million annually non-stop for the past 30 years! Do your realize, every third baby conceived is killed in America by her mother? Moreover, 42 % of all women who have abortions, will have two or more in their lifetimes, and half of all abortions performed on women are done strictly as a means of birth control. This renders a total majority of abortions (95%) are performed just to eliminate an unplanned pregnancy. Now is this something we can ignore? The answer is no, we cannot continue to ignore this travesty of wanton killings, and indiscriminate murders going on in America without us suffering nationally grave consequences.

We, in the next minutes I want to again apprise you of some of the FACTS, yes absolute incontrovertible FACTS about abortion no one can dispute or challenge anymore these days. Most likely you are not aware of them, and worse you have been lied to or deceived about them for decades. Nonetheless, here they are,

FACT #1 - SCIENTISTS NOW CONFIRM THAT HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION! – Yes, although in 1973, not every one in medical technology agreed with this, today it is indisputable that the “fetus,” from conception, is a living human being! Fetologists argue that shortly after conception the fetus is a separate, treatable patient distinct from the mother. It is heartening that scientific evidence now confirms the age-old teachings of Scripture. So, don’t let anyone bamboozle you with denial of this truth. When a woman becomes pregnant, she is carrying from conception, a live human being, a child no different from any other except in the stages of life and growth of another human being. There is now no honest scientist who sees the studies confirming this, who will deny human life begins at conception! Now here’s another fact to reconcile and remember,

FACT #2 - IN THE PRESENT CHANGING CLIMATE MANY LEGISLATORS AND SCIENTISTS ARE LEANING TO THE “PRO-LIFE” POSITION – This troubles abortionist who have made a lucrative business out of killing babies for mothers of unwanted pregnancies. However, it is good news indeed, yet the tide has not turned yet. Many Americans still believe that abortion is not evil, nor wicked, and that a woman’s choice is the issue. But the truth is “choice,” is not the issue! Once a woman becomes pregnant with human life she is WITH CHILD! Her only choice is - does she want to deliver a “live” baby, a human life or a “dead” baby! That baby will come out of her only one of these two ways. She cannot reverse the real choice she made – that is to participate in the act of getting pregnant either morally within the confines of marriage or immorally outside of this. Yet today many voices in social and medical leadership are changing their thinking on the issue of abortion. Third we need to know,

FACT #3 - ABORTION PROVIDERS HAVE FOR LONG, QUIETLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY KNOW THEY ARE KILLING UNBORN LIFE, BUT CONTINUE TO LIE TO THEIR PATIENTS – Yes, when cornered, abortion providers, especially the nation’s largest death chain, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, quietly confesses they know they are killing children, but for them the issue is it is legal and that makes it right, not to mention it becomes a lucrative money making business. However, young women who come for their services are told the continued lie, that the pregnancy is nothing more than a blob of tissue to be removed as one would take off an annoying wart. It’s time those who stand for life begin shouting from the housetops the truth now known medically and scientifically – ABORTION IS MURDER! If enough Americans begin this cry publicly, and sent it toward our legislators, I believe the abortion nightmare would turn around! You see my friend it’s up to you who stand for life to do this, and it can be done if we band together.  Now here’s a fourth fact,

FACT #4 - LEGALIZING ABORTION HAS NOT REDUCED CHILD ABUSE AS IT WAS TOUTED TO DO – Yes, legalizing abortion was supposed to significantly reduce child abuse since it was assumed most abused children were unwanted at birth. But this theory has been forever disproved by scientific studies and evidence. Rather than help stop child abuse, abortion has actually contributed to its sharp rise due to the “effects” abortion has had on a woman’s self-esteem and ability to deal with stress. You see many women harbor strong guilt feelings long after abortions. Guilt is one important cause of child battering and infanticide. In the thirty years of legalized abortion, more than 30 million mothers who have killed their children, suffer emotionally from this and as a result their other children suffer too. The increase of child abuse in America since 1973 has risen a whopping 1,112% annually.  If this isn’t enough to get you to rise against this wicked evil churning through the land, then think about this fact,

FACT # 5 - HAVING AN ABORTION GREATLY INCREASES A WOMAN’S HEALTH RISK – Yes, contrary to the risks involved in giving birth, once a woman is pregnant, she has to face the choice which risk is greater, to kill the unborn child by abortion or to deliver the live child by birth? The answer now conclusively is abortion is the greater risk! What physical risks are involved?
(1) A woman who has an abortion multiplies her ability up to four times, to have an “ectopic” future pregnancy, that is a pregnancy that develops outside the womb and is life threatening. More than 35,000 women each year in the U.S. are threatened by this and the vast majority has had previous abortions.
(2) A woman who kills her child by abortion is at risk, twice as much, at getting Pelvic Inflammatory Disease which often leaves a woman infertile and sterile and unable to bear children ever more. Medical studies shows that “ Pelvic infection is a common and serious complication of induced abortion and has been reported in up to 30% of all cases.”
(3) Young women who kill their unborn child in the first trimester before full term pregnancy may have approximately twice the risk of contracting breast cancer. Researchers explain that the rapid growth of breast tissue during early pregnancy leaves women especially vulnerable to cancer when the pregnancy is suddenly and unnaturally interrupted by abortion killing.
(4) The dangers of having the elective surgery of abortion is great compared with other surgical procedures. For instance, profuse internal bleeding often occurs when an abortionist terminates the life of a child and tears it from the mother’s womb. More than 2% of women have had to be rushed to hospitals with profuse internal bleeding. In addition, there is the risk of getting a punctured womb which is usually responsible for the bleeding mentioned here and can result in the death of the patient. Additionally, many times damage to the woman’s cervix has been reported upwards of 5% of women who undergo abortion in the first trimester. This muscle is torn while it is being stretched open to allow abortion killing tools to pass through it into the womb. Such injuries to the cervix lead to bleeding, miscarriage and premature future births. In addition, scientists now confirm that “Placenta Previa” has been found to be more common with those who elect to kill their babies in the womb with a  risk from seven to fifteen times greater than the risk to women with no prior abortions. Lastly, major and minor malformations of later wanted pregnancies are often increased by having an abortion, prior to these wanted pregnancies later in life. Friend, the RISKS ARE GREATER to kill your child prior to delivering your child live! Yet, consistently abortion providers never tell their clients these truths. Still there are two more FACTS you need to know.

FACT #6 - WOMEN WHO HAVE ABORTIONS ARE MOST LIKELY TO SUFFER SERIOUS EMOTIONAL TRAUMA FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES – What abortionists don’t tell women is studies are proving more and more that women who have abortions who think it is all over once they do find out it isn’t! Serious emotional trauma often follows them for the rest of their lives as guilt surfaces and the reality that they are murderers for killing their own children. Psychologically, guilt and depression follow the death of a child by abortion. Long term studies show that 10-30% of abortion patients gain serious psychiatric problems such as uncontrollable depression, long lasting nightmares, and flashbacks on the anniversary of their murder spree. The latest findings confirm that there is now only a 50% chance of young women getting over the abortion killing experience within five to seven months, while 40% continue to suffer psychiatric and or emotional problems. In a study of post-abortion patients only 8 weeks after their abortion, researchers found that 44% complained of nervous disorders, 36% had experienced sleep disturbances, 31% had regrets about their decision, and 11% had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor. When was the last time abortion clinics informed women of these complications? Lastly, and I’ve saved the most important for the last,

FACT #7 - REGARDLESS OF ITS LEGALIZATION IN AMERICA, ABORTION KILLINGS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED – At this point we have not talked about what God and His Word have to say about it. But make note, the Bible, God’s Word, specifically tells us that all life is sacred. From the moment of conception till the last breath taken by a human being, God seriously warns humanity not to unlawfully terminate the life He has created in us. If and when we do this, God warns of the consequences. Listen now to God’s Word which tells us,

Gen 1:1 (NIV)  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Gen 1:27 (NIV)  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Isa 64:8 (NIV)  O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Job 10:8-12 (NIV)  “Your hands shaped me and made me... 10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, 11 clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? 12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.

Job 31:15 (NIV)  Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

Psa 139:13-16 (NIV)  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Exo 20:13 (NIV)  “You shall not murder.

Deu 30:19 (NIV)  This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

Mat 18:14 (NIV)  In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.

Mat 18:10 (NIV)  “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Psa 127:3 (NIV)  Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.

Ezek 18:4 (NIV)  For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son—both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who will die.

Deu 27:25 (NIV)  “Cursed is the man who accepts a [money] to kill an innocent person.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Psa 9:17 (NIV)  The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.

Gen 9:1 (NIV)  “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

Gen 9:5 (NIV)  And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting…  from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.

One cannot escape the truth God’s warnings are real, for He is the Omnipotent Creator of all life. Once a life begins, no one has a right to terminate it without God’s permission, and abortion rather than having His permission, has His curse upon it. To date, America has legally killed more than 42 million of its children through the abortion murder scheme on the books of this nation. Indeed, from this we can see God is long-suffering and has delayed judgment. But unless we turn from this holocaust of death, God WILL one day surely strike with His hand of judgment against us all! It will come as sure as the day follows night. But again since God has delayed judgment, there is still time in this New Year 2003, to repent and turn around. Do you realize there are more than enough people in America, who knowing these facts, can stand against abortion and cry out for our legislators to change things! Stop believing all these lies and the greatest lie, that nothing can be done legally to stop the abortion nightmare of death reigning in the land. The Supreme Court cannot overrule a constitutional change which can happen! We must pray for it, work for it, and speak out for it, in light of these gruesome facts that now can be proven. You and I need to teach these truths to young children from the earliest age of reason and understanding. We also need to be an example of morality in the area of sexual relations and support all the agencies that offer adoption for unwanted pregnancies that continue to occur in our immoral society.

Do you support Pro-Life Pregnancy Clinics and agencies? Does your church? If not, I beg you to begin this year now more than ever. Who knows, God may give us another year of grace, pending our rising to stand. But then again it may be too late and this year may possibly begin the judgments of God, to bring us down and destroy us for our sins. Regardless of what God does nationally, make sure you will not be the recipient of His individual judgment that comes against all sinners. Right now, God offers pardon to all sinners and offers in place His salvation and grace to everyone of us. All who will personally come to Jesus Christ and ask His forgiveness, and call upon Him to save us by His death on the cross, can be saved. Yet, this payment for sin Christ died for, cannot be applied to your heart or mine until we ask God in Christ to grant it by our surrender to Him as our Lord God and Savior from sin.

May God give you an open heart, or better yet a broken heart to make changes in your life because of His Word and these facts given here today. This is my sincere prayer in Jesus Name, Amen.

Some studies and facts presented here were taken from: Elliot Institute, PO Box 7348, Springfield, IL 62791-7348 -- http://www.afterabortion.org

 


·         Radio talk # 0303

·         Broadcast date: January 19, 2003

·         Speaker: Dennis L. Finnan, Commentator

·         Program: The World, the Word & You! Radio Broadcast

·         Address: P.O. Box 40133 Grand Junction, CO 81504


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