Why You Should Support RU-486
- A study of the relationships
between embryology, the abortion issue, and mifepristone.
- The polarized labels of "pro-choice"
and "pro-life" do not begin to accommodate the diversity of opinions
which are actually held.
- There is no right to life in
any society on Earth today.
- Upon the invention of incubators,
did aborting pregnancies in the seventh month suddenly become immoral?
- The Catholic Church originally
held that abortion was homicide only after the fetus was already 'formed'
— roughly, the end of the first trimester.
- The information required to
make an eye or a finger does not exist in the fertilized egg.
- If ensoulment takes place at
conception, then one of every pair of identical twins must lack a soul.
- It is no wonder, then, that
adults respond empathetically to pictures of aborted fetuses where tiny fingers
are clearly visible.
- A healthy young man can produce
in a week or two enough spermatozoa to double the human population of the
Earth.
- "At the end of human life,
which we define as brain death, we stop protecting what we consider to be
a person — a body with a soul, to use more religious terminology."
- Spontaneous terminations in
early pregnancy are often as high as sixty-five percent, most occurring unnoticed.
- "Also, theologically,
we are having a problem here."
- Fetuses younger than this —
however alive and active they may be — lack the necessary brain structure.
They cannot yet think.
- Taken orally, mifepristone
(RU 486) simply prevents the hormone progesterone from doing its part in maintaining
a pregnancy.
- Approximately 96% of women
receiving the two drugs within the first nine weeks of a pregnancy have a
complete abortion within a day of receiving the prostaglandin.
- One death after more than 60,000
uses makes the drug "safer than anything else you can point to, including
childbirth."
- Both speakers exaggerated the
true facts to make them seem more favorable to their own causes.
- At the latest possible moment
for an RU 486 abortion there is no brain function whatsoever.
- RU 486 would permit abortions
four weeks earlier in a pregnancy than existing methods.
- If RU 486 were approved, the
abortion war might well collapse for lack of both targets and ammunition.
- "If you can show people
fingers and toes, it's dynamite."
- "We're opposed to all
methods of birth control."