BACKTALK: Abortion/Euthanasia- A Culture of Death [May 16, 2005]
Questions to think about on abortion:
What do you see and hear on TV, movies, and the newspaper about abortion?
Have you talked to your parents about abortion? What do they think?
What do your friends think about abortion?
Why do people have abortions?
Definitions:
Abortion: ending a pregnancy before the unborn child comes to term.
Euthanasia: deliberately causing the death (painlessly) of someone who is mentally or physically unable to do most things that people normally do.
For discussion:
Most common reasons women choose abortions they do not want:
My parents will kill me
I have no place to stay if I have the baby
I'm being forced to have an abortion
My partner will leave me
I'm embarrassed to be a single parent
This is very bad timing
I'm not ready to be a mother
It's not a baby yet
I don't want to end up poor and on welfare
An abortion seems easier than a pregnancy
I don't have any medical insurance
I can't afford a baby
There might be something wrong with the baby
I just had a baby
Everyone else says have the abortion
I don't know where to go for help
Findings of the Alan Guttmacher Institute:
1 in 4 pregnancies end in abortion
1 out of every 6 women have abortions
Picto-graph with crosses entitled: AAmerican War Casualties@ [see attached]
Questions to think about on euthanasia:
Should people be forced to stay alive?
Does the government have the right to make people suffer?
Could euthanasia become a means to control the cost of health care?
Isn’t euthanasia sometimes the only way to relieve excruciating pain?
Wouldn’t euthanasia only be at the patients request?
Imagine that we live in a world where a committee is appointed to decide who gets to continue with life and who doesn’t. You are the committee.
Quotes by Mother Teresa on abortion:
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against children and women against men. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts, a child, as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience.”
“The greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other.”
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