Answers to arguments concerning life, humanity, and personhood; arguments concerning rights and fairness; arguments concerning social cases; arguments concerning health and safety; arguments concerning the hard cases; and arguments against the character of prolifers.
Please Note: In order to conserve space, footnotes are not included in this article but are marked with an asterisk and may be found in Why ProLife? by Randy Alcorn, Chapter 11, pages 129-132.
“Abortion has completely failed as a social policy designed to aid women,” writes Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life. “It is a reflection that we have failed women.”*
Joan Appleton was an abortion advocate with N.O.W. and head nurse at a Virginia abortion facility. She asked herself why abortion was “such a psychological trauma for a woman, and such a difficult decision for ...
Randy Alcorn answers the question, "Don't women who have had abortions wish they had been better informed?" (On Midday Connection with Melinda Schmidt.)
I have severe bipolar disorder and am unable to go off my medication if I become pregnant. How do medications for this disorder affect pregnancy, or should I even consider having children?
The situation you describe is obviously anguishing for you. I can well imagine that the advice doctors may have given you was based on their concern that any medicine you take for your bipolar disorder would cause birth defects or irreparable harm to a pregnancy.
It is indeed true that some drugs can be harmful to pregnancy, and certainly psychotropic medications like lithium and valproic acid, among other ...
The added burden of potassium can upset the sodium-potassium balance in the heart bringing on a heart attack.
Do Prolifers care about women, and babies once they’re born? They have no right to speak against abortion unless they are willing to care for these children.
A publication of the National Abortion Rights Action League states, “The ‘prolife’ concerns of abortion foes are only for fetal lives, not the lives of women or unwanted babies.”
A Response, by Randy Alcorn
Prolifers are actively involved in caring for women in crisis pregnancies and difficult child-raising situations.
A “Dear Abby” letter, signed “Hates Hypocrites,” angrily challenges people opposing abortion: “Why aren’t you volunteering to baby-sit a child born ...
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