"I was
once pro-choice. And the thing that changed my mind was,
I read my husband's biology books, medical books and what I learned is
simply what it states -- this isn't even morally -- this is pure biology.
At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own
unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic
being. The sex is determined. Now people ask the question, well, is it a
human being? We know there's a life because it's growing and
changing."
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Abortion was "not an option for me." Having "worked as a labor and delivery nurse ... I've seen ultrasounds ... you know that those babies are real." She reminded the audience that if she had had an abortion, the world would have been deprived of the great singing talent of her daughter and fellow performer, Wynonna Judd.
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Premature baby at about 25 weeks. If it looks like a baby and feels like a baby ... |
".....Those of us born before Roe v Wade forget that every child born since 1973 knows that he or she could have been exterminated in his mother's womb with society's blessing. In other words, every American child knows that society considered him or her completely expendable. Anyone who believes that this does not cast life in a different light is, in my opinion, denying reality......" -U.S. Representative J.C. Watts, Jr. |