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CHAPTER 5: ABORTION – 1973 & 1983

Baby in the Womb (CCASA)

Didn’t God say “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness”? Man is made of body, spirit and soul.
This is unlike other living things that do not possess a spirit. Animals have souls unlike plant life. The spirit is
everlasting. Does this bring greater significance to human life rather than plant and animal life?

An article in Forbes magazine made the following statement: “Abortion has not only been legal in the United States for
almost 40 years, the right to continue or terminate a pregnancy without interference by the state has been our Constitutional right since
1973′s Supreme Court decision.” Can states undermine women’s rights? In 2011, state legislatures enacted a record
number of provisions to restrict access to abortion – 92 provisions in 24 states. This is almost three times the
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previous record of 34 restrictions adopted by the states in 2005.
In the 50 states combined, legislators introduced more than 1,100 reproductive health and rights related
provisions, which was a sharp increase from the 950 introduced in 2010. By year’s end, 135 of these provisions
had been enacted in 36 states, an increase from the 89 enacted in 2010 and the 77 enacted in 2009. Fully 68% of
these new provisions—92 in 24 states—-restrict access to abortion services. This was a striking increase from last
year, when 26% of new provisions restricted abortion. The 92 new abortion restrictions enacted in 2011
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shattered the previous record of 4 adopted in 2005.
The most high-profile state-level abortion debate of 2011 took place in Mississippi, where voters rejected the
ballot initiative that would have legally defined a human embryo as a person “from the moment of fertilization,”
setting the stage to ban all abortions and potentially most hormonal contraceptive methods in the state.
Meanwhile, five states (AL, ID, IN, KS and OK) enacted provisions to ban abortion at or beyond 20 weeks’
gestation, based on the assertion that a fetus can feel pain at that point. These five states join Nebraska, which
adopted a ban on abortions after 20 weeks in 2010. In July 2013, Texas adopted a similar law.
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43 Forbes Woman, 1/20/2012 Roe v. Wade Didn't Just Legalize Abortion: It Made It Our Constitutional Right.

44 Guttmacher Institute, 1/5/2012 States Enact Record Number of Abortion Restrictions in 2011.