Misleading Claims about Abortion

CLAIM: “It’s my body.”
ANSWER: A woman’s body does not have two beating hearts, two blood types, two heads, four eyes, four arms, and four legs. A pregnant woman and her baby have all this and more. And what about when she’s pregnant with a male baby? That’s not her body... it’s a unique, baby boy growing in her womb.

CLAIM: “It’s only a fetus.”
ANSWER: Fetus — literally meaning “little one” in Latin — refers to the preborn baby after eight weeks gestation. Webster’s Dictionary states that a fetus has “passed the early stages of development and attained the basic final form prior to parturition (birth).” Some people seem to have forgotten they once lived and grew in the womb as a “fetus.” Would it have been okay if they had been aborted when they were “only a fetus?”

CLAIM: “Abortion is legal; therefore, it must be right.”
ANSWER: The U.S. Supreme Court has been wrong on many major decisions and then overturned itself. Remembe...