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Pro-abortion advocate refuses to believe picture of preborn child is real

Icon of a scaleHuman Rights·By Sarah Terzo

Pro-abortion advocate refuses to believe picture of preborn child is real

Pro-life author Randy Alcorn talks about how pictures show the humanity of preborn children, and how pro-choicers don’t like to face that reality:

[D]enial remains surprisingly strong. When I showed an intrauterine photograph of an eight-week unborn child to a pro-choice advocate—an intelligent college graduate—she asked me, “Do you really think you’re going to fool anyone with this trick photography?”

I told her she could go to Harvard University Medical School textbooks, Life magazine  or Nilsson’s A Child Is Born and find exactly the same pictures. She didn’t want to hear it. Why? Because she was really saying, “That’s obviously a child in this photograph, and because I don’t want to believe abortion kills a child, I refuse to believe that’s a real photograph.

Baby at 8 weeks, in the first trimester

See  what a preborn child at this age looks like after an abortion.

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Source: Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, Kindle edition, 2011)

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