CIA #4

1. Abortion is Murder
Jennifer Echstenkamper

2. What is abortion?
Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination
of a human pregnancy, most often performed
during or up to the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.

3. When is a baby viable?
Most people think a baby is not a baby until it is
born.
As early as 8 weeks old in the womb, a baby has
all of its limbs and is able to suck its thumb-
exactly how a baby does once it is born.
A baby can be born as early as 23 weeks and
survive out of the womb.
If you remember in the definition of abortion, a
mother can terminate the child as late as 28
weeks. Five full weeks after a baby can be born
and survive.

4. How is an abortion
performed at different
stages?People support abortion and
don’t classify it as murder, but
do you really know how an
abortion is performed? And
worse yet- a late term
abortion?
At 8-12 weeks, the baby is
sucked out of the uterus with
a vacuum with suction power
29x more powerful than a
household vacuum- tearing
the baby into pieces as it
suctions it out.
At 13-20 weeks, the baby has
to be dismembered inside the
uterus with forceps, the skull
is then crushed and the spine
snapped to take out the
unborn child.

5. Cont.
At 6 months, the doctor goes in through C-
section; cuts the umbilical cord in the womb, let
the baby suffocate and then take it out.
At 28-30 weeks the baby is pulled out of the
vaginal canal by its legs. The head remains
inside the mother, the doctor cracks open the
baby’s skull with scissors and the brain is then
suctioned out and the dead child is then removed
completely.

6. Murder
Murder is defined as the unlawful premeditated
killing of one human being by another.
If this is murder, then how is planning an carrying
through with an abortion not murder?
A baby can survive outside the womb by 23
weeks; abortions are still performed at 30 weeks.
The child is able to cry, breathe, eat, move and
survive, but the mother can still choose to have
her baby murdered.

7. Conclusion
Murder is the killing of a human being by another
human being
Abortion is the act of killing a child and
terminating a life inside or outside the womb.
The way abortions are performed are gruesome
and cruel to a defenseless baby.
How is abortion not murder?