Understanding the Abortion Issue

If your goal is to convince others, you must first understand the facts and arm yourself with an array of conversational tools and techniques to engage someone on a frequently emotional (rather than logical) level. Helping that person to recognize and rationalize their own views is the key to changing their views. This resource page is to help you understand and communicate the issue with others.

Understanding Pregnancy And Fetal Development
	Dr. Joseph Bruner operating in utero on a 22 week old baby when the child reaches out to grab his finger. Can anyone doubt that this is a human child, separate and distinct from the body of the mother? According to the proposed Constitutional Amendment (below) this 22 week old child does NOT have a right to life if the mother chooses abortion.
Pregnancy Week-By-Week	Mama Natural Youtube channel produced an animated week-by-week overview of a baby’s development
From Fertilization to Birth	Dandelion Medical Animation Youtube channel produced a more detailed scientific and mechanistic explanation of how fertilization and implantation occur
Understanding The Mechanics Of Abortion
Abortion Doctors Share How The Most Common Abortion Procedures Take Place	The mission of Live Action Rumble channel is to teach the public about the humanity of the preborn and investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and defenseless. 4 Doctors who have performed hundreds or even thousands of abortions explain the abortion process, the risks, and why they are now pro-life.
Prager Videos What You Need to Know About Planned Parenthood	What You Need to Know About Planned Parenthood is 5 minute video about Planned Parenthood deceptions.
Making the Argument Against Abortion
What is it?	Living Waters released a 57 minute “man on the street” interview style video that challenges people to think about the act of abortion if they are not absolutely sure if it is a human being inside. “.. as long as we teach children that it is OK to kill children in the womb, we’ll never convince them that it’s wrong to kill children in the classroom..” 4 basic arguments against “personhood”: 1) Size, 2) Level of Development, 3) Environment (location), 4)Degree of Dependency 3 basic arguments against abortion: 1) Murder of innocent human beings is always wrong, 2) Abortion is the murder of innocent human beings, therefore 3) abortion is always wrong
Is Abortion Moral?	Prager U 5 minute video The Most Important Question About Abortion about whether abortion is moral. Does not “Appeal to Authority”.
Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things	Discussions with people on this issue will frequently cause you to wonder “.. how could someone so smart believe this?” Here is a video to help give you perspective. After Skool Youtube channel produces many great videos to help us understand ourselves and others.
Women Speak Out	Maria Birnbaum presentation to Arizona LD12 on behalf of Women Speak Out and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

Upcoming Ballot Initiative
Abortion Amendment filing	The Ballot Inititiative to amend the Arizona Constitution to guarantee the “Right to Murder” up until the live birth of the child.
It Goes Too Far!	It Goes Too Far! In an effort to expand abortion, the proposed abortion amendment *makes it unsafe for girls and women. It eliminates long-standing, commonsense safeguards* as well as reasonable safety standards at abortion clinics, and it *threatens parental rights* .

Resource Groups
AZ Right To Life	Founded in 1974, The mission of the Arizona Right to Life is to protect and defend the lives of all persons born and pre-born through the support of Life-affirming legislation and pro-life candidates.
TurningPoint USA	Library of articles, videos aimed at high school and college ages
2016 National Platform	Republican National Committee Platform – 2016 Page 21 of the PDF