In this video, Lia exposes the flawed logic in the 4 categories of arguments that proponents of abortion use to dehumanize our unborn children:

Check out the video – hear it for yourself!

Here’s a short takeaway of Lia’s main points … easy to review and remember! And if you’re into mnemonics as memory tools, think SLED …

Size
Level of Development
Environment
Dependency

SIZE

Q: How can something so small be a human?

A: Is society saying that the unborn aren’t human because they aren’t as big as us?

By that logic, a toddler would be LESS human than adult, just by being smaller.

That would be SIZE-ISM, and society shouldn’t discriminate against those who are small!

The size of a baby, unborn (at ANY stage) or born, doesn’t define its humanity.

Conclusion: A person is a person, no matter how small.

LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT

Q: How can a fetus be human?  It isn’t fully developed.  It can’t think or feel pain or even know it exists.

A: It isn’t possible to know exactly when an unborn child does start to do these things.  But it’s wrong to assume that humanity is defined or based on any of these factors.

Following that logic, a person who has a congenital insensitivity to pain (CIPA disorder) would be considered inhuman.

Further, human development doesn’t stop at birth, but rather continues to around the age of 16.

Conclusion: To define humanity based on a person’s level of development is arbitrary and wrong.

ENVIRONMENT

Q: How can an unborn baby be human?  It isn’t in the world yet – it’s in its mother’s body, and doesn’t even breathe air.

A: Look at a baby 1 day before being born vs. 1 day after birth.

Both are dependent on their mothers for life, although one’s in the mother’s womb and the other in the mother’s home.

What makes it OK to kill one, and not the other?

Conclusion: WHERE you are doesn’t define WHO you are as a person – and it doesn’t define your right to life.

DEGREE OF DEPENDENCY

Q: Most abortions occur in the first trimester, when a fetus is dependent on its mother’s body to survive.  How can the fetus be human when it can’t survive on its own, and is completely dependent on the mother for survival?

A: Logic that would define humanity based on ability to survive is flawed.

A 1-week old baby – or even an older minor child – relies on others for survival.

So does an adult who is on life support or a pacemaker – or on welfare.

Conclusion: To some degree or another, we are ALL dependent on others – and our level of dependence does NOT make us either MORE or LESS human.

Your choice is all I have
Your voice my only chance
Please keep me

… you see the mother drive up to an abortion clinic but then quickly leave, and later watch her smile with a beautiful child in her arms.

These extraordinarily moving images play over a lovely song called “Unborn” by singer/songwriter Caitlin Jane. The song’s pro-life message is powerful but positive, showing the love and peace that come when a woman chooses life.

Caitlin wrote “Unborn” after a college friend faced an unplanned pregnancy. “I was moved by her decision to keep the baby,” she said. “She made a lot of sacrifices to put her child first. It inspired me and touched my heart.”

Playing his guitar, Kennon sings about the lives of two individuals that would have ended very differently way if a phone call had not been made at the time of great need.

The first is a young, despairing Marine at the point of reaching for his gun to commit suicide. His cell phone rings. It is a friend, asking him to join in a motorboat outing. The girl the Marine likes will be there and she is excited to learn that he might join the fun. He changes his mind about suicide and joins the outing.

The second is the story of two 18-year-olds who “had let a kiss go too far” in the backseat of a car. The young man pressures his girlfriend into scheduling an abortion. As she sits weeping in the “clinic,” her phone rings. Her boyfriend asks her not to have the abortion; tells her he’s bought a ring and wants to marry her.  Kennon’s own birth mother planned to abort him, but her doctor said she was two weeks past the legal limit.  His birth father never intervened – and actually tried to sell Kennon on the adoption black market for $10,000.  Kennon considers his adoptive parents to be his real parents; that he has been very blessed from the day they welcomed him into their lives. He grew up playing drums and singing at Bethel Christian Church in
Conyers, Georgia.

Hear the song and see the video at CMT or check it out here:  You’ll be glad you did!

(H/T to Peter Smith of LifeSiteNews:  New Country Music Star Born As Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts)

As LifeSiteNews reported this week:

In another powerful and articulate address, the young Toronto native explores the devastating consequences Canada would face if it welcomed euthanasia, and implores Canadians to find ways of caring for suffering patients rather than killing them.

Lia’s speech on abortion last year, which won her school’s public speaking competition, has now been viewed over 850,000 times on Youtube.  The story was LSN’s most popular good news story of 2009, and she shared a revised version of the speech at last year’s National March for Life in Ottawa.

Without further ado, here’s Lia on abortion:

and on euthanasia: