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mhm. Obviously it's a concern for all women. All women face the problem of forced childbearing and forced sterilization and limited access to contraception. What do you mean by forced child name by being forced to carry to term and unwanted pregnancy? That is forced childbearing? What do

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you mean by forced sterilization? Many parts of this country, women are sterilized. Mostly poor women and minority women when they, when they have Children, they have pregnancies. They're sterilized with the threat of if you are not sterilized, will cut off your welfare benefits. It's a real

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problem for mostly minority women in this country. And that certainly violates a woman's right to control her own body. She has sterilized. Good. I like that. I like that. I like boy, I don't have a boy. Yeah, I don't like, you know, that's not a bad

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man. Mm hmm. Yeah. Right. Do you think that your demands might in any way infringe on what some people would consider a moral code that standardized in this country? Moral code that life is paramount? I think our demands

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are saying that moral codes and theological issues have no business in the law books. If you know, people think of some people's religious credos, um, make them think that abortion is murder or whatever they want to call it. Fine. That is not my opinion. That is

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not my credo. I don't want their theological viewpoints on the law books forcing me to live that way Begins to be at the 23rd day after conception. The brain waves begin to function at approximately the 30th day after conception, one month. And yet we see under

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the California state law Now, abortions are legal through the fifth month In California, the 6th month in New York. And through the time of birth, first in Canada, you start to wonder about people's value of life. You can see the ribs forming the dark area is

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the liver. Um Ladies and gentlemen, the heart in this little infant is beating. It began beating at the 23rd day after conception. I take this figure again from Lineman's medical embryology text lest you think I got it from some catholic who's trying to make things look

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good? 23rd Day, many women don't even know that they're pregnant at this time. And yet the heart is beating. And I would have you think that recently we've had a great deal of information come forth about death because especially with connection to transplants, because we know

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that we may not say take a person's heart unless we can make sure that that person is dead. And what are the criterion that we're using for death, absence of heartbeat, absence of brain waves. And so somehow you would think that the presence of heartbeat, the

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presence of brainwaves would in some way influenced what our definition of humanness was Legal abortions between 1920 and 1936 and had considerable deaths from these legal abortions passed a good, strict abortion law to stop this sort of thing. And you know what happened the deaths from

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the Mhm. That we can worry about the population problem did you know? And this is building uh the unborn child that growth and differentiation and yet isn't that what each one of us are still doing? We are still growing, we

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are still too, that a number of babies born in new york. And these are, yeah, people straight on is what is legal in California night, I suppose. So Approximately 12 weeks organ system is present and beginning to function from the third until the ninth month. Because

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as you, as you ladies know who have had Children, You will deliver at approximately nine months give or take. But by the 3rd month, every single organ system is present. From the 3rd until the 9th. The anti abortion sponsors of this rally say their ranks are

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swelling by leaps and bounds as the so called silent majority of american women become more aware of the immorality and the dangers of recently relaxed abortion laws. They say the ultimate answer is a continuing educational campaign about the reverence for life, which is the answer not

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only to the abortion problem, but to many of the other problems that confront our society. Ben Williams reporting for eyewitness news from Union Square