If Abortion is Good for America and the World--Why the Opposition?

By Dr. Bob O'Connor

Pseudo religious ideas are used to pass laws that prohibit its option. But abortion is essential to ensure that children will be born into families that want them. At lest as important is the effect on overpopulation and its result--climate change.

Few realize that God told Moses that abortion is required in at least one situation--and tells the priests how to do it! But there is much more that pro-choise people should know.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Total Health Publications
• Release date: Jul 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393706472

Dr. Bob O'Connor

   Dr. O'Connor is a native of Los Angeles--having grown up in the "ghetto" of South-Central LA. His parents had eighth grade educations. His father died when the author was eight years old. This forced the family onto the welfare rolls while his mother went to school to learn clerical skills.    Dr. O'Connor's university education was at UCLA where he earned a BS and Master's degree and did two years of doctoral level work. He then changed his major and his university, gaining his doctorate at the University of Southern California--in philosophical and social foundations of education.    His interest in travel led to living and teaching in New Zealand, India, Canada and the Netherlands, culminating in a twenty year residence in Norway.    His experience in various cultures has prompted many of the ideas and questions he presents in the book.

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THERE ARE NO SOCIETAL REASONS TO FORBID ABORTIONS.

Ø  Allowing abortion reduces taxes (for education, health care such as Medicaid, welfare payments, and judicial and prison expenses),

Ø  More children contribute to overpopulation and climate change,

Ø  Climate change, with global warming, increases famines and decreases fresh water,

Ø  Disallowing abortion increases the unhappiness of women who do not want a child at that time,

Ø  Not allowing it decreases the contributions to society of women who want to further their education,

Ø  Forbidding it increases the number of unwanted and abused children,

Ø  More abused children increase the amount of criminal and other anti-social behavior.

Table of Contents

THERE ARE NO SOCIETAL REASONS TO FORBID ABORTIONS..........2

CHAPTER ONE........................................................5

WHY THE OPPOSITION TO ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES? .........5

TRADITION...........................................................................5

TRADITIONS, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AND EDUCATION..............6

CHAPTER TWO.......................................................8

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?.....................................8

LIFE STARTS WITH THE FIRST BREATH................................8

ABORTION IS REQUIRED IN THE BIBLE IN AT LEAST ONE

CIRCUMSTANCE..........................................................................9

THE FETUS NOT A PERSON—AND IS NOT SACRED...........10

A FETUS IS NOT YET A PERSON—ONLY THE PROPERTY OF THE

HUSBAND..................................................................................10

GOD IS NOT PRO-LIFE........................................................11

SHOULD CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SPEND MORE TIME ADVOCATING

WHAT THE BIBLE HAS ACTUALLY APPROVED?..........................12

SLAVERY.............................................................................12

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT......................................................13

ADVOCATING THE APPROVED PRACTICES OF THE BIBLE 13

AND ANOTHER THEOLOGICAL QUESTION!......................14

CHAPTER THREE....................................................16

WHAT DOES FEDERAL LAW SAY?.............................16

THE LAW TODAY................................................................16

RELIGIOUS ADVOCATES FOR CHANGING THE LAW.........17

CHAPTER FOUR.....................................................19

OPINIONS, FACTS, AND EFFECTIVE THINKING............19

HOW MUCH DO WE EVALUATE THE ISSUES?......................19

WE BELIEVE WHAT WE HEAR............................................19

DO WE REALLY NEED MORE LABORERS?..........................20

AND WHAT ABOUT THE PLANET’S MAJOR PROBLEM—

OVERPOPULATION?..................................................................21

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STATEMENTS..................21

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS CAN INTERFERE WITH SOCIAL REALITIES............22

DECLARATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.................................22

WHAT DO THE LATEST ABORTION LAWS PROTECT?............24

PENALTIES FOR THOSE WHO AID IN ABORTIONS............25

ANTI-ABORTION LAWS RECENTLY DEFEATED..................25

DOES EDUCATION, OR THE LACK OF IT, PLAY A PART?....26

YOUNG UNEDUCATED MOTHERS IN ALABAMA...............26

WHO IS RIGHT ON THIS ISSUE OF ABORTION?.................27

IT IS ABOUT TRADITION.....................................................27

BUT NEW LAWS CHANGE OUR TRADITIONS....................28

CHAPTER FIVE.......................................................29

POSITIVES FOR SOCIETY.........................................29

FINANCIAL REASONS.........................................................30

TAXATION

............................................................................................31

THE WORLD IS OVERPOPULATED.....................................32

FEWER PEOPLE WILL REDUCE THE GREENHOUSE GASES THAT

CREATE GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE.............33

FEWER PEOPLE EASES THE NEED FOR FRESH WATER FOR PERSONAL

NEEDS AND FOOD PRODUCTION...........................................33

FREEDOM FOR THE CITIZENS TO CHOSE THE WAY TO LIVE THEIR

LIVES..........................................................................................34

REDUCTION IN CRIME........................................................34

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE..............................35

OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH IDEAS.....................................36

AND GUN CONTROL..........................................................37

AND BACK TO ABORTION..................................................37

CHAPTER ONE

WHY THE OPPOSITION TO

ABORTION IN THE UNITED

STATES?

TRADITION

What we learned at mother’s knee—or some

other joint, is fundamental to our belief system. We seldom think our way into our beliefs, we merely