THE FACTS ABOUT LIFE:
- An unborn child is a human life.
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a case involving a Mississippi law that limits abortion after 15 weeks.
- AT 6 WEEKS:
- The unborn baby has a heartbeat of approximately 98 beats per minute.
- Blood vessels are forming into the circulatory system.
- The brain is rapidly developing.
- BY 10 WEEKS:
- The unborn baby has arms and legs, fingers and toes.
- The unborn baby is sucking his or her thumb.
- The unborn baby can now sigh, stretch, move his or her head, mouth, and tongue.
- The baby can kick and will jump if startled.
- The unborn baby’s pain receptors have been developing for weeks (week 7).
- BY 15 WEEKS:
- All of the unborn baby’s major organs have formed.
- The unborn baby has a fully developed heart that pumps 26 quarts of blood per day.
- The unborn baby can feel pain.
- Surgeries have been successfully performed on unborn babies at this age.
- According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans think abortion should be illegal in the third trimester.
- According to a new Marist/Knights of Columbus poll, 61% of Americans say abortion should either be:
- Illegal – 17%;
- Left be up to the states – 44%.
- The majority of Americans hold strong opposition to Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration’s support of taxpayer-funded abortions:
- 58% oppose taxpayer dollars funding abortions in the U.S.
- 77% oppose taxpayer dollars funding abortion in other countries.
- 63% of Americans, including 42% of Democrats, oppose new federal rules that allow abortion pills to be sent through the mail without an in-person visit to a medical professional.
- On the government forcing their radical agenda on Americans:
- Three-quarters say healthcare professionals who have religious objections to abortion should not be forced to perform them.
- 54% say organizations who have religious objections to abortion should not be legally required to provide insurance coverage for abortion.
- In 2017, 33 Democrat Senators signed a letter urging the Senate leadership to preserve the filibuster including Vice President Kamala Harris.
- The filibuster is the only reason millions of Americans have a voice in the current government.
- Democrats used the filibuster 327 times in 2020 alone.
- For decades, Joe Biden stood against eliminating the filibuster say it would have drastic consequences:
- In 2020, during an interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said he did not support abolishing the legislative filibuster.
- In 2019, Biden told reporters that ending the filibuster was “a very dangerous thing to do” adding that it had been used by Democrats “the whole time” Republicans were in power.
- In 2005, Biden said that ending the “would undermine the protections of a minority point of view” and have “long term consequences.”
- Vice President Kamala Harris has expressed support for the filibuster in the past:
- In 2019, Harris said she had a “practical concern” if the filibuster were not in place during an interview.
- In 2017, Harris along with 31 other Democrat senators signed a letter urging the Senate leadership to preserve the 60-vote threshold.
- In 2017, Harris praised Senator Jeff Merkley’s filibuster of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has voted OVER 500 times to sustain a filibuster during his 23 years in the Senate.
- In 2005, Schumer said that it would be a “doomsday for democracy” if the Senate changed its rules on the filibuster.
