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The Healthcare Bill
by Steve Casey
November 15, 2009

The passing of the healthcare bill in the House of Representatives finally came down to the passing of Stupak Amendment which forbids any federal funding for abortion. Now as the Senate debates the bill, this Amendment will certainly be on one of the front burners.

With abortion being one of the primary issues in the healthcare debate, it would do us all well to take a look at "who" we are talking about when we are talking about abortion. They call her name "Fetus." It is a Latin name that means "Little One."

At conception, she was only about the size of a grain of salt. She began with 23 chromosomes from each of her parents. In that one little cell was the complex genetic blueprint for every detail of Little One’s development—the color of her eyes and hair, her height, her skin tone—it was all there in the first miraculous moment of the beginning of her life.

From the time of her conception, Little One has been quite a remarkable young lady. Only three weeks after conception her heart began to beat and the foundation of her brain, spinal cord and nervous system were already established.

At one month, she had become 10,000 times larger than the original fertilized egg that was her beginning. When she was only 40 days old, her brain waves could be detected and recorded. At seven weeks she began to move spontaneously. At eight weeks she was a little more than an inch long, all her body had formed, and everything was present that will be found in a fully developed adult.

She is so cute. She will soon be sucking her thumb.

If an object touches the palm of her hand, she will grip it with her little fingers. She even has fingerprints.

At 12 weeks, she exercises energetically, turning her head, curling her toes and opening and closing her mouth. In another week hair will begin to grow on her head.

Now all Little One has to do is grow in the safety and warmth of her mother’s womb.

What will Little One be? Maybe she will be a great leader who will help the world find peace and guide more people into freedom. Maybe she will be a medical research scientist who will find a cure for cancer. Maybe she will be a teacher and train others to experience the wonders of life and truth. With those long fingers she has, maybe she will be a pianist and thrill thousands with her music.

Oh, what potential Little One has!

Maybe she’ll be a …Oh, no…this is the end of her story. Little One became one of the over 3,000 fetuses who, each day in America, have their potential ended by the tools of the abortionist.

More Little Ones die in the "safety" of their mother’s womb than all other places in the world combined---all in the name of "choice."

Strangely enough, Little One wasn’t given a choice!

Steve Casey
Stonewall, LA

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