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Note from Josh: Sorry about the coughing in the background. I was really sick the day we recorded this episode.

Listener Mail:

1. "What do you think of this bumpersticker?  'Ich bin ein Embryo.'"
2. "I disagree with Josh on the use of the word 'murder' in the abortion debate."
3. "If fertilization is a 12-24 hour process, does this mean that the morning after pill is technically OK, since it would happen before fertilization is complete?"
4. "I heard a faulty argument for animal experimentation on MythBusters, and it sounds like the same arguments for human cloning."
5. "What do you think about trigger statutes that would make abortion illegal in a state in the event that Roe vs. Wade were overturned?"

Sex-Selection Abortion Resources from Liz:

• These first 4 facts are cited in Steve Wagner's wonderful book, "Common Ground Without Compromise."
  • A British medical journal, The Lancet, estimated in 2006 that 10 million girls, who should have been born in India in the previous twenty years, were missing. (Source: Prabhat Jha, et. Al., “Low male-to-female sex ratio of children born in India: national survey of 1.1 million households,” The Lancet, 2006; 367:211-218.)
  • That is a rate of 500,000 girls per year. The authors attribute these missing girls to abortions that followed sex determination tests. Sex determination techniques include chorionic villus sampling, ultrasound, and amniocentesis. The techniques are constantly being refined. The Province reported in 1990 that an ultrasound tech in the United States had developed a non-invasive procedure for determining the sex of the fetus as early as fourteen weeks. See Glen Schaefer, “Ultrasound Tests Determine Sex of Fetus,” The Province, 11/25/1990.
  • An accompanying Lancet article by Shirish Sheth affirmed these assessments and referenced additional evidence that sex-selection abortions are common in India and China. In both countries, boys are much preferred to girls for cultural and socio-economic reasons. (Source: Shirish S. Sheth, “Missing female births in India,” The Lancet 2006; 367:185-186.)
  • A 2003 Lancet article also called attention to this problem: Dinest C. Sharma, “Widespread concern over India’s missing girls,” The Lancet 2003; 362:1553  
• Liz cited this study about US sex selection (Full-Text PDF Available)
• Liz cited this Boston Globe article
• And check out this New York Times article

Josh was right about Americans United for Life, or AUL being the organization that puts out an annual book with state pro-life legislative guides.

Link of the Week: "You Shouldn't Have Been Born."

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