1)   Abortion is a religious freedom issue and we have an
        overwhelming amount of evidence with which we can can easily
       prove this to you.   More Evidence        More Evidence

2)   The goal of the Pro-Truth Team is to bring the truth, the whole
       truth, and only the truth about abortion to the public's attention
        in an accurate, informative manner, using correct, clear,
         non-inflammatory language, so that each person can make up his
        or her own mind about rightness or wrongness of forcing
        someone else to bear a child.**  

3)   Our program is designed to show you that pregnancy and
        potential motherhood are incredibly personal, private, religious, 
        and medical issues that must be addressed by the woman herself,
        within the context of her own needs, desires, conditions, and
        circumstances and with the support of family, friends and with
        the guidance of her medical and spiritual advisors.

**  Regarding the Pro-Truth Team being accused of
hypocrisy, we refer the viewers to the section titled:
"The Pro-Truth Team and Hypocrisy"

The "Truest Truth" about Abortion is that  WE  DON'T  KNOW  THE  TRUTH!    And we have no way to find the truth!

When you are talking about abortion and you what to know the truth,  you must first  find the truth about what a human being actually is.    Are you your physical body?   Were you created by God at conception?   Are you an eternal being temporarily inhabiting a body?   Are you only a clump of dust that has somehow magically acquired consciousness?

You can't know the significance of abortion until you can answer these question and dozens more equally  puzzling and equally unanswerable, religious  questions.   When you talk about abortion, you're also talking about God, about religion, and about when an independent human life begins.  And in this area:  Nobody can say with certainty that he or she is correct and that everyone else is wrong.    More Evidence        More Evidence

Nobody knows for sure.   The fact that nobody can answer that question with provable certainty is the essence of our pro-choice argument.   When you can't prove something one way or another, we need to allow people the right to make their own choices.

The actions of the so-called "pro-life" leaders do not save any lives.   Their actions only transfer death onto different beings at different times and places, and, in the process, they precipitate poverty and misery onto millions, and promote the extinction of species at a rate paralleled only by the extinction of the dinosaurs.

They ignore the 40,000 already-born babies that starve to death every day or who die from curable diseases.   They  spend vast amounts of time, money, and effort saving the lives of a few human embryos, and in the process, consume the resources that could easily be used to save the lives of thousands of already born children.

If their goal really was saving innocent children's lives, they're doing a dismally poor job.    They could save several hundred times as many innocent live by focusing on already born babies.   And they could do this without offending millions of people.

Reference:  Finding the Huge, Hidden, Long-term Costs of The Anti-abortion Movement

The real intention of the anti abortion leaders is to promote their political agenda.   Abortion is little more than a convenient tool.   They have openly proclaimed their intention to dominate the Republican political structure and, in so doing, create what they call a “Christian America.” 

But don't believe me!   Read it for yourself in the words of one of the movement's most adamant anti-abortionists, Ralph Reed.   (His book:   Active Faith - How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics, By Ralph Reed; The Free Press;  New York, NY; 1996.)   

You also need to understand that their anti-abortion campaign is a huge money maker, and it provides the anti-choice leaders with a great deal of political power, publicity, and prestige that they otherwise would never have.

1)   Because when you examine the abortion issue from each of the three possible assumptions about life,  Atheism,    Christian One-life-ism,   and Reincarnation,  three very different meanings emerge. 

2)  Because those opposing abortion rights are primarily conservative Christians, and their opposition is based primarily on their unprovable, religious beliefs.

3)   Because billions of people hold beliefs in direct opposition to those of the ant-abortionists.

4)  Because The Truest Truth about Abortion is that  WE  DON'T  KNOW  THE  TRUTH!    And we have no way to find the truth!

5)   Because nobody can say with certainty that his/her belief is correct and that everyone else is wrong.

6)   And we could use the Roman Catholic Pope's logic and offer our version of a papal decree:  "Abortion is a religious issue because we say it is."

Do you want the Fundamentalist Christian anti-abortion answer or  the answer according to the Eastern religions?   Do you want the Christian Bible's answer, the Jewish Talmud's answer or the Muslim Koran's answer?   Do you want the atheists answer or the agnostics answer?  Do you want the scientific answer, or the legal answer?  How about the plain common sense answer? **  

With all those different points of view, the obvious answer is "We don't know."   Nobody can prove when life begins.   All we have is speculation, guesswork, opinions, religious doctrine, and personal beliefs.   How about re-asking the question in this way:

         When do we, as a society, choose to grant a developing, human,
          life-form the status of a separate, sovereign, individual human
          being and accorded him or her full human rights?

By attempting to force their religious beliefs onto the rest of us, a small, dedicated group of ultra-conservative Christians have inadvertently opened the door and invited the rest of us to challenge the very foundation of their antiquated Christian religious doctrine.   They've made a big mistake because their doctrine ignores the evidence and it ignores the truth as expressed in the Bible.   Instead, their doctrine offers us some absolutely unprovable fairytales which they claim as proof and as their reason for demanding that governments outlaw abortion.

They've hijacked Christianity and pulled it down from its rightful place as one of the world's great religion and turned into a circus of the absurd.   Those of us who are Christian are about to take back Christianity.

No, three thousand denominations is enough.   We're simply exposing antiquated dogma to the light of open questioning and saying:

       "If you have some proof to back up your claims, we would like to
        see it.   If not, please take your religious beliefs back to church
        and stop trying to force your religion onto the rest of us with
        government laws."

The long-term result will be a global religious transformation away from belief in dozens of antiquated illusions that are presently accepted as facts in spite of their being no evidence to support them.  

Because the religious rhetoric of the anti-choice people  is the basis upon which most people make their decision about the rightness or wrongness of forcing someone else to have a baby.

People are being intentionally  misinformed and manipulated by the anti-choice leaders who are using public opinion to advance their own political agenda.   By focusing on marketing and ignoring the evidence, the anti-abortionists are winning the fight for public opinion and votes.

The goal of The Pro-Truth Team is to interject the factual evidence, or more accurately, the lack of factual evidence,  into this battle and to do so using the language that our viewers and listeners understand.

For example the real core issue in the entire anti-abortion war  is:   Is a human being  "an eternal spirit " or simply  "flesh and bones?"   What is the nature of a zygote/ embryo/ fetus?  Is it a freshly created brand new human being the God magically created at conception or is it simply a vehicle which temporarily gives earthly presence to an eternal divine being?  

Have you ever heard this issue discussed in any public debate on abortion?   It's the key to winning or losing this religious war, so why not?    The answer is simply because pro-choice people haven't brought it up.    The anti-abortion campaign is a religious war, and as long as the pro-choice side ignores or denies this fact, they are going to continue their dismal losing streak.

Here's what it is.  When the anti-abortionists use the word “conception,” they are not referring simply to the biology of male and female cells uniting.   They are referring to an additional process -- a process where God steps in and, by an act of instantaneous, supernatural, transcendental magic, transforms every uniting human egg and sperm into a brand new,  never-before-existing, separate, complete, eternal, everlasting, sovereign, human being.

They believe that God magically creates a brand new, separate, complete, sovereign, individual, human being every time a human egg and sperm unite.    They believe this brand new human being did not exist the moment before conception, but will continue to exist forever more.   

As for where it came from,  this belief appears to have have been lying around for centuries.   As near as we can tell, it comes from the speculation and guesswork of the early Roman Catholic Church leaders.   These are the same people who also believed that the Earth was flat.   

Regarding whether it's  fact or fiction,  there is no evidence to support it.   Even the United Sates Supreme Court, couldn't find any factual evidence or any scientific research data to support the belief that a separate, independent, individual human life begins at conception.

Regarding its relevance to abortion, God's magic act is the foundation of the entire anti-abortion argument.   It's the basis upon which the anti-choice people have declared that an independent human life begins at conception.  The logic goes like this:   God creates a new human being at every conception, therefore, every fertilized egg is a human being, therefore abortion is murder, therefore abortion should be prohibited by government law.

The difference is like comparing a meal with the menu at a restaurant, the meal being the essence and the menu being the social structure.   You can easily have the meal without the menu, but not the opposite. 

In Christianity, for example, the teachings of Jesus represent the meal.   His teachings are the basis of Christianity.   Some ancient men that dominated early Christianity wrote stories about the teachings of Jesus.  Later the dominant males who controlled the budding Christian religion put together several of these stories about Jesus and numerous other writings and created a menu.   That menu is called the Christian Bible.   Since then, Christianity has split into numerous factions and each group of dominant males set up a separate social institution and wrote its own interpretation of the Bible, which they call "church doctrine. "   Present day church leaders  use that doctrine in their attempt to control the followers by telling them what to think and what to believe.   

The Christian Churches have even added one more ring to this circus by declaring that they, themselves, have exclusive access to God.    They have declared that all  the other religions  are simply make believe religions which are, symbolically speaking, only selling junk food.

There are several interpretations of the Bible and thousands of social groups,  each with its own version of "the truth."   In keeping with normal human nature, some of those in charge of the social structures have lost track of the truth in their desire and need to be in charge.   The most outspoken groups fight with each other for dominance and control, and many even endorse murder and mayhem to support their beliefs.

The Bottom Line:  We have religious leaders telling people what their particular church's doctrine means.    That doctrine is an ancient, outdated, often literal interpretation of the Christian Bible.   The Christian Bible is collection of stories about someone's interpretation of the teachings of Jesus.   All of which leaves us four steps removed from the truth.

To again use the restaurant analogy, if you want to be nourished and healthy, you must  eat the food and not a story about a story about a menu.

Reference:     Do You Believe in God?      Spiritual Awareness° 

Because bearing a child has a multitude of life-changing, irreversible, long-term ramifications for every woman and for everyone her life touches.  The first and most significant effect of pregnancy is on the woman herself.     The decision to bear or not bear a child affects:

   her life style, 

   her standard of living,

   her financial earning capacity,

   her actual income level,

   her financial well being

   her social life,

   her social status,

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   her family,

   her friends,

   her choice of friends,

   her relationship with the man who got her pregnant,

   and all the rest of her personal relationships,

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   her education level,

   her career,

   the entirety of the rest of her life, particularly

   the next 18 years required to raise a child

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   her physical body,

   her physical beauty,

   her sex life,

   her sexual appeal,

   her emotional well-being,

   her psychological health,

   her physical health,

   and, it could even cost her her life.

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And if that's not enough, there are the thousands of hours and the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to adequately raise and educate a child.   

Does it seem reasonable that a decision with consequences of this magnitude would fall into the category of one's God-granted right of self determination?