a.. There's a preacher and a wife who are very, very poor. They
already have14 kids. Now she finds out she's pregnant with 15th. They're
living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty, and the
excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an
abortion?
b.. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have 4
children. The first is blind, the second is dead, the third is deaf, the
fourth has TB. She finds she's pregnant again. Given the extreme
situation, would you consider recommending abortion?
c.. A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and she got pregnant.
If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
d.. A teenage girl is pregnant. She's not married. Her fiancée is
not the father of the baby, and he's very upset. Would you consider
recommending abortion?
a.. In the first case, you have just killed John Wesley; one of the
great evangelists in the 18th century and the founder of Methodism
b.. In the second case, you have killed Beethoven.
c.. In the third case, you have killed Ethel Waters, the great black
gospel singer.
d.. If you said yes to the fourth case, you have just recommended the
murder of Jesus Christ!
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