ABORTION I.Q. QUIZ


By: Rev. Adrian Dieleman


This QUIZ was used on January 18, 1997



ABORTION I.Q. QUIZ:
 1. On January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion through the _______ month of pregnancy.
 2. The number of women dying from illegal abortions in 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade, was A) 500; B) 5.000; C) 1,000; D) 39
 3. How many abortions are now done each day? A) 140; B) 5,000; C) 253 D) 4000
 4. The total number of abortions done since 1973 is _________.
 5. Most Americans believe the majority of abortions performed in this country should not be legal. (True or False)
 6. A heartbeat, brain-waves and response to touch are all present in an unborn baby by A) 2 months; B) 3 months; C) 4 months; D) Birth
 7. It is legal in most states for a teenaged girl to have an abortion without her parents' knowledge or permission. (True or False)
 8. Abortions done for rape, incest and threat to the mother's life account for _____% of the 1.5 million abortions done each year in the United States.
 9. An unborn baby can feel pain in the 3rd month. (True or False)
10. The number of couples waiting to adopt babies is A) 100,000; B) 2 million; C) 1 million; D) 500,000.
11. It is only since the 1970s that the Christian Church has had to deal with the sin of abortion. (True or False)
12. According to the law of the land, what is more valuable:  A) an unborn eagle; B) an unborn child.

ANSWERS TO ABORTION I.Q. TEST
 1. 9th (In the court's Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, abortions throughout the nine months of pregnancy were declared legal.)
 2. (D) 39 (This is the total number reported by the U.S. Center For Disease Control, a federal agency.)
 3. (D) Over 4,000 abortions are done every day in the U.S.
 4.  37 million (Total for 1973 through 1997.)
 5. TRUE ("Most Americans would ban the vast majority of abortions performed in this country." -- Boston Globe, 3/31/89, p.1)
 6. (A) 2 months (By 18 days the heart is pumping and brain-waves have been recorded as early as 40 days.)
 7. TRUE (In 38 states minors can be aborted without their parents' consent or notification.)
 8. About 1% (If mother's health" is included -- an Alan Guttmacher survey, as reported in The Boston Globe (3/31/89), reports that abortions for "rape, incest and danger to the mother's physical health account for only about 7% of abortions in the U.S.)
 9. TRUE (Dr. & Mrs. J.C. Willke, Abortion:  Questions & Answers, Hayes Publishing Co., pp. 63-69.)
10. (B) 2 million (National Committee for Adoption, Washington D.C.)
11. FALSE (The Christian Church first dealt with abortion in the early centuries of Christianity; it dealt with it again in the middle 1800s when abortions became widespread and were freely advertized in virtually every newspaper.)
12. (A) an unborn eagle (the penalty for destroying an eagle's egg is $5,000 and a year in jail; the penalty for taking an unborn child's life is nothing.)

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