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1. Does the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) oppose abortion (as well as birth control)?

2. What is Liberation Theology?

3. What is the irony of the RCC’s “crack down” on RCC clergy practicing Liberation Theology when contrasted with the RCC position on abortion (and birth control)?

4. Does the RCC speak for Protestant Denominations such as the United Methodist Church?

5. What is the position of the United Methodist Church on abortion?

6. Does the reason for the semi-flip-flop of the United Methodist Church beginning in 2012 have broader implications?

7. In other words, does the 2012 change in the United Methodist Church from “Christianity trumps Civil Government” to “Civil Government trumps Christianity” line up with the RCC’s “crack down” on its liberation-theology clergy? [Even though the RCC does NOT believe that its position on abortion and birth control are trumped by Civil Government.]

8. And, in other words, does the 2012 change in the United Methodist Church mean that it would now disapprove of Methodists marching with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in a show of civil disobedience? Or disapprove of Methodists participating in the famous non-violent civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Ghandi?

9. But isn’t the new position of the United Methodist Church regarding Civil Government trumping Christianity irrelevant for the individual Methodist because the essence of Methodism and many Protestant denominations is that everyone has personal responsibility for her/his actions and cannot hide behind the opinion of a clergy person who might be fallible (unlike, for example, the RCC Pope who is believed by Catholics to be infallible)?

10. Was the basis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s land-mark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that since affluent people could afford to travel to jurisdictions where abortion is legal while the nation’s poor were condemned to obtaining “back alley” abortions from often-unqualified practitioners, the “Equal Protection of the Law” provision of the U.S. Constitution required abortions to be available to everyone?

11. Did Roe v. Wade permit states to ban abortion in the third trimester and, if so, subject to what limitations?

12. How many states ban abortion in the third trimester?

13. How many states ban abortion after 20 weeks (vs. after 24 weeks which is generally recognized as the beginning of the third trimester)?

14. What is the basis for banning abortion after 20 weeks?

15. Are we likely to see an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future involving one or more of the 8 states that ban abortion after 20 weeks?

16. What are the three main methods of birth control?

17. Which of these three main methods of birth control is the abortion-method-of-choice for first trimester abortions?

18. Is a first trimester abortion using an Intra-Uterine Device (IUD) as safe as using an IUD as the primary method of birth control?

19. In the 9 states that still permit third trimester abortions, how many practitioners actually perform such abortions openly per the movie, After Tiller?

20. What is the first step in performing a third trimester abortion per the movie, After Tiller?

21. Is the reason for a lethal injection to the heart of the fetus comprising the first step of a third trimester abortion that the safest way to preserve the life of the mother and to preserve her ability to have children in the future is for the mother to give birth to the fetus (even though the fetus is now dead) rather than ripping the fetus to pieces and pulling out the fetal parts?

22. Who was Dr. Kermit Gosnell?

23. Was Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic in Philadelphia performing third trimester abortions in violation of Pennsylvania law?

24. Was that the basis for 24 of the felony counts with which he was charged, 21 of which resulted in conviction?

25. Instead of killing the third trimester fetuses with a lethal injection to the heart, was Dr. Gosnell having his patients give birth to live babies whose spinal cords he would then snip after birth? Was this the basis for the 8 murder charges against Dr. Gosnell, 3 of which resulted in conviction?

26. The movie After Tiller focuses on mothers seeking third trimester abortions from the 4 remaining practitioners who openly perform them in the 9 states in which they are still legal -- do you think that if the mothers’ reasons had only emerged after their babies had reached the age of, say, three years, the mothers would be justified in having someone like Dr. Gosnell snip their spinal cords at that point?

27. At what point between conception and the age of 3 do you think the right to life should commence? What is the reason for your opinion?

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