Representative for Life Training Institute (LTI), Megan Almon, spoke to FC’s junior high and high school during the Tuesday Chapel, April 30. Her goal was to equip the students with responses and reasonings to defend pro life views on abortion.

Almon started her career life majoring in journalism, speciality in magazine. Graduating from the University of Georgia in 2004, Almon went on with her career writing for The Newnan Times-Herald in Georgia.

A crisis pregnancy center was holding a fundraising banquet in Almon’s community. Almon attended the fundraiser for an article assigned to her. She became intrigued with what the speaker, Scott Klusendorf, President of the LTI, spoke about. Almon later contacted Klusendorf to express her desire to be apart of this group and how she aspires to speak out about abortion the way Klusendorf had.

In 2008, Almon was so intrigued with Klusendork presentation that she left her career to attend Biola University to major in Christian apologetics. In 2011 Almon was awarded a master of arts (MA) degree in that field. She described apologetics as a connection to journalism. She sees it as a very similar way to how journalists think because you think in questions, connections and always thinking about what is going on and how you can get to the bottom of this. That is the essential of what apologetics does.

Almon is currently the Director of Apologetics at Four Corners Church in Newnan, where her husband, Tripp Newman, is the executive pastor. Almon’s mission is to encourage and equip Christians with the ability to winsomely articulate and defend the truths of Christianity to the glory of God.

Is truth, true and what is human value were the two questions Almon started her presentation. At the end, Almon answered those questions by stating her views on those questions.

Almon brought in science and philosophy into justifying her case of why embryos are human while in the womb. She is a christian but Almon tries to convey her beliefs in a more worldly, scientific view.

“Steven Shwartz tells us that there is no morally difference between the embryo you once were and the young adults you are today,” Almon said. “There is no difference that would justify killing you earlier on. He says you can only point our four differences and they are; the area of size, level of development, enviorment and degree of dependency. If you can remeber S.L.E.D you got this. According to philosophy, we have created a spectrum so, if the unborn don’t deserve a life because they are more tiny then women then wouldn’t that mean that women who are generally smaller then men, have less of a right to life than the men do.”

Objective and subjective views were the foundation of Almon’s presentation. These two statements were to support her first question, is truth, true? Almon describes subjective types of truths that you create on your own and that they are a matter of your personal preference. Objective truths were described as truths that you discover rather than create. The truth can either be true or false. People think of the pro-life people as religious or Christians, if they have an opinion on abortion that it is automatically subjective.

“Our culture thinks that when it comes to moral and religious truths it is no difference than chosing one flavor of ice cream,” Almon said. “They think it is subjective in nature. But, when you say something is religous or moral, you are saying something about the nature of reality which means it is an objective kind of claim.”

Almon answers the second question of why are humans valuable by stating the only philosophical answer that makes sense would be that we are intrinsically valuable. Almon stated that our value rests in our human nature, the same nature that each individual shares with each other from conception and nothing else counts.

Almon gave two defending answers on how to respond when people talk about privacy and poverty as an excuse to have an abortion. The scenarios she gave were talking about if the unborn was like a toddler then there is no essential difference between the two that would make it okay to kill one or the other.

“Talking about privacy, lets say you have a three year old lets say there is a three year old standing next to his mom,” Almon said. The toddlers mom would like the right to beat him brutally and kill him in the privacy of her bedroom at home. Would she be allowed to do that? Most would answer this with a no. Now I would ask them, why not? They will respond with something to the effect that the toddler is obviously a human being. Isn’t the unborn human, like that toddler? Lets talk about that, then we will talk about privacy.”

Almon gave another example with the same story line but with the example of poverty. She asked the question, if the family could not afford to feed their children now and a baby was on the way then how could people say that the woman is not allowed to get an abortion if it is going to be a strain on her family? Almon defended this question by asking the same question but with a toddler, would that give the family the right to just kill the toddler because its a burden?

With valid points being made, Almon went on to say that this was not a religous question. She then stated a simple question by asking what is the unborn.

“Do I go to my bible for that type of question? No way,” Almon said. ” I go to science because this is a scientific question. What science tells me is that, with out question, from the earliest stages of development, that is conception, the unborn are living distinct and whole. Human beings, they are alive, scientifically they go through cellular reproductions, that means they grow, they metabolize food and energy, they are distinct and are seperate entities from their mother. Embryo’s are not part of the womans body, they have geneic code, different from the mom and dad they have their own blood type and gender all because they are distinct.”

Almon lives in Newnan, GA, with her husband, Tripp, a pastor at FOur Corners Church of Newnan, with their two children.

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