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MYTH BUSTERS: 

  • In the public school, students are not allowed to say “Merry Christmas,” draw a Christmas tree for art class, or give out candy canes to classmates.
FACT: This is completely FALSE. Public school students are free to express their faith at anytime of year, even in school assignments. The Students’ Religious Liberties Act clearly spells out these rights for Arizona students. More…
  • New laws go into effect once they have been officially signed or the deadline has passed with no action taken.
FACT: Lawsuits can sometimes delay or even try to circumvent the inactment of laws, much like the lawsuits that have been filed against Arizona's 2009 Abortion Concent Act laws. Read more here.
  • Elected officials reflect the general make-up of the population they represent.
FACT: Elected officials reflect the make-up only of those who voted in the last election. Listen to David Barton Christianity's Role in the Public Square 2 from the Standing for Truth Conference.
 
  • The medical community doesn’t support regulating abortion or making sure physicians’ conscience rights are protected
FACT: Read this letter from 39 doctors in Arizona that support passing the Abortion Consent Act.
  • Students in public schools cannot state a religious point of view in class discussions because of separation of Church and State.
FACT: Students may state a religious point of view in class discussions in the same manner and to the same extent that students may express non-religious points of view.  The teacher may maintain order and discipline but may not discriminate against a student based on the student’s religious viewpoint.  
  • Students in public schools cannot talk about their faith to fellow students.
FACT: Students may talk about their faith in the same manner and to the same extent that students may talk about any other topic during non-class time and in a non-disruptive manner.  School officials may only restrict student speech if it causes a substantial disruption to the educational process.
  • When courts and politicians refer to the “health of the mother” exceptions with regard to abortion, they are talking only about life-threatening physical health issues that would give cause to abort an unborn child.
FACT: In Doe v. Bolton, the companion decision to Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court defined the term “health” so broadly that it included “emotional health” which in turn could mean a number of different things.  Such a broad exception makes any law regulating abortion that includes a health of the mother provision basically useless.
  • Before Roe v. Wade, there were 1.5 million abortions in America each year and more than 8,000 maternal deaths per year.
FACT: Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist, says about the numbers that were used by abortion advocates to push for “legalized” abortion: “I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think about it.  But in the morality of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics.”    1In reality, research found that the number of abortions ranged from 39,000 in 1950 to 210,000 in 1961.   2In addition, in 1965, the year the ACLU adopted its pro-abortion policies; there were only 197 maternal deaths due to abortion, not 8,000 – which was an exaggeration of over 800 percent.3
  • “Jane Roe” from Roe v Wade is a pro-choice advocate
    FACT: Jane Roe speaks out many years later. View her video.
  • Churches cannot speak out on issues of public policy because the Constitution requires separation of Church and State.
    FACT: The U.S. Constitution actually protects the right of churches to speak about issues of public policy. Churches have long been one of the most important and influential voices on matters of public policy in America. Listen to David Barton from the Standing for Truth conference…
     

1 Bernard Nathanson, Aborting America, (Garden City, N.Y., 1979).
2 Barbara Syska, “An Objective Model for Estimating Criminal Abortions and Its Implications for Public Policy,” New Perspectives on Human Abortion (Frederick, MD, 1981), pp.164-181.
3 Cynthia McKnight, Life Without Roe: Making Predictions about Illegal Abortions, (Washington D.C., 1992), pp.10-15.