Planned Parenthood tabulated 745,440 legal abortions in 1973. They claim there was a need for 1,258,000 to 1,745,000 in 1973 to 1974. They also claim there were only 17,000 illegal abortions. This translates to the statistic that only 1.6% of the women with unwanted pregnancies will get an abortion if abortion is illegal
Christopher Tietze et.al. “How Much of the Need Was Met in 1973” in “Provisional Estimates of Abortion Need and Services in the Years Following the 1973 Supreme Court Decisions, United States, Each State and Metropolitan Area” a report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, PPFA, P. 31 to 36
One common contention among pro-choice activists is that pro-lifers only care about unborn babies and not about adults or born children. While some pro-lifers focus on abortion because they see it as the greatest human rights injustice of our time, the killing of innocent babies, many of them are active and other causes. For example, here is one survey of members of Indiana Right to Life.
Out of 229 members of Indiana Right to Life:
81 distributed food and clothing
Nearly ¼ donated blood regularly
37 worked in support groups (drugs, alcohol, Suicide)
17 worked in programs for abused women
28 worked in hospitals, clinics, and hospices
116 worked in scouting, youth work, and meals on wheels
176 worked in schools, tutoring, aiding teachers
67 worked in voter registration
75 worked distributing maternity and infant clothing
47 have shared their home with foster children, elderly refugees, pregnant strangers, or the sick
Ruth Ann Hanley “Do Right to Lifers Care Only About the Unborn?” editorial, The Communicator (Indiana Right to Life newsletter) 5 no. 5 (June 1980) As quoted in James T. Burtchaell “Rachel Weeping: The Case Against Abortion” (San Francisco: Harper and Row 1982) 129
pro-lifers are also dedicated to saving babies like this oneShare on Facebook
In 2005 the woman’s magazine Glamour ran a story that noted that a 2003 CBS/New York Times poll found that 35% of young women thought that abortion should be available to anyone who wants it (18 – 29) 50% of the women of 1993 thought that
Alexander Sanger of Planned Parenthood:
“I’ve seen the numbers and I find them unbelievably shocking. Isn’t it obvious that young women have to be on the forefront of fighting for their reproductive rights because they’re the ones who need them?”
Susan Dominus “The Mysterious Disappearance of Young Pro-Choice Women” Glamour, August 2005 P 200 – 201
Quoted in Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 212
When a woman has a late term abortion, the clinic will send her back to her hotel room with a “delivery bag.” It includes a red biohazard bag, gauze, towels and umbilical cord scissors. Many times the woman will deliver in her hotel room before she can make it back to the abortion facility. They then ask her to cut the umbilical cord, clean herself up and place her dead baby in the biohazard bag. She is then instructed to bring the back up to the abortion clinic so it can be destroyed.
This is abortion, guys. Please pray for conversion.
Researcher and writer Rachel MacNair says the following:
“In the 1993 Project Choice survey, abortion doctors were asked if they felt that pro-choice organizations and politicians were doing enough to support those who provide abortion care. Over 78% responded no. That means that almost 4/5 of the 961 abortion doctors who answered feel that they don’t get enough support from the social movement they would most reasonably expect it from.”
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 109
This lack of support is one of the reasons why so few abortion providers enter the field. Read more about this here.
Defenders of partial-birth abortions claim that all surgeries were gruesome:
“Much of the negative reaction… Is the same reaction that might be invoked if one were to listen to a surgeon describing step-by-step almost any other surgical procedure involving blood, human tissue, etc.”
Diane Gianelli “Shock Tactic Ads Target Late-Term Abortion Procedure” American medical news, July 5, 1993, 21 from Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 45
Here is a diagram series of partial-birth abortions
But perhaps it could be said that partial-birth abortions are no worse than D&E abortions, which is another common late abortion technique. Here is a diagram of the D&E abortion.
Some doctors were illegal “back alley”abortionists in the years before Roe versus Wade,and when abortion became legal, they simply hung up a sign and started performing the same dangerous procedures legally. There was almost no oversight.
“One such doctor was Dr. Richard Mucie, DO. He was one of the three main doctors in Kansas City, Missouri, that were known to do abortions. In 1968, a woman died from his procedure. In her corpse, her hands were shaped into claws, caked with blood. The jury gave Dr. Mucie the maximum sentence for manslaughter in the death of the woman. He got out on parole after 14 months, but he lost his medical license and set up an antique shop.
In 1973, Roe vs. Wade came down. Because of it, Mucie went back to court and got his license back. He then literally set up shop on Main Street and heaved a sigh of relief that the police wouldn’t bother him anymore. But his medical skills were such that family-planning clinics were never willing to refer patients to him. He stopped only when he died of an old-age related illness.”
It is unknown how many women died or were injured during abortions by him.
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 83
“Expanding rods are inserted through the cervix, opening it according to the size of the baby. Then comes the sound. Suctioning out the pieces of the baby makes a noise like no other. If death has a sound, this is it.”
Susan Thayer, former abortion practitioner
What a 10 week-old baby looks like after the pieces are suctioned out
From former clinic worker and director Carol Everett:
“I put on my PR hat and got creative. In one of our weekly meetings, I said, “Many of the women come in alleging they were raped, but they have neither reported it to the police nor gone to the hospital. I think we can get a lot of publicity if we have a press conference announcing that we will do abortions free for rape victims if they report it to the authorities. The percentage of conceptions in actual rapes is very low, and with the conditions attached, I don’t think we’ll do many free abortions. But will get a ton of free publicity!”
Just as I had promised, we got prime time news coverage at 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Also, several newspapers and radio stations picked it up. I personally called on all the “do-gooder” organizations in town and let them know. We received a lot of good, free publicity!
We never did a single free abortion for rape victims.”
Carol Everett with Jack Shaw, Blood Money (Oregon: Multnomah Press Books, Questar Publishers, Inc., 1992) from Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)54
“One respondent expressed increasing resentment of the casual attitudes of some patients considering the emotional cost to those performing the service.”
Warren M Hern and Billie Corrigan “What about Us? Staff Reactions to the D&E Procedure” Boulder Abortion Clinic, Advances in Planned Parenthood 15 (1): 3 – 8, 1980
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 124
first trimester ultrasound. abortion doctors see these babies dailyShare on Facebook
