One study showed that many women having abortions are Christians. Here are the statistics:
In the group studied, about 37 percent of those who got abortions are Protestant and 31 percent are Catholic. Among all American women of childbearing age, about 54 percent are Protestant and 31 percent Catholic.
To estimate the relative likelihood that women in those groups will obtain an abortion, researchers Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost factored out race, ethnicity and age and found that the women who identified themselves as Catholic were 29 percent more likely than Protestants to have an abortion.
Barbara Vobejda “Abortion Reaches Wide Cross Section of Women; Study of U.S. Patients Seeking Procedure Finds Many Belong to Religious Groups That Oppose It” The Washington Post August 8, 1996
It is unknown why so many Catholics disobey their church and have abortions. Perhaps the churches, both Catholic and Protestant, need to have better outreaches for pregnant women in the congregations
Q. And the potassium chloride injection is an ultrasound guided procedure that assures the death of the fetus, right?
A. Yes.
Dr. Marilynn C. Frederiksen, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 6, 2004
An abortionist was asked under oath about what he tells his patients:
[F]rankly, your Honor, I think we sugar coat some of the other options and we share this with patients. They might ask, well can you give intracardiac … injections … or …could we do an induction termination and avoid this? But the honest truth is, how do we know that taking this huge instrument and poking it into the baby’s heart and injecting a poison hurts any less than my rapidly cutting the umbilical cord or transecting the spinal cord with my scissors? “
Sworn testimony of Dr. Cassing Hammond, abortionist, in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 1, 2004
“We’ll initiate our daughters into the women’s mysteries, such as charting our reproductive rhythms, remembering the midwives’ potions; and perhaps with dignity we’ll ritualize the RU 486 pill with prayers to Artemis or the Divine Mother, She who gives and takes life.”
Brenda Peterson, October 1993 issue of New Age Journal (“Sister Against Sister,” p.66)
RU-486 is used to kill unborn babies at 9 weeks and younger.(Although in reality it is only meant to abort pregnancies up to 7 weeks) here are some pictures of babies that could be killed by RU-486.All of these children have beating hearts and brain waves. All are under 9 weeks.
The heart starts beating at 21 days after conception
“Or how do we know that poisoning the environment that the baby is in with digoxin is any more painful or less painful than my doing a very rapid D&E?”
Digoxin is a powerful poison used in abortion which kills the baby after it is injected. Sometimes it takes hours for the baby to die. A D&E abortion is where the baby is torn apart via forceps. It is not hard to imagine they both would be painful for the baby.
Some pro-choice activists concede that they are losing support from the public. As more and more pro-life laws are passed, some pro-choice leaders have toyed around with framing their opposition to abortion in a different way. From the President of Catholics for Free Choice, Frances Kissling:
“There is a deep-seated fear that if you address the moral issues, you’re going to lose. But we’re losing anyway. It’s only by addressing the moral issues that we’ll get some relief on the political questions.”
“Roe Reality Check” Newsweek 3-6-2006
It is hard to address the moral issues when this is what you’re defending:
Pro-choice activists paint crisis pregnancy centers as villains who manipulate women and terrorize them with lies about abortion in order to coerce them to have their children. In reality, many women are grateful for the help they get from the centers. Here is one letter to a crisis pregnancy center from a woman who came to them.
A letter received by a peer counselor at a CareNet Center:
Carol,hello! I want to thank you for your kindness and your help yesterday when I came to your center. I was not completely honest with you. My girlfriend and I came to you for a free pregnancy test. I had already taken a home pregnancy test that was positive and made an appointment for an abortion but thought why not go in, maybe your test would be negative. I was pretty set in my decision. Anyway, I was so encouraged and you were so supportive. You made feel that I wasn’t a bad person, that life goes on and mine wasn’t over
You gave me the courage to confront my mom, who to my surprise was incredibly understanding and supportive. She was so happy and thankful I could come to her this early. She gave me the courage to confront my dad who didn’t shower me with anger, but with love. They both promised to support me through thick and thin, and we all decided I’m going to have this baby, either to parent or adopt. I am not going to abort.
I am so happy right now. If it weren’t for you I would’ve taken the easy way out, not told anyone and had the abortion. I cannot thank you enough for everything! Thank you!!
Dawn
Dawn named her daughter Koralyn
From CareNet newsletter CommuniCare September 1995,
Dr. Cassing Hammond, abortionist, explains how aborted babies may suffer if they are born alive during an abortion.
“And if the baby delivers and is living in the sense of a medical induction, we’re assuming because nature takes it course that it’s not painful. But if the baby slowly tires and stops breathing and dies by asphyxiation it is reasonable to assume that even for a normally born fetus, a normally formed fetus, that this may also involve pain.”
Testimony of Dr. Cassing Hammond, abortionist, in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 1, 2004.
Rumaisa Rahman was born premature. Abortions are legal in many parts of the United States at the same age as he was in this picture.
Babies born alive after abortions are not as rare occurrences people like to think. In some cases, abortions are deliberately done that way, although technically this is against the law. Read about babies born alive after abortions here
Barbara Murray had to face extremely difficult situation at an early age. Barbara was pregnant and 14 and some of the adults in the community led Barbara to an abortion clinic 3 1/2 hours away. A last-minute phone call saved Barbara and her baby girl from a scheduled abortion. That phone call was with Barbara’s mother – the one person who knew nothing about her daughter’s pregnancy! Barbara’s experience magnifies the importance of parental consent in teen pregnancy abortion situations. Read why Barbara needed better advice than… “Bring your teddy bear to hold.”
It goes on to present an interview with Barbara. They asked about the counseling she received at the abortion clinic- or lack thereof.
Q.: did you have to go to the abortion clinic for any pre-abortion counseling?
A.: everything was done over the phone. They never talked about any type of counseling. They just said to come for the procedure. She told me what to bring. She said I would go through the procedure and there would be a snack afterwards. I would be sent to a recovery room and then I would go home.
Q.: did the abortion clinic personnel tell you about any abortion alternatives?
A: no. Nobody talked about it. It was like once the seed of abortion had taken root, it was nurtured to the point where they didn’t want to dare hurt it by saying anything to the contrary — which I found everybody doing.
Q.: how did the abortion clinic counselor prepare you for the abortion over the phone?
A.: the two things she stressed were to make sure I had the maxipads, the heavy kind, a bathrobe and slippers. The thing that sticks in my mind most of all he she asked me again how old I was and then she again asked me if my boyfriend was going to be with me during the procedure or was he coming afterwards. I said. ‘ I will probably go through the procedure by myself and my boyfriend will be there later. ‘ she again asked me how old I was. I said, ‘14.’ That’s when she said, “if you want to bring a teddy bear to hold onto during the procedure, you could also put that in your bed. “ She then said to bring along three separate bank checks for separate amounts.
Barbara’s mother ended up finding out about the abortion plans and was able to help her daughter and support her. Barbara gave birth to a healthy baby girl. She was asked:
Q.: should clinics be required to notify parents when miners come to obtain an abortion?
A.: parents not only need to be notified, the abortion clinics need to have their consent. I didn’t need a teddy bear. I needed an adult person, my mother, who could be with me. Here I was going to have the abortion because I thought I was going to be disowned or hurt by my mother I thought I had no choice. that’s where parents play a vital role.
Martha Scheiber “Bring Your Teddy Bear to Hold” East End publishing company 1990
9-10 weeks. Over 40% abortions are done at this time or later Share on Facebook
There is evidence that pro-choice organizations know that abortion can cause serious emotional problems in women, even though they deny this publicly. In the article “Post-Abortion Trauma: Learning the Truth, Telling the Truth” Women exploited by abortion/Elliot Institute 1992 it says a document was leaked by Planned Parenthood worker. The document said the following::
” A number of anti-choice studies and surveys (including the Reardon study and the Grant survey) have shown that the incidence of post-procedural trauma for abortion clients may be as high as 91% of all cases. Recent unpublished reports from the Alan Guttmacher Institute [Planned Parenthood’s research group] indicate that the scope of the problem may have been accurately tabulated in these studies. “
The report was originally published in New Dimensions magazine.
