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In the Past Few Decades, Abortion Providers Have Been Hard to Come by

“… The struggle facing this branch of medicine [providing abortions] is most evident in the enormous difficulty many facilities have in finding an adequate supply of abortion providers. At the NAF [National Abortion Federation] meeting, some clinic administrators told of being able to offer abortion services only every other week. Other administrators recounted how they are forced to fly in physicians from halfway across the country in order to hold regular clinics. The director of one clinic related to colleagues that she recently sent out letters of inquiry to every single graduating resident of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) programs across the country and received no replies.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) page 3

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Planned Parenthood Statistics

The most recent statistics from Planned Parenthood come from 2009. In 2009 Planned Parenthood performed more abortions than ever before: 332,278, 2.5% more than in the previous year. Abortion rates at Planned Parenthood have risen for the 15th straight year.

During that time, it has gone from committing 9.3 percent of all abortions in the United States to committing 27.5 percent.

Income from abortion accounts for 40 percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual clinic income.

97.6 percent of pregnant women going to Planned Parenthood are sold abortions while less than 2.4 percent of pregnant women received non-abortion services including adoption and prenatal care

There are 340 abortions for every one adoption referral

Read some women’s testimonies of Planned Parenthood’s biased and coercive abortion counseling:

Jennifer Clifford’s Story

Alicia’s story

Kathy Walker’s Story

Anonymous Story

Source for these statistics: Planned Parenthood Report here.

Cited in LifeNews “New Planned Parenthood Report: Record Abortions Done in 2009” Steve Ertelt Feb 23, 2011

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Genetic Testing and the Coercion to Use It

“The mere existence of a [genetic] technology contains an implicit coercion to use it… Sometimes the coercion is more than implicit.”

Lori Andrews, Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics (New York: Columbia University press, 2001), 63

Paige Comstock Cunningham, Esq. “The Supreme Court and the creation of the two-dimensional woman” Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion” (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004)

Read an example of such coercion here.

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Medical Professionals “Discourage the Birth” of Children with Deformities or Handicaps

“Through the gradual introduction of new forms of technology and testing, the medical establishment and the public health sector have been developing subtle quality-of-life standards and not-so-subtle ways of discouraging the birth of those who do not measure up.”

Elizabeth Kristol. “Picture Perfect: the Politics of Prenatal Testing” First Things 32 (April 1993): 22

Quoted in Paige Comstock Cunningham, Esq. “The Supreme Court and the creation of the two-dimensional woman” Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion” (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004)

Read an example of such coercion here.

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Pro-choicers Blast Bill Providing Pre-Natal Care and Health Insurance for Women

The Department of Health and Human Services clarified its policy to include unborn children In (S–CHIP State Children’s Health Insurance Program) thus, prenatal care would be provided for the unborn babies of mothers who otherwise would not qualify for aid. The bill would allow these mothers to receive pre-natal care that they would otherwise be unable to get, and would help poor or uninsured women give birth to healthy babies and get the medical care both they and their unborn children need. It would help women with wanted pregnancies.

Rather than welcome this measure as a way to help poor women and their families, abortion advocates attacked it as:.

“a ploy to create new grounds for outlawing abortion”

Clarence Page, “Playing Politics with Prenatal Care,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 5, 2002

and:

a guerrilla attack on abortion rights”

(Bob Herbert of the New York Times)

and

“another way to undermine the rights of women.”

(Jocelyn Elders former Surgeon General)

Jefferson Morley, “Fetal Mistake: the Abortion-Rights Crowd Squanders a Victory,” Slate February 14, 2002

The pro-choice lobbyists defeated the bill and left poor women unable to get prenatal care- even for their wanted, planned pregnancies. It was more important that women be left without health insurance than that unborn babies be given any recognition under the law.

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Bob Phillips, MD, on the term “Abortionist”

From one abortion provider:

“Well, you know, every now and then you get labeled an “abortionist,” which is a term I don’t really enjoy… At a medical meeting, something like that, as soon as you become identified with the [pro-choice] movement, you become an “abortionist.” Now that to me is an unpleasant term… “Abortionist” carries a still unpleasant connotation. It carries the connotation of a sleaze.”

Bob Phillips, M.D.

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 152-153

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Abortionist Calls Aborted Babies “A Few Cells”

Abortionist Dr. Jane Hodgson:

“I am personally not concerned as to whether life begins with the two cell, four cell, or eight cell division but I am extremely concerned with the quality of life that will result from the division. We should be more concerned with the welfare of living teenagers and women than with the future of a few embryonal cells.”

Jane E Hodgson, “Therapeutic Abortions in Medical Perspective,” Minnesota Medicine 53 (1970): 757

Quoted in Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 12

Abortions generally take place long after the “embryonal cell” stage. This picture of an abortion at seven weeks is more accurate as to what Dr. Hodgson does in her clinic:

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Pro-Choice Feminist: Abortion Does “Violence” to Women

In the following article: Paige Comstock Cunningham, Esq. “The Supreme Court and the creation of the two-dimensional woman” in Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion” (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) 107-108

Pro-choice feminist Caroline Whitbeck called abortion “a grim operation,”

“The literature of abortion shows that many people are readily able to imagine themselves in the place of the fetus but not in the place of the pregnant woman, but if one is able to look at the matter from the perspective of the pregnant woman, it becomes clear how much violence is done to the woman by abortion, and therefore that the woman self-interest would lead her to avoid [unwanted pregnancy and] abortion if she had other options generally available.”

Caroline Whitebeck “Taking Women Seriously As People” in the Abortion Controversy: 25 Years after Roe Versus Wade editor Lewis P Pojman and Francis J Beckwith (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998) 434

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Woman Feels “Empty” after Coerced Abortion

One woman who had an abortion recounts the following story:

“My boyfriend told me if I kept it, it would break us apart. I loved him and I went and destroyed the life which I wanted so much. I was 18 weeks pregnant, it took me three days for the operation. Men don’t understand what you go through and I wish they did. Throughout the three days I had needles all the time and nausea. This was because of love. I always think of other people before my own feelings, but look where it’s gotten me… I felt empty, like I had no soul in me… My boyfriend said to me a couple of days afterwards that we might end up being married and we could have a family together. I said I couldn’t marry someone that made me destroy a baby.”

Melinda Tankard Reist, Giving Sorrow Words (Sydney: Duffy & Snelgrove, 2000) 21

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