Category: Miscellaneous Abortion Facts

The Clergy Consultation Service is an organization of clergy  members – priests, rabbis, reverends, and pastors – who help connect women with abortionists. These clergy members refer women in their parishes to local abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood utilizes many such clergy members. However, the clergy members do not do this for free:

In one year alone, the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clergy consultation service received $250,000 in kickbacks from clinics to which they referred women for abortions.

John and Barbara Willke Handbook on Abortion (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing Company, Inc., 1979) 98

Many Christians would believe that these clergy members are not acting the way Jesus would want them to.

 

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Ireland, with laws restricting abortion, has a maternal mortality rate of one death per hundred thousand live births.

America, with abortion on demand, has 11 deaths per 100,000 live births.

This would seem to fly in the face of pro-choice claims that abortion is needed to save the lives of pregnant women.

World Economic Forum, 2009 “You Can Stop Injustice” Human Life Alliance Supplement, 2010

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Some interesting statistics on amniocentesis and its dangers  cited in Randy Alcorn’s book Why Pro-Life?

“In 2000, the National Vital Statistics Report indicated that 28.9 women per 1,000 suffered complications from amniocentesis, placing the risk factor at nearly three per hundred women. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that in early amniocentesis the rate of death to the unborn through miscarriage is “between one in 400 and one in 200 procedures.” The study also found a striking tenfold increase in the risk of clubfoot deformity after early amniocentesis. Ironically, then, a procedure designed to identify fetal deformity actually has a considerable chance of causing it.

Amniocentesis is frequently done to identify Down syndrome children so parents have the option of abortion. The risk of miscarriage as a result of amniocentesis is almost exactly the same as the risk for Down syndrome.”

World Congress of Families Update, vol. 3, issue 1119, March 2002, www.worldcongress.org/WCFUpdate/Archive03/ wcf_update_3 1 1.htm citing R. E. Gilbert, et al., “Screening for Down’s Syndrome: Effects, Safety, and Cost-Effectiveness of First- and Second-Trimester Strategies”; and Euan M. Wallace and Sheila Mulvey, “Commentary: Results May Not Be Widely Applicable,” BMJ 2001; 323:1-6 (25 August 2001); www.bmj.com.

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According to a study in the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 97% of obstetrician-gynecologists have encountered patients wanting an abortion, but only 14% performed them.

The study determined what percentage of OBGYNs performed abortions based on religion. Here were the results:

• 40.2 percent of Jewish doctors say yes, compared with
• 1.2 percent of Evangelical Protestants
• 9 percent of Roman Catholics or Eastern Orthodox
• 10.1 percent of Non-Evangelical Protestants
• 20 percent of Hindus
• 26.5 percent of doctors who said they had no religious affiliation

The study was based on a self-administered confidential survey sent to a sample of 1,800 ob-gyns practicing in the United States.  A total of 1,144 doctors responded.

Jenny Gold “Study: Fewer Doctors Are Offering Abortions” Kaiser health news blog AUGUST 22ND, 2011

It is interesting that almost 10% of Catholics were willing to perform abortions.

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NARAL demanded that a federally imposed 30 day waiting period should be mandated before sterilization, so women would not be coerced.

Karen Mulhauser, executive director of NARAL, fundraising letter, 1979. Judy Klemesrud “Complacency on Abortion: a Warning to Women” New York Times January 23, 1978, A 18

Now called NARAL Pro-Choice America, NARAL aggressively fights against any law that would require women to receive counseling at abortion clinics and wait 24 hours before their abortions. They even oppose posting signs in abortion clinic waiting rooms saying that women cannot be coerced into abortion

They seem to completely ignore the fact that women can also be coerced into abortions.

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John Noonan, in his book A Private Choice:

“When strong and comprehensive antiabortion statutes were being enacted in 19^th America, the militant feminists had been outspoken in their scorn and condemnation of abortion…”

Who wanted the liberty of abortion in 1970? Only a minority of any section of the population favored it, but the stablest and strongest supporters of the liberty were white upper-class males.”

John Noonan a private choice: Abortion in America in the 70s (New York: Free Press, 1979) 48 – 49

Quoted in Faye D Ginsburg Contested Lives: the Abortion Debate in an American Community (Berkeley and Los Angeles California: University of California Press, 1989) 10

The majority of the people involved in making abortion legal in the 1970s were men. The founders of NARAL, now called NARAL Pro-Choice America and formerly the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, which was responsible for legalizing abortion in New York prior to Roe versus Wade, were both men. Every member of the supreme court that decided Roe versus Wade was a man. It is often men who benefit from abortion. They can impregnate a woman without worrying about being responsible for the baby that could result. It makes them free to sexually use women. Women have to bear the brunt of the physical and emotional consequences of abortion.  This is why nearly all of the early feminists opposed abortion as the exploitation of women.

 

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Planned Parenthood aborts 340 children for every one woman referred for adoption.

Ryan Bomberger, MA “Steve Jobs Changed the World, Adoption Changed His”Doctor Alveda King and Dr.La Verne Tolbert Life at All Costs: an Anthology of Voices from 21^st-Century Black Pro-Life Leaders (Xlibris Corporation, 2012) 169

Below: 10 weeks. Hundreds of abortions at day happen at this time.

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Susan Tew, an Alan Guttmacher spokeswoman(The Alan Guttmacher Institute, is an organization that researches abortion rates. It is affiliated with Planned Parenthood):

Most surgical abortions are done between seven and 12 weeks after a woman misses her period and after tests have confirmed pregnancy.

Mike Stobbe 23 years later, new sparks fueling abortion debate The Florida Times Union, Jan 22, 1996 pA-1

Earlier abortions are more common now since RU-486 gives a woman the option to abort a soon she finds out she’s pregnant. The majority of abortions, however, continue to be performed after 6 to 7 weeks

 

 

 

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