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Abortion Numbers Broken down by Income
According to Randy Alcorn’s research:
women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtained 28.7% of all abortions
women with family incomes between 15, 000 – 29, 999 obtained 19.5%
women with incomes between 30, 000 – 59, 999 obtained 38.0%
women with family incomes over 60,000 obtained 13.8%
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 147
Share on FacebookPost-Abortion Women More Likely to Be Pro-life Activists
An article in Planned Parenthood’s family planning perspectives gives the results of sociologist Donald Granberg study of the nation’s two largest groups supporting and opposing abortion. Of National Right to Life female membership 245,000 have had abortions, of NARAL’s membership 39,000 had abortions. Therefore:
women who had abortions are six times more likely to be pro-life activists than pro-choice activists
Donald Granberg “The Abortion Activists” Family Planning Perspectives, July – August 1991, 157 – 163
These statistics are from the early 90s, but there are still very many post-abortion women in the pro-life movement.
Baby Born Alive After Late Term Abortion in China
In China, party officials coerce women to abort if they do not have a permit for a baby. In most cases, women are only allowed one child. The Chinese abortionist quoted below wishes she did not have to do abortions, but she has no choice, as an OBGYN, but to perform them. She describes one scene of infanticide:
“Some women come to the clinic for an abortion with a pregnancy of eight or nine months. If she does not come with the family planning official, we usually do not perform a delivered [live birth] abortion. If she comes with the family planning official, we have no way out but performing the operation. In most situations of late abortion, the aborted babies are alive. We have to employ medical measures. We just wait for the appearance of the baby’s head [at the opening of the womb], then inject the medicine into the skull. We really cannot bear to see these children, but we have to do what is required. Otherwise we will break the rule and be punished.. From the humane perspective, we are unwilling to do what we have to do. But we are not allowed to have a live baby after an abortion [another doctor who was in the interview room interrupted at this moment and said, “By all means, it cannot be alive.”] But sometimes the baby is alive despite all the injected medicine. It seems that the child of elite abortion has great vitality. It was not unusual for child after regular delivery to not survive despite medical rescue measures. But the life force of these children [undergoing delivered abortion] is very strong. I have a true story.…
It was an abortion of late stage. The child was alive after the abortion. The child burst out crying, making the sound “wa wa.” The lying in woman raised her head: “Doctor, the child is alive?” I could not tell her the truth and just asked her to lie down on the bed without moving. I told her this had nothing to do with her. But the lying in woman sat up desperately and begged me. “Doctor the child is alive. Please leave it alone.” I replied to her, “You lie down.” Then I told the nurse on duty to fetch Dr. Guang, the supervisor of the department. I knew how to kill the child, but I just could not put my hand on it.
Soon the nurse came in with Dr. Guang. Dr. Guang was a senior doctor. As soon as I saw Dr. Guang, I said to her, “I will leave this to you.” She replied, “You cannot do it this way. The child was delivered by you. You cannot deliver it at this moment and then be out of charge of the mess. I will get a bucket and fill it with water. We drown the child to death by putting her head down into the water first.” She got a bucket of water and put the child into it.
After about half an hour, Dr. Guang drew the child out of the bucket and wanted to send it to the burning oven of the hospital. But the child got back its breath again and burst into crying. The life force of the child was too indomitable. Even being submerged in the water for half an hour could not kill her. I really felt that there was something very strange here. I said to Dr. Guang that I had to leave. But she did not allow me. She said to me, “I still need to do something.” She then fill the washing basin in the room, which was bigger than the bucket, and put the child into the water again for another half an hour.
After all this, I did not use the washing basin for a long time. For a long time, I felt terrible.”
Nie Jing-Bao Beyond the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005) 182-183
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Abortion Complications Higher After Roe
Abortion Complications Higher in 1977 Than In 1969- Roe was 73
“The total number of abortion complications treated in American hospitals has, in fact, been reported to increase since abortion was legalized nationally. In 1969, 9000 cases were reported. In 1977, 17,000 were reported
Hospital Record Study, a joint publication of the Commission on Professional Hospital Activities in Ann Arbor, Michigan and IMS America, LTD. In Ambler, Pennsylvania (1969 – 1977)
James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982)
Share on FacebookAfter Roe versus Wade, Ectopic Pregnancies Increased by 300%
There has been a 300% increase in ectopic pregnancy in 10 years after abortion was legalized. In 1970 the incidence was 4.8 per thousand births, by 1980 had risen to 14.5 per thousand births.
US Department of Health and Human Services, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 33 (April 1984)
Share on FacebookSaline Abortions Developed in Nazi Germany
The saline abortion procedure was originally developed in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany
Thomas Hilgers and Dennis Horan, editors Abortion and Social Justice (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1972) 292
A saline abortion is performed by injecting a poisonous salt solution into a woman’s uterus which poisons the baby and Burns’s skin over the course of several hours. After the baby dies, labor is induced and the woman gives birth to her dead child. This technique of abortion led to so many live births and was so dangerous to women that it was abandoned in the early 1990s and is now seldom performed.
Share on Facebook15 times More Women Had Abortions after Roe V Wade Than Before
In 1979, former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson gave the following statistic:
There are 15 times more abortions annually in the country than there were in the year prior to Roe versus Wade
Bernard Nathanson, Aborting America (New York: Doubleday, 1979) 40 – 1
This is proof that many women who would not have had an abortion if it was illegal chose to have abortions after Roe versus Wade. Women who are not willing to have illegal abortions will have them when abortion is legal.
Share on FacebookMost People Don’t Know Abortion Is Legal in the Third Trimester
“Gallup poll discovered that only 11% of Americans have an accurate understanding that abortion is available throughout all nine months of pregnancy.”
“Abortion on Moral Beliefs” 1991 Gallup Poll, 13
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Roe versus Wade said that abortion could not be banned in the first two trimesters, and could only be banned in the third trimester if there were exceptions for a woman’s health. But in tow versus Bolton, companion case to Roe V Wade, health was defined as the following:
Doe vs Bolton. The words of the Supreme court:
“…the medical judgment may be exercised in light of all factors- physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age- relevant to the well-being of the patient. All these factors may relate to health. This allows the attending physician the room he needs to make his best medical judgment. And it is room that operates for the benefit, not the detriment, of the pregnant woman.”
Cynthia Gorney. Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars (Simon & Shuster: New York. 1998) P 164
“The Medical Judgement” Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973)
This means that abortions are legal through the entire nine months of pregnancy.
Study: 45% Of Women Had Thoughts of Suicide after Abortion
Women’s World reports a study of aborted women in which 45% said they had thoughts of suicide following their abortions.
Martina Mahler “Abortion: the Pain No One Talks About” Women’s World, September 24, 1991, 6
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