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Swedish Study On “Unwanted” Children

A study in Czechoslovakia of 220 children born to mothers who had been denied abortion twice (the requests had been turned down, appealed, and turned down again)

“An interpretation of this study to suggest that “unwanted” children will almost surely have a poor future would be misleading; the study children seem to be living relatively normal lives.”

Zdenek Dytrych, Zdenek Matejcek, Veratislav Schuller, Henry P David, Herbert L Freedman “Children Born to Women Denied Abortion” Family Planning Perspectives 7 no. 4 (July/August 1975).

the-left-hand-and-nose — should this baby be killed in the womb because he is “unwanted”?

The study found only minor differences between “wanted” and “unwanted” children. This would seem to verify that many children who are unwanted in the womb become wanted after they are born. From others who truly don’t want their children, giving birth and putting the baby up for adoption is an unselfish option that allows the baby to live.

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Most Women Would Not Seek Abortion if it Were Illegal

In one survey of women who had abortions 72% said they would definitely not have sought an abortion if doing so were illegal

David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1987) 333

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Statistics On Sex Selection Abortions In India

a survey of a dozen villages in India uncovered the statistic: out of a total population of 10,000, only 50 were girls.

Robert Stone, “Women Endangered Species in India” Oregonian , March 14, 1989. B7

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Sex Selection Abortion Statistics in South Korea

“In South Korea, where fetal testing to determine sex is common, male births exceed female births by 14% in contrast to a worldwide average of 5%. In Guangdong province, the China news agency Xinhua reported, 500,000 bachelors are approaching middle-age without hopes of marrying, because they outnumber women ages 30 – 45 by more than 10 to 1.”

“Asia: Discarding Daughters” Time, special Fall edition 1990, 40

Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)

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Late-Term Abortions More Dangerous Than Early Abortions

In an abortion – every week of delay increases the danger by 20%. An abortion is 20% more dangerous every ongoing week of pregnancy

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, abortionist: press conference. Statement read at a joint press conference with the Manitoba Coalition for Reproductive Choice in Winnipeg, Friday, June 23, 2000

10 to 12% of all abortions are done in the second trimester or later.

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Adoptions At Planned Parenthood Decrease from 1997 – 1998

According to Planned Parenthood, there were 9,200 adoption referrals in 1997, but that number had dropped to 2,486 by 2000.

“That’s a whopping 73.5 percent decrease from what they were in 1997,” said Ed Szymkowiak, spokesman for STOPP International, a subsidiary organization of the American Life League. “During the same time period, Planned Parenthood’s abortion procedures increased 19.3 percent.”

Abortions Outpace Adoption 80-1 at Planned Parenthood
By Jason Pierce
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
May 08, 2002

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Statistics on Abortion and African-Americans

“High minority cities have more than three times the number of abortionists per million citizens that low minority cities”

African-American women abort 529 babies per 1000 live births

white: 177 per thousand

“Care Net- “Abortion in Black America: Statistics” www.abortioninBlackAmerica.com

Marybeth T. Hagan “Abortion: a Mother’s Plea for Maternity and the Unborn” (Liguori, Missouri: Triumph 2005) 337

Listen to racist comments from abortion providers

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Pro-Choice Author Discusses Forced Abortion in China

China’s one child policy leads to many coerced abortions. From pro-choice author Janet Hadley:

“In 1991, for example, in Southern China’s Guandong Province, officials surrounded a village one September night and searched all the houses and forced pregnant women into trucks. They were driven to the hospital for forced abortions; one woman gave birth on a journey, but a doctor killed her baby with an injection.”

“…Across the country, implementation of the one child campaign has been left to local officials. Killing excess babies, often crushing their skulls at the moment of birth, was described as a “remedial measure” — the euphemism for abortions inspired by this policy. Pregnant women hid in caves and woods to give birth, rather than face abortions at seven, eight, and nine months of pregnancy. Despite vigorous attempts to deny such stories and discredit their sources, reports of late-term abortions, lethal injections at birth, infanticide and secret births seep steadily out of China year by year.”

Janet Hadley “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press, 1996) 92-93

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the Psychosocial Aspects of Stress Following Abortion”

A study of 30 women who consider their abortions highly stressful said that:

“Though 72% of the subjects reported no identifiable religious beliefs at the time of the abortion, 96% regarded abortion as the taking of a life or as murder subsequent to their abortion.”

Anne Catherine Speckhard, “the Psychosocial Aspects of Stress Following Abortion” (Arlington, Virginia: Family System Center, 1985) 1

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Sex Selection Abortions in India Are Common, Says Pro-Choicer

According to pro-choice activist and author Janet Hadley, sex selection abortions in India are extremely common:

“All over India, there are clinics performing amniocentesis and ultrasound scans, even in districts too poor to afford supplies of clean drinking water. Every day, an estimated 3000 female fetuses are aborted. And there are doctors making a mint.”

Janet Hadley “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press 1996) 88

Despite what pro-choicers often say, sex selection abortions are not confined to India, China, and other countries. Sometimes they happen in the United States.

According to an Indian woman who had an abortion because her fetus was female:

“and I am his wife so I have to give him a son. How can it continue? Maybe I will never have a son? Maybe it is my fault? Only God knows. But what do I have to do? I am so afraid, afraid that my husband will divorce me and take a new wife who will give him sons… He is a man. He has a right to a son.”

V. Roggencamp “Abortion of a Special Kind: Male Sex Selection in India” R. Adritti, RD Klein and ass Minden editors “Test Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood?” (London, England: Pandora 1984)page 272

Pro-Choice feminists have an especially hard time attacking sex selection abortions. The abortion of female unborn babies solely because they are female is obviously a crime against women and a case of misogyny. However, pro-choice feminists have stood beside the argument that abortion is okay for any reason, and that a woman’s motives for having an abortion should not be challenged. Therefore, they have no leg to stand on when they are confronted with abortions that clearly reek of sexism.

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