They said it.
A study shows that women who have repeat abortions have less stable relationships:
“A Yale University study of 345 women at a New York abortion clinic found that women who have repeat abortions are in less stable social situations and have relationships of shorter duration than women who seek abortions for the first time.”
Michael B Bracken & Kasl K Stanislav “First and Repeat Abortions: A Study of Decision-Making and Delay” Journal of Biosocial Science 7, (1975) 374 – 491
Share on FacebookAbortionist David Paintin says:
“In the last 10 years about 85% [of abortions] have been done before 12 weeks. The mean gestation in women who have NHS abortions is probably around 9 – 10 weeks, 15 – 16 % are done after 12 weeks, and about 2% after 20 weeks.”
At 9-10 weeks, the baby looks like this:
“The women who come relatively late tend to be those whose lives are disorganized and who have poor relationships. They find difficulty in accepting that they are pregnant in the first instance and, having found they are pregnant, find difficulty in utilizing the service.”
David B Paintin “Legal Abortion in England and Wales”
Abortion: Medical Progress and Social Implications, CIBA Foundation Symposium 115 (London: Pitman, 1985) 12
Share on FacebookIn the book Women against Abortion author Karissa Haugeberg writes:
“A Fargo – Morehead antiabortion group reported in 1987 that the area CPC’s had facilitated 27 adoptions or foster care placements, fielded over 600 phone calls, administered over 360 pregnancy tests, and persuaded over 100 “girls” to carry their pregnancies to term over the previous year.”
Brochure “Caring” from Help and Caring Ministries, Fargo, North Dakota, December 1988 cited in Karissa Haugeberg Women against Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 2017) 48
Share on FacebookAs reported in the Akron Beacon Journal:
“A recent poll for the Beacon Journal by the University of Akron found that 56% of Ohioans believe that life begins at conception; but a majority of those voicing an opinion still believe abortion should remain legal.”
Akron Beacon Journal, July 4, 1989. quoted in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 22
A pro-choice author documented the following:
“Antiabortion activist Robyn Robertson reported that sidewalk counselors who picketed in front of Fargo’s abortion clinic persuaded 76 women to continue their pregnancies just in the first eight months of 1984.”
This was revealed in Robyn Robertson, letter to the editor, Forum, August 8, 1984
Karissa Haugeberg Women against Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 2017)
Share on FacebookAuthor William M Connolly compiles the statistics on IVF success rates. Below is the percentage of successful pregnancies from various procedures.
“In February 1999, Reuters reported that about 20,000 babies were born with the help of laboratory fertility techniques out of 64,000 attempts in 1996. Reuters cited figures of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The success rates for the various techniques were described as follows:
— Use of frozen embryos – 16%
— In vitro fertilization – 26%
— Gamete intrafallopian transfers – 28%
— Sperm injected directly into ovum’s cytoplasm – 28%
— Zygote intrafallopian transfers – 30%.”
William M Connolly One Life:How the US Supreme CourtDeliberately Distortedthe History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 122
As you can see, IVF techniques have high rates of failure. This leads to many conceived embryos being lost. If life does begin at conception (and you can find 40 quotes from medical textbooks saying it does here) than IVF leads to the loss of many human lives. When you read the following quotes from medical textbooks, keep in mind how low IVF success rates lead to many newly conceived lives being lost.
“Human life begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoo developmentn) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.” “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”
Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2.
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“The oviduct or Fallopian tube is the anatomical region where every new life begins in mammalian species. After a long journey, the spermatozoa meet the oocyte in the specific site of the oviduct named ampulla, and fertilization takes place.”
Coy et al., Roles of the oviduct in mammalian fertilization, REPRODUCTION 144(6):649 (Oct. 1, 2012)
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“In fusing together, the male and female gametes produce a fertilized single cell, the zygote, which is the start of a new individual.”
Rand McNally Atlas of the Body (New York: Rand McNally and Company, 1980) 139, 144.
There are many more quotes like this.
Share on FacebookAccording to one study:
“14% of pro-choice advocates say life begins when the fetus has measurable brain activity or motion.
Even among pro-choice advocates, 23% believe life begins at fertilization.
38% of pro-choice advocates believe life begins when the fetus would be able to survive outside the womb.
15% believe life begins at birth.”
“When Does Life Begin?” The Harris Poll, HarrisInteractive, February 18, 2007
]Cited in Johannah Haney The Abortion Debate: Understanding the Issues (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2009) 19
Brain waves have been measured in an embryo at 42 days after conception
When in pregnancy are abortions done? This will answer that question
The following information comes from the Alan Guttmacher Institute:
This is when in pregnancy abortions are done:
| 23% | in the first 6 weeks — 301,300 annually |
| 34.5% | in the seventh or eighth week — 451,950 annually |
| 19.5% | in the ninth or tenth week — 255,450 annually |
| 10% | in the eleventh or twelfth week -131,000 annually |
| 6.0% | in the thirteenth through fifteenth weeks — 78,600 annually |
| 4.5% | in the sixteenth through twentieth weeks — 58,950 annually |
| 1.5% | at twenty-one weeks or more — 19,650 annually |
6 week baby:
301,300 annually
…..
7 week baby
8 week baby
451,950 annually
….
9 week baby
10 week baby
255,450 annually
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11 week baby:
12 week baby
131,000 annually
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14 week baby:
78,600 annually
….
16 week baby:
20 week baby
58,950 annually
…..
23 week baby
24 week baby
and older
19,650 annually
…..
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, “An Overview of Abortion in the United States” (2003). 4. Elam-Evans L et al., “Abortion surveillance–United States, 2000”, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2003, 52(SS 12).
Share on FacebookA pro-choice book reveals that there is an abortionist shortage in Italy. The book says:
“In Sicily, 87.6% of gynecologists refuse to perform [abortions], citing conscientious objection.
Research by pro-choice Italian doctor Silvana Agatone found that of over 10,000 gynecologists in Italy, only 1200 performed abortions. She and many other pro-choice doctors are nearing retirement, and she worries about the rise in the numbers of young doctors claiming conscientious objection…
Once a week doctors travel from Milan or Rome to Ascoli Piceno in east central Italy to perform abortions in the city hospital, where there is not a single gynecologist who will perform them.”
Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 34 – 35
Share on FacebookA woman who wanted to have an abortion but changed her mind at the last minute didn’t think she could love her baby. She was unhappy about being pregnant. However, after her baby was born, her feelings changed. She says:
“I was definitely NOT happy about being pregnant. I didn’t want to be anyone’s mom. I went home feeling trapped. I knew I couldn’t go through with an abortion, but I did NOT want a baby. …I sometimes wished that I would die, get hit by a car. Anything to be out of this situation. This was truly the worst thing that could have ever happened to me… or, so I thought……
I worried a lot during the course of my pregnancy that I would not love my child because I did not want her. I agonized over what kind of mother I would be. …
Finally, the big day arrived. I went into labor and accompanied by my mom and boyfriend, checked into the hospital. Seeing our baby girl, Taylor, for the first time melted our hearts. Oh, the joy, the love, welled up inside of us both. She was a perfect, easy baby and we were absolutely crazy in love with her. All of my fears and reservations melted away the minute I laid eyes on her. Twenty years later, I can still say she was the beginning of everything good in my life. Her arrival ushered in an era of blessings that continues to this day. She is a treasure. How wrong I was to think she was anything but a precious gift.
When she was three months old, her dad and I got married. We have been married for 20 years and have three other children, ages 17, 11, and 7. They are each a treasure and a blessing in their own right, none of whom would exist had I ended my first pregnancy. Words will always fail to express the true depth of my gratitude that my inner voice would not be silenced that day in the abortion facility…..
I can’t think of a single woman who regrets having her child, but there is NO shortage of women who regret their abortions. There is always a better option than abortion. It is NEVER the answer.”
“22 years ago, my daughter survived her abortion appointment” Live Action News September 1, 2017
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