They said it.
From a 1988 book on abortion:
“In one study, researchers found that one fourth of the women who had abortions felt that it was morally wrong; 8% of them did not believe that any woman who wants an abortion should be able to obtain it legally.”
Susan Neiburg Terkel Abortion: Facing the Issues (New York: Franklin Watts, 1988) 86
This seems to indicate that a sizable number of women who have abortions later come to believe they did something wrong.
Share on FacebookFrom pro-abortion activist Eileen Fairweather:
“One Australian study [found] 60% of women believe life begins at conception (compared with 36% of men). That doesn’t stop [women] having abortions… It is possible for people to support a woman’s right to choose whether they believe abortion is killing or not.”
Eileen Fairweather “Abortion: The Feelings behind the Slogans” in Women’s Health: A Spare Rib Reader, ed. S. O’Sullivan (London: Pandora, 1987) 199 – 200
Share on FacebookA 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 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
Studies of families of children with Down syndrome show that these children benefit their families.
Dr. Brian Skotko, a clinical fellow in genetics at Children’s Hospital Boston, authored a study of 3,000 Down syndrome patients and family members published in the October edition of the American Journal of Medical Genetics. This study found:
Among 2,044 parents or guardians surveyed, 79 percent reported their outlook on life was more positive because of their child with Down syndrome.
In addition:
Skotko also found that among siblings ages 12 and older, 97 percent expressed feelings of pride about their brother or sister with Down syndrome and 88 percent were convinced they were better people because of their sibling with Down syndrome. A third study evaluating how adults with Down syndrome felt about themselves reports 99 percent responded they were happy with their lives, 97 percent liked who they are, and 96 percent liked how they looked
Kimbery Hayes Taylor “Down Syndrome Rewards Touted as New Test Loom” NBC News 9/29/2011
Studies of families of children with Down syndrome show that these children benefit others and enjoy their own lives.
Share on FacebookStudies and quotes on abortion and sex trafficking:
“Of 67 trafficked women who responded to a question concerning abortion experience, 29.9% reported having multiple abortions.”
L Lederer & C Wetzel “The health consequences of sex trafficking and their implications for identifying victims in health care facilities” Annals of Health Law 23 (1) 2014
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“While only 34 respondents [among a survey of sex trafficked women] answered the question whether their abortions were of their own volition, more than half (18) of the group indicated that one or more of their abortions was at least partly forced upon them. Some women are forced to abort during late pregnancy and to resume sex work only days later.”
M Getu “Human trafficking and development: The role of microfinance” Transformation 23(3) 2006 p 73
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In a study of sex trafficking victims:
“Despite their abusive situations …87.8% had contact with a healthcare provider while they were being trafficked….Survivors had significant contact with clinical treatment facilities, most commonly Planned Parenthood clinics, which more than a quarter of survivors (29.6%) visited. More than half (57.1%) of respondents had received treatment at some type of clinic (urgent care, women’s health, neighborhood or Planned Parenthood.)”
L Lederer & C Wetzel “The health consequences of sex trafficking and their implications for identifying victims in health care facilities” Annals of Health Law 23(1) 2014
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Direct quote from the book:
“According to a sex trafficking expert in Wichita, Kansas in the United States, pregnant women are in demand due to consumer fetishes. As a result, they carry their pregnancies nearly to term and are then forced to abort….Another expert in human trafficking confirmed this claim that forced abortion is directly related to pregnancy fetishes.”
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Stephen Wagner, former director of the Human Trafficking Program at the Department of Health and Human Services:
“The mortality rate for someone in commercial sexual exploitation is 40 times higher than for a non-exploited person of the same age. Helping a victim return to exploitation more quickly by terminating a pregnancy increases the odds of death.”
S Wagner “Kathleen Sebelius’ Gruesome Moral Calculus” National Catholic Register 2011
All quotes and citations from on abortion and sex trafficking come from:
Catherine Coyle “Sex Trafficking” Rachel M. MacNair, editor Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion (Kansas City, MO: Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Association, 2016)
“Following their analysis of 31 studies, Garcia-Moreno, & Pallitto (2013) found “strong evidence that women with a history of intimate partner violence are more likely to report having had an induced abortion.”
C Garcia-Moreno & C. Pallitto “Global and regional estimates of intimate partner violence against women; prevalence and health effects of intimate partner and non-partner sexual violence” Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization, 2013
Share on FacebookIn one study 27.3% of women stated their experience of abuse influenced their decision to abort.
TW Leung, et al. “A comparison of the prevalence of domestic violence between patients seeking termination of pregnancy and other general gynecology patients” International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 77(1) 2002
Share on FacebookA study meant to document that children born from unwanted pregnancies grew up with serious problems failed. The study turned up no evidence linking unwanted pregnancies to unhappy children. The study did not find that children who were unwanted in the womb had bad lives. Researchers said:
“There is contention that unwanted conceptions tend to have undesirable effects…the direct evidence for such relationship is almost completely lacking…It was the hope of this article to find more convincing systematic research evidence and to give some ideas of the amount of relationship and undesired effect on children. This hope has been disappointed.”
E. Polman “Unwanted Conceptions: Research on Undesirable Consequences,” Ethics Quarterly, vol. 14, page 143, 1967
Share on FacebookPro-life author George Grant reveals:
“Recently the Centers for Disease Control conducted a study of maternal deaths and discovered that abortion is now the 6th most common cause. The results of the study, released to the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, admitted that those abortion related deaths may be underreported by as much as 50%.”
George Grant Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 33
Grant cites The New American January 20, 1986
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