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Pro abortion beliefs among men

According to polls:

The most pro-abortion category in the United States is white males between the ages of 20 and 45.

John Wilke: “The Real Woman’s Movement” National Right to Life News, December 14, 1989, three

The group that is most consistently pro-choice a single men.

Guy Condon, “You Say Choice, I Say Murder” Christianity Today, June 24, 1991, 23

This is an old statistic but it is very revealing to learn that many of the people who originally championed abortion were single men whose lives would be made easier if they did not have to support children or get stuck with child support payments.

abort10w7 — From a 10-week-old victim of abortion

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Woman feels guilty after her abortion

Ava Torre–Bueno, clinical social worker and Planned Parenthood volunteer, describes one patient she saw in her counseling practice:

“Sarah felt guilty about everything… Her guilt wasn’t only about harming yourself or having her abortion it was just how she felt about everything.”

Torre—Bueno A. Peace after Abortion (San Diego, California: Pimpernel Press, 1997) P43

Being a Planned Parenthood volunteer and a clear supporter of legalized abortion, this counselor may be trying to minimize the emotional devastation caused by Sarah’s abortion and its role in her guilt and depression

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Two studies show that “therapeutic” abortion is traumatic

Sometimes women abort because there is something wrong with their unborn baby such as down syndrome. In fact, 80% to 90% of down syndrome pregnancies are aborted. Sometimes the baby has a more serious defect and is not expected to survive long after birth. Women may decide to have an abortion, thinking that the violent procedure will ease the suffering of the infant – when in fact, the opposite is often true. These abortions usually take place in the second or third trimester and involve poisonous injections, skull crushing, or dismemberment. Not surprisingly, women find these abortions to be very emotionally devastating. Here are two studies that found that women suffer after abortions for fetal anomaly.

White – Van Mourik MCA, ConnorJM, Ferguson–Smith MA The Psychological Sequelae Of a Second Trimester Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality Over A Two-Year Period. Birth Defects: Original Articles Series 1992; 28:61 – 74, P 71

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Zeanah CH, Dailey JB, Rosenblatt MJ, Saller DN Jr Do Women Grieve after Terminating Pregnancies Because of Fetal Abnormalities? A Controlled Investigation. Obstetrics & Gynecology 1993; 82; 272 – 275, P 275

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Playboy donated money to legalize abortion

The Playboy foundation made a $2500 donation to NARAL in 1971.

Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) 149

NARAL is now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, and is one of the biggest pro-abortion organizations in the United States. In the 1970s, when it was founded, it was active in trying to legalize abortion throughout the US. One of its founders, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an abortionist, later became pro-life and produced the pro-life movie “the Silent Scream”, where an unborn baby can be seen fighting for his life while being aborted on ultrasound.

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Description of a first trimester abortion procedure

A former abortionist describes a first trimester abortion:

“With suction, a plastic hollow tube (vacurette) is used, with the caliber varying to match the tightness of the cervix. A clear plastic tube leaves from the vacurette to one empty bottle where the bodily remains are trapped in a gauze bag; the blood seeps into the bottle below. A second bottle sets up the suction. With the vacurette, the operator quickly pulls the conceptus from the wall of the uterus. If this is done after about 10 weeks, one can see identifiable parts of the fetus’s body dismembered and trapped in the gauze bag, which caused some reaction from nurses in the early years. The later one gets into the “first trimester” (the first 12 weeks) the more likely the suction must be alternated with the hand-operated forceps to dismember the fetal body in the womb and extract pieces, working blindly in that large, soft chamber.”

Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) 73

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Abortion minded women look at ultrasounds, are unmoved

From an article where an author interviews women sitting in an abortion clinic waiting room

She was 12 weeks pregnant, though she had taken birth control pills as directed. “I feel pretty messed up,” she said after seeing the image. “It’s different, just knowing. My husband told me not to look. This changes my feelings, but I’m sticking by it. Damn it, $650, I’m sticking by it.”

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Kori, 26, who was having her third abortion, asked to watch the procedure on the ultrasound monitor. “I wanted to see what it was like,” she said. “It was O.K. to watch. Once you had your mind made up to do it, you just suck it up and go with it.”

unbornbaby10weeksultrasound — 10 week 2 D ultrasound

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From a woman identified as“M”

“I’d lose my job,” she said. “My family’s reputation would be ruined. It makes me nervous even being in the waiting room. You don’t want to know who’s here, you don’t want to be recognized, and you don’t want to see them ever again. Because in society’s eyes, you share the same dirty secret.”

JOHN LELAND “Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly “New York Times September 18, 2005

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Pro-choice groups on campus stifle debate

Prof. Jon Shields quotes a campus organizer for Planned Parenthood telling him that she “discourages direct debate”

NARAL’s Campus Kit for Pro-Choice Organizers contains the phrase

“Don’t waste time talking to antichoice people.”

Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) 9

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Baby lost due to religious references in crisis pregnancy center

The founder of a crisis pregnancy center describes an occurrence at another center:

Carol was afraid. How could this happen to me? She looked in the Yellow Pages and found daybreak. Carol was a young professional woman and she was sure she wanted an abortion. She came in for a pregnancy test over lunch hour. She had questions about abortion procedures and their safety.

The counselor was able to connect with Carol closely enough to discuss risks, emotional scarring and the development of life inside her. Then she handed Carol a brochure full of great information that would further answer her questions. As Carol thumbed through the booklet, she seemed grateful for such accurate information… And then she turned to the last page. Across it was the name of the organization that printed the brochure. Among believers it was a reputable name. But because the word “Christian” stood out so clearly to Carol, she tossed the brochure into the garbage, and walked out. In that instant, our opportunity to reach her was gone.”

Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) 57 to 58

Perhaps religious rhetoric in the pro-life movement turns some women away who pro-lifers would otherwise be able to help.

See On Being a Pro-life Atheist

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Abortion clinic charged with racism

A feminist author describes the charges of racism against an abortion clinic she observed at:

“Like many feminist organizations founded by white women, the center faces charges of institutional racism leveled by women of color working in the organization. Black (and sometimes white) workers said that racism had always been a problem, that when black women entered into a white power structure from the bottom (as they did the center, as health workers or low-level administrative workers), clashes between black and white staff members were inevitable. In other words, white women tended to re-create covert power dynamics similar to those they profess to despise, treating black women in a manner comparable to the sexist treatment of women by men.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 170

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