They said it.
“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
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Share on FacebookChina’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
Share on FacebookAbortion rights groups oppose legislation that would require abortion clinics to be regularly inspected and to be licensed. In some states, veterinary clinics are regulated more strictly than abortion clinics and are more subject to inspection.
“Would we like to do it ( inspect abortion clinics) more frequently? Absolutely,But the nursing homes get more inspection because those are federally funded surveys. We have to figure out how to do the clinic inspections with state dollars.”
Don Williamson, Alabama state health officer
Birmingham News, Clinic’s closing renews debate, 5/21/2006
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Read about women who’ve died from legal abortions. Some of these women may have been saved by the verb regulations that pro-choice groups fight against.
Read more about why abortion clinic regulations are needed.
The Journal of Social Issues stated that:
There is now virtually no disagreement among researchers that some women experience negative psychological reactions postabortion.”
] G. Wilmouth. “Abortion, Public Health Policy, and Informed Consent Legislation.” Journal of Social Issues, 48, 3, page 5 (1992)
Share on FacebookAt a 1955 conference on induced abortion held by Planned Parenthood, Dr. Iago Gladston:
“It is of course true that both the person and the situation may be relieved and somewhat ameliorated by the abortion,just as an individual suffering from a gangrenous foot may be relieved by the amputation of the affected member, but I would like to go on record that in numerous instances both the individual and the situation are actually aggravated rather than remedied by the abortion. Bad as the situation was initially, it not infrequently becomes worse after the abortion has taken place.”
Iago Gladston, M.D., at the 1955 conference on induced abortion held by Planned Parenthood. Quoted in Mary Calderone, M.D., Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (editor). Abortion in the United States. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1956. Page 117.
Share on FacebookA 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
Share on FacebookFeminists for life is a pro-life feminist organization that seeks to empower women to choose life for their children. Members of Feminists for Life believe that abortion is often an easy way out for men man who impregnate women and can can escape the responsibility of parenthood, leaving the woman to deal with the emotional physical aftereffects of abortion. They also argue that many women feel coerced into abortions by their life circumstances and are not choosing abortion freely. Finally, they believe that the legalization of abortion allows society to get by without putting policies in place to help mothers – things like availability of daycare, and and end to job discrimination against pregnant women or women with families, etc., because women are expected to simply “choose” abortion. Here are two quotes from the Feminists for Life debate handbook.
“This is not a choice between vanilla and chocolate. This is a choice like “Do you want me to break your arm, or your leg?” This is a choice that says, “Do you want to see your life derailed, see your dreams turn to ashes – or do you want to undergo humiliating, invasive operation and have your own child die?” “Do you want to sacrifice your life plans, or would you rather sacrifice your offspring?” It’s a lousy choice. Women should not be forced into making such a choice. We should be able to keep both mother and child lives and bodies intact.”
Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 15
“If we could limit abortion to only those women who truly decided to have one, with adequate information without unfair and unjust pressures, we could cut the abortion rate dramatically.”
Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 12
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 131
Share on FacebookIn his textbook on how to do abortions, Abortion Practice, Dr. Warren Hern describes second trimester abortion:
“[at 18 weeks post fertilization age] it can be a significantly more difficult procedure accompanied by unnerving hemorrhage. Forceps use must be sure and relatively rapid. There is frequently not much time for exploring the nuances of different tissue sensations. Grasping and collapsing the calvaria [upper domelike portion of the skull] are often difficult. Stripping the calvaria of soft tissue is sometimes the first step in successful delivery of this part, followed by dislocation of parietal bones… [From 19 to 22 weeks post fertilization age] A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus, since it may be impossible to apply forceps or to do so while avoiding the thinned out cervix.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) PP 153 154 in Stephen Wagner, Common Ground Without Compromise: 25 Questions to Create Dialogue on Abortion. (Signal Hill, CA: Stand to Reason, 2008)76
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In a trial about the partial-birth abortion ban, Judge Arnold explains why he feels that a common late-term abortion technique called D&E (dilation and evacuation) where the baby is torn apart with forceps could be mistaken for partial-birth abortion,where the baby is extracted feetfirst and then killed by plunging scissors into the skull and suctioning the brain. Judge Arnold supports the kind of abortion he is describing:
“In a D&E procedure, the physician inserts forceps into the uterus, grasps a part of the fetus, commonly an arm or a leg, and draws that part out of the uterus into the vagina. Using the traction created between the mouth of the cervix and the pull of the forceps, the physician dismembers the fetal part which has been brought into the vagina, and removes it from the woman’s body. The rest of the fetus remains in the uterus while dismemberment occurs, and is often still living…”
Richard Smith “Candor and the Court: The Supreme Court will confront as never before the violent nature of mid-and late-term abortion” America April 1, 2000
Here is the result of this type abortion at 16 weeks – keep in mind that this procedure is legal in every state of the country and is performed hundreds of times a day:
Many pro-choice groups have complained that most counties in the United States do not have an abortion clinic. They argue that rural women need to drive long distances to reach abortion clinics, and often blame pro-lifers for this. In reality, the main reason that clinics are usually located in cities has to do with money. From an article in the New York Times:
“In Detroit, and in other large metropolitan areas around the country, there are not too few abortion providers, as abortion proponents have lamented for years. There are too many. It is still true that fewer hospitals are providing abortions, fewer doctors outside abortion clinics are offering the procedure and 86 percent of counties in the country have no abortion provider.
But, over the past few years, as the number of abortions has declined, abortions increasingly have been concentrated in specialty clinics in cities and pockets of competition have developed.
So while women in rural areas must sometimes drive hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic, in cities and suburbs there are price wars and competition over amenities. Doctors have refused to train colleagues, fearing they will only help a potential competitor in a lucrative, often cash-only, business.
…. Clinic owners say they have little choice but to cluster in cities — that is the only way they can find enough patients. Ruth Arick, the owner of Choice Pursuits in DeLand, Fla., which does management consulting for abortion clinics, said that a population of about 200,000 is needed to support a full-fledged clinic.”
In addition, pro-choice people often blame pro-lifers for a shortage of providers, claiming that doctors fear violence. In reality, stigma is a major reason why doctors don’t do abortions. Another reason is the emotional trauma of tearing apart developing babies every day.
A third reason is that doctors don’t want to train competitors. From the New York Times article:
“One doctor in Detroit, who spoke on condition he not be identified, saying he feared hostility from his colleagues, said that when he finished medical school, trained in obstetrics and gynecology, he asked abortion doctors in the area to train him. He was turned away.”
GINA KOLATA “As Abortion Rate Decreases, Clinics Compete for Patients” The NY Times December 30, 2000
Abortion is a business, like any other. Clinics do not do abortions for free. Abortionists and clinic owners are out to make money off of the women who come in for abortions.
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