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Parental Consent Law Leads to Fewer Teen Pregnancies/Abortions

The state of Minnesota had a parental notification law which was in place in 1981, challenged in 1986, suspended, and then reinstituted.

The number of abortions dropped 34% while the law was in place, the number of pregnancies in the age group dropped 27%

“Impact of MN Parental Notification Law on Abortion and Birth” J. Rogers, et al., American Journal of Public health, March 1991, volume 81, number 3, P294

Perhaps when teenagers realize that abortion is not such an easy option, they are more diligent at using contraception are practicing abstinence. The fact that both the abortion rate and the pregnancy rate went down seems to indicate that when parental consent laws are in place, teens will do more to avoid pregnancy.

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Pro-Choice Author: Ultrasound Is “Torture Weapon”

Many women who go to crisis pregnancy centers change their minds about having abortions when they see their baby on the ultrasound screen. Some estimates say that up to 80% of women who see their baby moving on the ultrasound screen choose to give birth rather than have abortions. For this reason, abortion clinics routinely turn the ultrasound machine away from women.

Planned Parenthood another pro-choice organizations vehemently fight laws that would require a woman to see the ultrasound of her baby before an abortion, and even fight laws that would simply give her the option to do so without requiring it.

One pro-choice author, commenting on a proposed law in Louisiana which required a woman to see an ultrasound image of her baby before aborting it, called the ultrasound a “torture weapon.”

Is it really best for women to be kept in the dark about their pregnancies? Any pro-lifer who has listened to postabortion women talk has realized that many of them are traumatized when they are told by clinic workers that their unborn babies are simply collections of cells and then later see a baby on the ultrasound screen, perhaps a subsequent pregnancy. Is it better to keep women in the dark to “protect” them, or to give them all the information about what is going on in their own bodies?

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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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Clinic Director Admits That Abortion Is Killing

In an article in Newsweek, author Martha Brant discusses how some clinic directors have decided to dispense with the propaganda and tell women the truth – that abortion kills babies. She mentions that these clinic workers are going to a summit on abortion rights and says:

“Independent abortion clinic directors like Peg Johnston in New York state—who will attend the meeting in D.C.—even use words like “baby” and “killing” because that is what many women who come to her say and feel.

“I’m trying to figure out how I can get [them] through this experience so that [they] can cope,” says Johnston, whose clinic was the target of Operation Rescue protestors and their bloody fetus posters starting in the late 1980s.

Today, Johnston shows her patients their own fetal tissue if they want to see it. “Mostly it’s reassuring. You could say we have our own gory pictures,” she says. Johnston has often been at odds with the pro-choice leadership.”

Martha Brant “Politics of Choice” Newsweek Feb 27, 2006

It is very rare for clinic workers to tell the truth about the unborn baby and about what abortion does to children – see this section where clinic workers described the “counseling” at their clinics

It is not surprising that these clinic workers are “at odds with pro-choice leadership.”

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Judge Calls Unborn Baby a “Growth”

An article in The Human Life Review quotes judge Lewis Powell describing a woman’s right to an abortion this way:

“The abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus…but also has a right to a dead fetus.”

Hadley Arkes “Slouching Towards Infanticide” The Human Life Review Summer 1998

Calling a fetus, which is an unborn baby, a “growth” shows a remarkable ignorance of biology. An unborn baby is not a growth – here she is a living organism with a heartbeat and circulatory system and DNA that is distinct from the mother. Below is a picture of a sonogram of a “fetus” in the first trimester. Does it look like a growth?

Go here to see a picture of what a “fetus” looks like after an abortion in the first trimester (at 10 weeks)

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Clinic Closed for Poor Follow-Up Care

Pro-Choicers lament each abortion clinic that goes out of business, but, in reality, most abortion clinics that close do so because the state steps in after they injure or kill women or it is revealed that they’re practicing substandard medicine. Reproductive Health Services in the state of Alabama was closed when it was discovered that the clinic did not provide proper follow-up care for women injured during abortions – which happened disturbingly often in the clinic.

According to Life Dynamics, a woman went to the emergency room two days after her abortion after unsuccessfully trying to contact doctors at the clinic. When the emergency room doctor called the clinic, he was told by a nurse who worked there:

“everyone was out of town” and since the patient was in the ER, “I guess it’s your problem.”

Rick Harris, director of the department’s Bureau of Health Provider Standards responded:

“It’s not OK to operate a health care facility that does surgery and then say ‘We’re going to put them (the abortion clinic) off on the emergency system.’”

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Abortionist Sexually Harasses His Patient

An abortionist in New York was cited for sexually harassing a woman who came in for an abortion. According to the NY State Board of Professional Medical Conduct Case # BPMC 01-99 and The Times Herald on January 6, 2001, abortionist Daniel Holschauer made sexual advances toward woman had just performed an abortion on. While removing gauze from her vagina, he said:

“you know, I would really like to be there.”

Then, according to the patient, he began pulling his pants down. He was sexually aroused and told the patient:

“I just did you a favor, now you do me a favor.”

This incident was only one of a number of cases were abortionists sexually harassed or even raped patients in the abortion chamber. Quoted by life dynamics.

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Abortionist: “Doesn’t like to Do Abortions”

Abortionist:

“I don’t like to do abortions. To do an abortion is abhorrent to a gynecologist who has spent all his life trying to save the fetus. But, I will do it.”

Katrina Maxtone–Graham, Pregnant by Mistake, (New York: Liveright, 1973) 279 – 280

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Planned Parenthood Mistakenly Shows Woman her Ultrasound, With Drastic Results

It is no surprise that many abortion clinics turn the ultrasound screen away from women who are having abortions, and I pro-choice group such as Planned Parenthood vigorously fight legislation that would require a woman to be offered the chance to see her baby on the sonogram. Planned Parenthood fights laws that say a woman has the right to see her ultrasound if she chooses to, even though she is not forced to. This is because Planned Parenthood is vigorously opposed to women having enough information to make an informed decision. Rather, they are willing to pressure women into abortions by withholding information, as this former Planned Parenthood clinic worker describes.

Sidewalk counselor and manager of a crisis pregnancy center Roderick P Murphy tells the following story:

“Anya (pseudonym) was in the abortion facility next door being prepared for an abortion when a Planned Parenthood staffer mistakenly allowed a corner of the ultrasound screen to be seen by her. When the client saw her baby moving on the screen, she panicked, jumped off the table and ran out of the building where our outside counselor steered her toward our office. We counseled her and showed her a full ultrasound screen of her baby and she wept with relief. She kept crying and saying “I almost killed my baby. I almost killed my baby.”

Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) P194

And read about Abby Johnson, clinic manager who converted to the pro-life position after watching an abortion on ultrasound in her facility.

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Textbook on Obstetrics Nursing On When Life Begins

“Thus a new cell is formed from the union of a male and a female gamete. [sperm and egg cells] The cell, referred to as the zygote, contains a new combination of genetic material, resulting in an individual different from either parent and from anyone else in the world.”

Sally B Olds, et al., Obstetric Nursing (Menlo Park, California: Addison – Wesley publishing, 1980) P 136

Quoted in Eric Pastuszek. Is the Fetus Human? (Rockford, Illinois: Tan books And Publishers Inc., 1991)

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