Pro-Lifer Conceived in Rape Speaks out

A Human Life International Employee conceived in rape:

“I am sure happy that my life  was not cut off because of a crime my biological father committed. I am grateful for the life I am living and I know, even though I am far from perfect, my mom has no regrets either. Despite the circumstances of my conception, once I exist, I have the right to life, just as you or anyone else does – for it IS an inalienable right.”

http://www.humanlife.org/abortion_tiredofrhetoric.php

Many people support abortion in cases where the mother is a victim of rape – but few think about the unborn baby, who was an innocent victim as well. Here’s a picture of an abortion at eight weeks. You can’t tell if the baby killed in this abortion was conceived by rape or not. Either way, it’s a violent death for the baby.

Often abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, is not in the best interest of the woman either. Read some testimonies of women were raped and became pregnant here.

 

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Violence and Extremist Tactics Strengthen Pro-Choice Resolve

A book by a pro-choice author discusses how antiabortion extremist tactics lead to more medical students becoming abortion providers:

Since David Gunn’s death in March 1993, there has been a significant mobilization among pro-choice medical students across the country. “Medical Students for Choice,” a new national organization, has contacts in over 100 medical schools. One of its first activities was to circulate a petition (which ultimately gathered over 3000 signatures) among medical students all over the country, demanding that abortion training be a required component in OB/GYN residency programs.… In Response to the notorious “Bottom Feeders pamphlet, a compilation of vulgar jokes directed at abortion providers, which was recently mailed to medical students in the United States by an antiabortion group, medical students at the University of California at San Francisco raised funds that were donated to the National Abortion Federation.

In a letter to the publishers of the pamphlet, the UCSF students wrote, “If your intentions included intimidating future abortion providers… Then you failed. In fact, “Bottom Feeders” has sparked effective discussions on-campus about how to ensure access to safe, legal abortion for every woman who wants one.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995)  206 – 207

 

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Media Event In Front of Clinic Works in Abortionist’s Favor

Is holding big media events outside abortion clinics during pickets counterproductive? It can be. According to an abortionist named Caleb Barrington:

“They [pro-lifers]would stage a picket at the office and would at the same time make it a media event. They would call the press, they would all arrive, and the next day I would get twice as many phone calls because people would know I was doing the abortions – so, in fact, they made my name known.”

Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 165

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100 OB/GYN’s Express Doubts About Abortion

In 1972, the year before Roe versus Wade, a collection of 100 OB/GYN’s published an article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They expressed doubts about the legalization of abortion. Concern that women may want surgery that is not in their best interest, they said the following:

“For the first time, except perhaps for cosmetic surgery, doctors will be expected to do an operation simply because the patient asks that it be done.”

“A Statement on Abortion by One Hundred Professors of Obstetrics” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 112 (1972) 992 – 98

They realized that the doctor would be a mere technician, performing a service that women wanted without knowing their in-depth medical history or life circumstances. Perhaps these doctors envisioned clinics where women would wait in line and be aborted one after the other with the doctor only seeing his patients for several minutes on the operating table. Is this really conducive to good medical care?

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Antiabortion Violence Fuels Misconceptions

Some misguided antiabortion activists (they are not “pro-life”) have taken part in clinic bombings and violence against abortion providers. These actions are immoral, but also, they work in the abortion industry’s favor.

Abortionist Dr. Zachary Harris said the following when his clinic was firebombed:

“I think all that does is simply add to the public perception that the antiabortion people are crazy and will stop at nothing… They’re a bunch of lunatics and every time there’s something like that, it evokes a little more sympathy from the community toward what we’re doing. I think it’s totally counterproductive.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 163

Perhaps part of the reason why so many people look down on the pro-life movement and are unsympathetic to its claims is that misguided activists have engaged in violence. How can anyone take the pro-life movement seriously when individual pro-lifers are doing things that disrespect life? The lives of abortion patients and doctors are as important as the lives of the unborn babies.

Violence against abortion providers distracts from the very real baby that is the victim of violence in abortion.

Below are diagrams of the two most common abortion procedures – a suction abortion, performed in the first trimester, and a D&E abortion performed in the second and early third.

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More Information on RU-486 Abortions

An FDA, report, dated April 30, 2011, says that 14 women in the United States alone have died from using the mifepristone (RU-486) abortion drug and 2,207 women have been injured by it.

According to an article by Steven Ertelt:

Of the women experiencing medical and physical problems resulting from the abortion drug, 612 women required hospitalizations, 339 experienced blood loss significant enough to require a transfusion, 256 experienced infections and 48 women experienced what the FDA labeled as “severe infections.”

“Severe infections generally involve death or hospitalization for at least 2-3 days, intravenous antibiotics for at least 24 hours, total antibiotic usage for at least 3 days, and any other physical or clinical findings, laboratory data or surgery that suggest a severe infection,” the FDA report states.

Women developing infections from usage of the RU 486 abortion drug experienced endometritis (involving the lining of the womb), pelvic inflammatory disease (involving the nearby reproductive organs such as the fallopian tubes or ovaries), and pelvic infections with sepsis (a serious systemic infection that has spread beyond the reproductive organs).

The FDA figures also reveal that abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood are still misusing the abortion drug.

Despite the FDA indicating, “Administration of mifepristone and misoprostol is contraindicated in patients with confirmed or suspected ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy outside the uterus,” the abortion drug was given to women in 58 cases where they had an ectopic pregnancy.

Steven Ertelt “New FDA Report: Abortion Drug Kills 14 Women, Injures 2,200” LifeNews.com | 7/12/11

For more information on RU-486, go here.

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Planned Parenthood on Coping After an Abortion

So many women were having emotional problems after their abortions that Planned Parenthood, which always denies that post abortion trauma is real, finally had to address the issue.

Planned Parenthood website affiliate in Illinois about coping with an abortion

“You can say or yell “stop” whenever you have disturbing thoughts… if you find yourself fantasizing too often about what the child may have been like, you should substitute another fantasy: a baby crying because you have no time to give  it.”

Quoted in Valerie Meehan “Hidden Pain: Silent No More” The American Feminist, Winter 2002 to 2003

Meehan quotes from Theresa Burke, PhD “forbidden grief, the unspoken pain of abortion” written with David Reardon

Here are the results of some studies on abortion and the emotional aftermath:

154% higher risk of suicide. Another study of more than 173,000 American women who had abortions or carried to term found that, during the eight years after the pregnancy ended, women who aborted had a 154% higher risk of suicide than women who carried to term.

DC Reardon et. al., “Deaths Associated With Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women,” Southern Medical Journal 95(8):834-41, Aug. 2002.

Higher suicide risks for teens. Teen girls are 10 times more likely to attempt suicide if they have had an abortion in the last six months than girls who have not had an abortion, and 2-4 times more likely to commit suicide after abortion compared to adult women

B. Garfinkel, et al., “Stress, Depression and Suicide: A Study of Adolescents in Minnesota,” Responding to High Risk Youth (University of Minnesota: Minnesota Extension Service, 1986); M. Gissler, et. al., “Suicides After Pregnancy in Finland: 1987-94: register linkage study,” British Medical Journal, 313: 1431-1434, 1996; and N. Campbell, et. al., “Abortion in Adolescence,” Adolescence, 23:813-823, 1988. See the “Teen Abortion Risks” Fact Sheet at www.unfairchoice.info/resources.htm for more information.

Five-fold higher risk of drug and alcohol abuse. Excluding women with a prior history of substance abuse, those who abort their first pregnancy are 5 times more likely to report subsequent drug and alcohol abuse vs. those who give birth.

DC Reardon, PG Ney, “Abortion and Subsequent Substance Abuse,” American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 26(1):61-75, 2000.

For more studies on the mental fallout from abortions, go here.

For testimonies and stories of post-abortion women, go here. 

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Abortion is a Woman’s Choice?

In a well-known pro-choice book,an author who observed in an abortion clinic told of the abortion decision of a young women who already had a two year old. Lamenting the fact that she could not have her baby and stay financially afloat, the woman said:

“This is my decision but not my choice.”

Chalker R. and Downes, C. “A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486” (Four Walls Eight Windows, New York 1992) Quoted in an essay by Catherine Spencer

The truth is, many women have abortions not because they are deciding without qualms that they don’t want a baby, but, rather, that they see themselves in a hopeless situation, and feel they have no other choice. Or, just as often, they are pressured by other people (usually the baby’s father) into having the abortion.

To read more about coerced abortions, go here. 

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Woman “Beyond the Breaking Point” After Abortion

Abortion complications are more common than most people believe.

Recently, a woman posted anonymously about her worries in the aftermath of her abortion:

I am beyond my breaking point. I had a surgical abortion August 9th, I was around 12 weeks and 3 days. In my opinion, I had a lot of bleeding immediately both during and after the procedure. When the nurse had me move up to the edge of the exam table, you could hear the blood hitting the floor and she tossed me a large white cotton blanket. The dilation process is by far the worst pain I’ve ever had to deal with… but I’m starting to wonder if it really should have been that painful. Did the doctor do something wrong? He said to the nurse that he had got everything and I didn’t see him again.

I’ve had pretty heavy bleeding since the procedure, no cramping… Everytime that I think I’m in the clear and then all of a sudden my vagina hates me again, I feel like breaking down and just crying.

Does it sound like there’s an issue? Is it possible the doctor f-cked something up? Forgot pieces (although he said that he got everything)?

Post-Abortion Rant Sept 3 2012 

This woman’s story shows that although abortion may be legal, it is often a difficult and painful experience for a woman to go through.

sonogram of unborn baby at 12 weeks

 

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Planned Parenthood Employs Abortionists Who are Not Doctors, Stops Performing Abortions After Law

Should just anyone be allowed to perform an abortion, or should only doctors be allowed to perform them? Surprisingly, there are no laws mandating that those who perform abortions must be doctors in many states.

Until recently, in Arizona, non-doctors performed abortions at Planned Parenthood. A simple nursing degree is all they had- and more than they needed to operate legally.

This all changed with the 2009 Abortion Consent Act.

The law states the following,. according to an article by Steven Ertelt:

The law makes it so Arizona will require a notarized parental signature before an abortion can be performed on a minor child, women will be provided with full and accurate information by a doctor in person at least 24 hours before an abortion, medical professionals cannot be forced to perform abortions if it contradicts their sincerely held religious or moral beliefs and non-doctors will not be permitted by law to perform surgical abortions.

Steven Ertelt “Arizona Abortions Drop 30% After Pro-Life Law Takes Effect” LifeNews.com 10/12/11

Rather than comply with the law, Planned Parenthood stopped performing abortions at seven locations. Apparently, doctors were not performing the surgeries on women in these clinics.

Roe Vs. Wade was supposed to protect women against unqualified abortionists. I wonder how many women knew that their surgery was being done by someone who did not have a medical degree?

Read about abortion’s dangers here.

The law led to a 30% drop in the number of abortions in the state

Note: One Planned Parenthood nurse, Beth Otterstein, who performed abortions before being banned from doing so said the following after the law passed:

“I’m very sure we’re going to see illegal abortions crop up, which can be very serious because they can lead to deaths”

Rachel Jimenez “At Flagstaff Clinic, Women Seeking Abortions Told to go to Phx” Tuscon Sun Sentinel October 4, 2011

Only Planned Parenthood could claim that a law requiring women to have their surgery done by competent physicians would lead to unsafe abortions. I wonder if they listen to themselves.

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