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trapped...

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...by another’s choice.
W ho is trapped by the “choice” of abortion?
Both the mother and the pre-born child.
Abortion is legal through all nine months
term abortions (D&X). Other late-term abortion
methods, such as Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)
and a modified version of partial birth abortion,
of pregnancy in the United States. The infamous may still legally be used to kill a child up to the
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Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion throughout the moment of birth. See Common Abortion Methods
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United States. The lesser-known companion case, on p.4.
Doe v. Bolton, defined the “health” exception. This A woman is often trapped by the decision
case solidified Roe in allowing abortion through all to abort. You probably know someone who has
nine months if the pregnancy threatens the life or aborted her child. Why did she “choose” abortion?
health of the mother. The vague word used here Did she want an abortion or was she coerced or
is “health.” What does “health” mean to you? “strongly encouraged” by her boyfriend, husband,
Doe v. Bolton defined health to include, “physical, or parents? Let’s face it; there are many reasons
emotional, psychological, familial, and the why women abort. One study found that 64% of
woman’s age—relevant to the wellbeing of the women surveyed said they “felt pressured by
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patient.” Essentially, Doe v. Bolton opened the others” to abort. Also, 54% said they were “not
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door for “health” to mean anything a doctor or sure about the decision at the time.” Does this
woman wants it to mean. Some states have laws sound like a “woman’s right to choose?” More
regulating late term abortions, and some states sim- than 49 million children have been legally trapped
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ply have no willing providers. However, women by “choice” in the United States since 1973. Time
are free to go to other states to obtain one. Late is running out for millions more. With more than
term abortions may be less common, but they are still 3,500 surgical abortions performed in the United
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legal. States every day, you most likely have been, or
Didn’t the Partial Birth Abortion Ban will be, involved with someone considering
outlaw late-term abortions? No. In the 2007 abortion.
decision, Gonzales v. Carhart, the Partial-Birth You owe it to yourself and those around you
Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was upheld. The “Ban” to make an educated decision about abortion. Read
merely regulates one specific method used in late- trapped… and educate yourself with the facts.
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Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, No.70-18, X, January 1973.│ Doe v. Bolton, U.S. Supreme Court, No.70-40, IV, January 1973.│ Gonzales v.
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Carhart, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 05-380, I A, April 2007.│ VM Rue et. Al., “Induced abortion and traumatic stress: A preliminary comparison
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of American and Russian women,” Medical Science Monitor 10(10): SR5-16, 2004. www.medscimonit.com/pub/vol_10/no_10/4923.pdf.│ Ibid.│
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Guttmacher Institute. “In Brief – Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States.” May 2006. www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_ abortion.html.│ Ibid.

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Unlocking the language trap
My Body, My Choice! A “Wanted” Child Rape and Incest
The term "pro-choice" avoids talking about what Does your value depend on the degree that some- As traumatic as rape is, abortion does not un-rape
you are choosing. Most people agree that we one wants you? Let’s be honest—a child is a the mother. The baby doesn’t deserve to die for
can be "pro-choice" about many things without child. How could any baby be called unwanted the crime of his or her father. Pat, a victim of
offending anyone (i.e. chocolate or vanilla, paper when there are over one million couples waiting, rape, said, “In choosing to abort, to kill the
or plastic). The term "choice" is value-neutral and hoping, and praying for a chance to adopt a child? innocent child growing within me, I lowered
meaningless unless we have some idea of what we myself to the level of the rapist… [T]he
are choosing. Society generally limits people's effects of abortion are much more far-
choices when it comes to behaviors that are
“Safe” Abortion reaching than the effects of the rape in
harmful or potentially harmful to other people. Many young women believed this lie until it was my life.” 3

We, as a society, are "anti-choice" when it comes too late. The book, Lime 5, documents over
to theft, arson, murder, and a whole host of other 200 cases of women injured or killed by legal,
actions.
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so-called “safe” abortions. The end result of an Fetal Deformities
abortion is a dead baby, and the potential for No one’s perfect.
cervical cancer, breast cancer, infertility, and Abortion for fetal
A Woman’s “Right”/ psychological pain. Where’s the “safe” part? deformities is a form
of discrimination
Freedom to Choose against disabled
It sounds almost patriotic. Our great American “Back-Alley” Abortions people. Eighty percent
freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, According to the Centers for Disease Control, 39 or more of Down
freedom of religion, etc. Individual rights are maternal deaths occurred due to illegal abortions syndrome babies are
important, but you will not find “a right to abortion” in 1972 (the year prior to the Roe v. Wade decision now aborted. There 4

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anywhere in the Constitution. We have come too that legalized abortion nationally). Any loss of are waiting lists of
far to reduce a woman’s “right” to mean the “right life is tragic, but this is nowhere near the alleged people who would be
to kill her own children.” “thousands of deaths by back-alley abortions.” willing to adopt a
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special needs child.
It’s Just Tissue “I’m Personally Opposed, But I Who’s to say their
Consider the following facts: Simple tissue does lives aren’t worth
not have a beating heart, brain waves, fingerprints,
Can’t Tell Others What To Do” living? When we make
and unique DNA. A woman can carry a baby with What if U.S. citizens had been willing to accept life and death judgments
a different gender or blood type from her own. this justification for tolerating slavery? Our fore- based on “quality of life,” we start
After the moment of fertilization, nothing new is fathers took away the “rights” of slave owners down the slippery slope of eugenics.
added to the baby except oxygen, nutrition, and in order to give freedom and respect to African 1 2
Crutcher, Mark. Lime 5. 1996.│ U. S. Department of Health and Human
time. The only differences between a newborn and American people. Our youngest and most Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report – Nov 2006. “Abortion Surveillance—United States, 2003” -
a preborn baby are size, level of development, vulnerable are still slaves to the life and death Table 19. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5511a1.htm?s_cid=ss
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5511a1_e.│ Family Research Council. The ‘Hard Cases’ of Abortion. 2000.│
environment, and degree of dependency. All of these decisions of others. 4
Neumayr, George. “The New Eugenics.” The American Spectator. July 13,
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2005. http://theamericanprowler.com/util/print.asp?art_id=8418>.│ Johnson,
facts confirm the reality that you are a person worthy Chuck. “The Adoption Option for Children with Special Needs.” National
Council for Adoption. Accessed 7/18/07. www.adoptioncouncil.org/news
of protection from the moment of fertilization. /media_News_wp05_letter_to_editor.htm.

Abortion IQ: Quiz Yourself!


1. On January 22, 1973 the U.S. 4. What percent of abortions performed 7. According to a 2006 report by the
Supreme Court legalized in the U.S. are repeat abortions? Centers for Disease Control about
abortion through which month A. 30% B. 40.2% how many late-term (>21 weeks of
of pregnancy? C. 48% D. 60.7% pregnancy) abortions were per-
A. 3rd month B. 4th month formed in 2003?
C. 6th month D. 9th month 5. Which age group has the most abor- A. 3,700 B. 1,200
tions? C. 8,000 D. 12,000
2. Since abortion was legalized in A. 15-19 B. 20-24
1973, surgical abortion alone has C. 25-29 D. 30-34 8. A developing baby’s heart begins to
extinguished the lives of approxi- beat at:
mately ____ pre-born babies. 6. In 2003, white women had 165 A. 21 days B. 30 days
A. 7 million B. 23 million abortions per 1,000 births, Hispanics C. 45 days D. 60 days
C. 31 million D. 49 million had 228 abortions per 1,000 live
births, while African American
3. About what percent of pregnancies women had _______ abortions per See answers on p.10
end in surgical abortion? 1,000 live births.
A. 10% B. 16% (See Reproductive Racism on p. 9)
C. 24% D. 29% A. 79 B. 134 C. 328 D. 491

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ABORTION METHODS
Vacuum Aspiration
The abortionist inserts a hollow plastic suction tube into the dilated cervix. The
uterus is emptied by either a manual syringe or high-powered suction machine.
The baby’s body is torn into pieces as he or she is being pulled through the hose.

Dilation and Suction Curettage (D&C)


This is similar to the vacuum aspiration. However, after the baby is suctioned out
of the uterus the abortionist inserts a curette, a loop-shaped steel knife, up into the
uterus. With this the abortionist cuts the placenta and umbilical cord into pieces
and scrapes them out into a basin. The uterus is again suctioned out to ensure that
no body parts have been left behind. Bleeding is usually profuse.

Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)


Once the cervix is dilated considerably further than in first trimester abortions, the
abortionist inserts a narrow forceps that resembles a pliers. This instrument is
needed because the baby’s bones are calcified, as is the skull. The abortionist
inserts the instrument into the uterus, seizes a leg or other part of the By permission of Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
body and, with a twisting motion, tears it from the baby’s body.
The spine is snapped and the skull crushed. Body parts are then Newsflash

Exposé
reassembled and counted to make certain that the entire baby In the 2007 decision, Gonzales
has been removed and that no parts remain in the womb. v. Carhart, the Partial-Birth Abortion
Ban Act of 2003 was upheld. The
Partial-Birth Abortion or Dilation and Partial Birth Abortion Ban did not limit
Extraction (D&X) the frequency of late-term abortions. The
After undergoing two days of dilation, the abortionist “Ban” merely regulated one method used
performs an ultrasound to locate the child’s legs and feet. in late-term abortions. It is still legal for a
doctor to kill a child up until the time he
In Their Own Words:
The abortionist then uses a large forceps to grasp one of
the baby’s legs. He pulls firmly, forcing the child into a feet-
or she is born using a modified Former Abortionists and
version. The baby can be
down position.
delivered up to the navel Clinic Staff Speak Out
Using his hands instead of forceps, the abortionist delivers and then killed.
the baby’s body in a manner similar to a breech birth. The baby’s
head remains inside the birth canal. The abortionist uses surgical
scissors to pierce the child’s head at the base of the skull. The scissors are “There is a great difference between the intellectual support of
forced open to enlarge the skull opening. The abortionist then inserts a suction a woman’s right to choose and the actual participation in the
catheter into the brain and vacuums out the child’s brain tissue with a machine 29 carnage of abortion... seeing body parts bothers the workers...”
times more powerful than a household vacuum.  Judith Fetrow: Former Clinic Staff
“Abortion Providers III”
RU-486 – Mifeprex (The Abortion Pill)
Mifeprex blocks the action of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to main-
tain the lining of the uterus providing oxygen and nutrients for the baby. Without it,
“I want the general public to know what the doctors know—that
the baby dies. Mifeprex is used in conjunction with the drug Cytotec (misoprostol)
which is taken two days after Mifeprex, causing uterine bleeding (sometimes this is a person; that this is a baby. That this is not some kind of
profuse), strong contractions, and expulsion of the baby. blob of tissue…”
The pregnant woman first visits the abortionist to obtain the Mifeprex pills,  Dr. Anthony Levantino: Former Abortionist
returns two days later to receive misoprostol, and a third time to verify that the “Meet the Abortion Providers”
abortion is complete. The failure rate of this method is about 8% if the pills are taken
within 7 weeks and up to 25% at 8-9 weeks. If the baby survives the abortion, there
is an extremely high risk that he or she will suffer mental and/or physical birth
defects from the misoprostol. “We were told to find the woman’s weakness and work on it.
The women were never given any alternatives. They were told
Emergency Contraception – Plan B (The Morning-After Pill) how much trouble it was to have a baby.”
Emergency Contraception (EC) contains synthetic progestogen and is a large dose  Debra Henry: Former Clinic Staff
of the common birth control pill designed to be taken as a single dose after “unpro- “Meet the Abortion Providers”
tected sex.” EC works in three ways. First, it attempts to stop ovulation. Depending
on where a woman is in her cycle, ovulation may or may not have already occurred
before EC was taken. Second, EC attempts to stop fertilization by impeding the
transportation of either the sperm and/or the egg. Third, EC tries to stop implantation “But I think the greatest thing that got to us was the ultra-
by altering (thinning) the lining of the endometrium (uterus) so the embryo cannot sound… The baby really came alive on TV and was moving…
implant and receive nourishment from the mother. The first two methods are contra- That picture of the baby on the ultrasound bothered me more
ceptive, but if they fail, the third method can cause an abortion because it occurs
after fertilization. (see What About Birth Control? p.10)
than anything else… We lost two nurses. They couldn’t take
looking at it.”
 Dr. Joseph Randall: Former Abortionist
“Meet the Abortion Providers”

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True Stories
I
was 18 years old when I got pregnant. named my baby. I found out later that this is
The Other Half: A Father’s Since I had already enlisted in the Air
Force, I thought I had to have an abortion
part of the grieving process.
Two-and-a-half years later, I ended up in

Regret in order to make something out of my life.


My best friend drove me to the
the hospital with bulimia. I felt that no one
had punished
abortion clinic. me for what I
“I was a participant in two
abortions with my ex-wife...
It was like an
assembly line. Don’t make the had done so I
was punish-
I did...
same mistake
When the ing myself. I
It has been six years since the ultrasound became
last abortion, nine since the was being done obsessed
decision for the first one. I asked to see it. with women who were
Every time I see children of the But this wasn’t pregnant. My life was
allowed—so much in shambles! I was
approximate age of the two lost
for “an informed suffering from post-
ones, I cry, no matter where... decision.” Then I abortion trauma.
church, the mall, the asked how far along I When I was 21
park, the library.” was. I was told I was years old, I received
nine-and-a-half weeks help from a woman
pregnant. That hit me who was involved
“I want to call
hard. I started doubting, with pro-life activism.
their names, and wanted to talk to I went through a
Michelle, Danielle, my friend, but I wasn’t program called
Stephen, William. allowed to. “Conquerors.” Not
Their legacy is gone. Their beauty When it was my only did I experience
turn the nurse told me forgiveness, I was
unfinished, nullified by a decision
that I was going to feel also challenged
to which I agreed...” some discomfort, like to help others. I
strong menstrual answered the
“I have gone from pro-choice to cramps. The truth is that the abortion was challenge! I started sidewalk counseling.
pro-child.” more pain than I’ve ever felt in my life. It There is a healing process that comes
felt like my insides were literally being from getting involved in the pro-life move-
sucked out of my body. Later I went into ment. I talk to youth groups and students
— Email message from a father to shock. and share my testimony. To them, and to
Human Life Alliance After the abortion, I tried to make up for you, I plead, “Please don’t make the same
it by trying to get pregnant again. I wanted mistake I did.”
my baby back. I never got pregnant again. I
don’t know if I can ever have another baby. I Michelle

Qu esti o n i n g t h e “Ea sy w ay o u t”
I almost had an “Tim, I think I’m pregnant.” My boyfriend sighed Relief instantly washed over me! How odd. I had
deeply, his gaze remaining fixed on the TV. He then thought I wanted an abortion but now felt instantly

abortion... muttered something that made me feel completely


deserted.
I knew from firsthand experience how tough it
relieved to know I was still pregnant.
I decided to muster every ounce of courage to
deal with my pregnancy. My ambivalence turned into
was to raise a child as a single mother. I already had love for my unborn daughter, Melanie. It took energy
a 2-year old daughter, Jennifer, from an earlier unsuc- and creativity to support the three of us, but my two
cessful marriage. When my pregnancy was confirmed, daughters inspired me to do great things. I finished my
Tim’s non-committal response to my distress and his degree; then I went on to get my Master’s and Ph.D.
move to Chicago, 400 miles away, left me despondent When we endure something tough, our character
and convinced that abortion was the “easy way out.” I and self-esteem are strengthened. Many women who
was already struggling financially with one child. How have confessed to me that they’ve had abortions have
could I raise two? discovered that the “easy way out” is just an illusion.
I felt desperately alone. I often cried myself Some are in abusive relationships, on anti-depressants,
to sleep. I decided to confide in a couple of college or just seem detached from life. Some sadly remember
professors who collected money to fly me out of town their aborted child’s “would be” birthday each year.
to have an abortion. Now I felt obligated to go through I cannot promise that it will be easy. I can
with it. Still, I agonized! only promise that the anguish will pass and that there
I was summoned to the room where the abortions are people who will help you through this trying time.
were performed. I could hear a woman sobbing hyster- One day you will look back on the birth of your child,
ically in the recovery room. That memory haunts me still. and know that you did the right thing.
As the doctor was examining me, prior to
performing the abortion, he suddenly stopped and said Sincerely,
to the nurse, “Get her out of here! She’s too far along!” Dr. Angela Woodhull

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Biology 101: C
DAY 1 2nd Month (5-8 Weeks)

Fertilization By 6 weeks, brain waves can be


detected by electroencephalogram
and the brain is controlling 40 sets of

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T
he sperm joins with the ovum
muscles as well as the organs. The
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to form one cell. This one cell


jaw forms, including teeth and taste
contains the complex genetic
buds. The baby begins to swallow
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makeup for every detail of a new


amniotic fluid, and some have been
human life—the child’s sex, hair
observed hiccupping. During this
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and eye color, height, skin tone, etc.


time, the stomach produces
From that moment on nothing new is
1 digestive juices, and the kidneys
added but oxygen, nutrition and time.
begin to function. Fingers and toes
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are developing and at 7 weeks the


chest and abdomen are fully formed. 8

1st Month (1-4 Weeks) Swimming with a natural swimmer’s


stroke in the amniotic fluid, she now
The first cell divides in two and cell looks like a miniature human infant. 9, 10

division continues as the newly

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formed individual travels down the 20
fallopian tube to the uterus. Over weeks
500 cells are present when this tiny
embryo (the blastocyst*) reaches the Photo courtesy of Life Issues Institute

uterus 7 to 10 days after


fertilization. Foundations of the
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brain, spinal cord, and nervous


system are already established, and
respiratory system. The 6th Month (21-24 Weeks)
sex can be visually deter-

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by day 21 the heart begins to beat in mined and family resem-
a regular fashion with a blood type Oil and sweat glands are functioning.
blances may appear as
often different from the mother’s.3 The baby’s delicate skin is protected
well! By the end of the
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Muscles are forming, and arms, legs, in the amniotic sac by a special
month all the organs and
eyes, and ears have begun to show. ointment called vernix. She grows
systems of her body are
rapidly in size and strength while her
functioning. 13

*The blastocyst is the stage at which lungs become more developed. 17

many researchers want to destroy the


embryo in order to harvest stem cells, 7th Month (25-28 Weeks)
which are the building blocks of life.
4th Month (13-16
Weeks)

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The baby can now recognize her
7 mother’s voice. She exercises by
weeks By the end of this month,

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stretching and kicking as she grows
the baby is 8-10 inches in
even bigger. She uses the senses of
length and weighs about ½ hearing, touch, and taste, and she
pound. Her ears are func- can even look around with open eyes
tioning and she hears her mother’s
3rd Month (9-12 heartbeat, as well as external noises
at her watery home. If the baby is a
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boy, his testicles descend from the


Weeks) like music. Mom begins to feel abdomen into the scrotum. 19

baby’s movement; a slight flutter at


Unique fingerprints are first that will become stronger. Life- 14

evident and never saving surgery has been performed

3
change. The baby now
11 on babies at this age.
sleeps, awakens, and
exercises her muscles
by turning her head,
5th Month (17-20 Weeks)

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curling her toes, and
opening and closing her If a sound is especially loud, the
mouth. Even though baby may jump in reaction to it.
mom cannot feel move- Thumb-sucking has been observed
ment yet, the baby is during the fifth month. Babies 15

very active. She born prematurely at this stage of


breathes amniotic fluid development often survive, thanks
6 to advances in neonatal medicine. 16

weeks to help develop her

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the touch and squeezes the
Reached”, New York Times _________________.
doctor’s finger. As if testing
(Mar 18, 1989), p. C1;
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Though movement is limited, due
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person’s develop-
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able to feel an elbow or heel against
the womb. 23

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Trapped by “Choice”—The Long-Term Effects of Abortion
They tell you, “it’s a quick fix...” births, miscarriages, and premature births than women slave to self-hatred and worthlessness.
2
who have not had abortions. My sanity was the price I would pay.
In addition to physical problems, women risk Women deserve better than abortion.
They say, “It will solve your psychological complications from abortion. Pregnant The physical and psychological aftermath of
problems and allow you to get on women who abort have a 6 times higher rate of suicide abortion is devastating. Listen to the many voices of
with your life…” than those who carry their babies to term. Teenagers 3
hurting post-abortive women. Read some of their stories
who abort are 10 times more likely to attempt suicide at www.silentnomoreawareness.org/testimonies/index.
They’re wrong. than teens who have not had an abortion. A recent 4

study of post-abortive American women found that Warren Hern, Abortion Practice, (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company,
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1990), p. 175-193.│ Strahan, T. Detrimental Effects of Abortion: An
Few women have been told that having an 65% are more likely to be at risk of long-term
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abortion carries lasting physical and psychological clinical depression. 3
2002) 168-206.│ M. Gissler et. al., “Injury deaths, suicides and homicides
consequences. If they had been warned...would their Women who abort are not only putting their own associated with pregnancy, Finland 1987-2000,” European J. Public Health.
“choice” have been abortion? lives and health at risk, they also endanger the lives 4
15(5):459-63, 2005.│ B. Garfinkle, Stress, Depression and Suicide: A Study
Because of the nature of the procedures used to of their current and future children. Women who abort of Adolescents in Minnesota. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Exten-
5

are 144% more likely to physically abuse their children. 6


sion Service, 1986).│ JR Cougle, DC Reardon & PK Coleman, “Depression
abort children, women are susceptible to serious
Associated With Abortion and Childbirth: A Long-Term Analysis of the NLSY
physical complications. Women can face hemorrhage In addition, women who’ve undergone previous 6
7 Cohort,” Medical Science Monitor 9(4):CR105-112, 2003.│ Priscilla K.
that requires transfusion, perforation of the uterus, abortions have a 60% higher risk of miscarriage. Coleman, Charles D. Maxey, Vincent M. Rue, and Catherine T. Coyle,
cardiac arrest, endotoxic shock, major unintended Ann Marie, a post-abortive woman, shares, “Associations between voluntary and involuntary forms of perinatal loss
surgery, infection resulting in hospitalization, Abortion changes you forever. I thought the and child maltreatment among low-income mothers,” Acta Paediatrica 94,
convulsions, undiagnosed ectopic (tubal) pregnancy, abortion would free me up from a responsibility 7
2005.│ N. Maconochie, P. Doyle, S. Prior, R. Simmons, “Risk factors for
1
I felt I was not ready for. Instead it held me first trimester miscarriage—results from a UK-population-based case–control
cervical laceration, uterine rupture, and death.
study,” BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Dec. 2006.
Women who abort are more likely to experience in bondage to feelings of regret, remorse,
ectopic pregnancies, infertility, hysterectomies, still- depression and despair. My soul became a

Rape a nd I ncest
Abortion and Breast Cancer

W
omen who experience at least one full-term
pregnancy in their lifetime develop four types of
breast lobules. During adolescence, the majority of Researchers David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa, and Amy Sobie completed a nine-year
study on pregnancy outcomes of sexual assault victims. As part of their research the authors
lobules are Type 1 and Type 2, which are immature and cancer
drew upon testimonies from 192 women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest,
susceptible. Throughout the first trimester of pregnancy, the and 55 children conceived in sexual assault. Following are excerpts from their book, Victims
number of Type 1 and 2 lobules rapidly increase. As a result, and Victors:
breasts have more sites for cancer to start. In the second Pregnancy resulting from sexual assault is actually a contraindication for abortion. A
trimester, the breast lobules start maturing into Type 4 lobules, doctor treating a sexual assault victim should advise against abortion precisely because of
the traumatic nature of the pregnancy. The testimonies and studies
which are cancer resistant. By the end of the third trimester, 85% quoted in this book confirm that both the mother and child are helped
of the breast has fully matured. Only 15% of lobules remain by preserving life, not by perpetuating violence.
immature and cancer susceptible, leaving fewer opportunities for Research shows that after any abortion, it is common for
cancer to start. After birth and weaning, Type 4 lobules regress to women to experience guilt, depression, feelings of being “dirty,”
resentment of men, and lowered self-esteem. These feelings
Type 3. There is evidence of permanent changes in the genes of
are identical to what women typically feel after rape. Abortion
Type 3 lobules which provide life-long cancer resistance. only adds to and accentuates the traumatic feelings associated
So how does abortion affect this process? Abortion stops with sexual assault. Rather than easing the psychological
the progression of breast lobule development in a normal burdens, abortion adds to them.
pregnancy. This prevents the development of Type 4 and Kathleen DeZeeuw, whose son Patrick was conceived in
rape when she was 16, writes, “I, having lived through rape,
subsequently Type 3 cancer resistant lobules. Induced abortion and also having raised a child ‘conceived in rape,’ feel
of a normal pregnancy results in increased risk of breast cancer personally assaulted and insulted every time I hear that
for the mother since more Type 1 and 2 lobules remain. abortion should be legal because of rape and incest. I feel
The vast majority of natural miscarriages in the first that we’re being used by pro-abortionists to further the
abortion issue, even though we’ve not been asked to tell
trimester do not increase the risk of breast cancer. In these cases,
our side of the story.”
pregnancy hormones are lower than those of a normal pregnancy The case against abortion for incest pregnancies is
due to either a fetal or ovarian abnormality. Therefore, a breast even stronger. Studies show that incest victims rarely ever
may not have grown more Type 1 and 2 lobules (sites where voluntarily agree to abortion. Instead of viewing the
cancer starts) in response to pregnancy hormones, or at least pregnancy as unwanted, the incest victim is more likely to
see the pregnancy as a way out of the incestuous relation-
very few. Approximately 90% of miscarriages occur in the first
ship because the birth of her child will expose the sexual
trimester. activity.
For more detailed information on this subject visit For example, Edith Young, a 12-year-old victim of
www.bcpinstitute.org/reproductive.htm. incest, writes twenty-five years after the abortion of her
child, “The abortion which was to ‘be in my best interest’ just
Adapted with permission from: Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. “Reproductive Breast has not been. As far as I can tell, it only ‘saved their [my par-
Cancer Risks and Breast Lobule Maturation.” 2007. www.bcpinstitute.org/ ents’] reputations’, ‘solved their problems’ and allowed their
reproductive.htm.│Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. “Breast Cancer Risks and Prevention:
Third Edition.” 2005. www.bcpinstitute.org/booklet3.htm#history. lives to go merrily on.”

David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa, and Amy Sobie. Victims and Victors. Acorn Books, Springfield, IL
2000. pp.15-17. For further information see www.afterabortion.org.

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Reproductive Racism
4
States, eugenics became more than an leaders. Margaret Sanger expressed Abortion and population control have
abstract philosophy. It degenerated into disdain for the poor and disabled whom taken a devastating toll on the African
an active campaign to eliminate all those she frequently dubbed “undeserving,” American and Hispanic communities.
deemed inadequate and resulted in a “unfit,” and “dysgenic.” Her call for Akua Furlow, B.S., M.A., is a graduate of
5
worldwide crusade to abolish all human their sterilization and segregation is well the State University of New York College
1
inferiority. The American Eugenics known and is likely to have been the at New Platz where she received her
Society fostered the Jim Crow Laws of motive behind Bachelor of
Science degree
the South and Eugenic Sterilization Laws her “Negro
nationally, the anti-Semitic doctrine that Project.” “We do not want word in Sociology
and Education.
She received
encouraged Nazi Germany during the
Jewish Holocaust and defined South-
Lest one
think reproduc-
to go out that we want her Master’s
degree in
African Apartheid. tive racism was to exterminate the Regional Plan-
Despite claims that Margaret merely an issue ning from the
Sanger was not a racist or an anti- of the past, Negro population...” University of
Massachusetts
Semite, the fact remains that “she current numbers -Margaret Sanger at Amherst.
openly welcomed the worst elements of prove the She is the
Sanger, Margaret. Letter to Clarence J. Gamble, M.D. December
both into the birth control movement.” 2
problem 10, 1939. Sanger manuscripts, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith author of the
Henry Pratt Fairchild who wrote, “Birth persists. Racial College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. book The
Tuskegee
control and eugenics are by nature targeting by Syphilis
closely related, and neither one can attain abortion providers, Planned Parenthood Study—What Really Happened and is a
Akua Furlow its complete fulfillment, or render its being the foremost national provider of nationally sought-after speaker on
maximum service to society, without the abortions, has demonstrably resulted in a various issues related to population

T
he vision of Planned Parenthood, 3 control and bioethics. To contact Akua
founded in 1916 by Margaret other” and Lothrop Stoddard, author of, disproportionate number of minorities Furlow and to order her book go to
Sanger, became the working arm The Rising Tide of Color Against White obtaining abortions. In the year 2000, www.sojournerpress.com or call
World Supremacy, were two of many African Americans, numbering 34.7 (713) 645-2442.
toward eugenic goals. The stated vision
was “reproductive freedom” through eugenicists who million individuals, 1
Black, Edwin. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and
worked closely
Abortions per 1000 Live Births* or 12.3 percent of America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, New York,
legalization of contraceptives to be used 2
Four Walls Eight Windows. 2003. p. 19.│ Ibid. p. 135.│
by the wealthy and imposed Eugenic with Sanger. Caucasians the US population 3
Fairchild, Henry Pratt. “Programs and Wishes For 1933.”
Historical 165 obtained 32% of Birth Control Review, Volume XVII, Number 1 (January
Sterilization Laws as “birth control” African Americans 4

491 Hispanics 1933), p. 5.│ Letter from Sanger to Dr. W. E. Burghardt


for everyone else. documents prove 228
abortions in that DuBois, 11 November 1930, New York, MSCLC. DuBois
6,7

The organization most responsible that Planned year. “Black served as director of research for the NAACP and as the
5
editor of its publication, The Crisis, until 1934.│ Sanger,
for propagating the bigoted concepts of Parenthood women are Margaret, The Pivot of Civilization, Humanity Press, 1922,
“Social Darwinism” is the American acted as the almost four times chapters 4, 5.│ Jones, RK; Darroch, JE; and Henshaw, SK;
6

willful arm of the as likely as white “Patterns in the socioeconomic characteristics of women
Eugenics Society. Founded in the early *see quiz answer 6 on p.10
obtaining abortions in 2000-2001,” Perspectives on
1900’s, this organization was the sister American Eugenics Society and women to have an abortion, and Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34 (5): 226-235.│
8
developed a plan, the Negro Project, Hispanic women are 2.5 times as likely.”
7
www.prcdc.org/summaries/blacks/blacks.html.│
organization of the British Eugenic 8
Guttmacher Institute. Facts on Induced Abortion in the
Society which embraced the white— as a propaganda program to infiltrate the According to updated census reports, United States. 2006. www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_in-
more specifically, the Anglo-Saxon— black community with a “birth control African Americans are no longer the duced_abortion.html.│ U.S. Census Bureau. 9

www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762156.html. 2004.
race supremacy doctrine. In the United for health” campaign through their civic largest U.S. minority population.9

The Overpopulation Myth


D
espite what you may have heard, there is no overpopulation In 73 countries around the world today, including the
4
crisis. Abortion, euthanasia, contraception, sterilization, United States, the total fertility rate is below replacement level.
and infanticide are not needed to quell an over abundance A nation’s total fertility rate must be at 2.1 children or above
of the human population. “Plunging death rates, not soaring birth in order to maintain population level. The total fertility rate
5
rates, are the main reason for rapid population increases in the last of Europe is well below replacement at 1.45. Government
century. World average life expectancy more than doubled, incentives to have more children are already in place in
rising from 30 years in 1900 to 63 years now. ‘World population countries such as France, Italy, Poland, Australia, Singapore,
6 7 8 9
increased not because people were breeding Japan, Germany, Austria, Russia,
like rabbits, but because they stopped
1
In 73 countries around Scandinavia, and the
10
dying like flies.’” Netherlands.
In the United States, projections the world today, According to the
show that the 55 plus age group is United Nations Population
going to grow from 24.7% of the popu- including the United States, Division, “below-replace-
the total fertility rate is
2
lation in 2010 to 31.5% in 2050. The ment fertility prevails in
UN Population Division states, “At the the more developed regions
world level, the number of older per- below replacement level. and is expected to continue
11
sons is expected to exceed the number of to 2050.” We need to start
children for the first time in 2047. In the more looking at the problems of under-
developed regions, where population ageing is far advanced, the population and economic disaster occuring as
3
number of children dropped below that of older persons in 1998.” populations rapidly age, rather than spreading the myth
Young people are needed in the workforce to support a rising of overpopulation and the “need” for abortion and birth
population that is retiring or unable to work. control.
1 2
Bailey, Ronald, ed., Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet, McGraw-Hill, 2000, p. 64.│ “U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007”
3
www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/07statab/pop.pdf. Table 12; Resident population projections by sex and age: 2010-2050. Accessed 7/27/07.│ United Nations Department of Economic and Social
4
Affairs Population Division. “World Population Ageing 2007” p. xxvi. www.un.org/esa/population/publications/WPA2007/ES-English.pdf.│ United Nations Department of Economic and Social
5
Affairs Population Division 2007. “World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision” Table II.2 www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2006/wpp2006_highlights.pdf.│ Ibid. TABLE II.1.│
6
Chivers, C.J., “Putin Urges Plan to Reverse Slide in Birth Rate.” New York Times. May 11, 2006. www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/world/europe/11russia.html?ex=1305000000&en=2c8d1952038
7 8
c2b83&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.│ “Dwindling Germans Review Policies.” BBC News. March 28, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4852040.stm.│ United Nations Economic
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Commission for Europe. “New Demographic Regime: Population Challenges and Policy Responses.” Chapter 4. 2004. www.unece.org/pau/epf/c4_hu.pdf.│ Graham, Stephen, “Germans Get
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Incentives for Having Babies.” The Washington Post. Jan 3, 2007. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301490.html.│ Meyer, Michael, “Birth Dearth.”
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Newsweek, Inc. September 27, 2004. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6040427/site/newsweek/.│ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division 2007. “World
Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision” page v. www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2006/wpp2006_highlights.pdf.
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pregnancy, heartache, and a lot of baggage that would follow
me the rest of my life. I can live without that.

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When I meet the man I’m going to marry and walk down the aisle
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more, had more boyfriends, experimented more, etc.” No Way!
I’m saving myself for my future husband. And I don’t regret a
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-College Graduate

Sex is a powerful force of nature. It bonds people together, is pleasurable,


and can create babies. So how does premarital sex damage relationships? The
answer lies within the powerful oxytocin hormone released in the body during
sexual activity. For example, picture duct taping a girl’s arm to a guy’s arm.
Now rip off the tape (OUCH!) and use the same piece of duct tape to wrap her
arm to a new guy’s arm. What happens? Well, it hurts like crazy when you rip
off the tape. After switching partners several times, particles of skin and hair left
on the tape reduce the adhesiveness so it cannot attach as effectively.
The same thing happens with sex. When oxytocin is released in the brain
during sexual activity, it acts like emotional superglue and bonds you to that
partner. When you break up (OUCH!) and have a new sexual partner, your ability
to bond and produce oxytocin is damaged. Just like debris on the duct tape,
previous sexual experience reduces the ability to bond correctly. Brain chemicals
don’t care how old, mature, or in control of your emotions you are—they still
create a bond. No one can beat the brain chemistry behind sex.
On the flip side, imagine that you never removed the duct tape. Eventually
it would just feel like part of you. When a couple waits until marriage to have
sex, and they remain faithful to each other, oxytocin acts as superglue between a
husband and wife. It also helps maintain the “high” of sex. If you have been
sexually active in the past, there is hope. Oxytocin levels can return to normal if
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scars developed from premarital sex. Give yourself a year or so before you
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You won’t regret it.
Source: Keroak, Eric, M.D. “Oxytocin: Is This Nano-Peptide a Chemical Type of Human Super-Glue?” PowerPoint
Presentation. 2006.

What About Birth Control?


1 2

A
ll hormonal contraceptives (the pill , patch , nourishment. Birth control manufacturers insist that their Information.” www.paragard.com/paragard/custom_images/Prescribing-
8
3 4 5 Info.pdf.│ “What is Mirena birth control?” www.mirena-us.com/howmirena-
mini-pill , shot , vaginal ring , emergency products do not terminate an existing pregnancy. How- 9
6 7,8 works.html?C=&c=.│ Larimore and Stranford. “Postfertilization Effects of Oral
contraception , intrauterine devices , etc.) have ever, they have incorrectly redefined the terms Contraceptives and their Relation to Informed Consent.” Archives of Family Medi-
the capability to cause an abortion. Hormonal contracep- “conception” and “pregnancy” to mean the moment cine, Vol. 9, Feb. 2000, 126-133. www.thecbc.org/research_resources/reproduc-
tives work in three ways: by attempting to stop ovula- of implantation rather than the moment of fertilization 10
tion/fsa8035.pdf.│ “How Plan B Works.” www.go2planb.com/PDF
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tion, by thickening cervical fluids to prevent (implantation happens 7-10 days after fertilization). /PlanBPI.pdf.│ Harrison-Woolrych, Mira, MD. “Progestogen-Only Emergency
Contraception and Ectopic Pregnancy. Prescriber Update 2002.”
fertilization, and by thinning the lining of the Emergency contraception (EC) is a large 12
www.medsafe.govt.nz/Profs/PUarticles/ectopic.htm.│ Anna Glasier et al.
uterus to prevent implantation. The first two dose of the common birth control pill. EC is “Advanced provision of emergency contraception does not reduce abortion rates.”
methods are contraceptive, but if they fail, the also known as the morning-after pill and is Contraception. Vol. 69, 2004, p361-366. www.cwfa.org /images/content/scot-
third method can cause an abortion because designed to be taken as a single dose after 13
land0905.pdf.│ Paton, David. “Random Behavior or Rational Choice? Family
Planning, Teenage Pregnancy, and STIs.” Nov. 2003. www.swan.ac.uk/econom-
it occurs after fertilization. “unprotected sex.” Documented side effects
ics/res2004/program/papers/Paton.pdf.
Hormonal contraception does not from EC include nausea, abdominal pain,

IQ Answers
always stop ovulation. When break- fatigue, headache, dizziness, vomiting,
through ovulation occurs, there is a diarrhea, breast tenderness, menstrual
10 11
possibility of fertilization. Studies changes, and ectopic pregnancy. Contrary
Answers to Abortion IQ Quiz (from p. 3)
have shown that ovulation rates in to popular arguments, EC does not decrease
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
women taking oral contraceptives pregnancies and surgical abortions. EC has 1) D 2) D 3) C 4) C 5) B 6) D 7) D 8) A
ranged from 1.7% to 28.6% per been available in Scotland since 1984, but 1
Doe vs. Bolton, U.S. Supreme Court, No.70-40, IV,
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cycle. Ovulation rates for women pregnancy rates have not decreased and 2
P.11, Jan 1973.│ Guttmacher Institute. “In Brief –
Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States.” May
taking progestin only pills (the sexually transmitted infection rates have 2006. www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_
13
mini-pill) ranged from 33% to increased. 3 4 5
abortion.html. │ Ibid.│ Ibid.│ U. S. Department of
9
65%. When these contraceptives Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease
1
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals. www.ortho-mcneilpharmaceu- Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality
do not stop fertilization, they have 2 3 4 Weekly Report – Nov 2006. “Abortion Surveillance —
tical.com/products/index.html.│ Ibid.│ Ibid.│ “Pfizer Medi-
the capability to cause an abortion United States, 2003” - Table 4. www.cdc.gov/
cines and Products.” www.pfizer.com/pfizer/download/uspi_ mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ ss5511a1.htm?s_cid
because the lining of the uterus may 5
depo_provera_contraceptive.pdf.│ “NuvaRing Full Prescribing 6
=ss5511a1_e.│ Ibid - Tables 9 and 10.│ Ibid - 7

be too thin and inhospitable for the


8
Information.” www.nuvaring.com/Authfiles/Images/309_ 76063.pdf.│ 6
Table 1.│ Color Atlas of Life Before Birth,
“How Plan B Works.” www.go2planb.com/PDF/ PlanBPI.pdf.│ “Safety 7
Marjorie England, Yearbook Publishers.
embryo to implant and receive
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I wanted my boyfriend’s support. I shouldn’t
When I first found out I was
have been surprised when
NO REGRETS: The true story of my adoption plan
pregnant I couldn’t control
he told me to have an
my crying. I shook
I had never felt so abortion.
uncontrollably.
lonely or confused
in my life.

I thought that an abortion would be the answer to my I told myself lie after lie until I made the appointment.
My mind raced to justify the abortion. problem. I tried to tell myself that my child wasn’t really But no matter how hard I tried to fool myself, I knew
Perhaps my child would be better off a baby, he was just tissue… I carried a baby. Deep
dead than in a broken family. down, I realized if I
were to take my
baby’s life I
would
regret it
forever.

Many relatives didn’t understand why I Me. That’s who. Of course I wanted to be the
was even thinking of adoption. Who in one to rock him and watch him grow. But
When I decided not to show up for the world would give up their child? beyond my wants I knew my child deserved
the appointment, I felt so relieved. more. Adoption was the best way I could
It didn’t take long for me to face show love to my child.
reality and see my baby as a gift.
I realized it was my duty as a My boyfriend was
mother to protect my child’s best not overly
interest and give him all I could. thrilled about
adoption…

But nevertheless was willing to interview some couples with me. We met with them several times to I can hold my head up high and people
ensure we found the best. The couple are amazed. The birthfather, my family,
we chose was married, deeply in love, and my friends congratulated me on my
and welcomed our son as their own. decision and came to realize it was out
Their love for my of love.
child is divine.

Yes, I grieved the loss of my child.


I thank God that I don’t have to
But the joy far exceeds the sorrow.
visit the memory of an aborted
baby. I can live with my decision
and so can my son…

With no regrets,

Molly

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