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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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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.
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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.
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”
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
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Biology 101: C
DAY 1 2nd Month (5-8 Weeks)
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he sperm joins with the ovum
muscles as well as the organs. The
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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
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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
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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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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
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The skin begins to thicken, with a
adulthood, 41 have Email:
layer of fat stored underneath for
already taken __________________________
insulation and nourishment. The
place. Only four
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more come before
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Though movement is limited, due
Ninety percent of a
to cramped quarters, the baby’s
person’s develop-
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kicks are stronger and mom may be
ment happens in
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.
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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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Annotated Bibliography with Commentary (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books,
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-
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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.
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
The organization most responsible that Planned year. “Black served as director of research for the NAACP and as the
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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;
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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.│
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developed a plan, the Negro Project, Hispanic women are 2.5 times as likely.”
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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
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miss by not being sexually active in college? STDs, unplanned
pregnancy, heartache, and a lot of baggage that would follow
me the rest of my life. I can live without that.
Science of Sex
When I meet the man I’m going to marry and walk down the aisle
towards him, I’m not going to think, “I wish I had slept around
more, had more boyfriends, experimented more, etc.” No Way!
I’m saving myself for my future husband. And I don’t regret a
minute of it.
-College Graduate
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ll hormonal contraceptives (the pill , patch , nourishment. Birth control manufacturers insist that their Information.” www.paragard.com/paragard/custom_images/Prescribing-
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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
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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_
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mini-pill) ranged from 33% to increased. 3 4 5
abortion.html. │ Ibid.│ Ibid.│ U. S. Department of
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65%. When these contraceptives Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease
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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
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.
With no regrets,
Molly
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