Abortion

The Facts Speak for Themselves

Oct.16,1916 Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood. It was not parenthood but murder that was coldheartedly  planned.  She wrote to eliminate “inferior races like the Orientals, Jews and blacks.”

“the most merciful thing a large family does to one of its infant members is kill it. (Women and the new race)

Birth control was “to create a race of thoroughbreds (Birth Control review 1921)

Margaret Sanger called these people human weeds. Margaret died and alcoholic and drug addict (Passport Magazine July 1988), how sad a death, but even more sad was what she influenced by her life. 

Planned parenthood in 1952 called it family planning and did not call it an abortion because it kills the life of the baby when it has begun.

Do women really know what an abortion is? A simple question, but you can rarely  find a correct answer to it.

One Physician states that women are rarely informed of the possible consequences of their abortion. “The public is misled into believing that legal abortion is a trivial incident, even a lunch hour procedure. There has been almost a conspiracy of silence in declaring its risks. This is medically indefensible when patients suffer as a result. (LAW ABORTION: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF ITS RISKS, Stallworthy pp.1245-1249)

Robert D. Crist, M.D (who had 3 women die shortly after he did their abortions). He is said to be “one of the most skilled and competent and committed physicians performing abortions.” (Patty Brous, president of Planned Parenthood of Mid-Missouri and Eastern Kansas, The Kansas City Star, Apr. 27, 1997)

If he is one of the most skilled than what does this mean of those who are much less competent. How many die under their less skillful hands?

The abortion process is presented and explained by those who support abortion as being safe. But it is a serious operation, no different than going under the surgeons knife. The National Institute of Health says the death rate is at 30 per 100,000 . But there are risks, infection can be a result of abortion and can be 1 in 4 (from mild all the way through fatal).

1 in 24 (4.1%) have experienced immediate medical complications. (These have included severe bleeding, infection, perforation of the uterus, and part of the baby being retained.) (Canadian Journal of Public Health 1982; 73:396-400) . A doctor in an emergency situation will first try to save both the baby and the mother not kill the baby. Women who've had a previous abortion have a 200% increased risk of miscarriage after two or more abortions. (Journal of the American Medical Association 1980; 243:2495-9)

1st trimester miscarriages when later trying to have the child you want increases 85%. Tubal pregnancies increase 400-800%. Labor problems increase 47%. Delivery problems increase 83%. Premature birth the #1 cause of infant mortality and mental retardation increases 300-500%.

And this is if you have only 1 abortion! A study of 20,000 who had legal abortions to 20,000 who had no abortions showed that those who wanted the baby lost the baby twice as often when they had had an abortion. In fact, the infertility rate from 20-24 year olds has risen from 3.6% to almost 11% over the last number of years. The National Center for Health Statistics says there are 2 reasons. #1- sexually transmitted diseases. #2 - injury inflicted during an abortion.

46% of women who undergo an abortion have already had at least one previous abortion, at least 15% of the women have had 2 or more .

Breast cancer risk increased 140% following a abortion.( British Journal of Cancer 1981; 43:72-6 ) Placenta previa is a  condition producing extremely severe, life-threatening bleeding in future pregnancies. Risk increased 600% following an abortion. (American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 1981; 141:769-72 ) Increased bleeding during subsequent pregnancies. (American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 1983; 146:136-40 )

It is a fact that 10%-30% of women who had abortions experience long term psychiatric problems. In a 5 year study , 25% of women who had abortions sought out psychiatric care…another study found the percentage even higher at 40%.( from the pamphlet-making an informed decision about your pregnancy). Relationships suffer as well, after 5-7 months 2 of 11 women continued with the same boyfriend they became pregnant with. This is a permanent decision that affects ones live afterward, there are psychological as well as physical consequences.

A Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota studied the long-ranged affects of Abortion on women. 10 years afterward she found that 81% of those women still had a pre-occupation over that aborted child. 10 years later 73% had flash-backs of their abortion experience. 10 years later 69% still remember after the abortion the feeling that what they had done was insane! 10 years later 54% still had nightmares. 10 years later 35% said that sometime during that time, they perceived a visitation from that child! And 10 years later 96% regarded it as murder. What this shows is that when women mature they have a different view of their former actions. Which can mean someone is influencing them when they are young and naive.

If a mother takes cocaine and kills her fetus or someone kills the fetus in the wound from the outside it is called murder. But when an abortion takes place the protective laws are ignored and it not called murder. Why? There needs to be a consistency on this.

What about a child we know may be born deformed, or cannot move or think well.  The amount of one's qualities or capacity do not establish a person. Is the quality of life so important to us that we are willing to execute someone who falls short of our standard?  Statistically only 1% of women aborting say they have been informed that their unborn baby has a defect (deformity.)

If we open the door to a births of a perfect child only, then where do we draw a line? The handicapped? Retarded? You will never meet a more loving human being than a child with downs-syndrome. History has proven that we always push the line further as we allow a lax in moral absolutes. How handicapped or retarded does someone have to be deemed unfit to live?

Neither inability or insanity do not invalidate someone's status as a person. If we are going to abort children who are deformed and not perfect in body or mind, can we do the same to adults? Obviously all children lack the aptitude of an adult, but we regard a child no less as a person than we do their parents.   If an accident occurs or when they are too old and not functioning as before do we remove them from life? What is actually the difference? If we say that the definition of a human is based on their brain waves or ability to function 100%, than if one suffers in an accident and is not up to par should we deem them as no longer human. Where is the line drawn, who will decide that? We need to have a future perspective instead of a now one, to determine how all this will affect our lives and society.

The Polls

While polls can sometimes show what pollsters want them to say by taking them in certain cities or people groups. There are some that are fairly consistent over the years.

80 % oppose abortion used as a form of birth control. (13% were in favor) Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1989.

92 % believe abortion should be illegal “if a family decides they don't want another child.” (Washington Post, October 7, 1989).

In the 1990 Parade Magazine poll about abortion, 56% said abortion after conception is murder. A woman has right to choose abortion any time during pregnancy, 80% disagreed. Abortions should be permitted in the first 3 months of pregnancy 61% disagreed. Abortions permitted within the first 6 months of pregnancy 72% disagreed.

Pollster Louis Harris (Inside America) found 68% of all Americans think it is against Gods will to destroy the life of an unborn baby”, 60% think the fetus should have rights, just like all other human beings.

USA Weekend, February 13-15, 1998 --51, 537 readers participated in USA WEEKEND'S First National Forum. They were asked to choose of 4 possible solutions. The question was: What's the best way to reduce the abortion rate?
The choices were: Pass Laws requiring insurance companies to extend 100% coverage for all contraceptive methods Require counseling and a “cooling off” period before an abortion is performed. Provide contraception and sex education programs starting in preteen years .Outlaw abortion; people will change their habits.

The results were: Outlaw abortion; people will change their habits 60%. Provide contraception and sex education programs starting in preteen years 25%. Pass Laws requiring insurance companies to extend 100% coverage for all contraceptive methods 8%. Require counseling and a “cooling off” period before an abortion is performed 7%. The majority favors to change the law to change our habits.

Gallup poll February 28, 1991- 86 % mostly favor legislation “requiring women to receive information about fetal development and alternatives to abortion before going ahead with the procedure.

1994-1996 A Wirthlin post-election poll showed 51% of voters identified themselves as “pro-life”. 43% considered themselves “pro-choice. 53% believe abortion should be prohibited in all circumstances, or only to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. The pro life 53% statistics are as follows: (9%) in all circumstances (11%) legal only to save the mother's life (33%) legal only in the cases of rape, incest or to save the mother's life .

In 1990 there were 1,429,577 abortions. In 1995 there was 1,210,883 abortions. The amount went down by over 218,694.The Center of Disease Control (CDC) says the chief reason that has lead to the decline is abstinence. The very thing that is not promoted by those who want to solve the problem “mans way”. Because they want people to continue having sex  without the consequence of a child. Abstinence would also affect the diseases contracted by those who practice sex before being married.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

In America more than 165,000 abortions are done yearly to babies who are in the second and third trimester. 90,000 13-15 weeks, 60,000 16-20 weeks, 15,000 21 or more weeks, 600 after 26 weeks (6 months old) .

39 out of every 1,000 women of childbearing age have abortions each year in developed countries 34 per 1,000 in developing countries.

In Africa, an estimated 680 of every 100,000 women who undergo an abortion die of some complications.

Romania is reported to have the largest rate of abortions overall.

Canada has one of the lowest abortion death rates, 0.1 deaths per 100,000 abortions.

Overall, 38 % of the estimated 210 million pregnancies that occur worldwide each year are unintentional; 22 percent end in abortion.

Eastern Europe had the highest rate of unplanned pregnancies and the highest abortion rate of any area of the world: 90 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age.  

The abortion rate in England and Wales reached an all-time high last year (2003). Government statistics showed that 181,600 resident women terminated pregnancies last year - up 3.2% from 2002. The vast majority of women seeking abortions last year were in the 20 to 24 age bracket. A total of 51,124 women in this group had terminations. But there was also a high number of teenage abortions. A total of 37,043 terminations took place among girls of 15 to 19 - higher than the 36,018 recorded for the 25 to 29 age group.. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/12844067?source=Evening%20Standard

This is an epidemic world wide and unfortunately the source of this influence comes from the U.S.  

Sunday London times reports that A GOVERNMENT agency is launching an inquiry into doctors’ reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched National Health Service abortions. The investigation, by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH), comes amid growing unease among clinicians over a legal ambiguity that could see them being charged with infanticide. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which regulates methods of abortion, has also mounted its own investigation Sunday London times - by Lois Rogers - November 27, 2005 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2087-1892696%2C00.html   

Fetal Tissue Research

The new trend is to harvest aborted baby parts for research to help grown-ups. We now have legislation to be harvesting pre-born for spare parts for others and we still call them non- human! But who really is the non-human? 63 % of Americans  oppose the use of federal funding of research using tissue from aborted human fetuses  (Wirthlin, January 22, 1992).

Partial birth abortion has been passed in 20 states. Planned parenthood for those who do not want to be parents and the non American ACLU sued a state that passed a ban on partial birth abortion. The Supreme court is hearing the case and will decide this issue.

There aborted babies found with surgical cuts in them with the organs missing.

Here is a actual price list for pieces of the human body to be sold

The body parts go to labs but it is illegal to sell them so what they do is pay a finders fee masking it legal.  This merchandising should disgust anyone with a conscience, despite its so called advantages. [The fact that many people are donors of body parts in case of death should  make one wonder if there are strict regulations enforced or are handled the same way. It would be unfortunate to find out these are also being sold to bidders.]

Specimens are changing hands for more than £5,000" each.http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story10.htm

America has been the land of the free but we have used our freedom against the obedience of God and we no longer have the fear of God. If this law on fetal tissue passes, and other ones like it ,we will have a complete breakdown of society and the worth of human life. We will spiral down so fast it will make our heads spin.  

A Kansas pathologist Miles Jones was paid by a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic to dispose of aborted baby parts, He allegedly brought in additional profits by running a company that sold the parts to researchers. He stated to undercover reporters that he made $50,000 a week. (Christ Wallace "Parts for Sale; People Make Thousands of Dollars Off the Sale of Fetal Body Parts ABC News 20/20 Mar.8 2000; Investigation into marketing of fetal Tissue Ends" The Associated press Sept.3, 2001)

The Lord spoke to Israel in Deut. 30:19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”

When society monopolizes on death by selling the unborn it has come to its own death.

If we do not change our course in action our nation will be ripe for the harvest of judgment.

Of the six things the LORD hates, one is “hands that shed innocent blood” Prov. 6:16-17)

TIME TO STOP AND LISTEN

If you value yourself you won’t have sex outside a marriage commitment. If you do this you won’t have to be concerned about an abortion.

If you violate your body by an abortion operation you are not removing something that is harmful to your health, or saving your life from death. It actually was going to bring life. To allow the child to form and grow in your womb means you are not interfering with the natural process which makes life. It is something God put in women that is sacred. . To willingly destroy this one who is made in the image of God is to show one's contempt for God. Your child's life, your life is precious to God. Don’t make the wrong decision but the right one, save life.

Jesus said “Come unto me all those who are heavily burdened”

After ones experience of Abortion many can be guilt ridden , have anxiety, depression, a sense of loss, have hostility, entertain suicide and psychosis can set in. Any women can suffer from not one but a combination of these problems. This trauma is recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a psychological stress disorder and is listed in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III-R:309.89, Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, p. 250 ,  1987 ).

Comfort for those who are Guilt Ridden

Compassion means to be concerned and care for those who are sick, weak, handicapped and helpless. Not only does god have compassion on the innocent children that have died but the would be mothers who at the time knew no better or felt there was no other way to deal with the baby.

2 Cor. 1:3-4: “...of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” God does not want to punish but to to comfort those who have been hurt, he wants to heal the broken hearted. God says if you call out me I will answer.

Ps. 38:4-6: “For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.”

If we acknowledge our wrongdoing he is faithful and will forgive and cleanse our heart. Ps. 32:5 “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah (think about it)