The Complications of "Freedom"

If you are considering an abortion, or are feeling pressured to get one, please consider the cost of the "freedom" you will gain from it. This is a costly "freedom" and right now, I'm not even talking about what it costs the baby in the womb. I'm talking about what it costs the mother.

Recently, a team of medical experts, encouraged by Women in Action Association (a feminist organization) met together to compare notes on the after effects of abortion. (Story found on LifeSiteNews.com) What they discovered was there are serious medical and psychological effects that women who have had abortions deal with.

Emotional turmoil.

Massive bleeding.

Depression.

Vomiting.

Tiredness.

Fever.

Diarrhea.

These are only some of the after effects that women often must deal with after an abortion.

Full story here.


Family Research Council's Tony Perkin's, in his newletter "Washington Update" from November 13, 2007, had this to say:

Eight months after Portugal crumbled under pressure to legalize abortion-on-demand, leaders in the medical field gathered there to participate in Lisbon's first Conference on Human Life Studies. With one voice, experts from across the world decried the suffering of women who undergo abortions. Presentations featured renowned obstetricians, psychologists, therapists, and others who used medical evidence to illustrate how abortion harms the unborn and their mothers. Interestingly enough, the conference was promoted by the feminist Women in Action Association. Given the sobering truth about the effects of abortion--like depression, emotional problems, and future birth or health risks-- the world could certainly use more feminists who put aside politics for the true protection of women.

Abortions leave two victims: the baby and the mother. Please, don't have an abortion. There are other, better options.

Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and "Birth Control"

Fifty-two years prior to the legalization of abortion, Margaret Sanger was advocating for birth control and operated an illegal “birth control clinic” in Brooklyn, New York.[1] In 1916, Planned Parenthood was founded by Sanger with a focus on eliminating the “weeds” of the poor, unworthy minorities, particularly the blacks.[2] Sanger promoted eugenics,[3] talked at Klu Klux Klan meetings,[4] and stayed in contact with Adolf Hitler, who agreed with her policies and was influenced by her work.[5]

Even in America today, Sanger’s policies are carried out in targeting the poor minorities, and, even today, targeting African-Americans. In 2000, 75% of Planned Parenthood’s clientèle's incomes were “at or below 150% of the poverty line.”[6] Every three days, more African Americans are killed by abortion than were killed in the Klan’s entire history.[7] And, today the large majority of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority areas.[8]

Planned Parenthood, however, likes to shade the truth of Sanger’s motives by talking of her outreach to the African-American community. This is true; at least it is how Sanger herself posed birth control and later abortion to her targeted communities. Planned Parenthood also points out that religious organizations played a large part in the popularization of “birth control” in the community.[9] This, also, is true as Sanger said “the most successful educational approach to the Negro [sic] is through a religious appeal”[10] and that the pastors work was important and he should learn their ideals and goals. She continued by saying, “we do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro [sic] population, the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea…”[11]

Interestingly enough, Planned Parenthood was against abortion at least ten years before abortion was legalized saying that “[a]n abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when you want a child you cannot have it.”[12] This is still true, but we don’t hear this from Planned Parenthood anymore.

Planned Parenthood now infiltrates communities using deceit as there are several cases where Planned Parenthood entered a community by way of false permit applications. Planned Parenthood also has a history of not reporting cases of incest, rape, and statutory rape.[13] Not only are they not reporting these cases, but in instances of statutory rape they actually advise young girls to lie about their age so they don’t have to turn their boyfriends in.[14] Planned Parenthood has also been accused of performing abortive procedures that led to mutilation, abuse, and death of the woman having the abortion.[15]

Yet, last year alone, Planned Parenthood received $305 million of our tax dollars and made over $60 million in profit.That's alot of profit, especially since they are registered as a "not for profit" organization.[16]

Racism, selected "breeding," deception. This is the legacy of Margaret Sanger. This is the history of Planned Parenthood. This must be stopped.

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[1] Black Genocide
<http://blackgenocide.org/negro.html>
(accessed 26 October 2007)

[2] Black Genocide

<http://blackgenocide.org/negro.html>

(accessed 25 October 2007)

[3] National Right to Life

<http://www.nrlc.org/news/2004/NRL07/margaret_sanger_and_planned_pare.htm>

(accessed 27 October 2007)

[4] The Truth About Margaret Sanger

<http://margaretsanger.blogspot.com/>

(accessed 27 October 2007)

[5] Acts 1711

<http://www.acts1711.com/sanger.htm>

(accessed 24 October 2007)

[6] National Right to Life

[7]Klan Parenthood

<http://www.klannedparenthood.com/History_of_Abortion_Statistics/>

(accessed 27 October 2007)

[8] Acts 1711

[9] Planned Parenthood

<http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/margaret-sanger-planned-parenthood-founder.htm>

(accessed 27 October 2007)

[10] Free Republic

<http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a7dd3740515.htm>

(accessed 27 October 2007)

[11] Black Genocide

<http://blackgenocide.org/negro03.html>

(accessed 25 October 2007)

[12]AbortionFacts.com

<http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_42.asp>

(accessed 27 October 2007)

[13] Fox News report by Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt from 9/9/2007

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18IKmx6wsYk>

(accessed 21 October 2007)

[14] WorldNet Daily

<http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55745>

(accessed 21 October 2007)

[15] Fox News.

[16] Ibid.

Passport to Controversy

In light of my previous post, you can understand why this latest development concerns me greatly.

Passport to Controversy

In a move that took even member nations by surprise, the Council of Europe has passed a resolution of "unconditional" support for abortion. The body, which shapes policies that are often adopted by the European Union (EU), deals a painful blow to global pro-life efforts. In a rushed move, the group's Parliamentary Assembly allowed just three minutes of discussion on the abortion issue, then proceeded to vote with only 185 of the 316 members present. The few amendments that pro-lifers scrambled to introduce to water down the language were rejected. The Council declared a "right to unlimited legal abortion" by a 33-vote margin. Although the Council of Europe doesn't create policy, it does influence it, which makes this decision significant as the EU's clout increases. If there's a silver lining, it's that the vote isn't "legally binding." However, it sends a disturbing message about the Council's utter disregard for the sanctity of human life. As Pat Buckley of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said, "Nothing in the European Convention on Human Rights recognizes a right to abortion. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the issue of when the right to life begins is a question to be decided at the national level." Clearly, the Council is vastly overstepping its bounds. We urge member nations to denounce the declaration and call for an honest debate.

Additional Resources
Council of Europe Declares Unlimited Abortion an Unconditional Right for all of Europe
from FRC's Tony Perkin's Washington Update, April 18, 2008

"It's Just a Clump of Cells."

In my last post I commented that you need to weigh your decision to abort or not carefully because a human life is in the balance. This may have come as a surprise to many of you. I believe that it is a living child in the womb, and not "just a clump of cells" or "just a fetus." Please do not tune me out because of this; please consider what I have to say. This is crucial.

If the fetus is not a human being than abortion is justifiable: I brush skin cells off my arm and it's not killing a human, so if it is just cells in my womb it's okay to get rid of them as well. However, if it really is a living human being than there is no justification for abortion: it is murder. So what is the unborn?



First, we need to examine the scientific evidence.

• The unborn is living.

"Wait, how do you know that? You can't start out asserting something like that."
So: is the unborn alive? Yes, from conception all that is needed to live is (1) a proper environment and (2) adequate nutrition. This is what the unborn has in the womb, therefore: the unborn is living.

• The unborn is a distinct and whole organism.

"What?! No, the unborn is definitely a part of the mother's body."
This is actually quite absurd if really given some thought. What this is saying is that for about nine months of her life a woman has four hands, four feet, two heads, two hearts, two bladders, four eyes, two noses, two mouths, two stomachs, etc. AND, if she is carrying a boy she also has male parts. This is not so. A female cannot naturally have this, therefore: the unborn is a distinct and whole organism.

• The unborn is human.

"How do we know the unborn is human? The unborn doesn't look human!"
If it is growing, it must be living. The unborn is growing. If it has human parents, it must be human. The unborn being discussed here has human parents. The unborn is human.

By the way, human beings like me and you are valuable, right? Even if they are not yet born.

(ultrasound photo)

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Stand to Reason: str.org
Life Training Institute: prolifetraining.com
And Abort73: Abort73.com

Test Gave Inaccurate Results

Stories such as the one following are not uncommon at all. I personally know quite a few people with no problems who would not be alive if their parents had aborted thinking they would be defective. Weigh carefully your decision: a human life is in the balance.

Baby born healthy after doctors advise aborting him

Rusty Pugh - OneNewsNow - 3/4/2008 1:00:00 PM

A leading women's pro-life group says a recent case in Wales, in which a perfectly healthy baby boy was born after a doctor had advised the couple to abort the child, is a good example of why parents should always choose life.

A baby that doctors said would be deaf, blind, and survive only a few hours is now healthy and attempting to talk. However, doctors previously urged Becky and Kriss Kramer to abort their baby. They claimed the child would be born with a rare condition that affects fewer than one-out-of-a-million people worldwide.

But the couple defied the doctors' advice, and their son Brandon was born in October. The new parents say he is now teething and attempting to talk.

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, advocates that all parents should give their children a chance at life.

"This story that comes out of Wales is a good example for why parents ought to take medical diagnoses with a grain of salt, and should follow their natural instincts to love and nurture and care for and protect their child," she insists. "Even if the child had been born disabled, that is not a reason to kill the baby. We would never dream of killing a two-year-old that had significant disabilities."

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which bills itself as the U.K.'s "leading sexual healthcare provider," reports that it performs about 55,000 abortions a year. BPAS has facilities in England, Wales, and Scotland.

source

35 Years After Roe v. Wade

January 22, 2008 - the 35th anniversary of Roe v Wade - this commentary was delivered by PFM President Mark Earley.

The Legacy of Abortion
By Mark Earley

A woman-let's call her Caroline-was 92 years old. She was dying, in agony, but Caroline's pain was not physical. It was emotional. Caroline, you see, had been carrying a secret for more than 50 years: As a young woman, she had undergone two abortions, suffered terrible guilt all her life-and now, on her death-bed, afraid that God could not forgive her.

As her palliative-care nurse, Jean Echlin, writes, "At the end of her life she shared with me her agony over her lost babies . . . she felt that she had committed murder."

Caroline is not alone, as Echlin writes in Perspectives 2007, a publication of the De Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research. Echlin also tells the story of a woman named Lydia, who was dying of cancer. Even with the use of a pain pump, which gave her steady doses of morphine, Lydia's pain did not abate.

"I asked her if her faith or prayer could be of any comfort," Echlin writes. "Lydia remained silent except for her moaning." But the next day she confided the truth. "I can't pray-God won't listen," Lydia said. "I killed a precious baby when I was 18 . . ." Lydia's abortion had taken place more than 40 years ago-and she was still grieving over it.

Caroline and Lydia are but two examples of what the Institute calls an "unexpected correlation" between abortion and pain-relief care. Dying women experience unresolved guilt and psychological pain related to their abortion-guilt and pain that stand in the way of a peaceful death. Their guilt is so great, Echlin says, that it impedes the effectiveness of their pain medication. Only when the abortion issue is resolved-when someone listens to them and assures them of God's forgiveness-is the pain medication made effective, and the women able to die peacefully.

This is dramatic testimony that abortion is not, as the abortion lobby claims, something women will "get over" in a week or two. It is evidence that we know inherently that we are made in the image of the God who gives life. When we do violence to that image-when we destroy life instead of nurturing it-it has a profound effect on our emotions, our psyche, and our souls.

Today, as we mourn the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the tens of millions of abortions that have resulted from this dreadful decision, we must recognize that there are likely many women among us who are silently suffering abortion grief decades after their babies' lives were snuffed out. As the De Veber Institute notes, these women need our compassion, and their trauma should be recognized and acknowledged by their care providers.

As we comfort the dying, we must also help the living. We must make sure young women know the truth: that abortion takes a human life; that there are alternatives to abortion; and that there are people who will help them through a difficult, unplanned pregnancy.

And they must be told that the notion that they will simply "get over" an abortion is a bold-faced lie. The truth is that if they walk into that abortion clinic, they may still be feeling the agony over taking their baby's life-even on their deathbed a half century later.


Featured article from Breakpoint, the newsletter of Crosswalk.com, on January 22, 2008. Email entitled "Crosswalk: The Legacy of Abortion - January 22, 2008."

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