March 14, 2007
Post abortion sympathy cards
Although greeting card offerings have expanded in recent years to include such milestones as divorce, potty-training and half-birthdays, Baker said she was unaware of anyone else providing after-abortion cards online. The inspiration for the project came in part from a longtime abortion provider who frequently observed there were no Hallmark cards for abortion, she said.
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March 07, 2007
Abortion botched and child lived so mother sues
Things like this bring a whole new meaning to the term "unwanted child".
A Boston woman who gave birth after a failed abortion has filed a lawsuit against two doctors and Planned Parenthood seeking the costs of raising her child.While they are at it they may as well throw in a couple of extra million dollars for the shrinks this child will need.
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November 28, 2006
Debate scares the poor little darlings
How are we ever going to take women seriously if debate over the serious issues of the day turns them into scared little girls.
McIntyre said she received complaints after Lifeline organized an academic debate on whether or not elective abortion should be made illegal.So scared in fact that it is necessary to ban Pro-life organizations from access to campus resources.“[These women] were upset the debate was happening on campus in a space that they thought they were safe and protected, and that respected their rights and freedoms,” said McIntyre.
There was a time when women were denied the vote because men did not think a woman was capable of handling the rough and tumble of intellectual exercise involved in politics. Sometimes I have to think those men of days gone by may have had a point. Next time these wilting Wilma's get the vapors someone please pat them on the head and reassure them that yes, they can still kill their babies as they please.
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August 07, 2006
Beauty treatments brought to you by abortions
I have been a staunch opponent of the use of stem cells from aborted babies for treatments of any kind. The Frankenstein like aspects of this are ghastly in my analysis. Supporters of this currently imaginary "wonder cure" tout the potential that will pour from the holocaust of abortions necessary to realize the dream. So how will they laugh off the new and growing stem cell beauty craze?
Destination: Barbados:Take a good long look. This is the real future of most stem cell research.The Institute for Regenerative Medicine
The Treatment: Anti-ageing stem-cell injections made from aborted foetal tissue, £15,000 The past 12 months have seen this popular holiday resort become the stem-cell capital of the developed world, treating hundreds of patients in a year.
The upmarket clinic opened last year in one of the island's most luxurious hotels - Villa Nova - after Ukrainian stem-cell researchers, who have been secretly pioneering stem-cell studies with aborted human foetuses for 20 years, teamed up with U.S. investors backed by the Caribbean tourist industry.
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May 13, 2006
Eliminate the poor through abortion
It is already common knowledge that abortion kills more poor and black unborn then any others so in a sense Ron Weddingtons desires are with us today.
A letter to Bill Clinton written by the co-counsel who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade decision urged the then-president-elect to "eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country" by liberalizing abortion laws.Make abortion easy enough and the people too stupid to prevent unwanted pregnancy will flock to abortion like mindless moths to a bug zapper.Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented "Jane Roe," sent the four-page letter to President Clinton's transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993.
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March 27, 2006
Designer babies are here
We all knew it was coming.
Britain's first IVF "designer baby" clinic is to charge about £6,000 for a made-to-order infant.It will not stop here. Noticeably missing from the discussion was gender selection which is the number one reason for child design.The £5 million centre will bring pioneering embryo screening techniques for the creation of "saviour siblings" to Britain.
Dr Simon Fishel of the Care at the Park clinic
In addition, it will offer testing for up to 100 inherited gene disorders such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.Embryos found to be carrying rogue genes will be discarded and only "healthy" embryos implanted into their mothers.
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March 17, 2006
Roe Vs Wade . . . for Men
I have seen several articles which nibbled at the edges of this issue but had not realized it was becoming a movement. Does a woman's right to choose include choosing to force an unwilling partner to pay for the rest of his life if he dos not want the baby.
"There's such a spectrum of choice that women have -- it's her body, her pregnancy and she has the ultimate right to make decisions," said Mel Feit, director of the men's center. "I'm trying to find a way for a man also to have some say over decisions that affect his life profoundly."
"The problem is this is so politically incorrect," Feit added. "The public is still dealing with the pre-Roe ethic when it comes to men, that if a man fathers a child, he should accept responsibility."Women do not have to accept responsibility for their decisions, only men do. You have to laugh at the response of one feminist supporter of choice.
Men have plenty of “say” over this decision—but it all happens before the pregnancy. They have “say” over the women with whom they choose to have sex. They have “say” over whether they choose to discuss in depth with a partner what they would do in the case of an unintended pregnancy—and what their partners would do. They have “say” over whether they put a condom on.That’s what pro life activists tell the abortion lovers camp all the time. It seems they do hear what we say after all, it's just not convenient when applied to women. Women cannot have it both ways without demonstrating a certain amount of hypocritical inferiority. If women want the right to choose (totally excluding the fathers wishes) then somewhere down the line they must take full and unconditional responsibility for those choices which includes releasing the father from all responsibility if he so "chooses". Telling the father he has no say but be sure the monthly check arrives on time is crass selfishness.
Don’t get me wrong. I oppose both these kinds of choice. The activist above is exactly correct in the situation mentioned above and her comments should be applicable to both parties. When you travel down the slippery path of hiding from your bad decisions it only seems to get worse.
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March 10, 2006
Life can be defined in outer space but not in the womb
This kinda makes you think.
Am I the only person with a scientific background that finds it perplexing that secular scientists have absolutely no difficulty suggesting the possibility of bizarre micro-organism life-forms (prokaryotes) existing on a small frozen moon in outer space, but are totally unable to denote or acknowledge a human zygote or embryo in the womb as a living organism solely for the murderous purpose of killing an unborn child?
Imagine the universal condemnation and rebuke you would suffer if you suggested terminating some extra-terrestrial bacterium's life-force. But an unborn child? No problem! Hypocritical and disgusting!
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February 21, 2006
War on babies
Of all the analogies I have never heard a woman’s decision to have an abortion compared to going to war.
I happen to agree that abortion is a form of murder. I think the quarrel about when life begins is disrespectful to the fetus. I know I murdered the life within me. I could have loved that life but chose not to.Especially from a ordained Christian minister.I did what I think men do all the time when they take us to war: They choose violence because, although they believe it is bad, it is still better than the alternatives. The "just war" theory assumes that human beings get caught in terrible choices all the time. This freedom is not just for men; it is for women also.
This is an absurd anology that relies on a moral equivalency that mocks and rejects the teachings of her own supposed faith.
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January 09, 2006
10 Million dead women
A woman’s right to choose, the most sacred crown jewel of the feminist movement, the foundation of the Democratic Party.
Around 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet.Be honest, abortion for gender selection makes the skin crawl for the most adamant believer in abortion. It seems odd seeing women who probably believe in abortion on demand march against abortion when a woman chooses to abort females based on gender. Not to worry though, there is no slippery slope they said.
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December 02, 2005
Suicide, Accidents and Homicide are 248% higher Following an Abortion
Something you will never hear from planned parenthood.
Compared to women who have not been pregnant in the prior year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion, according to a new 13-year study of the entire population of women in Finland.The study also found that majority of the extra deaths among women who had abortions were due to suicide. The suicide rate among women who had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the prior year and double that of women who had miscarriages.
Previous studies have also linked abortion to higher rates of substance abuse, anxiety, sleep disorders, suicidal thoughts, psychiatric illness, relationship problems, and risk-taking behavior, any of which may increase a women's risk of death by suicide or accident.No big deal.
While the risk of death from suicide, accidents, and homicide was highest among women who had abortions within the prior year, the risk of death was lowest among women who gave birth within the prior year, who had less than half the death rate of women who had not been pregnant.Makes you think doesn't it.
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November 29, 2005
Consider Me Depressed All Day
The reality of abortion from a doctor that believes.
"Oh, God, doctor," the woman said. "I was hoping it was cancer."After the abortion one "mother" says..
"There's things wrong with abortion," she says. "But I want to have a good life. And provide a good life for my child." To keep this baby now, she says, when she's single, broke and about to start college, "would be unfair." (emphasis mine)Another mother..
She regrets having to pay $750 for the abortion, but Amanda says she does not doubt her decision. "It's not like it's illegal. It's not like I'm doing anything wrong," she says.Another mother..
His first patient of the day, Sarah, 23, says it never occurred to her to use birth control, though she has been sexually active for six years. When she became pregnant this fall, Sarah, who works in real estate, was in the midst of planning her wedding. "I don't think my dress would have fit with a baby in there," she says.Another Mother..
The last patient of the day, a 32-year-old college student named Stephanie, has had four abortions in the last 12 years. She keeps forgetting to take her birth control pills. Abortion "is a bummer," she says, "but no big stress."The doctor..
"It's not a baby to me until the mother tells me it's a baby," he says.A nation that has lost it's soul.
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November 28, 2005
50 Babies a Year Born Alive Despite Mothers Best Efforts
You know the abortion debate is turned on it's head when babies being born alive is considered a problem.
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.If you thought that was bad read further.
Its guidelines say that babies aborted after more than 21 weeks and six days of gestation should have their hearts stopped by an injection of potassium chloride before being delivered. In practice, few doctors are willing or able to perform the delicate procedure.Doctors are being instructed to kill the baby in the womb so it will not accidentally be born alive and possibly result in legal charges when they finish it off. Am I the only person who sees the horror in this?For the abortion of younger foetuses, labour is induced by drugs in the expectation that the infant will not survive the birth process. Guidelines say that doctors should ensure that the drugs they use prevent such babies being alive at birth.
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November 05, 2005
Carter Slams Abortion
I guess even Carter can get fed up with the excesses of the left once in a while.
Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday condemned all abortions and chastised his party for its intolerance of candidates and nominees who oppose abortion.This just goes to prove even a broken watch can be right twice.
"I never have felt that any abortion should be committed -- I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors," he told reporters over breakfast at the Ritz-CarltonHotel, while across town Senate Democrats deliberated whether to filibuster the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he may share President Bush and Mr. Carter's abhorrence of abortion.
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September 28, 2005
Molester Helps 14 Year old Victom Get Abortion
All it took last year for a 14-year-old "Jane Roe" was a cell phone number. A staffer at a local Planned Parenthood clinic called the number and got permission - from a 21-year-old man who was molesting the girl and coerced her into an abortion.An example of Planned Parenthood watching out for young girls where parental consent is required by law.
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September 16, 2005
If it's Not a Life It Can Be an Enemy of the State
The men with the poison-filled syringe arrived two days before Li Juan's due date. They pinned her down on a bed in a local clinic, she says, and drove the needle into her abdomen until it entered the 9-month-old fetus. "At first, I could feel my child kicking a lot," says the 23-year-old. "Then, after a while, I couldn't feel her moving anymore." Ten hours later, Li delivered the girl she had intended to name Shuang (Bright). The baby was dead. To be absolutely sure, says Li, the officials--from the Linyi region, where she lives, in China's eastern Shandong province--dunked the infant's body for several minutes in a bucket of water beside the bed. All she could think about on that day last spring, recalls Li, was how she would hire a gang of thugs to take revenge on the people who killed her baby because the birth, they said, would have violated China's family-planning scheme.I was in Canada just last weekend watching their leaders being treated like celebrities. Ain't life grand.
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August 25, 2005
Abortion to Kill Off Russia
One of the right's bigger abortion worries is coming true in Russia.
About 1.6 million women had an abortion last year, a fifth of them under the age of 18, and about 1.5 million gave birth, said Vladimir Kulakov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. “Many more” abortions weren’t reported.
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June 14, 2005
PRE-EMPTIVE EXECUTION
You know you have heared it all when you see a case made for abortion because it reduces crime by pre-emptive execution.
In his new book, Freakonomics, University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt argues that legalized abortion is responsible for half of the recent drop in crime rates. His argument, which he has been making since 1999, proceeds from what Steve Sailer of the American Conservative calls two "plausible-sounding premises."Eugenics indeed, this is a horror that would destroy the human soul.The first is that legalized abortion "lowers the number of ‘unwanted' babies, who would be more likely to commit crimes someday." The second premise is that crime rates began to fall just as the "first cohort of children born after Roe v. Wade was hitting its [crime-prone] late teen years." Thus, at least part of the fall was due to the absence of "the children who stood the greatest chance of becoming criminals."
What Sailer calls "pre-emptive executions" sounds plausible, albeit in a disquieting way. But is it true? Only if you ignore the evidence. Much of the explosion in homicide rates during the 1980s was driven by the battles over turf that followed the introduction of crack cocaine into American cities. As the market settled, the winners no longer had to resort to murder to protect their turf.
What's more, as Sailer and others have pointed out, the numbers not only don't support Levitt's hypothesis, they prove the opposite. Crime rates during the period cited by Levitt dropped most quickly among those born before Roe. The homicide rates for 25-year-olds began falling in 1981!
It was people born after Roe who accounted for much of the increase in murder rates. During the last few years of the crack wars, the murder rates for 14- to 17-year-olds was three-and-a-half-times what it had been a decade earlier. Even in the prosperous late 1990s, the murder rate among presumably "wanted" 14-to 17-year-olds was nearly twice as high as it had been for their often "unwanted" 1980s counterparts.
Obviously something was going on that had nothing to with abortion or "wanted" children. What was it? Sailer hits the nail on the head when he points to Roe's effects on marriage and family formation. Prior to Roe, the response to unplanned pregnancy was what used to be called a "shotgun wedding." The availability of legal abortion helped convince young men that they no longer had a responsibility to the women they had impregnated. The result was a rise in out-of-wedlock births which, unlike abortion, are clearly linked to the crime rate.
As you've probably noticed, I haven't even mentioned the eugenic elements of Levitt's argument—which are horrifying—weed out the unwanted. We don't even need to go there, because the numbers tell us what we already know: No one, either inside or outside the womb, is safer because of abortion—in fact, exactly the reverse.
UPDATE: More analysis here.
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