--Heartbeat International
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The most dangerous form of deception is
self-deception. --Josh Billings
Humility leads to strength, not weakness. It
is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends
for them. -- John J. McCoy
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The Measure of Love... Is to Love Without Measure
RESPECT HUMAN LIFE AT EVERY STAGE
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If you have had an abortion...
SilentNoMoreAwareness.org
RachelsVineyard.org
WomenDeserveBetter.org
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If Fatherhood begins at conception, when does
life begin?
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I will follow that method of treatment, which,
according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my
patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if
asked, nor suggest any such counsel; furthermore, I will not give to a
woman an instrument to produce abortion. ~From the Hippocratic Oath, Hippocrates
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"Members of Congress, regardless of their
personal views on abortion, ought to agree with public law that health
care providers should not be forced to perform or fund abortions that
they believe are morally wrong…To do so would force these vital members
of our society to choose between keeping their jobs and following their
conscience.
"It's time the purveyors of 'choice' practice
what they preach and allow others the choice not to
violate their conscience." -- Family Research Council Pres Ken Connor,
regarding ANDA (Abortion Non-Discrimination Act)
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The right to choose -- as American as apple
pie! We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to
make our own choices. We have forgotten, though, that attached to
every right or freedom is a responsibility which ultimately assures that
no other human being is hurt while we exercise our rights.
Our choices reflect our values.
What values does abortion reflect? What is
chosen in an abortion? Abortion is the result of "the right to
choose" gone wrong: the choice to harm and kill another human being
without taking responsibility for the safety of that new human being who
is growing and developing - and who will die -- in the process.
_______________________________________________ Abortion Increases Risk of Miscarriage
A British team of doctors [London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine] released a study in the British Journal
of Gynecology showing that women who have aborted run a 60 percent
higher risk of having a miscarriage in a subsequent pregnancy.
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The intentional killing of human beings
is NOT health care.
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Being a Mother is The Most Heroic Thing a
Woman Can Do
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Quotes to Note
In the summer of 2008, after only 2 years on
the market, there were over 7,800 adverse effects from Gardasil,
including... - paralysis - linked to pancreatitis - 32 deaths by 31 Dec 2008 - outbreaks of genital warts - Guillain-Barre Syndrome - in trials, cervical intraepithelial
neoplasia - concern that the other cancer-causing
strains will fill the gap, becoming more aggressive - not certain about length of protection Many more adverse effects continue to pour
in. How many go unreported? Who would knowingly want their child to
receive this triple dose vaccine?
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The Morning After Pill (MAP, EC): "...Researchers have said that it acts in at
least 2 ways to end a pregnancy:
"a. By damaging the lining of the womb so
that implantation of the human embryo - the unseen patient - cannot
occur.
"b. Research in mice has also indicated that
if an embryo attaches to the womb, the body reabsorbs it, thereby ending
the embryo’s life.
"Because the MAP can act via these two
methods, it must be classified as an abortifacient - a drug that can
cause an abortion.
"The fact that the MAP reduces the expected
pregnancy rate by 87% supports the claim that it frequently acts to end
the life of a human embryo. "Therefore, due to the danger to the health of
the human embryo caused by the MAP, my Code of Professional Conduct,
parts 1.1 and 1.2, forbids me from selling this drug." [Policy - Code of Professional
Conduct. Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Endorsed by National
Council 3/1998]
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What is the MAIN GOAL of all those who Promote
Abortion and those who Promote Human Life?
Is it not the Care of Women, and
their Health? If this is true for ALL of us, then WHY can we not WAIT until the
pregnancy's NATURAL TERMINATION AT BIRTH, allowing the child to be
born... WHY CAN'T WE LOVE THEM BOTH?
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An average of eight years after their
abortions, married women who had aborted were 138 percent more likely to
be at high risk of clinical depression compared to similar women who
carried their unintended first pregnancies to term. -- David Reardon,
Ph.D., British Medical Journal, 2003
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Feminists for Life... Seeks true equality for all human beings, and
real solutions to the challenges women face.
We oppose all forms of violence, including
abortion, infanticide, child abuse, domestic violence, assisted suicide,
and euthanasia, as they are inconsistent with the core feminist
principles of justice, non-violence, and non-discrimination.
We support constructive, life-affirming,
solutions to complex human problems.
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Recently a young woman at San Jose State
University received a copy of You Can Stop Injustice-HLA's exciting new
campus supplement.
Her response was typical of students who read
our materials: Before I read your papers, I didn't have much
against abortion before 3 weeks of pregnancy, but now that I know the
procedure, it opened my eyes to the pure evil behind it all... No life
is worth less than another, we are all equal and are all sent to earth
for a reason. God loves us all... I am 110% against abortion! A life is
a life...
With responses like this, no wonder we have
requests to develop new materials to reach other populations. HLA's second edition of Did You Know? is
designed to fill this need for an educational resource that reaches the
African American community with the pro-life message.
New articles such as "A Planned Parenthood
Insider Speaks Out," "Targeting our Children" and "Abortion & Premature
Birth" makes Did You Know? an essential element of your pro-life tool
kit.
78% of Planned Parenthood facilities are
located in poor and minority neighborhoods. In fact, Planned Parenthood's latest fact
sheet illustrates how their business progressed between 2007 and 2008:
Adoption referrals plummeted dramatically from
4,912 in 2007 to 2,405 in 2008. Prenatal clients dropped from 10,914 in
2007 to 9,433 in 2008. Surgical abortions increased from 305,310 in 2007
to 324,008 in 2008.
We can see that the United States' largest
abortion chain is really about abortion-and nothing else. We know they target African Americans and
other minorities. [November 11, 2010, www.humanlife.org]
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Dangers of Abortion
"Through the years, I have seen many patients
who have underlying depression and bitterness due to a previous
abortion. Many times these patients feel they were forced into their
abortion by parents, husbands, or boyfriends. This will often
permanently fracture a relationship."
--C. Paul Perry, M.D., Gynecology/Obstetrics
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The American Association of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns
is a professional voice of Truth about abortion.
Truth is powerful.
Truth cannot be intimidated into silence.
Truth does not go away.
Truth motivates you to action.
Truth tells you that it is right to protect
innocent human life rather
than to destroy it.
~Donna Harrison, MD, President, American
Association of Pro-life Ob/Gyns
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Of the estimated 18.9 million new STD cases in
the USA in 2000, 9.1 million (48 percent - almost half) were among 15-
to 24-year-olds. [CDC]
The cost to treat (not necessarily cure)
newly-acquired STDs among this age group each year is estimated at
$6.5 Billion. [Alan Guttmacher Institute]
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There were 43,158 new cases of HIV reported in
2001 in the U.S.
The number of cases is rising.
In 2000, there were 40,000 new cases.
Exactly 50% (half) of all these new cases of
HIV in 2000 were among 15-24 year-olds.
New strains of HIV are appearing, and the
medications presently being used are not as effective over time.
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"There's no quick fix for pregnancy, no magic
pill"
Holly Patterson's sobbing father commented on
19Sept03, two days after Holly died from a massive bacterial infection
following a failed RU-486 abortion dispensed from a Planned Parenthood
center in California.
[Brewer, "Family Blames RU-486 in Woman's
Death", Contra Costa Times, 9/20/03]
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"Today's vote was historic because, for the
first time, the Senate was forced to go on record over whether they
support using Americans' tax dollars to support the nation's largest
abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, a bloated, scandal-ridden
abortion advocate. But today's vote made clear which senators care more
about the interests of the politically influential abortion lobby than
the lives and safety of American women and families.
"The overwhelming majority of American
taxpayers do not want to be in the abortion business." ~ Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO,
Americans United for Life, June 2011
Abortion HURTS Women & KILLS Children It's Definitely Time to DEFUND Planned
Parenthood
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"The medical care provided in abortion centers
is Alabama is substandard. "It is not required that doctors performing
abortions be board certified, have hospital privileges, or carry
malpractice insurance. "No other area of medicine is practiced under
such inadequate guidelines… "As a physician, I feel ashamed that
abortionists practice substandard medicine. As a woman, I am angry
we are singled out for such shoddy treatment. So long as abortion is
legal, it is negligent on the part of the state to allow this to
continue." Maria Johnson, M.D., Pulmonary/Critical Care
Medicine, 2003
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THERE ARE NO GOOD REASONS TO ABORT YOUR BABY,
BUT MANY GREAT REASONS TO LET YOUR BABY LIVE! [Tucson Right to Life]
Have you considered Making an Adoption Plan
for Your Baby?
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When we observe that every human being is
utterly unique (even identical twins have different fingerprints, facial
expressions, and personalities), can we not conclude that the
intentional destruction of an embryo - whether in a womb or in a Petri
dish - is an incalculable loss to humanity?
And that the destructive act itself fuels a
materialistic view of human life, in which every human being is
dispensable if a burden or inconvenience to someone else? [Life Insight, Sept/Oct 2003]
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The word "Fetus" is Latin and means... "young one" or "offspring".
"Fetus" simply describes a Stage of Human
Development, just as does the Latin word "Adolescent",
which means "to grow up".
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Abortion Provider Quotes "At the risk of being repetitious, I would
remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced
abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses
contraceptives." -- Dr. A. Kinsey, 1995 Planned Parenthood
Federation of America (PPFA) Conference
"More than 3 million unplanned pregnancies
occur each year to American women; two-thirds of these are due to
contraceptive failure." -- Dr. Louise Tyrer, Medical Director of PPFA,
Letter to Editor Wall Street Journal, 26Apr91
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Abortion advocates want to give all children
their "rights" from their parents, so that they can have sex whenever
and with whomever; but then they want all women and girls to have the
"right" to kill their own human children before they are born... What about the "rights" of these unborn
children? So, give children the "right" to have sex, but
when they get pregnant, they should have the "right" to kill another
child, their own offspring.
What "right" do they have when they get STDs,
or clinical depression? Then, following this same logic, they should
have the "right" to commit suicide if they get depressed...
If "rights" are supposed to bring freedom, why
do these "rights" bring so much destruction and death?
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The public must be informed that there is no
such thing as safe sex. The failure rate of condoms as a birth control
device is at least 10-20%. Surveys by a pro-abortion organization found
that 54% - 56% of women obtaining abortions were using some type of
birth control (primarily the Pill and/or condoms)the month they became
pregnant. Over half became pregnant while using a form of birth control.
[AGI, CDC]
Realize that HIV is 450 times smaller than a
sperm. A scientific study has shown that in couples
very conscientiously practicing "safe sex", when one partner was
infected with the AIDS virus, there was a 1 in 6 chance that the other
partner would contract this deadly disease.
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Medical professionals are on the frontlines of
battle in life issues. From abortion to assisted suicide and
euthanasia and all issues in between we are challenged in the workplace
to defend our beliefs and risk our employment. The National Association of Pro-life Nurses
has been here for nurses since the beginning of this battle. Join with us in our efforts to protect those
voices at www.nursesforlife.org...
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Peace Begins... in the Womb. [Feminists For Life of America]
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"The highest density of pain receptors per
square inch of skin in human development occurs in utero from 20 to 30
weeks gestation. "During this period, the epidermis is still
very thin, leaving nerve fibers closer to the surface of the skin than
in older neonates and adult… "Thus, a fetus at 20-32 weeks of gestation
would experience a much more intense pain than older infants or children
or adults…" [expert testimony provided to the Northern
District of the US District Court in CA (15Apr04), Dr. Sunny Anand (Dir,
Pain Neurobiology Lab, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research), emphasis
added]
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Teens are in crisis in a culture that steeps
them with sexual messages and images that encourage them to be sexually
active before marriage. The CDC shows that by age 15, 13% of teens
have had sex. By 19, that number leaps to 70%. [Winter 2010, Human Life Alliance Action News,
humanlife.org]
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"Comparing the maternal mortality risk of
childbirth to that of abortion, when proper weight is given to the
increased risk of breast cancer and suicide due to abortion, and the
decreased risk of ovarian cancer with full-term pregnancy, abortion is
many times more hazardous to the mother in the long run than carrying a
child to term." -- Chris Kahlenborn M.D., "Breast Cancer:
Abortion and the Pill"
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month... Honestly?? Women are NOT being told the TRUTH about the
CONNECTION between abortion and breast cancer... Watch this 1 minute, 50
second video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSmma0COO1E
Organizations including the American Cancer
Society and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are raising money while denying
women the fundamental facts they need to know regarding the LINK between
abortion and breast cancer, and between the birth control pill and
breast cancer.
Without your help we cannot help American
women avoid the heartache of this dreadful disease... help spread the
truth. [adapted from Judie Brown, www.all.org, 30
Sept 2010]
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We are now seeing the cloning of humans,
mixtures of human and animal embryos, embryonic stem cell research
(which makes and then destroys human embryos), the destruction of
"extra" frozen IVF human embryos, and the sale of human fetal body
parts, all presented by the media in very desensitizing ways.
We must recognize that every abortion and
every embryo produced and destroyed for "research" causes the death of a
living, defenseless human being, who would come to birth if allowed to
develop in an uninterrupted way.
Every one of these could be our neighbor,
relative, or friend.
Would we want someone we know to be treated
this way?
Why do we then allow it to happen just because
we haven't met these little ones?
Dignity is due to every human life from
fertilization through the moment of natural death. -- Michael Lathem, M.D.
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Throughout medical history, “conception” has
been equated to “fertilization”, both meaning the union of the sperm and
the egg. However, in the last 30-40 years, “conception”
has been quietly and arbitrarily redefined to mean implantation of the
human embryo (blastocyst) in the uterus.
This allows for a period of about 6-10 days
from fertilization (union of egg and sperm) in the Fallopian tube, until
the embryo – about 100 cells in size – arrives in the uterus.
Of course, since EC proponents have changed
the definition of conception to mean implantation, they would say that
there is no current pregnancy.
On the other hand, most scientists and
physicians recognize fertilization as the moment when life begins, and
would therefore, call the loss of the human embryo an early abortion.
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According to Ramah International, which has
studied female prison inmates, 60-80 percent of these women are
post-abortive, that is, they have experienced at least one abortion.
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“A young woman with an unintended pregnancy
clearly sacrifices the protective effect of a term delivery should she
decide to abort and delay childbearing ... Thus, we conclude that
informed consent before induced abortion should include information
about the subsequent risk of preterm delivery and depression.” --Thorpe et al., Obstetrical & Gynecological
Survey, 1/2003
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Birth Control May Increase the Risk of Breast
Cancer
Oral contraceptives increase the risk of
breast cancer by an average of 44 percent in pre-menopausal women who
took - or were taking - oral contraceptives (OCs) prior to their first
pregnancy (as compared to women who had not used OCs), according to a
comprehensive analysis of international studies conducted between
1980-2002, linking breast cancer and contraceptives. ["Oral
Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for Pre-menopausal Breast Cancer: A
Meta-analysis", published in the journal of the Mayo Clinic, October
2006]
Of the 23 studies examined, 21 showed an
increased risk of breast cancer with OC use prior to a first pregnancy
in pre-menopausal women.
The study seems to reinforce the 2005
classification of oral contraception as a Type 1 carcinogen
(cancer-causing agent) to humans by the International Agency for Cancer
Research. [LifeSiteNews.com, 25Oct06]
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Oxytocin is released during sexual activity. Studies have shown that people
who inhale oxytocin are two times more likely to make very bad stock
decisions. So, does anyone see a connection here to
having sex with anybody and everybody soon after meeting them? Making bad relationship decisions, perhaps?? Maybe it PAYS to WAIT for sex... NO REGRETS.
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"Our science tells us there is a unique, never
to exist again, human individual in a mother's womb. Why, in America,
have we come to the place where we can kill that individual to solve our
problems?" -- Raymond Ufford, M.D.
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Roe v. Wade 1973 - 2010
not a solution then...
still a tragedy today.
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Resource for Parents: Helping My Teen website
What about the Parents of teens?
Come on, we have issues too! Like how do we
teach our teen character, or how to stay out of trouble, or just how to
motivate them to pick up their room. Now there’s a website just for you! Yep. You.
The Parent of Teens.
Just follow this link http://bit.ly/d5hiHX We highly recommend this website. You’ll find tips and tricks or just a place to
hang out and talk with other parents. Check it out; you’ll be glad you did. [13 Oct
2010, www.teen-aid.org]
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Raising the Behavior Bar
A basic principle of Abstinence Education is
that the majority of teens will favorably respond when challenged with
the highest standards of expected behavior.
Detractors of high behavioral standards, those
who support 'comprehensive' sex education, criticize abstinence
education as the 'just say no' message.
The fact is -- supported by the most extensive
research project ever -- an adolescent pledge 'to just say no' is
without a close second in delaying the onset of sexual activity.
[JAMA (Journal of American Medical Assoc.),
"Protecting Adolescents From Harm: Findings From the National
Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health", September 1997; Add Health
study, "Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the
Lives of Youth",
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/faqs/addhealth/Reducing-the-risk.pdf
; http://www.mnddc.org/extra/risk/page1.htm ;
http://casel.org/publications/reducing-the-risk-connections-that-make-a-difference-in-the-lives-of-youth/]
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It isn't bad luck and bad people that cause
our unhappiness. It's bad choices. -- Hal Urban
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Why Do They Call Planned Parenthood
a Non-Profit Organization?
During its 2005-2006 fiscal year, the
non-profit Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed a record
264,943 abortions, attained a huge profit of $55.8 million and received
record taxpayer funding of $305.3 million. (CNSNews.com, 6/15/07)
For the year July 1, 2005, through June 30,
2006, Planned Parenthood received $345.1 million in clinic [sic] income,
$305 million in taxpayer funding and $212.2 million in donations.
Total income reached $902.8 million while
total expenses came to $847.0 million, leaving a profit of $55.8
million. [EF, News & Notes, 31Aug07]
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"My experience is that women who miscarry are
usually given a small window of sympathy; but women who have abortions
often resort to using drugs and alcohol to cover up the pain because the
people who told us it was OK to abort our babies, don't want to listen
to our crying afterwards". -- Georgette Forney, an abortion survivor,
co-founder of Silent No More Awareness Campaign
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ABORTION FACTS
Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions
in 2009.
Source: http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood's current ratio of
abortions to adoption referrals is 340:1
In 2009 they performed 332,278 abortions, and
made 977 adoption referrals. Source: http://www.plannedparenthood.org
There were, 25,196 abortions reported in Cook
County, Illinois in 2009. On average, that equates to one life destroyed
every 21 minutes.
Source: Illinois Department of Public Health
http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/abortion/abort09.htm African American Abortion Ratio in New York
City (2009): 59.8%
Live Births: 27,405 Induced Abortions: 40,798 Source: New York City Department of Heath and
Mental Hygiene/ Bureau of Vital Statistics for 2009
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2009sum.pdf http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/vs/vs.shtml
Caucasian Abortion Ratio in New York City
(2009): 20.4%
Live Births: 38,438 Induced Abortions: 9,853 Source: New York City Department of Heath and
Mental Hygiene/ Bureau of Vital Statistics for 2009
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2009sum.pdf http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/vs/vs.shtml
Percent of lives lost to abortion in New York
City (2009):
46.7% African American (national average is
37%) 32.5% Hispanic 11.3% Caucasian Source: New York City Department of Heath and
Mental Hygiene/ Bureau of Vital Statistics for 2009
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2009sum.pdf http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/vs/vs.shtml
Since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court
Decision Roe vs. Wade, 13 million African American lives have been lost
to abortion.
Source: Center for Disease Control (CDC)
More African American babies have been killed
by abortions since 1973 than the total number of African American deaths
from AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, cancer and heart disease combined.
Approximate number of African American deaths
since 1973: Abortion: 13+ Million Heart Disease: 2.26 Million Cancer: 1.64 Million Accidents: 307,723 Violent Crimes: 306,313
AIDS: 203,649 Source: Based on cumulative statistics
provided by the US center for Disease Control; accessed
at:http://blackgenocide.org/?negro.html
An African American baby is three times more
likely to be aborted than a white baby. Today, African Americans account for 12.8% of
the American population, but African American women receive 35% of all
abortions. Source: 2010 US Census Data
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html CDC Abortion Surveillance Report 11/26/04
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/?preview/mmwrhtml/ss5212a1.htm
Of the approximately 4,000 abortions that are
performed daily in the United States, 1,452 of them take the lives of
African American children.
Source: Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Total U.S. Abortions since 1973: 52,000,000+
Source:, Center for Disease Control and
Prevention Statistics (CDC), Guttmacher Institute, National Right To
Life Fact
Sheet, http://www.christianliferesources.com/?/library/view.php&articleid=104
[http://thatsabortion.com/Abortion%20Facts.htm, ThatsAbortion.com is a project of Life Always http://thatsabortion.com/Abortion%20Facts.htm
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Pro-abortion feminists consider abortion as
the way to allow women to become unpregnant at will -- so as to become
as irresponsible as some men. They look upon abortion as a way for women
to become like men.
In reality, abortion forces women to surrender
to pregnancy discrimination. Pregnant women are made to feel inferior to
non-pregnant women. By settling for abortion instead of working for
the social changes which would make it possible to combine children and
career, pro-abortion feminists agree to participate in a man's world
under man's terms.
Pro-abortion feminists have betrayed the
majority of working women who want to have children.
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The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has
released Emergency Contraception [EC, also called Plan B, and the
morning after pill, MAP] to the public Over-The-Counter (OTC).
This potent drug will be on the pharmacy shelf
along with aspirin and cough drops. Anyone over age 18 -- and as of
April 2009, anyone under 18 -- may buy EC, even sex predators.
Many physicians and individuals opposed
releasing EC as an OTC drug for many valid medical reasons.
Older men who sexually prey on younger girls
would pressure them to use EC; this would place these girls in serious
danger of STD infection.
Also, the long-term effect of such high-dosage
estrogen on young females has not been studied.
Women who take lower dosage "birth control
pills" need a prescription; higher dosage EC/MAP does not require a
physical exam and girls/women will not have the protective support of
physician oversight.
We were told that EC would cut the number of
surgical abortions in half.
In European countries where EC is freely
available, abortion numbers have increased.
Those who promised the lowered abortion
numbers are now admitting abortion numbers will not be lowered.
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"We are seeing more clearly that these issues
-- teen pregnancy, abortion, STDs, embryonic stem cell research,
cloning, divorce, pornography, etc. -- are intimately connected: the
innate value of the sexual act is literally at the heart of the innate
value of human life.
"In these modern dilemmas, we see that
non-marital (out-of-wedlock) sexual activity is a root problem.” -- Tim Hughes, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
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A report shows that sexually active teens are
far more likely to be depressed and to attempt suicide than those who
hold off until marriage.
More than a quarter (25%) of teen girls who
said they were sexually active also said they had been depressed "a lot
of the time" or "most or all of the time" in the previous week, compared
to 7.7% of girls who said they weren't sexually active. And, 60.2% of girls who refrained from sex
said they were "never or rarely" depressed, compared to just 36.8
percent of sexually active girls who were never or rarely depressed.
For boys, 8.3% of those who were sexually
active reported problems with depression, compared to just 3.4% for
those who weren't.
Girls who were sexually active were 3 times
more likely to say they had attempted suicide than those who
weren't. Sexually active boys were nearly 9 times more likely to have
attempted suicide.
The majority of teens who had become sexually
active admitted they'd started too soon and expressed regret. [Sex, sadness and suicide, Heritage Fdn.,
3Jun03; data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health,
1996, for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
and 17 other federal agencies. The in-home survey (given with parental
permission) interviewed 6,500 people 14-17 years old]
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"I think we have deluded ourselves into
believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. "So any pretense that abortion is not killing
is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it
kills a fetus; but it is the woman's body, and therefore ultimately her
choice." Faye Wattleton, past president of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, in Ms, May/June 1997
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World POPClock Projection
[http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html] "According to the International Programs
Center, U.S. Census Bureau, the total population of the World, projected
to 12/07/10, is 6,886,357,333. "According to the current estimates, the world
population reached 6 billion in 1999 and the new projections indicate
that the 7 billion marker will be reached in 2012."
[http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popwnote.html]
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A must see!! This woman sang this for her daughter (who she
chose to bring to birth even though doctors wanted her to be aborted). This song brought Jennifer Lopez to tears..
and this mother made it to Hollywood! Paris Tassin Singing 'Temporary Home' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP4G0A-oM8s
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"I'm pro-choice. Wait a moment! People have
a CHOICE as to whether they will have sex or not, and they choose
whether it fits with their morals and religious convictions. However,
once the possibility of another life exists, then that other life should
have a choice as well, and who ever heard of a baby CHOOSING to be
aborted?" – Charles Hagen, M.D., FACEP
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"...If I could only give that message to women
who contemplate abortion, to think of how much that child could be loved
by couples like my family, we would be forever grateful."
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Pregnancy Resource Centers -- which help women
find viable alternatives to abortion -- are predominantly in white,
suburban, and small town communities. Most of these centers are
non-profit and are almost always staffed by trained volunteers. However, Planned Parenthood explicitly
identified its profit centers: "young women, low-income women, and women
of color" [Planned Parenthood Plan of Action, 1997].
Studies show that 62.5% of Planned Parenthood
facilities are located in cities where Blacks represent a higher
percentage of the population compared to the overall population of the
state. [LifeIssues.org/connector/display.asp?page=05oct.htm] Planned Parenthood grossed over $1 BILLION in
its last fiscal year...
A Passion to Serve: A Vision for Life - Pregnancy Resource Center
Service Report 2009
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=BL09H01&f=PG09I02 [Family Research Council]
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Because of Good Scientific Research, She
Changed her Mind In a workshop in 2003, the National Cancer
Institute denied an abortion-breast cancer link.
Dr. Louise Brinton, an NCI official who helped organize the 2003
conference, has now reversed her opinion, admitting that abortion and
oral contraceptives do raise breast cancer risk.
40% increased risk for breast cancer for women
who have abortions Dr. Brinton's changed opinion is due to the
results of a study she co-authored with researcher Jessica Dolle in
2009, which documents a 40% increased risk for breast cancer for women
who have abortions, and up to a 320% risk increase for breast cancer for
women using oral contraceptives. [February 2010, Cincinnati RT Life News Brief]
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KOMEN & PLANNED PARENTHOOD = FRIENDS WITH
BENEFITS
Breast Cancer—two words that immediately spark
fear in a woman’s heart. Planned Parenthood—two words that SHOULD spark
fear in a woman’s heart.
When an organization
that [supposedly] attempts to advocate for women by bringing to light
the cause of breast cancer and someday eradicating it, donates money to
a second organization that kills innocent preborn babies—therefore
also putting women at risk of breast cancer—one has to wonder
who really benefits from this ["in bed"]association... [adapted from 24 September 2010, Judie
Brown, ALL Pro-Life Today, KOMEN, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, & ETHICISTS = A
VERY BAD HEARTACHE]
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The most common denominator in abortion cases
is a lack of support for the mother. [Margaret F. Brinig, professor of law and
associate dean, ND Law School, 3Dec09]
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A good government becomes strong through its
compassion and protection of weak and vulnerable members. Society should protect human life at every
stage, not encourage the destruction of future generations through
abortion. Civilized culture cannot survive when it
willfully destroys its young.
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Plan B -- The Morning After Pill: "0.5 percent of women have a genetic
susceptibility to thrombo-embolic disease (blood clots). When these
women take the 'morning-after' pill - which is equal in strength to
taking 50 regular birth control tablets - a blood clot might form." --Dr. Ellen Grant, Lancet (2001)
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Life begins at the moment of fertilization,
when the egg (ovum) and sperm unite. In humans, within 10 hours, this fertilized
cell (zygote) divides into two identical cells. This process will be
repeated millions of times throughout the lifetime of this unique human
being.
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Women who have induced abortions have an
increased risk of HIV infection of 172%, and researchers are at least
99% confident of this result.
"Significantly higher prevalences of infection
[HIV-1] were associated with induced abortion (0.49%) than with delivery
(0.18%) (OR: 2.72; 95% CI: 2.29-3.22)" [European Journal of
Epidemiology, Deliveries, abortion and HIV-1 infection in Rome,
1989-1994, 1997, 13:373-378.] A typical 15 year old American girl has a 10%
lifetime risk of breast cancer.
If she gets pregnant in her teens and has the
baby she reduces her risk to 7.5%. However, if she has an abortion, her
risk of breast cancer rises to 15% (assuming she has at least one child
in her 20's). If the abortion causes permanent infertility
and/or for other reasons, she never has another pregnancy, her risk
rises to 30%. [Brinton LA, Hoover R, Fraumeni IF, Ir.
(1983) Brit. J. Cancer. 47:757-62]
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A 13-year study of pregnancy-associated
deaths, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, found that the maternal mortality rate associated with
abortion is 2.95 times higher than the maternal mortality rate
associated with pregnancies carried to term.
The study included the entire population of
women 15-49 years of age in Finland, 1987-2000. The researchers linked
birth and abortion records to death certificates.
The annual death rate of women who had
abortions in the previous year was also 46% higher than that of
non-pregnant women.
Women who carried to term (gave birth) had a
significantly lower death rate than non-pregnant women.
Non-pregnant women had 57.0 deaths per
100,000, compared to only 28.2 for women who carried to term (gave
birth), 51.9 for women who miscarried, and 83.1 deaths for women who had
abortions. [Gissler M, Berg C, Bouvier-Colle MH, Buekens
P. Pregnancy-associated mortality after birth, spontaneous abortion or
induced abortion in Finland, 1987-2000. Am J Ob Gyn 2004; 190:422-427.
Finland National Research and Development Center]
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Listen to the HEARTBEAT of a BABY 6.5 WEEKS
from Fertilization http://www.lifeissues.org/index.html
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Fast Fact of the Month from The Medical
Institute Hispanic females aged 15-19 years, when
compared to white or to black non-Hispanic females in the same age
group, have a higher pregnancy rate (132.8 vs. 45.2 vs. 128.0 per
100,000 persons), more first time sex partners that are >4 years older
(35% vs. 20% vs. 19%), and a lower proportion ever having talked to a
parent about sexual health topics before the age of 18 (65% vs. 72% vs.
74%), respectively. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sexual and reproductive health of persons aged 10-24 years – United
States, 2002-2007. Surveillance Summaries, July 17, 2009. MMWR
2009;58(No.SS-6).[29September 2009, HIV Vaccine Update, The Medical
Institute, www.medinstitute.org]
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Fast Fact of the Month from The Medical
Institute Hispanic females aged 15-19 years, when
compared to white or to black non-Hispanic females in the same age
group, have a higher pregnancy rate (132.8 vs. 45.2 vs. 128.0 per
100,000 persons), more first time sex partners that are >4 years older
(35% vs. 20% vs. 19%), and a lower proportion ever having talked to a
parent about sexual health topics before the age of 18 (65% vs. 72% vs.
74%), respectively. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sexual and reproductive health of persons aged 10-24 years – United
States, 2002-2007. Surveillance Summaries, July 17, 2009. MMWR
2009;58(No.SS-6).[29September 2009, HIV Vaccine Update, The Medical
Institute, www.medinstitute.org]
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Every 26 seconds a Child dies by abortion in the U.S.A.
What can YOU do to help? BE THEIR VOICE
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"Those who want to preserve the right to abort
point to teenage pregnancy, poor families, and child abuse as their
defense. "These are serious problems – which have
become no better since abortion was legalized in 1973. Abortion is not
the easy solution to these problems…" Steven Alsip, M.D., Infectious Disease
Specialist
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"With abortions easily and legally available,
as well as socially acceptable, it is easier than ever for men to
sexually exploit women... "Women face the risks and guilts of abortion
alone... "Thus the abortion 'choice' is just one more
arena in which men condition their love and respect on the basis of
women's obedience to their desires." -- Nancyjo Mann, founder of Women Exploited By
Abortion
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According to Ramah International, which has
studied female prison inmates, 60-80 percent of these women are
post-abortive, that is, they have experienced at least one abortion.
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Those with conditions that can usually be
corrected medically - such as deformed feet and cleft lip - are instead
being terminated. The number of abortions in England of Down's
Syndrome babies now outstrips those who are born alive, despite the fact
that those with DS can live long, happy, and fulfilling lives. "These figures are symptomatic of a eugenic
trend of the consumerist society hell-bent on obliterating deformity -
and at what cost to its own humanity?" asked ethicist Jacqueline Laing,
of London Metropolitan University. "We are obliterating the willingness of people
to accept disability. Babies are required to fit a description of
normality before they are allowed to be born." "This is straightforward eugenics. The message
is being sent out to disabled people that they should not have been
born. It is appalling and abhorrent," said Nuala Scarisbrick. "Such statistics are an indictment of a
society which places a conditional value upon its citizens, based upon
how 'useful' they may prove to be in later life," notes Patrick
Cusworth. [6May04, Daily Mail; Drudge Report] Presently (2009) about 3 Down babies are
aborted per day in Britain.
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No Baby Deserves to Die Before Having a Chance
to Live! Debbe Magnusen, www.ProjectCuddle.org
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Let the best survive --- so Darwinian... Survival of Fittest is the concept we should
believe... that's how our world evolved, we are told... They then talk from the other side of their
mouths regarding embryonic stem cell research funding and safe sex
education funding... Both embryonic stem cell research and safe sex
education have been proven over and over to be at best ineffective and
at worst huge failures -- "weaker" if you will than adult stem cell
research and authentic abstinence education... Yet, the liberals refuse to "let them die" a
Darwinian death. They insist that we continue to "nurture &
protect" these non-survivable entities by continuing to fund them...with
our tax dollars... Let's demand that the liberals be consistent: Either they have to admit that Darwinian
thought is erroneous, in order to continue funding embryonic stem cell
research and safe sex education; OR they have to drop their support for
embryonic stem cell research funding and safe sex funding in order to be
consistent with their Darwinian theories.
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"'Feminists for Life' is not an oxymoron, it's
a redundancy. "The re-duplicative nature of the phrase is
evident in the basic tenets of feminism: that every human being deserves
the opportunity to develop into the best she or he is capable of; and
that each individual be respected, however minimal or great their
development may be..." -- Dr. Maureen Jones-Ryan, 1990
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To cure the genocide of real weapons of war in
other lands, and yet sustain the medical genocide of abortion that kills
3000-4000 Americans daily in our own land, is sheer lunacy... [letter written by a woman who experienced two
abortions years ago...]
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Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) on the House
floor, regarding stem cell research: "The truth is that embryonic stem cell
research is perfectly legal in the U.S. Every lab in America could do
embryonic stem cell research," he said. "The issue here is who is going to pay for
it? The federal government should not. It is unnecessary research and it
is unethical."
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A young activist in Australia described the
true heart of the pro-life cause at a 40 Days for Life prayer vigil
outside a Sydney abortion business. “If I were to spend my whole life outside this
door, but only ended up helping one woman to one day hold her child and
to raise it with our help, it’d be worth it,” Ronan told the film
crew...
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If food and fluids are now considered to be
"medical treatment", why can’t we deduct our grocery bills as
medical expenses?
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Overpopulation Is A Myth http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
POP 101... A Primer on the Future of Planet
Earth...The Science
http://overpopulationisamyth.com/category/categories/pop101