Guide to Informed Choices
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49: Abortion procedures are brutal
example While some point to the Mother Nature as evidence that we should care for our babies, others look to nature as proof that we should kill them! It‘s not hard to realize that nature is not perfect. Neither are we. In fact, there is no ultimate perfection in this world. Just because some animals are un-motherly and eat their young or abandon them doesn‘t mean killing is right for us. Taking the cruelties of nature as an example, some Ecofeminists believe that it is okay to take life. This is despite the fact that some of them concede that the fetus has a soul or higher awareness. This is one of their quotes: ―Although most of us believe that a fetus at a minimum has a psychic consciousness, our support for abortion was grounded in a profound understanding that, as in nature, the taking of life is sometimes necessary.‖ 739
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what Ecofeminists claim, Abortion isn‘t about self-regulation (you aren‘t regulating yourself; you‘re regulating your baby). It‘s not about preventing the planet from overpopulation (contraception is good for that). It‘s not about preventing more children than you can handle (sexual restraint is the answer for that). And no, it‘s not about making ―sacrificial choices for ecological harmony‖ 740 either. Another endorsement of abortion in the name of nature comes from the liberal- minded Salon Magazine . Camille Paglia writes,
―My argument… has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every
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species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism.‖ 741 So,
basically, ‗humans have an urge to have sex and we should not be prisoners of that urge‘. But instead of urging us to become in control of those urges, she recommends we give in to them, but gain control back by abortion instead. She continues, ―Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.‖ 742
Secondly, her implication is that Nature is necessarily cruel and therefore we may do likewise. Hitler also saw himself as working with Nature, helping the ―well adapted,‖ 743
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reproduce. And elsewhere he also said, ―Nature is cruel, therefore we, too, may be cruel.‖ 745
Again, using Nature‘s cruelties as a justification for death.
Are today‘s
Ecofeminists aware that their logic is the same as Hitler‘s?
Reason #59 ―When considering abortion, it‘s important to realize that we are different to animals‖
Reason #60 The abortion industry is a business
No abortion = bad business ust imagine how much abortion clinics would stand to lose if they seriously discouraged abortion in favor of parenthood? Aside from being pro-life, it would just be bad business practice! Although clinics frequently provide contraceptive services, it‘s the abortions that bring in the dough. And how much dough do they bring in? Lots. Prices vary and, of course, change with inflation, but to give you an idea, according to information supplied by one online abortion chain, abortions before 12 weeks may cost $500- $1,000. Abortions from 12-24 weeks may cost $600-$10,000. 746
For third trimester abortions, the cost is bound to be even more. Since it is a business, how does Planned Parenthood encourage customers? One way is not to promote parenthood or adoption, meaning, they may mention it as your ‗option‘ but rather to get you to agree that you couldn‘t afford that, preferring an abortion. Does Planned Parenthood equally J
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promote and fund any choice besides
abortion, for example, prenatal care or adoption? Of course not. According to Planned Parenthood‘s own data, if you visited one of their clinics in 2006, you were 28 more times likely to receive an abortion over prenatal care and over 62 times more likely to receive an abortion over an adoption referral. 747
What else does the abortion industry do? They promote safe sex and lots of it. As you may know, Planned Parenthood provides a very clear and graphic sex education program for teenagers. Without thinking you might believe they actually cared about their customers (and I‘m not saying their employees don‘t — people don‘t necessarily represent an organi- zation). But what they are actually doing is setting themselves up for future business! Let me explain. The abortion clinics rely on people continually getting pregnant. That‘s why they focus on sex education classes. Not the old-fashioned, save-it-for-that-special- person-in-marriage stuff, but the new how- to-do-everything-that-feels-good plan. Now, if they promoted the OLD
FASHIONED way (which was pretty jolly sensible, actually) they wouldn‘t get many customers! But, since they advocate the NEW DO IT ALL way, they get lots of customers! (Okay, yes, society is to blame, too, and there are different factors, but I still think my point is valid, so let‘s keep reading.) Why? There is only
ONE method that is 100% certain of avoiding pregnancy. And that‘s the old fashioned way — abstinence. ―But, but, but…,‖ you say. ―You just don‘t ‗get it‘ — contraceptives prevent pregnancy.‖ Not so fast, my friend. They do. But there is always a failure rate. Condoms have a 15% failure rate — 15 in 100 women get pregnant. 748
The Pill has an 8% failure rate — 8 in 100 women get pregnant the first year. 749
Did you know that even permanent birth control like sterilization is not fail proof? There is a 0.5% failure rate for female sterilization, which means 1 in 200 women using this method will get pregnant. 750 For
male sterilization the failure rate is 0.2%, which means that for 1 in 500 men it will not be effective. 751
Planned Parenthood knows this when they promote sex — in fact, these figures I just gave you came from them! They also know that ―each year, one million American teenagers become
pregnant, and 78% of these pregnancies are unintended.‖ And, ―four in every five Americans begin having intercourse before age 20.‖
752 Now, I wonder why. Can you see how promoting sex and handing out free contraceptives is, in actuality, creating more pregnancies, and that unwanted pregnancies are particularly profitable for them? Planned Parenthood continues to focus
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on experiencing sex
but avoiding pregnancies. 753
But of course it‘s not possible to be 100% certain in preventing pregnancy when you have sex. Sex leads to pregnancies. And unwanted pregnancies lead to profits. Good business plan they have, isn‘t it? Ever wondered why Planned
Parenthood campaigns against abstinence- type sex education and calls them dangerous? 754
They are — to abortion profits.
It‘s not about women, it‘s about the money I know now what the bottom line in an abortion clinic is: Money. Not women‘s health, not women‘s ―rights,‖ just money. If you don‘t have the abortion, they don‘t make the money. —Cheryl
he National Abortion Federation, on why women need abortions after 12 weeks, proposes that ―A pregnancy may have been planned and very much wanted — until tragedy strikes. For example, the diagnosis of some debilitating disease, a car accident, a job loss, or a natural disaster might lead a woman to decide this is the wrong time to have a baby.‖ 755
I don‘t know about you, but an abortion doesn‘t strike me as being the best thing that we could do to help a woman like this. ―Have a car accident, get an abortion.‖ I don‘t follow the logic. In fact, it doesn‘t seem like much of a solution at all. I would suggest that the mother-to-be would be much better off if we offered to meet her actual needs — such as car repairs, career counseling and job searches, help paying medical bills or housing assistance, rather than suggesting she kill her baby when she faces some tragedy. The National Abortion Federation would have you believe that abortion is a magic cure for any and all life‘s tragedies. Hey, they even offered free abortions to women after September 11. I find that offer particularly insensitive. Sadly, it‘s cheaper for society to abort than support mothers and their children. It‘s also a great way to bring in the big bucks if you‘re an abortion clinic or abortionist. When Michael Christie, a practicing abortionist, was interviewed by the pro- choice Magda Denes, he admitted the money was a motivator for him, saying his motivations were not ―purely altruistic‖ and that the money was ―a big factor.‖ 756
If you think about motivation, consider also that some of the largest supporters of abortion (Planned Parenthood, The National Abortion Federation, Guttmacher Institute) are the ones who financially T
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profit, while none of the pro-life supporters stand to gain anything financially and even have to pay out of pocket to support their beliefs. Who seems the most purely motivated to you? 757
also says it‘s about the money: ―It's a lie when they tell you that they're doing it to help women, because they're not. They're doing it for the money.‖ 758
worker (and ―Roe‖ from Roe v. Wade ), tells how the abortionist she worked for would have her to inform clients that they were further along than they really were so that he would make an extra hundred dollars. The female patients, not wanting to seek a second opinion on such an embarrassing and sensitive matter, would simply shell out the extra money. 759
Abortionists say they do it for women, yet how many of them would still do it if they were asked to provide abortions without payment? 760
Quotable Quote ―The abortion solution is a financially cheap way for society to brush troubled women out of the way while claiming to have done them a service.‖ 761
—David Reardon, Aborted Women
Your tax dollars piling up the profits for abortion clinics According to
Planned Parenthood‘s financial statements from last year, they received more than 305 million of your tax dollars and made more than 60 million dollars in profit. Although slated as a not for profit organization, they operate like a typical business. It‘s all about the bottom line. 762
—Ainsley Earhardt, Hannity‘s America, Fox News, 9/9/07
money and they make big profits too.
In its annual report for 2007-2008, Planned Parenthood reported an income of:
$374.7 million from their clinics services (of
that $305,310 was abortion services) 763
$244.9 million
from private
contributions 764
$349.6 million in government grants and contracts (that‘s your tax money) 765
Their total revenue for the year was 1,038.1 million, which came out to a nice little comfortable profit of 85 million, just for one year. 766 Now, of course abortions fluctuate and clinics open and close. Just for fun let‘s see what their profit would have A
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been if the same figures were applicable for the last 35 years of legal abortions. Planned Parenthood would have made a profit of
$2,975,000,000! I agree with Vice President of the American Life League, Jim Sedlak, who once stated, ―Planned Parenthood must assume that elected officials can't read a simple annual report. While Planned Parenthood is begging for increased government funding, it's also admitting that it racked up record operating profits in its most recent fiscal year." 767
this lucrative private business? Why are abortion clinics charging women such high fees when they already make so much profit?
Reason #60 Selling abortions is a lucrative business Reason #61 Abortionists don‘t enjoy their job
The moral dilemma his chapter uses the direct quotes of abortionists and abortion training manuals to show that abortionists don‘t enjoy their job. The first group of quotes covers the moral dilemma they face.
I was doing abortions and delivering babies, but increasingly I found the moral tensions building and becoming intolerable. On one floor of the hospital we would be delivering babies and on another floor doing abortions...What were we doing here, were we saving babies or were we killing them? 768
—Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson
The doctor said she lost control only once, when she was performing an abortion on a 30-year-old doctor after she herself had just had a miscarriage. She had been trying for seven years to become pregnant. After the abortion, she said, ''I just collapsed on the floor,'' overcome by her emotions. 769
—Former unnamed female abortionist T
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The only way I can do an abortion is to consider only the woman as my patient and block out the baby. 770
In previous weeks, she had tried to keep similar-sized babies alive. This "conflict of effort" was, to Lesley, "weird, even surreal.‖ 771
—Referring to medical student Lesley Wojick on performing her abortion rotation in the ob/gyn department
The unpleasant work his second section includes quotes about how unpleasant the work is.
Policies regarding working hours, vacation, sick leave, and holidays should be designed on the generous side in an abortion practice; job stress (―burnout‖) is common in abortion services. 772
Abortion Practice
―He is one of my best friends, a medical colleague, who is strongly pro-choice and who has done abortions himself,'' Dr. Hern said. ''I called him late Saturday afternoon and said I wanted to come over. He asked me where I was and I told him I was at my office.'' At that point, Dr. Hern said, his friend quipped, ''Still killing babies this late in the afternoon?'' ''It was like a knife in my gut,'' Dr. Hern said. ''It really upset me. What it conveys is that no matter how supportive people may be, there still is a horror at what I do.‖ 773
-—practicing abortionist Dr. Warren Hern
This was a perfect little fetus inside, and now it, it no longer is. I try not to focus on that too much…it is upsetting, and it‘s embarrassing as well. I always feel uncomfortable if other people are watching me do this. I don‘t like to expose them to this, well, carnage…because all it does is upset them. 774
—Dr. G., practicing abortionist
She always made it through the surgery safely, but then she faced the grisly chore of sifting through fetal parts, a job which frequently got to her, even in late first trimester abortions. 775
to Kate
Horowitz, practicing abortionist
Deb found the sight of fetal parts that looked like baby parts too upsetting to offer her assistance during later procedures. ―Reality hits,‖ she admitted. 776
—Deb Andrews, nurse working at an abortion clinic
unpleasant as I do. I really don't enjoy it all. It's not a rewarding thing to do. 777
an abortionist Whether we were justifying our past T
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advocacy (as I was), justifying a previous abortion (as many were), or whatever, we were just trying to cope… Believe me, it takes a lot of beers to make yourself forget what you‘re doing. 778
'If you do 12 in a row, it can make you feel bad,'' the chief resident said. ''No matter how pro-choice you are, it makes you feel low.' 779
—Unnamed OB/GYN student resident training as an abortionist
Abortionist needed job to pay for his children ―I needed money to pay expenses and education for my children. It was supposed to be temporary, but it turned out to be longer. I was in a position I didn't want to be in, but I needed work.‖ 780
—Convicted abortionist Malachy DeHenre
more his last set of quotes show that no one wants the job anymore.
Lynne Randall, the executive director of the Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta, has been looking since February for a replacement for her staff physician. She placed an advertisement in Obgyn News. She has written to 1,000 graduating obstetrician-gynecologists across the
country, and to 2,000 graduating family practice students. Starting pay is relatively high, at $125,000 a year, but only one family practitioner and no obstetrician- gynecologists have responded. 781
— New York Times , 1993
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