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Immediate Complications of Abortion

Are there any immediate complications associated with abortion? (#72)

Long-Term Physical Effects of Abortion

Women with one past abortion were 45% more likely to give birth before 32 weeks, 71% more likely to do so at less than 28 weeks, and more than 50% more likely at less than 26 weeks. (#61)

According to a 2003 study, the overall death rate of women rises 3.5 times after an abortion. (#73)

Countries With Abortion-On-Demand Have Lower Life Expectancies (#62)

A Vital Link: Breast Cancer and Abortion (#76)

Multiple Abortions and Breast Cancer Link (#78)

A girl who has an abortion before the age of 18 increases her risk of developing breast cancer by 150% (#79)

Epidemic in Our Midst: The Abortion-Breast Cancer Connection (#86)

The National Cancer Institute: Spending Awhile in Denial (#71)

Psychological/Emotional Impact of Abortion

Does Abortion Have Any Negative Effects on Women? (#60)

The Hidden Dangers of Abortion (#64)

The Real Impact of Abortion: Post-Abortion Trauma (#70)

Abortion: Taking Two Lives at a Time (#74)

A Constant Reminder: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (#84)

Abortion: A Key to Freedom or a Chain of Imprisonment (#80)

Other Articles on the Impact of Abortion

- Warnings for Smoking, But Not Abortion? (#153)

Abortion: Unsafe for Any Need? (#21)

Abortion: The Real Danger to the Life of the Mother (#68)

Legal Abortion Doesn’t Save Women’s Lives, Report Shows (#59)

Abortion: Not a Caring Gesture (#139)

Escaping the Side Effects of Abortion: Kind of Like Running from a Twister (#133)

Backed into a Corner: Coercion and Abortion (#85)

Protecting a Woman’s Right? Or Perpetuating Violence? (#87)

Pro-Life Advocates: The True Proponents of Women’s Health (#58)

Second Chances: What Do You Do If An Abortion Fails The First Time? (#241)

Delivering a Child has a Protective Effect on Women (#256)

Testimonies from Post-Abortive Women

Abortion: Never the Right Option, Words From Women Who Know (#63)

Other Pro-Life Testimony

The Conversion of Jane Roe (#249)

Spreading the Pro-Life Message

How Should I Encourage a Pregnant Woman Not To Abort?

The Importance of A Helping Hand (#17)

How Do We Reduce the Tendency for Women to Feel They Need an Abortion? (#243)

Unplanned Pregnancies: Where to Turn for Help (#69)

How Should I Make the Case for the the Pro-Life Cause in Public?

How can you help to spread the pro-life message? (#216)

Is It Enough To Just Spread the Pro-Life Message Through Personal Communication? (#236)

The Talk: Pro Life/ Pro Choice Rhetoric (#88)

Does Reaching Out To Pro-Life Youth Really Matter? (#237)

Is abortion just another issue? (#137)

Abortion Is Not Just another Issue (#185)

Should Those Who Are Pro-Life Also Oppose Comprehensive Sex Education and Birth Control? (#229)

Other Important Topics

Shouldn’t we focus just as much on helping adults who are suffering from ailments such as cancer? (#220)

What’s Wrong With Stem Cell Research? (#228)

You Can tell A Lot About A Person By Looking At Their Trash (#253)

Is there any financial incentive for couples to adopt? (#232)

Aborted Fetuses Found in Some Vaccines (#244)

Does In Vitro Fertilization Take Lives? (#239)

Fetal cells from the bodies of electively aborted babies have been used in the development of artificially enhanced flavors. (#251)

Is In Vitro Fertilization Morally Acceptable? (#238)

Should We Minimize the Pain of Those We Put To Death? (#230)

How Can the Pro-Life Movement Be More Effective?

Do Men Have a Responsibility in Helping Encourage Women to carry on with a pregnancy and provide support? (#190)

There are Just Some Things Government Cannot Do (#20)

You Might Be Supporting Abortion Without Even Knowing About It (#225)

The Throwaway Society: Should We Be Able To Dispose Of Preborn Children As If They Are Property? (#161)

Are you an abortion abolitionist? (#201)

Are You Willing To Take A Stand For Preborn Lives? (#240)

Pro-life students, as well as faculty, feel the pro-choice pressure in higher education – Take a stand for those without a voice! (#247)

Pro-Lifers Do Not Only Care About the Lives of the Unborn: The Story of Rachel’s Vineyard (#235)

What Effect Has the Age of the Internet and Social Media Had on Abortion? (#246)

Pro-Life Quotes and Slogans

What Do Feminists Have to Say About Abortion?

Where do feminists stand on the issue of life? (#200)

“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them” – Susan B. Anthony (#213)

“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (#206)

“Truly liberated women reject abortion because they reject the male world view that accepts violence as a legitimate solution to conflict.” (#193)

“Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” - Alice Paul (#208)

“My story as a survivor is very unique, but I know that I’m not alone. Every single one of us here today are survivors of abortion. Each and every one of you were one choice away from being aborted, just like me.” – Melissa Ohden (#194)

What Do Religious Leaders Have To Say About Abortion

“The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies… If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.” – Pope John Paul II (#202)

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you can live as you wish” – Mother Theresa (#212)

“It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.” - Mahatma Gandhi (#205)

“Openness to life is at the centre of true development. When a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man’s true good.” - Pope Benedict XVI (#207)

“How can The Dream survive if we murder the children?” - Dr. Alveda King (#210)

“The level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. The reason is to be found in the difference between knowing and loving… Since a woman is loved, it follows that the nobler a woman is the nobler man will have to to be deserving of that love. That is why the level of any civilization is always the level of womanhood.” - Archbishop Fulton Sheen (#195)

“Life – It is not defined by size; it is not defined by location or the need of a special environment. It is not defined by a level of development or the ability to defend itself. We know the signs of it, it is easy to recognize – even down to its quiet pulses and invisible waves. Life – we know it when we see it. We know it best when we see it taken away” – Alveda King (#197)

Other Pro-Life Themed Quotes

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor (#199)

“There’s a reason that each one of us has been given even a little bit of insight into the culture of death: so we can be used together to ultimately be victorious, to end abortion in our country and build a culture of life” – Lila Rose (#211)

“Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves.” – Ronald Reagan (#203)

“To say a child is unwanted says nothing about the child, but it says much about the person who does not want his or her child…” – Jean Garton (#204)

“Unwanted” is not a condition of a child, but an attitude of adults. (#196)

It (He or She) is a Child, not a Choice (#198)

“The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby” – GK Chesterton (#209)

One of the most horrific crimes that a woman can experience is sexual assault.

Following a sexual assault, women find themselves struggling to recover from this traumatic event.

What can make this recovery even more difficult is that, in a small percentage of these cases, the victim of sexual assaults become pregnant with the assaulters’ child.

So what should the woman do?

Abort the baby?

Keep the baby?

More often than not, the woman decides to keep the child.

Many sexual assault victims see birth as a selfless, loving act that helps bring healing from their horrific experience.

Many pro-choice advocates believe “the reason women want abortions in these cases is because it will help them to put the assault behind them, recover more quickly, and avoid the additional trauma of giving birth to a “rapist’s child” [2].

The Elliot Institute did a study that dealt with women who had become impregnated through sexual assault [3] and found that of 164 women, an overwhelming 73% chose to give birth.

What this shows is that women do not automatically want an abortion after assault, and having an abortion actually just makes the situation worse – it ends an innocent life that had no part in the crime of the assault.

Oftentimes, the women who do have abortions become unhappy with their decision and regret it.

Giving birth can be seen as a selfless, loving act that helps bring healing from the horrific experience of rape.

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References

[1] Johnston, Robert. (2008). “Reasons Given for Having Abortions in the United States.” Johnston’s Archive, 9 Oct 2008. Web. 15 Jun 2011. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html

[2] Reardon, David C. (2004). “Rape, Incest, and Abortion: Searching Beyond the Myths.” Elliot Institute, http://afterabortion.org/2004/rape-incest-and-abortion-searching-beyond-the-myths-3/

[3] Ibid.

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Many women considering abortion do so without knowing the progress of their child.

Had they been aware, it is very likely than many of these woman would not choose abortion.

At 13 weeks from conception, a fetus’ vocal chords and auditory sense are present [1].

So even after these children are able to make noise with their vocal chords, there are still some who deny their humanity.

Although these children do have a voice already at 13 weeks, they are still not able to speak up and defend themselves.

Their fragile lives are still very much in need of protection.

Especially in cases where the preborn life has made such progress, mothers should be made aware of this.

When a preborn baby will feel the pain of an abortion and be able to make vocally react, this should not be kept secret.

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References

[1] 1.Clowes, Brian, PhD. 2001. The Facts of Life. Front Royal: Human Life International.

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Abortion has been an issue of debate for a very long time. Since 1973, abortion has been legal in the U.S.

However, while people go on and on about whether it should be permissible, it has resulted in the death of over 50 million innocent lives [1], and by some estimates the number now exceeds 53 million.

While there is discussion on this issue from time to time, the fact that it has been allowed to become so common is evidence that there are not nearly enough people take a strong, active stand in defense of the unborn.

Many people are aware of the facts regarding abortion and know it to be wrong, yet take no real action to defend the lives of the preborn publicly.

Instead of abortion being rare, these numbers show that it has become incredibly common.

Many lives have been lost, and our society is no better for it.

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References

[1] Jones, Rachel K. and Koolstra, Kathryn. (2010). “Abortion Incidence and Access to Services In the United States, 2008.” http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/4304111.pdf

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Abortion is viewed as a valuable option by many who are pro-choice. However, what most people do not know is that abortion is geared towards minorities.

While African Americans and Hispanics comprise for only 28% of the population, they account for nearly 60% of all abortions [2].

One of the primary reasons for this is because the largest abortion provider in America, Planned Parenthood, was founded by a woman who sought to implement eugenics.

Its founder, Margaret Sanger, was an active leader in the eugenics movement, believed in “purifying” the population, and found minorities to be unclean.

Abortion in America is not simply a war against the unborn, but it is a war against anyone who might not be thought of as having perfect characteristics.

Those who are non-white, suffering from a medical condition, or would be born into poverty are sometimes written off as being better off having their lives taken away.

This is not something that should be allowed in 21st century America.

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References

[1] Guttmacher Institute. (2011). “Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States .”Guttmacher Institute, May 2011. Web. 12 Jun 2011. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

[2] Ibid

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