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Abortion Slogans RefutedPro-Abortion Slogan #1: "We demand the freedom to choose! Freedom of choice!" Summary of the Pro-Life Response. (1) CLARIFICATION: We must distinguish between licit and illicit freedoms. (2) PARALLELISM: Unlimited "freedom to choose" means simple anarchy. (3) MAXIM: No freedom is absolute. Read More... Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983)CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No. 81-746 Argued: November 30, 1982 Decided: June 15, 1983 [*] An Akron, Ohio, ordinance, inter alia, (1) requires all abortions performed after the first trimester of pregnancy to be performed in a hospital (§ 1870.03); (2) prohibits a physician from performing an abortion on an unmarried minor under the age of 15 unless he obtains the consent of one of her parents or unless the minor obtains an order from a court having jurisdiction over her that the abortion be performed (§ 1870.05(B))… Read More… Catholics for a Free Choiceby Brian Clowes Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a Washington, D.C.-based organization whose objective is to convince lawmakers, the popular media and Catholics that there can be an authentic "Catholic pro-choice" philosophy. CFFC was founded in 1970 by three members of a pro-abortion group called the National Organization for Women (NOW). Its first public act was to ridicule the Catholic Church by crowning one of these women "Pope Joan I" on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Read More... Demographic Impacts of Abortion, Theby Brian Clowes The total number of deaths through surgical abortion in the U.S. is equivalent to the combined populations of the states in red below... Read More... Demographic Impacts of Abortion, Theby Brian Clowes Pro-abortion groups and individuals constantly hone their public relations images by alleging that we should keep abortion "legal, safe and rare." In the real world, they fight tooth and nail for the first objective, but could not care less if abortion is safe or rare. Many pro-abortionists have said that abortion is really no big deal, and that all we are doing is getting rid of unwanted children who would just be abused anyway. They also says that "safe and legal" abortion is a great benefit to the United States, because it cuts down on overpopulation, culls out the unwanted human beings who would just wind up on the welfare rolls anyway (thereby saving us billions of tax dollars per year), and demonstrates that American society is "progressive" and "caring." Read More... Dignity of the Human Embryo, Theby Angelo Serra In 1986, a false supposition or pretext of irresponsible science deprived the "recently conceived" human being of its title and value of "son." The new, "recently conceived" life arising from the fusion of the maternal and paternal gametes is just beginning a marvelous dialogue with his or her parents-above all the mother-but is seen on a biological, psychological, mental and spiritual level as not having the name "son" or "daughter" until the fourteenth day after conception. Before that day one "should" consider him or her as "bunch of cells", and not as a "human being," the gift and living expression of the love of a father and mother. The law also followed this supposition and pretext: before that fourteenth day, the law negates the "right" to be a son, reducing him to a mere "disposable object," to the point of conceding his ownership-something which we never before could have imagined! Read More... Embryonic Selection and Reductionby Angelo Serra Embryonic selection and embryonic reduction are two expressions introduced in the practice of "technically assisted reproduction" to indicate: first, the killing of a human embryo produced in a test tube before the transfer in utero, after observations and tests indicating that it will not develop into a normal subject; second, the killing of one or more human embryos in utero when, after the transfer of several embryos, more than one develops. Read More... Fertility and Continenceby Rita Joseph There are two mutually contradictory advertising messages that have been presented for the last thirty years. On one side, fertility should be contained and controlled. Otherwise there would be unwanted pregnancies, with a resulting deterioration of development, scarcity of natural resources and the loss for women of the role that is due to them in society. On the other side, continence, that it to say the ability of human beings to control their own sexuality, is said to be impossible. Read More... Free Choiceby William E. May The expression "free choice" is connected in today's public opinion with the struggle conducted by different groups in favor of liberalizing the laws on procured abortion in different countries. In the name of the right of the human person to his own body in order to realize his life's project, these groups asserted that a pregnant woman has the right to abortion, and that the law has to respect such a right. Read More... Gendercide: Where Have All the Girls Gone?by Joseph Meaney One of the most shocking global trends I have encountered in travels to over 54 countries on all continents in the past five years is the practice of gendercide. This massive "disappearance" of girls in the last few decades is an underreported international scandal. Undisputed evidence exists that over 100 million women have been killed for the "crime" of being female since the 1970s and 1980s and the problem is only growing worse. Where are the protests and outrage at the United Nations (UN) and among organizations that self-identify themselves as defending or representing women? Only a few voices have recently called for action and even described the situation as "the slaughter of Eve, a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions." Read More... International Abortion Situation, Theby Brian Clowes The population controllers allege that the world is critically overburdened with people right now, and that this crush of humanity is destroying the environment and detracting from everybody's quality of life. Therefore, they say that it is absolutely essential that we slow or halt population growth by making contraception and abortion available to all of the world's women. Since about 1965, the population controllers have also been hinting that, if we do not put the brakes on our runaway population, the use of massive and widespread coercion will be necessary in order to save the planet. Read More... Legal Status of the Human Embryo, Theby Rodolfo-Carlos Barra Discussions about the humanity of the embryo, product of the male-female union, arise as one tries to formulate premises that facilitate the legalization of abortion and the practices that threaten the very existence of the new being. In this context, it became necessary to coin the term "pre-embryo." This procedure is not new. From antiquity, people have questioned the humanity of other persons every time it became necessary to use arguments to exploit or terminate them. Read More... Partial Birth Abortionby Jacques Suaudeau The right to life of every human being is less and less protected by law. The universal scope of this right which was solemnly declared in 1948 and reaffirmed in 1989 in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child is whittled away more and more. This is notably illustrated by the tendency to legalize abortion and euthanasia. The particularly horrible technique of Partial Birth Abortion, to which President Clinton attached his name by vetoing bans against it, calls our attention to a new stage in the current anti-life escalation. The abortion termed "partial" is in fact an infanticide. Read More... Pre-Implantation and Emergency Contraceptionby John Wilks The terms "pre-implantation contraception" [PIC] and "emergency contraception" [EC] as well as ‘post-coital contraception' [PCC] are synonymous expressions inaccurately used to describe the administration of a drug or use of a device post intercourse, with the explicit intention of stopping implantation of a newly created human embryo. These three terms are also collectively referred to, in both the lay and medical literature, as the ‘morning-after' pill. Read More... Pro-Abortion ViolencePro-abortionists and the media talk a lot about "anti?choice violence" and an alleged "organized campaign of terror and intimidation against reproductive health centers." Most people perceive the struggle over abortion in the USA to be a vicious and brutal battle -- with all of the violence being committed by so?called "fanatical anti?choicers." This is entirely due to the stupid actions of a handful of deranged individuals and the persistent and monolithic bias of the national broadcast, print, and entertainment media. This bias has been well-documented and is demonstrated by the different way the media treats violence committed by people on each side of the abortion struggle. Read More... Pro-Choiceby Joseph & Michael Meaney The pro-choice ideology was born at the end of the sixties through pro abortion groups progressively using twisted semantics to hide what being in favor of abortion meant. An important step in this propaganda came in the seventies and eighties, when there was an attempt to argue in favor of abortion in the sense of negating that the fetus is an individual or even human. The pro choice arguments do not stand up to a calm study of the scientific facts. Read More... Sexual and Reproductive Rightsby José Alfredo Peris Cancio A series of vague and imprecise expressions made headway following a precise strategy during the Cairo and Beijing international conferences. The basis of this was a skewed interpretation of the 1948 International Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations grounded in a different vision of man than the one which inspired this fundamental historical text. One of the most important among these expressions is "sexual and reproductive rights" which is closely tied to an individualistic and statist conception of man and of society. Read More... State of the World ReportState of the World Report, from the Pro-Life Research Series, presents the status of abortion laws around the world on a country-by-country basis. A print version of this document is available from the HLI on-line store. Read More... Surgical Abortionby Brian Clowes The term "abortion" has traditionally meant the intentional or unintentional expulsion of the preborn child from the uterus before he or she has reached the age of viability (defined as the point after which the preborn child can survive outside the womb with or without medical assistance). In practice, though, abortion in a number of countries (including the United States, Canada and the People's Republic of China) is legal until the moment of birth. In fact, some abortion methods such as dilation and extraction (D&X), the "partial birth" abortion, are designed to kill the preborn child when the birth process is almost complete. Read More... United States Abortion Statisticsby Brian Clowes Anyone who fights the Culture of Death realizes how heavily anti-lifers rely upon emotional appeals to support their arguments. This is particularly true of pro-abortionists, who strongly dislike using hard facts and statistics, because they do not support the pro-abortion position. Instead, they write and talk endlessly about (usually) fictional stories of anonymous women "brutalized" by illegal abortions, or about the "hard cases" for abortion - rape, incest and severe fetal deformities. They ignore facts and statistics and instead lean on emotional appeals and feelings to make their points. Read More... |