Three Myths of the Pro-Life Movement Exposed

Anyone who has read much about abortion in the news, or commented on an abortion discussion on Facebook or Twitter, has likely encountered three myths in one form or another. Sadly, blog comments or Facebook debates rarely elevate the discussion. Instead, emotion often rules the day. On the surface, the following statements may seem to be reality; closer examination reveals that their justifications are mythical, not rational.

Myth #1. The Pro-Life movement is “pro-forced birth” - The desire of pro-life people is not that we want to force women to do what they don’t want to do, but rather that our social values change to the point that people no longer desire abortion.

Myth #2. The pro-life movement does not care about women, just babies - The cause of life compels the protection not only of the unborn, but of the mother as well. We understand that women need compassion, hope, and help when facing pregnancy decisions. Our desire to protect women is not predicated on their views on abortion; pro-life advocates have been at the forefront of calling for increased regulatory oversight to ensure the safety of women seeking abortion at abortion clinics.

Myth # 3. The pro-life movement only cares about babies in the womb, but disregards their needs when they are born - Pregnancy centers provide services for the poor, minority, and at-risk babies before and after their birth. If these centers only cared about them in the womb, why would they provide parenting classes, diapers, financial support, and other aid to these children and their mothers? Clearly, their actions indicate that this accusation is unfounded.

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What could happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned?

Predictions are high for the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that required all 50 states to allow abortion on demand. But what would actually happen across the United States if Roe fell? One answer is that it would depend on how the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe. Let’s briefly explore what could happen in a post-Roe America.

Abortion could be returned to the states - If the Supreme Court flatly overturns Roe v. Wade, declaring its former decision unconstitutional, abortion would return to the jurisdiction of each state.

Abortion could be made illegal under the 5th and 14th Amendments - Both the 5th and 14th Amendments give human beings — not just citizens — the right to equal protection under the law. When a fundamental right — the right to life being chief among them — is violated, and the government approves through law, action, or intentional inaction, the Supreme Court considers this discrimination.

Pregnant women will still need empowerment and practical support - Some of these mothers will still be in difficult or dangerous circumstances. There will be a greater need than ever for pregnancy resource centers and medical clinics that serve pregnant mothers and their children.

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Statistics Reveal many Abortions are happening later in Pregnancy

A recent state abortion data reveals that later-term abortions in some states were as high as 15 to 17 percent of all abortions reported. National abortion data reveals that over 100,000 abortions occur in the second and third trimesters each year. Polls show that the American public is uneasy with aborting a child beyond the first trimester (13 weeks and up) and believe it should be restricted after this point.

It is clear from previous reports that late-term abortions are not being committed solely for health reasons. In several states, including New Mexico, taxpayers are actually forced to fund late-term procedures (after the 20th week) done for any reason the woman desires.

In 2014, more than 100,000 abortions took place in the 2nd and 3rd trimester...

- 13-15 weeks (6.2%): 57,424
- 16-20 weeks (3.8%): approximately 35,195
- 21 weeks and greater (1.3%): approximately 12,040

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Pro-abortion groups panic, ramp up efforts to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court

As America awaits the confirmation hearings on whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh will join the U.S. Supreme Court, pro-abortion activists continue to work to build opposition to President Donald Trump’s latest nominee.  The GOP’s 50-49 Senate majority can withstand one defection and still confirm Kavanaugh with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie. Two “no” votes from the GOP would force Republicans to sway at least one of three red-state Democrats.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL, and other pro-abortion women’s groups are joining an army of left-wing groups to organize a “Stand for Justice” rally on August 26, International Women’s Day, to demand that senators block Kavanaugh, Breitbart reports.

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Governor Rauner appointed retiring pro-life State Rep. Patti Bellock to direct the Department of Healthcare and Family Services

Governor Rauner and his wife have donated thousands and thousands of dollars to abortion provider Planned Parenthood, he signed into law a measure forcing Illinois taxpayers to pay for abortions for any reason, and the same law he lauded protects the right to abortion if Roe vs Wade is overturned. This move upset Democrats because the Governor is now "waffling" on the abortion issue because Rep. Bellock has a solid pro-life voting record.

Rep. Bellock while in the General Assembly, consistently voted no on issues related to reproductive health, she voted 'no' on HB40 and has a consistent record on voting against bills promoting reproductive health.

Along with voting against HB40, then-Assemblywoman Bellock over the years voted against requiring healthcare workers to discuss abortion as a health option, against stem-cell research, against allowing minors to obtain an abortion with parental consent, against health-insurance plans to cover birth control and against expanding sex education curriculum.

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Idaho's Miracle Baby 'Baby Christopher' Went Home with His Family on Friday, July 13

Baby Christopher Ruben was a 23-week pre-born child who faced incredible odds after his mother (Malinda) had a stroke and was being kept alive on life support.

Medical professionals at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center worked passionately to ensure "Baby Christopher Ruben" would be delivered safely. This would mark the first time a procedure of this kind has ever occurred in the State of Idaho. With four other hospitals having denied transfer requests, a team of doctors of St. Alphonsus courageously embraced the impossible.

Five months and nine days after Baby Christopher Ruben was born, Idaho's Miracle Baby was healthy and strong enough to be released from the hospital and went home with his family on Friday, July 13, 2018.

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Planned Parenthood suit against Trump prioritizing abstinence education rejected by Judge

In May, three Planned Parenthood groups and the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) sued the administration over the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) February guidelines overhauling how it evaluated applications for Title X family planning grants.  The new rules gave priority to abstinence, ease of primary care access, more family participation, and cooperation with faith-based groups.

On Monday, District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Trevor McFadden, sided with the Trump administration in the lawsuit challenging its move to prioritize faith-based, abstinence-focused programs for dispensing family-planning dollars.

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Miscarriage in the age of abortion: Women aren’t mourning ‘a jumble of cells’

Women who lose children to miscarriage are angry at the loss of their babies and angry that society doesn’t care. Rather than receiving comfort during a difficult time, they are told, “try again” or “move on.” Their post-abortive friends tell them they know how they feel. Their pregnant friends ignore their pain.

Tommy’s, an organization dedicated to saving babies from premature birth and miscarriage, has announced its #TogetherForChange campaign, bringing awareness to the fact that social media plays a huge role in pregnancy, from sharing the first exciting news of the pregnancy to the baby’s birth. But when a family suffers a miscarriage, seeing friends’ happy social media posts about pregnancy and birth become heartbreaking. It is worse when pro-abortion friends claim to understand their pain and pro-abortion organizations — like Planned Parenthood — claim abortion and miscarriage are the same. If we’re supposed to celebrate abortion, why should we mourn miscarriage?

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Vagisil adds abortion-causing emergency contraceptive to product line

When you think of Vagisil, the first thing that probably comes to mind is “itch relief,” or something along those lines — not “emergency contraceptive.” And yet, that is exactly what Vagisil has added to its product line.

Vagisil’s new “products” tab on its website is a subtle deception. The vaginal care company recently introduced a new contraceptive — while conveniently leaving out the fact that it can act as an abortifacient, meaning it can expel an already-fertilized new human being. Preventeza actually contains the same ingredient, levonorgestrel, as Plan B, also known as the morning after pill.

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Pro-Life docs upset at pro-abortion push

The American Board of Obsetrics and Gynecology wants a sub-specialty certification known as "Complex Family Planning" and it's asking the American Board of Medical Specialties to approve it.

A late-term abortion would occur in the second and even third trimesters but Dr. Donna Harrison of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists says by that age a baby can survive outside the womb.

"But, see, the point of an abortion at that gestational age," says Harrison, "is to make sure that the baby is dead. So it's to produce a dead baby. It's not to save a mother's life."

If that were the case, Harrison says the doctor would perform a C-section so the mother and child would have a chance at life.

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Baby Oliver saved in U.S. after UK doctors said his heart couldn’t be fixed

Most parents would readily cross oceans to save their child’s life, with no thought as to the cost or distance. But for some children in the UK, like Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard, that simply wasn’t an option they were given. Oliver Cameron is one of the fortunate ones, though, and thanks to the tireless efforts of his parents and doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital, Oliver is alive and thriving today.

When Oliver was born in the United Kingdom, he had a large, non-cancerous tumor in his heart, called a cardiac fibroma. It was so rare that doctors in the UK weren’t able to treat it. Only a handful had even seen it.  Their research led them to Boston Children’s Hospital, where another little girl, Francesca, had successfully had her large cardiac tumor removed. In November of 2017, Oliver underwent the eight-hour surgery, which went better than expected. “Dr. del Nido warned us that they may not be able to remove the entire tumor because it was so large, but that he would remove as much as possible,” Lydia explained. “So when they told us he had removed all of it, we were so happy we just burst into tears.”

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India ‘celebrated’ World Population day by setting up sterilization camps

India celebrated World Population Day by setting up sterilization camps for men and women in poor districts of the country. In observing the World Population Day, the health department of Meerut [in] the city in Uttar Pradesh organized a fortnight-long drive of sterilization and distribution of contraceptive pills with the aim of reducing the fertility rate of the district.

The 2018 World Population Day celebrates the theme “Family Planning is a human right,” pointing to the proclamation of [the] United Nations International Conference on Human Rights in Tehran, which states, “The protection of the family and of the child remains the concern of the international community. Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children.”

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Pro-abortion writer laments the power of “cutting edge science” to aid the pro-life cause

I often wonder if pro-abortionists actually listen to what they say or read what they write?

Jessica Glenza writes for the London-based pro-abortion Guardian newspaper and has a post today under the curious title, “How anti-abortion activists use cutting edge science to justify ever stricter laws.”

I know nothing about Dr. Edward Bell, a neonatologist who “treats the tiniest babies at University of Iowa,” other than what Glenza quotes him as saying. If we accept her characterization, Dr. Bell is not happy that pro-lifers want to know about younger and younger preemies who’ve survived.

While the doctor said he considers attention from anti-abortion campaigners a distraction from his work with premature children, he also acknowledged viability is “a moving target.”

“It’s gotten to the point where in many places you can have a legal abortion in one part of the hospital of a baby who can be a patient in the neonatal unit in another part of the hospital, and have a good chance of survival. And that’s unacceptable to some people,” Bell said, explaining how medical advances and abortion restrictions converge.

Consider his amazing conclusion. It’s “unacceptable to some people” that in one wing of a hospital, doctors and nurses are doing everything to save a baby while in another wing of the same hospital an abortionist is about to kill a baby of the exact same age.

That ought to be “unacceptable” to every morally sentient human being.

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Get the facts: Thousands of women weren’t dying from abortion before Roe v. Wade

In the days leading up to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in America, pro-choice advocates claimed hundreds of thousands of women had died from illegal abortions. Because of this, several lawmakers voted to decriminalize abortion prior to Roe, and even today, some lawmakers are hesitant to outlaw it because of this lie. These statistics were invented by the same people who would profit from the procedure’s legalization.

False Claim: 5,000-10,000 women died annual from illegal abortion before Roe.

FACT: These statistics were made up. The real number was a mere fraction of this.

Abortionist Bernard Nathanson admitted that he and others fabricated large numbers of deaths from illegal terminations prior to Roe. Nathanson and Larry Lader, a Margaret Sanger biographer, worked to decriminalize abortion laws. Together, they and others founded NARAL (then known as the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws).

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Abortion decline shows women don’t need abortion; ‘1 in 3’ is now ‘1 in 4’

In 1992, the Guttmacher Institute estimated that 43 percent of women of child-bearing age would undergo an abortion during their lifetimes based on the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women) and survey information. This would mean close to 1 in 2 women would have abortions at some point in their lifetimes.

That estimate never materialized.

Pro-abortion groups frequently try to use statistics like these to normalize abortions. But even those statistics are telling a different story. Before the latest revision, the estimated lifetime incidence of abortion was updated in 2008 to 30 percent of women, or 3 in 10, which was rounded up to 1 in 3 for national pro-abortion campaigns — a claim that has been debunked. Yet abortion advocates continued to run with the numbers, until last fall, when they had to revise them again… this time, to 1 in 4.

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Why PPFA would never want the Black Abortion Rate explained

Can you imagine the response of Planned Parenthood or New York’s reliably pro-abortion-to the-max Gov. Andrew Cuomo to this proposal made yesterday by Wall Street Journal columnist Jason L. Riley?

Let’s Talk About the Black Abortion Rate

How about no, absolutely no, positively no, and “you must be a racist for asking it”?

There are many, many secrets PPFA and its allies desperately want kept hidden. After the grim fact that they believe in and promote abortion for any reason throughout the entire nine months of pregnancies, probably no truth is more threatening to them than the incredibly disproportionate number of black babies who are aborted.

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Recent polls on public support for Roe v. Wade are likely inaccurate

Justice Kennedy’s announcement that he is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court has dramatically raised salience of sanctity-of-life issues. Supporters of legal abortion and their allies in the mainstream media are working tirelessly to generate opposition to a constitutionalist nominee who might vote to weaken or overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. One key talking point among many abortion-rights groups is that Roe is a decision that enjoys broad public support and should be considered settled. Indeed, a flurry of polls released in recent days by NBC News/Survey Monkey, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Quinnipiac University all purportedly find that over 60 percent of respondents support Roe v. Wade.

These polls are all misleading for several reasons. First, a significant number of Americans are unfamiliar with the Roe v. Wade decision. A Pew Research Center poll taken in 2013 found that only 62 percent of respondents were aware that Roe v. Wade dealt with abortion. Seventeen percent thought Roe v. Wade dealt with some other public-policy issue and 20 percent were unfamiliar with the decision. Furthermore, even many who realize Roe v. Wade dealt with abortion fail to understand the full implications of the decision. Many wrongly think that overturning Roe v. Wade would result in national ban on abortion, instead a reversal of Roe would return the issue to the states.

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Oprah’s Magazine Encourages Women to Shout Their Abortions

O magazine, the publication published by media mogul Oprah Winfrey, contains a jarring image in its latest edition. It shows a woman with a t-shirt that encourages women to “shout” their abortions.

Pro-abortion stories by the media are nothing new. But the boldness and insensitivity shown by this article are especially troubling.

Women across the country testify that they have been greatly harmed by abortion and its aftermath.

Consider the courageous women who have submitted their testimonies to the organization known as the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

These brave women, and countless others like them, are not shouting their abortions. They are crying out in pain. Let’s respect these women by listening to them and reaching out to them in love. In this way, their wounds can heal, and they can truly be silent no more.

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Amnesty International adopts new broad pro-abortion policy to “respect human rights”

Amnesty International has changed its abortion policy to one of broad support for “safe and legal abortion.”

In 2007, the human rights organization dropped its neutral position on abortion, but insisted that it only opposed criminalizing abortion, and didn’t “promote it as a human right.” However, after years of aggressively promoting abortion all over the world, this pretense has now been dropped.

The organization quickly became one of the biggest promoters of abortion in the world. It campaigned for abortion in Ireland years before this year’s referendum, releasing a video that many commentators denounced as being anti-catholic. They actively campaigned for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment (and activists were filmed making misleading statements about abortion in Ireland) and since then have been at the forefront of calls to impose abortion on Northern Ireland.

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VIDEO: Celebrities supporting MeToo ignore that Planned Parenthood aids abusers

The MeToo and TimesUp movement have so far been silent, refusing to condemn the decades-long complicity of Planned Parenthood in failing to report child sexual abuse, highlighted in Live Action’s recently released Aiding Abusers docuseries. Live Action’s Aiding Abusers report includes horrific accounts of child sexual abuse compiled from criminal court cases, civil lawsuits, news reports, and health department reports — some previously published in the public record by other pro-life and legal organizations — as well as newer cases which detail how victims as young as 12 were taken to Planned Parenthood for abortions, and then returned to their abusers for additional abuse.

The latest video release from Live Action draws attention to those who claim to stand with women who have been victims of abuse, but lend their voices in support of an organization which aids abusers and traffickers. It features contrasting statements from celebrities and supporters of Planned Parenthood, driving home the idea that “If you support Time’s Up and Me Too… then you can’t support Planned Parenthood.”



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