extracheese
08-26-2003, 06:16 PM
for some reason the last thread was closed. and i didnt get to post the following which is so elequently written, i thought everyone should read it.
Results of a Thirty Year Experiment on Women
By Kathryn Hooks
Abortion has Failed Women
After a three-decade experiment initiated by Roe v. Wade, the results clearly show that abortion harms women.
America has polarized the abortion debate between the unborn child and the woman, but in reality abortion does not offer the best choice for either. A survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, research arm for Planned Parenthood, showed women primarily choose abortion because of lack of financial resources and lack of emotional support. Abortion appears to these women to be the only choice available. The false notion that abortion provides the best and easiest solution to an unwanted pregnancy deceptively misleads women.
The "Women Deserve Better" campaign supported by Feminists for Life among others claims that abortion has failed to meet the needs of women, and women deserve better than a "quick-fix" that ironically -- and sadly -- leaves women in a more harmful "fix" than previously experienced. Abortion changes a woman's perceived social inconvenience into a health detriment.
In fact, America should be concerned about abortion as a women's health issue.
According to a 1994 report by the Guttmacher Institute 43 percent of women will have an abortion by age 45; therefore the often unreported consequences of abortion affect almost half of the female population. Abortion has failed to offer a physically safe choice for women, and they deserve to know the facts.
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health stated, "Since 1957, evidence linking induced abortion to the later development of breast cancer has been observed in 27 of 33 studies world-wide." The International Journal of Cancer reported a higher risk of developing cervical and ovarian cancer after abortion.
The L.A. Daily News quoted pro-choice Dr. Janet Daling stating, "I have three sisters with breast cancer, and I resent people messing around with scientific data to further their own agenda, be they pro-choice or pro-life. I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data is accurate. It's not a matter of believing. It's a matter of what is."
Research by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons reported 6 percent of women who have abortions are left sterile. If a woman has an STD during an abortion, her risk for infertility increases. A study by the Journal of Infectious Diseases found 87 percent of women carrying one or more STDs showed no symptoms.
Southern Medical Journal reported that two years after an abortion women have a death rate twice as high as women who continue their pregnancy. Hospital codes only report a present cause of death such as hemorrhage, infection, or ectopic pregnancy not the underlying reason -- abortion -- so many deaths due to abortion go unreported.
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found abortion can lead to future pregnancy complications such as premature birth, placenta previa, and ectopic pregnancy.
Author Ann Saltenberger quotes medical researchers Margaret and Arthur Wynn, who support abortion-on-demand, acknowledging that "any patient who has had a previous history of abortion should be regarded as a high-risk patient."
Women frequently suffer psychological effects from abortion, which also link to more physical side affects. According to the Department of Education and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, as many as 91 percent of all abortions cause severe psychological problems, both immediate and long-term.
Yet, incredibly, abortion doctors fail to warn and prepare women for the psychological damage of post-abortion syndrome (PAS). PAS creates a psychological dysfunction from the traumatic experience of abortion resulting in intense fear, the feeling of helplessness or being trapped, and loss of con
Results of a Thirty Year Experiment on Women
By Kathryn Hooks
Abortion has Failed Women
After a three-decade experiment initiated by Roe v. Wade, the results clearly show that abortion harms women.
America has polarized the abortion debate between the unborn child and the woman, but in reality abortion does not offer the best choice for either. A survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, research arm for Planned Parenthood, showed women primarily choose abortion because of lack of financial resources and lack of emotional support. Abortion appears to these women to be the only choice available. The false notion that abortion provides the best and easiest solution to an unwanted pregnancy deceptively misleads women.
The "Women Deserve Better" campaign supported by Feminists for Life among others claims that abortion has failed to meet the needs of women, and women deserve better than a "quick-fix" that ironically -- and sadly -- leaves women in a more harmful "fix" than previously experienced. Abortion changes a woman's perceived social inconvenience into a health detriment.
In fact, America should be concerned about abortion as a women's health issue.
According to a 1994 report by the Guttmacher Institute 43 percent of women will have an abortion by age 45; therefore the often unreported consequences of abortion affect almost half of the female population. Abortion has failed to offer a physically safe choice for women, and they deserve to know the facts.
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health stated, "Since 1957, evidence linking induced abortion to the later development of breast cancer has been observed in 27 of 33 studies world-wide." The International Journal of Cancer reported a higher risk of developing cervical and ovarian cancer after abortion.
The L.A. Daily News quoted pro-choice Dr. Janet Daling stating, "I have three sisters with breast cancer, and I resent people messing around with scientific data to further their own agenda, be they pro-choice or pro-life. I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data is accurate. It's not a matter of believing. It's a matter of what is."
Research by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons reported 6 percent of women who have abortions are left sterile. If a woman has an STD during an abortion, her risk for infertility increases. A study by the Journal of Infectious Diseases found 87 percent of women carrying one or more STDs showed no symptoms.
Southern Medical Journal reported that two years after an abortion women have a death rate twice as high as women who continue their pregnancy. Hospital codes only report a present cause of death such as hemorrhage, infection, or ectopic pregnancy not the underlying reason -- abortion -- so many deaths due to abortion go unreported.
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found abortion can lead to future pregnancy complications such as premature birth, placenta previa, and ectopic pregnancy.
Author Ann Saltenberger quotes medical researchers Margaret and Arthur Wynn, who support abortion-on-demand, acknowledging that "any patient who has had a previous history of abortion should be regarded as a high-risk patient."
Women frequently suffer psychological effects from abortion, which also link to more physical side affects. According to the Department of Education and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, as many as 91 percent of all abortions cause severe psychological problems, both immediate and long-term.
Yet, incredibly, abortion doctors fail to warn and prepare women for the psychological damage of post-abortion syndrome (PAS). PAS creates a psychological dysfunction from the traumatic experience of abortion resulting in intense fear, the feeling of helplessness or being trapped, and loss of con