Abortion not only increases the

rate of child battering at present; it will

increase the tendency to batter and abort

-Professor Philip G. Ney,

tended even to new-born kittens that only a

[Life Cycle

asks, is our soul, our mind, and our courage?

In his book

A Private Choice

, Judge

Noonan lists 12 reasons why the "liberty" of

abortion is seriously damaging our nation.

His reasons follow in abbreviated form:

1)

The liberty of abortion has no foundation in

the Constitution.

2)

The Abortion Cases

rest on serious error.

3

) The liberty is de-

structive of family.

4)

The liberty oppresses

the poor.

5)

The liberty violates the ethics of

Western medicine from Hippocrates to the

present.

6)

The liberty divides our country.

7)

The liberty encourages the coercion of

conscience.

8)

The liberty has subverted

other parts of our Constitution.

9)

The lib-

erty has fostered a sinister and Orwellian

reshaping of our language (the child be-

comes "fetal waste").

10)

The liberty has

led to experimentation on unborn and dying

infants.

11)

It has diminished the care due a

child capable of life outside the womb.

12)

U.S. surgical abortions alone exceed,

by more than thirty times, the number of

women for whom legal abortion is consid-

psychiatric grounds are

highest risk of post-

abortion psychiatric disorders." Similarly,

the

Canadian Psychological Association

Journal

(Nov. 1976) stated that "women

with a history of psychiatric disturbances

were three times as likely to have some

psychiatric disturbance" after an abortion.

To relieve women of unwanted preg-

nancies:

The premise that unwanted preg-

nancies produce unloved children was also

rebutted in the early years of legalized

abortion. Wrote researcher Paul Cameron,

who would later earn international acclaim

for proving the danger of secondary to-

bacco smoke: "It is clear that mothers who

initially believed their pregnancy to be `the

worst thing that ever happened to them'

came to feel about the same degree of

affection for their children as the mothers

who were initially `ecstatic' about their

pregnancy [

Rocky-Mountain Psychologi-

cal Association,

May 1972]." Abortion

clinic counselors usually withhold such

evidence and do not tell their patients that

most mothers eventually regret their abor-

tions and often suffer permanent physical

and/or emotional injury.

In the final analysis, "unwanted chil-

dren" do not exist in America because

several U.S. families desire each adoptable

child. Beyond that fact, are we at liberty

either to "want" or "not want" our children,

as if they were consumer products, with no

inherent worth as human beings?

The fetus is mere tissue or only uter-

ine content:

To escape the charge of "kill-

ing," the abortion industry endeavors to

devalue the preborn child to nonperson

status. The weapons employed are the eu-

phemism and manipulation of language, as

seen in "Language Fuels America's Holo-

caust," on p. 4.

Abortion is safer than childbirth:

This

assumption is untrue during each trimester

of pregnancy and especially so in the late

months (see the research of Linger, Cava-

naugh, Slumsky, Goodlin, Stipal; of Mc-

Donald & Auro; and of Wright Richardson

& Dickson).

The family planners defend abortion

for young teens by arguing that childbirth

is too dangerous for them, while the facts

say otherwise. Abortion complications in-

crease proportionate to the youthfulness of

mothers 15 years and younger, whereas

birthing complications show no equivalent

increase (

OB-GYN Observer,

Oct.-Nov.

1975 and

Pediatrics,

July 1986).

Abortion is permitted only in the early

months of pregnancy:

Roe v. Wade

and

Doe v. Bolton

were both approved by the

U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973,

and their joint powers

legalized abortion

through nine months of pregnancy. There-

after, thousands of American children have

been aborted after reaching viability (the

age at which they could live outside their

mothers); and some children have been

killed after birth, following hysterotomies

(similar to Caesarean sections), where the

infants are left to starve in surgical buckets

or are drowned, suffocated, or strangled.

A human fetus cannot feel pain:

But

indeed it can, as memorably confirmed in

a prominent and compelling letter to Presi-

dent Reagan in 1984 from 26 researchers

and two past presidents of the American

College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (see

also the research of H.M.I. Liley, of Volman

& Pearson, and of P. Lubeskin).

The child may be deformed or handi-

capped:

In what way? Physically, spiritu-

ally, in attitude? Are the rest of us perfect in

body, mind, soul? Does abortion correct

God's mistakes? God asks in Exodus 4:11:

"Who gave man his mouth? Who makes

him deaf or dumb? Who gives him sight or

makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord?"

To control population and food sup-

ply:

Hunger and starvation are due chiefly

to inept governments, rather than to food

shortage. The earth can sustain several

times its present population (see the re-

search of Conlin Clark, Constantin Doxia-

dis, and Ansley Coale). All 6 billion people

living today could readily stand within the

incorporated area of Jacksonville, FL, and

America's farmers alone can now feed a

third of the world's population. Also, con-

trary to family planning propaganda, world

population growth trends are declining mea-

surably and too much so in the industrial-

ized nations. Warned the

European Parlia-

ment News

as early as 1984 (April-May):

"The European Parliament is seriously dis-

This 7-month-old baby boy was aborted in Houston, TX, on December 8, 1989. His head

and arm were torn from his body as the abortionist's tongs pulled him from his mother's womb.

He was 16 inches long and would have lived, if given birth. Some doctors and clinics "special-

ize" in late-term (3rd trimester) abortions, which are legal in America up to the time of birth.

Surgical abortions alone kill approximately 4,000 American children daily. Birth controls (the Pill, IUDs, Norplant,

in the birth rate of the European Economic

Community, which fell from 2.79 in 1964

to 1.68 in 1982." Without immigration,

America's population today would be in

sharp decline, because the U.S. birth rate

fell below replacement level in 1972.

To save welfare (taxpayers') money:

To the contrary, abortion is a massive drain

on America's economy. Analyst Brian

Clowes has computed our nation's loss in

goods, services, and tax revenues to be

about $46 trillion since abortion was legal-

ized (

Social Justice Review

, Dec. 1993);

and while public service expenditures (that

would have been incurred if the aborted

citizens had lived) reduce the $46 trillion

figure, the remaining (net) economic loss

is enormous, as is the cultural loss (see also

the research of Professor Jacqueline R.

Kasun and

The Birth Dearth

by journalist-

scholar Ben Wattenberg).

An unborn child has no rights:

In

America today, an unborn child can inher-

it property, be named an executor, have a

guardian appointed, sue for injury, file for

an injunction, receive Social Security ben-

efits, sue for a blood transfusion, obtain

equal protection by law, and yet be denied

the right to save its life from the abortion-

ist's

cold and cruel instruments.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice

Sandra Day O'Connor, who is not a strong

defender of the unborn, has stated: "

Roe v.

Wade

is on a collision course with itself. It

Abraham Lincoln noted, with sorrow, that many of the best educated Americans of his day did not understand slavery because they had

never truly discovered the slave. In like manner today, most proponents of abortion have never discovered the child

Much has been written in recent years about the parallels between slavery of the past

century and abortion today.

In 1857, the Taney (U.S. Supreme) Court attempted to "settle" the slavery issue by

ruling 7-2 that Dred Scott, a black man from St. Louis, was not a legal person but, instead,

was the property of his owner.

In 1973, the Burger Court attempted to

settle the abortion issue by ruling, also 7-2,

that an unborn American child lacks person-

hood and, in effect, is the property of its moth-

er. As such, she may either save her child or

have it killed.

Opponents of slavery were accused of

"imposing their morality" on slaveholders and

their "pro-choice" sympathizers. Today, pro-

lifers bear the same charge for urging mothers

not to have their own offspring put to death.

This is a peculiar charge indeed, and it is by

those who cry "poor taste" if pictures of aborted

children are shown publicly.

Slave owners were not content to own and

work their slaves. They demanded and held unrestricted control over every aspect of their

slaves' lives. In like manner, pro-abortionists oppose all legal attempts to protect unborn

children at any point during pregnancy-or to allow requirements that mothers be

accurately informed about abortion and its aftermath. Abortion opponent and syndicated

columnist George Will has labeled this anomaly the woman's "right not to know."

The Constitution came to mean whatever pro-choice (slavery) advocates chose to

make it. Whereas Lincoln stated that his entire philosophy was based on the Declaration

of Independence, slavery defender John C. Calhoun declared: "There is not a word of

truth in it." As to the premise that "all men are created equal" and deserve "life, liberty,

and the pursuit of happiness," Calhoun insisted that "Men are not born. Infants are born.

They are not born free. While infants, they are incapable of freedom." With similar

disregard for ethics, science, and logic, Justice Blackmun and his Court majority spotted

the word "privacy" in a penumbra, of all

places, to the 14th Amendment and deemed it

their best hope to justify a woman's "right" to

an uncontested abortion. As to when human

life begins, Justice Blackmun refused to ad-

dress the issue. Since passage of

Roe v .Wade

(1973), pro-abortionists have lauded abor-

tion for its "mercy" to unwanted children,

much as plantation owners praised their prac-

enslaving the poor blacks in acts of

"positive good."

Slave owners were at liberty-and some

used their liberty-to beat, starve, yoke, bell,

and gag their property. They could tear out

their slaves' teeth for easy identification, rub

pepper and turpentine into their stripe wounds,

draw the claws of angry cats over their naked bodies, brand them with hot irons, cut off

their ears, gouge out their eyes, revive them after beatings in order to beat them more, and

use them for targets after hunting them down with blood hounds.

Today in America, unborn children, the property of their mothers, may be scraped

into a thick paste; torn, pulled, or cut into "manageable" pieces; poisoned and burned

alive (saline); drowned, suffocated, crushed, choked, or left to starve to death in a

"surgical bucket." All are means of "cleaning the uterus" and "eliminating the remains

of conception." In comparison, most slaves were fortunate.

While Lincoln was fighting to free the slaves, the American Medical

Association of his day was fighting to save unborn children from the hands of

abortionists. Wrote the AMA in 1871: "These men should be marked as Cain

was marked; they should be made the outcasts of society . . . respectable men

should cease to consult with them, should cease to speak to them, should cease

to notice them except with contempt.

". . . Resolved, That we repudiate and denounce the conduct of abortionists,

and that we hold no intercourse with them professionally or otherwise and that

we will, whenever an opportunity presents, guard and protect the public

against the machinations of these characters by pointing out the physical and

When Does Human Life Begin?

. . . from

Conception

1976)

:

"There wasn't a doctor who at one

time or another in the questioning did not

say, `This is murder.'" Such is the reality

of abortion in America today.

The average age of an aborted child

is eleven weeks. Though only three inches

long and weighing one ounce, the child

both looks and behaves like the complete

human being he (or she) evidently is.

His sole needs are nutrition and time

to grow. His heart has been beating for

two months, his brain is active, and all

bodily systems are working.

Personality is present in a variety of

facial expressions, smiles, and eye squints.

Weeks earlier he began sucking his thumb,

making a fist, getting hiccups, waking

and sleeping, and showing off his new

fingerprints. He curls his toes, turns his

head, dreams, tastes, hears, feels, urinates

and has tiny bowel movements.

As fetologists have stressed, the un-

born child is very much in charge of his

environment. He, not his mother, decides

the day of his birth by signaling the pla-

centa. At that time, electro-chemical im-

pulses inform the uterus that labor con-

tractions should begin. The child is ready

to become a full-fledged family member

and participating citizen.

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL

HEARINGS

A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held

hearings (April 1981) on the very question

before us here:

When does human life be-

gin?

From the scientific community was a

group of internationally known geneticists

and biologists who told the same story,

namely, that human life begins at concep-

tion-and they told their story with a pro-

nounced absence of opposing testimony.

"Father of Modern Genetics" Dr.

Jerome Lejeune told the lawmakers: "To

accept the fact that after fertilization has

taken place a new human has come into

being is no longer a matter of taste or

opinion . . . it is plain experimental evi-

dence." Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman,

Department of Genetics at Mayo Clinic,

added: "By all the criteria of modern mo-

lecular biology, life is present from the

moment of conception."

Dr. McCarthy de Mere, medical doc-

tor and law professor, University of Ten-

nessee, testified: "The exact moment of the

beginning of personhood and of the human

body is at the moment of conception."

Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni, University

of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, con-

cluded: "I am no more prepared to say that

these early stages represent an incomplete

human being than I would be to say that the

child prior to the dramatic effects of pu-

berty . . . is not a human being."

Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth,

Harvard Medical School, gave confirming

testimony, supported by references from

over 20 embryology and other medical

textbooks.

OTHER AUTHORITIES AGREE

Dr. Richard V. Jaynes: "To say the

beginning of human life cannot be deter-

mined scientifically is utterly ridiculous."

Dr. Landrum Shettles, sometimes

called the "Father of In Vitro Fertilization"

(test-tube babies): "Conception confers life

and makes that life one of a kind." And on

the Supreme Court ruling

Roe v. Wade

:

"To deny a truth [about when human life

begins] should not be made a basis for le-

galizing abortion."

Professor Eugene Diamond (on

Roe v.

Wade

): ". . . either the justices were fed a

backwoods biology or they were pretend-

ing ignorance about a scientific certainty."

vailing evidence. Dr. Magna Denes, her-

self an abortion victim, spent two years re-

searching her book

In

Necessity and Sor-

row: Life and Death in an Abortion Hos-

pital.

Regarding her research experience,

she told the

Chicago Daily News

Photo by Dr. Landrum B. Shettles: Cour-

tesy of Intercessors for America, PO Box

The world's chief abortion advocate Planned Parenthood was founded by

"Radiant Rebel" Margaret Sanger, self-proclaimed eugenicist and adulterous "free

love" queen, who said of her new "birth control" organization: "Our objective is

unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children."

"I love being ravaged by romances," she declared, adding that "only individuals

count, not families." She termed marriage "the most degenerating influence in the

social order."

While moving steadily from one lover's bed to another and urging women to use

their "biological powers" to take control of society, Sanger praised Nazi theories of

race superiority and set out to eliminate "the dead weight of human waste," in her

judgment, among poor immigrant families, "the Negro population," and other

minorities whom she labeled "inferior."

In America today, Blacks are aborted about three times as frequently as Whites,

while women of Spanish American, American Indian, and Puerto Rican descent also

endure high abortion and sterilization rates.

Given to drugs, alcoholism, and mysticism, Sanger's final years were marked by

The story is told of a mother who stepped into a doctor's office while carrying

a one-year-old baby. Seating herself near the physician, she said, "Doctor, I want

you to help me out of trouble. My baby is only one year old, and I have conceived

again. Surely, you understand why I do not want to have children so close together."

"What do you expect me to do?" asked the physician.

"Oh, anything to get rid of it for me," she replied.

After thinking for a moment the doctor said, "I can suggest a better method of

helping you. If you object to having two children so near together, the best way

would be to kill the one on your lap, and it makes no difference to me which one I

kill. Besides, it might be dangerous for you if I undertook to kill the younger one."

As the doctor finished speaking, he reached for a knife and asked the mother

to lay the baby out on her lap and turn her head. At that moment, the woman almost

fainted away, before rising from her chair and screaming, "murderer!"

A few words of explanation from the doctor soon convinced the young mother

that his offer to kill her one-year-old was no worse than her request for the

destruction of her unborn child. Either way, it would be equivalent to murder. The

Fifty years ago, much was written about the use of

euphemism by Nazi officials who controlled Germany's

death centers. More recently, Dr. William Brennan of St.

Louis University has explained how language tranquilized

the German populace while 12 million people were put to

death-and how it has tranquilized America while over 38

million U.S. preborns have been aborted by surgery and

injections and over 100 million by abortifacient birth con-

trols (that permit conception a percentage of the time but

prohibit the preborn's implantation in the uterus).

In

The Abortion Holocaust

, a 200-page comparison

of Nazi and American killing practices, Professor Brennan

notes that the perpetrators' strategy in any holocaust is to

degrade their victims to nonpersons and then provide a

positive account of what happens to them. The process

man death camps-and of "uterine content" in American

abortuaries). The process, we are told, is a "service" that's

"safe and legal" and carried out "humanely," with "mani-

fest cleanliness," for the "welfare" of society.

In

Choicespeak: Language to Abort the Conscience,

Robert Evangelisto explains how abortion proponents

focus not on the killing of children but on "choice" and

accuse life defenders not of being pro-life, but of being

"anti-choice," and thereby anti-American. Notes Evangel-

isto, through choicespeak a baby becomes the "product of

conception"; the scientific fact that a human life starts at

conception becomes "a religious idea"; and the killing of

the child in utero becomes "termination of pregnancy."

Writes Evangelisto, "Childbirth is the termination of a

pregnancy; abortion is the `termination' of a child."

California Medicine

, official journal of the California

Medical Association, editorialized (Sept. 1970): "The very

considerable semantic gymnastics which are required to

rationalize abortion as anything but taking a human life

would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under

socially impeccable auspices. It is suggested that this

schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is necessary because

while a new ethic is being accepted, the old one has not yet

been rejected." It is therefore the duty of linguistic corrup-

tion to disassociate "killing" from the practice of abortion.

Suction Machine

: First used by the Communist Chinese and 27 times more powerful than a

domestic vacuum cleaner, the suction machine (with a tube inserted through the cervix) tears the

placenta from the uterus, dismembers the child, and draws its remains into an attached jar.

Unremoved body parts can cause infection and hemorrhage.

D&C-Dilation and Curretage

: The abortionist inserts a loop-shaped knife into the mother's

dilated cervix and, by scraping the uterus wall, cuts the child into pieces. To ensure that the uterus

is empty, the abortionist or nurse must reassemble the body parts.

D&E-Dilation and Evacuation

: The abortionist uses forceps to grasp and pull apart the rapidly

growing child and to remove the placenta from the uterus. The procedure is bloody and ghastly.

Many nurses refuse to assist.

Saline Injection:

The abortionist inserts a needle through the mother's abdomen, draws off a

volume of amniotic fluid and replaces it with a saline (salt) solution that poisons the child

(through swallowing) and burns away the child's skin. After the child's agonizing death, the

mother goes into labor and delivers her dead infant. Use of this method has declined.

Prostaglandin Injection:

Prostaglandin, a chemical hormone, is injected into the amniotic sac to

induce violent labor and premature birth. Since this method of abortion can produce live births,

the abortionist first injects a toxin to kill the child.

Hysterotomy

: Equivalent to a Caesarean section, this late-term procedure enables the abortionist

to remove a child from the uterus and allow it to die by starvation and neglect or by means of a

death-inducing act such as drowning, suffocation, or strangulation.

Partial Birth - D&X (18 to 40 weeks):

Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grips one of the baby's

legs with forceps, pulls the baby into the birth canal, and delivers the baby's entire body except

for the head. At this point, the abortionist forces scissors into the base of the baby's skull and, after

opening the scissors to enlarge the hole, inserts a catheter to "evacuate" the brains and kill the

child. Unspeakably brutal, this method of abortion is legal in the U.S. up to the day of birth.

Birth Control (chemical and mechanical)

: The Pill, IUDs, Norplant, Prostaglandins, and Depo-

Provera kill up to 8 million or more American preborn children annually, after their conception.

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Abortion, and it serves to warn America about abortion's most evident risks.)

Zachary, 3 months old, escaped abortion and now lives

happily with his grandparents. As other American children, he

"We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a

fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded be-

cause the time was right and the news media cooperated.

We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and

fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the

public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was

only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our state-

ments were quoted [by the media] as though they had been

-Dr. Bernard Nathanson

Co-founder of National Assn. for Repeal of Abortion Laws,

now called National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action

"What irony that a society confronted with plastic

bags filled with the remains of aborted babies should be

more concerned about the problem of recycling the plas-

"`Fetal tissue' implants are not that much different

from Nazi lamp shades made of Jewish skin. Both intend

to put by-products of murder to `good use.'"

-David Kupelian and Mark Masters, journalists

An Abortionist's Turmoil