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Why Abortions Are Down in America


Abortions are Down Across the Country -- but Why?


Jan. 17, 2008


The conclusion of a sweeping new nationwide study released today that included interviews with every known abortion provider in the country is unambiguous. Abortions are decreasing.

The study, conducted by the Guttmacher Institute, which researches issues related to reproductive health and sexuality, found that in 2005, the U.S. abortion rate fell to 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 to 44, the lowest level since 1974. The total number of abortions also declined, to a total of 1.2 million in 2005, well below the all-time high of 1.6 million abortions in 1990.

But the study raises a fascinating and tricky question: Why?

The researchers who conducted the study said they simply don't know, but they do have two theories.

One reason could be that since people now have easier access to contraception -- including emergency contraception like Plan B -- there are fewer unwanted pregnancies.

Another reason could be that there are also fewer abortion clinics.

"Eighty-seven percent of counties in the United States don't have an abortion provider," Rachel Jones of the Guttmacher Institute said. "Thirty-five percent of women live in those counties."

Activists on both sides of this debate have their own theories, and everyone's claiming victory.

Supporters of abortion rights say the decline is the result of the sex education and family planning they provide.

Opponents say more women are coming to grips with the horror of abortion, in part because of the increasing numbers of so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which set up near abortion clinics and offer services like ultrasounds to convince women to keep their babies.

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Thousands march against abortion in S.F.
Anti-abortion demonstrators participate in the Walk for Life rally in S.F.


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If you notice once again the leftists in our country believe they're the only ones who have the answers in this issue and obviously the only ones who are correct. They as well do not like competition or opposing views of the issue.

There have been over 45 million pre-delivery murders/abortions since Roe vs Wade 35 years ago. Your shaking your head asking what a dog someone would possibly have in this fight? Try answering the following questions.

What shape social security be in if those 45 million murders/abortions never happened?

Do you have a family member who had an abortion then suffered then later nearly lost their life to cancer?

The unanswered question the article failed to ask is what percentage of men in the US participated in the decision making or whose female companion terminated a pregnancy that now suffer from depression and other long term post abortion mental health related issues?

It's never easy to take life. Any veteran of the armed forces or police officer will tell you it's not a hard decision to kill or be killed, those actions still  weigh on a trained professionals mind if they're being honest about the subject. Can you imagine how a female would feel to kill a living human being inside of her?

Pregnancy Centers Stir Debate

Sunday,  January 20, 2008 3:37 AM
By Rita Price
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Girls and women climb onto the table and wait for the wand to slide over their still-flat bellies. To the ultrasound operators, seeing a flutter is good; a heartbeat, even better.

They want the clients to look.

Viewing life on the screen might make it harder to consider abortion.

"It has that effect, sure," said Peggy Hartshorn. "That is definitely an 'aha' moment."

Hartshorn heads Columbus-based Heartbeat International, the world's largest network of what it calls "pro-life pregnancy resource centers." From its offices on E. Dublin-Granville Road, Heartbeat advises and supports nearly 1,100 centers in 40 countries.

"We're a very well-kept secret," Hartshorn said. "And we'd like not to be."

Offering free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, a friendly staff and even maternity clothes, the centers are honey to the vinegar of marches, debates and gruesome photographs of aborted fetuses.

Abortion-rights supporters say the centers also are deceptive. With benign-sounding names, ads in the abortion section of phone books and locations next to abortion providers, the centers seem designed to lure and confuse the pregnant and undecided, critics say.

"If they were transparent, more honest, that would be one thing," said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. "But I think that people don't realize what they might be walking into."

Copeland said many women visit crisis-pregnancy centers expecting balanced, medically accurate information but are steered down two narrow paths -- parenthood or adoption -- along with disputed claims about the potential for abortion to cause post-procedure stress syndrome, sterility and increased risk of breast cancer.

"That's where we think it crosses the line, and we think it's unfair," Copeland said.

In recent years, some abortion-rights advocates and legislators have begun to take tougher stands against the movement, with scathing reports, covert investigations and proposed truth-in-advertising laws. Hartshorn said abortion-rights advocates are threatened by the pregnancy-center mission and unwilling to acknowledge that abortion hurts women. She said clients are not pressured and that potential complications from abortion, if discussed, are characterized as possibilities, not conclusions.

"We hold our centers to very high standards," she said. "We do not engage in misleading advertising. But we are not being honest with women if we say that this decision is like any other medical decision."

Heartbeat's faith-based pregnancy centers measure success in lives saved. Of the pregnant girls and women who have an ultrasound, 75 percent to 80 percent say they don't intend to terminate the pregnancy, Hartshorn said.

Along with the organization's referral and hot-line cases nationwide, "We estimate around 2,000 babies a week are born as a result of the work of our centers," Hartshorn said.

Abortion-rights advocates wonder about the rest of the math: the number of teen pregnancies, single parents and impoverished children.

"We're supportive of every woman making the right decision -- for her," Copeland said.

In 2006, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were 208 abortions for every 1,000 live births in Ohio.

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court decision 35 years ago that recognized a woman's right to an abortion, Ohio was a cradle of the anti-abortion movement.

The nation's first crisis-pregnancy-center network, Alternatives to Abortion International, began in Toledo in 1971. It is now called Heartbeat International, and Hartshorn has been its president since 1993.

A former English professor, she is married, the mother of two adopted children and grandmother of four. Just as many Americans know where they were when President Kennedy was killed or when terrorists struck on Sept. 11, Hartshorn carries a frozen memory of Jan. 22, 1973.

"I was on High Street in Columbus, listening to the radio," she said. Hartshorn called her husband. "Find out if it's true! Can this be true?"

With Roe v. Wade paving the way for legal abortion nationwide, she thought, "There would be more and more pressure put on women to have abortions." Hartshorn became an activist and started housing pregnant women in her home.

On the eighth anniversary of the decision, in 1981, she and her husband founded Pregnancy Decision Health Centers, a member of Heartbeat, in Columbus. They were among the first such centers in the country to offer ultrasounds; hundreds have followed suit.

"We've always performed pregnancy tests," Hartshorn said. The ultrasound allows the centers to determine whether the pregnancy is viable, she said, and to estimate how far it has progressed.

Critics say the ultrasound imaging is really a tool to make women feel guilty about considering abortion.

"It troubles me that there are values being discussed in the room that may sway the patient," said Lisa Perks, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio. "We present information in a nondirected manner. We don't direct, pressure or talk about the support we'll provide."

Perks said that distressed women and girls don't always distinguish among the family-planning clinics, abortion clinics and anti-abortion pregnancy centers. "It's almost like there's intent to confuse people," she said.

Perks said her staff often has investigated complaints, only to find that the woman had called or visited one of the pregnancy centers, not a Planned Parenthood center.

Last year, a Pregnancy Decision Health Center moved into a new office on Cleveland Avenue, next to a private women's health center that offers abortion. Pregnancy center staff members acknowledge that some of the people who walk in aren't sure where they are.

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Roe v. Wade: 35 years later

Battle shifts to ballots

Sunday,  January 20, 2008 5:54 AM
By Meredith Heagney
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

For 35 years, the battle over abortion has been waged out loud and in public. There are quieter fronts, too, like this room inside one of Ohio's 123 crisis pregnancy centers. Although abortion-rights advocates say they're manipulative, it is here that the anti-abortion movement makes its case privately, one woman at a time.

Anti-abortion activists will march on statehouse lawns, and about 3,000 Ohioans are expected to join a national rally against abortion in Washington, D.C.

Abortion-rights supporters in Columbus will host an abortion doctor who has written about the abuse she has taken for her beliefs, and they will sponsor a dinner to help women who want abortions and need financial help.

Tuesday is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that recognized a woman's right to an abortion. During those 3 1/2 decades, these two factions have battled.

But this year, there is a president to elect.

Abortion opponents want to elect a president who would appoint conservative Supreme Court justices and possibly tip the scales against abortion. They are buoyed by laws that have been introduced or passed in several states, including Ohio, chipping away at abortion rights.

"The pro-life movement is alive and well," said Chris Long, president of the Ohio Christian Alliance. "I think we have more hope now than we have in years past that Roe will even be overturned."

Abortion-rights activists are just as determined to stop them.

Katherine Jellison, an Ohio University history professor who teaches 20th-century U.S. women's history, said those activists will feel the need to rally against the conservative movement that influenced the previous presidential election.

The number of abortions is down 25 percent from its peak in 1990. There could be many reasons for the decline. Abortion opponents suggest it could be a sign that more counseling and laws restricting abortion are working. Abortion-rights supporters say it could be because of increased prevention education and use of contraception. They also say the availability of the morning-after pill -- emergency contraception used within 72 hours of unprotected sex -- has reduced the rate of unwanted pregnancies.

People on both sides of the issue say they welcome the drop in abortion rates. They continue to protest and argue, but they know the main battleground in this debate is the courts. The next president likely will have the chance to shape the Supreme Court, potentially tipping it for or against abortion rights.

If a Republican wins, Roe v. Wade will be on very shaky ground, said Dion Farganis, a constitutional law professor at Bowling Green State University.

Last year's Supreme Court decision to uphold a nationwide ban on a late-term procedure that opponents call "partial-birth abortion" was the first indication of how a newly formed court, including Bush appointees John Roberts and Samuel Alito, would tilt, Farganis said.

The case signaled that the court would be friendly to forces pushing for incremental restrictions, he said.

The three justices most likely to be replaced because of retirement or death, John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tend to be more liberal, Farganis said. If a Republican is elected, Farganis doubts that Souter or Ginsburg will retire.

Jellison, from Ohio University, said abortion-rights activists were troubled by Republican Mike Huckabee's win in the Iowa caucuses, given his conservative Christian credentials. Huckabee is scheduled to speak Tuesday at a memorial service for the unborn at the Georgia Capitol.

Abortion-rights activists are thinking, "This guy has to be defeated," Jellison said. "He'll really turn the clock backward on reproductive issues."

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Pro-lifers Brave Cold, Long Road

January 22, 2008
By Gary Emerling  

Thousands of people are expected to converge on the Mall today to mark the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

The annual March for Life, a protest of the court's 1973 ruling, is expected to begin at noon with a rally on the Mall between Fourth and Seventh streets in Northwest. Pro-life demonstrators then will march to the Supreme Court in a procession that is expected to last about three hours.

"People will get on a bus and travel 24, 48, 72 hours, some even further," said Wendy Wright, president of the public policy group Concerned Women for America, whose members will participate in the pro-life march. "That's such an immense dedication, which is striking when you consider it is not on behalf of privileges or rights for themselves."

Marchers will have to brave temperatures hovering just above the freezing mark, along with the possibility of rain and sleet. The National Weather Service is predicting a high of 35 degrees today with an 80 percent chance of precipitation.

Still, protesters from across the country are expected to participate. Catholic University, in Northeast, is hosting more than 1,600 high-school students and their chaperones in the school's gymnasium and at the nearby Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

The students, most of whom arrived by bus, were to sleep on the floor last night before joining the march downtown today.

"It's a huge thing for these students coming from all over, and it's a special event for our university as well," university spokesman Victor Nakas said.

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Planned Parenthood to Push Candidacies

By BRODY MULLINS
January 22, 2008; Page A6A
WASHINGTON

For the first time, abortion-rights advocate Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. is launching a major effort to elect pro-abortion-rights candidates to Congress and the White House in November.

The nation's largest reproductive-health-care provider plans to spend $10 million in hopes of persuading one million people to vote for abortion-rights candidates in the 2008 election. Planned Parenthood will roll out its election plans today to mark the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that made abortion legal.

With its "One Million Strong" campaign, Planned Parenthood becomes the latest Washington interest group to launch an independent effort to elect candidates who back its priorities. Since Congress enacted a campaign-finance-reform law banning large financial contributions to the Republican and Democratic parties, a growing number of individuals, labor unions, corporations and other interest groups have started or boosted their own campaigns to elect like-minded candidates.

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In a video posted on YouTube Feb. 14, Kathleen Gallagher, director of pro-life activities for the Catholic Conference, explains the history of abortion in New York state, the progress pro-life activists have made throughout the years, and the consequences of Spitzer's proposed bill, which most likely would destroy that progress. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vZ6j2srG2iA&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vZ6j2srG2iA&rel=0</a>.

The bill, commonly referred to as RHAPP, would authorize nonphysicians -- including nurses, midwives, podiatrists and chiropractors -- to perform abortions, Gallagher explained in the video. It would lift the current age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the so-called "morning-after pill" and make abortion immune to state regulations regarding parental notification of minors and taxpayer funding of abortions, she added.

"This bill would endanger the health of women as well as the lives of their unborn children," Gallagher said.

If the bill is passed, she continued, abortion would be considered a fundamental right in New York state, meaning that doctors could be forced to perform abortions, and hospitals -- even Catholic ones -- could be forced to permit abortions in their facilities. The bill also could force health-insurance plans to cover abortions and force employers to purchase abortion coverage.

RHAPP could allow state regulatory agencies to deny licenses to physicians and hospitals who don't perform abortions or permit them in their facilities, Gallagher said.

"In other words, perform abortions or the state shuts you down," she remarked.

Through the video, Gallagher implores viewers to take immediate action against the bill.

"Gov. Spitzer's bill is not pro-choice. It eliminates choice. It will not make abortion rare. It demands societal approval of abortion," Gallagher said. "We must work together to stop the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act."

the rest here: http://catholiccourier.com/tmp1.cfm?nid=78&articleid=99901

The sad thing is numerous criminal prosecutors across the country have answer the question every time they charge an individual who murders a pregnant woman.

The former deputy Bobby Cutts was recently convicted of murdering his former lover whom was carrying his child.

Credo the IS and the other mass murders fully know when this takes place.  

I think this pretty much sums it all in one article.


"a serious mistake' encouraging aborting black babies...

They also criticized The Advocate for trying to discredit employees with recorded phone calls

BY SANDRA FORESTER
sforester@idahostatesman.com
Edition Date: 02/28/08

Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials apologized Wednesday for what they called an employee's "serious mistake" in encouraging a donation aimed at aborting black babies.

They also criticized The Advocate, a right-to-life student magazine at the University of California-Los Angeles, for trying to discredit Planned Parenthood employees in seven states in a series of tape-recorded phone calls last summer.

The call to Idaho came in July to Autumn Kersey, vice president of development and marketing for Planned Parenthood of Idaho.

On the recording provided by The Advocate, an actor portraying a donor said he wanted his money used to eliminate black unborn children because "the less black kids out there the better."

Kersey laughed nervously and said: "Understandable, understandable. ... Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited and want to make sure I don't leave anything out."

On Tuesday, The Advocate released transcripts and audio recordings of this phone call and another to fundraising representatives in Ohio.

The student editor-in-chief of The Advocate said she's not surprised by Planned Parenthood's response and that the unedited recordings speak for themselves. The activist students think Planned Parenthood targets minorities and minority neighborhoods.

On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood of Idaho "firmly and unequivocally" denounced racial bias, admitted making a mistake and said the group had taken corrective action.

"A fundraising employee violated the organization's principles and practices when she appeared to be willing to accept a racially motivated donation," said CEO Rebecca Poedy in a written statement. "We apologize for the manner in which this offensive call was handled. We take full responsibility for the actions of the fundraising staff member who created the impression that racism of any form would be tolerated at Planned Parenthood. We took swift action to ensure that each of our employees understands their responsibility to communicate clearly with donors about the fact that we believe in helping all individuals, regardless of gender, race, or sexual orientation, make informed decisions about their reproductive health care."

A spokeswoman for the organization would not say whether further disciplinary action was taken against Kersey, saying that was a personnel matter.

A longtime anti-abortion activist and conservative lobbyist - Idaho Values Alliance Executive Director Bryan Fischer - called Kersey's response in July reprehensible and said she should have been fired.

"It turns out that blatant racism is alive and well in Idaho, but it's not coming from the Aryan Nation types - it's coming from way-left organizations like Idaho's own Planned Parenthood," Fischer said. "They should have stridently rebuked that donor for being a racist and a bigot and refused to take that money."

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Enabling racists and those possibly committing rape & incest.


The Abortion Industry

March 26, 2008
By Gerald R. McDermott
and Carol M. Swain

Planned Parenthood enjoys a good reputation. Many Americans think it performs necessary services — screening for sexually transmitted diseases, forestalling teen pregnancy and controlling family size.

But there are some disturbing realities behind the scene. For example, Planned Parenthood's confidentiality principles (it promises not to tell anyone of a teenager's problems) conflict with laws in every state that require health care workers to report suspected sexual abuse or statutory rape to law enforcers. Not surprisingly, investigators are finding a national pattern of failure to report sex crimes against underage teens.

In 2002 Life Dynamics, a pro-life group based in Texas, called 800 abortion clinics around the country, many of them run by Planned Parenthood. The caller would say she was a 13-year-old girl whose boyfriend was 22, and she needed an abortion. Ninety-one percent of the clinics told the caller they would give her an abortion, but warned her not to reveal her boyfriend's age.

Americans may be surprised to learn that Planned Parenthood has plenty of money, and taxpayers are contributing a large part of it. In 2005-06 it took in nearly $1 billion and boasted a surplus of $55 million. More than one-third of its income — $305 million — came from government subsidies. Its president receives an annual compensation of almost $1 million.

In a time when abortions nationwide are declining, Planned Parenthood is performing more abortions than ever — 264,943 in 2005-06. These abortions bring in at least a third of its $345 million in clinic income.

Because Planned Parenthood is America's biggest chain of abortion clinics, it is unsettling to learn that of the six American women who have died after taking the abortion pill RU-486, four got the pill from a Planned Parenthood clinic. Yet Planned Parenthood refuses to comply with FDA guidelines, permitting women to take the drug at home rather than at a clinic as the FDA advises.

There are also disturbing racial disparities. National numbers from the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal that the overwhelming majority of abortion clinics are located in metropolitan areas, and some analysts have placed the percentage in minority neighborhoods at greater than 75 percent. Data from the CDC show that while white women get the majority of abortions (56 percent), black women, at only 13 percent of the population, are getting roughly 36 percent of the abortions. On average, 432,000 black babies are aborted annually.

According to sociologist Anne Hendershott, black women are more likely than whites to get late-term abortions, which are riskier. Perhaps abortion is more common in minority communities because, similar to alcohol and tobacco, it is more aggressively marketed there.

It is well known that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, aligned herself with the eugenicists concerned with eliminating undesirables from the population. Moreover, Sanger received and accepted an invitation to address a Ku Klux Klan chapter and gave a speech that led to additional Klan invitations. Although we do not know what she said, we do know that recently questions have been raised about racism at Planned Parenthood clinics.

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