“Listen to me you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you. I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Isaiah 46:3-4
Pro-Choice America has aborted nearly 60 million babies since 1973. Isn’t it time to stop?
WARNING
Please read the following message from the Executive Director of Pure Victory
Ministries before exploring further on the subject of abortion.
The subject of abortion is one of controversy. It is, for many, one of pain and heartache. Abortion is also a mature subject that many parents may not want their children exposed to. Pure Victory Ministries does not wish to condemn, offend, or otherwise cause emotional disturbance with this topic. We only wishes to expose abortion for what it really is and to help hurting hearts heal. If you have had an abortion experience, please, enter each article with caution. We advise and encourage you to read Forgiveness and Peace before reading anything else.
If you are a minor or the parent of a minor, you may refer to Abortion explained for minors. This article helps parents and children explore the truth about abortion in an age appropriate manner. If, however you are not a minor nor have had an abortion experience and would like to know the truth, then I challenge you to take a deeper look.
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Shattered Dreams (Rape)
God’s Law regarding abortion
“THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT MURDER.”
Abortion goes against the blessing God gave to Adam, which is to be fruitful and multiply.
Abortion and the Constitution
“We the People of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Abortion goes against the foundation that our forefathers built for us. In the Constitution, they set into motion a republic for the people, by the people. The Supreme Court has twisted the Constitution so radically to justify the federal legalization of abortion, the pre-meditated murder of an unborn human life. The abortion lie is enforced by pro-abortion advocates. It is time for America to learn the truth based on facts, not fiction, about what abortion really is.
In 1973, the Supreme Court stripped away the states right to make abortion illegal. This single act was completely unconstitutional, according to the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” According to the Constitution, states have the right to make all laws for their own state that are not already delegated to the
federal government. Article III section 2 states “The Judicial Power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity:… to all cases affecting Ambassadors…; to all cases of admiralty…; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party to; to controversies between two or more states; between a state and Citizens of another state; between Citizens of different states; between Citizens of the same states claiming lands under Grants of different states, and a state and a citizen of another state, or the Citizens thereof and foreign states, Citizens or Subjects.” This Article talks about interstate issues between one state and another state, and a state and a Citizen of another state. Nowhere in the Constitution does it give the Supreme Court the right to pass a law stemming from a lawsuit between a citizen and its own state in which the ruling shall affect all states. However, in 1973, Justice Harry Blackmun ruled that “aside from normal procedure guidelines (an abortion must be performed safely, by a licensed physician) a state has no right to restrict abortion in the first six months. In the last three months states have restriction rights except for in cases of the health of the mother.” “Health” is defined as “physical, emotional, psychological, familial and age.” The ruling was based on the testimony of one Norma McCorvey (Roe), who was denied an abortion even though she claimed to have been raped. In 1995, Ms McCorvey joined the pro-life side of the argument and admitted that she had lied about the rape because abortion rights lawyers had pressured her to do so.
Amendment XIV states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or; immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” “No state shall deny any person of life.” Pro-abortion lawmakers twisted this amendment to mean that an unborn child is not a citizen and therefore does not have rights. Clearly, Amendment XIV states that even though one may not be born or is not a citizen of the United States, they shall not be denied the right to life because they are a person. Many pro-abortion advocates claim that a pre-born child is not a person until it is born. Consider that by the time a fetus is 6-8 weeks gestation, about the time a woman finds out she is
pregnant, it already has all of the following: all 46 chromosomes that will determine all of its physical features that they will have as an adult, including its eye color, it has a spine, nervous system, kidneys, liver, intestines, mouth, tongue, muscle system, arms, legs, fingers, eyes, and most importantly, brain waves and a heartbeat. Almost 50% of all abortions are performed AFTER this stage, when this tiny person is almost completely formed. All the baby basically has left to do is grow and strengthen- the same maturing process that they do after they are born. The pro-abortion debate claims that a woman’s right to privacy outweighs the baby’s right to life, liberty and property. However, the right to privacy is not mentioned in the constitution. Amendment IV states, “The right to be secure in their persons, houses, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be siezed.” This amendment defines just cause for search and seizure, not a right to privacy. In fact, one could conclude from this amendment that a woman could not be forced to have an abortion, nor could she unreasonably search and seize the fetus (person) without just cause.
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) states, in order to dehumanize the fetus, “We know for sure that the embryo or fetus cannot perceive pain in the nearly 99% of all abortions that occur before 22 weeks of pregnancy.” Though a fetus may not be able to PERCEIVE pain, that does not mean that it does not FEEL pain and pain sensation. The way PPFA words their statements is deceptive. PPFA does not give scientific support of this statement. Illinois National Right to Life (INRL) has a reprint from a journal of medicine stating, “Early studies… concluded that neonatal responses to painful stimuli were decorticate in nature and that perception of localizing of pain was not present. ” It then goes on to say that the fetus does not have nociceptive activity, which is termed interchangeably with pain and pain sensation. In other words, the fetus does not know the definition of pain, but it can still experience pain.
PPFA and other abortion advocates make statements that they deem to be true about abortion without supporting evidence. PPFA tells of millions of back-alley abortion-related deaths before it became legal in 1973. In truth, there were 39 reported maternal deaths from illegal abortions in 1972, the year before it became legal. There has been an average of 17.4 deaths from illegal abortions every year since.
PPFA says that abortion does not cause breast cancer. This is a 1/2 truth. Abortion may not cause breast cancer, but it does leave a woman vulnerable to it. Scientific studies show an increased risk from 10% risk of breast cancer without having an abortion to 15-300% increased risk after having an abortion. The risk goes up when other factors such as age, number of abortions, and race are included. The reason for the link is that “a woman’s breast tissue
is left in a dangerously stimulated but undifferentiated state, increasing the risk of later cancerous development. ” In other words, the breasts are left vulnerable to carcinogens, which are cancer producing cells. A woman has a decreased risk of breast cancer from giving birth to only a 7% risk.
PPFA states that an abortion procedure is safe with minimal health risk. They even go as far to say that childbirth causes seven times the risk of death than abortion. Aside from the obvious that abortion always causes the death of the baby, childbirth has become become increasingly safer due to the routinely performed cesarean-section. PPFA’s statement may have been true a long time ago, but not today.
Except for extreme circumstances, PPFA states that abortion does not cause the following: infertility, premature and low birth weight babies, miscarriage of subsequent pregnancies, ectopic pregnancy, hysterectomy, post abortion syndrome, depression, suicide, and death. In fact, PPFA states that a woman feels slight discomfort, like with menstrual cramps, and nausea. They also state that most, “women feel relief.” and that serious, long term emotional problems after abortion are extremely rare and less common than they are after childbirth. The truth is that 135,000 women get an infection after an abortion that can lead to many problems including an increased risk of cervical cancer. 4,500 have an ectopic pregnancy. 19% regret their decision. The risk of having a future miscarriage is 35% higher.
Abortion rates dropped in Pennsyvania by 24% when PA put into law a 24 hour waiting period after receiving abortion counseling and a pamphlet on the risks of abortion. Women generally do not regret giving birth to their child.
PPFA describes certain abortion procedures as “a gentle suction.” Actually, the suction is so violent that it can turn the uterus inside out.
PPFA claims that they want to, “Make America friendlier to children.” How is death for the child friendlier? Meanwhile, parenting and adoption were only mentioned once on their entire website. In October of 2000, PPFA released their annual report of the following services provided by them to pregnant clients: 167,928 abortions; 36,870 abortion referrals; 67,052 referrals for prenatal care; 4,892 referrals for adoptions; and 0 adoptions. Of the 292,807 pregnant clients of Planned Parenthood, 204,798 ended in abortion.
PPFA’s pregnant clients claimed that their PPFA counselor gave little or no education on parenting or adoption and were “extremely biased towards abortion.”
The most unconstitutional abortion procedure of all, the partial-birth abortion, has been exposed and is now illegal. While PPFA claimed these abortions to be necessary to save the life of the mother, a statement from medical experts’ testimonies to congress stated that “the baby feels tremendous pain,” and “this procedure is never medically necessary to save the life or future fertility of the mother.” Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, argued that partial-birth aboritons were extremely rare, occurring only about 450 times annually and used only in dire situations. He then reiterated and states, “I lied through my teeth,” now stating that the numbers are closer to 5,000/ year and are performed on healthy mothers and healthy babies. Thank God this barbaric procedure is now banned in the USA!!!
Saline/ salt abortions are illegal as well as too many babies where being born alive with life altering disabilities.
But isn’t it time to ban all abortion?
Exposing the abortion lie was not difficult. Merely taking the scientific facts that it is a living human, constitutional facts that all living humans have the right to life is all it takes to expose the lie. Common sense tells us that not only is abortion unjust and inhumane, but also unconstitutional.
The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act was passed in 1989, but held up by court injunction until May, 1994
Here is a summary of the provisions of the state law which were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Planned
Parenthood v. Casey and which remain the law of the state today:
Abortion for unemancipated minors requires the consent of at least one parent prior to abortion, unless a judge rules the minor is competent to make the decision herself.
Women are provided a right to know for informed consent. 24 hours prior to an abortion, the abortionist must offer the woman information about the gestation of her baby, the development of the unborn child, the physical dangers of abortion for her health, and alternatives available to her, including financial assistance if she bears the child. The mother is allowed under the law to refuse any or all of this information, but the law requires the abortionist to make it available. The woman then must take 24 hours to reflect on her decision before the abortion can be done.
Abortion is legal for any reason by any means during the first six months of pregnancy, but in the last trimester of pregnancy, abortion is restricted only to cases when the life of the mother is seriously threatened or when pregnancy would result in irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
Informed Consent
No abortion shall be performed or induced except with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman.
Except in the case of a medical emergency, consent to an abortion is voluntary and informed if and only if:
At least 24 hours prior to the abortion, the physician who is to perform the abortion or the referring physician has orally informed the woman of:
The nature of the proposed procedure or treatment and of those risks and alternatives.
The probable gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is to be performed.
The medical risks associated with carrying her child to term.
At least 24 hours prior to the abortion, the physician … or a qualified physician assistant, health care practitioner, technician or social worker … has informed the pregnant woman that:
a) The (state government) publishes printed materials which describe the unborn child and list agencies which offer alternatives to abortion and that … a copy will be provided to her free of charge if she chooses to review it.
b) Medical assistance benefits may be available for prenatal care, childbirth and neonatal care.
Parental Consent
Except in the case of a medical emergency or except as provided in this section, if a pregnant woman is less than 18 years of age and not emancipated (supporting herself), a physician shall not perform an abortion upon her unless he first obtains the informed consent of both the pregnant woman and one of her parents. If both of the parents or guardians of the pregnant woman refuse to consent … or if she elects not to seek the consent … the court of common pleas of the judicial district in which the applicant resides or in which the abortion is sought shall … authorize … the abortion if the court determines that the pregnant woman is mature and capable of giving informed consent.
Reporting
For the purpose of promotion of maternal health and life by adding to the sum of medical and public health knowledge through the compilation of relevant data and to promote the Commonwealth’s interest in the protection of the unborn child, a report of each abortion performed shall be made to (state officials). The report forms shall not identify the individual patient by name and shall include the following information:
Identification of the physician.
The county and state in which the woman resides.
The woman’s age.
The number of prior pregnancies and prior abortions of the woman.
The gestational age of the unborn child at the time of the abortion.
The type of procedure performed or prescribed and the date of the abortion.
Know your Rights
The following is a list of rights you have if you intend on having an abortion:
You have the right to insist that your abortion be performed by a physician licensed to practice in your state.
You have the right to verify that your physician has malpractice insurance to compensate you in case you are injured, killed or sexually assaulted during the procedure.
You have the right to know whether your physician has ever had his or her medical license suspended.
You have the right to know whether your physician has any pending or unpaid claims for medical malpractice, personal injury, or wrongful death.
You have the right to insist that if you are injured you will be immediately transferred by ambulance to the nearest emergency facility.
You have the right to seek financial compensation for injuries inflicted upon you by the clinic or doctor- even if you sign a document at the clinic saying that you will not hold them responsible for such injuries.
You have the right to change your mind about having the abortion at any point prior to the abortion; however, once the abortion is complete, you cannot change your mind, it is irreversible and permanent. For early chemical abortions, the procedure has a small window of time in which it can be reversed by injections of progesterone.
The Diary of an Unborn Child
October 5– Today my life began. My parents do not know it yet, I am as small as a seed of an apple, but it is I already. I am to be a girl. I shall have blonde hair and blue eyes. Just about everything is settled though, even the fact that I shall love flowers.
October 19– Some say that I am not a real person yet, that only my mother exists. But, I am a real person, just as a small crumb of bread is yet truly bread. My mother is. And I am.
October 23– my mouth is just beginning to open now. Just think, in a year or so I shall be laughing and later talking. I know what my first word will be- MAMA!
October 25– my heart began to beat today all by itself. From now on it shall gently beat for the rest of my life without ever stopping to rest! And after many years it will tire, it will stop, and then I shall die.
November 2- I am growing a bit every day. My arms and legs are beginning to take shape. But I have to wait a long time yet before those little legs will raise me to my mother’s arms, before these little arms will be able to gather flowers and embrace my father.
November 12– tiny fingers are beginning to form on my hands. Funny how small they are! I’ll be able to stroke my mother’s hair with them.
November 20– it wasn’t until today that the doctor told my mom that I am living here under her heart. Oh, how happy she must be! Are you happy, mom?
November 25– my mom and dad are probably thinking about a name for me. But they don’t even know that I am a little girl. I want to be called Emily. I am getting so big already.
December 10– my hair is growing. It is smooth and bright and shiny. I wonder what kind of hair mom has.
December 13– I am just about able to see. It is dark around me. When mom brings me into the world it will be full of sunshine and flowers. But what I want more than anything is to see my mom. How do you look, mom?
December 24– I wonder if mom hears the whispering of my heart. Some children come into the world a little sick. But my heart is strong and healthy. It beats so evenly: tup-tup, tup-tup. You’ll have a healthy little daughter, mom!
December 28- today my mother killed me.
For Every Great Battle, There is a Great Victory!!