Quote of the Day 9-28-10
… [A]s recent as 2006, only 6 years following its approval, the FDA admitted that they had received over 1,000 adverse-event reports related to RU-486. Of these, 116 cases involved blood transfusions, 232 required hospitalizations, and most grimly, 8 were fatal incidents.
As shocking as these numbers are, they are a gross underestimation because approximately only 10% of problems with drugs are submitted in reports to the FDA….
The abortion movement promised decades ago that women having abortions would have the best medical attention—no more unsupervised, lonely abortions with women bleeding away in back alleys.
Well, now with chemical, and especially with telemed abortions, women have less medical attention and still bleed away, having a lonely, unsupervised abortion over a toilet. Progress for women’s health? No.
Instead, pursuing an agenda of increasing chemical abortions at all costs, the abortion industry is reverting women’s health back to the Dark Ages.
~Jeanne Monahan, Human Events, September 28
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Agreed!!
Yeah, I don’t see too many abortionists being incredibly concerned over the women they help with abortions. Perhaps there’s some out there, but it looks like it’s rare.
I would agree wholeheartedly with this quote, except it insults the Dark Ages. Chemical abortions are WORSE than the mid 20th century ‘back alley.’ And the real Dark Ages? Not so dark.
I delivered my baby into my hand during a miscarriage in my home. I have a hunch that many of these women will come face to face with the truth in the comfort of their own homes too.
Nobody forces chemical abortions. Nobody forces Tel-Med abortions. If a woman would like to have their abortion in a clinic then that option is also open. If a woman would prefer a surgical abortion that option is also open to them. All options are open and nobody forces women to have abortions in America. Every abortion in America “even the regretted ones” were abortions of choice. You CHOOSE to have your abortion. This isn’t China and I have no problem with saying China is wrong. Forced abortion is wrong. It is every human’s right to have children and become parents if they wish.
However, I do not understand trying to limit someone else from making the same decision you had the freedom to make for yourself…
It’s like Lindsey Lohan advocating for D.A.R.E. after she gets out of jail again…
It is curious to me that some folks put fear of hypocrisy ahead of regard for human life. “Oh, I’m afraid of being called a hypocrite, but gee golly willikers, it’s ok to kill your kid.” Right. Once Lindsay is clean and sober (in the future) she will be qualified to speak to kids about drugs.
There have already been numerous news stories of women who were force fed or secretly fed drugs to make them miscarry against their wishes. 60% of abortions in the so-called free world are forced or coerced. And even if the mothers were willing, it is still murder, still wrong, still a crime no matter what Roe v Wade says otherwise.
Biggz, why do you fight so hard to murder children? Do you have mom issues? Dad issues? Death issues? Why take it out on helpless little ones?
Do not fret, Biggz.
Women will continue to come forward with their stories of how they were not told the truth about “choice” and found out the truth in some pretty horrifying ways.
I believe 64% of abortions are coerced and forced. There are teenage girls that have been dragged into abortion clinics for abortions against their wills.
Choice? Yeah right.
I knew a teenage girl, let’s call her Josie, who managed to fight for her baby even as her mother forcibly drove her to an abortuary. The girl did not give up or give in. On the ride home, the mother pulled the car off the road. She assaulted her own daughter, repeatedly striking and kicking her in the stomach to try and induce a miscarriage. Josie fought back.
Today Josie is much older, and her baby? He made her a grandmother last year. Josie’s own mother? Not invited to family events.
Choice my patooty.
I know a woman, I’ll call her Cindy who was forced by her parents at the age of 16 to get an abortion. It was 1969. Cindy still grieves for the baby that died. Her son would have been 41 this year.
I know a young woman, I’ll call her Maddie who was told if she didn’t get an abortion she would be kicked out of the house by her mother. She felt like she had no choice but to abort when she was a teenager.
I know a woman, Debra who was forced by her parents to abort her twins at the age of 14.
Leaving one with no choice, is hardly choice.
I knew a woman who was forced to have an abortion when she was teen. She said she wouldn’t wish the experience on her worst enemy. She said she thought she had fought the people during the abortion because when she woke up she was sore all over. She was incredibly upset over the whole thing.
The Unchoice.
Biggz said “Forced abortion is wrong. It is every human’s right to have children and become parents if they wish.”
Wrong again. There is no human right to succeed in having a child, to conceive. What is a human and moral right is a married couple’s right to engage in self-donative sexual acts that have the potential for the creation of new life. Ie, no forced 1-child policies, no forced contraception, no forced sterility. However, there is no right to succeed in having a child.
The artificial reproductive technology (ART) industry was created because of the degredation of humanity to merely a utilitarian good. Even the initials of ART, which is the accepted medical terminology for the industry, implies what Biggz implied: babies are a consumer good that are produced. However, like consumer goods, unwanted products can be trashed and excess inventory can be stored until desired or also destroyed.
Rights imply duties. If I have the rights to life and liberty, then fellow citizens and the state have the duty to avoid conduct and actions that inhibit my rights (and I owe that same duty to them). If I have the right to have children, then that means that all methods of obtaining this goal must be honored and protected, unless it can be proven that the action deprives another of his/her rights. Thus, if having a child is a right, then all means of doing this, including reproductive cloning, must be available to me.
(As a side note, am I implying that there is no morally licit help available for couples who face infertility? Of course not. The Pope Paul VI Institute (http://www.popepaulvi.com/) assists thousands of couples using scientific medical methods and morally permissible medical interventions, and is by no means limited to Catholics or Christians.)