Pro-life blog buzz 5-28-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life discusses an analysis on abortion’s effect on women, released at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, utilizing data from several countries:
Documented complications include hemorrhage, infection, cervical damage, uterine perforation, pelvic disease and retained fetal or placental tissue. Large record-based studies from Finland, Denmark and the United States found that maternal mortality rates were significantly higher after abortion compared to childbirth.Long-term risks of abortion, including subsequent preterm birth, infertility, cancer, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and placenta previa, can substantially impede future reproductive success. In addition, abortion is associated with increased risk of negative psycho-social consequences. For example, a 2011 meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found an 81 percent increased risk of mental health problems. Anxiety, depression, alcohol and drug use and suicidal behaviors have been found to increase following abortion, along with damage to key relationships.
- The FRC Blog condemns the Obama administration’s refusal to charge Major Nidal Hasan (who shot 30 people at Fort Hood, Texas – killing 14 – while shouting “Allahu Akbar”) with a violation of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act for the murder of victim Francheska Velez’s (pictured left) preborn child:
She cried out “My baby! My baby!” but Hasan killed her and her unborn child anyway. The Obama administration has elected not to charge Hasan with violation of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, even though the law was passed explicitly to cover such instances. - Kansans for Life reports that legislators listened to scientific and medical evidence before passing the state’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in 2011, including the information that “as revealed in scientific studies developed over the past three decades… unborn children are ‘wired’ to feel pain MORE intensely than any child or adult ever can” and that “the highest density of pain receptors per square inch of skin in human development occurs in utero from 20-30 weeks gestation.”
- American Life League’s Judie Brown harshly criticizes Cardinal Timothy Dolan for calling pro-abortion Governor Andrew Cuomo (despite the governor’s support for abortion and homosexuality) a “Catholic in good standing,” and for agreeing not to exclude him from receiving Holy Communion despite canon law. Brown asks readers to pray and fast for all Bishops.
- Americans United for Life condemns the recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals “[which] struck down Arizona’s prohibition of abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, despite the fact that the risks to maternal health dramatically increase with such later-term abortion procedures”:
Substantial medical data — utilized even by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute — demonstrates that a woman seeking an abortion… at 20 weeks is 35 times more likely to die from abortion than she was in the first trimester. At 21 weeks or more, she is 91 times more likely to die from abortion than she was in the first trimester. - At Live Action News, Lauren Enriquez has a piece discussing the tension in some Christian circles regarding pro-life activism.
- Fletcher Armstrong wants to bring a pro-life training academy to your town, teaching pro-lifers to “answer tough questions about abortion and [learn] the science and logic behind the pro-life position.”
- At The Leading Edge, Brendan Malone shares the promo video for a pro-life internship opportunity for New Zealanders. The deadline to apply is June 16:
[Photos via nydailynews.com, examiner.com]
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.
It has always bothered me that almost the entire rational given by PL tends to focus on the mostt physical sequelae of abortion like ‘increased breast cancer risk’. At the same time we totally neglect the all pervasivness of DEPRESSION both before (compromizes the free aspect of choice) and after the procedure (sometimes latent). I guess we pretend to be in-control of our moods and yet the vast majority makes decisions on how they ‘feel’ and very few will override feelings by knowledge. {This is THE largest drawbacks of PL-arguments: they are too cerebral – like repeating medical science Obama enthraws many folks’ feelings, not their intellect. The American election system is based on popularity not verasity ,,, so too major media like tv.]
It is perplexing when almost all other surgical procedures are scrapped/delayed if the patient shows signs of DEPRESSION. Not so with abortion. A patient is rushed through the procedure … as if the abortion cures her depression.
The actual event is very different. Almosr ALL abortions (80+%) happen during the first trimester, we are told. [cue in fetal developement images of very young babies. ALL THIS REALLY HAPPENS BEFORE THE PREGNANT MOM EVEN KNOWS SHE IS PREGNANT, AND DEFINITELY BEFORE SHE MAKES ANY DECISION TO ABORT.} She often knows that she is pregnant @5-wk-6wk. Soon after that she will usually enter the first PREGNANCY-RELATED DEPRESSION. [The developing baby requires massive amounts of zinc to form the initial stages of the optic nerve and the heart.] This 1st depression lasts from weeks 8-11. And if Dr Patrick Dunn of NZ is correct: then the vast majority of ALL abortions occur 9-10wks, at the very lowest part of this DEPRESSION, not throughout the 1st trimester.
ALL: in every single event that involves blood being let, whether surgical or a menses, zinc is deminished because the physical healing process requires zinc. If any woman gets an abortion to avoid her poor mood, her feelings of relief will be short-lived. The added deficiency of zinc, from a zinc-DEPRESSION + zinc used in the process of healing, will drive a sense of despondency even deeper.
John McDowell, you make some good points. I have written about about this in a three part series on my blog about PAS or Post Abortion Stress at http://prolifeeration.blogspot.com/2013_04_16_archive.html
The striking down by the courts of Arizona’s prohibition on abortions beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy adds to the stack of proof that “pro-choicers” have little concern for the lives of the preborn and little concern for troublesome facts.
The Live Action article is interesting. The simple answer to the tension between being loving and giving the truth is that love without truth isn’t true love and truth without love shows no love for the truth. As the Apostle Paul says we are to speak the truth in love. The more literal translation says that we are to truth in love, live the truth in words and deeds. The balance is not so simple.
Cardinal Dolan…..ugh!! More of a sheep then a shepherd I’m afraid.
Cuomo life is a scandal.
– Public concubinage.
– Unnatural relationships as equivalent to marriage.
– Murder of the unborn.
I don’t want to suggest that only saints can be “Catholics in good standing.” But when public person lives and boasts of a life that is contrary with what Christ’s Church teaches us, then it is not a kindness to proclaim that such a person is “a Catholic in good standing” if he is unwilling to repent of his public sins.
Cardinal Dolan is a man of wisdom and discernment. I hope he knows something that we don’t know.
Maybe Dolan will meet the same fate as that bishop in Canada. Here’s hoping.