Pro-life blog buzz 10-18-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Abstinence Clearinghouse discusses research which states that STDs and ectopic pregnancies are linked:
According to ehealthmd.com, the connection between STD’s and Ectopic Pregnancies is attributed to the damage caused to the fallopian tubes. Severe infections can scar the tubes, causing them to become blocked. Women who have previously suffered from infections, such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, have a five times greater risk of developing an ectopic pregnancy….
- Josh Brahm says body language matters when dialoguing with someone about a contentious issue like abortion:
I prefer not to directly face pro-choice people when I’m in a dialogue with them. If I’m directly facing the person I’m talking to, it feels more like an argument than a dialogue. But if I’m standing shoulder-to-shoulder with them or if we’re both angled towards a common object, I tend to have a better dialogue.Interestingly enough, Joe Navarro, a 25-year veteran of the FBI and an expert on body language, found the same thing. He says that agents have more success with coaxing information out of interviewees when they avoid direct eye contact.
- Big Blue Wave comments on the story of a couple with three children conceived via IVF – two born and one in cold storage – who opts to bury their embryo rather than place him/her for adoption or attempt to carry to term. Apparently, the couple finds the expense of “freezer” costs to be unmanageable and the thought of their child living with someone else to be unbearable. How tragic that death is thought to be preferable to a chance at life. Is burying one’s willfully rejected preborn child in the garden fundamentally different from abortion?
- Bound4Life comments on a judge’s denial of an abortion to a 16-year-old girl in foster care who wanted to abort without parental consent. The girl’s lawyer appealed the judge’s ruling, claiming “bias.” (If the judge had allowed it, would he would have been considered “non-biased” by default?) He also objected to the fact that the judge asked the girl if she knew what abortion does to children in utero. Apparently, this teen is mature enough to have an abortion, but not mature enough to answer whether she fully understands the procedure.
- Family Research Council says that while Planned Parenthood is celebrating its 97th birthday, there are many foul things about the organization that cannot simply be covered up by birthday cake icing:
Planned Parenthood keeps medical standards low to keep overhead low. This puts women at risk. Hundreds of medical complaints have been filed against the organization, and many women have suffered botched abortions or died because of their practices. Medical citations include: non-medical personnel performing medical functions, failing to disinfect and remove blood stains from tables between abortions, using abortion pills after their expiration date, reusing unsanitary sponges to clean instruments, allowing fetal matter and frozen blood to build up on freezers. - The Lost Generation posts a graphic (below; click to enlarge) showing the dangers of the Mirena IUD:
Why use a “birth control” method that is likely to cause death for a baby/babies you never knew about? Why use a device that hugely increases your odds of suffering an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage if you have it removed during pregnancy? Why choose a “contraceptive” that is manufactured by a company that even the FDA calls misleading? Why use the Mirena IUD if you are risking your own health and life in the process, along with your baby’s?
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According to the pro-abort articles I read the reason why the judge was ‘biased’ and that specific question ‘unfair’ was because he said ‘child’ not ‘fetus’ or ‘pregnancy’.
“According to the pro-abort articles I read the reason why the judge was ‘biased’ and that specific question ‘unfair’ was because he said ‘child’ not ‘fetus’ or ‘pregnancy’.”
So basically, they are mad that he didn’t have their bias.
JDC, well a human being (okay, a thinking human being) is incapable of having *no* bias. In the words of a favorite author and speaker “it’s not a question of bias, it’s a question of which bias is the best bias to be bias towards” (Chittick)
It’s a pre-born human being. No fetal developmental term can change what it is it can only determine its stage of development. Whether you call said human a “fetus”, “zygote” “embryo” “baby” “infant” or “newborn” said being is still human.
Ex-Kansas AG’s law license suspended indefinitely:
http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-ex-ags-law-license-suspended-over-abortion-210013488–finance.html
He definitely was overzealous.
Scar tissue from abortions also causes ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages and premature births.
Abortion and STD’s belong in the same class of risks. Both caused by the same risky behaviors (abetted by contraception use), and resulting in similar long-term health risks to the mother.
“JDC, well a human being (okay, a thinking human being) is incapable of having *no* bias. In the words of a favorite author and speaker “it’s not a question of bias, it’s a question of which bias is the best bias to be bias towards” (Chittick)”
Good point. I will say that I personally prefer the judge’s bias to that of his critics.
Del,
Do you know of a link between D & C’s(after the baby has died naturally)and a weakening of the cervix that results in miscarriage?
As I understand it the procedure is the same for abortion, dilating the cervix.
But is clearly NOT an abortion as the baby has died of natural causes.
Carla,
I know you didn’t address me but the study I had read (whose link was unfortunately lost 3 computers ago) showed no link between miscarriage follow-up care (D&C) and subsequent early labor. The expected difference is, with a miscarriage, all the hormonal signals of pregnancy are already gone and the woman’s body is no longer ‘protecting’ a pregnancy (kind of like the difference between an induction of labor when the body is ready to give birth, which has a high success rate, verses when there are no maternal/fetal signs of labor readiness, which has a huge failure rate). A D&C after miscarriage isn’t an induced labor, but it’s not an invasive procedure on an existing pregnancy. HOWEVER I know myself I would do my best to wait it out and see if nature took it’s course (realizing that’s not always an option), because miscarriage or abortion, doesn’t change the inherent risk of the professional tearing, ripping, or damaging the cervix or womb.
Thank you Jespren. :)
That makes sense.
Carla says:
October 19, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Del,
Do you know of a link between D & C’s(after the baby has died naturally)and a weakening of the cervix that results in miscarriage?
As I understand it the procedure is the same for abortion, dilating the cervix.
But is clearly NOT an abortion as the baby has died of natural causes.
I don’t know about a correlation of the D&C procedure to ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, and premature birth. We should expect a correlation, and be surprised if it is not there.
Every medical procedure has its risks. Sepsis due to a miscarriage that fails to clear itself is a grave risk, so the D&C is necessary to preserve the woman’s health.
Abortion is not necessary. And the cheap, industrial process found in abortion clinics is not nearly so careful as a D&C from a doctor who has already cared a woman through her pregnancy and miscarriage.
Hi Carla and Del,
A D&C is performed only if a woman is retaining fetal or placental tissue or continues to bleed after a miscarriage. It isn’t routinely done. Also the cervix is opened to allow for the passage of the fetus, the miscarriage being a natural process, so trauma should be minimal.
Again letting nature take its course is preferable and for the most part it does. However one can understand where a woman would not want to continue to carry a dead fetus and may opt for a D&C or induction, while in the case of Michelle Duggar, she chose to expel the baby naturally. If a woman prefers to wait it out, she needs to be observant for signs of infection such as developing a fever.
There shouldn’t be any correlation to an ectopic pregnancy unless the woman has other issues such as scarred Fallopian tubes. Sometimes they just occur for no known reason.