NOW’s fraudulent abortion poster women
The National Organization for Women recently posted an Emergency Alert with the headline, “Bush Picks Anti-Roe Nominee… Women’s Lives on the Line.”
In the alert, NOW included the photos of four women it said “are the faces of women who died because they could not obtain safe and legal abortions,” below, the obvious inference being that a Supreme Court reversal of Roe will cause women’s deaths.
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First, a reversal of Roe will only take the abortion decision back to the states, not outlaw abortion.
Second, if deaths from illegal abortions were so prevalent, why did NOW have to search back to 1929 to find one (Duvall) and 1940 for another (Shirley)?
The third, Becky Bell, died in 1988 – when abortion was legal. NOW championed Becky because she was 17 at the time of her death, and Indiana, where Becky lived, had recently passed a parental notification law. Even so, Becky could have obtained a legal abortion. All that said, the post-mortem report showed Becky died from pneumonia, not related to any abortion. In fact, that she even obtained an abortion in the first place is disputed, both by her best friend and also by the medical findings.
NOW’s fourth example is Rosie Jiminez. Jiminez also died after abortion was legal, in 1979. Pro-aborts blame her death on the Hyde Amendment, which banned taxpayer funding for Medicaid abortions. Pro-aborts blame us for not paying for Jiminez’s abortion rather than themselves for not extending “charity” to Jiminez. Furthermore, pro-aborts admit Jiminez died with a $700 scholarship check in her pocket that she “chose” not to use to procure a so-called “safe” abortion.
NOW’s latter two examples would also make the point that legal access to abortion has not stopped bottom-bottom feeding abortionists (legal abortions being the bottom-feeders) from preying on desperate mothers.
Are you sure you want to go there, NOW?
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.
I just posted about two of the women whose deaths NOW likes to ignore.
I’m fully aware of post-Roe illegal abortions. And they don’t fit the paradigm NOW puts forth. The CDC’s on studies found that women choose illegal abortions for a lot of reasons, and “access” doesn’t seem to be at the head of the list.
In 1977, the year Rosie Jiminez died, the CDC counted 17 women who died of legal abortions. You don’t hear any outrage about those deaths. Jacqueline Bailey, Barbaralee Davis, Louchrisser Lackson, Mary Ann Page, Mary Paredez, and the other women whose abortions were supposedly “safe” don’t count.
In 1988, the year Becky Bell died of pneumonia, the CDC counted ZERO illegal abortion deaths, but SIXTEEN legal abortion deaths. Why don’t Demitrice Andrews, K.B., Junette Barnes, Teresa Causey, Erna Fisher, Lou Ann Herron, Dawn Mendoza, Denise Montoya. Joyce Ortenzio, Katrina Poole, Stacy Ruckman, Laura Sorrels, Tami Suematsu count and the others count?
I liked this quote from the review of Ellen Frankfort’s book:
The women of America must refuse to tolerate the death of a single woman because of a lack of funding for abortion.
Ah! So it’s the fact that the death was due to lack of funding that it was bad! If the government had paid for the abortion, it would have been okay! Now I understand!
No, wait, that doesn’t work, because I don’t know that all those other women’s abortions were paid for with federal funds. So there’s got to be some other reason those deaths are okay, but Rosie’s death is intolerable.
Check out this link to all the women who have been KILLED by “safe and legal” abortion.
http://www.lifedynamics.com/Pro-life_Group/Pro-choice_Women/
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