Posted on 07/21/2005 9:55:04 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Unusual things are happening in the feminist world. The Hungarian representative to UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) said that, in the future, abortion will be viewed by women in the same way that torture is now viewed by human rights advocates. Now, given how often the UN turns a blind eye to torture, Saddam Hussein’s regime being a fine example of the carefully shielded glance, we may justifiably wonder if this means torture will become acceptable or abortion unacceptable. But even so, the possibility that CEDAW members are beginning to question the practice is telling.
The reasons are not too difficult to find. Within the last month, headlines have revealed:
· Danco Laboratories, maker of the abortifacient drug RU 486 (Mifeprex) is changing the labels that appear on the drugs to include updated safety information. Why? Well, five women have died from using their product. Given that four of these five deaths were reported in California, there is growing suspicion that the number of national deaths is rather deeply under-reported.
· Canada’s public health department warned doctors to restrict access to Depo-Provera. It seems the drug causes massive and possibly permanent bone loss in the women who take it. Depo-Provera is a common form of abortifacient birth control for teens and young women – the very group that is supposed to be building up the solid calcium they need to survive old age without osteoporosis.
· The Associated Press reports the birth control patch (also an abortifacient) causes thrombosis, potentially deadly clots in the deep veins, lungs, heart or brain, twenty times as often as the birth control pill.
· Given that the pill itself puts women at increased risk for thrombosis, this is hardly good news. But, the news is doubly damning since it has just been verified that the low-dose birth control pill increases the rate of heart attack and stroke to a much greater extent than previously understood.
· New studies have demonstrated that women who have abortion have drug abuse rates, accident rates, suicide rates and higher morbidity and mortality rates overall than the general population. This merely confirms what has been known for over five years: women who carry to term, on the other hand, have lower morbidity and mortality rates than the general female population.
· Meanwhile, not a few Democrats are considering jettisoning the radical left-wing of the party by removing the staunchly pro-abortion plank of their platform.
Ever since the 1974 authorization of National Security Study Memorandum 200 ( NSSM 200), American foreign policy has been built around sterilizing the population of other countries, even as it kills its own women and children through massive application of hormonal contraceptives and abortion. Now, thirty years later, the result has been a world-wide fertility decline never before seen in human history.
As the population of every industrialized country in the world rapidly ages, as the aged and disabled have begun to be systematically euthanized and the specter of depopulation haunts Japan, Europe and eventually North America, some people are beginning to wake up.
“Perhaps,” some of them have begun to say to themselves and, ever so quietly, to one another, “perhaps this approach is not the best.”
Indeed.
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· New studies have demonstrated that women who have abortion have drug abuse rates, accident rates, suicide rates and higher morbidity and mortality rates overall than the general population. This merely confirms what has been known for over five years: women who carry to term, on the other hand, have lower morbidity and mortality rates than the general female population.
the implication of causality is possibly misleading: These women seem to be generally sloppy, self-destructive, incapable of delayed gratification (or deficient in this trait), and irresponsible... accidental pregnancy and preference for abortion over longer-term options fits that pattern. In other words, these other traits and use of abortion my be symptoms of common deficiencies in character or personality.
cant they just keep their legs shut?
***Ever since the 1974 authorization of National Security Study Memorandum 200 ( NSSM 200), American foreign policy has been built around sterilizing the population of other countries,****
Whoah Nelly!
Never heard anything like that before.
**Ever since the 1974 authorization of National Security Study Memorandum 200 ( NSSM 200), American foreign policy has been built around sterilizing the population of other countries,****
If conservatives and pro-life people were smart, they would split the abortiion faction in half by not fighting the morning after pill, and other pregnancy preventers. The battle for pro-lifers should go to defending prenatal infants, where the doctor has already diagnosised pregnancy. By acknowledging pregnancy, the doctor has admited, a baby is on board. Let us end the termination of "pregnancies" as they are just a veiled forced death for prenatal infants.
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Thank you for the ping, Coleus. May a great shifting follow on from this one small development.
This is all from the perspective of what-abortion-can-do-for-me, ignoring the death of the unborn child.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/STEALTH.TXT
Rumors were rampant at one time that routine vaccines in the Third World were laced with HCG: human chorionic gonadotrophin. The idea was to cause the formation of antibodies against this biocompound which is required for implantatation of an embryo in the womb, I believe. Whether this battle still rages or has been proven is not known to me, at least.
Frank
Sadly, the growth of organizations like Project Rachel testify to all that this solution is never the answer. Many of these women are hurting and it is time for us to recognize it and to help them in every way possible: emotionally, prayerfully and with love.
Frank
Did this happen? It would be interesting to find out. >>
I'll try to find some sites based on population trends.
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