Posted on 12/01/2004 6:07:56 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
The argument used by many advocates of abortion -- that abortion is safer than childbirth -- is difficult to defend in light of medical evidence to the contrary. The Abortion Surveillance Branch of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) maintains that induced abortion is safer than childbirth [75] and that the serious complication rate is less than one percent. [76] Yet there is no agreement among investigators as to what constitutes a major complication and no real national system for the reporting these kind of statistics, [77] making the accuracy of such assertions questionable. Furthermore, the experiences of private physicians and gynecologists do not seem to support the validity of the CDC’s claim. [78]
Daniel J. Martin, M.D., Ltd., clinical instructor at St. Louis University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, has said, "The impact of abortion on the body of a woman who chooses abortion is great and always negative. I can think of no beneficial effect of a social abortion on a body." [79]
Why is this so? Because induced abortion is the premature, willful, and violent penetration of a closed and safeguarded system -- a system in which nearly every cell, tissue and organ of a woman’s reproductive system has been specially transformed and activated to carry out the function of sustaining and nourishing the developing child. Not surprisingly, any violation of the integrity of that system can lead to serious complications. Physical problems range from hemorrhage and infection to sterility and even death. Psychological effects range from depression and mental trauma to divorce and even suicide.
NancyJo Mann is one of many who has experienced both kinds of complications. Infection and bleeding followed her abortion which eventually led to a hysterectomy. Recalling her experience, she said, "Beforehand, I liked myself. I had never entertained the idea of abortion. But the minute that needle went through my abdomen, I hated it, because I knew it could not be reversed. I wanted to scream, ‘Don’t do this to me!’" [80]
Not to the Baby!!!!
I had a miscarriage when I was three months pregnant. It is much like an abortion in what it does to the body. It nearly made me sterile. Some of the blood went up into the fallopian tubes and blocked them almost completely off. My doctor thought I would never have children. Even with the blockage, I managed to have three babies. But with abortion and miscarriage, it is not what the body was supposed to go through, it is physical trauma, and it can make you sterile.
No, abortion is not safe, it's a murder. State sanctioned murder.
What an incredibly stupid argument? NO ABORTION IS SAFE; at least one human being is murdered during each abortion. And what's worse, the abortion is premeditated murder on behalf of the mother who pays someone else to kill her child. There's nothing to argue about! This is incredible that anyone connects abortion with safety of anything!
Correct. That is just not the issue.
As long as it reduces the crime rate too, who cares? </sarcasim>
I disagree with you. Abortion murders the baby, yes. But it's also a disgrace that the abortionists, who pretend they are helping women, are really hurting them and covering it up.
This article doesn't even mention the grave psychological damage that often follows abortion.
I think the pro-life cause needs to use every argument it can make. If it is legitimate to dissuade people from murdering their neighbors by warning them that they will suffer for doing so (by imprisonment or execution), then why is it wrong to warn confused or sinful mothers that killing their baby will also damage them?
The worst thing abortion does is kill the baby. But it has many other terrible side effects. Yet another evil side effect is that it has virtually destroyed our legal system by perverting the constitutional law and and the justice system.
I came to this thread to see how long it would take somebody to say that. First reply, not bad. Sort of goes to show you that anybody with an ounce of common sense can see that is a stupid question.
Is murder safe?
Metaphysically speaking, murder will most likely get you a one way trip to Hell for eternity.
My first thoughts, exactly!
Bless you - your children are fortunate you kept trying!
Sorry, that's nonsense. Miscarriages occur for all sorts of reasons, not just hormonal, and many of them *are* abrupt. A miscarriage caused by genetic defect or an immune system incompatibility is going to have the same biochemical effect on the mother's system (including the breasts) as an abortion.
If there's a link between abortion & breast cancer, it's a *correlation,* not a causation, and it's probably because women who have abortions have less children (for *all* sorts of reasons.) Having a larger number of children (and nursing them) is *known* to cause a reduction in incidence of breast cancer.
Yes, I'm pro-life - but I don't think we should make the case with dubious distinctions between abortion & miscarriage.
A) Not for the Baby. If left alone, this life would eventually learn to crawl, talk, and think. WOW, just like you and me!
B) Not for your mental being. For the rest of your life you will think of what could have been, should have been. Every child you see will be a reminder of what you destroyed.
C) Not for your soul. You will not even allow God Almighty to forgive you. The guilt, anguish, and self disgust does not go away with time but only deepens. If you do not experience these feelings than you have never had a soul to start with and never will.
D) Not for your future children. Every child you have is a daily reminder of what you truly destroyed. The fear of your children being harmed is an every day occurrence because in your heart you just know your child will pay the price for what you have done. The fear never leaves you even when your children are adults and you have grandchildren.
E) You are never, ever the same person, nor is it for the better.
F) Last but not least. No matter how they (your boyfriend, husband, parents, friends) try to convince you this is the right thing to do. They will tell you, do it for what is best for the child; It is not fair to bring them into this cruel world; You can't support this child; You can't give this child the life it deserves; You will not be a good mother now; Is it fair to put a child thru this; etc, etc. These people will never ever share the excruciating pain that will never leave you when you have your baby terminated.
These are just a few of the things the Pro-Choicers will not tell you when you have your "safe" abortion.
What I wrote about was the effect of an abortion on a woman's breasts. If you will read what I wrote carefully you will see that hormones open up the cells and ready them for their job. If they are not closed up they become vulnerable to things like cancer. It is a biochemical fact.
Yes, I did read it. My point was that in some situations, miscarriage and abortion are biochemically equivalent, especially when the cause of the miscarriage (genetic defect that causes the embryo to die suddenly; immune incompatibilities; placental abruption, for some examples.) It is also possible for a woman to be far more hormonally unbalanced and put into an unhealthy state from a miscarriage, than from the normal end of pregnancy (birth.) Miscarriage and birth are *not* automatically equivalent.
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