(reprise) DFU SONG: Where Have All the Flowers Gone (the anti-abortion anthem)

The Supreme Court decision protecting babies from an unspeakable and grotesque end to their lives has the killer industry in an uproar today.

Mommy please explain to me…what does abortion mean
That’s a word my teacher used…last week in school
She said that she paid for one…and that it’s not really cruel
What have some people done...do they know what they've done

Mommy please explain to me…why is a fetus bad
She said it’s a parasite…that had to die
Is it just a worthless thing…do you think that it can cry
What have some people done...do they know what they've done

Mommy please explain me…what does “it’s my choice” mean
Does it mean that life and death…was in her hands
Did she take what wasn’t hers…did she scoff at God’s commands
What have some people done...do they know what they've done

Mommy please explain to me…what's “partial birth” about
Does it mean a baby died...in an awful way
Why do people do such things…it will not grow up to play
What have some people done...do they know what they've done

Mommy please explain to me…are doctors sometimes wrong
Isn’t life the thing that they…swore to protect
If they do an awful deed…something sacred they reject
What have some people done...do they know what they've done

HILLARY CLINTON ON SCOTUS DECISION:

4/18/2007

From the Senate: Statement on Supreme Court’s Gonzales v. Carhart Decision Washington, DC — “This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman’s right to choose and recognized the importance of women’s health. Today’s decision blatantly defies the Court’s recent decision in 2000 striking down a state partial-birth abortion law because of its failure to provide an exception for the health of the mother. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973, this issue is complex and highly personal; the rights and lives of women must be taken into account. It is precisely this erosion of our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.”

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Studies Find Abortions Have Long-Term Effects

45,951,133

Total Abortions since 1973

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today)

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