Posted on 09/08/2009 4:17:28 PM PDT by wagglebee
Springfield, IL (LifeNews.com) -- A new report issued today focuses on the epidemic of forced abortions in the United States. The Elliot Institute, an Illinois-based organization that researches abortion's impact on women, finds as many as 64 percent of women say they have felt pressure to have an abortion.
That pressure, the group finds, most likely comes from spouse or partner but can also come from a woman's parents, friends, or employer.
Elliot Institute director David Reardon, co-authored a Medical Science Monitor study of American and Russian women with the 64 percent figure.
His new report, Forced Abortion in America, documents cases of violence against women who refused to have an abortion.
It also highlights cases like the one in Maine, which saw a couple charged with abducting their pregnant daughter in an attempt to force her to have an abortion, and another in Georgia, where a woman forced her pregnant daughter to drink turpentine to cause an abortion.
Reardon says the cases are just part of an epidemic of coerced and forced abortions in the U.S.
Reardon said that cases of women being pressured, threatened, or subjected to violence if they refuse to abort are not unusual.
He pointed out that studies have shown that homicide is the leading killer of pregnant women in the U.S. and that women in abusive relationships are at risk for increased violence during pregnancy.
"In many of the cases documented for our 'Forced Abortion in America' report, police and witnesses reported that acts of violence and murder took place after the woman refused to abort or because the attacker didn't want the pregnancy," he said in a statement LifeNews.com received.
"Even if a woman isn't physically threatened, she often faces intense pressure, abandonment, lack of support, or emotional blackmail if she doesn't abort. While abortion is often described as a 'choice,' women who've been there tell a very different story," he added.
Reardon said the report underscores the need for legislation requiring abortion businesses and health care providers to screen women for evidence of coercion or pressure to have an abortion before the actual abortion is done. He says they should direct such women to people and resources that can help them instead of following through on the coerced abortion.
"Too often, abortion clinics and others simply assume that if a woman is coming for an abortion, it is her free choice," he said.
"This 'no questions asked' policy is especially harmful to those in abusive situations, including young girls who are victims of sexual predators. Women should not be forced into unwanted abortions and subjected to violence or pressure from others," Reardon added.
In the Maine case, Nicholas and Lola Kampf were charged with kidnapping after they allegedly bound and gagged their pregnant 19-year-old daughter and put her in their car with the intent of driving her to New York for an abortion.
Police said Katelyn Kampf managed to escape from her parents in a store parking lot in New Hampshire and called police from a cell phone. Her parents could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
In Georgia, police arrested Rozelletta Blackshire after she allegedly forced her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to drink turpentine in an attempt to abort the pregnancy.
The mother and two of the girl's cousins were charged with criminal abortion after the teen told a school counselor her mother had forced her to drink turpentine. The teen is three months pregnant and the health effects of the turpentine on her and her unborn child are still unknown.
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Elliot Institute - http://www.afterabortion.info
Actually I think they are just excited to have the chance to kill again.
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Pressure is not the same as Force.
The woman feels ‘pressured’ to have an abortion? Cry me a river.
If a guy wants to have a child, the woman has full veto power, and there is nothing he can do about it. He cannot stop her from having an abortion.
If the woman decides to not tell the man that he is a father, she can give the child up for adoption, and being uninformed, he will not have a chance to assume his role as father.
If the woman decides to raise the child herself, the man may be held accountable for all child support up to, and including 18 years if/when she changes her mind. Meanwhile, he is denied any opportuntity to be a part of the child’s life.
If the woman decides to go off of birth control, for any reason - and gets preganant with her husband (or any othe guy) - the husband is forced to pay child support until the child is 18; in some cases even college at any college the child decides to attend.
If a man who has paid child support for 18 years; then later finds that he is NOT the biological father, he cannot sue the woman for fraud - he is simply out tens of thousands of dollars.
This all assumes that the woman decides to live local to the biological father. If she decides to move away, he will have to pay all transportation costs.
If the man marries, the woman may ask a judge to re-calculate the child support payments to take into consideration the income of the father and his new wife. Even though the new wife had nothing to do with either raising, or conceiving the child.
So, if a woman feels pressured to have an abortion - sorry, fresh out of sympathy.
Get pregnant and it's got to be someone else's fault that she got an abortion because she can't take the responsibility for her own actions.
Then, maybe 15, 20 years later she's marching for the War Against Breast Cancer ... (she didn't know that breast is synonymous with a first trimester abortion)...
Or, she really pulls a nutty and has a 3rd trimester (partial birth abortion) ... ends up in a mental hospital and it's someone else's fault.
pardon me if I don't feel anything for these monstrous women...
The abortion agenda has never been about her choice but about the government forcing it and judging about it, end of story. The government has laid its tentacles into her womb. It has de-facto protected abortion and not life promotion. Criminalizing men and any other advice was the first step.
Reminds me of a recent post
The Hidden Reality of Abortion — Empowering Men
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317902/posts
Monday, August 17, 2009
...One of the most insidious aspects of the abortion controversy has been the success of the feminist movement in presenting abortion on demand as a matter central to the liberation of women. The feminist logic suggests that women can never be seen as equal to men in terms of career so long as the “risk” and reality of pregnancy and motherhood are present. As the feminists argue, abortion becomes a mechanism for leveling the playing field and for liberating women.
...Over 30 years after Roe v. Wade, we now know that abortion “has increased the expectation and frequency of sexual intercourse (including unprotected intercourse) among young people,” Stith observes. As he explains, the post-Roe expectation is that a woman now has less justification for refusing the sexual advances of a male. By and large, abortion has liberated men from the fear of parenthood, if not of pregnancy. Beyond this, if the woman with whom they are having sex becomes pregnant, the availability of abortion serves, in the mind of men, to reduce if not to remove their responsibility for fatherhood.
...The availability of abortion means, in the thinking of many men, that the entire responsibility for pregnancy and parenthood now falls to women. If a woman refuses to have an abortion, having the baby is simply her “choice.” As Stith realizes, this gives many men even more leverage as they demand an abortion as the cost of continuing the relationship. Stith cites a report from the Medical Science Monitor indicating that 64% of American women who have had abortions felt pressure from others to do so.
...As Richard Stith rightly summarizes, “Elective abortion changes everything.” As he explains, “A woman’s choice for or against abortion breaks the causal link between conception and birth. It matters little what or who caused conception or whether the male insisted on having unprotected intercourse. It is she alone who finally decides whether the child comes into the world. She is the responsible one. For the first time in history, the father and the doctor and the health-insurance actuary can point a finger at her as the person who allowed an inconvenient human being to come into the world.”
...The obvious question is this — how is it that feminists, the abortion industry, and the advocates of abortion rights get away with their claim that abortion liberates women? In truth, the availability of abortion has served to liberate irresponsible men from duty, morality, and responsibility. Of course, the even greater tragedy is the death of unborn children by the millions. Only the Culture of Death would present the slaughter of the innocents as liberation.
Sure it is. But you don’t want to debate that do you.
I know quite a few young girls whose parents insisted and they did what they wanted and it didn’t hit them until much later in life.
I know quite a few idiots who let some man coerce them into one.
I’m not making excuses for any adult woman, they know what causes pregnancy and if they don’t want to get pregnant there are many options.
Another thing is the women who get pregnant still to this day to trap a man who doesn’t have the same choice...but he should also know and take responsibility.
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An adult woman who has an abortion is not a victim by force but is instead a murderer.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Your sympathy should be for the dead baby.
The victim is the dead baby. Legalized abortion allows men, parents, friends, and others to pressure women into having an abortion.
Pressure works much less if you are trying to get someone to break the law.
By legalizing abortion, we victimize women and their babies, by subjecting them to pressure to do what those around them tell them is best.
Pressure is a form of force. It’s not the same as physical coercion, but it is still force.
NOW fully understands how women are victimized by husbands and boyfriends who abuse them, and how women by their nature are susceptible to putting up with abuse.
But when it comes to abortion, they push the fiction that all women are strong and can make their own decisions and would never be pressured into doing anything they didn’t want.
So a man can pressure the woman into sex, and NOW will blame the man and cry rape, but if the man then forces the woman to have an abortion, that’s just “her choice”.
If a man pressures his girlfriend to murder for four year old child, we should charge them both with murder.
You’re absolutely correct.
Unfortunately, this is a truth that NOONE wants to hear.
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