Posted on 05/16/2011 8:28:08 AM PDT by julieee
Abortion Drug Kills Girl in Portugal, Caused Deadly Infection
Lisbon, Portugal -- The dangerous RU 486 (mifepristone) abortion drug has caused yet another death in Europe by subjecting a 16-year-old girl in Portugal to a deadly infection that claimed her life. The infection is the same as one that took the lives of several women in the United States, who used the abortion pill.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/16/abortion-drug-kills-girl-in-portugal-caused-deadly-infection/
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I sure wish we could encourage adoption, rather than abortion, as the best solution to this problem.
Unfortunately, there will be situations in which girls and women get pregnant without a husband.
But the “solutions” just aren’t good. Nowadays, the solutions seem to be abortion or a young girl becoming a “baby mama”. The “baby mama” culture has especially engulfed minority communities.
The option of giving babies up for adoption, in cases of unwanted/unplanned pregnancy, has really declined. And I just don’t understand why this is.
Years ago, many young girls without a husband gave their babies up for adoption. Nowadays, relatively few do so.
And in this story, a young 16 year old girl lost her life because of perceiving abortion as solving her problems. How sad.
Sad, RIP.
There is a huge disconnect between reality and perception among college students regarding abortion & adoption. My niece spent a semester at Focus on the Family's Focus Institute. Part of this was sharpening the pro-life apologetic skills of the students. One thing she did was participate in a panel discussion at a local college in CO. The pro-abortion students, pretty much the entire audience, wouldn't believe the fact that there were no orphanages teeming with unwanted babies in the USA. They kept coming back with the line, “abortion is better than orphanages filled with unwanted babies”. They didn't accept that there are no orphanages here and that there are waiting lists for adoptive parents.
It didn't matter what evidence the Focus students presented, the ‘smartest people in the room’ would not accept a fact that contradicted what they “knew” to be true.
I won't even start about depravity of a person who knows for a fact that it's kinder to kill a baby than have it raised in an orphanage.
*sigh*
The Democrats don’t really care if the mother or the baby die. They just want someone to die so they can walk on the beach without seeing a bunch of those “other” people.
You are right. There are many people who believe that we have orphanages. I usually say, “find one”. It isn’t like the olden days where every city and large town had one. They watch one “Annie” movie and suddenly they believe they are an orphanage expert.
I suppose that's why I can't break my FR addiction. As a homeschooling mother of 5 I really don't have time to spend here, but I just can't quit! I need to be reassured that there are others who see things as they really are.
Ping!
“... but I just can’t quit”
Very, very true. It does comfort you in a way to know you aren’t the ONLY one, doesn’t it? Not sure I would call it vindication or what but I feel the same way. Before FR, I actually thought I was one of a handful of individuals who thought the way I did (most of the time). Plus, with homeschooling five children, you need some time for your own brain now and again. LOL
The article is misleading only in the sense that it seems to imply the drug causes the infection. The issue is what happens when the baby is expelled from the uterus but the process is incomplete(ie bits of the baby and placenta left) (or post abortion flows and mild hemorrhage) in an enviroment that has not been cleansed or rinsed afterwards with surgical antiseptic rinses and abx’s given prophylactically.
Also the victim may be having unprotected sex with unwashed partners right up until she takes the abortafacient which means the abortion occurs in the presence of a potentially horrific soup of microbes. Clostridium organisms love an anaerobic enviroment and it’s their toxins that are the main killers!
Speaking as a person who was adopted at 4 days old, I totally agree with you.
Now if you want a reason why, check out some threads on this site. What struck me the most was one particular story. It was when Jamie Lynne Spears announced that she was pregnant. Nearly all the posts were some variation of “She’s a slut” or some condemnation of her. On one thread about teen pregnancy one poster suggested that we needed to bring back the concept of shunning pregnant teens. Apparently if the pregnant teen is totally ostracized that will be the most effective way at preventing teen pregnancy. Then when all the things happened with Bristol Palin, people were talking about how that reflects badly on her mother. And I don’t believe that these people only say this online.
So a pregnant teen looks at this and says to herself, “People will ostracize me and call me a slut, they will say bad things about my parents, and my reputation as a good kid will be destroyed.
Or I could get an abortion”.
And kind of on a side note, I recently watched the first season of Glee, and while I wouldn’t really recommend it, I did like what they did with the main cheerleader, Quinn. She got pregnant and she had all these people telling her to have an abortion or to keep the baby and she kept saying “No, I’m giving it up to be adopted.” She never wavered on that decision even though it pretty much cost her her family, her status at school, her boyfriend, and her place on cheerleading, but in the end she gave the bay up. Even though nearly everything else on Glee was not good, that storyline was.
I sure wish we would encourage birth control and avoid pregnancy, as the best solution to a lot of problems.
There are several ways to avoid pregnancy, in case no one has figured it out, yet.
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