Posted on 05/29/2003 1:20:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
LONDON, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The UK Life League, a British pro-life group has reported that Jane Russell, the 1940s and '50s Hollywood movie star and pin-up girl, now aged 82, gave an interview this week slamming abortion. "People should never, ever have an abortion. Don't talk to me about it being a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death," said Russell.
Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at 18: "The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said: 'What butcher did this to you?' I had to be taken to hospital. I was so ill I nearly died. I've never known pain like it." Russell says that due to the abortion she was not able to have any other children.
High divorce rate and child abuse are undoubtedly derivative of the culture of death fomented by the abortion rights crowd.
These people are like AlQaida terrorists and in the end we will undoubtedly have to take very strong action against them to get our society back to a normal state.
A dead conscience is nothing to brag about. Nor is denial.
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When collecting bills from folks I have encountered more than my fair share of psycho-sociopaths who had no regrets about stiffing widows and orphans (commiting fraud, actually). So, I don't doubt that you feel no regrets about killing your baby.
Now, the question I would have is do you feel regrets about not paying your bills?
Most likely you do, particularly when the bill-collector can thraten to haul you into court and have you imprisoned for fraud!
Which gets to the very last point - some folks are unable to behave themselves unless they are provided incentives.
No doubt the abortion crowd can be dealt with with far less harsh measures than we are using against Osama's people, but there really does need to be a little bit of discipline inserted into this sort of thing.
I am sure as a law-abiding and law-respecting person, you will adhere to whatever it is that the RTL side gets put into place, right?
And with no regrets either.
BTW, did you ever suspect there were RTL people who will have "no regrets" with whatever it is that might be done when the tide shifts? I hope every day that it doesn't become too messy since that defeats the RTL message.
Newsflash. The baby was already created. She killed it. She should have considered her future before she got pregnant and certainly before she had sex with a loser. Killing a person, the most extreme form of abuse, because you think they 'might' be abused in the future is the most twisted logic I've ever heard.
Your friend sounds very selfish. Her attitude is "It's all about me and my happiness. Screw everyone else." Well, I hope she's happy in this lifetime. She may not be so happy in the next.
The problem that sooooo many of these women have, and where they get stuck is that they feel that they CANNOT forgive themselves. The twisted thinking goes like, what gives me the right to stop punishing myself? This can cause a range of responses. If a woman feels she cant forgive herself, she may be despairing that she could ever be close to God again. She may not even be consciously aware that this is what she is doing. She has such disdain and despair, that she denies the pain, denies the darkness, shame and guilt of the act. It is a psychological necessity if she is running from the pain. She may even persist in erroneous actions. If this is the road she picks, then it may very well be that she may have to cross to the other side to learn the truth of the matter and be held accountable.
List of Psychological Complications from Abortion
Since many post-aborted women use repression as a coping mechanism, there may be a long period of denial before a woman seeks psychiatric care. These repressed feelings may cause psychosomatic illnesses and psychiatric or behavioral in other areas of her life. As a result, some counselors report that unacknowledged post-abortion distress is the causative factor in many of their female patients, even though their patients have come to them seeking therapy for seemingly unrelated problems. (5)
SUICIDAL IDEATION AND SUICIDE ATTEMPTS: Approximately 60 percent of women who experience post-abortion sequelae report suicidal ideation, with 28 percent actually attempting suicide, of which half attempted suicide two or more times. Researchers in Finland have identified a strong statistical association between abortion and suicide in a records based study. The identified 73 suicides associated within one year to a pregnancy ending either naturally or by induced abortion. The mean annual suicide rate for all women was 11.3 per 100,000. Suicide rate associated with birth was significantly lower (5.9). Rates for pregnancy loss were significantly higher. For miscarriage the rate was 18.1 per 100,000 and for abortion 34.7 per 100,000. The suicide rate within one year after an abortion was three times higher than for all women, seven times higher than for women carrying to term, and nearly twice as high as for women who suffered a miscarriage. Suicide attempts appear to be especially prevalent among post-abortion teenagers.(13)
I have a strong belief (much stronger than "belief"...it is something which is more like a "knowing") that if a woman regrets it, and makes no effort to justify the action before her Creator, asks for forgiveness, then by Grace, and the infinite mercy of God, she is washed clean. Our Father is very forgiving if we make an error and repent. Regret is an honest impulse leading us to learn some very hard lessons at times. That regret can be used to bring us closer to our Creator.
The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life
The basic facts about Dr. Nathanson are well known to many readers. He was co-founder in 1969 of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL, later renamed the National Abortion Rights Action League), and former director of New York City's Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, then the largest abortion clinic in the world. In the late 1970's he turned against abortion to become a prominent pro-life advocate, authoring Aborting America and producing the seminal pro-life video, The Silent Scream. The video was truly revolutionary in its use of the most up-to-date medical technology to show definitely the horrors of abortion as it actually takes place in the womb of the mother. The video, along with its successor The Eclipse of Reason, was widely shown not only on television globally, but in many cases directly to legislators in many countries.
A warning to the reader: this is not an easy or pleasant book to read because it tells the truth about evil acts that are truly repugnant. What is remarkable and praiseworthy is that the doctor does not make excuses for his behaviour.
Witness of pro-lifers was decisive
In the subsequent chapters he recounts much of what has already been told in his earlier book Aborting America about his growing involvement in the fight for the liberalization of abortion laws in the United States, which of course culminated in the notorious decision in 1973 of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court of the United States effectively providing for abortion on demand in the U.S. Over time Dr. Nathanson saw clearly the scientific evidence, due in great part to the new technology. It enabled him to see the child in the womb. What he had been aborting by the thousands (he estimates that he was involved directly or indirectly in over 75,000 abortions) was in fact a human being from the moment of conception. He stopped performing abortions and became the best known advocate and convert to the pro-life cause in the U.S.
However, he ends the book on a note of hope in Christ's mercy, forgiveness, and offer of salvation. As is often the case in a story of conversion, it is the prayers and personal example of so many of his pro-life friends and coworkers that over time melt down the resistance of a hardened atheistic sinner so that he can see that there might be room in God's heart even for the likes of him. Speaking of the witness of pro-lifers at a demonstration at an abortion clinic: "They prayed, they supported, and encouraged each other, they sang hymns of joy, and they constantly reminded each other of the absolute prohibition against violence. They prayed for the unborn babies, for the confused and pregnant women, and for the doctors and nurses in the clinic. They even prayed for the police and media who were covering the event. And I wondered: how can these people give of themselves for a constituency that is (and always will be) mute, invisible, and unable to thank them?" With respect to the confrontation between idealism and hardened cynicism, the description of such demonstrations could remind us of early accounts of the Christian martyrs in the Colosseum of Rome facing the lions.
Witnessing these pro-life demonstrators who were willing to go to jail and suffer bankruptcy for their belief made such a powerful impression on Nathanson that "for the first time in my entire adult life, I began seriously to entertain the notion of God, a God who problematically had led me through the proverbial circles of hell, only to show me the way to redemption and mercy through His Grace. The thought violated every eighteenth century certainty that I had cherished; it instantly converted my past into a vile bog of sin and evil; it indicated me and convicted me of high crimes against those who loved me, and against those whom I did not even know, and simultaneously -- miraculously -- it held out a shimmering sliver of hope to me, in the growing belief that Someone had died for my sins and my evil two millennia ago."
Along with the powerful witness to his heart of these sacrificial lovers, the prolifers willing to go to prison if necessary to stop the killing, Nathanson was also moved by the appeal to his intellect, through reading. "In my case, I was led to a searching review of the literature of conversion, including Karl Stern's PILLAR of Fire. I also read Malcolm Muggeridge, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis, Cardinal Newman and others. It was entirely in character for me that I would conduct a diligent review of literature before embarking on a mission as daunting and threatening as this searching for God."
Father John Corapi has some excellent things to say on this topic and on dead consciences in general. He explains it better than anyone I've ever heard speak on the subject.
One possibility is that the SC will simply nullify Roe v. Wade, et seq, and instantly return the state of the law over the last 30 years to that which existed at the time of the ruling. Your abortion would then become a crime for which you could be punished.
That right there is a pretty good reason for you to keep your mouth shut about it.
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