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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION by Professor Janet E. Smith, PhD Janet E. Smith is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas, Texas. She has edited Why Humane Vitae Was Right: A Reader and authored Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later, and numerous articles on abortion, contraception, virtue, and Plato. This article was edited and reprinted with permission.     Many in the pro-life movement are reluctant to make a connection between contraception and abortion. They insist that these are two very different acts - that there is all the difference in the world between contraception, which prevents ...

Abortion is vital to the solution: "While the agencies participating in this study have no specific recommendations to propose on abortion, the following issues are believed important and should be considered in the context of a global population strategy...Certain facts about abortion need to be appreciated: "-- No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion". [Page 182] " -- Indeed, abortion, legal and illegal, now has become the most widespread fertility control method in use in the world today." [Page 183] " -- It would be unwise to restrict abortion research for the following reasons: 1) ...

The redifining of "conception" by medicine in new medical dictionaries: Verbal engineering always preceeds social (and medical)engineering There are several major print medical dictionaries, and several online versions. Apparently, under pressure from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), many of them have changed the defintion of "conception" in the last few years, proving once again that verbal engineering always preceeds social (and medical) engineering. Here is Tabor's Medical Dictionary's entry: conception (kSn-s&p´shTn) 1. The mental process of forming an idea. 2. The onset of pregnancy marked by implantation of a fertilized ovum in the uterine wall. SEE: contraception; ...

Woman and the New Race* CHAPTER X CONTRACEPTIVES OR ABORTION? SOCIETY has not yet learned the significance of the age long effort of the feminine spirit to free itself of the burden of excessive childbearing. It has been singularly blind to the real forces underlying the cause of infanticide, child abandonment and abortion. It has permitted the highest and most powerful thing in woman's nature to be hindered, diverted, repressed and confused. Society has permitted this inner urge of woman to be rendered violent by repression until it has expressed itself in cruel forms of family limitation, which this same ...

Norton case is an issue of free speech Even speech that upsets or disgusts people is protected by the Constitution. The sign Ann Norton often carries in protest of abortion is hard to look at. It shows an enlarged photo of the mutilated head of a fetus, clamped in surgical tools, apparently aborted late in a pregnancy.The sign reads "Choice is abortion." The sign, which Norton was carrying outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Kalamazoo on Oct. 11, apparently disturbed a number of people.Some complained to the Kalamazoo Gazette, saying that no one had the right to display such a ...

LEHIGH ACRES, FL - A major salvo has been fired by the abortion industry in its legal attack on a women's right to privacy. An appeal has been brought in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Aware Woman Center for Choice, Inc. et al. v. Jane Roe II, Case Number 01-777 which seeks to strip a victim of forced abortion of her anonymity. According to an observer, Jean Sapp of The Counselor Corps which provides help to women threatened by the abortion industry, "This appeal has been brought to keep a victim of forced abortion out of ...

"HARTFORD, Conn. -- For two years, Planned Parenthood Federation sent out fundraising letters in envelopes designed to mimic threatening mailings that had been received by women's clinics across the country. The envelopes, which appeared to have handwritten addresses but no return addresses,......200,000 letters scheduled to be mailed in November....." (Remainder of article at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18065-2001Dec9.html) Do you folks have any idea just how many FBI agents were tied up dealing with these “fake” “hoax” anthrax letters? Two years!!!!!! Notice that the Washington Post buried this news on page A7. They had Mr. Waagner on the front page last week. He’s just ...

AMA Votes Against Letting Women Know "The Pill" Is Abortifacient WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 10, 01 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - The American Medical Association last week voted overwhelmingly against a proposal to inform women about the potential for birth control pills to cause the abortion of an embryo by preventing implantation in the uterus. Cybercast News Service reports that Dr. John C. Nelson, a member of the AMA's executive committee and a self-described conservative, said the Alabama doctor who put forward the proposal before the AMA "believes that in the spirit of enhancing the patient/physician relationship, that information ought to be disclosed ...

British Medical Journal, Sept 18, 1993 v307 n6906 p723(4)  "Natural family planning":  Effective Birth Control Supported by the Catholic Church  R.E.J. Ryder.  Abstract:     Natural family planning, when used by motivated couples, is a safe and cost-effective means of birth control. Natural family planning, which involves teaching women to recognize signs of ovulation and to avoid intercourse on fertile days, is the only method of birth control approved by the Catholic Church. A total of 869 women of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds participated in a study conducted by the World Health Organization. Regardless of literacy and culture, 93% of ...

Twelve Myths of Abortion by Dr. Phil Stringer (Florida) "The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life" (Job 33:4) Men in rebellion against God often justify their actions with ideas and myths that stem from the imagination of their evil hearts (Romans 1:21; Proverbs 6:18). In the discussion of abortion, this mythology is clearly seen. Statements that are obviously untrue are repeated again and again as if the frequency of their utterance could give them credibility. When anyone attempts to question or examine these statements, he is attacked viciously, as if ...

The first thing doctors asked Willemijn Forest, after she gave birth last year to a baby boy diagnosed with Down syndrome, was whether she wanted to keep her child. "After the delivery, they took him away immediately, assuming I did not want to see him anymore," says the Dutch woman who lives in Marseilles, the country's second-largest city. "I said of course I want to keep him. I was so appalled by their attitude." These days, Forest, like many other parents here who have children diagnosed with mental disabilities, is no longer shocked. Last week France's highest appeals court ruled ...

SLANTING THE SCIENCE By WESLEY J. SMITH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 22, 2001 -- SHOULD the government fund medical research that relies on the use of "stem cells" extracted from human embryos? This difficult moral decision would be a lot easier if the media weren't failing to tell the public the whole story. Embryo-stem-cell research promises to produce medical miracles in a host of areas. But other research avenues - including the use of cells that don't come from human embryos - are also promising, perhaps more so. Unfortunately, journalists and editors haven't reported this news fully or fairly. The Statistical Assessment ...

Edward Allred must be some kind of masochist. In his day job as a physician, he runs the nation's largest privately held chain of abortion clinics. His Family Planning Associates Medical Group generates $70 million in annual revenue and some $5 million in profit, as well as the occasional death threat from antiabortionists. For kicks, he owns the Los Alamitos Race Course in Orange County, Calif., which is part of a lame industry that has been stumbling for years. With a herd of 500, he's the nation's largest breeder and racer of quarter horses, the beefy stepsisters to the sleek ...

PARIS, Dec 7, 01 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - Top prenatal doctors in France pledged to strike due to a decision by the country's top court last week, which held that when doctors fail to detect deformities in unborn disabled children and do not suggest abortion to their parents, the doctors can be held liable. In a letter to the daily Le Monde, 11 specialists at eight hospitals said that from January 1 they would refuse to carry out any ultrasounds and other tests that can show whether an unborn child has any abnormalities. Reuters reports that the doctors hoped many others would ...

(CNSNews.com) - The American Medical Association this week voted overwhelmingly against a proposal to inform women about the potential for birth control pills to cause the abortion of a fertilized egg."If [pro-life women] are using a method that can operate after fertilization as well as before fertilization, and they don't know it, they are basically being deceived by lack of information into violating their own consciences," said Walter Weber, senior litigation counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a Virginia-based public interest law firm.Weber criticized the AMA for voting against a proposal during its annual meeting that would ...

Abortion in the Case of Pregnancy Due to Rape [ The Library ] [ Order Literature ] [ Links ] [ Contacting Us ] Abortion in the Case of Pregnancy Due to Rape John Walker Libertarians for Life Copyright 1993, 1998 This is a draft, so your comments are welcome. Let's begin by briefly summarizing what has to be assumed by a discussion of abortion in the case of pregnancy due to rape. There is no right to initiate force, that is, to violate rights, to commit aggression. (Force is permitted in defense, not in aggression.) That's presumably a given among libertarians. If someone disagrees, that's the issue we should ...

Very good article, albeit long, based on the teachings of the Catholic Church for those who are interested or curious. Sex, Contraception, and the Meaning of Life

WOMEN who have had an abortion are nearly twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer, scientists claimed yesterday. In the first study of its kind in Britain, researchers said the risk of breast cancer is significantly increased if a woman has undergone a termination. The study, which looked at breast cancer and abortion rates in Britain, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic, draws a direct link between rising cases of breast cancer and an increase in abortion since it was legalised. The research, by the Populations and Pensions Research Institution, an independent group of statisticians, suggests that up to ...

The Republican Pro-Choice Coalition (RPCC) urges journalists across the nation to ask the so-called "pro-life community" whether they still intend to stand by their man. Clayton Lee Waagner, the prime suspect behind more than 280 anthrax hoax letters delivered to reproductive health clinics last month, was arrested today in Ohio. Waagner had claimed responsibility for the letters when he showed up with a gun at the Georgia home of an anti-abortion activist over a week ago, according to a police report. According to the Associated Press, Waagner, 44, escaped in February from a Clinton, Ill., jail where he was awaiting ...

1. What California National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter president bludgeoned a businessman to death with a tire iron and killed another man after picking him up in a bar, then, when caught, whined that "A political climate of violence and degradation of women is in a test stage, with me as its first victim?" 2. What New York City abortionist (subsequently known as "Zorro" to his staff) carved his initials on the abdomen of one of his patients with a scalpel because "I thought I did such a beautiful job, I thought I should sign it?" (hint: This abortionist ...