First Gay Pride, Now Abortion Pride?????????

[cb88]

STANEK: Abortion Pride!


Friday, July 30, 2004




OPINION -- Planned Parenthood has come up with a new way to promote abortion pride, by adding “soft and comfortable” t-shirts that say, “I had an abortion,” to its clothing line of “social fashion statements.”



The “I had an abortion” t-shirt is the most recent rah-rah attempt by abortion proponents to stir the mom-and-apple-pie, pro-abortion spirit in us. Whoops. Forget I said mom.



Add this to another great marketing concept developed by pro-aborts, the “Choice on Earth” Christmas cards, which strangely mark the occasion of a 15-year-old unmarried pregnant girl choosing to carry her baby to term 2,000 years ago.



Speaking of holidays, don’t forget everyone’s favorite, the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers, held every March 10, as I’m sure you already knew. Next year, don’t forget to order the NDAA Organizers Kit, which includes a sample sermon and prayer for your pastor.



I’m surprised Planned Parenthood isn’t giving away their “I had an abortion” t-shirts as part of an abortion promotion campaign. You know, “Get one free after your abortion!”



No, the t-shirts cost $15 each, babe. With abortion on the decline, providers have to find other ways to scrape out a living, you know.



The only problem is, according to Romans 1:18-20, the instinctive knowledge of God, right, and wrong have been placed in every human heart.



Thus, one thing a pregnant mother instinctively knows is she has a baby growing inside her, not an unruly appendage. Fathers know this, too.



Deep inside, all people know abortion is murder, no matter how hard they try to stifle the still, small voice telling them it is so. This is not a shifting moral principle based on societal Puritanism. It is truth.



Getting an abortion will never be a positive in one’s life, an experience to recall with friends over and over as years go by, or to write as an accomplishment in one’s yearbook.



Pro-aborts figure the more often and brazenly they confront the still, small voice, the greater chance they’ll have of shutting it up.



But it won’t work. For girls and women it will always be catastrophic to walk through the doors of an abortion clinic, change from street clothes into that ill-fitting gown with the open back, pad in one’s socks to the operating room, put one’s feet in the stirrups, and hear and feel the suction of an abortion. The feeling of emptiness afterward - because she is - is haunting, something she wants to sleep away at first, and then forget, not celebrate with a t-shirt.



And countless now-good family men in their 30s, 40s and 50s live in wracked silent guilt with memories of how they coerced girlfriends to abort their own child when they were both young and stupid. Abortion now disgusts them, makes them strangely angry. They don't want to think about it.



The problem is, forgetting isn’t possible. This infamous day will never be forgotten, like we never forget the day Kennedy was assassinated or the day the Challenger went down.



So when Planned Parenthood comes up with a gimmick to instill pride in what is impossible to be proud of unless you’re deranged like them, people are intuitively grossed out.



In the Bible, barrenness is considered a curse, and killing children is the most despicable crime of all.



How much more depraved can a woman be who, through the act of abortion, inflicts barrenness upon herself while simultaneously killing her own child?



Yet there are people more depraved than this poor soul.



They are those who push abortion, make money off of abortion, and try to make women feel not just ok but proud about their abortions.



The most depraved people are those in Planned Parenthood, NARAL, the National Abortion Federation, the National Organization for Women, the ACLU, and pro-abortion politicians and judges, because that is what they do.



I have other t-shirt ideas for Planned Parenthood's "social fashion statement" clothing line. How about, "My girlfriend had an abortion" to match the "I had an abortion" t-shirt? Almost all couples break up after abortion. Maybe matching t-shirts would provide a chic bond to hold them together.



Or how about, "My daughter had an abortion"? Except that would only work if one hasn't already aborted one's daughter.



Or how about, "My mother had an abortion"? Whoops. Scratch that one.



Planned Parenthood’s clothing line does include a kid’s tee that says "Parenthood. Plan It!" on the front and "Every Child a Wanted Child" on the back.

But I question the marketing research for that tee. It's surely not a big seller.

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*cb88 note.....I had the pleasure of serving with Jill Stanek on the "Illinois Right to Center" coalition last year before moving to Tejas. I didn't get to know her very well, but she is a remarkably intelligent and passionate woman and very dedicated to her work.

[Snowden]

This article ties in so well with that, cb; I hope the lack of a URL won't be too bad. One of my sons sent it to me on the date it was in The Washington Times, and I kept it in my documents.

So it would seem that infanticide is not just evil, but has health consequences for one of the murderers. In America, that makes it important. The soul is an abstraction, but when the well-being of the body is at stake...



Abortion, death rate linked in study

Lauren Schulz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published 9/8/2002

Scientists continue to research and churn out studies on the health consequences of abortion, but their mixed results have historically served mainly as fodder in the highly emotional debate
The August issue of the British Medical Journal, published this week, reports that women who have abortions are more likely to die in the years following the procedure than women who give birth.
Researchers examined death records linked to payments for births and abortions for approximately 173,000 low-income California women. Those who had abortions were almost twice as likely to die in the following two years.
"During the first four years, higher rates of death from suicide and heightened risk-taking behavior were the most pronounced area of difference," said the study´s lead author, Dr. David C. Reardon. He is the director of the Elliot Institute, which studies the aftereffects of abortion on women.
Though this is not the first study to contradict the prevailing view that abortion can be safer for a woman than giving birth, it did yield a surprising finding. Of women who had abortions, the heightened death rate remained over a period of eight years -- a 154 percent higher risk of death from suicide, an 82 percent higher risk of death from accidents and a 44 percent higher risk of death from natural causes.
The bulk of research on the topic -- like a study published in the Aug. 20 issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry -- has focused on the mental health aftereffects of abortion, such as the reported tendency toward depression, self-destructive behavior and other emotional problems aggravated by the abortion experience.
Statistician Iain Murray of the nonpartisan, Washington-based Statistical Assessment Service insists studies linking abortion and mortality rate are based on faulty science. "Statistics are used in the [abortion] debate like stolen lightning," said Mr. Murray, a conservative who called the study in the British Medical Journal more evidence of "scaremongering" coming from the pro-life movement.
His complaint is that Dr. Reardon and his research team did not take into account marital status. "The single biggest predictor of a woman suffering violence is her marital status."
"If the researchers had found that a married woman who had had an abortion was more likely to die than a married woman who had not, or, more significantly, an unmarried woman who had not, then that would be something worth paying attention to. As it is, this study is not a particularly useful contribution to the debate," Mr. Murray said.
Public interest in the health of women who have abortions was stirred up by President Reagan during the 1980s when he asked then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to look into the issue. Dr. Koop concluded that all the studies to date were flawed and recommended a sweeping government study. His proposal died in Congress.
Dr. Reardon feels his studies don´t get the attention they merit because of politics. "The government has ignored this problem for decades, largely at the behest of population control groups which are more concerned about protecting abortion than protecting women," he said.
"If the government had acted on Koop´s recommendation, we would have had definitive answers by now," he added.

[Joker]

Originally Posted by Snowden

Statistician Iain Murray of the nonpartisan, Washington-based Statistical Assessment Service insists studies linking abortion and mortality rate are based on faulty science. "Statistics are used in the [abortion] debate like stolen lightning," said Mr. Murray, a conservative who called the study in the British Medical Journal more evidence of "scaremongering" coming from the pro-life movement.
His complaint is that Dr. Reardon and his research team did not take into account marital status. "The single biggest predictor of a woman suffering violence is her marital status."
"If the researchers had found that a married woman who had had an abortion was more likely to die than a married woman who had not, or, more significantly, an unmarried woman who had not, then that would be something worth paying attention to. As it is, this study is not a particularly useful contribution to the debate," Mr. Murray said.

Unless I misread, this part of the article suggests that it's marital status that largely determines the risk of death, not abortion per se. A single woman in need of an abortion is going to be something of a risk-taker, shall we say (if not a prostitute)? Also, I would surmise, people who opt for abortion on medical grounds aren't going to be the healthiest of individuals in the first place. That doesn't mean that going through with the pregnancies would be the safer course of action.

[Woodmonkey]

Originally Posted by Joker

Unless I misread, this part of the article suggests that it's marital status that largely determines the risk of death, not abortion per se. A single woman in need of an abortion is going to be something of a risk-taker, shall we say (if not a prostitute)? Also, I would surmise, people who opt for abortion on medical grounds aren't going to be the healthiest of individuals in the first place. That doesn't mean that going through with the pregnancies would be the safer course of action.

I got the same thing out of that article, Joker. Went back to reread it after you posted.

[Joker]

Glad someone agrees with me, Katie. The debate train seems to have run off the rails with this one...

[cb88]

Originally Posted by Snowden

The bulk of research on the topic -- like a study published in the Aug. 20 issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry -- has focused on the mental health aftereffects of abortion, such as the reported tendency toward depression, self-destructive behavior and other emotional problems aggravated by the abortion experience.

This is a VERY real issue. As real as PTSD, in fact, they have said that women who have had abortions suffer from Post Tramatic Stress Disorder.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by Woodmonkey

I got the same thing out of that article, Joker. Went back to reread it after you posted.

I went back and read it too, but got a somewhat different impression. One man says the marital status is the most important issue, but the study didn't seem to find this.

"If the researchers had found that a married woman who had had an abortion was more likely to die than a married woman who had not, or, more significantly, an unmarried woman who had not, then that would be something worth paying attention to. As it is, this study is not a particularly useful contribution to the debate," Mr. Murray said.

What Murray says is:

His complaint is that Dr. Reardon and his research team did not take into account marital status. "The single biggest predictor of a woman suffering violence is her marital status."

Suffering violence and getting an abortion seem to me to be two different subjects. What am I missing here? Is Mr. Murray saying that the abortion is caused by violence? That the woman is subjected to violence and then, in a weakened state, getting an abortion? This sounds to me like somebody who approves of abortion and wants to cloud the issue.