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Undated: What Does the
Bible Really Say About Abortion? God Is So Not Pro-Life
Ten biblical episodes and prophecies provide an unequivocal expression of God's
attitude toward human life, especially the ontological status of "unborn
children" and their pregnant mothers-to-be. Brief summaries:
• A pregnant woman who is injured and aborts the fetus
warrants financial compensation only (to her husband), suggesting that the fetus
is property, not a person (Exodus 21:22-25).
• The gruesome priestly purity test to which a wife accused
of adultery must submit will cause her to abort the fetus if she is guilty,
indicating that the fetus does not possess a right to life (Numbers 5:11-31).
• God enumerated his punishments for disobedience, including
"cursed shall be the fruit of your womb" and "you will eat the fruit of your
womb," directly contradicting sanctity-of-life claims (Deuteronomy 28:18,53).
• Elisha's prophecy for soon-to-be King Hazael said he would
attack the Israelites, burn their cities, crush the heads of their babies and
rip open their pregnant women (2 Kings 8:12).
• King Menahem of Israel destroyed Tiphsah (also called
Tappuah) and the surrounding towns, killing all residents and ripping open
pregnant women with the sword (2 Kings 15:16).
• Isaiah prophesied doom for Babylon, including the murder of
unborn children: "They will have no pity on the fruit of the womb" (Isaiah
13:18).
• For worshiping idols, God declared that not one of his
people would live, not a man, woman or child (not even babies in arms), again
confuting assertions about the sanctity of life (Jeremiah 44:7-8).
• God will punish the Israelites by destroying their unborn
children, who will die at birth, or perish in the womb, or never even be
conceived (Hosea 9:10-16).
• For rebelling against God, Samaria's people will be killed,
their babies will be dashed to death against the ground, and their pregnant
women will be ripped open with a sword (Hosea 13:16).
Undated: The Safety of Legal Abortion and
the Hazards of Illegal Abortion
As part of their strategy to make abortion illegal and unavailable, anti-choice
forces make unsubstantiated claims that legal abortion is harmful to
women’s health. The fact is that the decriminalization of abortion in the United
States in 1973 has led to tremendous gains in protecting women’s health. The
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences declared in its first
major study of abortion in 1975 that “legislation and practices that permit
women to obtain abortions in proper medical surroundings will lead to fewer
deaths and a lower rate of medical complications than [will] restrictive
legislation and practices.” The American Medical Association’s Council on
Scientific Affairs reaffirmed this finding in 1992 when it attributed the marked
decline in deaths from abortion services to “the shift from illegal to legal
abortion,” along with the introduction of antibiotics and the widespread use of
effective contraception in the 1960s. Furthermore, the experience in the United
States is very similar to that in Western Europe, where mortality rates from
abortion services were reduced after legal abortion became widely available.
https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/report/safety-legal-abortion-hazards-illegal-abortion/
Undated (2009): Every year, worldwide, about
42 million women with unintended pregnancies choose abortion, and nearly half of
these procedures, 20 million, are unsafe. Some 68,000 women die of unsafe
abortion annually, making it one of the leading causes of maternal mortality
(13%). Of the women who survive unsafe abortion, 5 million will suffer long-term
health complications. Unsafe abortion is thus a pressing issue. Both of the
primary methods for preventing unsafe abortion—less restrictive abortion laws
and greater contraceptive use—face social, religious, and political obstacles,
particularly in developing nations, where most unsafe abortions (97%) occur.
Even where these obstacles are overcome, women and health care providers need to
be educated about contraception and the availability of legal and safe abortion,
and women need better access to safe abortion and postabortion services.
Otherwise, desperate women, facing the financial burdens and social stigma of
unintended pregnancy and believing they have no other option, will continue to
risk their lives by undergoing unsafe abortions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709326/
Undated:
Roe v. Wade: The Constitutional
Right to Access Safe, Legal Abortion
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Abortion Access: Then & Now
The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade, affirmed that
access to safe and legal abortion is a constitutional right.
Roe wasn’t the beginning of abortion in America — rather, it allowed people
to access abortion legally and prevented people dying from unsafe, illegal
abortions.
In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth
of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. A survey conducted in
the1960s found that eight in 10 women with low incomes in New York City who had
an abortion attempted a dangerous self-induced procedure.
January 17: Women’s March on Washington Says
No to Pro-Life Feminist Group
Is it possible to oppose abortion rights and call yourself a feminist? The
well-worn question has arisen again this week as an anti-abortion feminist group
has been ousted from its partnership with Saturday’s Women’s March on
Washington.
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa applied for her organization, New Wave Feminists, to
become a formal partner of the march in early January. New Wave Feminists
describes itself as a “Badass. Pro-life. Feminists.” Herndon-De La Rosa, who
lives in the Dallas area, has long been outspoken in her opposition to Donald
Trump. “Donald Trump is the guy who asks to buy you a drink at the bar and when
you tell him you’re not interested, he calls you as a cunt and says he didn’t
want to do it anyway,” she told me in August. Today, she told me she accepts the
election results but wants to do her part to speak up against the
president-elect’s misogyny. She sees the march as “a strong, united female voice
to say ‘we’re watching you and we’re holding you accountable,” she said. “We
were really excited to be included in that voice.”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/01/pro-life-feminist-group-new-wave-feminists-removed-from-womens-march-partnership-list.html
May 10: Over the past year, NPR and
ProPublica have been investigating why American mothers die in childbirth at a
far higher rate than in all other developed countries.
November 29:
The Pro-Choice Case for Pregnancy Centers.
NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and other abortion advocacy groups have said for
years that pregnancy centers deceive clients, use high-pressure tactics to
dissuade women from abortion, and bully them with Bible verses. Who could forget
Samantha Bee’s opening
segment where she parodied pregnancy centers and likened them to con
artists.
A pro-choice person supporting a pregnancy center may seem about as natural as
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) supporting a steakhouse, but
there are three key reasons why pregnancy centers support the freedom and choice
of women and deserve the support of pro-choice individuals.
https://www.care-net.org/abundant-life-blog/the-pro-choice-case-for-pregnancy-centers
December 13: SCOTUS Voted in Favor of
Planned Parenthood, but Roe Is Far From Safe
January 22: Trump may prove not to be
benefactor to pro-life movement he seems
Through a blooming diversity of investigations, we will soon discover if the
world that has always surrounded Donald Trump -- the sleazy fixers, the
disposable women, the questionable deals, the gold-plated vanity, the
viciousness to subordinates, the casual prejudice, the obsession with enemies,
the shady international contacts, the nepotism, the ethical emptiness, the
bottomless narcissism -- is also a criminal enterprise.
January 31: Bishop Stowe criticizes Trump,
urges broader pro-life agenda
A Kentucky bishop stands by his criticism of some abortion activists' support of
President Donald Trump, whom he considers "not pro-life" because of a lack of
consistency on life issues such as racism, immigration and the environment.
