MYTHS AND FACTS ON ABORTION

[tiglathpileser]

MYTH: Abortion is a risk free procedure that will not harm you physically.

FACT: Up to 10% of women suffer an infection after abortion. Antibiotics are usually prescribed to prevent infection. Untreated infection can affect your future fertility. Your risk of infection is much higher if you have a sexually transmitted infection at the time of the abortion. (Thorpe. N. (2008) Post Pregnancy Genital Tract and Wound Infections.Journal of Midwifery Women's Health Vol.53)

 

[tiglathpileser]

MYTH: Abortion does not cause any lasting psychological harm.

FACT: Whilst most women express feelings of relief immediately following an abortion, these feelings are usually transient. International evidence now confirms that at least 20% of women suffer serious prolonged psychological trauma after abortion. Abortion is correlated to substantially increased risk of anxiety, depression, alcohol and drug use, and suicidal behaviours. (Coleman P.K. (2011) Abortion and Mental health: A Quantitative Synthesis and Analysis of Research Published from 1995-2009.British Journal of Psychiatry.

 

[tiglathpileser]

MYTH: Abortion is safer than childbirth.

FACT: Whilst some abortion clinics advertise this as a fact, it is not true. Studies that look at the relative safety of abortion versus childbirth rely on incomplete data as most of the western world does not collect data on the numbers of abortions, or abortion related complications or deaths. When They do occur many deaths are attributed to the immediate presenting concern such as infection, or hemorrhage and not abortion. Including the increased risk of suicide and other self destructive behaviours following abortion. (Coleman P.K. (2012) Reproductive Outcomes and Mortality: Debunking the myth that abortion is safer than childbirth. Presentation: 2nd National Convention, Real Choices Australia, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

 

[tiglathpileser]

MYTH: it is just a blob of cells without any form.

FACT: Many abortion sites talk about a 'blob of cells' or 'products of conception' or 'the pregnancy' in ways that are designed to disconnect you from the unborn baby. This is often done in order to help make your decision easier and less emotional, however, it doesn't help you to be fully informed which is your right.

 

[RedPonyDriver]

sources? Life News is not an appropriate source. NIH statistics would be preferable. Until then, your "facts" are opinions. I'm not looking them up because you are the one making the assertions.

 

[Hieronymus]

@RedPonyDriver
Each fact mentioned has a reference to its source.

 

[RedPonyDriver]

Not a single one is a US source. If you live in the US, then you look at US sources. Attributing things from elsewhere to "prove" a point...which have all pretty much been debunked...the last statement has no attribution.

So...I will take the "facts" for all they're worth...

 

[tiglathpileser]

sources? Life News is not an appropriate source. NIH statistics would be preferable. Until then, your "facts" are opinions. I'm not looking them up because you are the one making the assertions.

One. The information has nothing at all to do with Life News so your bias is showing and when you have a bias, you will never be convinced by the truth.

Two. I did not ask you to look them up, so what is the problem?

 

[tiglathpileser]

Not a single one is a US source. If you live in the US, then you look at US sources. Attributing things from elsewhere to "prove" a point...which have all pretty much been debunked...the last statement has no attribution.

So...I will take the "facts" for all they're worth...

In case you has not noticed, there are many other countries other than the US, that are home to very talented, experienced and credible commentators on the subject. As these people are very informed and professional, they do not need to refer to what someone in the US says.

I attributed nothing from elsewhere as all the information was provided by a local specialist who gathers information from all over the world. If you are patient, you might see some facts provided from some eminent American. There are plenty of them so it would not be difficult to quote what they have proved. Mind you, it will probably be a waste of time doing so because no doubt they will have been debunked by you.

And.....saying they have been debunked is so worn out an accusation that it is risible that anyone intelligent would use it any more. Especially as the person saying it seems to be incapable of proving it has been debunked.

As for the last statement having no attribution, it is common knowledge to anyone who has their eyes open and can be found in a myriad of sources. Unlike you, I am prepared to do my research and reading, for 30 years as a matter of fact. But I guess you will debunk that as well.

 

[Armoured]

Not a single one is a US source. If you live in the US, then you look at US sources. Attributing things from elsewhere to "prove" a point...which have all pretty much been debunked...the last statement has no attribution.

So...I will take the "facts" for all they're worth...

The facts may have been sourced. Personally, I question the "myths". I've never encountered anyone who believes anything like that.

 

[tiglathpileser]

The facts may have been sourced. Personally, I question the "myths". I've never encountered anyone who believes anything like that.

Let me paraphrase that. Life revolves around me so if I haven't heard it then it doesn't exist.

Just for your information, I have encountered thousands who believe what I have posted. Our March for Life has at least 3,000 who believe it.

 

[Armoured]

Let me paraphrase that. Life revolves around me so if I haven't heard it then it doesn't exist.

Just for your information, I have encountered thousands who believe what I have posted. Our March for Life has at least 3,000 who believe it.

Well, I'm a nurse, so I suspect I'[ve heard more than the average person, but anyway.

 

[tiglathpileser]

Well, I'm a nurse, so I suspect I'[ve heard more than the average person, but anyway.

That may be the case but the 3,000 who joined the March for Life were not your average person because they had to contend with demon possessed feminists who even attacked old ladies with walking sticks and pushed them to the ground. That takes courage and conviction to face that and I know for a fact that despite being attacked, they are going to come back next year to stand for the right of the little ones not to have their life snuffed out.

These little old ladies didn't hear, they saw and experienced with their own eyes the extent these rabid feminists will go to stop people having the right to freedom of speech. I feel sorry for these feminists because they are being driven by a spirit and as the scripture says those that love death hate God.

And I use the term "rabid" advisedly as there are plenty of feminists who disagree with us but they do not go so far as attack little old ladies. They make their case in a decent fashion and allow us to make our case in a decent fashion with a peaceful, non aggressive March for Life.

 

[Armoured]

demon possessed feminists

Point at which I stopped reading.

 

[tiglathpileser]

Point at which I stopped reading.

I realise that there are many people out there who cannot handle the truth and I note that this fact bothered you more than the fact that these demon possessed feminist took great pleasure in knocking over little old ladies with walking sticks. Normal people don't do that sort of thing.

Shows where your priorities are. If anyone of them did that to my grandmother I would have had no compunction in giving them the same treatment.

 

[tiglathpileser]

MYTH. A woman has the right to control her own body. (As pro-abortion philosopher Dr. Leonard Peikoff has said “During the first trimester [the embryo] is a mass of relatively undifferentiated cells that exist as part of the woman’s body). <capmag.com/article.asp/ID=2404> 18th October 2004.

FACT. Immunology experiments and testing have shown that the embryo at birth is genetically different so it is not part of the woman’s body. It shows that the embryo has a unique genetic makeup of its own, bearing in mind that only half the chromosomes come from the mother. The other half comes from the father which were implanted. They were not part of the mother’s body. Each combination of chromosomes is unique. As a result this condition causes the mother’s immune system to identify the baby as ‘foreign’ and it mounts an attack via killer T cells.

It is only because the baby is normally well prepared for life in the womb by producing indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) which suppresses the mothers T cell reaction that allows the pregnancy to proceed.

Source: Alexander Williams B.Sc.. M.Sc. (Hons), M.A. Biology, Dip.C.S., Th.L.

 

[tiglathpileser]

Well, I'm a nurse, so I suspect I'[ve heard more than the average person, but anyway.

Just came to me. I was a truck driver for three years so I have seen more road and more vehicles than the average person. I never once saw a vehicle crash, so that must mean they didn't happen.

 

[tiglathpileser]

A few more FACTS on abortion that dispels a few more myths.

 

[classicalhero]

The biggest myth about abortion is the so called coathanger abortions and the fact that millions where being committed before it was illegal. Even abortionists admit they made this to make it sound like it was common, but every time abortion goes from illegal to illegal the numbers rise dramatically. The former illegal abortionists then became the legal abortionists.