Vol.8 No.3
Abortion Statistics
Recently The Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York released a survey about abortion in the United States. Yearly, about 1.5 million children are killed in their mothers’ wombs. Interestingly enough, 66% of the women who have abortions do plan to give birth in the future. The religious affiliation of U.S. women who have an abortion is as follows: 38% Protestant, 31% Catholic, 24% no religion, 6% other religions, 1% Jewish. Income level seems to have a say: women in families of $60,000 or more have abortions four times less than women with annual family incomes of less than $15,000. For 45% of the women who have an abortion, this is at least the second one. U.S. News & World Report, August 19, 1996.
Vol.10 No.1
The Depopulation Bomb
Poor people all around the world are forced into sterilization and horrifying fertility experiments. In February, 1998, reports of a U.S.-funded campaign of forced sterilization in Peru got to the U.S. House International Operations and Human Rights subcommittee, as well as to major media outlets, including The New York Times. Evidence was found that doctors in Peru are given sterilization quotas and rewards for sterilizing larger number of woman. Poor women are required to undergo tubal ligation as a condition of receiving food.
“To need food for yourself or a family member but be told you must get sterilized to get it—that’s an inhuman trap they’re putting these women in,” said David Morrison, director of the Population Research Institute. U.S. involvement is obvious even to the casual observer. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) logo is displayed on billboards promoting the government’s “family planning” program, and on food bins at clinics that perform sterilization in return for food.
In addition to promoting sterilizations, U.S.-funded programs routinely dispense contraceptives such as Norplant and Depo-Provera—which in some cases act as abortifacients and are known to cause dangerous side effects. What’s worse, there’s evidence that the programs have used Third World women as guinea pigs to test those drugs. “Women who have at most one meal a day cannot tolerate chemicals, inserts, injections and implants even the well-fed bodies of women from developed countries have a difficult time tolerating,” said Mercedes Arzu Wilson of Family of the Americas, a natural family-planning group.
Doctors in the affected nations also complain that implementing the popu-lation-control programs often take precedence over meeting even the most basic medical needs. At a 1997 press conference, Kenyan obstetrician/gyne-cologist Stephen Karanja said that thousands of his people die of malaria, which can be treated for a few pennies, while U.S. funded health facilities are “stocked to the roof with millions of dollars worth of pills, IUDs, Norplant [and] Depo-Provera.” He further says “A mother brought a child to me with pneu-monia, but I had no penicillin to give the child. What I have in the stores are huge cases of contraceptives.... We in Kenya are people like you who are entitled to the same human rights and dignity as yourselves. But our right to live a normal human existence is ignored by globalist decision makers.” Citizen, May 1998.
Vol.11 No.5 
Politics of Population Control
With the legalization of the RU-486 “abortion pill,” concerns have been raised over ties between three powerful organizations that have influenced worldwide population trends—the Population Council, Planned Parenthood, and the American Eugenics Society (AES).
The AES traces its roots to the Nazi eugenics movement which was based upon the belief of racial superiority. Examination of leaders and financial supporters of the old Nazi eugenics movement shows many of the same names as the AES. Their organizational goals are basically the same. For example, recommendations of the 1970 Presidential Commission on Population Growth included: “Federal, state, and local funding be provided for abortion services; Minors be given access to abortion, sterilization, and contraceptive services without the consent of parents or guardians; Sex education/population education programs be integrated into the school curriculum.”
At present, most of these goals have been accomplished. The fear is that past Nazi eugenics programs will “continue to carry forward the same culture of death today.” The New American, November 6, 2000, cover story.
Vol.12 No.5
Breast Cancer - Abortion Link Downplayed In U.S.
British researchers have found “a direct link between abortion and increased breast-cancer rates in northern Europe.” Many other studies completed since 1957 also concur that there is a link between abortion and the risk of breast cancer. In the U.S., however, this research has been downplayed. According to Planned Parenthood’s web site: “there is no currently demonstrated health risk from abortion that would warrant basing a decision on that factor alone.” Patrick Carrol, who authored the British study by the Populations and Pensions Research Institution, believes that in the next two decades about 50% of breast cancer incidents will be traced to abortions. Citizen, March 2002, “U.S. women misled about breast cancer,” pp. 8, 9.
Vol.13 No.5
Pro-Abortion And Health Care Workers Clash
For ten years Janice Turner, a nurse at the Women’s Clinic in Marion County, OR, reached out to women undergoing difficult pregnancies, made house calls on single moms and expectant teens, and counseled clients on their options, including “emergency contraceptives” and abortion. However, her beliefs as a Christian would not permit her to dispense “morning after” pills or refer clients for abortions. Although her supervisor did not share her views on abortion, she “respected Ms. Turner’s right to follow her conscience.”
But when a new supervisor came along who felt Ms. Turner’s stance on abortion made her an “incomplete” nurse, Ms. Turner was fired. She was not the first, nor will she be the last. Abortion enthusiasts are fighting to require health care workers, public and private hospitals, and even insurance providers to participate in abortion. They “want to make health-care workers’ right of conscience subordinate to the public ‘right’ to abortion.”
In an attempt to force health-care providers to provide abortions they are playing “rhetorical shell games. ‘Abortion’ becomes ‘women’s health’ objectors to abortion become ‘religious fanatics’ who are trampling on women’s ‘civil rights,’ and ‘denying women access to comprehensive health care.’ The linguistic bait-and-switch has been particularly effective in forcing health-care institutions to violate the moral principle upon which they were founded.” World, January 18, 2003, pp. 26, 27.
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