The hypocrisy and lies that characterize the pro-abortion movement are becoming more and more obvious to those of us who are involved in the struggle for the restoration of the Right to Life. It astonishes me that anyone still uses the argument that, "Women will always seek abortions but without safe, legal abortion, women will die." Someone who truly respects women, and values them as being strong, intelligent, and capable of mature choice, realizes that this statement is not only stupid, but an insult.  Making choices based on the anticipated consequences is a hallmark of maturity, and one means of self-preservation that we try to instill in our children.  Yet, Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates demonstrate again and again that they do not believe that women are smart nor strong enough to choose true contraceptives before engaging in behavior that they know will risk their becoming pregnant.  I give women credit that these groups don't.  That is:  they are capable of making an intelligent choice before they make a baby.  Where else in society is given a license to make retroactive choice as to the consequences of one's actions?  I made a choice to be married.  If I change my mind, civilized society tells me to get a divorce. They don't hand me a gun and say, "You have the right to choose, so go ahead and shoot him."    Yet, this seems to be the logic being used to maintain the right to abortion.   Aside from the case of rape, I assume a woman has had a choice in the conception of the child she is carrying. Rape accounts for fewer than 5% of the abortions taking place today. To argue that women will seek illegal abortion if legal ones are unobtainable is based on the assumption that women have never been smart enough to use any one of the many methods of contraception available to them, and that they never will be.

If the reason for maintaining legalized abortion is that it must remain "safe for women",  then why do the pro-abortion groups fight every attempt to make the procedure truly safe?  I'm referring to informed consent laws that apply to every surgical and medical procedure except abortion. How is this an improvement over so-called back-alley abortions? Don't worry about going back to the coat hanger - we never left it! Do you realize that in Montana there is no law requiring that an abortion be done by a physician? The law that made that requirement was advocated and proposed by Pro-life groups and overturned courtesy of the Pro-abortion lobby. If you think the pro-aborts have women's best interest at heart you are deluding yourself. There is no parental notification law for the case of abortion on a minor, but there is one for every other medical circumstance. Abortion is big business and women are the market.  It's about the money. What possible stretch of logical thinking would call it a fair solution to kill 4000 babies a day to save 1 woman every 4 days from complications of an illegal abortion?  We kill 1,460,000 babies yearly in our abortion clinics. The total number of women reported to have died from complications from illegal abortion between 1940 and 1972 was 2571.  (U.S. Bureau of Statistics from the Center for Disease Control.) This is fewer than 80 a year.  Since these deaths were usually reported by a doctor doing clean-up after an abortion was performed illegally by someone else, this number is considered to be fairly accurate.  Since passage of Roe v. Wade the numbers have gone down.  It is the consensus of those reporting the statistics that improved antibiotics are the main reason for the reduced number.  This, plus reluctance on the part of the abortion providers to report such "therapeutic mishaps" have resulted in a skewed figure.  How many women die every year now from legal abortion?  Incidence of death in women from abortion complications is probably not being reported accurately. According to Abortionfacts.com:

"The expose' on this is detailed in Lime 5 published by Life Dynamics. The author and his staff have verified 23 deaths from induced abortion in 1992-93. All were reported to state agencies. There is documentation from state health departments that 18 were reported to the Federal Center for Disease Control. However, the official report of the CDC listed only 2 deaths. "At Life Dynamics we knew abortion complications were grotesquely under-reported, but attributed it to garden-variety bureaucratic incompetence." But after continuing research, they documented "that the flawed abortion data from the CDC was not from ineptitude but of dishonesty and manipulation" after finding that "a large percentage of CDC employees had direct ties to the abortion industry," they retitled the CDC to stand for "Center for Damage Control" - "The CDC doesn't oversee abortion, it justifies it." M. Crutcher, Lime 5-Exploited by Choice, Genesis Pub., Chapter 4, "Cooking the Books," p. 135.

The claim that relevant statistics can be collected from the place where the abortion was performed "is little short of science fiction."

"Complications following abortions performed in free-standing clinics is one of the most frequent gynecologic emergencies . . . encountered. Even life-endangering complications rarely come to the attention of the physician who performed the abortion unless the incident entails litigation. The statistics presented by Cates represent substantial under- reporting and disregard women's reluctance to return to a clinic, where, in their mind, they received inadequate treatment." L. Iffy, "Second Trimester Abortions," JAMA, vol. 249, no. 5, Feb. 4, 1983, p. 588.The main causes are infection, hemorrhage and uterine perforation.A study from one of the most prestigious medical centers in the world, John Hopkins University, reported: "Occurrence of genital tract infection following elective abortion is a well-known complication." This institution reports rates up to 5.2% for first trimester abortions and up to 18.5% in midtrimester. Burkman et al., "Culture and Treatment Results in Endometritis Following Elective Abortion," Amer. Jour. OB/GYN, vol. 128, no. 5, 1977, pp. 556-559. For the local freestanding abortion facility in your community, with far inferior quality of care, the number of such infections will be at least double that of such a medical center."

On February 26, 2004 the United States House of Representatives passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. This is a measure making it a federal crime to kill an unborn child that the mother intended to carry to term. Naturally, abortion advocates are fighting it, making it crystal clear once again that it is not Justice and Freedom that they seek, but legalized abortion at any cost.  Their egos are fed by the power to choose life and death over their own children. Their  self-importance is dependent on legalized abortion on demand at  any cost. No reasonable restraint nor regulation goes unchallenged by them.  Every girl 15 or under who goes in to a Montana Planned Parenthood clinic for an abortion is considered to be under the legal age of consent except by the abortion providers at Planned Parenthood. She is a technical victim of Statutory Rape, yet how often is this being reported?  Are they exempt from the law of the State of Montana? Apparently so, since the same girl who goes to a public hospital will be reported as a victim and the father of her child will be arrested for statutory rape.  Isn't this discrimination against the girl and the father of her baby who elect to go to any clinic other than Planned Parenthood?  The hypocrites are inflexible in demanding equal rights, but the law is not equally applied to them.  They claim to be subject to the same regulation and requirements as any other medical clinic, but this is clearly not true.

Furthermore, if you think it's about free choice, you are deluding yourself. The advocates of abortion rights want free choice  - for themselves. Never mind the fathers', grandparents' or babies' right to choose.  I have given them the benefit of the doubt for 30 years and have called them Pro-choice.  But their blatant hypocrisy is impossible to ignore any longer.  The Pro-aborts are on one big power trip, and the rest of us are their victims.  They obtained a right to abortion at any stage of their pregnancy, for virtually any reason under the guise of equal rights.  The old saying that, "Some are more equal than others." is holding true. Do men have an equal right to parenthood?  No. Now that women are the sole decision makers in a pregnancy, men have virtually no say at all whether they will become fathers or not.  Yet, they are expected to pay child support once paternity is admitted or proven. Maybe we need to institute a bedroom contract stating that once the sperm leaves a man's body, he retains his reproductive rights. The woman should sign an agreement that if a pregnancy results from the union, the man has an equal right to the decision if the baby lives or dies, is born or not.  Then perhaps, true equality could be approached.  Of course, this equation is still forgetting the fact sustained by most religions, by medicine, and by science, that a third unique, and irreplaceable human being is involved from the moment of conception.  They may call it a choice, but I call it a baby.

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