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Are you tired of all the rhetoric
about “choice?” Exhausted by the “Reproductive Rights” runaround? It is no surprise in today’s society when a subject as serious as abortion is masked by creative words and catch phrases. It’s okay to be against abortion. Not only that—you should not be ashamed to say it! Being opposed to
abortion does
NOT mean you’re “anti choice”, it means you are about freedom and that you think all existing persons—big, small, and really small—should be allowed to enjoy it. In the following pages, we would like to take you beyond the tired “choice” terminology to an enthusiastic respect for life. Why does the “pro-choice” side use rhetoric to disguise the fact that they are talking about abortion? QUESTIONING  THE EASY WAY OUT “Tim, I think I’m pregnant.” It was New Year’s Eve. My boyfriend sighed deeply, his gaze remaining fixed on the TV. He then muttered something that made me feel already deserted. I felt a sour lump in the back of my throat. Yes, I was pregnant, and I was scared! I knew from firsthand experience how tough it is raising a child as a single mother. I already had a 2-year old daughter, Jennifer, from an earlier unsuccessful marriage. When my pregnancy was confirmed, Tim’s non-committal response to my distress and his move to Chicago, 400 miles away, left me despondent and convinced that abortion was the “easy way out.” I was already struggling financially with one child. How could I raise two? READ MORE from the Paper On January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion through which month of pregnancy? A. 3rd month B. 4th month C. 6th month D. 9th month A developing baby’s heart begins to beat at? A. 21 days B. 30 days C. 45 days D. 60 days A True story of an adoption.   TIRED of the SPIN? Read the paper A WOMAN’S “RIGHT” Women are breaking through glass ceilings everywhere, surpassing the number of men in colleges, law schools, and medical schools. Just look at sports such as basketball, soccer, hockey, and wrestling. We have come too far to reduce women’s “rights” to mean the “right to abortion.” IT’S JUST TISSUE Simple tissue is not bursting with the following: life, stem cells that some researcherswould kill for, a beating heart and fingerprints, and enough DNA to fill five sets (not volumes) of Encyclopedia Britannica if the micro-miniature language was enlarged to standard-sized print. A “WANTED” CHILD Does your value depend on the degree that someone wants you? Let’s be honest— a child is a child. How could any baby be called unwanted when there are over one million couples waiting, hoping, and praying for a chance to adopt a child? “SAFE” ABORTION Many young women believed this until it was too late. The book, Lime 5, documents over 200 cases of women injured or killed by legal, so-called “safe” abortions. With the end result being an aborted baby; the potential for cervical cancer and the possibility of becoming infertile—where’s the safe part? Read more In Their Own Words: Former Abortionists and Clinic Staff Speak Out “We were told to find the woman’s weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it was to have a baby.” — Debra Henry: Former Clinic Staff“Meet the Abortion Providers” “But I think the greatest thing that got to us was the ultrasound… The baby really came alive on TV and was moving… That picture of the baby on the ultrasound bothered me more than anything else… We lost two nurses. They couldn’t take looking at it.” — Dr. Joseph Randall: Former Abortionist “Meet the Abortion Providers”  DAY 1 FERTILIZATIONThe sperm joins with the ovum to form one cell. This one cell contains the complex genetic makeup for every detail of a new human life—the child’s sex, hair and eye color, height, skin tone, etc. From that moment on nothing new is added but oxygen, nutrition and time.1 MONTH ONE The first cell divides in two and cell division continues as the newly formed individual travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus. Over 500 cells are present when this tiny embryo (the blastocyst) r  eaches the uterus 7 to 10 days after
fertilization.2Foundations of the brain, spinal cord and nervous system are already established, and on day 21 the heart begins to beat in a regular fashion with a blood type often different from her mother’s.3 Muscles are forming, and arms, legs, eyes and ears have begun to show. 1 “The Drama of Fetal Development”, American Baby (January 1989), p. 45 2 Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, 3rd ed., Harper Resource, 2003  “As far as your
nature is concerned,I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were, and are, a human being.” —World-renowned geneticist, the late Dr. Jérome LeJeune  THE SILENT GRIEFOF ABORTION Read the full Story Ann
Marie Cosgrove, President of Silent No
More-Minnesota, publicly testifies about the trauma and pain that abortion has caused in her life, “Abortion changes you forever. I thought the abortion would free me up from a responsibility I felt I was not ready for. Instead it held me in bondage to feelings of regret, remorse, depression and despair. My soul became a slave to self-hatred and worthlessness. My sanity the price I would pay. Women deserve better than abortion.” There are many courageous women, such as Ann Marie, who give personal testimony in opposition to abortion. They also offer their understanding, compassion and time to those who need their support in coping with the emotional and psychological aftermath of an abortion. There are chapters of Silent No More in nearly every state. The
“Hard Cases”
 RE S E A R C H E R S
David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa, and Amy
Sobie completed a nine year study on pregnancy outcomes of sexual assault victims. As part of their research the authors
drew upon testimonies from
192 women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest, and 55
children conceived in
sexual assault. Research shows that after any abortion, it is common for women to experience guilt, depression, feelings of being “dirty,” resentment of men, and lowered self-esteem. These feelings are identical to what women typically feel after rape. Abortion only adds to and accentuates the traumatic feelings associated with sexual assault. Kathleen DeZeeuw, whose son Patrick was conceived in rape when she was 16, writes: “I, having lived through rape, and also having raised a child ‘conceived in rape’ feel personally assaulted and insulted every time I hear that abortion should be legal because of rape and incest. I feel that we’re being used by pro-abortionists to further the abortion issue though we’ve not been asked to tell our side of the story.” For example, Edith Young, a 12-year-old victim of incest, writes Read More David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa, and Amy Sobie. Victims and Victors. Acorn Books, Springfield, IL 2000. pp.15-17. For further information see www.afterabortion.org.  SUBSTITUTING
SEX
FOR LOVE Full Page Story CY N T H I A B R A N T L E Y and Leland Elliot, co-authors of the study “Sex on Campus": "The Naked Truth About the
Real Sex Lives of College Students,” said of college students, “They want to be in love. They’re looking for relationships, and in the context of this, they’re having a lot of sex.” In their study, Brantley and Elliot note that 80 percent of college students are sexually active, and 60 percent engage in casual sex. Fiftyfive percent of those studied admitted to having unsafe sex, and 21 percent said they never use a condom because they “didn't care.” Full Page Story “Emergency Contraception” An Advertising Deception Read the full Story  TH E CAMPA I G N to make “Emergency Contraception”(EC) available over-the-counter with its slogan “Back up your Birth Control with EC”, is deceiving women regarding EC’s action and the risks related to its use. It exacerbates what feminist Germaine Greer calls, “the cynical deception of women by selling abortifacients as if they were contraceptives,” a deception she finds “incompatible with the respect due to women as human beings.” Some of the deceptive claims we hear are: Read the full Story |
 Human Life Alliance HLA's
priority project is to publish and distribute advertising supplements, focusing on abortion, euthanasia and chastity, through mainstream media and college newspapers. Reaching a combined circulation of nearly 30,000,000 copies over the past twelve years, these extremely powerful and creative advertising supplements are the cause of vigorous debate on high school and college campuses across the nation receiving widespread acclaim. HLA seeks to educate all people on life issues by: Raising awareness of the humanity of the unborn child and exposing the gruesome realities of abortion. Opposing euthanasia in all its forms, both active and passive, and fighting for the protection of all human life including the terminally ill, elderly, disabled and medically vulnerable. Promoting chastity, abstinence until marriage and educating on the errors and health risks of "safe-sex" promotion. |