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GAP: Myth vs. Fact
Myth 1. Women who have abortions suffer from “post-abortion” syndrome.
Fact: There is actually no such thing as “post-abortion” syndrome. Studies indicate that the rate of depression in women that have obtained abortions are the same as the rate of depression in all women in society. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depwomenknows.cfm
Myth 2. Supreme Court cases Roe v. Wade and Doe v.
Fact: These cases actually give women the right to abort until the fetus is viable, that is until it can survive out of the uterus, typically the beginning of the third trimester. After the fetus reaches this viable state, which varies from pregnancy to pregnancy, severe restrictions are imposed to prevent abortion unless the mother’s life is in strict danger. It is important to note that the recent Federal Abortion Ban does not distinguish between pre-viability and post-viability abortions, or make an exception for the health of the mother.
Myth 3. There is a link between abortion and breast cancer.
Fact: A recently released (last week) Harvard study shows that there is absolutely no link between abortion and breast cancer. Their posters are hopelessly outdated. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/23/health/webmd/main 2718947.shtmal.
Myth 4. Fetuses are able to feel pain as early as 8-13 weeks after fertilization, when most abortions occur.
Fact: A JAMA study shows that fetal pain is unlikely prior to the third trimester, as the fetus at this point has not developed the physiological structures necessary to perceive pain.
http://www.jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/294/8/947
Myth 5: Abortion Is Genocide:
Fact: Genocide is officially defined as actions done with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. GAP applies this definition to abortion by stating that the national group in danger is “unwanted” unborn children. But because abortion is not an act done with the intention of destroying all “unwanted” unborn American children, and furthermore because it happens on an individual basis it is not genocide. There is no united group effort to destroy all “unwanted” children.
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The United Nations partly defines genocide as intent to destroy certain groups “in whole or in part.” In any case, Planned Parenthood’s motto is “Every Child a Wanted Child” which applied, means that it hopes for every unwanted child to be dead before it is born. Wherever it is “legal” abortion is state sponsored and protected. In the international standard, individuals are prosecuted for genocide, not governments.
Abortion is legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Restrictions based on age of the pre-born child, from the legal standpoint, are meaningless because Doe v. Bolton defines “health” to mean virtually anything. Go to George Tiller’s website at http://www.drtiller.com/mainpg.html It says, “We have an unparalleled record of safey (sic) in late abortion services and we have more experience in late abortion services over 24 weeks than anyone else currently practicing in the Western Hemisphere, Europe and Australia.”
About elective abortion, Tiller says, "Kansas law allows for post-viability abortion procedures when continuing the pregnancy is detrimental to the pregnant woman's health. Each person's circumstances are reviewed on a case-by-base basis. Please call so that we can discuss admission criteria with you.
Tiller is located in Wichita, Kansas. Remember, "health" can mean anything.
In my previous comment I mistakenly omitted a quotation mark at the end of the sentence, “Please call so that we can discuss admission criteria with you.”
Here is a direct extract from Doe v. Bolton’s majority ruling: “We agree with the District Court, 319 F. Supp., at 1058, that the medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age - relevant to the wellbeing of the patient. All these factors may relate to health. This allows the attending physician the room he needs to make his best medical judgment. And it is room that operates for the benefit, not the disadvantage, of the pregnant woman.”
http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/risks.html
Fascinating!
Is Terps For Choice for or against restrictions on post-viability abortions?
It sure looks like they do oppose such restrictions. They (like Obama) probably weren't pleased when that partial-birth abortion ban got passed.
I like how they state flat lies when they claim to correct "myths." Clever.
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