Abortion Movement

Following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that opened the door for legalized abortion, its supporters touted the considerable advances in public health that would result from its legalization—the dramatic reductions in rates of abortion-related death and injury, and the enormous changes in American women's lives that would be enabled, to a large degree, by the availability of reliable and safe abortions.

Instead, abortion has continued to be one of the most divisive issues in American society. The debate has not diminished, but has only gotten more intense. In a NEWSWEEK magazine interview of Princeton University Bioethicist Hadley Arkes, he was asked, "When does life begin?" To which he replied, "The leading textbooks on embryology say it's when the union of two gametes, a male gamete or spermatozoon and a female gamete or mature ovum . . . on the medical side there is no dissent on this matter." Concerning the current debate over abortion and fetal rights, he said, "People are not arguing over the science, they're arguing over the social definition of a human being."

And while the debate has raged, from 1973 through 2007, 49,523,945 legal abortions have been performed in the United States of America alone, eliminating the equivalent of the entire population of any one of the following countries (or the combination of Canada and the Netherlands):

• Burma (48,798,000)
• South Korea (48,224,000)
• South Africa (47,850,700)
• Ukraine (46,191,022)
• Spain (46,063,500)
• Colombia (44,660,000)
• Canada (33,451,800) & Netherlands (16,480,565)

Almost 1.4 million abortions are performed in the United States alone each year. Each abortion costs about $300.00. That's about $420,000,000.00 a year. That's a lot of money. The high volume and quick turnover ensures a profitable business, the name of the game for the abortion industry.

Nevertheless, if abortion activists really care about the women involved, why don't they volunteer their services and the facilities, as the pro-life folks do? Why not at least "help" the poorest women, instead of demanding that all taxpayers should fund their abortions?

By contrast, on the pro-life side, there is no personal gain for those involved. The concern is for others, especially those unable to speak or care for themselves.

The pro-life community supports about 3,000 crisis pregnancy centers in the United States—and none of them takes a dime from the women they help with their unexpected pregnancies. Their help can include family assistance, medical expenses, clothing, adoption services if desired, sometimes even jobs and housing. Truly, anything the expectant mother needs to have a choice about her and her baby's future. This all costs a lot of money, but it's privately raised from loving supporters who truly want to help women and their unborn children.

Of course, there will always be some be pro-life activists who attempt to pursue some selfish end, and there are a few who call themselves part of the movement but aren't at all, in that they would even take the life of another to pursue their purposes. And on the other side, there are certainly some good-hearted, pro-choice activists who really, but wrongly, believe they are helping women. The people who this article also read about the std testing nyc.

But as a whole, the heart of each side is revealed in its work. As are the hearts of the supporters.

Meanwhile, the women who are seduced into thinking that the abortion they receive is only an exercise of their rights and the removal of a lump of tissue are left to suffer the consequences of their decisions. And the unsuspecting minions of the abortionists toil to line the pockets of their masters.

Initially, pro-abortion, sadly misled, stand-up comic Margaret Cho said glibly, coldly, and publicly about her own abortion, "The tenant was evacuated." But later, she revealed in a blog that her abortion had left her feeling "hollowed out and alone,"—something a woman never forgets.

The abortion movement has created its own—and most powerful—antagonist: the post-abortive woman. Websites and outreach organizations, many created and/or run by enlightened women, are using the power of the Internet to get their message out to women—from other women—that the abortion "choice" is more than an interruption in their lives.

The 49 million children in the U.S. who might have been born to grow up and assume the role of their pro-abortion parents were aborted instead. Most of those born in the last 30 years were born to parents opposed to Roe v. Wade and many who are now voting age, or soon will be. Moreover, if that post Roe v. Wade generation actually wakes up and starts voting, they probably will not vote for leaders who still believe the nonsense of the pre-AIDS sexual revolution of the 1960s.