- If abortion is made illegal, tens of thousands of women will die from back-alley and clothes-hanger abortions.
Answer:
Even when illegal, most abortions are done by physicians in their offices, not in back alleys.
Illegal abortions are often less than stated by the media.
Women can still die from legal abortions.
If abortion remains illegal, abortions would be done with medical equipment, not clothes hangers.
We must not legalize procedures that kill the innocent just to make the killing process less hazardous.
The central horror of illegal abortion remains the central horror of legal abortion.
- Abortion is a safe medical procedure, safer than full-term pregnancy and childbirth.
Answer:
Abortion is not safer than full-term pregnancy and childbirth. Many deaths by abortion are not recorded or reported. Furthermore, abortion actually increases the chance of maternal death in later pregnancies. Some maternal deaths in full term pregnancies are actually caused by earlier abortions.
Though the chances of a woman’s safe abortion are now greater, the number of suffering women is also greater because of the increased number of abortions.
Even if abortions were safer for the mother than childbirth, it would be fatal for the innocent child.
Abortion can produce many serious medical problems.
The statistics on abortion complications and risks are often understated due to the inadequate means of gathering date.
The true risks of abortion are rarely explained to women by those who perform abortions.
- Abortion is an easy and painless procedure
Answer:
The various abortion procedures are often both difficult and painful for women.
Abortion is often difficult and painful for fathers, grandparents and siblings of the aborted child.
Abortion is often difficult and painful for clinic workers.
Abortion is difficult and painful for the unborn child. President Ronald Reagan stated in 1984 that during an abortion “the fetus feels pain which is long and agonizing.” This has been verified numerous times.
Even if abortion was made easy or painless for everyone, it would not change the bottom-line that abortion kills children.
- Abortion relieves women of stress and responsibility, and thereby enhances their psychological well-being.
Answer:
The many post-abortion therapy and support groups testify to the reality of abortion’s potentially harmful psychological effects. “We’ve never talked about it since. Never! It was only mentioned once. Just before our first child was born, out of the blue she said, “If I hadn’t had the abortion, that child would be 5 years old now.” We both let it drop … For all I know there is a lot of psychological damage hidden behind the silence.”
The suicide rate is significantly higher among women who have had abortions than among those who haven’t.
Post-abortion syndrome is a diagnosable psychological affliction.
Many professional studies document the reality of abortion’s adverse psychological consequences on a large number of women.
Abortion can produce both short and longer term psychological damage, especially a sense of personal guilt.
Most woman have not been warned about and are completely unprepared for the psychological consequences of abortion.
- Abortion providers are respected medical professionals working in the woman’s best interests.
Answer:
Abortion clinics do not have to maintain the high standard of health, safety, and professionalism required of hospitals.
Many clinics are in the abortion industry because of the vast amounts of money involved.
Clinic workers commonly prey on fear pain, and confusion to manipulate women into getting abortions.
Clinic workers regularly mislead or deceive women about the nature and development of their babies.
Abortion clinics often exploit the feminist connection, making it appear their motive is to stand up for women.
Doctors doing abortions violate the fundamental creeds of the medical profession – the Hippocratic oath. The World medical Association in 1948 adopted the Declaration of G and in 1949 adopted the International Code of Medical Ethics which both state that the medical profession must protect life from conception until death.