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Abortion Increases Abuse Rates Among Mothers, Study Finds

No surprise, really: if you’ll kill your offspring, you’ll mistreat even those you don’t kill… 

A new report is raising eyebrows after it showed that women who had an abortion are more likely to abuse their children than women who had not lost a pregnancy.

The new study was conducted by the Elliot Institute, a post-abortion research institute, in conjunction with Bowling Green State University. The study found that women who had and abortion have an increased chance of abusing their children.

The findings were published in the medical journal Acta Paediatrica and stated that women who had an abortion are about two and a half times more likely to physically abuse their other children.

The research, led by Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green, analyzed data from a survey of 518 low-income women in Baltimore who were receiving financial aid under a program designed to help families with dependent children who were 12 years or younger.

The data was divided into two parts – women who had experienced a failed pregnancy due to either an involuntary termination, miscarriage, and voluntary termination, abortion – and looked at rates of child abuse and neglect among both groups.

They found that women who experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth were still more likely to physically abuse their children than parents who had not suffered such an incident, but were much less likely to physically abuse their children than women who opted to abort their child voluntarily.

Bush-Appointed Federal Judge Halts Arizona’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood

Neocons appoint social liberals.

A federal judge appointed by then President George W. Bush blocked an Arizona law Friday that prohibited taxpayer funds from being used for family planning groups such as Planned Parenthood.

U.S. District Judge Neil Wake, appointed in 2004 under the recommendation of Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl, issued a temporary injunction against the state law, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer in May. A temporary injunction is only issued in cases where the plaintiff, in this instance, Planned Parenthood, is likely to win the lawsuit.

New Romney ad: ‘Abortion Should Be An Option’

“I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.”  No traditional conservative, he…

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has released a new ad stating the candidate believes that “abortion should be an option” in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother.

The ads feature a woman named Sarah Minto, who said pro-Obama ads painting the governor as an anti-contraception and anti-abortion extremist made her investigate his real record.

“Romney doesn’t oppose contraception at all,” she said. “In fact, he thinks abortion should be an option in cases of rape incest, or to save a mother’s life.”

“This issue’s important to me, but I’m more concerned with the debt our children will be left with,” Minto says.

You’ve been shafted again, fellow pro-lifers!  The Republicans just want you to shut up and vote for them, regardless.

Up to you if you want to keep going back for more abuse, like a battered wife who blames herself, but you’re fools to do so.

Uruguay’s Senate Approves Bill Legalizing Abortion

Uruguay is set to become the second nation in South America to legalize abortion after the country’s senate passed the controversial bill on Thursday.

The vote came after Uruguay’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, voted to  pass the law, legalizing abortion by just one vote, 50-49. There were several  local reports of lawmakers forgoing the vote, citing conflicting interests  between their faith and conscience. The votes were still cast, but were done by  replacements.

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica declared that he would uphold the law if the  country’s Senate approved the newly passed measure.

Under the new law, women would be granted the right to obtain a legal  abortion anytime during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. First, however, they  must consult with a panel of three medical professionals who would advise the  patient of the risks of abortions and introduce other alternatives available,  such as adoption and social welfare programs.

The law would also permit abortion in the event of rape or incest up to the  first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The law would decriminalize late-term abortions  should the mother’s life be at risk, or if the fetus is determined to be too  deformed to survive after birth.

A sad development…

Protesters Rally as Ireland’s First Abortion Clinic Opens

A sad day.

Protesters opposed to abortion hold placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

The first abortion clinic on the entire island of Ireland opened Thursday in  Belfast, sparking protests by conservatives from both the Catholic and  Protestant sides of Northern Ireland.

The Marie Stopes centre plans to offer the abortion pill to women who are  less than nine weeks pregnant — but only if doctors determine they’re at risk  of death or long-term health damage from their pregnancy.

That’s the law in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, where  abortion is otherwise illegal.

But more than 200 protesters opposed to abortion under any circumstances  gathered outside the central Belfast clinic hours ahead of its opening Thursday,  waving placards reading “Keep Ireland abortion free.”

And Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin wrote to lawmakers, who  broadly oppose abortion, offering his help if they investigate the clinic’s  operations. Larkin said he could order the clinic’s to be closed only if  evidence emerged of “serious criminal conduct” there.

Protesters demanded that the clinic be shut down regardless, lest it become  a beachhead for expanding abortion rights in Northern Ireland, the only corner  of the United Kingdom that has not legalized abortion on demand.

“We’re in 2012. Women’s health is not in danger. Women are not dying because  they cannot get abortions,” said Bernadette Smyth, Protestant leader of a  Belfast anti-abortion group called Precious Life.

“For Marie Stopes, this is only a first step,” said Liam Gibson from the  Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, a predominantly Catholic-backed  pressure group.

Hey, what do you know; an issue to bring together Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland! ;)

Gibson and Smyth are both right; this is just the beginning; eventually NI will offer abortions just like throughout the rest of Britain…

U.S. DOJ: Family Can’t Run Their Business as Catholics

Because they won’t provide birth-control or abortion as part of a health-care package for their employees.

At Hercules Industries, the Newlands provide a generous self-insured health-care plan to their employees. It does not cover sterilization, artificial contraception or abortifacients.

“The  Catholic Church teaches that abortifacient drugs, contraception and  sterilization are intrinsic evils,” says the Newlands’ lawsuit.

“Consequently,  the Newlands believe that it would be immoral and sinful for them to  intentionally participate in, pay for, facilitate or otherwise support  abortifacient drugs, contraception, sterilization, and related education  and counseling as would be required by the Mandate, through their  inclusion in health insurance coverage they offer at Hercules,” says the  suit.

The Catholic Bishops of the United States endorse this  view. At a meeting in Atlanta last month, they unanimously adopted a  resolution calling the HHS regulation an “unjust and illegal mandate”  and a “violation of personal civil rights.” They declared that the  regulation created a class of Americans “with no conscience protection  at all: individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to act  in accordance with their faith and moral values.

“They, too,”  said the bishops, “face a government mandate to aid in providing  ‘services’ contrary to those values — whether in their sponsoring of,  and payment for, insurance as employers; their payment of insurance  premiums as employees; or as insurers themselves — without even the  semblance of an exemption.”

In a letter read during Sunday Mass  in most dioceses around the country earlier this year, many of the  nation’s bishops flatly said: “We cannot — we will not — comply with  this unjust law.”

In response to the Newlands’ complaint that  ordering them to violate the teachings of the Catholic Church in the way  they run their business is a violation of their First Amendment right  to the free exercise of religion, the Obama administration told the  federal court that a private business has no protection under the First  Amendment’s free exercise clause — especially if the business is  incorporated.

“The First Amendment Complaint does not allege that  the company is affiliated with a formally religious entity such as a  church,” said the Justice Department. “Nor does it allege that the  company employs persons of a particular faith. In short, Hercules  Industries is plainly a for-profit, secular employer.”

“By definition,” said the Justice Department, “a secular employer does not engage in any ‘exercise of religion.’”

“It  is well established that a corporation and its owners are wholly  separate entities, and the Court should not permit the Newlands to  eliminate that legal separation to impose their personal religious  beliefs on the corporate entity or its employees,” said the Justice  Department.

Freedom is dying in America, because of judicial tyranny and draconian regulations.

Pregnant Mom’s Move to U.S. Not Like ‘Child Abduction,’ Ontario Court Rules

Of course not; recognizing it as such would mean recognizing the personhood of fetuses, for one thing – as well as siding with the man, in such cases; setting precedents they no doubt don’t want to do.

A child-custody dispute involving a new mother who moved to California when she was seven months pregnant should be decided in the U.S. state rather than in Ontario, the province’s top court ruled Thursday in a case closely watched by women’s-rights activists.

The Appeal Court rejected the findings of a lower court judge, who had found the circumstances of the move “analogous to abduction” and decided Ontario courts should have jurisdiction even though the child had never lived in Canada.

Teachers Helped Schoolgirl, 15, Have an Abortion Without Her Parents’ Knowledge

Reason to homeschool #568,321…  (HT: WK)

Teachers helped a 15-year-old pupil to have an abortion that her parents knew nothing about.

Her mother and father finally learned about the termination when she told them after it had happened.

Last night family campaigners said the case showed how parents are increasingly being sidelined by the law.

It is understood that the girl went to a hospital where it was confirmed she was pregnant. In line with her wishes, doctors did not tell her parents but notified the school in Salford, Greater Manchester, instead.

Teachers discussed the termination with the girl, checking she was comfortable with her decision. They also gave her time off school and supported her when she went for the procedure.

Harper Pressures MPs to Vote Against Motion on When Life Begins

Of course he does.

Conservative MPs are under intense pressure from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to vote against a Tory MP’s non-binding motion that calls on Parliament to study when human life begins.

Tory sources say Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants southern Ontario MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion eliminated before Parliament rises for the summer in late June.

“The PM himself wants this vote beaten down,” one source tells QMI Agency.

The PMO is said to be telling MPs that voting in favour of Woodworth’s motion would be like forcing Harper to break his promise not to “reopen the debate on abortion.”

Tories who side with Harper are said to be putting the screws to their colleagues by telling them that a vote in favour of Motion 312 is a vote against Harper’s leadership.

Typical.

Canadian social conservatives who think Harper is their ally: you’re idiots.  Useful idiots, to the Tories.  Harper doesn’t give a shit what you believe; he obviously isn’t a social conservative himself, and reveals himself to be effectively pro-choice, by not merely inaction, but actually pressuring pro-lifers in his own government to shut up.

Now will you wake up, and stop slutting yourselves to the Tories, getting nothing in return?  They’ve already shown they’re pro-gay-rights; now they show they’re pro-abortion.

House to Vote on Sex-Selection Abortion Ban

A Republican initiative, naturally.

The mainly Republican supporters of the bill characterized the vote as a sex-discrimination issue at a time when Democrats are accusing Republicans of waging a war on women. Abortion rights advocates argued that the bill exploits the problem of selective abortion to further limit a woman’s right to choose.

The House Republican leadership brought the bill to the floor under a procedure requiring a two-thirds majority for passage, and the outcome was uncertain. To help assure passage, the authors removed a contentious provision of the bill that would have also banned abortions based on the race of the fetus.

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The legislation, sponsored by anti-abortion activist Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., would make it a federal offense, subject to up to five years in prison, to perform, solicit funds to perform or coerce a woman into a sex-selection abortion. Bringing a woman into the country to obtain such an abortion would also be punishable by up to five years in prison.

“We are the only advanced country left in the world that still doesn’t restrict sex-selection abortion in any way,” said Franks, who has also collided with pro-choice groups recently over a bill he is pushing to ban abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks of pregnancy. “This evil practice has now allowed thousands of little girls in America and millions of little girls across the world to be brutally dismembered.”

A sane, moral reaction to the story, here.

So before everyone gets all happy and jumping up and down, think about this.  The House wants to make it a federal crime to abort a baby because of what the person’s motives are (ie. gender of the baby), but they don’t want to make it an issue to simply murder the baby for any other reason.

The legislation has mainly Republican support and it is nothing short of a politicizing of sex-discrimination.

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Right, Mr. Franks, but what about little boys too?  What about “brutally dismembering” any baby for any reason?  Why does this have to be only about sex discrimination?  Why is it not about the first and foremost issue, life?  I truly believe Rep. Frank’s heart is in the right place in wanting to get rid of abortion, but there is not clear thinking here in the legislation itself.

National Right to Life Committee legislative director Douglas Johnson said that lawmakers, “who recently have embraced contrived political rhetoric asserting that they are resisting a `war on women’ must reflect on whether they now wish to be recorded as being defenders of the escalating war on baby girls.”

I am all for standing up for the unborn, but not just based upon sex and while I’m happy to see legislation calling for bans on abortion, we must keep in mind what is at the heart here and that is the government reading minds and intentions of why someone is murdering their baby.

“Doctors would be forced to police their patients, read their minds and conceal information from them,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).

Sadly, Nadler has it right here.  This is exactly what it is.  I say if we are going to deal with the abortion issue it takes place across the board.  No matter what the reason, it is wrong.  There is no pro-choice.  It is either pro-life or pro-death.

Frankly, when the GOP, the party that is supposed to be pro-life, has had power, it has failed at ending the holocaust of the unborn.  Why won’t the GOP simply deal with the issue in the most effective way possible and remove this issue from the federal government and let the states deal with this?  Overnight abortion would be illegal and punishable.

But my goodness, if you’re going to come out and argue that people are committing a crime in one instance (gender of the baby) and not committing a crime in another instance (promiscuous sex), then you are not being consistent.

Self-Professed Pro-Choice ‘Terrorist’ Pleads Guilty to Issuing Death Threats

LifeSiteNews has the story.  (Hat Tip: Wintery Knight)

A pro-abortion activist from New York pled guilty yesterday to making death threats against two high-profile pro-life leaders. He could face up to 51 months in federal custody. Sentencing is scheduled September 12.

Ted Shulman reached an agreement that allowed him to plead guilty to making the death threats against Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life and Prof. Robert George of Princeton University.

Shulman has also repeatedly threatened the lives of Operation Rescue’s Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger and other pro-life leaders across the country, including Jill Stanek.

In one audio recording made available by Operation Rescue, Shulman told Sullenger to “convert” to pro-choice “during the few months you have left on this earth,” or else “you will go to hell and burn.”

The Private and the Public

George Jonas on sex-selective abortion:

They say God works in mysterious ways. Not being religious I wouldn’t know, but maybe he does. His “choice” may be to combine modern technology with a preference for male babies in some ancient cultures to demonstrate that the whimsical elimination of life inside the womb isn’t a private matter, or even a mere social concern, but just as it would be outside the womb, it’s profoundly spiritual. It’s all grist to God’s mills, which, according to the poet Longfellow, grind slow but grind exceedingly small.

I’d add that almost nothing is just personal. We just like to say that because we’re selfish and don’t care what happens to society at large.

Arizona Bill Declares Women Pregnant Two Weeks Before Conception

What the…?

A new bill up for vote in the state of Arizona would ban abortions for some expectant mothers, but that’s only the start of what lawmakers have in store. If the legislation passes, the state will consider a child to exist even before conception.

Under Arizona’s H.B. 2036, the state would recognize the start of the unborn child’s life to be the first day of its mother’s last menstrual period. The legislation is being proposed so that lawmakers can outlaw abortions on fetuses past the age of 20-weeks, but the verbiage its authors use to construct a time cycle for the baby would mean that the start of the child’s life could very well occur up to two weeks before the mother and father even ponder procreating.