Abortion Slogans Refuted

Pro-Abortion Slogan #1:  "We demand the freedom to choose! Freedom of choice!"

Summary of the Pro-Life Response.

(1) CLARIFICATION:  We must distinguish between licit and illicit freedoms.

(2) PARALLELISM:  Unlimited "freedom to choose" means simple anarchy.

(3) MAXIM:  No freedom is absolute. Read More...

Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983)

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

No. 81-746

Argued: November 30, 1982

Decided: June 15, 1983 [*]

An Akron, Ohio, ordinance, inter alia, (1) requires all abortions performed after the first trimester of pregnancy to be performed in a hospital (§ 1870.03); (2) prohibits a physician from performing an abortion on an unmarried minor under the age of 15 unless he obtains the consent of one of her parents or unless the minor obtains an order from a court having jurisdiction over her that the abortion be performed (§ 1870.05(B))… Read More…

Catholic Church Teachings on Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Catholic Church Teachings on Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: historical opposition of the Catholic Church to abortion; recent Church teachings on abortion; the Church penalty of excommunication for abortions; abortion to save the mother’s life; the moment of “ensoulment”; and baptism of preborn babies.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Catholics for a Free Choice

by Brian Clowes

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a Washington, D.C.-based organization whose objective is to convince lawmakers, the popular media and Catholics that there can be an authentic "Catholic pro-choice" philosophy. CFFC was founded in 1970 by three members of a pro-abortion group called the National Organization for Women (NOW). Its first public act was to ridicule the Catholic Church by crowning one of these women "Pope Joan I" on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Read More...

China’s Forced Abortion Program

by Brian Clowes

In China’s Forced Abortion Program, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses China’s population control program at length, including United States association.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...  

Demographic Impacts of Abortion, The

by Brian Clowes

In The Demographic Impacts of Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: the terrible loss of humanity to abortion; demographic impacts of legalized abortion; trying to reverse the trend; effects of abortion and contraception on America's population profile; and the inevitable death of the pro-abortion movement.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter,  click here...

Dignity of the Human Embryo, The

by Angelo Serra

In 1986, a false supposition or pretext of irresponsible science deprived the "recently conceived" human being of its title and value of "son."

The new, "recently conceived" life arising from the fusion of the maternal and paternal gametes is just beginning a marvelous dialogue with his or her parents-above all the mother-but is seen on a biological, psychological, mental and spiritual level as not having the name "son" or "daughter" until the fourteenth day after conception. Before that day one "should" consider him or her as "bunch of cells", and not as a "human being," the gift and living expression of the love of a father and mother. The law also followed this supposition and pretext: before that fourteenth day, the law negates the "right" to be a son, reducing him to a mere "disposable object," to the point of conceding his ownership-something which we never before could have imagined! Read More...

Embryonic Selection and Reduction

by Angelo Serra

Embryonic selection and embryonic reduction are two expressions introduced in the practice of "technically assisted reproduction" to indicate: first, the killing of a human embryo produced in a test tube before the transfer in utero, after observations and tests indicating that it will not develop into a normal subject; second, the killing of one or more human embryos in utero when, after the transfer of several embryos, more than one develops. Read More...

Exceptions for Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Exceptions for Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brain Clowes discusses hard-case abortions, often argued in favor of situations where the woman has suffered rape or incest or where the mother’s health is endangered by the pregnancy.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...  

Fertility and Continence

by Rita Joseph

There are two mutually contradictory advertising messages that have been presented for the last thirty years. On one side, fertility should be contained and controlled. Otherwise there would be unwanted pregnancies, with a resulting deterioration of development, scarcity of natural resources and the loss for women of the role that is due to them in society. On the other side, continence, that it to say the ability of human beings to control their own sexuality, is said to be impossible. Read More...

Fetal Experimentation and Tissue Transplantation

by Brian Clowes

In Fetal Experimentation and Tissue Transplantation, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: the moral dimensions of fetal experimentation and fetal tissue transplantation; examples of experiments conducted on preborn babies; why researchers value fetal tissue; the history of fetal organ harvesting; embryonic stem cell research; vaccines made from the tissue of aborted preborn babies; and harvesting organs from handicapped newborn babies.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Fetal Pain

by Brian Clowes

In Fetal Pain, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: mercy for all but the preborn; when does fetal pain begin; the battle over partial-birth abortion; what happens to babies after they are killed; and fetal development—the nervous system.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Free Choice

by William E. May

The expression "free choice" is connected in today's public opinion with the struggle conducted by different groups in favor of liberalizing the laws on procured abortion in different countries. In the name of the right of the human person to his own body in order to realize his life's project, these groups asserted that a pregnant woman has the right to abortion, and that the law has to respect such a right. Read More... 

Gendercide: Where Have All the Girls Gone?

by Joseph Meaney

One of the most shocking global trends I have encountered in travels to over 54 countries on all continents in the past five years is the practice of gendercide. This massive "disappearance" of girls in the last few decades is an underreported international scandal.  Undisputed evidence exists that over 100 million women have been killed for the "crime" of being female since the 1970s and 1980s and the problem is only growing worse.  Where are the protests and outrage at the United Nations (UN) and among organizations that self-identify themselves as defending or representing women? Only a few voices have recently called for action and even described the situation as "the slaughter of Eve, a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions."  Read More...

Historical Christian Teachings on Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Historical Christian Teachings on Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: abortion in the Christian Church; anti-life strategies of infiltration and subversion; critical differences between the churches; and the deaths of the “feel-good” churches.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here... 

Holocaust Analogy to Abortion, The

by Brian Clowes

In The Holocaust Analogy to Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brain Clowes discusses ways in which abortion is analogous to the Nazi Holocaust. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...  

International Abortion Situation, The

by Brian Clowes

In The International Abortion Situation, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: the malthus manifesto; anti-natalist bigots; biphobia and self-hate; the situation in the USA; contraceptive imperialism; abortion's link with population control; catholic teaching on population; status of abortion legislation worldwide; and demographic summaries of the world's nations. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Jewish Faith Teachings on Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Jewish Faith Teachings on Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: the dilution of Jewish heritage; traditional Jewish teachings on abortion; Jewish dissenters and the New American Holocaust; and the question of pro-lifers being like Nazis.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Legal Status of the Human Embryo, The

by Rodolfo-Carlos Barra

Discussions about the humanity of the embryo, product of the male-female union, arise as one tries to formulate premises that facilitate the legalization of abortion and the practices that threaten the very existence of the new being. In this context, it became necessary to coin the term "pre-embryo." This procedure is not new. From antiquity, people have questioned the humanity of other persons every time it became necessary to use arguments to exploit or terminate them. Read More...

Maternal Deaths Due to Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Maternal Deaths Due to Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: a brief historical overview of the abortion debate; the prevalence of illegal abortions; abortion before Roe Vs. Wade; actual statistics of maternal deaths; threat to maternal health posed by legal abortion; and the dangers of home abortions.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here... 

Miracle of Fetal Development, The

by Brian Clowes

In The Miracle of Fetal Development, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: to what point of fetal development is abortion legal; milestones of fetal development; new and misleading medical terminology; abortionists’ attitude towards third-trimester abortions; and a clear danger to abortionists.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...  

Partial Birth Abortion

by Jacques Suaudeau

The right to life of every human being is less and less protected by law. The universal scope of this right which was solemnly declared in 1948 and reaffirmed in 1989 in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child is whittled away more and more. This is notably illustrated by the tendency to legalize abortion and euthanasia. The particularly horrible technique of Partial Birth Abortion, to which President Clinton attached his name by vetoing bans against it, calls our attention to a new stage in the current anti-life escalation. The abortion termed "partial" is in fact an infanticide. Read More...

Pre-Implantation and Emergency Contraception

by John Wilks

The terms "pre-implantation contraception" [PIC] and "emergency contraception" [EC] as well as ‘post-coital contraception' [PCC] are synonymous expressions inaccurately used to describe the administration of a drug or use of a device post intercourse, with the explicit intention of stopping implantation of a newly created human embryo. These three terms are also collectively referred to, in both the lay and medical literature, as the ‘morning-after' pill. Read More...

Pro-Abortion Violence

Pro-abortionists and the media talk a lot about "anti?choice violence" and an alleged "organized campaign of terror and intimidation against reproductive health centers."

Most people perceive the struggle over abortion in the USA to be a vicious and brutal battle -- with all of the violence being committed by so?called "fanatical anti?choicers."

This is entirely due to the stupid actions of a handful of deranged individuals and the persistent and monolithic bias of the national broadcast, print, and entertainment media.

This bias has been well-documented and is demonstrated by the different way the media treats violence committed by people on each side of the abortion struggle. Read More...

Pro-Choice

by Joseph & Michael Meaney

The pro-choice ideology was born at the end of the sixties through pro abortion groups progressively using twisted semantics to hide what being in favor of abortion meant. An important step in this propaganda came in the seventies and eighties, when there was an attempt to argue in favor of abortion in the sense of negating that the fetus is an individual or even human. The pro choice arguments do not stand up to a calm study of the scientific facts. Read More...

Racism of Abortion, The

by Brian Clowes

In The Racism of Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: how abortion is racial genocide; abortion as the new eugenics; Norplant; and the ultimate impacts of abortion on culture. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Scripture on Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Scripture on Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: implicit condemnation; only God has the power to open and shut the womb; the Bible doesn’t explicitly condemn other anti-life activities; and what else isn’t in the Bible. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...  

Sexual and Reproductive Rights

by José Alfredo Peris Cancio

A series of vague and imprecise expressions made headway following a precise strategy during the Cairo and Beijing international conferences. The basis of this was a skewed interpretation of the 1948 International Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations grounded in a different vision of man than the one which inspired this fundamental historical text. One of the most important among these expressions is "sexual and reproductive rights" which is closely tied to an individualistic and statist conception of man and of society. Read More...

State of the World Report

State of the World Report, from the Pro-Life Research Series, presents the status of abortion laws around the world on a country-by-country basis.  A print version of this document is available from the HLI on-line store.  Read More...

Surgical Abortion

by Brian Clowes

In Surgical Abortion, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses methods, statistics, dangers, and problems associated with surgical abortion.  For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...  

United States Abortion Statistics

by Brian Clowes 

In United States Abortion Statistics, from the Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: the unparalleled value of documented statistics; the number of abortions that have been committed in the USA; surgical abortions among minority women in the USA; statistics on abortions committed for the 'hard cases'; and why women have abortions. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...