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Why I decided not to be an abortionist-"Yesterday, there was a long human interest story in the Washington Post describing how staunchly pro-abort Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine med student Lesley Wojick determined to abandon her aspiration to become an abortionist to instead be an anesthesiologist.
Lesley's reasoning was honest, although, despite what she did and saw, she's still pro-abortion. 'Don't get that. But here's how she decided, after helping commit a 2nd trimester abortion..."
New Zealand
Abortion Increases Women's Mental Health Problems: New Study-"Women who have an abortion face a 30% increase in the risk of developing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, according to a new study from the University of Otago, Christchurch.
The study, led by Dr. David Fergusson and funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, was published in the December issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry....The research findings could have implications for the legal status of abortion in New Zealand and the UK, where over 90% of abortions are authorized on the grounds that the pregnancy poses a serious threat to the woman's mental health. This research indicates than in many cases the opposite may be true: that terminating the pregnancy is in fact the riskier choice for the woman’s mental health...."This study is part of a growing body of research which challenges the current popular misconception that abortion carries no risks to the health and wellbeing of women," said Family Life International NZ spokesman Brendan Malone.
Malone also emphasized that the rigorous methodology of the study pinpointed abortion, and not contingent factors, as specifically causing the increased mental illness - avoiding a common criticism from abortion advocates against similar studies.
See full report here: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/6/444."
International Planned Parenthood
New Planned Parenthood Report Boasts of Abortion Advocacy in Traditionally Pro-Life Regions-"International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has just released its annual performance report for 2007-2008 in which it boasts of pushing its abortion agenda in traditionally pro-life countries throughout Africa, Latin America and the Islamic world.
IPPF asserts that “access to safe legal abortion is a public health and human rights imperative” and that the organization’s goal is to achieve “a universal recognition of a woman’s right to choose and have access to safe abortion, and a reduction in the incidence of unsafe abortion.”
Advocacy trumps accuracy in a number of places in the report. For example, IPPF Director General Gill Greer claims that a new target under the Millennium Development Goal on maternal health for “universal access to sexual and reproductive health by 2015” was agreed to by the UN General Assembly in 2006. This is false, as the United States and other delegations have pointed out."
Good News: Texas Town Cuts Planned Parenthood Funding-"
Add Corpus Christi, Texas, to the steady stream of cities refusing to bankroll Planned Parenthood.
The decision, which will cost the local Planned Parenthood about $30,000 in funding, came after about 20 people spoke against the abortion giant, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.
Kristie Rutledge said she had visited Planned Parenthood's Web site, which outlines birth-control options and suggested teens engage in masturbation and fantasy.
"We don't want our children ages 10 and up to be targeted with this information," she told the budget meeting. "This is pornography."
Philadelphia
Former Eagle Fights City Abortion With New Clinic-"Less than two miles from two main abortion providers in the city, Planned Parenthood and the Philadelphia Women's Clinic, The HOPE Center opened Friday to provide pregnancy support.
While 40 percent of state abortions happen in the city, most crisis pregnancy centers are located in the suburbs. Former Philadelphia Eagle, Rev. Herb H. Lusk II opened The HOPE Center through his People for People community outreach organization to counter that statistic and help expecting couples."I've always been pro-life, but I've been passive about it," Rev. Lusk said. "When I began to consider that the African-American population alone has declined in the past three years across the nation, I realized that we're not procreating our own race; and that is a direct result of abortion in our communities."According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 50 percent of black pregnancies end in abortion in Philadelphia. And between 1973 and 1999, there were over 13 million African-American abortions nationwide."
New Jersey
NJ mom sues abortion clinic for false information-"A Supreme Court decision sends a message to states that don't have required informed consent laws concerning abortion.
The case of Acuna v. Turkish comes from New Jersey, which has no such law for women seeking an abortion. Mailee Smith, an attorney with Americans United for Life (AUL), explains the situation. "A woman had gone to an abortionist, had asked some questions about the status of the baby, and the abortionist did not give her truthful answers about the status of her pregnancy and the gestational characteristics of her unborn child," Smith contends. The woman learned the truth about her developing baby after she had the abortion, but it was too late. She then sued in a case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court has refused to hear the case. "What this case does is...highlight the drastic need for what we call informed consent legislation in the states," Smith adds. Many states do have the informed consent laws that require accurate information to be given to the woman about abortion, the status of the child, and the possible harmful impact on the mother. Smith suggests a woman seeking an abortion deserves full information about the life-or-death decision she is making."
