New Zealand pro-life groups are praising a new report that shows the country’s abortion rate has struck a 20-year low.
Right To Life New Zealand credits increase public awareness that abortion is really murder and also of issues connected to the process.
“There is also an increasing awareness that abortion damages women’s health with an increased risk of breast cancer, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, grief, anger, regret and increased depression,” the group wrote in a statement.
“Right to Life commends those brave and courageous women who when faced with an unplanned pregnancy chose life for their child,” the statement continues. “These are truly heroic women who deserve our admiration and support. Right to Life also commends the majority of the medical profession who faithful to the Declaration of Geneva have sworn to maintain the greatest respect for human life.”
The abortion rate of 15.4 per 1,000 in 2013 was barely above the 1994 level of 15.3. The abortion rate for women under 19 also fell significantly, from 27 per 1,000 in 2007 to 14 per 1,000 in 2013.
The pro-life group Voice for Life praised the news but also had a bit of a somber tone in their celebration.
“While Voice for Life is pleased at today’s news of yet another decline in the abortion rate, we also feel a sense of great sadness and loss for the more than 14,000 human beings who were denied social justice and their fundamental human right to life last year in NZ.”
A British woman whose daughter survived an attempted abortion says that she will “always regret” attempting to kill her daughter.
A doctor told Shannon Skinner to abort her child when she became pregnant with her second child because of complications with the first pregnancy. The 20-year-old went home and took a handful of abortion drugs and waited for the miscarriage to begin.
“I told myself it wasn’t a baby yet,” Skinner told the Christian Institute. “I was out of my mind with worry that the abortion pills had affected the baby, but it wasn’t until I saw the 3D scan of my daughter on Christmas Eve that I fell in love with her. Once I’d seen her face, everything was different.”
However, doctors weren’t done trying to get her to kill her baby. Doctors told her because she had taken abortion drugs that the baby would likely be deformed and that she should undergo the abortion process at 20 weeks.
“To see your daughter’s face and then be told you can still go through with an abortion…how can you?” Skinner told the London Daily Mail. “To survive the first abortion, my daughter obviously wanted to be here and I couldn’t go through with a surgical abortion. It didn’t matter to me if she was born healthy or not.”
Skinner says she will have to wait to see if the abortion drugs had any impact on the long term mental health of her daughter Amelia, but she doesn’t care either way.
“Every time I look at her I think: ‘She really shouldn’t be here.’ But now that she is, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
The president of the National Organization for Women is promoting abortion by saying that killing babies before their born can help reduce the “heartbreak of infant mortality.”
“From a public health point of view, abortion care, no less than contraception, is an essential measure to prevent the heartbreak of infant mortality, and to prevent another tragedy as well – maternal death,” Terry O’Neill wrote in a column for the Washington Post.
The pro-abortionist says that 30 infants in the United States die each day from some kind of natural cause and that America has the highest first-day infant mortality rate of any country in the industrialized world. O’Neill says because of those figures, it only makes sense to abort babies rather than have them born and risk them dying shortly after birth.
O’Neill said that any person who believes in allowing a child with a severe birth defect to be born cannot be truly “pro-life” because the child will eventually die young from the defect.
She also said that many of these children are born to teen mothers who do not have adequate access to pre-natal care and thus have an increased risk of a child dying right after birth.
Just days after reports showed a Canadian agency was sending aborted babies to a waste-to-energy station in Oregon to be burned as fuel for electricity, Oregon officials have put an end to the process.
“We are outraged and disgusted that this material could be included in medical waste received at the facility,” Marion County Commissioner Janet Carlson wrote in a Wednesday statement. “We did not know this practice was occurring until today. We are taking immediate action and initiating discussions with Covanta Marion to make certain that this type of medical waste is not accepted in the future.”
The Oregon Refuse And Recycling Association had confirmed the reception of the aborted babies when they said the Oregon plant was the only one in the region that burned medical waste for electricity.
County officials say they will work with the plant to ensure any future shipments of medical waste does not contain aborted babies.
A British woman who openly told a newspaper that she exercised her “right” to have an abortion to end her baby’s life so she could be on the television show “Big Brother” is now being attacked on social media for her decision.
Josie Cunningham, 23, told London’s Sunday Mirror that she’s finally on the road to becoming famous and that she wasn’t going to ruin it by having a baby.
“An abortion will further my career. This time next year I won’t have a baby. Instead, I’ll be famous, driving a bright pink Range Rover and buying a big house. Nothing will get in my way,” Cunningham said.
Now, many pro-abortion advocates are attacking the woman for exercising the “right” they repeatedly say is perfectly fine for any woman to “choose”. Pro-abortion advocates are posting online that Cunningham should be banned from the show because of her choice, that she is a “new low for humanity” and some have even advocated for her to be sterilized.
A pro-abortion advocate in the Guardian newspaper wrote a piece defending the woman’s decision, however, saying that anyone who supports abortion but doesn’t support this woman is opening the door to stopping other women from having abortions.
“What makes the “debate” around Josie Cunningham so disturbing is that it refuses to even acknowledge the idea that access to abortion is a basic human right, or that women are entitled to choose what they do with their own bodies,” Martin Robbins wrote. “If we fail to defend Cunningham, then we accept that only those women who are ‘deserving’ enough should be allowed to have an abortion. And if we accept that, then it’s only a matter of time before others are deemed undeserving as well.”
Pro-life advocates are pointing out that this situation is simply the logical progression of those who claim ending a baby’s life via abortion is a “human right.” They point out that under the vocalized morality of those who support abortion, Cunningham has done absolutely nothing wrong or deserving of scorn.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case Monday, meaning a lower court’s ruling to invalidate an Oklahoma state law restricting abortion drugs will stand.
The Oklahoma law would have restricted the way abortion inducing drugs like RU-486 could be used in the state. Pro-abortion groups sued claiming the law violated previous court ruling regarding how abortion drugs could be dispensed.
The bill would have prevented doctors from using mifepristone, which induces abortions up to the seventh week of pregnancy.
In a related action, pro-abortionists from Texas have filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to block enforcement of Texas abortion law. The appeal goes before Justice Antonin Scalia for consideration.
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I identified with the character named Kathy, a depressed woman who has a dream populated with lots of children. She discovers something different about these children: they have no names and no parents, and they don’t know where they came from. The ethereal background music clued the listener that these children were actually in heaven. I gripped the steering wheel tightly as I tried to keep my emotions in check. Continue reading →
The broadcast that day by Focus on the Family was called “Tilly.” The skillful blend of voices and music and sound effects captivated me, and I was quickly lost in the story. I identified with the character named Kathy, a depressed woman who has a dream populated with lots of children. She discovers something different about these children: they have no names and no parents, and they don’t know where they came from. The ethereal background music clued the listener that these children were actually in heaven. I gripped the steering wheel tightly as I tried to keep my emotions in check.
Children in heaven with no names and no parents. A woman who is depressed and doesn’t know what is wrong. Dear God, I know what’s wrong with her; I’ve been in her shoes. Continue reading →
