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Some photos from when the anti-choice march was stopped
Some photos from when the anti-choice march was stopped by several dozen people forming a line in the street.
About 40 people locked their arms together and chanted pro-choice slogans outside of a Hooters bar this afternoon to stop an anti-choice march from continuing on its route. People held up a sign that was held together by coathangers as another impediment to the march. Police did all that they could to try to keep people from joining the protesters in the middle of the street, but they were an irresistible force. Police did push a lot of people onto the sidewalks.
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My body is my right, is not my mother's right
My baby's body is my baby's right
My mother doesn't have right to take away my life
I dont have right to take away my baby's life
Had my mother chosen to abort me, I would not be standing in the street on January 22nd 2005 protesting to pro-life people.
My baby's body is my baby's right
My mother doesn't have right to take away my life
I dont have right to take away my baby's life
Had my mother chosen to abort me, I would not be standing in the street on January 22nd 2005 protesting to pro-life people.
no, you are not a baby.
You are tissue. Anthropomorphizing tissue is not an argument. And if you were well along in term and your birth threatened your mother's life, although it is sad, your birth would need to be terminated. These people are putting words in your non-existant mouth and trying to appeal to irrational emotion. That's what they do, because they don't respect your mother.
You are tissue. Anthropomorphizing tissue is not an argument. And if you were well along in term and your birth threatened your mother's life, although it is sad, your birth would need to be terminated. These people are putting words in your non-existant mouth and trying to appeal to irrational emotion. That's what they do, because they don't respect your mother.
It is my choice and my choice alone to decide what to do with a fertilized egg inside my body.
I can choose to set that egg free. The soul that would have come into that egg can move on to a better place.
Only I get to make that choice. God gave ME and only ME the ability to make that decision. I take it very seriously.
I believe It is a sin to bring a life into the world that you cannot support. That is a cruel thing to do to a child. Maybe a worse sin would be to force someone else to do so.
In the end, I decide. Bummer for you, control freak. You do NOT get to decide.
Deal with it.
I can choose to set that egg free. The soul that would have come into that egg can move on to a better place.
Only I get to make that choice. God gave ME and only ME the ability to make that decision. I take it very seriously.
I believe It is a sin to bring a life into the world that you cannot support. That is a cruel thing to do to a child. Maybe a worse sin would be to force someone else to do so.
In the end, I decide. Bummer for you, control freak. You do NOT get to decide.
Deal with it.
According to the World Health Organization, complications arising from illegal abortions are now the second leading cuase of death for young women in Ethiopia. Only tuberculosis kills more young women in that poverty-stricken nation.
Abortion is illegal in Ethiopia except in cases where the mother's life is in danger, but illegal abortions are easy to obtain and widespread. According to WHO, the death rate from illegal abortions in Ethopia is a staggering 1,209 per 100,000 abortions. In the United States, by contrast, the death rate from legal abortions is about 1 per 100,000.
A number of factors help to make the death rate so high, including a lack of access to contraception, a very low literacy rate among women (only about 14 percent of women are literate), and Ethiopia's poverty which leads to ony about US $1.50 per person being spent on health care resources annually.
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/000096.html
Each year, more than four million women in Latin America undergo an induced abortion. Because most abortions are illegal, these procedures are performed under clandestine and often dangerous conditions. As a result, the region faces a serious public health problem that threatens women's lives, endangers their reproductive health and imposes a severe strain on already overextended health and hospital systems.
The practice of induced abortion in Latin America is shrouded in secrecy, a direct result of the stringent legal limitations on abortion throughout most of the region. Induced abortion is punishable by law in almost every country except Cuba and a few other Caribbean nations. In most of the region, doctors may legally terminate a pregnancy that threatens the life of the woman, that results from rape or incest, or that is characterized by fetal deformity,1 but these options are rarely used.
Concern over the high level of clandestine abortion in Latin America is not new. Policymakers and health professionals have been aware for the past 20-30 years that unsafe procedures were being performed in most countries of the region, and at a leve l with serious consequences for women's health and for the cost of national health care services.
Community surveys conducted in Chile in the early 1960s were the first attempt to measure the extent of the problem. These surveys found that women were likely to have two or three abortions over the course of their childbearing years.2 And studies in the 1970s in countries as diverse as Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela indicated that women averaged 0.5-1.5 induced abortions over their reproductive lifetime in these coun tries, and 2.0 or more induced abortions in Chile and Cuba.3
read more
http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/ib12.html
Abortion is illegal in Ethiopia except in cases where the mother's life is in danger, but illegal abortions are easy to obtain and widespread. According to WHO, the death rate from illegal abortions in Ethopia is a staggering 1,209 per 100,000 abortions. In the United States, by contrast, the death rate from legal abortions is about 1 per 100,000.
A number of factors help to make the death rate so high, including a lack of access to contraception, a very low literacy rate among women (only about 14 percent of women are literate), and Ethiopia's poverty which leads to ony about US $1.50 per person being spent on health care resources annually.
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/000096.html
Each year, more than four million women in Latin America undergo an induced abortion. Because most abortions are illegal, these procedures are performed under clandestine and often dangerous conditions. As a result, the region faces a serious public health problem that threatens women's lives, endangers their reproductive health and imposes a severe strain on already overextended health and hospital systems.
The practice of induced abortion in Latin America is shrouded in secrecy, a direct result of the stringent legal limitations on abortion throughout most of the region. Induced abortion is punishable by law in almost every country except Cuba and a few other Caribbean nations. In most of the region, doctors may legally terminate a pregnancy that threatens the life of the woman, that results from rape or incest, or that is characterized by fetal deformity,1 but these options are rarely used.
Concern over the high level of clandestine abortion in Latin America is not new. Policymakers and health professionals have been aware for the past 20-30 years that unsafe procedures were being performed in most countries of the region, and at a leve l with serious consequences for women's health and for the cost of national health care services.
Community surveys conducted in Chile in the early 1960s were the first attempt to measure the extent of the problem. These surveys found that women were likely to have two or three abortions over the course of their childbearing years.2 And studies in the 1970s in countries as diverse as Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela indicated that women averaged 0.5-1.5 induced abortions over their reproductive lifetime in these coun tries, and 2.0 or more induced abortions in Chile and Cuba.3
read more
http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/ib12.html
I do not expect everyone will agree with me, but I want you to be fully informed. Put aside religious value, put aside your anger and unhappiness, stay cool, think calm, and check out these books :
1) The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
by THOMAS DR VERNY
2) Babies Remember Birth
by DAVID PHD CHAMBERLAIN
3) http://www.birthpsychology.com
You hate Christianity, that is fine. Those books and website have nothing to with Christianity at all. But at least you understand the life in the womb from medical and sciantific point of view. Most people are ignorant, very sad and pitiful. Education is the key.
1) The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
by THOMAS DR VERNY
2) Babies Remember Birth
by DAVID PHD CHAMBERLAIN
3) http://www.birthpsychology.com
You hate Christianity, that is fine. Those books and website have nothing to with Christianity at all. But at least you understand the life in the womb from medical and sciantific point of view. Most people are ignorant, very sad and pitiful. Education is the key.
Oooo..., I just felt you suddenly kick...! Maybe I shouldn't have played Beethovan's Ninth Symphony this early for you! I didn't mean to scare you. Next week, when you're a semi-microscopic blastocyst I'll play you a soft passage from "Sheep May Safely Graze" by Bach for your next lesson!
they don't have legs (among other things).
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