Religion and Abortions
pro-Faith, pro-Woman, pro-Health, pro-Choice


    ProLifer's claim, without sufficient proof, that abortions cause problems in an attempt to scare pregnant women away from an abortion. Most recently, they wrongly claim abortion causes breast cancer ( abortion does not increase risk of breast cancer)(Breast cancer articles), wrongly claim abortion causes post-abortion-stress syndrome (PAS)(PAS does not exist 1, 2, 3), emotional scarring and relationship problems (similar to PAS), they wrongly claim future infertility (abortion does not cause infertility 4, 5, 6), and other claims, none of which are caused by abortion. They avoid talking about real post-partum depression (baby blues) which has a higher severity when you carry full-term, infertility from sexually transmitted diseases and childbirth complications, pregnancy-related diabetes, pre-eclampsia kidney shut-down leading to possibly fatal high blood pressure and toxemia, that pre-existing relationship problems are harder to solve when unwanted childen are born adding yet another factor to deal with, that poor women (unlikely to have a stable partner willing to financially support her during pregnancy, much less beyond birth) with no health care are those at most risk of dying (~30 per 100,000 births), and are most likely to get an abortion, whereas wealthier women (most likely with a stable partner who will support her during her pregnancy and beyond) with good health care are least at risk of dying (~9 per 100,000 births) and most likely to continue their pregnancy, the U.S. national average being 12 deaths per 100,000 births CDC. Abortions cause less than 1 death per 100,000 abortions CDC. ProLifer's circulate the claim 7, 8, 9 that rape cannot produce a pregnancy because the women's trauma (mental and physical injury) from the rape will inhibit ovulation, which is insulting and not true. One has to laugh at the mental gynastics to which the proLifer's go through because they want a simpler, black-and-white-without-shades-of-grey world in which to live.
Abortion protestors, a minority, would have the majority of people believe that abortion should be stopped. They do mental gymnastics twisting reality to prove their beliefs. I will list websites for opposing viewpoints.

ProChoice websites
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is a non-catholic proChoice website.
   General prochoice articles abortion and contraception.
   Great Christian article, in my opinion, Is the Fetus a Person? The Bible's View by Dr. Roy Bowen Ward
   Another great Christian article, Personhood, The Bible, and The Abortion Debate by Dr. Paul Simmons
   For Judaism, Abortion: Perspectives from Jewish Traditions by Rabbis Raymond A. Zwerin and Richard J. Shapiro
   For Islam, Islamic Tradition and Reproductive Choice by Khaleel Mohammed, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, San Diego State University
   Other educational articles from RCRC.org

Catholics For Choice is a catholic proChoice website.
   Catholic church silent during WWII, If War is 'Just,' So is Abortion by Frances Kissling (17 April 1991)
   Catholic church's abuse of power, Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise by Frances Kissling, Conscience (Spring 2002).
   Women, Reproductive Rights and the Catholic Church by Rosemary Radford Ruether, essay (May 2006)
   Prochoice Catholicism 101 by Jon O'Brien and Sara Morello, Conscience (Spring 2008). References another, older, article I stashed in 2002, A Brief, Liberal Catholic Defense of Abortion, University of Illinois Press, 2000
   Article about euthanasia/abortion viewpoints versus medical realities, The Ethics of Life by Sheila Briggs, Conscience Autumn 2007

I'm Not Sorry is a positive, proChoice, post-abortion talk forum. The proLifer's have flooded the internet with, in my opinion, false horror stories about abortion. This site hopefully provides a little balance.
Backline is a positive proChoice website and has a toll-free talk line for pregnant women wishing to talk to other women about pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. I've talked with them and they seem cool.

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National Abortion Federation is the largest national abortion provider network, with resources for patients as well. We are a member of NAF.

Is a pregnancy a 'Potential Life' or real life?

ProLifers claim that rape inhibits ovulation and she can't get pregnant! They are afraid that if we allow abortions for rape victims then that exception will be abused, so they deny that rape causes pregnancy. Simply astounding ignorance.

"Why I'm an Abortion Provider" by William F Harrison. MD, is a short bit about how a proLife doctor in Fayetteville, Arkansas became an abortion provider.
"Religious Militant Fundementalism" by William F Harrison, MD, June 2002.
"Smug Religious Terrorists" by William F Harrison, MD, 2003.
    and more excellent articles by William F Harrison, MD.

Reproductive health (including abortions) case law time-line. Catholics used to be okay with abortion, and private schooling of conservative's children paved the way for access to abortion! Betcha didn't know that.

Religious fundementalists (Fundies) have a number of unusual beliefs, for example, they do not believe in evolution. The Kansas State Board of Education got infiltrated by Fundies who then removed the teaching of "Evolution as fact" from the science curriculum in 1999 and in changed it in 2002 to "Evolution as a Theory" alongside "Creationism as a Theory," footing them as equals! A columnist from the Washington Post let go a burning article in 1999 against the Kansas Board of Education. It's fun to read.


ProLife (LimitedChoice, anti-abortion)

Operation Rescue by Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger (former arsonist in California). Let's see, they picket clinic staff homes, mail gross postcards of post-abortion fetal tissue to entire ZIP codes of a clinic staff member, drive a billboard truck with fetal tissue posters around the city to gross-out or anger people, write fake anti-abortion news stories, and incite unstable people to do damage to clinics.

Pregnancy Resource Center by Robin deVilbiss, 725 Central Avenue, Kansas City, KS, phone: 913.233.2229. They are across the street from us. Their placement nearby us is an attempt to catch the directionally lost person who accidently wanders into their "fake" clinic (an unfortunate fly in the spider web) and to try and scare the patient away from an abortion. When the patient realizes they are in the wrong place, asked of Robin, "Do you know where Aid For Women is?" she relies, "No" even though we are across the street.
    How lame is a "product" (pushing abstinence onto hormone enraged kids, or teaching NOT to use birth control and having 15 kids as a result) when you are required to use deception (pretending to be an abortion clinic next door to a real abortion clinic) to sell your product? It's not unlike targetted marketing of fortune tellers (preying upon ignorance), scam e-mails from Nigeria (preying upon greed and ignorance), and scam stock tips (preying upon greed and ignorance). Puulllease!


Project Rachel, Kansas City, the local catholic Kansas City Archdiocese trolls for patients who are "hurting after an abortion..." and "...offers a way to healing after an abortion," pleading to the victim mentality. They need to focus on and help those boys and girls sexually abused by their priests of the St. Joseph of Kansas City Diocese. And in response to their website, I believe we will be willing to offer counseling to those sexually abused by priests from this Diocese. (wink.)

Faithful Soldier of Evangelism, Jason & Sara Storms, c/o Mercy Seat Christian Church, Milwaukee, WI. ProLife recruitment is like catching a common cold. It gets you when you are down.

Kansans for Life by Mary Kay Culp, Director. Typical state-level proLife group. Lobbies the Kansas Legislature to make abortions more "safe" (=implying they are not safe now, "safe" = when you can't get an abortion).

Our Lady of Guadalupe, typical catholic proLife "do nothing" movement. Supposedly viewing picture of Mother Mary will heal all ills.

Child Predators by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics Inc., 204 Cardinal Drive, Denton, Texas 76209. Typical frothing-at-the-mouth proLifer. Believes abortion clinics in general are supported by 30-40 year old men who are getting all minors pregnant. Me thinks he is too interested in young girls. Prints and distributes the smear campaign "Bottom Feeders" magazine to dissuade (or shame) medical students from becoming abortion providers.

Christian Gallery, aka Nuremberg Files by Neal Horsely. Seriously unstable proLifer. Designed a website devoted to collecting and listing names and addresses so that abortion providers can be jailed "ex post facto" (unconstitutionally penalizing someone for a previously legal act after a law makes the act illegal)(see Constitution, Article 1, Section 9.) Was in contact with the nut case felon Clay Wagner who mailed the fake anthrax letters to abortion clinics.

Army of God. Stupid, stupid, stupid extremism. Pushes the unstable-types to kill, for example Scott Roeder killed George Tiller, MD in 2009, James Kopp killed Barnett Slepian, MD, 1998. They PRETEND to be Christians.

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