The primary business I must attend to every day is to fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished. I may share the truth with the unconverted; I may try to encourage believers; I may relieve the distressed; or I may, in other ways, seek to behave as a child of God; yet, not being happy in the Lord and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, may result in this work being done in a wrong spirit.
George Muller

Dangers Of Legal Abortion

Dangers Of Legal Abortion

DANGERS OF LEGAL ABORTION

Although one often hears slogans about “safe, legal abortion,” all too many women have discovered to their sorrow that abortion, even legal abortion, is far from “safe.”

According to Herbert Ratner, M.D., five to ten percent of women who undergo abortion will never be able to achieve pregnancy or carry a child to term, which is obviously a devastating blow to many women.

An infection in the fallopian tubes can cause blockage of scar tissue that renders a woman barren. The infection can also cause a serious condition called Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), which entails severe, chronic pain. Sometimes a hysterectomy is necessary; in some cases, an emergency pan-hysterectomy must be performed in which all of the woman’s reproductive organs, including the ovaries, must be removed.

SURGEON OPERATES BLIND

Unlike most other surgeons, the abortionist works “in the dark” by feel alone. Not being able to see what he is doing, he is obviously at a disadvantage. Sometimes the abortionist uses a sharp, knife-like scraping tool; other times, he uses a high-powered suction machine. For most early abortions, a suction device is attached to a vacuum pump that is 29 times more powerful than the average home vacuum cleaner.

Danger is ever present. The suction can easily puncture the wall of the uterus and damage the intestines and other visceral organs. Some women have bled to death from visceral damage; others have been saved by emergency surgery but must go through life with a colostomy. Safe, legal abortion?

August of 1986, a woman (Jane Doe) had an abortion at the Dayton Women’s Health Center. Bleeding profusly, she was rushed by ambulance from the abortion center to a hospital. In emergency surgery the physicians discovered that “the entire front of her uterus was blown away.”

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY

The surgeons removed the damaged uterus, but before closing the surgical wound, one of the physicians explored her abdominal cavity with his hand. Behind her liver he found the decapitated head of a 24-week-old unborn child. The abortion center is nervous about a possible lawsuit stemming from this case.

Early in 1987, another woman (Jane Roe) had an abortion at the Dayton Women’s Center. Several days after the abortion she went to a hospital emergency room in septic shock. Her condition was critical. Physicians immediately operated and found parts of the aborted child that the abortionist had failed to remove. The felt they probably could not save her.

But the physicians were able to bring the infection under control. Nevertheless, the woman’s body was devastated by the pervasive sepsis. She had to have her feet and lower arms amputated.

The cervix is the muscular ring at the neck of the womb. This muscle is designed to open from the inside out, during childbirth. The abortionist must stretch this muscle unnaturally from the outside in.

This unnatural opening often ruins the cervix, which makes it impossible for the woman to carry another pregnancy to term.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE

Although the physical complications of abortion can be devastating, the psychological damage is perhaps even worse. Some women who have had an abortion find they cannot look a baby in the eye. Some dread the sound of an ordinary home vacuum cleaner because it reminds them of the sound of the abortion vacuum machine. Some block out the guilt of the abortion through excessive use of alcohol, over-eating, or abuse of Valium or other drugs.

Some women may feel a sense of relief after the abortion, but the guilt will probably be felt, off and on, for the rest of their lives. It is common for an aborted woman to wonder whether her child was a boy or girl; she will calculate what would have been the baby’s birthday, year after year for the rest of her life.

If she is unable to achieve pregnancy or carry a child to term, the guilt and remorse are intensified. Suicidal tendencies are not uncommon.

One woman who had an abortion was troubled by the same nightmare over and over again. In her dream, she was running down the streets of the city, frantically looking for her baby. When she woke up, she knew the baby she was looking for in the dream was the one she had killed.

ABORTIONISTS ADMIT DANGERS

Abortion is obviously hazardous, and few women make it through the procedure unscathed. Abortionist Warren Hern of Boulder, Colorado, one of the most experienced abortionists in the country, addressed a meeting of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) in Dallas in 1981.

Hern said, “It’s impossible to do a sterile abortion.” He said that even “after my I-don’t-know-how-many-thousandth abortion,” he still occasionally experiences a complication. “No matter how good you are,” he asserted, “there is a danger of retained tissue.”

At the meeting, abortionist Phillip Stubblefield warned of the “danger” that the abortion movement may leave a “legacy of prematurity and miscarriage.”

At the 1982 NAF meeting in Minneapolis, abortionist Philip Darney cautioned his colleagues to be aware of “the relative position of your instruments…(because) these instruments can inflict considerable damage on the pelvic viscera.”

NAF held its 1983 meeting in New Orleans. Feminist Cindy Pearson, who runs the Feminist Women’s Health Center in San Diego, addressed this meeting and admitted to a complication rate as high as eight percent.

Lawsuits for medical malpractice and physical damage are common, and the courts are starting to see more lawsuits about psychological damage.

  • Postabortive Legal Action for Women 1-800-962-2319 ********

If you or someone you know has been injured by legal abortion, please call this number. These people can put you in touch with a lawyer and work on getting you compensation for your injury. Malpractice lawyers are quite willing to talk to you free of charge; if they decide to take your case, you will not be charged a fee unless the lawyer wins your case and you collect an award.

IF YOU ARE INJURED BY YOUR ABORTION

You may be entitled to a settlement or award for injuries you suffer in abortion.

Legal abortion is often followed by physical complications and even more by emotional complications. If you have been injured by legal abortion, you have the right to copies of your abortion records. You have the right to seek counsel of an attorney who may be able to sue this clinic, its administration and owners and the employees of this clinic for damages to your body.

If you or someone you know develop any of the following problems, call 1-800-962-2319. Personnel at this number can advise you to seek more medical attention and can refer you to lawyers who are familiar with cases of abortion malpractice, negligence, and fraud.

SOME PHYSICAL COMPLICATIONS OF ABORTION ARE: Amniotic fluid embolism Failed abortion Perforation of bladder Anesthesia reaction Perforation of the bowel Brain damage Genital tract infection Collapsed lung Perforation of the uterus Hemorrhage Peritonitis Damage to womb Incomplete abortion Postabortion syndrome Ectopic pregnancy Punctured vagina Incomplete separation of placenta Embolism Infection Shock Kidney failure Injury to cervix Sterility Pulmonary edema Kidney loss and damage Respiratory arrest Loss of sleep Retained placenta Trauma of reproductive tract Metabolic complications Unintended major surgery Anuria Multiple organ loss Urinary tract infection Bladder damage Myocardial infarction Bleeding Ovary loss Cervical trauma Intense pain Cervical adhesions and stenosis Amenorrhea Cervical incompetence General complications

If you have suffered or are suffering from any of the above or are suffering from emotional problems, or do not think you were given adequate information regarding abortion call 1-800-62-2319.

ALL INQUIRIES ARE CONFIDENTIAL

Abortion-rights groups are approaching other organizations — many of which should logically have nothing to do with abortion — to form a broad-based coalition of support. Labor unions have been hard hit for support, which ahs been forthcoming from the following unions (most of which are AFL-CIO related): American Postal Workers Union Communication Workers of America American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees National Education Association Association of Professional Flight Attendants Oregon AFL-CIO Minnesota AFL-CIO Oil and Chemical Atomic Workers Service Employees International Union Writers Guild of America United Auto Workers Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union American Federation of Government Employees American Nurses Association International Ladies Garment Workers Union Sacramento AFL-CIO International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried Machine and Furniture Workers United Food and Commercial Workers Union

Other groups working with abortion-rights activists include the: Alan Guttmacher Institute American Association of University Women American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists American Medical Association American Psychiatric Association American Psychological Association American Public Health Association American Veterans Committee Black Women’s Agenda National Association of Public Hospitals National Association of Social Workers National Coalition of American Nuns National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs National Lawyers Guild National Urban League Newspaper Guild Presbyterian Church of the USA Union of American Hebrew Congregations Sierra Club Unitarian Universalist Association United Methodist Church

If you have any influence with any of these groups, you should strongly object to their abortion advocacy.

Pro-Life groups have attempted to keep up. While pro-life groups cannot hope to compete on a financial level … [all have reported decreased funding since the Webster decision] … they have increased their pressure on politicians in order to counter the activity of pro-abortion groups.