-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:13:32 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [prolife-l] Reo v. Wade Report '99, Issue 2 R O E V. W A D E R E P O R T Sponsored by Roe v. Wade: 26 Years of Life Denied http://www.prolife.org/rvw Permission to forward granted provided this document remains intact. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATELINE 1.6.99 -- 16 days until 26 Years of Roe v. Wade becomes official. In this issue we look at some common questions some have about abortion before and after the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed for abortion on demand. DIDN'T ILLEGAL ABORTIONS KILL THOUSANDS OF WOMEN? Dr. Bernard Nathanson -- who was one of the original leaders of the American pro-abortion movement and co-founder of N.A.R.A.L. (National Abortion Rights Action League), and who has since become pro-life -- admits that he and others in the abortion rights movement intentionally fabricated the number of women who allegedly died as a result of illegal abortions. "How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In N.A.R.A.L. we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always "5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year." I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the "morality" of the revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics. The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason which had to be done was permissible." [Source: Bernard Nathanson, M.D., Aborting America (New York: Doubleday, 1979), 193.] WHAT HAPPENED TO JANE ROE? Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano, the women whose Supreme Court cases (Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton respectively) made abortion legal on demand in the U.S., both now oppose abortion. In an interview on 8/10/95 with WBAP radio in Dallas, McCorvey announced, "I'm pro-life. I think I've always been pro-life, I just didn't know it" (Reaves, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 8/11/95). McCorvey, claimed before Roe that she had been raped, was 21 and pregnant when approached by attorney Sarah Weddington about suing for the right to have an abortion. McCorvey never had an abortion, because the decision came too late. She carried the baby to term and gave her up for adoption. McCorvey later admitted that she had not been raped (ibid., 8/11). ABC's "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" featured exclusive interviews with McCorvey, in which she renounced her role in the abortion advocacy movement and declared that "abortion is wrong." "I think abortion is wrong. I think what I did with Roe vs. Wade was wrong, and I just have to take a pro-life position on [abortion]" ("World News Tonight," 8/10/95). McCorvey spent time assisted the pro-abortion movement after the case by was treated poorly by pro-abortion leaders and haunted by simple things like empty swings in a playground." McCorvey: "They were swinging back and forth but they were all empty. And I just totally lost it, and I thought 'Oh my God. are empty because there's no children, because they've all been aborted'" ("World News Tonight," 8/10/95). >From Norma McCorvey: "Abortion has been founded on lies and deception from the very beginning. All I did was lie about how I got pregnant. I was having an affair. It all started out as a little lie. I said what I needed to say. But, my little lie grew and grew and became more horrible with each telling. Sarah and Linda's (the pro-abortion attorneys in Roe) eyes seemed blinded to my obvious inability to tell the same story twice. It was good for the cause. It read well in the newspapers. With the help of willing media the credibility of well-known columnists, the lie became known as the truth these past 25 years." "I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal remedy to my unwanted pregnancy. I did not go to the federal courts for relief. I went to Sarah Weddington asking her if she knew how I could obtain an abortion. She and Linda Coffey said they didn't know where to get one. They lied to me just like I lied to them. Sarah already had an abortion. She knew where to get one. Sarah and Linda were just looking for somebody, anybody, to further their own agenda. I was their willing dupe. For this, I will forever be ashamed." "But, my life has been restored to me, and I now have the privilege of speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves." (Ibid.) Cano: "I am against abortion. I never sought an abortion. I never had an abortion. Abortion is murder. For over 20 years, and against my will, my name has been synonymous with abortion. The Doe vs. Bolton case is based on deceit and fraud. I never participated in this case. The Supreme Court had already made up their minds. They didn't care what was in the affidavits. I never wanted to be a part of this." (LeBoeuf, CHATTANOOGA FREE PRESS, 3/24/97). BUT AFTER ALL, ISN'T ABORTION A WOMAN'S CHOICE? Most women -- at least 70% -- say they believe abortion is immoral [Los Angeles Times Poll, March 19, 1989. See also Mary K. Zimmerman, Passage Through Abortion (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977)]. But they choose against their conscience because of pressure from others and their circumstances. They choose abortion out of fear -- fear of not being able to raise a child, fear of losing their partner if they do not have an abortion, fear of losing control over of their lives, etc. Many women lack support from their families and loved ones. More than 80% say they would have completed their pregnancies under better circumstances or with more support from the people they love. [David C. Reardon, Ph.D., Aborted Women: Silent No More (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1987).] Abortion is not a true "choice" on the woman's part; it is an act of despair. On a very basic level, it is precisely because women who abort are acting against their consciences and their maternal instincts that the psychological impact of abortion is so profound. BUT NO WOMAN HAS EVER DIED FROM A LEGAL ABORTION, RIGHT? Since abortion was legalized in 1973, between 1973 and 1987 215 women died as a result of complications from botched legal abortions. The government stopped collecting these statistics in 1987 though many women continue to die each year from legal abortions. [Sources: National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 1994. Hyattsville, Maryland: Public Health Service, 1995; Abortion Surveillance 1985, Center for Disease Control, Table #18; Induced Abortion: World Review 1983, by Christopher Tietze, The Population Council, p 103.] MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD You can make your voice in opposition to the Roe v. Wade case heard by using our special graphic on your web page. Point your web browser to http://www.prolife.org/rvw and on the right-hand side you will find a special small image that we offer for your use on your web page. We've including coding information for you to make it easy to implement anywhere on your web site. Please be sure to point the image back to our web site, as we only allow use of the image with the reciprocal link back to Roe v. Wade: 26 Years of Life Denied. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD You can make your voice in opposition to the Roe v. Wade case heard by using our special graphic on your web page. Point your web browser to http://www.prolife.org/rvw and on the right-hand side you will find a special small image that we offer for your use on your web page. We've including coding information for you to make it easy to implement anywhere on your web site. Please be sure to point the image back to our web site, as we only allow use of the image with the reciprocal link back to Roe v. Wade: 26 Years of Life Denied. -- The Roe v. Wade Report is a special feature sponsored by "Roe v. 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