Thursday, October 5,1995
Feminists and Abortion:
In today's society, we see a
dramatic loss of regard for human
life that has been sacrificed for
the selfish desires of a decaying
society. Since 1973, there has
been a legalized holocaust of 35
million innocent children and the
growth of a unrelenting
Mengelistic abortion industry
that preys upon vulnerable
pregnant women. The dramatic
increase of abortion is not
surprising. American culture
loves violence both in its
entertainment and on its streets.
We engage in orgies of violence
every year with thousands of
murders and rapes. The silent
screams of millions of unborn
children who lack any rights or
voice for themselves is equally
alarming. Already one-third of
our generation has met the
abortionist’s grisly tools.
Millions of more remain as we
forget God and the value of life.
We do not belong to ourselves,
but rather we belong to God and
to each other. Are we not our
brother’s keeper?
Judy Fetters was a pro-abortion
feminist, who after having her
first abortion, began to rethink
her position. She once thought
that being pro-life meant being
religious, Fetters is an atheist.
When she had her first abortion,
she was comforted by other
feminists who asserted that it was
her right to a medical procedure.
She convinced herself that pro
lifers were lying about post
abortion trauma. Things began
to change following her first live
birth. She began having
terrifying nightmares and suicidal
thoughts brought about directly
by the abortion. Soon, she
began to investigate fetal
development and discovered that
her belief that a fetus was merely
a blob of tissue was false.
Many feminists and other pro
abortionists claim that the fetus
(Latin-"little ones") is just a blob
of tissue. By the end of the
second week of pregnancy, a
distinct embryo is present with a
rudimentary brain and heart. In
the third week, a closed a
circulatory system separate from
The Juice is loose: a commentary
by Sean Siekkinen
Columnist
On Tuesday afternoon, I missed
chemistry to watch due process
unfold in the conclusion of the
trial of the century. I wanted to
be able to tell my children that I
had watched live as OJ. Simpson
was found guilty of the most
publicized, heinous crime in
American history. But instead of
seeing the evidence presented over
the past year come to fruition, I
saw a rape of the American
judicial system vicious enough to
destroy every ounce of my faith
in the system and in justice
itself. As the court clerk read the
not guilty on all charges verdict.
A question of freedoms
the mother's vertebrae, eyes and
ears, lungs and limbs begin to
form. During the fourth week, a
nose and pancreas begin to
develop. In the fifth week, all of
the major organs begin to
function, and the skeletal system
begins to form. By the sixth
week, the bladder, kidneys,
tongue, larynx, thyroids, teeth
and muscle are formed. The
hands and feet are visible, and the
nervous system has begun
formation. At the end of the
second month (when most
abortions are performed), the
skeletal system is complete and
limbs are fully developed.
Fetuses can even suck their
thumb. The sympathetic nervous
Are we not
our brother's
keeper?
system is complete, meaning that
the fetus can feel pain. After 28
weeks of pregnancy, the child can
hear, and by the fourth month,
the female child has all of the
115 million ovas that it will ever
have. Scientists have found
evidence of conscious brain
waves as early as the second
trimester; it is capable of
dreaming, thinking, and learning
according to a special 1991
Newsweek edition.
When a woman receives an
abortion, her uterus is vacuumed,
often tearing the walls of the
cervix causing severe bleeding.
During the process the child's
limbs are tom off and sucked into
a bag. The CDC estimates that
400-500 times a year the child
survives the abortion only to be
killed after delivery.
Her next “revelation” was that
the pro-abortion “fundamentalist”
notion that some unplanned
pregnancies should result in
abortion had deeper implications.
She began to see that the entire
nature of things was chaotic and
unplanned, as a result The entire
and as Johnnie Cochran
exuberantly pumped his arm in
the air shouting with joy, I stared
at the smiling face of a murderer,
then upon the devastated
Goldman family. All I could ask
myself was, "How?"
The Simpson jury concluded
that, despite insurmountable
evidence against the defendant,
Orenthal James Simpson was not
guilty of the murders of his ex
wife and Ronald Goldman on
June 13, 1994. In doing so, the
jury sent a deafening message to
society: it is possible to kill
without facing retribution. And
based on the amount of evidence
presented by prosecutors, that
message should be that it is
Opinion
human race should be aborted
because a vast majority of
pregnancies are unplanned.
The rationale is not unlike that
of the Nazis. The Nazis saw
themselves as doing a service by
destroying people who were
“unfit for living.” So it is with
abortionists who see themselves
doing a service by taking life
from unborn children who in
their view are “unfit for living.”
Pro-abortion ideologues ignore
the medical hazards of abortion.
Dr. George Bomey, chairman of
the Department of Biostatistics at
the Fox Chase Medical Center in
Philadelphia, reported a close
relationship between abortion and
breast cancer. At least a 140
percent increase. His research
showed that a 15 year old girl has
a 10 percent lifetime risk of
breast cancer. If she becomes
pregnant in her teens and carries
the baby to term, her risk drops
to 7.5 percent, but if she has an
abortion, her risk rises to 15
percent (assuming she has at least
one child in her twenties). If she
is sterilized, that risk rises to 30
percent. Startlingly, the rate of
pre-menapausal breast cancer has
risen at a rate directly
proportional to the rate of
abortions.
In December 1971, the Journal
of Clinical Obstetrics and
Gynecology stated, "Through
public conditioning, use of
language, concepts, and laws, the
idea of abortion can be removed
from the idea of killing." The
truth is that abortion is an
industry that makes $5OO million
per year in the United States and
$lO billion worldwide. Pro
abortionists claim that it is
between a woman and her doctor.
Why then are 90 percent of
abortions performed without
physician consultation until the
time of the actual procedure.
In December 1986, Dr.
Dorfman in Ob-Gyn magazine
instructed clinical workers.
"Seeing a blown up, moving
image of the embryo she is
carrying can be distressing to a
woman about to undergo an
abortion. The sonogram screen
EASY to kill and get away with
it; after all, these murders were
not planned or executed (no pun
intended) well enough to leave
any doubt as to the identity of the
assailant In a case where the
evidence actually does leave room
for reasonable doubt, victims and
their families would stand next to
no chance of seeing justice served
by a jury of such incompetence.
Upon hearing that the jurors
had come to a conclusion so soon
after the start of deliberations, I
was filled with anxiety and hope.
For the duration of the trial, 1
have been a close follower of
what transpired in that California
courtroom each day. I sat at
—John Rossomando
should be turned away from her
view."
Dr. Joseph Pandall, an
abortionist remarked, "The
picture of the baby on ultrasound
bothered me more than anything
else. Staff couldn't take it.
Women were never allowed to see
the ultrasound."
Another cry of pro-abortionists
is, "We won't go back to the
back alleys." Dr. Bernard
Nathanson, co-founder of
NARAL stated, "We spoke of
5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year
from illegal abortions. I confess
that I knew the figures were
totally false....lt was so widely
accepted, so why go out of our
way to correct it with real
statistics." In 1973, the Bureau
of Vital Statistics reported a mere
45 deaths from back alley
abortions.
Feminists err in their
assumption that abortion is a
gateway to women’s liberation.
All efforts by feminists to
establish abortion as a legitimate
solution to the problems of a
male-dominated society concede
to the notion that pregnant
women are some how inferior to
a non-pregnant woman.
Feminists fail into the trap of
admitting that pregnancy and
motherhood provide a barrier for a
woman to be a fully functioning
adult. They are in effect
submitting to the rules of the
patriarchy that they so detest.
Feminists have betrayed the
majority of working women who
desire children. Abortion
eliminates sexual responsibility
for males because it means that
men no longer have to provide
for the children that they sire.
Women are thereby reduced to a
commodity that can be “broken”
by pregnancy and “fixed” by
abortion. Feminists who support
abortion give into the male idea
that violence is a necessary
solution to conflict. Abortion
forces women to play the male
game of competition on male
grounds because it violently pits
women against their children.
Feminists, therefore, sacrifice
their children for the convenience
home Tuesday morning,
watching the pre-verdict trial
coverage. Every second hope of a
conviction grew closer and closer
to surety.
The evidence was staggering.
The Juice was a confirmed wife
beater. Several witnesses over
the course of the case verified that
Nicole Brown frequently voiced
fears that her life would come to
an end at the hands of her
husband. In a safe-deposit box,
Nicole had left pictures of her
own beaten, swollen face.
Christopher Darden, one of the
prosecution's head attorneys,
interpreted these as a 'road map’
Nicole had left the police in the
of the hatred patriarchy.
Never mentioned by feminists
are the physical complications of
abortion. Acta/Ob-Gyn
Scandinavia reported in 1979 that
24.3 percent experience
complications in future
pregnancies. Complications
include excessive bleeding,
premature delivery, cervical
damage, and sterility. In 1992,
American Ob-Gyn reported,
"Pelvic inflammatory disease
(PID). A first trimester abortion
can result in bacterial vaginoss,
leading to PID, a disease that
must be immediately treated.
Uterine perforations can be
created by abortions and often go
untreated. There is an increased
risk of tubal pregnancies by 160
percent in women that have had
one or more abortions according
to a 1989 edition of American
Ob-Gyn. Statistics also show a
600 percent increase of the risk of
Placenta previa, a condition that
causes severe life threatening
bleeding.
Statistics show that 2 million
families seeking adoptions get
caught up in red tape. There are
30 abortions for every adoption
each year. Adoption laws must
be reformed in order to make
them easier for couples who want
to adopt. Adoption is a beautiful
choice, and it is the only choice.
Why should we force women to
humiliate themselves and to kill
their children when so many
couples want children but can not
have them.
God formed us in our mother's
womb. As a loyal Catholic, it is
my duty to defend all innocent
life. We are all beautiful
creations loved by God. May
God forgive those who have had
abortions and comfort them. Life
is sacred and cannot be defiled. It
is impossible to support abortion
and be pro-life. To quote the
Catechism of the Catholic
Church 2270, "Human Life must
be respected and protected
absolutely from the moment of
conception; from the first
moment of its existence, it is
entitled to all of the rights of a
human person."
event her fears proved true. I
agree.
DNA typing concluded that
blood found at the crime scene
belonged to OJ. well beyond a
reasonable doubt. However, the
jury, apparently, didn't find the
one-in-millions or one-in-billions
chance otherwise unreasonable at
all.
Allan Parks, who was perhaps
the case's key witness, gave
testimony clearly establishing a
time frame of OJ. to have
committed the killings. Parks
also saw a tall, black man
slinking across the lawn of the
Simpson estate minutes before
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