Post Abortion Resources

NEW! Racism and Abortion 'Stem from the Same Poisonous Root'

Planned Parenthood Continues to Crack: New Video Shows More Racism

NEW! Reproductive Racism

It’s An Ugly Word…Racism

Abortionist Reich Arrested for Practicing Without License

Forensic Report Indicates Manslaughter at Florida Abortion Site - Baby Was Born Alive

Conscious Rights for American OB-GYNs

FDA Asks Maker of Abortion Drug Mifepristone for Safety Plan by September

Chemical Abortion During Flight Speculated

Pro-Life Representatives in Ecuador Harassed for Breaking Official Party Line

Medical Board Director Resigns In Kansas Corruption Scandal 

NARAL Director Admits Abortion is "Hard" for Women

NEW! Expelled Movie Exposes Planned Parenthood's Pro-Abortion M.O.

NEW! Controversial Council of Europe Decision

NEW! Italy Sees Abortion Drop Three Percent as More Doctors Refuse to Do Them

America’s Largest Abortion Chain Expanding...

POST ABORTION RESOURCES. Men and Abortion: www.unchoice.info\men.htm; http://www.menandabortion.info/ [not complete].
 
The Abortion Recovery International web site at www.abortionrecovery.org lists groups that provide healing services for men (as well as for family members such as grandparents or siblings who have been affected by abortion.)
 
Ramah International has a men's page with links to resources on their web site at www.ramahinternational.org/for-post-abortive-men.html.

There is also a short page for men whose partners have experienced abortion at www.ramahinternational.org/post-abortive-spouse.html.

 

RACISM AND ABORTION 'STEM FROM THE SAME POISONOUS ROOT'. Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today said that racism and abortion are linked.

"Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error," stated Dr. King. "The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives.  Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness."

"Of course, to get someone out of our way, we have to come up with rationales for doing so," added Dr. King.

"We create the deceptions that the other person is less important, less worthy, less human.  These pretenses help us feel a bit better about discriminating against someone because of his skin color or gestational age, but they're still lies and our actions are still wrong."

"The truth is that we are all humans belonging to only one race," said Dr. King. "Racial reconciliation can only mean that we reconcile to the truth that we are all one race of human beings created equal. 

"Even though we have ethnic distinctions, those distinctions do not separate us from the human race any more than do our stage of development or state of physical dependency. 

"We are all fully human.  When we face this truth, there is no justification for treating those who look different than us as lesser beings. 

"If we simply treat other people the way we’d like to be treated, racism, abortion, and other forms of inhumanity will be things of the past."

[14Apr08, Atlanta, Christian Newswire, http://christiannewswire.com/news/479696252.html]
 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONTINUES TO CRACK: NEW VIDEO SHOWS MORE RACISM. UCLA publication releases another video of Planned Parenthood staff excitedly accepting donations earmarked for black babies. The Advocate, a UCLA student publication, released another video in its Planned Parenthood series exposing the organization's racist vision.

Posing as a donor, law student James O. calls centers in Oklahoma and New Mexico and asks to make a donation specifically to be used for a black baby. The clinics are more than happy to accommodate his request. See the video here:  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwif0VMW3c4] [3Apr08, LifeNews.com]

The Advocate released its first video four weeks ago exposing Autumn Kersey, Director of Development at Planned Parenthood in Idaho. Ms. Kersey was caught on audio getting "excited" for a donation by an explicitly racist caller by phone. The students also exposed an Ohio site for gladly accepting donations, no matter what they may be used for. Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJVPVh5TWo. 

"This new video demonstrates a disturbing trend of racism at Planned Parenthood," said Lila Rose, editor of The Advocate. "Planned Parenthood has no shame in accepting donations to purposely abort minority populations. People have forgotten the organization was founded on these principles and has continued to operate under these same racist views for decades."

Irene Gray of Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque, New Mexico took the call from James O. last summer when he wanted to make a donation to abort a black baby. In sympathetic tones, Gray replied "yes, yes, it's a strange time for sure" to the donor's rant about affirmative action and how there is a need for less black people because they compete with whites for admission to schools.

When asked if the organization takes donations specifically to abort black babies, another Planned Parenthood staffer from Tulsa Susan Riggs answered, "We can definitely designate it for an African-American." Abortion center staff are more than happy to accommodate his request, with one Planned Parenthood employee saying, "for whatever reason, we'll accept the money."

"Clearly, Planned Parenthood has absolutely no shame in using funds to target and abort black children from racist donors. It's a jolting reminder that abortion is a big business, regardless of what the politicians and the special interest groups say and given that Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million in federal funding every year, it's time Congress investigate these extremely disturbing business practices," continued Rose. "Planned Parenthood must be held accountable for their actions. No one is calling them out - including supposedly minority civil rights groups like the ACLU and NAACP - for their despicable actions." Rose has been receiving death threats for her objective and courageous expose'.
[2April08, The Advocate, Los Angeles, Christian Newswire; http://www.earnedmedia.org/laa0402.htm]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwif0VMW3c4]

[3Apr08, LifeNews.com]

REPRODUCTIVE RACISM
by Adua Furlow
The vision of Planned Parenthood, founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, became the working arm toward eugenic goals. The stated vision was "reproductive freedom" through legalization of contraceptives to be used by the wealthy and imposed Eugenic Sterilization Laws as "birth control" for everyone else.

The organization most responsible for propagating the bigoted concepts of "Social Darwinism" is the American Eugenics Society. Founded in the early 1900s, this organization was the sister organization of the British Eugenic Society which embraced the white -- more specifically, the Anglo-Saxon -- race supremacy doctrine.

In the United States, eugenics became more than an abstract philosophy. It degenerated into an active campaign to eliminate all those deemed inadequate and resulted in a worldwide crusade to abolish all human inferiority. (1) The American Eugenics Society fostered the Jim Crow Laws of the South and Eugenic Sterilization Laws nationally, the anti-Semitic doctrine that encouraged nazi Germany during the Jewish Holocaust, and defined South-African Apartheid.

Despite claims that Margaret Sanger was not a racist or an anti-Semite, the fact remains that "she openly welcomed the worst elements of both into the birth control movement". (2) Henry Pratt Fairchild who wrote, "Birth control and eugenics are by nature closely related, and neither one can attain its complete fulfillment, or render its maximum service to society, without the other" (3) and Lothrop Stoddard, author of The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, were two of many eugenicists who worked closely with Sanger.

Historical documents prove that Planned Parenthood acted as the willful arm of the American Eugenics Society and developed a plan, the Negro Project, as a propaganda program to infiltrate the black community with a "birth control for health" campaign through their civic leaders. (4) Margaret Sanger expressed disdain for the poor and disabled whom she frequently dubbed "underserving", "unfit", and "dysgenic". Her call for their sterilization and segregation (5) is well known and is likely to have been the motive behind her "Negro Project".

Lest one think reproductive racism was merely an issue of the past, current numbers prove the problem persists. Racial targeting by abortion providers, Planned Parenthood being the foremost national provider of abortions, has demonstrably resulted in a disproportionate number of minorities obtaining abortions. In the year 2000, African Americans, numbering 34.7 million individuals, or 12.3 per cent of the U.S. population, obtained 32% of abortions in that year. (6,7) [ed. this percentage continues to slowly rise.]

"Black women are almost four times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.5 times as likely." (8)  According to updated census reports, African Americans are no longer the largest U.S. minority population.(9) Abortion and population control have taken a devastating toll on the African American and Hispanic communities [Hispanics now obtain about 20% of all abortions in the U.S. each year].

Akua Furlow, B.S., M.A., is a graduate of the State University of New York College at New Platz where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Education. She received her Master's degree in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of the book The Tuskegee Syphilis Study - What Really Happened and is a national speaker on various issues related to population control and bioethics. Contact info: www.sojournerpress.com, or 713-645-2442.

References:

1. Black, Edwin, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to CReate a Master Race, New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003, p. 19
2. Ibid p. 135.
3. Fairchild, Henry Pratt, "Programs and Wishes For 1933", Birth Control Review, Volume XVII, Number 1 (January 1933), p. 5.
4. Letter from Sanger to Dr. W. E. Burghardt DuBois, 11 November 1930, New York, MSCLC. Dubois served as director of research for the NAACP and as the editor of its publication, The Crisis, until 1934.
5. Sanger, Margaret, The Pivot of Civilization, Humanity Press, 1922, chapters 4,5.
6. Jones, R.K., Darroch, J.E., and Henshaw S.K., "Patterns in the socioeconomic characteristics of women obtaining abortions in 2000-2001", Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(5):226-235.
7. www.prcdc.org/summaries/blacks/blacks.html
8. Guttmacher Institute, Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States, 2006, www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
9. U.S. Census Burear, www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762256.html, 2004/
["trapped...", www.humanlife.org, 2007]

IT’S AN UGLY WORD…RACISM. Noting that 80% of PPFA business sites are in minority neighborhoods and that almost half of African-American pregnancies end in abortion, this video is designed to shake a common assumption about the nation’s largest abortion provider. Listen for yourself to the recorded calls made to clinics offering donations specified for African-Americans for overtly racist reasons. Not one clinic turned them down!Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eygv8qEkiFE . [4Mar08, abstinence.net]

JANUARY MARCH FOR LIFE. American Life League estimates 400,000+ marchers participated in the 35th Roe v. Wade anniversary D.C. March on 22Jan08. Mainstream media continue to downplay the numbers each year -- if the story is reported at all.

Independent observers confidently confirm lines of 50 to 75 people wide on the roadways and sidewalks, at a pace of 40 lines per minute, past a specifically marked reference point near the Supreme Court building, which went on "for at least three solid hours before beginning to thin". It is estimated that an abortion is performed every 26 seconds in the USA, totalling over 49 million abortions since 1973. [Feb-March 2008, ALL News; www.all.org/stopp/maps]

ABORTIONIST REICH ARRESTED FOR PRACTICING WITHOUT LICENSE. The law has caught up with another abortion practitioner and, this time, Laurence Reich of California has been charged with practicing medicine without a license.

Reich lost his medical license in 2005 after he was convicted of molesting women during physical exams. Reich was allowed to do abortions until April 2006 and then the abortion practitioner had to agreed to give up his medical license, rather than have it revoked by the court and the Osteopathic Board.

That apparently didn't stop him from continuing to do abortions without a medical license.

Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, told the Los Angeles Daily News that officials arrested Reich last week and that he posted a $60,000 bond.

He has been charged with three felony counts of practicing medicine without certification.

Authorities found out about Reich when they arrested abortion center owner Bertha Bugarin, who ran six abortion businesses in California. That included one in Panorama City, where Reich was allegedly doing abortions without a license.

If convicted on the charges, Reich could face a maximum of four years and four months in prison. [26Feb08, Los Angeles, CA LifeNews.com]

FORENSIC REPORT INDICATES MANSLAUGHTER AT FL ABORTION SITE – BABY WAS BORN ALIVE. Results of a forensic pathologist's review of documents and slides related to the autopsy of a baby born alive during an abortion at a Hialeah clinic in 2006, reveal that non-medical workers may have committed manslaughter when they shoved the struggling baby girl into a biohazard bag and tossed her on the roof of the clinic to die.

Forensic pathologist Abdullah Fatteh inspected the available evidence, including the county autopsy report, microscopic slides prepared by the medical examiner, and other records.

Fatteh concluded that unlicensed worker Belkis Gonzalez performed the failed abortion, wherein the baby was born alive. He concluded that they cut the cord and improperly disposed of the baby's body. Abortionist Pierre Renelique was absent during the incident.

Fatteh stated, "The actions of unlicensed clinic staff probably accelerated and/or contributed to the death of the newborn ... It is most likely that neglectful actions around the time of birth of newborn and prematurity were the significant factors that resulted in this newborn's death."

"These conclusions imply that Gonzalez could be held accountable for manslaughter in the premature death of baby Shanice," said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger.

Gonzalez, who owned a group of abortion mills, including the Hialeah clinic, pled guilty to practicing medicine without a license at another abortion mill in Miramar, Florida, on December 20, 2007, and was given five years probation. Her associate, Senesis was also charged in the Miramar incident, and her case is still pending.

Gonzalez's lawyer, Robelto Osborne, a former abortionist who had his license revoked, was previously convicted of practicing medicine without a license, as was her receptionist, Joselin Colado, and her cleaning lady, Adrianne Rojas.

The criminal investigation against Gonzalez in the death of Baby Shanice is open and progressing.

"The only way to protect the public from these predatory illegal abortionists is to put them in jail," said Sullenger. [6Mar08, Hialeah, Fla., LifeSiteNews.com]

CONSCIENCE RIGHTS. 3-31-03 The ACOG Ethics Committee met on March 17,18, and considered our comments about Opinion #385.

On March 26, Dr. Noller, ACOG President, sent a letter to Fellows explaining that "the Opinion was not intended to be uses as a rule for ethical conduct which could be used to affect and individuals initial or continuing Fellowship in ACOG."

Additionally, he said one's "board certification is not determined or jeopardized by his or her adherence to this opinion." He referenced our not being required to do abortion procedures. He failed to even allude to the Opinion's mention of our being ethically bound to "refer for" abortion.

This omission concerns us significantly. Dr. Noller's letter states that "the Executive Committee has instructed the Committee on Ethics to hold a special meeting as soon as possible to reevaluate Committee Opinion #385." We have no idea what "as soon as possible" means, but we will keep you posted.

Other notable letters important to you and to AAPLOG:
Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of HHS, in a letter to the ABOG, expressed concern about the new Opinion #385, and the revised ABOG maintenance of certification requirements that  tied recertification to fulfilling ACOG Ethics requirements.

The ABOG requirement says ""Fellows must adhere to ethical standards outlined by ACOG, and endorsed by ABOG." (AAPLOG is not exactly sure what that means. But if words have actual meaning, maybe it means what it says—that our eligibility for recertification is tied to ACOG ethics standards—which in normal-speak would mean opinion 385 unless pointedly stated otherwise by ACOG and ABOG).

Finally, Dr. Gant replies to Secretary Leavitt: "Please be assured the ABOG has taken no stand, pro or con, against individual physicians who choose to or choose not to perform abortions or to refer patients to abortion providers. Moreover, such an issue is not a consideration in the application or in the examinations.." dealing with recertification.

This seems to AAPLOG to be plain enough. However, what weight does the ABOG MOC STANDARD #1 carry?—that's the one about "must adhere to ethical standards outlined by ACOG." so there is a degree of lack of  Clarity/doublespeak here that we will ask to be defined in a letter we will write to ABOG. And we also await "reevaluation" of opinion #385, as promised above. [31Mar08, Dr. Joe DeCook, for AAPLOG]

FDA ASKS MAKER OF RU 486 MIFEPRISTONE FOR SAFETY PLAN BY 9/08. The Food and Drug Administration has asked the makers of 25 drugs, including the dangerous abortion pill mifepristone (RU 486), to submit safety plans later this year.

The FDA published the list of drugs needing safety plans in the latest issue of the Federal Register and abortion drug maker Danco Laboratories is on the list.

The drug manufacturers must devise a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) plan and submit it to the agency by September 21. Those who don't comply by the deadline face "enforcement action," which could include monetary penalties from FDA officials.

According to the medical web site MedPage, amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act are requiring the safety plans. They enable the FDA to require plans from makers of new drugs just appearing on market or those with safety issues.

Jane Axelrad of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, told the web site, the safety plans help patients and physicians know the dangers of a drug used improperly.

"These safety plans allow patients to have continued access to certain medicines for which there are safety concerns that can be managed through appropriate use," Axelrad said.

"The FDA approved the drugs identified today before the new law was passed, and they will now be brought under the new statutory authority to require and enforce REMS."

The RU 486 abortion drug has had significant safety issues since its initial approval at the tail end of the Clinton administration.
To this point, the RU 486 abortion drug has killed 13 women worldwide.

According to FDA reports as of December 2006, there have now been eight known deaths associated with mifepristone in the U.S., nine life-threatening incidents, 116 blood transfusions, and 232 hospitalizations.

In total, more than 1,100 women have had medical problems after using the drug as of that date.

The first victim of RU 486 was a Tennessee woman who died after using the abortion drug. She had an undetected ectopic pregnancy, and the drug is not supposed to be used in such situations.

Following her death, four California women died from using the abortion drug and the FDA announced last year that a Colorado woman had died as well.

Women have died from using the abortion drug in Canada, England, France and Sweden.

In January, Danco Laboratories announced that approximately 13 percent of all abortions in the United States involve mifepristone -- a number that may seem low but it is double the number of women who used the abortion drug in 2001.

The report also showed that 57 percent of places that do abortions now have the abortion drug, compared with just 33 percent in 2001.

Danco said about 80 percent of facilities that only do abortions now have the Mifeprex abortion drug. It said the number of women using the abortion