Dangers of Abortion
“Through the years, I have seen many patients who have underlying depression and bitterness due to a previous abortion. Many times these patients feel they were forced into their abortion by parents, husbands, or boyfriends. This will often permanently fracture a relationship.”
“Most patients who have complications from abortion do not pursue follow up treatment by the abortionist. They feel that somehow they deserve the complication and dont trust the abortionist to treat it. Even when a complication is serious and possibly a result of negligence, they fail to seek legal recourse due to the embarrassment brought on them by the procedure made public.” both comments by C. Paul Perry, M.D., Gynecology/Obstetrics
C. Paul Perry, D.M., Ginecología/Obstetricia “A lo largo de los años, he tenido muchas pacientes que presentaban síntomas subyacentes de depresión y amargura debidos a abortos en el pasado. La mayoría de estas pacientes sienten que sus padres, maridos o parejas las han forzado a abortar. Esto a menudo produce un resquebrajamiento permanente en las relaciones.”
“La mayoría de las pacientes que tienen complicaciones como consecuencia del aborto no acude al abortista para hacerse un tratamiento de seguimiento. Sienten que de alguna manera ellas se merecen las complicaciones y no tienen confianza en el abortista para su tratamiento. Aún cuando la complicación resulte grave y con posibilidad de ser la consecuencia de una negligencia, ellas se niegan a buscar un recurso legal debido a la vergüenza que les traería el hecho de que el procedimiento se hiciera público.”
“People do not understand that there are thousands of women who suffer serious physical complications from abortion every year in this country.” Bernard Nathanson, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, OB-GYN (antiguo abortista)
“La gente no se da cuenta que existen en este país miles de mujeres que sufren cada año serias complicaciones físicas a causa del aborto.”
“The medical care provided in abortion centers is Alabama is substandard. It is not required that doctors performing abortions be board certified, have hospital privileges, or carry malpractice insurance. No other area of medicine is practiced under such inadequate guidelines As a physician, I feel ashamed that abortionists practice substandard medicine. As a woman, I am angry we are singled out for such shoddy treatment. So long as abortion is legal, it is negligent on the part of the state to allow this to continue.” Maria Johnson, M.D., Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
“María L. Johnson, D.M., Doctora en Pulmonología y Cuidado Crítico
“El cuidado médico que proveen las clínicas de aborto en Alabama está por debajo de las normas establecidas. Los médicos que practican abortos no están obligados a someterse a certificación de junta médica legal alguna, ni a adquirir el derecho a privilegios hospitalarios, ni se les exige cobertura de seguros por mala práctica o por daños y perjuicios.
Ninguna otra rama de la medicina se practica bajo pautas tan inadecuadas. Como médica me da vergüenza que los abortistas practiquen la medicina por debajo del nivel normal. Como mujer, siento rabia de que nos señalen con el dedo por causa de tal mala calidad de tratamiento. Mientras el aborto continúe siendo legal, constituye una negligencia por parte del estado permitir que continúe esta situación.”
“Ive NEVER had a pregnant patient who had early on decided to abort her baby, even in the most difficult of circumstances, come back after the delivery and tell me shes regretted giving life to her child.” Joe D. McClinton, M.D., Gynecology
Joe D. McClinton, D.M.m Ginecología “NUNCA he tenido una paciente embarazada que, habiendo decidido hacer abortar a su bebé, incluso en la más difícil de las circunstancias, haya vuelto después de dar a luz a decirme que se arrepentía de dar la vida a su niño.”
“Those who want to preserve the right to abort point to teenage pregnancy, poor families, and child abuse as their defense. These are serious problems which have become no better since abortion was legalized in 1973. Abortion is not the easy solution to these problems ” Steven Alsip, M.D., Infectious Disease Specialist
Raymond Ufford, M.D.
“Our science tells us there is a unique, never to exist-again, human individual in a mother’s womb. Why, in America, have we come to the place where we can kill that individual to solve our problems?”
Raymond Ufford, D.M., Albertville, AL
“Nuestra ciencia nos indica que dentro del vientre materno hay un ser humano, que es único, que nunca volverá a existir otro igual. ¿Por qué, en los EE.UU. de América, hemos llegado al colmo de tener la posibilidad de matar a ese individuo para resolver nuestros problemas?
Charles Hagen, M.D., FACEP
“I’m pro-choice. Wait a moment! People have a CHOICE as to whether they will have sex or not, and they choose whether it fits with their morals and religious convictions. However, once the possibility of another life exists, then that other life should have a choice as well, and who ever heard of a baby CHOOSING to be aborted?”
Charles Hagen, M.D., FACEP
“Estoy en favor del derecho a escoger. ¡Un momento! La gente tiene DERECHO A ESCOGER si va a tener sexo o no, y escoge entre ver si está de acuerdo o no con sus convicciones morales y religiosas. Sin embargo, cuando hay una posibilidad de que exista otra vida, luego ese otro ser debería también tener el derecho a escoger, Acaso alguien escuchó alguna vez que un bebé haya ESCOGIDO ser abortado?”
Timothy Hughes, M.D., OB-GYN, Troy, AL
“In 1998-99, Planned Parenthood affiliate centers performed 168,000 abortions in the U.S., including second trimester abortions, which makes Planned Parenthood the largest single provider of abortions in this nation. Their gross income for that year was $660 million. While they talk a good talk of women’s rights and the right of disadvantaged women to have reproductive choice, you can rest assured that they are not performing these abortions for free.”
Timothy Hughes, D.M., OB-GYN, Troy, AL
“En 1998-99, los centros afiliados a Planificación Familiar llevaron a cabo 168.000 abortos en los Estados Unidos de América, incluyendo abortos del segundo trimestre, o sea que Planificación Familiar resulta ser el mayor proveedor individual de abortos de esta nación. Su ingreso bruto para ese año fue de US$ 660 millones. Mientras están dando lindas charlas sobre los derechos de la mujer y el derecho a la escogencia de reproducción a las mujeres marginadas, puedes estar seguro de que no están ejecutando estos abortos gratuitamente.”
“As an obstetrician/gynecologist, my profession affords me the privilege of caring for the pregnant woman as well as her unborn child. As a physician, it is my sworn duty to provide healing and care to both my patients. My first and foremost priority is the protection of human life. In my estimation of this society, we have totally ignored one of my patients. We argue circumstances and situations and totally neglect the life of the innocent baby. Abortion kills a child I have sworn to protect.” Brenda Carter Taylor, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology
“Life. Thats the reason were here. The people reading this have been given their right to life; as pro-life physicians, we are committed to the protection of that right.” William Summers, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology
RU-486
“The reason for taking RU-486 is to abort a normal embryo that has achieved implantation and would otherwise go on to a normal pregnancy and life. RU-486 is thus properly called an abortifacient. It does nothing
to prevent conc
eption.” Clarke McIntosh, M.D., Pediatrician
Safe Sex
Regarding safe sex: We are abandoning our children the next generation and our only future letting them flounder in a sea of relativism, with no compass and no anchor. We expect them to respond to pressure to just say no to drugs; but then hypocritically, we hand them a condom, a device which often produces psychological difficulties and which regularly fails to prevent pregnancy. It probably fails even more often to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and death.” Kenneth Elmer, M.D., Pediatrician
Kenneth Elmer, D.M., Pediatra “Con respecto al ‘sexo seguro’; estamos abandonando a nuestros chicos – a la próxima generación y nuestro único futuro – dejándolos tambalearse en un mar de relativismo, sin brújula ni ancla. Esperamos de ellos que respondan a la presión de ‘solamente decir que no’ a las drogas; pero luego hipócritamente, les entregamos un condón, dispositivo que a menudo produce dificultades psicológicas y el cual regularmente fracasa en prevenir el embarazo y probablemente fracasa aún con más frecuencia en prevenir enfermedades transmitidas sexualmente y en evitar la muerte.”
“I would say to any teenager, if you are sexually active in todays culture, you have a 100% chance of contracting a sexually transmitted disease of some sort.” Joe D. McClinton, M.D., Gynecology
Joe D. McClinton, D.M.m Ginecología — “Yo le diría a cualquier adolescente: si en la actualidad llevas una vida sexualmente activa el riesgo que corres de contraer cualquier enfermedad de transmisión sexual es del 100%”
“Sexual activity now has a mortality rate associated with it because of AIDS and cervical cancer. You can die from having intercourse or other sexual activities!” Brenda Taylor, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology
Brenda Taylor, D.M., OB-GYN — “Ahora se asocia una nueva tasa de mortalidad a la actividad sexual por causa del SIDA. ¡Uno puede morirse por haber tenido una relación sexual!”
“Other than abstinence, there are no safe forms of birth control. Also, where birth control always fails is in protecting us emotionally. Although sex can have the promise of being wonderful, it can actually be dangerous and have life-long consequences physically and emotionally outside of marriage.” Ryan McWhorter, M.D., Internal Medicine
“I think that it’s a tragedy that the real dangers of sexual activity have not been reported in the media. There is no safe sex. Sexual promiscuity leads to pain and suffering – both medical and spiritual. We must advise chastity and modesty, in order to regain the values and morals upon which this great country was founded.” Andre Doucet, M.D.
Andre Doucet, D.M. “Considero que es una tragedia que no se hayan publicado los verdaderos peligros que conlleva la actividad sexual en los medios de comunicación. No hay sexo seguro. La promiscuidad sexual conduce al dolor y al sufrimiento – tanto médico como espiritual. Debemos aconsejar la castidad y la modestia, a fin de recobrar los valores y la moralidad sobre los que este gran país fue fundado.”.
Maria Meyers, M.D.
“One cannot teach abstinence and chastity to the youth and then hand out a condom or put the child on birth control and expect the abstinence message to be taken seriously. Instead, as medical providers, we need to speak of the beauty of chastity and waiting for sex within marriage which is the most sound advice for their overall psychological, spiritual and medical well-being. What the teens then do with the information affords them some responsibility for their own actions.”
María Meyers, D.M. “No podemos enseñar abstinencia y castidad a la juventud y luego entregarles un condón o someter a las jóvenes al control de natalidad y esperar que tomen en serio el mensaje de la abstinencia. Por el contrario, como proveedores de servicios médicos, debemos hablarles sobre la belleza de la castidad, sobre cómo esperar para tener sexo recién cuando se llega al matrimonio, que es, sobretodo, el mejor consejo que se les puede dar para obtener una buena salud, tanto espiritual como sicológica y médica. Lo que luego hagan los adolescentes con la información les permite cobrar cierta responsabilidad sobre sus propias acciones.”
“Abstinence is freedom from disease, unplanned pregnancy, guilt, broken hearts. One of my teenage patients was thrilled when I gave her permission to be abstinent!” Scott Leeth, M.D., Family Practice
Slippery Slope
Dr. Leo Alexander, Chief U.S. Medical Consultant at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials confirmed that, Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of physicians. The infinitely small wedge-in lever from which this entire trend of mind received its impetus, was the attitude toward the non-rehabilitable sick. Once the physician or professor murdered his first innocent patient, Alexander declared, he entered the ranks of the criminal class and was bonded by blood cement to the ruling party.
“In our society today, the nuclear family is disintegrating, and the value of human life is being lowered from innate worth to a matter of personal desirability. When we lose our unconditional respect for human life, our society is in great danger.” Earl W. Stradtman, Jr., M.D., Obstetrics/Gyn/Infertility
Anne Bauer, M.D.
“If you choose to destroy:
* the children born and unborn, you destroy love and the future
* the sick or disabled, you destroy compassion
* the elderly, you destroy wisdom, respect and the past
Can we really do without these? Have you never been young, sick or injured? Will you never be old in someone’s eyes?
Therefore, do unto others as you wish to have done to you.”
Anne Bauer, D.M.
“Si se escoge destruir:
*a las criaturas nacidas y no nacidas: se destruye el amor y el futuro
*a los enfermos o minusválidos: se destruye la compasión.
*a los ancianos: se destruye la sabiduría, el respeto y el pasado.
¿Podríamos verdaderamente vivir sin estos dones? ¿O acaso Vd. nunca fue joven, o no estuvo enfermo o herido? ¿Acaso nunca será viejo a los ojos de nadie?
Por lo tanto, haz a otros lo que deseas que los otros hagan contigo.