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Paid Political Advertisement 1990-1991 H U M A N RIGHTS REPORT: From Back Alley to Front Boulevard Planned Parenthood ads com mand: “Don’t wait until women are dying again. Keep abortion safe and legal." National NOW, NARAL, and Planned Parenthood organizations are pumping big money into Oregon to pay for T.V. ads to brainw ash Oregonians: “Don’t make her go back to the back alley. V ote no’ on Measures 8 and 10.” What are the facts? •With the 1973 legalization of abortion, back alley abortionists, most of whom were doctors, moved to the front boule vard. Today, clinics are still unregulat ed, many are unsanitary, with untrained staff and inadequate equip ment for emergency situations. •When abortion is once again prohibit ed by law, the same doctors will be doing the abortions, using the same instruments in the same unregulated clinics, but with far fewer patients. •In a survey of 252 aborted women, 73 r < said they would not have sought an abortion if it had not been legally available and only 8 % said they would have sought an illegal abortion.' •The only time a woman is forced to get an abortion is when the abortion is against her will, as in China, or in America for a girl threatened into a legal abortion. •The woman always has a choice not to seek back alley abortion. The baby has no choice. LEGAL OR LETHAL? The multi-million dollar abortion industry, population controllers and sexual hedonists, would like us to believe that abortion is a quick, conse quence-free procedure for ending a pregnancy. Contrary to their rhetoric, women are still dying from so-called “safe and legal" abortion in front alley clinics. Carol Everett, one of the many abortionists quitting this gruesome business, sold her Texas clinics in 1985 and gave the money to prolife. She adm its: “ We were k illin g or maiming one woman out of 500...we did not report complications..." and when abortion workers got together a routine topic o f conversation was, “How are you covering up a death?" She knew o f 1200 abortion s per month being done in her city that were reported to no one/ Why don’t we know about abor tion deaths? Obviously, no doctor is going to say, “This woman is dead and I did it. “Death certificates list causes such as pelvic infection, ectopic preg nancy, suicide, cardiac or pulmonary embolism, hemmorhage, etc. — all secondary complications from the pri mary cause of abortion. Many deaths occur weeks later in a different facili ty. Most abortionists require cash payment; patient records are easily discarded or falsified. Confidentiality laws keep the p a tien t’s name o ff records. Because abortionists control voluntary or required reporting, we must regard all abortion statistics as incomplete, and inaccurate. Making abortion legal does not make it safe. The same special inter est groups who manipulated the court system to impose abortion on demand upon America, are the same groups who used the court to strike down clinic regulations, reporting require m ents, and inform ed consent for women seeking abortion. Now they wave coathangers, trying to convince everyone that restricting abortion will drive women to the “dangerous" back alley. FRONT ALLEY ABORTION CLINICS In Autumn, 1989, an investiga tion of abortuaries in Florida uncov CARING CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS IN OREGON These centers offer free pregnan cy testing, housing, clothing for moth er and baby, individual and family counseling, help in obtaining medical care, job assistance, and referrals for adoption. ered ghastly conditions and reports of grisly deaths and injuries. These clin ics had been in operation for 16 years. Before that, the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper had run a series of articles on abortion clinics which shocked the nation. Four of the largest abortion clinics in Illinois were found to be filthy and substandard in every way. Untrained personnel were performing medical tasks. The abortionists were sadistic and women were dying from complications. Abortions were even being performed on non-pregnant women. In Oregon, doctors are licensed as individuals by the Board of Medical Examiners. But their privately oper ated offices or clinics are neither licensed nor inspected. The Downtown W om en’s C enter in Portland, Oregon is not licensed, has no sanitation or safety inspection, and is not certified for Medicare stan dards. Lovejoy S u rgicen ter in Portland is licensed as “ambulatory surgical center" and thus covered by some Oregon law. Abortion clinics make high prof its. Carol Everett tells of making her Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder o f NARAL and former director o f a large New York abortion clinic where he performed and/or super vised 75,000 abortions, is now a prominent spokesman for the prolife movement. He admits that when they were using the figure o f5,000 to 10,000 maternal deaths per year from back alley abortions, “ / knew the figures were totally false, and / suppose the others did too...But in the 'morality' o f our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accept ed, so why go out o f our way to cor rect it with honest statistics f The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated and anything with in reason that had to be done was perm issible." experiencing anxiety, regret, guilt, hostility, self-reproach, nightmares. Members of WOMEN EXPLOITED BY ABORTION tell of their remorse, preoccupation with death, helpless despair, loss of interest in sex, feel ings of being exploited, and the mem ory of physical pain. Some say they cannot vacuum their carpet because it reminds them of the powerful abor tion suction machine.* Others can’t watch a baby w ithout crying. A woman left in her “privacy” to deal with her trauma, may repress or deny feelings, and become isolated from others, unable to sustain intimate relationships. She may seek escape in sexual prom iscuity, alcohol and drugs. SUICIDE Where is the pretty, smooth talk ing Planned Parenthood counselor when a depressed young woman attempts suicide after her abortion because she can’t handle the guilt and “crashed” self-esteem. •In Milwaukee, Minn, of 3.000 women calling the suicide hotline, 1800 had undergone abortions/ •A Univ. of Minn, survey of 3500 high- school teens, found that girls who had abortions were four times more likely to attempt suicide than girls who had not aborted.6 •Suiciders Anonymous in Cincinnati, Ohio, counseled 5620 persons in a 35- month period. 4000 were women. 1800 had abortions. 1400 were between 15- 24 years old.7 •A Corvallis, Oregon women shared: “My babysitter had an abortion. She committed suicide. I had to do the funeral because her parents were so devastated.” A woman has little “choice” in how she leaves an abortion clinic. C h ildbirth, a natural process for which her body is especially designed, is obviously safer than the violent, invasive assault on her body by suc tion machine, curette, saline or evacu ation tongs. Measure 8 wants to restore law that protects young, uninform ed women from the slick slogans and coercive sales techniques of the abor tion industry. Your “y es” vote on Measure 8 will establish law that supports physical and mental health for women, encouraging the positive, healthy options o f childbirth and adoption. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Reardon, p. 333 Silent No More. C. Everett. “What 1 Saw In The Abortion Industry.” and James Dobson interview tape. Everett op. cit. The Phyllis Schlafly Report “School Based Sex Clinics vs. Self Respect " June 1986. Paula Vandergaer. ex. dir. o f Int. Life Service. R eported by Nat. Comm for Human Life Amendment. 1430 K St. NW Wash D.C. 20005 Dr. Barry Garfinkel. (Brian Clowes, p. 537 draft copy) Willke Abortion: Questions & Answers. Mothers do not need to die from abortion. You can save them by voting “YES” on Measure 8. ABORTION-RELATED FATALITIES Deaths\if women par 100,000 abortions, by duration of pregnancy (US) linder 8 9 12 13-20 Gestation (in weeks) Over 21 Source "Abortion and Women s Health. The Alan Guttmachcr Institute. 1990 (A b o r tin g A m erica . D o u b led a y . 1979. p.1 9 3 ) monthly income of $13,000 at the rate of $25/abortion in her Texas clinics. Doctors can make several thousand dollars in a partial day of performing abortions. By requiring cash pay ment, clinics may evade the IRS easi ly. ABORTION: The Great Escape CHILDBIRTH SAFER THAN ABORTION Testimonies of aborted women tell us that legal abortion has multi plied misery for thousands of women. Many suffer extensive in fection , em bolism s, hem m orhage, further surgery. Carol Everett, former abor tionist. says: “A complication that is rarely publicized is the one in which the doctor perforates the uterus and pulls the bowel through the vagina, resulting in colostomy. Some can be reversed. Some must live with the colostomy for the remainder of their lives." Sterility increases fourfold for aborted women com pared to non- aborted women, due to infection, dam aged organs, or hysterectomy. Life- threatening ectopic pregnancies have increased 300'? since 1973 legalized abortion. Abortion damage to the cervix causes a four to tenfold increase of future miscarriage or pre mature birth for aborted women. Therefore, numerous aborting women lose their future “choice" to have chil dren. Dr. Vincent Rue has documented the Post Abortion Syndrome which occurs when the grieving process is not completed. Many women tell of C onvenience abortion! We in America have no excuse for this kind of behavior. In our land of freedom and abundant material wealth, we, of all the world’s people, are the most capable of choosing positive solutions to our social problems. Abortion is an escapist, “conve nient”, easy way out! Or is it? We are going to have to prepare ourselves for an epidemic of broken women, suffer ing from the physical and emotional damage inflicted upon them by inva sive, violent, legal abortion — dys functional daughters, wives, mothers and employees. Abortion is reducing our labor force, leaving fewer wage earners to support elderly, retired cit izens. Infertile couples, many because o f previous abortion, would like to build a family by adopting, but abort ed babies don ’t need parents. Furthermore, abortion has failed on its promises to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, or to prevent child abuse by making “every child a wanted child." * Abortion cures no disease and relieves no poverty. Wouldn't it be more compassionate and constructive if we were to address social problems directly. Babies born addicted to cocaine sadden our sp irits, but cocaine is the problem. Tighter drug laws and detoxification centers may not be convenient, but much more compassionate than killing the inno cent drug victim. Poor mothers need training, employment, or a husband to help with the division of labor in order to climb out of the poverty trap and put food on the table; impairment from abortion may actually increase her poverty. Neglected children? Why are they n eglected ? Could it be because of families shattered by the ethic of “me-first" sexual permissive ness which disrespects marriage, regards children as a “burden", and fights untiringly to keep abortion legal? Crisis Pregnancy Centers stand ready throughout Oregon to help mothers with difficult pregnancy situ ations. With proper leadership in our state capitol, Oregonians can stream line adoption procedures to provide stable homes for infants and older children. Schcxils can replace Planned Parenthood “how-to” sex materials with moral family life education, and refuse to ask taxpayers to fund any more school sex clinics pushed by "population controllers” and abortion advocates. M easure 8 stands to say that strong Americans can meet the chal lenge of choosing the “inconvenient”- the positive - the constructive — abstinence, marriage, healthy meth ods of contraception, childbirth, adop tion or parenthood. If you believe it is time for us to solve problems instead of destroy human life, your “ves" vote on Measure 8 can help it happen, right here in Oregon. P ortland: C risis Pregnancy Center 12709 N.E. Halsey 97230 255 7342 Beaverton: Crisis Pregnancy Center 4240 S.W. Cedar Hills Blvd. 643 4503 C o rv a llis: C risis Pregnancy Center 765 5th St. #303 757 9645 Coos Bay: Coos County Crisis Preg. Cntr. 267 5204 750 Central Coos Bay Eugene: C risis Pregnancy Center 345 0400 336 E 11th St. M cM in n ville: Pregnancy Counseling & 434 4400 Info. Cntr. 101 S. Baker Medford: Living Alternative 772 1921 319 E. Main St. M ilwaukie: Crisjs Pregnancy Center 659 3336 3990 S.E. Roethe Rd M olalla: C risis Pregnancy Center 828 COPE 319 N. Molalla Ave O ntario: Interm ountain CPE 889 4272 255 S.W. 4th Ave. Roseburg: Douglas County CPC 672 2609 P.O. Box 836 Salem: Crisis Pregnancy Center 364 2464 355 Belmont N.E. St. Helens: Columbia CPC 397 6047 125 N. 21st St. Sweet Home: Willamette CPC 367 2447 1025 Main St. If you would like to contribute money or help to the Measure 8 Campaign, contact: Human Rights League. 9150 SW Pioneer Ct. “W", W ilsonville, OR 97070
