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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.
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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