1990-1991 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT:
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CONVENIENCE
ABORTION
Y eson 8
“The sad truth is that a great number of babies are deliberately aborted not because their mothers are in serious financial need or confronted with grave problems.
They are aborted because they are inconvenient. That’s what is meant by abortion on demand, and for all practical purposes it is the law of this land.”
—
Cardinal John O’Connor
A publication of the Human Rights League
Slaying Preboms for Convenience Should be Illegal
Most people are woefully igno
rant about abortion. They actually
believe that most abortions are
done for extreme life-threatening
health reasons or in the painful and
traumatic cases of rape or incest.
Actually, over 90% of all abortions
are done for entirely different rea
sons. They are done for reasons of
“convenience”.
What is a convenience abortion?
First, we must define what an abor
tion is. W ebster’ s New World
Dictionary defines abortion as a:
“premature expulsion of a fetus so
that it does not live, esp. induced on
purpose”. Biological science has
long ago proven that the “fetus” has
always been a preborn human baby.
That’s a fact; therefore, an abortion
is the premature expulsion of a pre
born human baby so that he or she
dies. This death is induced on pur
pose.
That makes sense considering
that the whole reason for an abor
tion is to end the preborn’s life. A
human life has been created and
the persons responsible for that life
do not want to deal with it, or
expend the care needed to nurture
that life. The hard cold reality
rem ains, the newly created life
must now be disposed of.
There is no way to avoid it - no
matter how we attempt to deny it or
camouflage it. There still remains
only one way to end a life. The life
must be killed. Webster’s Twentieth
Century D ictionary defines the
word kill as “to cause the death of;
to put to death; to slay”. The truth
about abortion will always remain
the same. Abortion kills a life. If the
baby wasn’t alive there would be no
problem, would there?
What then is a “convenience
abortion”? It is an abortion for rea
sons other than a pregnancy threat
ening the life of the mother, or a
pregnancy resulting from a trau
matic experience such as rape or
incest. The word in con ven ien t
means "not favorable to one’s com
fort; difficult to do; causing trouble,
to bother, or, not handy”. So, a con
venience abortion is an abortion
done simply because it disturbs
on e’s com fort, plans or le v e l.o f
responsibility.
What are some of these reasons
of inconvenience? A year ago, the
Boston G lobe new spaper ran a
nation-wide poll asking opinions
about the right and wrong of conve
nience abortion s. H ere are the
results. An.overwhelming majority
of American citizens believe abor
tion should be prohibited when: the
pregnancy happened at the wrong
time (82% agree); the mother is a
minor (50% .agree); the parent(s)
wanted a girl and the preborn.hap
pened to be a boy, or vice versa
(93% agree); the pregnancy causes
economic hardships (75% agree); it
is used as a method of birth control
(89% agree); the pregnancy causes
emotional strain (64% agree); the
father is n on -su p portive (83%
agree); the father wants a baby and
the mother doesn’t (72% agree); the
mother wants a baby and the father
doesn’t (75% agree). A veraging
these figures, 75% o f the voters
agree that taking a life for these
“convenience” reasons is morally
wrong.
As amazing as this is, the above
categories represent over 90% of all
abortions. Hundreds and thousands
of little lives are ended because peo
ple are using abortion as a contra
ceptive. We allow babies to be killed
as a method of birth control! We kill
simply because they happened to be
created as a little girl and not a boy!
We kill ju st because the baby,
through no fault of its own, hap
pened to be conceived at the wrong
time! And for one of these reasons
of inconvenience, the preborn baby
never gets a chance to live outside
the womb.
As far as the baby is concerned,
abortion is final. If the preborn is a
little girl, she will never get a
chance to see the sunset, feel the
Human Rights League Opposes Abortion for Convenience Reasons
Measure 8 supporters believe
that no innocent person deserves to
die for the mere convenience of
another. The Measure 8 ballot title,
as originally proposed, included the
words “convenience abortion” so the
public could clearly understand
that Measure 8 will not prohibit all
abortion but just those done for rea
sons of convenience. Liberals on
Oregon’s Supreme Court ruled to
strike the word “convenience”.
M easure 8 would amend
Oregon’s constitution to prohibit
“convenience" abortions, done for
sex selection, birth control, inade
quate finances, poor timing, too
young or too old. Specifically not
included in this prohibition are
pregnancies resulting from verified
rape, incest or threat to the moth
er's life, such as in cases of toxemia,
cancer, diabetes, or ectopic (tubal)
pregnancies. In reality, prolife doc
tors work to save both mother and
baby in these situations. If the baby
dies, that was not the intent.
However, Measure 8 does allow for
legal abortions in these difficult sit
uations. Endorsement or nonen
dorsement of abortion in these hard
cases, is a debate for another time.
“Our nationwide policy of abor-
tion-on-demand through all nine
months o f pregnancy was neither
voted on by the people nor enacted
by our le g isla to rs.” (P residen t
Reagan. ABORTION AND THE
CONSCIENCE OF THE NATION.
Thom as N elson, p. 15.) Special
interest groups worked through the
unelected court system to impose
abortion on demand upon all 50
states. Measure 8 in Oregon is the
first straight up and down vote of
the people on the central issue of
abortion. What your vote is going to
decide is w hether som ething so
morally wrong as abortion, will
remain legal.
wind in her hair, or say “Mommy”.
If you think that these statements
are emotional or political hype, I
challenge anyone to tell me which
statement is not true!
In the lofty realms o f truth,
fairness and love, there is no allow
able choice. Either abortion is right
or it is wrong. And if you believe
that the act of abortion is wrong,
then it is morally right not to allow
that choice to be made. There is no
constitutional right of privacy, nor
any reprodu ctive freedom that
grants one person the right to kill
another human being (no matter
how small or defenseless) simply
because the stronger human being
is inconvenienced by the presence of
the w eaker human being. Is
there???
That is what you will decide on
Nov. 6th. Thousands o f preborn
babies who have no voice are asking
you to stop convenience abortions.
Help save the babies —
Vote YES on Measure 8!
Love and Let Live
Babies do not have to die from
abortion. You can save them by voting
‘‘yes’’ on Measure 8.
The Slippery Slide of
Convenience Abortion?
First we heard, “We need abor
tion legalized for women suffering
from rape, incest and back alley
deaths.” The public bought this
song, while playing quietly in the
background was, “We want legal
abortion for birth control.” A major
goal of Planned Parenthood stated
in their Five Year Plan 1976-1980
reads: “protecting the legitimacy of
induced abortion as a necessary
back-up to con traceptive fa il
u re...”(p .3) Legal abortion then
becomes a convenient “social eras
er” for unmarried women of child
bearing age, who constitute less
than one-fourth of all women of
childbearing age, but obtain 80% of
all abortions in the U.S. (74% in
Oregon). Then doctors gradually
increase the gestation age for which
they do abortions. Amniocentesis
enters the picture to tell a woman
the sex o f her preborn. Doctors
“One reason for the tremendously
high number o f abortions is that
women use abortion as form o f
birth control. Abortionists have
created a disincentive to responsi
ble birth control. There have
always been unplanned pregnan
cies. But the present ease with
which women can obtain abor
tions directly encourages irre
sponsibility in handling their sex
uality. And that, in turn, gives rise
to an increasing number o f
unplanned pregnancies. And
those pregnancies feed into an
increasing abortion rate.”
Gregg Cunningham.
Focus on the Family Citizen.
May 21, 1990. p. IS.
After You Read, Please Pass It On!
pressured by potential lawsuit
increasingly warn that the baby
“may” have an abnormality. Even
though many o f the babies with
"possible” problems are born 100%
healthy, abortion becom es an
escape route for those not willing to
take the chance. Next we face the
ethical dilemma of later term abor
tions producing a “live” baby — the
“dreaded co m p lica tion ” as it is
called by medical personnel. And
why dispose of the aborted fetus,
when it can be used for transplants
or ex p erim en tation ? Thus, the
warm womb, intended to be a safely
protected home for bringing new
human life into the human race,
has become the most deadly loca
tion for a human being to reside.
ABORTION FOR
BIRTH CONTROL
A bortion advocates display
clear schizophrenia on the subject
of “abortion used as birth control.”
VOTERS FOR CHOICE are dis
tributing a 1990 “Strategy Guide”
which advises citizens to argue the
issue with these words: “There is no
evidence that American women use
abortion as a means of birth con
trol. I certainly would not condone
this and don’t know anyone who
would.” 1
However, A1 Moran, director of
New York's Planned Parenthood
and president o f Voters for Free
Choice, told a Maine audience that
in states where abortion is covered
by Medicare, 40-60% will be second
or third abortions and that statis
tics have shown that abortion has
become “a primary means of birth
control.” •'
In Oregon, the 1988 abortion
statistics from the State Health
Division reveal that abortion is
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