This
is a tough decision you have to make, but please be mature. Only
an immature person thinks of herself alone. This article was written by
neither a militant, pro-life male, nor a 50-year-old grandmother who has
never been faced with a problem pregnancy. It was written by a woman who
was eighteen and pregnant once. A woman who was scared, like you are, and
chose abortion. After nine years I know what the right choice was, and is,
and I just want you to know . .
.
What They
Didn't Tell Me ...
They Won't Tell You . . .
1. Abortion is not safe.
Contrary to the belief that abortion is as simple as removing a wart,
it is actually a very serious procedure that can have very serious results.
The clinic personnel will lead you to believe that complications rarely
arise, but that is not the case. Many women have been damaged for life as a
result of their legal abortion.
Your cervical muscle may be damaged in an abortion because the
cervix is forcefully dilated. This means that your future pregnancies have
a greater chance of resulting in miscarriage or premature delivery. Damage
to the uterine wall is another concern. Perforation (puncturing) of the
uterus, infection, hemorrhage, and blood clots are only a few of the
complications that you could end up with. I you do have a :successful"
abortion, scar tissue may still form which can cause sterilization,
miscarriages and tubal pregnancies.¹ approximately two out of 10 women who
abort their first pregnancy will never be able to have children again. Do
you want to take that kind of risk?
They
Won't Tell You . . .
2. Abortion leaves emotional scars.
Most often a woman will feel
the consequences of her decision within days of her abortion. If they
don't appear immediately, they will appear as she gets older. Emotional
scars include unexplained depression, a loss of the ability to get close to
others, repressed emotions, a hardening of the spirit, thwarted maternal
instincts (which may lead to child abuse or neglect later in life), intense
feelings of guilt and thoughts of suicide.² Don't be fooled --- every
abortion leaves emotional scars.
They
Won't Tell You . . .
3. Abortion kills a baby.
Before you even know you're pregnant, your baby's heart begins to
beat. At six weeks brain waves are measurable and your baby moves and
responds to touch. At eight weeks she is perfectly developed, with fingers
and toes, even her own set of fingerprints. By ten weeks she can squint,
swallow and suck her thumb. If you tickled her nose she would move her
head away. By eleven to 12 weeks all body systems are present and
working.³ All she needs to become a healthy newborn is time and
nourishment. Nothing new develops after 12 weeks! What would you name
her? Rebecca? Stephanie?
They
Won't Tell You . . .
4. Abortion is violent.
The most common method of abortion used
in early pregnancy is suction aspiration. The cervix is forced open. A
vacuum device 29 times more powerful than a home vacuum cleaner is used to
suction out the "contents of the uterus."4
A D & E is performed after 16 weeks.
As in the suction method, your baby is torn to pieces, but this time the
abortionist uses a special instrument to tear the arms and legs from the
body. he punctures her soft spot, suctions out the brain and crushed the
skull, then removes the remaining body parts.
Another method done after 16 weeks is the saline abortion. A salt
solution is injected into the baby's bag of waters. It poisons the baby and
burns off her outer layer of skin. She actually convulses in pain for the
hour or so that it takes for the solution to do its deadly job. The mother
then goes into labor and gives birth to a dead baby.5
A hysterotomy (last trimester) is done by making an
incision in the mother's abdomen. The unwanted child is lifted out and left
to die.
They
Won't Tell You . . .
5. Abortion exploits women.
The counselors at an abortion clinic
will use obscure terms such as "product of conception," "contents of the
uterus," and "fetal tissue" to refer to your baby. They will rarely advise
you to carry your baby to term because they are operating for profit and
they don't want to lose your business. Essentially, they are making money
off of your problem! The abortionist can make more money by doing abortions
than a regular physician can through caring for a woman through a 9-month
pregnancy. Are you going to be the poor girl who finances his next trip to
Europe?
They
Won't Tell You . . .
6. There are alternatives to abortion.
There are many organizations that can
offer you practical support such as maternity and baby clothes, a place to
live, pre-natal care, and financial aid. Counseling is also available to
help you through this traumatic time.
Please think carefully about your future. The decision you make in
the next few weeks will affect you for the rest of your life. If you're
unsure about having an abortion, take just one more day to think about it --
don't let anyone pressure you into a decision you're not ready to make yet.
Please call us -- we want to help... And we'll give you the truth.
This tract was written by a PEACE of Minnesota member who experienced
abortion personally.
1 Questions & Answers on Abortion,
Minnesotat Citizens Concerned For Life. 2 "Before you Make the Decision
..."Women Exploited by Abortion. 3 "Handbook on Abortion". Dr. and Mrs.
J.C. Wilke. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid.
END
"And he said,
What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth
unto me from the ground." —Genesis 4:10
The American people have blood on our hands.
It is called corporate responsibility. We are GUILTY as a
nation for the sins of our people. In World War II,
hundreds-of-thousands of innocent Japanese people were burned alive with
napalm by American incendiary bombs. This is before we ever nuked
them! You see, the Japanese people paid for the sins of their nation
as a whole. America's day of reckoning is coming! We are a
sinful nation of adulterous, idolatrous, selfish, calculated, cold-blooded,
murderers.
Over 48,000,000 babies have been slaughtered in American
abortuaries. Where is justice? Just as Abel's blood cried out
from the ground after Cain murdered him, so does the blood of every aborted
baby in the world cry out to God from the ground for justice.
Americans aren't just sinful, they are in
denial about their sins. We have become sinfully proud and arrogant as
a people, dismissing God's commands, removing prayer and Bible teaching from
our public schools, and redefining God. But God hasn't changed, and
the truths of God's Word hasn't changed, and sin is still sin.
Here is a powerful quote from the
mighty man of God, and Bible teacher, M.R. DeHaan, M.D. ...
"Has it ever struck
you, as it has me, that the world has tried desperately hard to rid itself of
even the very mention of the word sin? It has almost entirely
disappeared from the world's vocabulary. We can pick up our newspaper or
magazine and read all the accounts of violence and atrocity and murder and
dishonesty, but seldom are these things called "sin." Writers talk about
crime and violence and death and murder and immorality, but the word SIN is
carefully avoided.
Now all of this become very significant, for
we believe it to be an attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to get rid of
the idea of sin. But sin is still sin, and until there is a revival of
preaching against sin in all of its awfulness, as a filthy damning rebellion
against God, which it is, there cannot be a revival, but the world will
continue getting worse and more rotten and more sinful than ever.
By the
grace of God, we, therefore, shall lift our voice against sin, not merely as a
human weakness, not merely as the mistakes of a race trying to climb upward by
evolutionary process, but as that vicious, selfish, filthy thing which lies at
the basis and root of all man's troubles and trials, and which is a rebellion
against a thrice-holy God, which must result in the punishment of the sinner
in an eternal Hell, unless it is taken care of by the blood atonement of the
Son of God. That is why we preach on the subject of the blood, the only
God-given remedy for sin."
SOURCE: M.R. DeHaan, M.D.; The Tabernacle,
1955, p. 149 (ISBN: 0-310-23491-3)
That is the message which America's preachers
need to hear today. We have become complacent concerning sin.
Abortion has become so commonplace that few preachers today cry aloud
against sin as Isaiah the prophet did... "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up
thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the
house of Jacob their sins" (Isaiah 58:1). Where are the Billy
Sundays today, who will preach uncompromisingly against sin?
America
doesn't need anymore ear-ticklin', back-scratchin', penny-pinchin',
nickel-nippin', soft-soap, compromising, pink-tea and lemonade type sissy
preachers. No sir! What America desperately needs today is
old-fashioned, Bible-believin', people-lovin', barn-stormin',
window-rattlin', shingle-pullin', narrow-minded, Hell-fire and damnation,
separated, soulwinning, preachers who aren't afraid to speak the truth!!!
“Before I formed
thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb
I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
—Jeremiah
1:5
