Abortion advocated for rape and incest victims

PRO-ABORTION LIES

For many people the issue of abortion can be confusing and distorted. However, the marvels of the science of fetology has done much to remove from people's minds all possible doubt about the humanity of the unborn child. The anti-life lobby has been forced to look elsewhere for arguments to support abortion, than the faded worn-out argument of " its not a baby, its a foetus" (Extraordinary really, when all foetus means is "little one" or "young one.")

To gain support then, pro-abortion advocates have resorted to emotionalism and media-backed hysterias, with little or no statistical or factual back-up for their arguments. The most common of these is that abortion is needed / necessary for women who have become pregnant through sexual assault.

ABORTION LEGALISED IN PRETEXT OF RAPE

Abortion was legalised in the USA, in Britain, in South Africa, indeed in most countries, and now in Ireland (though not legislated on) through this pretext - that a woman pregnant through rape must be able to avail of abortion. Because rape is such a violent, evil, unspeakable crime most people understandably shrink from discussing it or issues surrounding it.

Any attorney will acknowledge that "hard cases make bad law," but that hasn't stopped anti-life people all over the world from using the classic 'hard cases' to introduce first artificial contraception, then abortion, then infanticide, and finally euthanasia. Once the pro-abortionists secure abortion for the 'hard cases' of rape and incest, they use the situation to point out the "inconsistency" in existing laws in order to justify abortion on demand.

Pro-abortion spokespeople have repeatedly tried to portray pro-life people as people who somehow advocate rape. Perhaps what they cannot understand is that the pro-life movement is made up of ordinary men and women who have the same (if not more) compassion, support and concern for any one who has been through the trauma of sexual assault.

We have mothers and sisters and aunts and wives and grannies too - but our compassion extends to all human beings whether they be in the womb or not. Others choose carefully who to care for and cherish and disregard the person with no voice - the unborn child.

SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS

In Doctor Mahkorn's study where 85% of sexual assault victims who were pregnant, chose against abortion. These women said that they would feel violated again if they had an abortion. Strange isn't it that when pro-lifers cite this reason as an argument they are accused of being anti-woman. The truth remains that the women who took part in this study, felt as pro-life people do, that they should not punish an innocent child for the crime of his/her father.

Remember that this study took place in the USA where abortion was legalised in 1973, where 1.6 million abortions take place every year, and yet the very women for whom abortion is deemed "essential" massively rejected it. Can it be that those who call for " a woman's right to have an abortion " actually don't seem to bother to find out what women actually want? The answer must be Yes.

Anyone who truly cares for victims of sexual assault must know that abortion leaves emotional and physical scars and feelings of violation on women. The very fact that there is a need for organisations like Women hurt by Abortion, proves that abortion harms women as well as children.

For any woman, feelings of despair, guilt, self loathing, violation, and depression are bad enough. Any woman who has been raped, whether they are pregnant or not, needs love and long-term support, not an abortion. Abortion does not offer any solutions to a rape victim, it merely destroys in a barbaric fashion a living, growing baby.

VICTIMS OF INCEST

Although incest usually involves repeated intercourse over a period of up to ten years, it has a low probability of pregnancy - less than one percent. This is due to several factors. Most cases of incest currently involve one to three acts of intercourse, before they are reported or uncovered. This has not always been the case. Until about 1970, incest resulted in as many as 20 percent of the victims becoming pregnant before incest treatment programs and self-awareness training became widespread.

According to Robert Carroll of the Santa Clara County Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program in San Jose, California, and Dr. George E. Maloof, a psychiatrist at the Community Mental Health Center in Daly City, California, the incest rate per victim (not per incident of felonious intercourse) is "less than one percent."

The Christopher Street program in Minneapolis reported four cases of pregnancy in 400 cases of incest, or about one percent. Santa Clara County's incest treatment program, run by Henry Giaretto, reported less than one percent pregnancies (12 instances) in 1,500 cases of incest. And Washington State's incest treatment program reported no pregnancies whatsoever in more than 600 cases.

If the results of these four studies are combined, we see that the probability of pregnancy due to incest (per girl, not per case of intercourse), is 16 out of 2,500 cases (one out of 156, or 0.64%).
G. Maloof, M.D., The Consequences of Incest. The Psychological Aspects of Abortion. University Publications of America, 1979, page 74

ABORTION IS A COVER UP FOR INCEST

Abortion is the best possible coverup for incest. Perhaps this is why groups of organised paedophiles and paederasts including the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) are stridently pro-abortion. NAMBLA insists that taboos against incest are "antiquated" and "outmoded." Quote by Dr. Willard Cates, and NAMBLA information, from Basile J. Uddo, 1984. There is absolutely no reason for an organisation consisting of child molesters to advocate abortion except to cover up the most damning evidence of their crimes.

It is common for Planned Parenthood and similar groups to use 'hard case' stories in their literature, debates, and presentations. These people will often talk of twelve and thirteen year old pregnant girls (and sometimes, nine and ten year old girls) who are sexually active or pregnant. Planned Parenthood, of course, supplies abortion, contraceptives, and, above all, 'confidentiality' to these young girls.

We might ask Planned Parenthood who it thinks the male parties to such sexual activity are. Almost certainly they are not nine or ten year old boys! These girls are almost always the victims of (step)father/daughter or big brother/little sister incest. Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organisations, by their advocacy of abortion, are directly helping many incestuous relationships to continue.

For example, Wardell Pomeroy, who wrote a sex education book that was endorsed by Planned Parenthood, claimed that:

"We find many beautiful and mutually satisfying [sexual] relationships between fathers and daughters. These may be transient or ongoing, but they have no harmful effects ... Incest between adults and younger children can also prove to be a satisfying and enriching experience ... When there is a mutual and unselfish concern for the other person, rather than a feeling of possessiveness and a selfish concern with one's own sexual gratification, then incestuous relationships can and do work out well. Incest can be a satisfying, non-threatening, and even an enriching emotional experience, as I said earlier."
Wardell Pomeroy. "A New Look at Incest." Variations Magazine, 1977, and Forum Magazine, November 1976

And SIECUS (the Sex Education and Information Council of the United States) alleges that:

"Most paedophiliacs (people who are sexually interested in minor children) are gentle and affectionate, and are not dangerous in the way child molesters are stereotypically considered to be."
Robert O. Hawkins. "The Uppsala Connection: The Development of Principles Basic to Education for Sexuality." SIECUS Report, January 1980

Finally, Valida Davila of San Diego's homosexual / paederast / paedophile Childhood Sensuality Circle, makes the ultimate claim:

"We believe children should begin sex at birth. It causes a lot of problems not to practice incest."
Valida Davila of San Diego's Childhood Sensuality Circle, quoted in John Leo. "Cradle-to-Grave Intimacy." Time Magazine, September 7, 1981, page 69.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT

Abortion is just as inept a solution for incest as it is for rape or any other reason especially from the psychological point of view. Incest expert R. Bruce Sloan, M.D., states that:

"The psychiatric basis for terminating the life of an unborn baby incestuously conceived has absolutely no scientific merit and derives from a blind adherence to a legal formulation espoused by abortion promoters now including organized psychiatry."
R. Bruce Sloan, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine. The Consequences of Incest. The Psychological Aspects of Abortion. University Publications of America, 1979

Georgia Early struck at the heart of the matter when she said that;

 

"When incest is involved, allowing abortion in pregnancy cases of minors tends to compound the exploitation of the innocent victim and protect the perpetrator from exposure so that he may continue his illegal and immoral acts without fear of discovery."

 

"To rehabilitate child abusers, it is necessary to work on their feelings of self-esteem, their memories of themselves being abused as children, and to get them to see their own children in a new way. Abortion sidesteps this very involved process because the child incestuously pregnant is taken for an abortion and then returned to the home where the abuse occurred. Abortion also perpetuates the generational violence where the abused child becomes the child abuser."
Georgia Early. "Incest, Sexual Child Abuse and Abortion." Life Advocate, May/June 1980.