A

A Woman’s Book of Choices: 40, 53, 268, 270

aborted babies: dreamed about by mother: 203; go to heaven: 85, 86, 88; photos of: 296, 297; used in experiments: 223, 224; who survive abortion: 232, 313, 325

abortion: “a cash cow”: 366; act of despair: 41; advertising ploy for: 5, 41, 100, 130; after rape or incest: 176–187; as a sacrament: 192, 193; as birth control: 190, 217–220, 390, 391; banning: 10, 70, 94–96, 196, 254; caused by drugs: 225–228, 314; coerced: 32, 155, 191, 194, 261, 403; compared to non-elective surgery: 125; creates its own demand: 219; doesn’t mix with conservatism: 197; done to women, by men, for men: 426; done without consent: 199; elective surgery: 70, 128, 258, 267, 294, 341, 362; exchanges temporary problem for permanent one: 69, 299; first-trimester: 94, 134, 255, 314, 385; forced: 3, 4, 19, 155–158, 294, 346, 399; gives other people choices: 21, 422; handbook on avoiding: 14; having non-doctors perform: 306; hysterotomy: 313; illegal: 11, 14, 39, 41, 59, 114, 137, 138, 268–279, 283, 318, 321, 326, 327, 329, 372, 404, 407, 408, 418; incomplete: 105; intensely personal decision: 3, 6, 367, 411; irreversible: 126, 294, 363; late-term: 223, 325; life-threatening: 92, 393, 404; like brushing teeth: 202; of “hard cases”: 185, 190, 202, 206, 208, 390; multiple: 92, 98, 218, 283, 342, 390, 391; not health care: 336, 340; of callers: 63; of undesirables: 243, 299; on healthy women with healthy babies: 336, 340; on non-pregnant women: 199; on pro-lifers: 221, 222; opposed by women more than men: 196, 330; outlawing will not end: 136, 138; personally experienced: 299; planned before pregnancy: 400, 401; prepayment required: 20, 169; promoting: 4, 34, 54, 84, 109, 119, 122, 157, 209, 258, 327, 331, 349; risky: 95, 128, 193, 258, 341; proof of desperation: 420; safety of, vs. birth: 92–106; second-trimester: 94; self-induced: 59, 137, 349, 372, 407; unlikely to save life: 102, 188; unwanted: 14, 403; women’s issue: 25, 194–196

abortion, effects on society: 10, 11, 78, 113, 234, 414, 415, 420; child abuse: 12, 113, 254, 265–267, 287; civil unrest: 11, 12; divorce: 11, 113, 254, 287, 415; inability to protect daughters: 10, 11; poverty: 12, 107, 113; single-parent households: 107; teen pregnancy: 107, 113; welfare: 108, 113; violence: 11, 113, 305

abortion, effects on women: agony: 299; amniotic fluid embolism: 393; amputation: 355, 362; anguish: 47, 69, 303; Asherman’s Syndrome: 92, 359; bleeding: 21, 170, 277, 280, 282, 362; brain damage: 64, 193, 381; cervical pregnancy: 92; cervico-vaginal fistula: 393; clostridium perfringens sepsis: 393; colostomy: 193, 303; coma: 64, 216, 303, 330, 355, 359; confined to nursing home: 64, 216; cyanosis: 381; damaged uterus: 92, 98, 232; death: 2, 11, 39, 58, 62, 63, 77–79, 82, 90, 91, 103–105, 114, 128, 132, 135, 138, 193, 216, 232, 245, 268, 272, 277, 303, 306, 315, 321, 336, 339, 384, 407, 409, 416, 418; depression: 267; disseminated intravascular coagulopathy: 361, 393; doubt: 20; dreams of aborted child: 203; ectopic pregnancy: 12, 98, 336, 384; emotional distress: 63, 126, 254; emotional trauma: 64, 299, 362, 395, 396; feeling alone: 69, 126; fever: 362; grief: 88; guilt: 267, 303; hemorrhage: 105; horror: 69; hypernatremia: 393; hysterectomy: 125; immeasurable sadness: 203; increased breast cancer risk: 225, 254; increased pregnancies: 112, 218, 390; infection: 92, 98, 125, 306, 336, 362; infertility: 290, 336, 359; labeling self as murderer: 126; lack of oxygen: 381; life-altering: 126, 395; maiming: 2, 11, 62, 90, 91, 135, 229, 232, 234, 245, 259, 272, 273, 303, 330, 418, 424, 427; miscarriage: 64, 98, 336, 384; no regret: 322; pelvic adhesions: 92; permanent disability: 339; persistent vegetative state: 64, 418; placenta incretia: 92; placenta previa: 92, 98, 384; premature birth: 336, 384; pulmonary thromboembolism: 361, 393; rape by abortionist: 2, 11, 12, 39, 62, 64, 77–80, 82, 132, 135, 286; regret: 20; remorse: 88; severe psychological problems: 221, 222; sterility: 193, 303, 404; suicidal: 64, 291; traumatizes rape victims: 175, 177, 208; weakened cervix: 98

abortion, reasons for: baby might be unhealthy: 202, 208, 401; can’t afford baby: 124, 131, 209; completely selfish: 41, 118, 203; don’t want more children: 207; don’t want sexual activity known: 207; don’t want to be pregnant: 190; fear of husband: 271; fetal deformity: 204, 386; financial: 192; frivolous: 202–205, 209; incest: 176–185, 187, 189, 202, 208, 369, 371, 386, 401; interfere with career: 68; lifestyle preferences: 120, 220; mother’s health problems: 202, 208, 386; mother’s life threatened: 101, 102, 202, 401; no reason whatsoever: 389; not ready for responsibility: 207–209; personal: 192; political: 192; rape: 176–187, 202, 204, 208, 386, 401; selective reduction: 388; sex selection: 385–387, 410; tired of being pregnant: 205; to be a good mother: 307–309; unable to handle motherhood: 299; unready for how baby would change life: 207–209, 307, 308; use fetus for treating Parkinson’s Disease: 223; use fetus in sculpture: 204

Abortion and Health Care Ethics: 357

abortion clinics: 23; “clinic” wrong term for: 233; closed down: 380; employees of, killed: 428; escorts at: 194, 235; illegally blocking: 229–231, 235; medical standards at: 379–383; picketing of: 11, 12, 222, 235, 299; referring women to crisis pregnancy center: 211; safety standards at: 35, 135, 281; violence at: 232–234

“abortion empowers women”: 420, 421, 424, 426

abortion industry: advertising by: 297, 347, 394, 404; ploys used by: 5, 41, 100, 130; propaganda from: 300; unregulated: 82

“abortion is safer than childbirth”: 92–103

abortion pill (See RU-486)

Abortion Practice: 231, 386

abortion statistics: 10, 12, 13, 21, 32, 63, 85, 89, 90, 105, 106, 108, 112, 113, 119, 138, 190, 198, 202, 207, 208, 210, 269, 278, 300, 340, 390, 391, 414; credibility of: 95, 97–101, 320; reporting of deaths not required: 138

“abortion stops a beating heart”: 297

abortionists: bad doctors: 258; bribing of: 11; calling injured woman a cab: 21; can’t get real jobs: 201; falsifying records: 14, 58; honest work a change of pace: 201; ignoring safety measures: 21; known felon: 407; letting woman bleed to death: 21, 232, 277, 280–282, 318; lying to women: 21, 58, 60; portrayed as nice people: 419; quitting: 312, 313; shooting of: 11, 12, 234, 409; shortage of: 310–313; should be jailed: 259–262, 264; should be marked as Cain: 310; suffer problems from abortion: 242; troubled by abortion: 220, 323

“abortions of convenience”: 202–204

abstinence: 162, 164, 198, 200

ACLU: 89, 325

ACT-UP: 256

adoption: 40, 111, 198, 209, 210, 212, 213, 278, 289–293, 307, 308; open: 291; placing child for adoption after rape: 172, 178, 180; too traumatic: 292

advertising, by abortion industry: 297, 347, 394, 404; ploys used by: 5, 41, 100, 130

Aesop’s fable: 116

AIDS: 101

Alan Guttmacher Institute: 32, 207–209, 377 (See also Guttmacher, Alan)

Alda, Alan: 194

Alvarez, Helen: 55

AMA News: 387

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): 325

American Journal of Public Health: 377

American Medical Association: 310, 311, 387

amniotic fluid embolism: 393

amputation: 355, 362

anesthesia: 351, 381

anguish after abortion: 47, 69, 303

animal rights: 46, 296

Anthony, Susan B.: 426

Anwyl, Rev. Hugh: 22

Arizona: 288

armed robbery: 1

artificial insemination: 141, 223, 401

Aryans: 243

Asherman’s Syndrome: 92, 359

Austin American Statesman: 205

Aztec: 192

B

Babies by Choice or by Chance: 268

“babies having babies”: 130, 376

baby boomers: 111

Baby Jessica: 337

Baby M: 26

“back-alley” abortions: 268, 270, 274–276, 278, 279, 326, 380

Baltimore: 371

banning of abortion: 10, 70, 94–96, 196, 254

baptism: 85

Beeblebrox, Zaphod: 364

Beethoven: 121

beliefs: imposed on others: 2, 6, 74–81, 236; of women, respect for: 221, 222; of pro-lifers, betrayed: 221

bestiality: 31, 197, 331, 399, 411

Bible: 85, 334

biology: basis for determining beginning of life: 145, 353; not a religious matter: 145

birth control: abortion as: 190, 217–220, 390, 391; pills: 106 (See also contraceptives)

birth rate: 13, 157 (See also population growth; population control)

bleeding: 21, 170, 277, 280, 282, 362

Boergers, Mary: 380

Bosnia, rapes in: 143, 415

Bowers, Richard M.: 158

Boy or Girl: Now Choice, Not Chance: 385

brain damage: 64, 193, 381

brain waves, of fetus: 249, 348, 352

Brazil: 300

breast cancer (See cancer)

Brewer, David: 313

bribing of abortionists: 11

Brinkerhoff, Mattie: 408

Brown, Judie: 55

Buckham, Marilyn: 202

Buffalo GYN Womenservices Clinic: 202

Bundy, Ted: 41, 43, 220, 246, 250, 419

C

Cain, abortionists should be marked as: 310

Calderone, Mary: 102, 269, 316, 366

California: 216, 349

Callahan, Daniel: 26, 32, 47, 330

“caller abortions”: 63

campaign contributions: 49, 55, 57, 76, 159

Camus, Albert: 48, 80

Canada: 266

cancer, increased risk of: 225, 254

“can’t afford another child”: 124, 131, 209

capital punishment (See death penalty)

cardiac defibrillators: 314

Carver, George Washington: 121

Casey decision (See Planned Parenthood v. Casey)

Catholics: 417

Centers for Disease Control (CDC): 94, 326

cervical pregnancy: 92

cervico-vaginal fistula: 393

cervix, weakened: 98

cesarean: 193, 313

“changing laws vs. changing hearts”: 62, 63

chastity (See abstinence)

chemical abortions: 119, 227 (See also RU-486)

Chicago: 407, 408

Chicago Sun-Times: 60

child abuse: 59, 414, 415; laws against: 42; increase since abortion legalized: 12, 113, 254, 265–267, 287

“child abuse will increase if women can’t bear only loved and wanted children”: 265–267

child care, federal

child molesting: 1, 44

Child Psychiatry and Human Development: 266

children: basis of value: 110, 181; better off dead: 55, 59; danger to planet: 46; denied all rights by abortion: 197; killing after birth: 65, 103, 168, 171, 181, 288, 346, 410, 413; killing of, celebrated: 192; of rapists, given death penalty for crime of father: 181–183; risk to parent after birth: 97, 103; sex with: 44, 83, 256; treated as property: 110, 301; unwanted: 107–112, 289, 290

“children are starving”: 116–121

China, forced abortions in: 3, 4, 19, 156

choice: freedom of: 29, 33–38, 65, 197, 425; pseudo: 30; restricted: 1, 2, 6, 29, 31, 42, 43, 51, 83, 399; victimizes others: 29, 45

Christianity: 91

church: 334; enemy of women: 89; looks other way: 89; members of, employed at abortion clinic: 87; not taking a stand: 90; pro-abortion members of: 90; pro-life movement’s biggest enemy: 91; silent: 90–92

Churchill, Winston: 78

cigarettes (See smoking)

civil unrest: 11, 12

Civil War: 8

Claflin, Tennessee: 426

Clark, Jeanne: 315

class warfare: 118, 337

Clergy Counseling Service: 22

clinics (See abortion clinics)

Clinton, Bill: 57, 194, 425, 428

clostridium perfringens sepsis: 393

coerced abortions: 32, 155, 191, 194, 261, 403

Cohen, Richard: 386

collection plate: 85, 87, 90, 91

colostomy: 193, 303

coma: 64, 216, 303, 330, 355, 359, 418; victims, harvesting parts of: 223

commission, for counseling: 23

complications: life-threatening: 92; not documented on clinic records: 104; not rare: 104, 105; underreported: 104 (See also abortion, effects on women)

conflict of interest: 166, 356

Connecticut: 328

Connell, Dr. Elizabeth B.: 385

consent form: for abortion: 69, 373; for carrying to term: 96, 103; for pro-lifers undergoing abortion: 221, 222

conservatism, doesn’t mix with abortion: 197

Constitution: 10–13, 38, 250, 334, 406

constitutional rights: 38, 130, 229–231, 295, 325, 334, 406

contraceptives: 159, 160, 162–165, 191, 197, 219, 241, 391; death from: 106; unreliable: 34, 217–220

coronary bypass, compared to elective surgery: 125

counseling, abortion: 54, 58, 61, 241, 291, 316, 341, 351, 356, 363, 403; commission for: 23; giving women too much information: 60; in a group: 20; kickback for: 206; post-abortion: 210

criminal abortions (See illegal abortions)

crisis: social: 69; “soul”: 69

crisis pregnancy centers: 91, 206, 418; assistance given: 170, 210, 216; not tax-funded: 210; women referred by abortion clinics: 211

Crutcher, Mark: 231, 427

cyanosis: 381

D

D&C: 14, 297

D&E abortion: 312

Dahmer, Jeffrey: 41, 144, 246, 250

death penalty: 36, 260–264

death row inmates: 223

deaths: from abortion: 2, 11, 39, 58, 62, 63, 77–79, 82, 90, 91, 103–105, 114, 128, 132, 135, 138, 193, 216, 232, 245, 268, 272, 277, 303, 306, 315, 321, 336, 339, 384, 407, 409, 416, 418; from abortion, reporting not required: 138; from oral contraceptives: 106; outnumber births: 158

debt, legacy of: 13

debt, national: 13, 215

“decision should be between a woman, her family, and her doctor”: 140, 367

Declaration of Independence: 9

Democratic media consultant: 5

Denes, Magda: 231, 381

depression, post-abortion: 267

diabetes, gestational: 204

dialysis, compared to elective surgery: 125

“disease of unwantedness”: 111

disseminated intravascular coagulopathy: 361, 393

divorce rate, affected by abortion: 11, 113, 254, 287, 415

domestic tranquility: 11

domestic violence: 84, 271, 408

Douglas, Stephen: 8, 17, 27, 148, 406

dreams of aborted child: 23

Dred Scott decision: 27

drinking: 120; by abortionists: 242; underage: 70, 73, 317, 374, 378

drugs: 113, 115, 253; fertility: 388; legalizing use of: 18, 33, 38, 57, 73, 331, 332; used in abortion: 225–228, 314

drunk driving: 31, 74, 139, 153, 320, 378, 399; deaths due to: 101, 181; legalized: 279

due process: 250

E

Eastern Women’s Center: 134

economic penalties, proposed for family size: 157

ectopic pregnancy: 12, 98, 336, 384

Ehrlich, Paul: 122

Eichman, Adolf: 322

emotional distress, post-abortion: 63, 126, 254

emotional trauma, post-abortion: 64, 299, 362, 395, 396

“empowers women”: 420, 421, 424, 426

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): 36, 330; 426

escorts, at abortion clinics: 194, 235

Everett, Carol: 394

“every child a wanted child”: 111

F

family, definition of: 287

Family Planning Perspectives: 130, 158, 377

fatherhood, mandatory: 142, 397, 398

fathers: abandon pregnant women: 57, 64; coerce women into aborting: 191, 420; have no say in decision: 23, 135, 140, 191, 194–196, 333, 367, 389, 397; unwilling to be fathers: 191, 367 (See also men)

federal funding (See government funding)

Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers: 349

fee for delivery vs. abortion: 240

feminists: 25, 32, 64, 68, 110, 195, 330, 387, 407, 408, 420, 422, 426; cover-up of bad abortionists by: 25; historically pro-life: 110, 426

Feminists for Life: 330

fetal deformity: 204, 386

fetal development: 60, 61, 249, 313, 327, 348, 352, 353, 361, 363, 364, 395

fetal experiments: 223, 224

fetal parts: black market in: 224; fetuses deliberately conceived for: 223; harvesting of: 223

fever: 362

First Amendment: 146

first-trimester abortions: 134, 314

Flodin, Kim C.: 203

Florida Abortion Rights Action League: 376

Food and Drug Administration: 349

foodstamps: 131

forced abortions: 155–158, 294, 346, 399; overseas: 3, 4, 19

Ford, Gerald: 293

Fortress International: 208

Founding Fathers: 229

Franz, Wanda: 55

free speech: 31, 38, 246, 334

freedom: illusion of: 30; of choice: 29–38, 72; of religion: 334; tied to responsibility: 67

“freedom to live as she sees fit”: 64–69

Friedan, Betty: 26

Frost, Robert: 287

funding (See state funding; federal funding)

G

Gandhi: 117

Gans, Olivia: 55

General Motors: 209

Genovese, Kitty: 89

gestational diabetes: 204

Gillooly, Jane: 271

“glob of tissue”: 7, 58, 154, 261, 362, 395, 404

Globally Responsible Birthing: 158

God: 86, 148, 406; enemies of: 90; servant of: 89

government: right to interfere: 82–84, 115; regulation of other industries: 82

government, purposes of: care of human life and happiness: 8, 9, 29, 197; establish justice: 10; insure domestic tranquility: 11; promote general welfare: 12; protect children: 82; protect citizens: 17, 82; protect consumers: 83; protect rights and lives: 18, 28, 29, 197; protect weak from strong: 82; secure blessings of liberty: 13

government funding of abortions: 3, 4, 40, 54, 134, 135, 283, 333–346, 361; for rape and incest: 172, 182, 183, 370, 371; increases abortions for rape: 174, 175; increases complications: 326, 336; opposed by women more than men: 196; overseas: 3, 4; promotes abortion: 4, 84

“government has no right to tell a woman she must have a child”: 141

“government in our bedrooms”: 114, 115

Gray, Nellie: 55

Greer, Frank: 5

grief: 88

guilt: 267, 303

Guttmacher, Alan: 188, 268

H

handbook on avoiding abortion: 14

handicapped women, abortion for: 243

“hard-case” abortions: 185, 190, 202, 206, 208, 390

harvesting: fetal parts: 223; organs of newborns: 325

Haskell, Martin: 325

“having abortion to be a good mother”: 307–309

Having Your Baby When Others Say No: 14

health care: 70, 336, 340

heaven: 39, 85, 86, 88

helping pregnant women: 55, 131, 168, 170, 210, 211–214, 347, 402

Hemlock Society: 132

hemorrhage: 105

Hern, Warren: 103, 140, 231, 386

high-risk pregnancy: 92, 93, 98, 99

Hillview abortion clinic: 216, 380

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 364

Hitler: 230, 244

HIV-positive: 101

homelessness: 212, 213, 414

home-school, advocates: 33

homosexuality: 256; defended as choice: 197; practices of, taught in school: 352

horror, after abortion: 69

Human Life Amendment: 255

“human pesticide”: 226

human sacrifice: 45, 146, 147, 192, 193

hypernatremia: 393

hysterectomy: 125

hysterotomy abortion: 313

I

“I love abortion”: 425

“If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?”: 52

illegal abortions: 11, 14, 39, 41, 59, 114, 137, 138, 268–279, 283, 318, 321, 326, 327, 329, 372, 404, 407, 408, 418; abortionists more careful during: 268; bribing doctors: 11

Illinois: 60

In Necessity and Sorrow: 231, 381

incest: 115, 173, 369, 370, 411; legalizing: 54

incest, abortion after: 176–185, 187, 189, 202, 208, 369, 371, 386, 401; eliminates evidence of crime: 184, 189, 369; protects father, not daughter: 184, 370, 371; punishes child for father’s crime: 181, 182; returns victim to abuser: 369–371; stiffer sentence for innocent bystander than perpetrator: 183

incompetence, legal: 294

incomplete abortion: 105

infection: 92, 98, 125, 306, 336, 362

infertility: 290, 336, 359

informed consent: 23, 60, 61, 135, 160, 351, 393; lack of: 30, 58, 92, 389; lobbying against: 24, 35, 353–365, 392, 394–396

insanity, defined: 414

insemination, artificial: 141, 223, 401

insurance fraud: 53, 58, 232, 270

“intensely personal decision”: 3, 6, 367, 411

International Planned Parenthood Federation: 3

Intra-Uterine Device (IUD): 255

IRS: 215

“it’s not a baby”: 236–239

J

“Jane”: 407, 408

Jefferson, Thomas: 28, 29, 78, 197

Jesus Christ: 85, 91

Jews: 246; dehumanized: 79, 242; rescued from Nazis: 43, 79, 230, 407

“join with us to end the need for abortion”: 197–201, 206–209

K

Kaplan, Laura: 407, 408

“keep your rosaries off my ovaries”: 417

Kennedy, Ted: 194, 425

kickback: 206

King, Martin Luther Jr.: 62, 139, 229

kingdom, sow seed into: 91

knitting needles, self-abortion with: 59

Ku Klux Klan: 256–258

L

Lader, Larry: 157

LaHaye, Beverly: 55

late-term abortions: 325; fetal parts from: 223

laws: 39, 42, 43, 62, 70–72, 83, 139, 140; basis for: 144; sometimes wrong: 229

lawsuit: 216, 321, 380

Lee, Nancy Howell: 274

Lejeune, Jerome: 226

Leona’s Sister Gerri: 271

Letich, Larry: 143

Levatino, Anthony: 312

life: 147, 149–152; based on biology: 145; begins at conception: 145, 251, 253; begins at first breath: 410; begins at 40: 413; begins at senility: 252; begins when determined by woman: 153, 154, 221, 288; mother’s, unlikely to be saved by abortion: 188 (See also “no one knows when life begins”)

life-threatening abortions: 92, 393, 404 (See also abortion deaths)

Limbaugh, Rush: 63

Lime 5: Exploited by Choice: 231, 427

Lincoln, Abraham: 8, 15, 17, 27, 78, 121, 148, 406

Lincoln-Douglas debates: 8, 15, 17, 27, 148, 406

liver transplant, compared to elective surgery: 125

Lucas, Henry Lee: 273, 324

M

MacNair, Rachel: 55

Mafia: 182, 253

maiming, by abortionist: 2, 11, 62, 90, 91, 135, 229, 232, 234, 245, 259, 272, 273, 303, 330, 418, 424, 427

malpractice: 104, 105

Malthus, Thomas: 122

“mandatory motherhood”: 142, 397, 398

mandatory fatherhood: 142, 397, 398

Manson, Charles: 45

manufacturing industry, regulated by government: 82

March for Life: 55

marriage: 130, 200, 398, 400, 411; minimum age proposed: 157; of pregnant teens: 130; of preteens: 411

Maryland: 216, 380

Massachusetts: 416

maternal death: 93, 95, 96, 99–102, 336, 415

Mathewes-Green, Frederica: 420

McCorvey, Norma: 174, 185

medical boards, complaints to: 12

medical procedures: abortions, performed by non-doctors: 306; performed by unqualified people: 58

medical records, falsified: 14, 58

medical standards at abortion clinics: 379–383

Medical World News: 385

Meloy, J. Reid: 323

men: become abortionists: 191, 194, 196; benefit from abortion: 21, 196, 321, 421, 422, 424–426; can’t understand women’s position: 195; interfering with decision: 194; let women and children suffer: 191; think women deserve better: 194; would never tolerate abortion if pregnant: 193, 330 (See also fathers)

mental illness, feigned: 40, 53, 270

mental retardation: 294

military spending: 335, 338, 344

Minnesota: 377

minority women: 55, 243

minors, requiring parental permission: 127–129; to seek medical attention: 127

miscarriage: 223, 239, 251; due to abortion: 98, 336, 384; falsified: 14, 53, 270

moral agents: 39–44, 47, 49, 50, 51, 221

morality: 39, 40, 43–45, 47; imposed on others: 2, 65, 139 (See also beliefs; religious beliefs)

Mormons: 411

Moses: 293

“most Americans favor choice”: 133–135, 341, 342

motherhood: mandatory: 142, 397, 398; surrogate: 26

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): 320

mother’s health problems: 202, 208, 386

mother’s life threatened: 101, 102, 202, 401

multiple abortions: 92, 98, 218, 283, 342, 390, 391

murder: 44, 45, 48, 65, 87, 88, 136, 171, 232, 323, 324; abortion described as: 244–247; laws against: 39, 43; of parents by children: 97, 103; of wife by husband: 309

Muslim: 171

“My Special Child,” song about aborted child: 205

N

Nathanson, Bernard: 269

Nathanson, Sue: 69, 126

National Abortion Federation: 60, 174, 196, 207, 222, 234, 379, 380

National Abortion Rights Action League: 5, 157, 269, 379

National Center for Health Statistics: 104

national debt: 13, 215

National Education Association (NEA): 161

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: 428

National Medical Committee: 385

National Organization for Women: 295, 315

National Rifle Association (NRA): 334

Nazis: 43, 230, 233, 242–244, 322, 407

New England Journal of Medicine: 361, 388

New York: 89, 329, 391

New York Times: 119, 218

New York Woman’s: 134

news media, misled public: 93, 94, 104, 105, 409, 419

Newsweek: 119, 203

Ney, Dr. Philip: 266, 267

nihilists: 45

Nixon, Richard: 84

“no absolute values”: 48

“no one knows when life begins”: 147, 149–152, 253, 348

“no right to do wrong”: 1, 8, 17, 27, 148

Nobel Prize winner: 48, 80

Norplant: 255, 399

North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA): 256

“not pro-abortion, but pro-choice”: 33–38, 399

Nuremberg Trials: 246 (See also Nazis)

nursing home, confined to: 64, 216

O

O’Connor, Sinead: 205

“one’s own concept of existence”: 45, 46

“opposing sex education increases abortions”: 159–166

optometrists: 195, 356

oral contraceptives (See contraceptives)

“outlawing abortion will not end it”: 136, 138

overpopulation: 122, 303, 415 (See also population control)

oxygen deprivation: of fetus: 225; of woman: 381

P

pagans: 192

parental consent: 125–129, 135, 140, 160, 173, 294, 333, 368, 369, 372–378; lobbying against: 24, 35; reduces teen pregnancy, birth, and abortion: 377

parents, financially responsible: 127, 372–374

Parkinson’s Disease, treated by fetal brain cells: 223

pastors: 85–91

paternity suits: 57

Paul, Alice: 330, 426

PBS: 271

pedophile: 44, 256

pelvic adhesions: 92

Pentagon: 215, 335

permanent disability: 339

persistent vegetative state: 64, 418

“personally opposed to abortion”: 49, 74–80

“personally troubled about abortion”: 54–59

personhood of fetus: 6–8, 17, 149, 251, 325; determined by woman: 413

personhood of women: 2, 6, 416

pesticide, human: 226

Philadelphia: 407

physician: involvement in decision

picketing, of abortion clinics: 11, 12, 222, 235, 299

Pill, The: 106, 159, 417 (See also oral contraceptives)

placenta: deteriorates from RU-486: 225; incretia: 92; previa: 92, 98, 384

Planned Parenthood: 19, 22, 36, 89, 94, 122, 141, 158–166, 188, 207–209, 241, 256–258, 268, 295, 306–308, 316, 366, 377, 379, 385, 404; America’s largest abortion provider: 22; annual budget: 214

Planned Parenthood v. Casey: 45, 46, 61, 301, 302

plastic springs, used in abortion: 407

Pollitt, Kathy: 218

political campaign funds (See campaign contributions)

polygamy: 411

poor women: 118, 123, 131, 243, 326, 334, 336, 337, 340, 341, 344–346; unequal burden on: 123, 334

population control: 122, 157, 158

Population Council, The: 112, 219

population growth: 13, 122

Post-Abortion Syndrome: 320

Postal Service: 215

“potential life”: 237, 238, 251, 252

poverty: 117, 120, 121, 123, 201, 207, 324, 337, 414, 415; affected by abortion: 12, 107, 113

Preamble: 10–12

pregnancy: called a disease: 103; cervical: 92; death in subsequent: 92, 98; difficulties in subsequent: 92, 98, 336, 384; high-risk: 92, 93, 98, 99; justify carrying to term: 22, 96, 103; not a disease, illness, or injury: 240, 336, 340; preplanned to abort: 340, 400, 401; risks of: 92, 93, 95–103, 106; tests: 159, 160, 169, 241, 341; unplanned: 109, 112, 159, 160, 170, 179, 287, 298, 400, 401

premature birth: 336, 384

prepayment, required for abortions: 20, 169

Presidential Commission on Population: 157

pressure to abort: 14, 19, 20, 32, 70, 71, 191, 261, 402, 424

privacy: 222, 334

pro-abortionists: lie: 40, 58, 269, 270, 273, 278; encourage lying: 40, 53, 284; falsely report rape: 40, 53, 174, 270; feign mental illness: 40, 53, 270; threaten suicide: 40, 53, 284; falsify miscarriage: 270

“pro-choice,” defined: 389

“pro-choice, not pro-abortion”: 33–38, 399

pro-choicers don’t trust women: 55, 56, 59, 61

“product of conception”: 237

progress for women: 421, 424

“pro-life, that’s a lie; you don’t care if women die”: 418, 429, 430

pro-lifers: abortions on: 221, 222; predominately women: 55, 56

“pro-lifers only care about life from conception to birth”: 214, 216

“pro-lifers should help people who are already here”: 210–213

promoting abortions: 4, 34, 54, 84, 109, 119, 122, 157, 209, 258, 327, 331, 349

prostaglandin: 314

prostitution: 18, 38, 57, 72, 198, 331, 332

psychological problems, post-abortion: 221, 222

pulmonary thromboembolism: 361, 393

purpose of government (See government, purpose of)

Q

Queer Nation: 256

“quickening”: 327, 328

R

racketeering: 253, 335

Ragsdale, Richard: 60

rape: 1, 2, 6, 31, 44, 62, 87, 115, 136, 139, 140; abortions for: 176–187, 202, 204, 208, 386, 401; by abortionist: 2, 11, 12, 39, 62, 64, 77–80, 82, 132, 135, 286; effects of: 177, 178; falsely claimed in Roe v. Wade: 185; falsified reporting of: 40, 53, 174, 270; fear of reporting: 174, 175; justifies abortion: 172, 179; placing child for adoption after: 172, 178, 180; reporting requirements for funding: 174, 175, 186; state-funding increases abortions for: 174; trauma of, compounded by abortion: 175, 177, 208

Rebel, The: 48

religion: 85, 122, 144, 147, 171, 254, 334, 417

religious beliefs: 2, 148, 171, 253, 406; as basis for laws: 144; imposed on others: 144–147, 192

Reno, Janet: 428

reporting requirements: for deaths due to abortion: 138; for rape: 174, 175, 186

residents, higher complication rate than doctors: 306

“resources are scarce”: 118, 120–122

responsibility: result of freedom: 67; to others: 66, 229

“restrictive” vs. “protective”: 317

resuscitation equipment: 314

Revolutionary Worker: 202

Reynolds, R. J.: 358

right to life: determined by child’s father: 181–183; endowed by Creator: 9

rights: based on residence: 9; constitutional: 38, 130, 229–231, 295, 325, 334, 406; no right to do wrong: 1, 8, 17, 27, 148; not absolute: 65, 66, 68, 197; of children, denied by abortion: 197; to confidentiality, relinquished: 222

Roe v. Wade: 14, 114, 156, 174, 185, 251, 253, 268, 272, 274, 276–280, 282, 286, 314, 327–329, 426

RU-486: 225–228, 314

Rule, Ann: 419

Rushdie, Salman: 171

S

sacrament, abortion as a: 192, 193

Sacrament of Abortion and Pagan Meditations, The: 192

sacrifice, human (See human sacrifice)

sadness, immeasurable, after abortion: 203

safety, of abortion vs. birth: 92–106

safety standards for clinics: 135, 281; lobbying against: 35

Salvi, John: 416

Sanger, Margaret: 122, 141

Santa Monica Evening Outlook: 22

Santoro, Geraldine: 271–273

Satan, silent partner of: 89

Satanic Verses, The: 171

Satanists: 45

“save souls, not bodies”: 85–89

Schindler, Oskar: 43, 79, 230

school-based sex education: 161, 162, 241, 352

Schrank, Jeffrey: 30

Schweitzer, Albert: 86

Search for an Abortionist, The: 268, 274

second opinions, on surgery: 362, 363

second-trimester abortions: 94

Second World War: 79

selective reduction abortions: 388

self-induced abortion: 59, 137, 349, 372, 407

selling fetuses: 224

selling organs for transplant: 331

“separation of Church and State”: 146

serial killers: 39, 261, 273, 323, 324, 419

service industry, regulated by government: 82

sex: avoiding until ready for parenthood: 198, 209; casual: 34, 67, 301, 302; encouraged: 34, 112, 241; illegal: 411; outside of marriage: 200; promiscuous: 200 (See also rape; incest; bestiality)

sex education: 159–166, 352; “values-

neutral”: 162, 164, 165

sex selection abortions: 385–387, 410; most aborted babies are female: 387; promoted by Planned Parenthood: 385

sexist attitude: 176, 195

sexuality: accepting associated risks: 217; taking responsibility for: 198

sexually transmitted diseases: 113, 161

shooting, at abortion clinics: 11, 12, 234, 409, 428

“shortage of abortion providers”: 310–313

silence, of church: 90–92

60 Minutes: 380

slavery, parallel to abortion: 8, 27, 148, 229, 406

Smith, E. Dorsey: 357

Smith, Susan: 65, 168, 171

smoking: 160, 320, 336, 358

Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste: The Illusion of Free Choice in America: 30

social inequality: 123

society, consequences on (See abortion, effects on society)

sonogram: 353

Soul Crisis: 69, 126

spiritual implications

standards, at abortion clinics: medical: 379–383; safety: 35, 281

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: 110, 426

state funding (See government funding)

statistics: on abortion: 10, 12, 13, 21, 32, 63, 85, 89, 90, 105, 106, 108, 112, 113, 119, 138, 190, 198, 202, 207, 208, 210, 269, 278, 300, 340, 390, 391, 414; on abortion, credibility of: 95, 97–101, 320; on birth rate: 13; on maternal death: 100, 101; on smoking deaths: 95, 98, 99, 100

Steinem, Gloria: 26

Stengle, Sylvia: 222

sterility: 193, 303, 404

sterilization: 157, 399

stillbirths: 295

suction machine: 69, 227, 313, 372

suicide: 291, 378, 419; contemplating: 64, 284, 402; falsely threatening: 14, 40, 53, 284, 285

Supreme Court: 27, 45, 46, 60, 153, 209, 301, 302, 330

surrogate motherhood: 26

T

Taft, Charlotte: 167

Tampa Tribune Times: 376

tattoos: may cause regret: 126; not allowed on teens: 126, 129

tax credit, per-child: 158

tax evasion: 47, 58, 232; laws against: 39

teen pregnancy rate, affected by abortion: 107, 113

ten Boom, Corrie: 230

Teresa, Mother: 86, 258

Texas: 337

theologians: 147, 253, 254

theological aspects: 147, 193 (See also religion; religious beliefs)

“therapeutic abortions”: 268, 280

Third-World nations: 116, 118

Thomas, Dave: 293

Tibet, forced abortions in: 3

Tietze, Christopher: 112, 269

Time: 119

Title X: 4, 209, 361

torture: 87, 230

“toughest decision a woman will ever make”: 167–169

transportation industry, regulated by government: 82

travel to other states: 70, 71, 73

treason: 229

“trust women”: 44, 49–51, 53–61

U

ultrasound: 236, 327, 350, 388, 404, 410

unborn baby: footprint of: 297; known blood type of: 405; identifiable genetic code of: 405; movement of: 313, 327; seen as “glob of tissue”: 7, 58, 154, 261, 362, 395, 404; treated for diseases: 350, 405; unique fingerprints of: 405

Underground Railroad: 229, 407

undue hardship: 396

“unequal burden on poor women”: 123, 334

UNICEF: 300

United Nations Population Fund: 3

unplanned pregnancy: 109, 112, 159, 160, 170, 179, 287, 298, 400, 401

unwanted abortions: 14, 403 (See also coerced abortions)

unwanted children: 289, 290; “who will pay for?”: 107–112

unwantedness: 108, 111, 324

uterus, damage to: 92, 98, 232

V

vacuum aspirator: 69

vacuum cleaner: 23, 63

“values-neutral” sex education: 162, 164, 165

violence: affected by abortion: 11, 113, 305; at abortion clinics: 232–234; by families of abortive women: 234; domestic: 84, 271; in workplace: 428

voting record, pro-life: edge at polls: 49

W

waiting period: 160, 366, 393; lobbying against: 35, 119, 392, 394–396

“war against women”: 330

Washington Post: 386

“we don’t advocate abortion”: 22–25, 27, 28

welfare: 108, 113

when life begins: at first breath: 410; at 40: 413; at senility: 252; determined by woman: 153, 154, 221, 288; “no one knows”: 147, 149–152, 253, 348

“who decides—woman or state”: 1–20; parallel to rape: 1, 2, 6

“Who will pay for unwanted children?”: 107–112

WIC: 131

Williams Obstetrics: 106

Winfrey, Oprah: 400

Wolf, Naomi: 199, 247, 297

Woman’s Book of Choices, A: 40, 53, 268, 270

“woman’s right to choose”: 425

“woman’s right to control her own body”: 26, 38, 331, 332

women: deserve better: 194; don’t want abortion: 21, 30, 70, 402, 424; experimented on with drugs: 226, 228; exploited by abortion industry: 30; have no excuse for carelessness: 199; in combat: 423; non-pregnant, abortion on: 199; oppose abortion more than men: 196, 330; second-class citizens: 193; sexually available to men: 106, 421; source of income for abortion clinic: 159, 214, 241, 293; treat children as property: 110, 301; treated as property by men: 110; treated as sex toys: 200, 421, 426; victimized by abortion: 263, 264; what they want: 3, 123, 201, 421

“women are not incubators”: 416

“women should be their own moral agents”: 39–44, 47, 49–51, 221

“women’s issue”: 25, 194–196

“women’s rights advocates”: 347, 366, 379, 422, 423, 426

Woodhull, Victoria: 426

World War II (See Second World War)

Y

“you can’t legislate morality”: 139 (See also morality)