Following Is an Index to various
terms
and topics In the letters to the editor. The numbers refer to the number of the letter.
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)