Are African-American Women Really Exploited By Abortion Or Just Willing Participants? (818 hits)
(Ms. Akua Furlow, author of this brochure was adopted. Her adopted mother was conceived in rape. The article has been posted with the permission of the Life Education and Resource Network).
In the Bible, in the book of Deuteronomy 30:19, God tells us to "Choose life so that you and your children will live..."
Everyday in America thousands of women and teenagers seek medically induced abortions. Often the women and teenagers who seek to have an abortion have been deceived to believe that their pregnancy is little more than a mass of tissue, a non-living blood clot. Most of them would recoil in horror if they realized that an abortion always stops a beating heart of a baby.
While "pro-choice" feminist push abortion as a "women's right", the truth is that women are being exploited by abortion, especially African-American women. The pro-abortion feminist, or as they like to call themselves, "pro-choice" advocates have successfully identified abortion as a "civil right". Some African Americans, having fought during the civil rights struggle of the 50s and 60s or learned through history books, have somehow been duped into identifying the "pro-choice" movement with the civil right struggles. The civil rights movement was a struggle for equality and human rights. Medical abortion is the premature induced death of a developing human baby, by a doctor, with the consent of the mother for a fee.
Dr. Noreen Johnson, an obstetrician Gynecologist and Infertility Specialist states that, "The first system to develop at about three weeks of embryologic life is the circulatory system. In fact, the heart is formed and functions at four (4) weeks post conception. By the end of the 7th week, the beginnings of all essential external and internal structures are present and the embryo is now called a fetus. The rest of the fetal period is characterized by growth and elaboration of these structures. At ten (10) weeks the face has the human profile and the fetus is about the size of a thumb.(1)
A 1994 "Post Abortion Research Study of African-American Women" showed that of 126 women who respond to a questionnaire 81% indicated one or more psychological complaints. Of the complaints identified, 60% felt feelings of guilt, 49% reported that they had feelings of regret and remorse, 55% reported crying and depression and 35% stated an inability to forgive herself for having an abortion. Other complaints noted were low self-esteem, feelings of despair and helplessness, anger, rage and suicidal tendencies. 30% of the respondents also complained about physical complications that included hemorrhage, infection, incomplete abortion and perforated uterus and intense pain. Only 1% of the respondents stated that they would recommend abortion for others. (2)
