Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spread a false claim by stating that the reversal of Roe will “kill” women. Is she not aware of the many women who have been injured or killed from legal abortion since the abominable Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court in 1973?
For example:
“HOW IS THIS HELPING WOMEN?” 33RD WOMAN IN 5 YEARS RUSHED FROM MANHATTAN PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION FACILITY BY AMBULANCE
Posted by Cheryl Sullenger (March 22, 2022)
There are similar examples including…
1. ARCHIVE OF DOCUMENTED ABORTION PATIENT DEATH REPORTS BY OPERATION RESCUE
Posted by Cheryl Sullenger
2. Investigation Reveals Planned Parenthood Lying About Abortion Injuries
3. Planned Parenthood Doc Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion Has Been Unlicensed for Three Years
4. PERKY ABORTION WORKER ASKS FOR AMBULANCE FOR BLEEDING WOMAN IN 1 OF 2 EMERGENCIES AT CHICAGO ABORTION FACILITY IN 10 DAYS
5. Woman Rushed to Hospital After Planned Parenthood Tears Hole in Her Uterus in Botched Abortion
6. Planned Parenthood is Unregulated
Planned Parenthood refers to its abortion clinics as “health centers.” But they are not health centers, because they do not have to meet the same medical, safety or sanitation standards as other outpatient surgical clinics. Dental offices are more regulated than abortion clinics.
7. Documents reveal Keisha Atkins was repeatedly drugged by abortion facility before her death
8. Woman taken in ambulance after abortion at Wichita facility on Palm Sunday
9. Does Abortion Reduce Maternal Deaths? [NO!]
10. The Risks of Abortion
11. Autopsy Confirms Abortion Clinic Killed Young Woman in Botched Legal Abortion
12. Unsafe: Ambulance calls to abortion facilities doubled in 2017
By Rebecca Downs
13. Some women who have been clients of Planned Parenthood have suffered injury or death. In 2002, Diana Lopez, 25, bled to death after her cervix was punctured during an abortion.1
Holly Patterson, 18, died in 2003, one week after she underwent an early abortion using mifepristone (RU-486).2
Although she was impregnated at age 17 by a 24 year-old man, Planned Parenthood did not explore the possibility of statutory rape. Holly’s parents didn’t know until it was too late.3
1. The Sacramento Bee, June 19, 2003.
2. San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 2003.
3. An Open Letter from the Parents of Holly Patterson, November 6, 2003.
Source: Planned Parenthood Unveiled—a brochure by the Archdiocese of Chicago on the dark history and harmful influence of Planned Parenthood
Additional cases of Planned Parenthood malpractice, unsanitary conditions and more are documented in The Scarlet Survey by Kevin Sherlock (Brennyman Books, 1997).
14. Following is a Partial List of Women Killed by Legal Abortion
More names of women killed by legal abortion (PDF)
15. Centers for Disease Control report reveals more deaths from legal abortion than we thought
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1. How many women really died from illegal abortion prior to Roe v. Wade?
Excerpt:
Industry insider Bernard Nathanson admitted that those in his camp fabricated large numbers of women who died from illegal terminations prior to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. He should know, as he was an early abortionist who worked to decriminalize such laws in the nation by hijacking the women’s movement of his day with the help of Larry Lader, a Sanger biographer. Together, the two men and a few others founded the largest abortion lobby organization at that time, NARAL (as it was known then, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws).
2. Will overturning Roe lead to more pregnancy-related deaths? Statistics say no.
Excerpt:
COUNTRIES THAT LEGALIZED ABORTION AND SAW THE MMR WORSEN
United States: In 1971 and 1972, before Roe, the MMR in the U.S. was 18.8 per 100,000 live births.1 Since then, the MMR has gone up, not down. In 2020, the MMR was 23.8. The MMR in the U.S. without legal abortion was lower than the rate with legal abortion. There are more pregnancy-related deaths today than before Roe. While legalizing abortion may or may not be the cause of the rising MMR (deaths from abortion are included in the numbers), it clearly did nothing to lower it.
3. Planned Parenthood’s Lie about Maternal Deaths Makes the Post’s Pinocchios of the Year
Excerpt:
But as Kessler demonstrates, the country before Roe was hardly suffering from a maternal-mortality crisis related to abortion procedures. This myth is one of the various ways that supporters of unlimited abortion keep uninformed observers in the dark about what would really happen if Roe were overturned and voters once again had some control over our abortion policy.
4. Planned Parenthood debunked: No, thousands of women didn’t die yearly from abortion before Roe
Excerpt:
The claim that thousands of women died before Roe was invented in the years leading up to the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, when pro-abortion men, set on manipulating the public, began the push for decriminalizing abortion. They were the founders of NARAL — Larry Lader, an autobiographer of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and former abortionist Bernard Nathanson — along with NOW president Betty Friedan. Nathanson later renounced his pro-abortion stance and worked to expose the lies he and his colleagues told, later revealing how they completely fabricated the numbers in an attempt to sway public opinion at a time when society and especially women opposed unfettered legalization.
5. The Big Lie: Thousand of Illegal Abortion Deaths
Excerpts:
And pro-abortion propagandist Marian Faux confirms the lie in her recent book Roe v. Wade; "An image of tens of thousands of women being maimed or killed each year by illegal abortion was so persuasive a piece of propaganda that the [pro-abortion] movement could be forgiven its failure to double-check the facts."[2]
Malcolm Potts, one of the original international activists who helped spread abortion throughout the world, claimed that "Those who want the [abortion] law to be liberalized will stress the hazards of illegal abortion and claim that hundreds, or thousands, of women die unnecessarily each year when the actual number is far lower."[3]
6. Democrat touts fake stats on abortion deaths while grilling Supreme Court nominee
Excerpt:
Conservative and pro-life outlets naturally pounced on Feinstein’s misinformation, but so did a few news organizations normally friendlier to the abortion lobby. The Associated Press wrote that the California Democrat “vastly overstated” the actual number, while USA Today’s William Cummings wrote that she “made a major error in her citation.”
7. Abortion v. Childbirth – Which is Safer?
Excerpts:
Let’s look at hepatitis as a good example of a surgical complication of abortion. Here is a woman who had an induced abortion. As a result, she had gross hemorrhage and needed blood transfusions. She recovered, but later developed hepatitis from the blood transfusion. In her case, she ultimately died of hepatitis. This was a direct result of the induced abortion; however, abortion was not reported as the cause of death.
The significant increase in breast cancer among women who have had abortions is well known. With a higher rate of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infections, they also have a higher risk of cervical cancer. Since smoking is sharply increased among post-abortion women, one could anticipate a possible greater incident of lung cancer.
And finally, one cannot overlook the fact that 10 percent of women suffer immediate complications. These include infection, hemorrhage, cervical injury, blood clots, anesthesia complications, chronic abdominal pain, Rh sensitization, gastro-intestinal disturbances, vomiting, fever and occasionally, endotoxic shock.
8. Abortion Is Not Safer Than Giving Birth
Excerpt:
Abortionists have allegedly discouraged women from being truthful about their abortion complications. A former Planned Parenthood employee’s “whistleblower” lawsuit explains that chemical abortion patients who later experienced significant bleeding were told “to go to an emergency room and report that they were experiencing a spontaneous miscarriage.”
9. Study Proves Abortion is More Dangerous Than Childbirth
Excerpt:
• During the first six months after an early abortion (12 weeks or less), a woman has double the risk of death compared to giving birth.
• During the first year following a late abortion (after 12 weeks) a woman has over three times the risk of death compared to giving birth.
10. ‘Bad science’: Why you should question the lone study claiming abortion is 14x safer than childbirth
Excerpts:
A wealth of media outlets have cited a 2012 pro-abortion study which claims that abortion is up to 14 times safer than childbirth. Yet, as Dr. John Ferrer pointed out in his article for the Equal Rights Institute, no other study has ever been able to confirm this finding, and the 2012 study is highly unreliable.
According to Ferrer, the RG study relies on abortion numbers from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, but those numbers do not include statistics from Maryland, Washington D.C., or New Hampshire. They also lack information from two of the areas with high abortion numbers and nearly no pro-life laws: California and New York City. None of these locations have reported abortion statistics to the CDC in years, but they do report all childbirths and related maternal deaths. The reporting of childbirths and related deaths is mandatory, but the reporting of abortions and abortion-related deaths is not. In addition, not all states that do report their statistics require abortion facilities to report all of their information. There is no federal law requiring the reporting of abortions or abortion complications.
11. New Research Shows Abortion Poses Higher Risk of Death than Giving Birth
Excerpt:
In contrast with a 2012 study conducted by researchers from Gynuity Health Projects and the University of North Carolina – which asserts that women are 14 times more likely to die delivering a live baby than from complications of an abortion, this study, which links up all relevant reproductive health data, found that death rates associated with birth were lower than those associated with early-term abortion, late-term abortion, and miscarriage in every year over a 10-year period. The data demonstrates that an abortion prior to 12 weeks is associated with 80% higher risk of death within the first year after the procedure and a 40% higher risk of death over 10 years.
12. (Video) Dr. Joel Brind: Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
13. The Link Between Abortion & Breast Cancer
Excerpt:
What is the cause of this sudden surge in the breast cancer rate? Recent, reputable, and repeated medical research indicates that it may be abortion. Abortion of a first pregnancy interrupts the growth and changes which enable the breast to produce milk, leaving the breast at a heightened risk of cancer. This risk, multiplied by the millions of induced abortions around the world, can account for the mysterious jump in the breast cancer rate.
14. Abortion and Maternal Bonding
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Further research has led me to conclude that it is not the amount of oxytocin that is significant, but rather where in the brain it is utilized. In rats, the presence of adrenal steroids released in response to fear and anxiety makes oxytocin bind to its receptors (go to work) more readily, but mainly in the amygdala. If the anterior cingulate is not utilizing the oxytocin due to PTSD, the amygdala apparently is. Oxytocin is an endorphin, which has the same qualities in the brain as do opiates.
We have all heard of “adrenalin junkies," but what they may actually be addicted to is not adrenalin, but the oxytocin and other neuropeptides that are released simultaneously. This opiod action on the amygdala also explains the roots of trauma reenactment, which can then be seen as unconscious self-rewarding behavior that is as difficult to control as opiate addiction….
How does any of this relate to abortion?
According to Dr. Philip Ney, a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, http://
..statistically speaking women who have had abortions are less likely to bond to their children."
In 2002 the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry reported that "the children of women who have had abortions have less supportive home environments and more behavioral problems than the children of women without a history of abortion. This finding supports the view that abortion may negatively affect bonding with subsequent children, disturb mothering skills, and otherwise impact a woman's psychological stability."
The Elliott Institute reports further that "abortion is linked with increased violent behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, replacement pregnancies, depression, and poor maternal bonding with later children. These factors are closely associated with child abuse and would appear to confirm a link between unresolved post-abortion trauma and subsequent child abuse."
Traumatized women cannot produce enough oxytocin during labor to develop a proper maternal bond, and the results range along the same continuum as do post-traumatic stress symptoms themselves…. Even if we didn't now understand the physiology behind the degradation of maternal bonding between aborted mothers and their children, we could see this with common sense. As she prepares for, thinks about, and dreams of the wanted and convenient child, the aborted mother reaches into the box for loving, maternal emotions and finds instead fear, anxiety, panic, anger, and all of the negative sensations surrounding the aborted child. Thanks to the trauma of unwanted pregnancy, and the trauma of abortion, these memories have been thoughtfully stored by the amygdala without her conscious will or awareness, associated to all things "Baby."
