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NARAL's Real Agenda in Attacking CPCs
Part Two of Three By Dave Andrusko As we head into Thanksgiving Day week, a "thank you" from me to all of you who responded last week, especially to the blog entry that dealt with the city of New York's offensive against Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs). A lot happened at the meeting held last Tuesday by the Council's Women's Issues Committee that I didn't have time to address (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Nov10/nv111910.html). Much of what follows is based on what I know from past pro-abortion onslaughts against CPCs, from an email sent out by Heartbeat International, and a entry on National Review Online written by Greg Pfundstein (www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/249931). The real agenda of NARAL (the driving force behind the nation-wide campaign against women-helping centers) gets less publicity than the "false advertising" allegation. To NARAL, it's never enough. It's not enough to have a neutral image--or even one that says "Free Abortion Alternatives" or "Bridge to Life," "the Sisters of Life," or "Life Center." Pro-abortionists such as Council Member Jessica Lappin insist that pregnant women will be confused or "misled." But it's not what's on the outside that "really rankles the abortion advocates," as Pfundstein shrewdly observes. It "is what the women hear inside the crisis center. The promoters of abortion claim that the crisis centers 'feed women information that has been medically refuted,' according to New York Times columnist Susan Dominus." Here is where the pro-abortionists illustrate (yet again) that they act as time has stood still. Whatever inadequacies there may or may not have been years and years ago in knowledge, there is now a solid body of peer-reviewed studies demonstrating that abortion has a range of physical, emotional, and psychological aftershocks. Pro-abortionists favorite target is the established link between a woman having an induced abortion and increasing her risk of having breast cancer. They point to the National Cancer Institute which says there is no link. But in fact there is a welter of studies going back to 1957 that demonstrates the connection as we have written about dozens and dozens of times. But the "ABC" link is only one of the many examples. "By 2008, for instance, 59 studies had shown a statistically significant increase in the risk of pre-term birth and low birth weight in future pregnancies for women who have had induced abortions," Pfundstein writes. "Increased risk of placenta previa in future pregnancies is also well established. And much to the chagrin of the abortion-is-no-big-deal crowd, there is a substantial body of medical literature indicating that induced abortion leads to increased risk of negative mental-health outcomes, including suicide ideation, alcohol dependence, illegal-drug dependence, major depression, and anxiety disorder." We have written about this bevy of studies on many, many occasions at this blog and in National Right to Life News, the "pro-life newspaper of record." (To subscribe, call us at 202-626-8828.) The most recent blog entries were written by Olivia Gans (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Nov10/nv111510part4.html) and Dr. Priscilla Coleman (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Nov10/nv111210part2.html). This NARAL-driven campaign directed against CPCs is an attack not only on free speech and women in desperate situations, but also on first-rate scientific investigation. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |