Coming Soon to Vero Beach
A new entity called Pregnancy Life Center, Inc. will be located diagonally across the street from Planned Parenthood on Rt. 60. Once an Executive Director is hired and the center is staffed with peer counselors and registered nurses as well as the installation of a state-of-the-art ultrasound machine, it will begin operation by providing FREE pregnancy testing and FREE ultrasound scans along with counseling to women in crisis pregnancy.
This is a Catholic-run center with volunteer possibilities for all. It uses a proven model for saving babies first and foremost. It will have a trained registered nurse on staff to administer pregnancy tests and ultrasounds. It will offer both walk-in service and appointments. They also will provide a 24-hour Help Line for client access via phone, text or email.
Their services will literally be on the front lines of saving babies and helping women in Indian River County. Stay tuned for additional information.
Abortion
Just the Facts
(Reprinted from the Florida Catholic Newspaper, 2002)
(Adult Only Reading)
A woman seeking an abortion before the fourteenth week of pregnancy will likely undergo one of the following procedures:
Suction Curettage
- The cervix is dilated.
- A suction curette (a hollow tube with a knife-like edged tip) is inserted into the womb.
- Suction tears apart the fetus (the human person) and sucks the body parts into a container.
- he container is checked to assure that all the body parts have been removed in order to prevent any infections—infections which can at times lead to the death of the mother.
Dilation and Curettage (D&C)
- The cervix is dilated.
- The insertion of a loop-shaped knife (curette) is inserted.
- The curette scrapes the wall of the uterus and cuts the placenta and fetus into smaller parts.
- The parts are pulled out of the uterus through the cervix.
- Body parts must be counted so as to prevent infection.
RU 486 (taken before the ninth week)
- A steroid drug (taken in the form of a pill or injection) is given to the woman to destroy the placenta or prevent it from being formed.
- Prostaglandin is injected or orally given to induce the uterus to contract and push the fetus out of the body.
During the first fourteen weeks brain waves (week six) are recorded and the heart is beating (week three). The child can hear, can hiccup, can close and open his (her) eyelids and can respond to touch or pain. The child has permanent fingerprints and an identifiable sex. By week eight the skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, and respiratory system are functioning. By week twelve the child looks like a tiny doll sucking its thumb. The following weeks entail simple refinements of what has already begun.
Pagans routinely aborted their children and abandoned them to die outside city walls. We have outdone the pagans in our cruelty. The revival of paganism is more vicious than its original incarnation.
A woman seeking an abortion after fourteen weeks but before sixteen weeks of pregnancy will likely undergo the following procedure:
Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)
- The cervix is dilated.
- A curette (resembling pliers) is used to dismember and crush the large and strong bones of the fetus (such as the skull or head).
- The dismembered and crushed parts are now small enough for removal through the cervix.
- Body parts are counted.
A woman seeking an abortion after sixteen weeks of pregnancy will likely undergo one of the following procedures:
Saline Solution Evacuation
- A concentrated salt solution is injected through the abdomen and into the amniotic fluid, which surrounds the fetus (the child) in the uterus.
- The child inhales and swallows the solution and dies within two hours either by salt poisoning, dehydration, hemorrhaging, or convulsions.
- The mother goes into labor twenty-four to forty-eight hours later and gives birth to a dead child.
Prostaglandin Abortion
- Prostaglandin is injected through the abdomen into the amniotic fluid, which surrounds the child in the uterus.
- Prostaglandin causes the muscle tissue of the mother to push the fetus, the child, out of the uterus.
- The child is born dead or alive (when born alive it is left to die).
A woman seeking an abortion during the latter periods of her pregnancy will likely undergo the following procedure:
Partial-Birth Abortion or Dilation and Extraction
- Laminara is used to dilate the cervix over a two-day period.
- The abortionist uses large forceps to grasp the leg of the child (the fetus) and pull it down into the vagina and out of the body. The head, being too big, remains lodged in the cervical opening.
- An incision is made at the base of the fetal skull to spread open the skull in order to insert a suction catheter.
- The skull contents are evacuated through the suction catheter and the entire body is now capable of being removed.
Rachel’s Vineyard is a healing ministry for those who are suffering from Post-Abortion Trauma. For information regarding Rachel’s Vineyard call the Diocese of Palm Beach’s Respect Life Office, 561-9500.
AFFIRMS ABORTION/BREAST CANCER LINK
By THADDEUS M. BAKLINSKI
(From 12/16/07 Bulletin)
CHICAGO (Life Site News) A new study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons documents the fact that abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer" in eight European nations.
While this study was ignored by much of the major media, Dennis Byrne of The Chicago Tribune, wrote a commentary entitled, "Snubbing cancer study will only hurt women: Research showing link to abortion ignored by media."
Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer said: "The media's behavior is very problematic. When the history, books are written on the abortion-breast cancer link, women are going to be appalled by the major media's behavior on this matter and the media will suffer further loss of credibility."
"The mainstream media have aggressively promoted abortion and the abortion-breast cancer link would mean that more of their readers are getting breast cancer because they believed what the media were telling them," she added.
The usual argument used by critics of abortion-breast cancer link studies is "recall bias," which claims flawed research due to its being based on interviews with women who have breast cancer and admit to having had one or more abortions.
After the study was published, critics attacked the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, saying the research was politically motivated. "It was a shoot -the-messenger approach," explained Karem Malec, "because science really is not on their side, so they argued ideology."
Furthermore, this research was discussed in the insurance magazine The Actuary. Insurance actuaries were advised to adjust their insurance premiums and reserves accordingly in order to plan for a 50% increase in breast cancer projected out to 2029.
Malec continued, "The abortion-breast cancer link critics are having a hard time explaining why an insurance magazine would publish a 'politically motivated' article discussing the abortion-breast cancer link: and advising its readers that this epidemic will be costly for the insurance industry and consumers. Insurance companies, after all, are in the business of making money and pleasing their stockholders, not in dealing with politically motivated issues."
She concluded: "For people who don't know whom to believe, when the insurance industry starts talking about the issue, then we know it's a serious problem."
