ISS:Issues & Law on Abortion  by James & Joan Werning 

   LAWSUIT 

   Virginia Preston of Oroville California is suing the Thermalito
School District for punitive damages of $6.2 million. The suit charges
that her 14 year old daughter was taken by her homeroom teacher,
Marilyn Forhan, to the Chico Feminist Women's Health Center for an
abortion without her knowledge or consent. Several days later when her
daughter began to bleed in school, Forhan called the mother, who then
found out about the abortion and payment of it through welfare.

   MISCELLANEOUS LAW 

   In California, a minor girl may have an abortion without parental
consent or knowledge, although she must get consent for other things
like ear-piercing. However, the parents are liable in event of
complications.

   Unborn children do have certain rights. They have the right to
inheritance, to damages received while yet unborn, to get a blood
transfusion over his mother's objection, to have a guardian appointed,
and other rights of citizenship. However, they do not have the right to
live!

   (5 Ways To Kill an Unborn Child, Knights of Columbus).

   MALPRACTICE

   The Chicago Sun-Times revealed the following facts about a
reputable, 'safe' abortion clinic:

   1) Twelve women died as a result of safe, legal abortion. Many of
the deaths had not been reported as abortion related.

   2) Incompetent doctors - including one physician who had lost his
license in another state.

   3) Dozens of abortion procedures had been performed on women who
were not even pregnant.

   4) Women had suffered the loss of all their reproductive organs as a
result of complications from abortions.

   5) Women were badly mistreated. "He didn't wait five minutes. I was
screaming, and squirming all over the table. I asked him to stop until
the anesthetic took effect."

   6) One physician had earned nearly $800,000 in Medicaid from
abortions in a single year.

   7) The reporters found one example of doctors who raced each other
to see who could perform the most abortions. They kept score.

   (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL, Nov. 12 to Nov. 22, 1978).

   THE MEDIA AND ABORTION 

   A national survey by Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance called
"American Values in the 80's" showed that 65% of the general public
believes that abortion is 'morally wrong'. In stark contrast, only 35%
of those in the media feel abortion is morally wrong.

   (Americans Against Abortion newsletter, Vol 1, #2, Box 70, Lindale
TX, 75771, 1986).

   UNFPA

   The United Nations Fund For Population Activities has committed $100
million to the Chinese population program, assisting in their forced
abortions. The US Agency for International Development also supports
China's methods.

   (The Richmond News Leader, Richmond, VA, June 28, 1983).

   POPULATION EXPLOSION 

   "Population size adjusts to productive conditions rather than being
an uncontrolled monster."

   ("The Ultimate Resource", Julian L. Simon, 1981, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, N.J.)

   In 1798, an Englishman named Thomas Malthus published an influential
book titled "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the
Future Improvement of Society". His dismal theorem proposed that man
was multiplying faster than the food supply, and our overpopulation
problems would be cursed with famine, pestilence, and war if not
controlled. He argued that higher wages meant larger families. Contrary
to Malthus, the people of India, China, and Europe are better fed now
than before, despite the fact that their populations have more than
doubled in the last 200 years. Also, the rise in wages has brought
about a lowering of the birthrate. And contrary to Malthus's most
fundamental belief, population does not grow in a constant geometric
pattern. Instead, a major improvement of economic and health conditions
produces a sudden increase in population, which gradually moderates.

   ("The End of Man", John Whitehead, 1986, Crossway Books,
Westchester, IL.), ("The Ultimate Resource", Julian L. Simon, 1981,
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.)

   Fertility in the United States has dropped to below 1.9.

   (Life or Death pamphlet, Hayes Publishing Co., Cincinnati, OH).

   There are as many people wanting to adopt children as there are
children being aborted.

   (Liberals For Lunch, Cal Thomas, Crossway Books, Westchester IL,
p.31).

   "We are overproducing (food) in this country and in the rest of
Europe, ...in the United States, the third world, China and India. Last
year, for the first time, the Chinese were able not only to feed a
quarter of the world's population but to export food. Last year India
sent more food aid to Ethiopia than did the whole of the Soviet Bloc...
The reality is that we live in a world of surplus. ...However, there
are parts of the world in which distribution, economic system, or the
way of managing the economy means that the surpluses do not reach the
poorest people."

   (John Selwy Gummer, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food,
England, speaking to the House of Commons, March 17, 1986).

   FOR MORE INFORMATION 

   Americans Against Abortion Box 70 Lindale, TX 75771-0070

   Christian Action Council 701 W. Broad St. Suite 405 Falls Church, VA
22046

   The Rutherford Institute Box 510 Manassas, VA 22110

   Right To Life League of So. Ca. 1616 W. 9th Street, Suite 220 Los
Angeles, CA 90015

   California pro-life legislation hotline. 1-800-992-VOTE

   James & Joan Werning 
