UFI News
UFI's Abortion Guide will Open People's Eyes to Abortion
By Dennis
Durband, UFI's Director of Publications
Feb. 5, 2007
Each year, 68,000 women worldwide die of abortion and 144,000 American women are injured by abortion. The media has not reported adequately on the harms and dangers of abortion, but a new booklet produced by United Families International provides a unique and comprehensive look at social science research and history in a way that will open people's eyes to the reality of abortion. The “Guide to Family Issues: Abortion” is the latest in UFI's ongoing series of guide books on hot topics impacting the family.
The publication provides peer-reviewed scient if ic research, expert commentary and sound, logical arguments supporting the pro-life position on the controversial topic of abortion.
The “Guide to Family Issues: Abortion” begins by addressing the essential argument surrounding abortion: is the unborn child human? By quoting embryologists and embryology textbooks, UFI 's publication drives home the point that human l if e begins at conception and deserves protection during all stages from beginning to natural death.
Contrary to popular belief, abortion is seldom a woman's “choice.” Many pregnant women are coerced into abortions they don't want. Research is also clear that “legal abortions” do not guarantee “safe abortions.” Abortion poses many physical risks for women, including breast cancer, damage to internal organs, sterility, any of a host of complications and death. Abortion clinics do not adequately inform women of the risks, nor are they sufficiently regulated.
Additionally, readers will learn:
- about the dangers of the abortion drug RU-486;
- how the National Abortion Rights Action League threw ethics aside and made up false statistics to influence public opinion about abortion;
- that 28 percent of post-abortive women attempted suicide; and
- that women experienced a “healthy pregnant woman effect” by delivering their babies.
UFI plans to release several more booklets in the series “Guides to Family Issues” this year. Among the other topics to be covered are divorce, marriage, cohabitation, pornography, sex education, the media's impact on families, population control and environmentalism, pedophilia and others. The aim of the guides is to educate the public, lawmakers, governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, families, individuals, media organizations and others on the negative consequences of abortion on women, children, men, families and society;
The abortion booklet is available on the UFI website.
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