Forum, 3-4: Abortion has harmed America

By Dr. Allen D. Unruh, a Sioux Falls chiropractor and member of the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion. | Saturday, March 04, 2006

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SIOUX FALLS - Has abortion been good for America? The South Dakota Legislature commissioned a task force to investigate. A 17-member task force reviewed all the scientific evidence, the research and new technology that has been developed since 1973.

Over 3,500 pages of research has been collected. In addition, thousands of affidavits and testimony by women who considered themselves victims of abortion were looked at. Over 54 national experts gave testimony in addition to state expert testimony and public testimony. After over 47 million abortions, it is proper for the Legislature to re-evaluate this life and death issue.

The purpose of the task force was to prepare a report based on new evidence. It is the first report of its kind. Every person from South Dakota should download this report from www.ivotemyvalues.com.

The evidence compiled is too compelling for any thinking person to ignore. Four-D ultrasound technology didn't exist in 1973. It depicts the development of the unborn almost through the process of development. It's literally a window to the womb.

DNA technology and molecular biology has made unbelievable advances in the field of science. One molecule can now decipher a person's individual makeup and prove scientifically and genetically the humanity of the unborn. It is a scientific fact, and not merely a matter of opinion when human life begins.

In addition, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 assumed there would be informed consent prior to an abortion. The task force discovered that women were not allowed to be informed on the humanity of their unborn child. They were not given the facts on the physical, mental and emotional consequences of abortion. The information given dramatically downplayed any possible consequences and in fact, threatened that carrying the child to term was much more dangerous physically and emotionally.

Can you think of any surgery, or any drug where you do not have the constitutional right to know what's happening and the risks? When asked if a young woman wants to know if it's a baby, testimony revealed they are only told it is tissue and cells, or a blob of tissue.

The Supreme Court assumed there would be a doctor/patient relationship. The task force discovered there was little to no doctor/patient relationship prior to an abortion. In addition, people with no formal training in mental health were the counselors for young women who often were making the most important decision of their life. Most of the time that decision is based on fear, panic and, 60-80 percent of the time, coercion. Making a life-and-death decision against your conscience can have major devastating effects for many years and/or a lifetime.

The government in Hitler's Germany said Jewish people were not human beings. The U.S. Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision of 1857 said black people were not human beings. They were property.

In Roe vs. Wade, in 1973, the Supreme Court said the unborn are not human beings. One decision is based on religion, the other on color of skin, and the other based on age. Otherwise, all these grotesque decisions are the same.

We all know what happened in the Holocaust and the Civil War. But abortion has destroyed more human lives than all the wars combined. Hitler called his the liberation army. In Dred Scott, owning a slave was seen as a freedom issue. If someone wanted to own a slave it was their right to do what they wanted with their property.

The same argument is used in abortion. The unborn may be human, but it really doesn't have value, it's just property. Today, abortion on demand, through all nine months, is legal for virtually any reason.

Women want to have the right to have unlimited sex with men they don't like or don't want to have babies with. Freedom is redefined as license to do whatever one wants with their body. If we take that premise to its conclusion, we would have to legalize prostitution, suicide and illegal drug use.

The opposition seems to feel that if everyone in the world had enough latex, unlimited sex and free access to abortions, somehow we would all live in utopia. Poll after poll reveals Americans reject abortions for birth control.

It's time our country re-assess if killing over a million human beings a year in the name of privacy has been good for America.