These 5.5” x 8.5” full color, bulletin inserts feature Dr. Rainer Jonas’ incredible photo of a 19-week unborn baby along with the questions, “Choice? Or Child?” On the back, common abortion myths are dispelled with documented facts. Text on the back:
ABORTION MYTHS
MYTH: Abortion is only legal through the first trimester.
FACT: Due to the radical scope of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton U.S. Supreme Court decisions, abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy.
FACT: 11.8 percent of abortions take place every year in the United States during or after the 13th week of pregnancy.1
MYTH: Women obtain abortions only in rare and extreme cases.
FACT: In the U.S. alone, more than 1.2 million abortions were performed in 2003.2
FACT: Rape and incest are cited as reasons for only 1 percent of all abortions.3
FACT: More than four in five women say they had abortions for reasons of inconvenience.3
MYTH: No one knows when human life begins.
FACT: “Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception [they defined fertilization and conception to be the same] marks the beginning of the life of a human being –– a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological and scientific writings.”4
MYTH: “Wanted” children will not become abused children. Therefore, abortion will act to reduce child abuse.
FACT: A landmark study shows that 91 percent of battered children were from planned and wanted pregnancies.5 In fact, statistics show the overall change from 1980 to 1993 was a growth of 249 percent in the number of children who were abused or neglected in the United States.6
MYTH: The typical abortive woman is a poor, minority teen.
FACT: Four out of every five abortions are obtained by women 20 years of age or older.1
FACT: Statistics show 55 percent of abortions are performed on white women.1
1. The most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2003). 2. The most recent statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute (2006). 3. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2005 4. Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S. 158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981. 5. E. Lenowski, Heartbeat, vol. 3, no. 4, Dec. 1980. 6. The National Incidence of Child Abuse and Neglect.