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acroyear"Twenty of the 23 [faith-based pregnancy resource] centers reached by the investigators (87 percent) provided false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion," California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman said in a statement.
[...]Female staffers posed as pregnant 17-year-olds and called the 25 pregnancy resource centers that have received grants from the Compassion Capital Fund.
One center told a caller that an abortion would 'affect the milk developing in her breasts' and that the risk of breast cancer increased by as much as 80 percent after an abortion," Waxman's office said.
The Institute of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute have discounted any link between abortion and breast cancer, although the Institute briefly carried a statement on its Web site making such a link -- a statement that was taken down after a public clamor by scientists and doctors.
Callers were also told, wrongly, that a standard, first-trimester abortion would raise the risk of infertility, Waxman said.
"There is a medical consensus that induced abortion does not cause an increased risk of breast cancer. Despite this consensus, eight centers told the caller that having an abortion would in fact increase her risk," Waxman's report reads.
"Pregnancy resource centers are virtually always pro-life organizations whose goal is to persuade teen-agers and women with unplanned pregnancies to choose motherhood or adoption."
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Date: 2006-07-17 11:03 pm (UTC)We've used the word "eugenic" to describe the methods by which they manipulate the reproducive process. There is an element of "eugenics" here which we call "holy eugenics," analogous to traditional eugenics as "holy racism" is to racism. That is, that certain babies or children are more valuable than others; children of those in their own group are, of course, the most valuable of all. Almost as valuable to them are newborns who have been immediately given up for adoption. Remember that to their way of thinking, all human behavior and identity is the result of nurture; heritage, blood or race are irrelevant.
An insatiable demand for pure newborns has thus been created. To fill the demand, a pervasive system of so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" has been created. While it may appear to the casual eye that the goal of these "centers" is to do anything possible to avoid abortion, the core agenda is actually twofold. The primary purpose of such centers is to obtain newborns to fill this demand for adoptive children; we have thus sometimes referred to these centers as "adoption mills." The secondary purpose of these centers is to indoctrinate, to convert women, and again, fulfill the core agenda of supporting church growth; we also, then, refer to these centers as "Compulsory Pregnancy Indoctrination Centers."