She is a Child, Not a Choice Sources

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Healthy Women Aborting Healthy Babies Is Not Healthcare 

  1. Harned, Mary E., J.D., and Mia Steupert, M.A. “Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms (April 2024)” Lozier Institute, 30 April 2024. https://lozierinstitute.org/gestational-limits-on-abortion-in-the-united-states-compared-to-international-norms/. Accessed 5 September 2025. 

  1. “Abortion” World Health Organization, 17 May 2024. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. “Total fertility rate with projections.” Our World Data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fertility-rate-with-projections?country=OWID_WRL~Africa+%28UN%29~Asia+%28UN%29~Europe+%28UN%29~Northern+America+%28UN%29~Latin+America+and+the+Caribbean+%28UN%29~Oceania+%28UN%29~USA. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

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Ableism Is a Cruel “Choice” 

  1. “More Choose Abortions for Down’s syndrome.” The Nordic Times, 25 September 2024. https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/more-choose-abortions-for-downs-syndrome/. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. “FAQ and Facts about down Syndrome.” Global Down Syndrome Foundation. www.globaldownsyndrome.org/about-down-syndrome/facts-about-down-syndrome/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. Ibid 

  1. Skotko Brian G., et al. “Self-perceptions from people with Down syndrome.” American Journal of Medical Genetics, part A, 155, 9 September 2011, pp. 2360-2369. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.34235.  

  1. “New Study: Abortion after Prenatal Diagnosis of down Syndrome Reduces down Syndrome Community by Thirty Percent.” Lozier Institute, 21 April 2015. www.lozierinstitute.org/new-study-abortion-after-prenatal-diagnosis-of-down-syndrome-reduces-down-syndrome-community-by-thirty-percent/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. “What’s the Life Expectancy for Someone with Cystic Fibrosis?” Cycstic Fibrosis, reviewed by HU Medical Review Board, last reviewed September 2019, last updated April 2024. https://cystic-fibrosis.com/life-expectancy. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. Inácio, Patricia PhD. “CF Prenatal Screening Impacts Pregnancy Outcomes, Review Finds.” Cystic Fibrosis News Today, 17 September 2019. https://cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com/news/prenatal-screening-impacts-pregnancy-outcomes-review/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. “What Is Spina Bifida.” Spina Bifida Association of Western Pennsylvania. https://sbawp.org/what-is-spina-bifida-6/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

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  1. Johnson Candice Y., et al. “Pregnancy termination following prenatal diagnosis of anencephaly or spina bifida: a systematic review of the literature.” Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, vol. 94, no. 11, 25 October 2012, pp. 857-863. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdra.23086.  

  1. “Diagnosis of Birth Defects.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22 November 2024, https://www.cdc.gov/birth-defects/screening/diagnosis.html. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. Derbyshire Stuart WG., and John C. Bockmann. “Reconsidering fetal pain.” Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 46, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3-6. https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/1/3. Accessed 7 August 2025. 

  1. Ohashi, Yuki, et al. “Success rate and challenges of fetal anesthesia for ultrasound guided fetal intervention by maternal opioid and benzodiazepine administration.” Journal of  Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, vol. 26, no. 2, 18 September 2012, pp. 158-160. https://doi.org/10.3109/14767058.2012.722733.  

  1. Sekulic, Slobodan, et al. “Appearance of fetal pain could be associated with maturation of the mesodiencephalic structures.” Journal of Pain Research, vol. 9, 11 November 2016, pp. 1031-1038. https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S117959.  

  1. Bellieni, Carlo V. “Analgesia for Fetal Pain During Prenatal Surgery: 10 Years of Progress.” Pediatric Research, vol. 89, no. 7, pp. 1612-1618, 24 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-020-01170-2.  

My Life Is Worth Living by Frank Stephens 

  1. Stephens, Frank. “Frank Stephens' POWERFUL Speech On Down Syndrome.” Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress, 30 October 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtS91Jd5mac. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

Pgs. 4-5 

Abortion in the USA  1,038,100 in 2024 

  1. “Guttmacher Institute Releases Full-Year US Abortion Data for 2024.” Guttmacher Institute, 15 April 2025. https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2025/guttmacher-institute-releases-full-year-us-abortion-data-2024. Accessed 1 August 2025. 

  1. Gaitan, Elyse, et al. "Fact Sheet: Reasons for Abortion." Lozier Institute, 24 May 2024. https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-reasons-for-abortion/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. Diamant, Jeff, et al. “What the data says about abortion in the U.S.” Pew Research Center, 25 March 2024. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/25/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-us/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

  1. Harned, Mary E., J.D., and Mia Steupert, M.A. “Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms (April 2024)” Lozier Institute, 30 April 2024. https://lozierinstitute.org/gestational-limits-on-abortion-in-the-united-states-compared-to-international-norms/. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

The Legal History of Abortion in America 

  1. Adler, Jonathan H. “Sherif Girgis on the Draft Dobbs Opinion and Its Critics.” The Volokh Conspiracy. 26 May 2022. https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/26/sherif-girgis-on-the-draft-dobbs-opinion-and-its-critics/. Accessed 1 August 2025. 

  1. "Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey." Oyez, www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-744. Accessed 6 August 2025. 

The States on Abortion 

  1. “Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe.” Guttmacher Institute, updated 31 July 2025. www.states.guttmacher.org/policies/. Accessed 1 August 2025. 

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Pregnancy Resource Centers Are a Choice 

  1. “A Force for Hope: Annual Report 2023-24.” Planned Parenthood. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/ec/6d/ec6da0d6-98e5-4278-8d11-99a5cba8e615/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf. Accessed 7 August 2025.  

  1. “Fact Sheet: Planned Parenthood’s 2023-24 Annual Report.” Lozier Institute, 12 May 2025. https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2023-24-annual-report/. Accessed 20 August 2025. 

  1. “Hope For a New Generation: A Legacy of Life and Love Report Series.” Lozier Institute, December 2024. https://lozierinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/pcr-onepage-Dec2024.pdf. Accessed 7 August 2025. 

  1. Ibid. 

I Just Needed Someone To Talk To 

  1. Biggs, M. Antonia, et al. “Understanding why women seek abortions in the US.” BMC Women's Health, vol. 13, no. 29, 5 July 2013. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-13-29. Accessed 1 August 2025. 

  1. “7 True Pro Life Stories.” Silent Voices. https://silentvoices.org/pro-life-stories/. Accessed 7 August 2025. 

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Human Development in the Womb 

  1. Kischer CW. “When Does Human Life Begin? The Final Answer.” The Linacre Quarterly, vol. 70, no 4, 2003, pp. 326-339. doi.org/10.1080/20508549.2003.11877691. 

  1. Mayo Clinic Staff. “Fetal Development: the 1st Trimester.” Mayo Clinic, 3 June 2022. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-by-week/in-depth/prenatal-care/art-20045302.  

  1. Sadler, T.W. Langman’s Medical Embryology. 15th ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2024, pp. 38-42. 

  1. Moore, Keith L., et al. “The Cardiovascular System,” in The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology. 11th ed. Elsevier, 2020. 

  1. Hamlin, Hannibal, MD. “Life or Death by EEG.” JAMA, vol. 190, no. 2, 12 October 1964, pp. 112-114. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1964.03070150022004. Accessed 13 August 2025. 

  1. Sadler, Thomas W. Langman’s Medical Embryology, 15th ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2023, pp. 313-315. 

  1. deVries, J.I.P., et al. “The Emergence of Fetal Behavior.” Early Human Development. Vol 12, 1985, p. 108. 

  1. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. 5th ed. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER), 2018, p. 116. 

  1. Valman, Pearson. “What the Fetus Feels.” British Medical Journal, 26 January 1980, p. 234. 

  1. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. 5th ed., 2018, p. 116. 

  1. Britt, Robert Roy. “Lasting Impression: How Fingerprints Are Created.” LiveScience, 2 November 2004. www.livescience.com/30-lasting-impression-fingerprints-created.html. Accessed 13 August 2025. 

  1. Flanagan, Geraldine Lux. Beginning Life. DK Publishing, 1996, pp. 59-65. 

  1. Sadler, Thomas W. Langman’s Medical Embryology, 14th ed., 2019.  

  1. Boyd-Barrett, Claudia. “When can your baby hear you?” Babycenter, reviewed by Donner, Liz, M.D. https://www.babycenter.com/pregnancy/your-baby/fetal-development-your-babys-hearing_20004866. Accessed 26 August 2025. 

  1. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. 5th ed., 2018, p. 118. 

  1. Ibid. 

  1. “Weeks 19 & 20: Breathing, crying, and the rooting reflex.” Lozier Institute: The Voyage of Life, updated 22 November 2023. https://lozierinstitute.org/fetal-development/weeks-19-and-20/. Accessed 26 August 2025.  

  1. Wick, Myra J., M.D., Ph.D. Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy. 3rd ed., MFMER, 2024, pp. 155-157.  

  1. “Month 6: Response to sound, light, and maternal diet.” Lozier Institute: The Voyage of Life, updated 17 January 2024. https://lozierinstitute.org/fetal-development/month-6/. Accessed 26 August 2025.  

  1. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book. 5th ed., 2018, p. 121. 

  1. Gordon, Debra MD. “Pregnancy.” The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. 2nd ed., 2001.  

  1. Ibid. 

  1. Ibid. 

  1. Sassone, Robert L. “Interview with Prof. Sir A William Liley.” The Tiniest Humans. American Life League, Inc., 1977. 

Men’s POV 

  1. Rue, Vincent M., et al. “Induced abortion and traumatic stress: A preliminary comparison of American and Russian women,” Medical Science Monitor, vol. 10, no. 10, October 2004. PMID: 15448616. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15448616/. Accessed 26 August 2025. 

  1. Cougle, Jesse R., et al. “Depression associated with abortion and childbirth: a long-term analysis of the NLSY cohort.” Medical Science Monitor, vol. 9, no. 4, April 2003. PMID: 12709667. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12709667/. Accessed 26 August 2025. 

  1. Reardon, David C. “The abortion and mental health controversy: A comprehensive literature review of common ground agreements, disagreements, actionable recommendations, and research opportunities: Table 1.” SAGE Open Medicine, vol. 6, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312118807624. 

  1. Parks, Erica, and Christopher L. Martinez. “Abortion Complications.” StatPearls, updated 22 June 2025. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430793/?report=classic. Accessed 26 August 2025. 

  1. Gaufberg, Slava  V., M.D. “Abortion Complications Clinical Presentation: History, Physical Examination.” Medscape, 25 January 2022. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/795001-clinical. Accessed 26 August 2025. 

  1. Lee,S.J., et al. “Seasonal patterns and preterm birth: a systematic review of the literature and an analysis in a London-based cohort.” British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol. 113, no. 11, 15 September 2006, pp. 1280-1288. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2006.01055.x.  

  1. Huang, Yubei, et al. “A meta-analysis of the association between induced abortion and breast cancer risk among Chinese females.” Cancer Causes Control, vol. 25, no. 2, February 2014, pp. 227-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-013-0325-7. 

  1. Dolle, Jessica M., et all. “Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years.” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, vol. 18, no. 4, 8 April 2009, pp. 1157-1166. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-1005.  

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Types of abortions 

  1. “What Is Mifeprex?” Early Option Pill. www.earlyoptionpill.com/what-is-mifeprex/. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. “Aspiration Suction Abortion.” Abortion Procedures, www.abortionprocedures.com/aspiration/. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. Ignite Healthwise, LLC Staff. “Vacuum Aspiration” Kaiser Permanente, 5 May 2025. https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/health-encyclopedia/he.vacuum-aspiration.tw1078. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. Onusseit, Jeanette. “D&C Abortion (Dilation and Curettage).” Profemina, 16 June 2025.  https://www.profemina.org/en-us/abortion/dilation-and-curettage. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. “An Abortion Doctor Describes a D&E.” ClinicQuotes, 31 August 2012. www.clinicquotes.com/an-abortion-doctor-describes-a-de/. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. United States. Cong. House. U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. “Testimony of Jill L. Stanek, RN.” HR 1797, Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, 23 May 2013. 113th Cong. H. Bill. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Stanek%20Testimony.pdf. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

If we don’t get all the body parts out… she could die. 

  1. Davidson, John Daniel, “Texas Court Case Exposes the Gruesome Reality Of Dismemberment Abortion.” The Federalist, 9 November 2017. https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/09/court-case-texas-exposes-gruesome-reality-dismemberment-abortion/. Accessed 5 August 2025. 

Harvesting Scandal – Selling Fetal Body Parts 

  1. “Human Capital Project: Documentary Web Series.” The Center for Medical Progress, 2015. https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/human-capital/documentary-web-series/. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. Majority Staff Report. “Human Fetal Tissue Research: Context and Controversy.” Committee on the Judiciary: United States Senate, 114th congress, 2nd session, December 2016. https://www.operationrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/334128081-Human-Fetal-Tissue-Research-Context-and-Controversy.pdf. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1.   Select Investigative Panel of the Energy & Commerce Committee. “Final Report.” U.S. House of Representatives, 30 December 2016. https://lifelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Select_Investigative_Panel_Final_Report.pdf. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

You Can Cure Mom Without Killing the Baby 

  1. “A Conversation with a Former Abortionist: Is Abortion Ever Medically Necessary?” YouTube, Live Action, 24 February 2016. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysl1tRnk-ig. Accessed 19 August 2025. 

  1. Ibid. 

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Chemical Abortions 

  1. “What Is Mifeprex?” Early Option Pill. www.earlyoptionpill.com/what-is-mifeprex/. Accessed 20 August 2025. 

63% 

  1. “Medication Abortions Accounted for 63% of All US Abortions in 2023, an Increase from 53% in 2020.” Guttmacher Institute, 19 March 2024. https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2024/medication-abortions-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020. Accessed 8 August 2025. 

Are Abortions Coerced? 

  1. Reardon, David, et al. “The Effects of Abortion Decision Rightness and Decision Type on Women’s Satisfaction and Mental Health.” Cureus, 11 May 2023, https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38882.  

Total Incidence Reports of Adverse Effects 

  1. “Abortion Drug Facts: Risk to Women.” Lozier Institute. https://lozierinstitute.org/abortion-drug-facts/#risk-to-women. Accessed 8 August 2025. 

  1. Hall, Jamie Bryan, and Ryan T. Anderson. “The Abortion Pill Harms Women,” Ethics and Public Policy Center, 28 April 2025. https://eppc.org/publication/insurance-data-reveals-one-in-ten-patients-experiences-a-serious-adverse-event/. Accessed 27 June 2025. 

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No Choice: Sex Trafficking 

  1. “Human Trafficking Statistics and Facts In 2024.” Our Rescue, 12 January 2024. https://ourrescue.org/education/research-and-trends/human-trafficking-statistics. Accessed 31 July 2025. 

  1. Lederer, Laura J. and Christopher A. Wetzel. “Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking.” Annals of Health Law, Vol. 23, 2014, pp. 61-91. https://www.globalcenturion.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Health-Consequences-of-Sex-Trafficking.pdf. Accessed 1 August 2025.  

  1. Reardon, David C., Ph.D., et al. “Overlooked Dangers of Mifepristone, the FDA’s Reduced REMS, and Self-Managed Abortion Policies: Unwanted Abortions, Unnecessary Abortions, Unsafe Abortions.” Lozier Institute, 16 December 2021 https://lozierinstitute.org/overlooked-dangers-of-mifepristone-the-fdas-reduced-rems-and-self-managed-abortion-policies-unwanted-abortions-unnecessary-abortions-unsafe-abortions/. Accessed 25 August 2025.  

  1. “Abortion Drug Facts: Risk to Women.” Lozier Institute. https://lozierinstitute.org/abortion-drug-facts/#risk-to-women. Accessed 23 July 2024. 

  1. Worden, Clare. “Man jailed for poisoning woman with abortion drugs.” BBC News, 6 December 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje0p1dlzleo?fbclid=IwY2xjawHzdlxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcVwYuU360YrFRjbEkL42gDfH0loBYyEQDbLbCy2EcU9fsbOPyi4AeCagA_aem_XHf-kOOGiSVeOXOyU5EIXA. Accessed 1 August 2025. 

  1. Melissa Farley et al. “Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries: An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.” Journal of Trauma Practice, vol. 2, no. 2-3, 2003, pp. 33-74. Reference in Luzwick, L. J. “Human trafficking and pornography: Using the trafficking victims protection act to prosecute trafficking for the production of internet pornography.” Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 3, 2017, pp. 137-153. https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1244&context=nulr_online. Accessed 4 August 2025. 

  1. Ibid. 

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Breast Cancer 

  1. Lanfranchi, Angela, MD, FACS. “Report: October 2023.” Breast Cancer Prevention Intitute, October 2023. 

  1. Zou, Shuqing, et al. “Genetic and Lifestyle Factors for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Southeast China.” Cancer Medicine, vol. 12, no. 14, 2 June 2023, pp. 15504-15514. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.6198. Accessed 25 August 2025. 

  1. “The Biologic Cause of the Abortion Breast Cancer Link: The Physiology of the Breast.” Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, revised May 2004, https://www.bcpinstitute.org/uploads/1/1/5/1/115111905/bcpi-factsht-physiology2004.pdf. Accessed 8 April 2025. 

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Let’s Talk About That Choice 

  1. Sadler, Thomas W. Langman’s Medical Embryology, 14th ed., 2019.  

  1. Houghton, Mark. “How the Abortion Movement Started with Deceit and Lies—Dr Nathanson.” The British Medical Journal, 2 March 2011, https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/03/how-abortion-movement-started-deceit-and-lies-dr-nathanson. Accessed 21 August 2025.  

  1. Koonin, Lisa M. “Abortion Surveillance-- United States, 1992.” MMWR Surveillance Summaries, Center for Disease Control, 19 September 1998, Table 17. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00041486.htm. Accessed 21 August 2025. 

  1. “World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision.” United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 21 June 2017. https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-prospects-2017-revision. Accessed 21 August 2025.  

  1. “Texas' Natural Environment.” Texas Almanac. www.texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/environment. Accessed 21 August 2025. 

  1. Skidelsky, William. “My crash course in food waste with Tristram Stuart,” The Guardian, 17 July 2009. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jul/17/food-waste-tristram-stuart. Accessed 21 August 2025.