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Concerned Women For America Press Release 1/20/00

Concerned Women For America Statement on Roe v. Wade

WASHINGTON -- The following was released today by Concerned Women For America:

This Saturday, January 22, marks the 27th year after the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade turned America's legal system hostile to pre-born children. Following are a few of the consequences of that decision:

Law: Abortion clinics are virtually unregulated, resulting in unsanitary and even lethal conditions for women. Methods of infanticide, like partial-birth abortion and live-birth abortions - in which children are delivered early and either killed or left to die from exposure - are considered an extension of abortion. Any pre-born child that is a victim of violence in a federal crime has no rights or respect under federal law.

Culture: The abortion mentality, that if a child is not wanted she can be eliminated, has seeped into our culture. Children born handicapped are left to die, and the disabled and elderly are mercilessly euthanized, under the fear that they may become a burden (or "unwanted") by others.

Medicine: Children are now seen as subjects for gruesome experiments as aborted babies' body parts are used for research. Breast cancer and cervical cancer are proven to be possible consequences of abortion. However, abortion doctors do not inform women of these risks, making this the lone procedure for ignoring patients' right-to-know, as well as violating the Hippocratic oath to "do no harm."

Pro-Life Response: In law, culture and medicine, pro-life groups are working with one goal in mind - to bring respect, dignity and human rights back to women and children.

On a practical level, over 4,000 pregnancy centers have opened to meet the needs of pregnant women. They operate without government funding or charging fees. Unlike profit-motivated abortion clinics, these pregnancy centers to help women with counseling, material goods, and financial and emotional support free of charge.

Roe v. Wade has damaged every major institution in America by insisting there is a class of human beings that does not deserve rights. Concerned Women for America is committed to bringing human rights back to mothers and their babies.

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