Pro Life = Anti-Pill

"In 1969, as a second-year resident, I was sent for six months of training to Cook County Hospital in Chicago. For six weeks of that time I was assigned to a ward called the 'Infected Ob' ward. To my surprise and shock, I found that the 15 to 25 women I admitted every night were recent patrons of Chicago's back-alley abortion mills. They appeared at our emergency room bleeding, running a fever, and were found upon physical exam to have a tender, enlarged uterus. Every morning, my intern and I would have to perform another dilation and curettage (D & C) procedure on them (in which the cervix is dilated and the uterus then vacuumed) to remove whatever infected tissue the abortionist had left inside their uterus so they could get well and go home.

By the end of that six-week rotation, I was outraged. Looking at that experience as a secular humanist, I concluded that legalized abortion was the answer, and I wanted my medical profession to start offering safe 'procedures' to women 'in need.' So in 1973 when the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the entire U.S. was announced, I was delighted. I celebrated by going out and buying a suction D & C machine and began offering first-trimester abortions in my own office practice.

That was then
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This is now:

After thirty years of virtually unlimited access to contraceptive and abortive technology, men and women are sensing the empty promises of 'free' sex and beginning to hope that they can form more meaningful relationships — even within marriage. I can honestly promise my patients a better marriage if they practice NFP. It offers efficacy, safety, and economy, and a remarkable single-digit divorce rate. Modern NFP, not to be confused with the old calendar rhythm, has an unplanned pregnancy rate superior to that of the birth control pill. In 1994 the British Medical Journal reported an unplanned pregnancy rate of 30 per 1,000 women for the pill, and 4 per 1,000 for NFP Billings method. Unlike oral contraception, NFP does not produce blood clotting, hypertension, migraine headaches, or liver tumors, and it is virtually free of cost. In addition, the mutual involvement of both husband and wife promotes the virtue of marital chastity, which is the strength of character to place our sexual energy at the service of genuine love. Yes, NFP involves periodic abstinence if children are to be spaced, but we all know that periodic abstinence is a reality in any marriage. Difficulties will come, but so will grace." -from the memoir of a pro-life obstetrician


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