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"Women who were economically or psychologically unable or unwilling to raise their babies had the option of abortion. Many exercised their new legal right. This meant that most of the babies born were wanted by the mother, father, or both. These children presumably received better nurturing than the unwanted children of the pre-abortion era. The availability of abortion created an abrupt decrease in the number of neglected babies, and an abrupt increase in the number of nurtured babies. We now know that nurturing initiates epigenetic signals that produce less fearful and anxious adults." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) "The answer comes from an unlikely source: The establishment of legal abortion on demand. When unwanted children could be aborted, many accidental or unplanned pregnancies were ended this way. Women who were economically or psychologically unable or unwilling to raise their babies had the option of abortion. Many exercised their new legal right. This meant that most of the babies born were wanted by the mother, father, or both. These children presumably received better nurturing than the unwanted children of the pre-abortion era." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Most are done for fibroid tumors that present no immediate problems, inflamation or bleeding, or are associated with abortion or sterilization. One study found that in half of all hysterectomies reviewed, accuracy of the preoperative diagnosis could not be evaluated.13 Some suggest that a "majority of hysterectomies performed for menorrhagia (excessive bleeding from menstruation) are unnecessary," advocating instead less invasive procedures.14 No question: the routine hysterectomy is now under scrutiny.15 Surgeons are becoming defensive." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"And though slight improvements in the Georgian economy subsequently lowered the abortion rate, in 1996 the country of 5.5 million people witnessed 25,000 legal abortions and at least 50,000 illegal ones, the institute found. "I have met women who have had more than thirty abortions. The highest number I ever saw was a sixty-nine-year-old woman who told me she had sixty abortions," Institute director Dr. Archil Khomassuridze asserted." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "So women in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe accepted abortion as their primary form of birth control. The numbers of abortions performed every year in Soviet state-run clinics rose steadily, reaching 7,228,000 in 1988, or 1.2 officially registered abortions for every one live birth.23 A survey conducted by the Zhordania Institute of Human Reproduction in Tblisi in 1995 revealed that the average Georgian woman had, by age twenty-six, undergone ten to twelve abortions, with dangerous illegal procedures outnumbering officially registered hospital ones by two-to-one." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"The NCI research disclosed that if the abortion was performed before age 18, the risk was increased by 150%. If the woman was over 30 and had a family history of mother, sister, grandmother, or aunt with breast cancer the risk went up by 270%. The most ominous finding was that every woman who had an abortion before age 18 and had a family history of breast cancer developed breast cancer by the age of 45. There were only 12 women in this study who fit this category, but they all developed breast cancer." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Illegal abortion produces a tenfold increase in ectopic pregnancy risk, according to a study performed in Greece when abortion was illegal. Legal abortion, by contrast, carries with it much less risk of a later ectopic pregnancy. A. Kalandidi et al., "Induced Abortions, Contraceptive Practices, and Tobacco Smoking as Risk Factors for Ectopic Pregnancy in Athens, Greece," British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 98. no. 2 (February 1991): 207. Intrauterine devices are more effective at preventing intrauterine pregnancy than ectopic pregnancy, a study confirmed. J. Coste et al." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"The medical abortion is just like a miscarriage. There is more bleeding and cramping than a period, but it occurs within a 4-to 24-hour period, and 98 percent of the time avoids surgery altogether. The infection rate is lower, and the chance of significant uterine injury, already miniscule, is further lowered. Many women are quite pleased with this method." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The death penalty, stem-cell research, whether to teach creation-ism or evolution in the classroom, abortion, and assisted suicide are all examples of topics that draw from us strong feelings as to their Tightness or wrongness. While we may not always be aware of our true position on such subjects, the intensity of our emotional response when they come up in conversation is a good indicator of where we stand regarding the most hotly debated issues of our time. In one way or another, our feelings are based in what we believe." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"In the interim, if you choose an abortion, consult your regular provider first. Gynecologists and family doctors need to realize how many women (1.5 million per year) in all walks of life need this service and how judged they feel—most obviously by "pro-life" practitioners, but also by their pro-choice doctors who send them across town to a clinic just because it's easier for that doctor. If your gynecologist won't help, go to one of the wonderful women-run and supported clinics that provide the service out of love and respect for women." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Illegal abortion produces a tenfold increase in ectopic pregnancy risk, according to a study performed in Greece when abortion was illegal. Legal abortion, by contrast, carries with it much less risk of a later ectopic pregnancy. A. Kalandidi et al., "Induced Abortions, Contraceptive Practices, and Tobacco Smoking as Risk Factors for Ectopic Pregnancy in Athens, Greece," British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 98. no. 2 (February 1991): 207. Intrauterine devices are more effective at preventing intrauterine pregnancy than ectopic pregnancy, a study confirmed. J. Coste et al." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Thirty years ago, society was not ready to legalize abortion on demand. Twenty years ago, society may have been ready for abortion on demand but was not ready to compel physicians to perform the procedure. But now a shortage of providers is threatened. Between 1976 and 1985, there was a 22 percent decline in the number of obstetrics and gynecology residency programs that offered training in first-trimester abortions. In half of the programs, the training is optional. In 1987 and 1988, 83 percent of U.S. counties had no abortionist." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.)

"Various women's issues—birth control, abortion, weight control, breast size, and particularly menstruation and menopause—have come under the "clinical gaze," to borrow Michel Foucault's apt phrase, to be treated with pill or surgery. Birthing is medicalized from conception to delivery." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Felicia Stewart, who dedicated much of her life and career to designing research and policies that make safe, effective contraception and abortion accessible to women, describes pill risk:4 If you were to draw a line 215 meters high (the height of a 70-story building) to represent 100,000 young nonsmoking pill users, and then draw a line beside it to represent the number of pill users in the United States who die each year from complications related to higher-dose pills, that second line would be about 0.5 centimeters high [about one-fifth of an inch]." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"It can, however, result in an incomplete abortion or increased vaginal bleeding, both of which may require surgical intervention. So far, 1% to 5% of women have required some surgical intervention. For this reason it is only available through a physician. Two days after the drug is administered, the woman returns to the doctor's office for treatment with another medication, called misoprostol, which is a synthetic prostaglandin." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Because of the risk of bleeding, infection, or incomplete abortion, all of which are potentially fatal, this drug should not be used unless there are follow-up appointments with a physician. After several recent deaths of several women who used the drug unsupervised, Planned Parenthood has reversed its policy of allowing women to administer misoprostol at home; they now must return to the physician. Are OCPs Safe? After the introduction of OCPs in the '60s, doctors noticed that women taking them were developing blood clots in their legs and having heart attacks and strokes at higher rates." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Observations from the deficient diet cats include: Spontaneous abortion ranged from an average of 25% in the first generation to about 70% in the second generation." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"We baby boomers who legalized abortion, revolutionized birth control, and pushed for double careers have learned a thing or two. With the good and bad of our endeavors, we are now in the midst of menopause. It is time to take charge of our health and perhaps even make things easier for our daughters, when their time comes. Hormone Support Therapy Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, which was the main form of hormone therapy in the past, never made sense to me. Why replace hormones when you can support them naturally?" - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The availability of abortion created an abrupt decrease in the number of neglected babies, and an abrupt increase in the number of nurtured babies. We now know that nurturing initiates epigenetic signals that produce less fearful and anxious adults. Twenty years after the legalization of adoption, when both groups had grown up, the pool of violent adults had shrunk, leading to the sudden and precipitate drop in the crime rate.8 Without knowing it, society, by legalizing abortion, made an epigenetic intervention that resulted in less violence a generation later." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Illegal abortion produces a tenfold increase in ectopic pregnancy risk, according to a study performed in Greece when abortion was illegal. Legal abortion, by contrast, carries with it much less risk of a later ectopic pregnancy. A. Kalandidi et al., "Induced Abortions, Contraceptive Practices, and Tobacco Smoking as Risk Factors for Ectopic Pregnancy in Athens, Greece," British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 98, no. 2 (February 1991): 207. Intrauterine devices are more effective at preventing intrauterine pregnancy than ectopic pregnancy, a study confirmed. J. Coste et al." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Even in medicine, the very fundamental concept of "life" is controversial, that is, to say difficult to define, as witnessed by the fierce debates over abortion and stem cell research, not to mention end-of-life issues. It's not just doctors and their procedures that would disappear," Fran pointed out. "It's a whole way of thinking about health and illness." I nodded. Medical practice is more than a set of procedures and techniques. It is directed by a powerful ideology that guides the way physicians think and act." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"MISCARRIAGE (SPONTANEOUS abortion) Some pregnancies are not carried to full term, resulting in a miscarriage. Spontaneous abortion is the technical term for a miscarriage. It is defined as the loss of a pregnancy before twenty weeks. The most likely reason for a miscarriage is a /.no 0) A high-carbohydrate diet can help if heartburn is a problem. Q See also heartburn/gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) in Part Two. HEMORRHOIDS Hemorrhoids are common during pregnancy." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Advances in birth control technology (the pill was invented in 1959 and became widely available by the mid-1960s in the United States and many other countries) and social changes that accepted the legality of contraception and abortion were instrumental in lowering the rate of population growth, as were growing urbanization and advances in education and economic aspiration levels." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The term "physician-assisted suicide" is a euphemism, similar to terms like "pro-choice" (for abortion) and "right to life" (for prohibiting abortion). We ought to reject PAS not only as social policy but also as a conventionally used phrase, especially so long as suicide remains illegal, prohibited by mental health law and punished by psychiatric agents of the state. Words are important. We must be careful about what we call the persons who receive and deliver suicide-assistance services." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"It is not felt to be an abortifacient (a substance that induces abortion). IUDS can make menstrual flow heavier and with more cramping. For those women with moderate or light menses, however, it is a method that requires no mess or loss of spontaneity, and IUDs can be used for years without loss of efficacy. Even at a cost of $600 to $700, this is a minimal expense if used over a 10-year period. Women who are in monogamous relationships, have given birth, and are not at risk for sexually transmitted infections are perfect candidates for IUD use, if their periods are normal." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Some other uses are as antitussives (cough remedies), sneezing-powder for chronic rhinitis, for inflammation of the eye, for pneumonia, angina pectoris, migraines, liver disease and jaundice, for dehydration, as an emmenagogue (menstrual stimulant) and for artificial abortion. Efficacy of the listed indications has not been adequately proven. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS Older scientific literature contains reports of signs of poisoning (burning of the tongue, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, erysipeloid skin rashes, hemiparesis)." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.) "Pregnancy: In high doses, Pennyroyal has been reported to cause abortion. Use in pregnancy is not recommended. overdosage Severely acute poisonings have been observed following administration of 5 gm of the volatile oil. Vomiting, blood pressure elevation, anesthetic-like paralysis and death through respiratory failure has been reported following larger dosages. Cases of death have been described following misuse of the volatile oil as an abortient. dosage See: precautions and adverse reactions. Mode of Administration: Internally as a ground drug, an extract, and as a tea." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.) "OVERDOSAGE Very large quantities of rosemary leaves (more likely, only of rosemary oil), have been misused for the purpose of abortion, and are said to lead to deep coma, spasm, vomiting, gastroenteritis, uterine bleeding, kidney irritation, and in severe cases, accompanied by pulmonary edema, to death in humans. No documented cases have come to light. DOSAGE Mode of Administration: Ground drug is used for infusions. Powdered dmg, dry extract and other galenic preparations are available for internal and external use." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

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