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|name=Chuck Schumer&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Charles Ellis “Chuck” Schumer''', born November 23, 1950 (age {{age|1950|11|23}}), is a [[liberal]] [[Democrat Party|Democrat]] U.S. Senator from [[New York]].  He defeated incumbent Republican Senator [[Alfonse D'Amato]] in a nasty campaign in 1998 after serving in the House of Representatives for many terms.  He is particularly vocal in supporting groups that perform [[abortions]], such as [[Planned Parenthood]], and in opposing judicial nominees who are [[Strict constructionism|strict constructionists]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Schumer is a notorious [[sexist]] [[bigot]] with no regard for the victims of [[sexual assault]] and abuse.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1260306945208201218&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Schumer is an apologist for the [[murder]]ous [[Chinese Communist]] regime&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.reddit.com/r/republicans/comments/gkh9ik/schumer_says_trump_is_picking_on_china_for/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and senseless violence and protests against innocent people.  Hw was the first Democratic recipients of campaign cash from convicted [[pedophile]] [[Jeffrey Epstein]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=jeffrey+Epstein&amp;amp;order=asc&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;sort=D&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In early September 2020 following [[Donald Trump]]'s celebration of a jobs report that showed numbers exceeding expectations toward a strong economic recovery despite the [[CCP pandemic]], Schumer was none too quick to misconstrue Trump's words out of acute [[TDS]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/09/04/chuck-schumer-does-not-welcome-huge-drop-in-unemployment/ Chuck Schumer Does Not Welcome Huge Drop in Unemployment]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Per Schumer in late January 2021 following the [[2021 attack of the Capitol|attack of the Capitol]]:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Two references:&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/schumer-says-senators-will-decide-if-trump-incited-erection/ Schumer says senators will decide if Trump incited ‘erection’ at US Capitol]. ''New York Post''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schumer-erection-senate-floor/ Did Schumer Say ‘Erection’ on the Senate Floor?]. ''Snopes''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|...senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the er**tion ''[sic]'' against the United States...}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early life==&lt;br /&gt;
Schumer was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 23, 1950, the son of Abraham and Selma Schumer.  He is a cousin of liberal &amp;quot;comedienne&amp;quot; Amy Schumer.&lt;br /&gt;
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==United States Senate==&lt;br /&gt;
In 2005 Schumer became chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, and in November 2006, he was elected to the new post of Vice Chairman of the Senate Democrat Caucus. Schumer has long been known in Washington for his hamming to television cameras.  Majority Leader [[Bob Dole]] once quipped that &amp;quot;the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera.&amp;quot;  That criticism has not just come from Republicans.  David McReynolds, the Green Party candidate for senator, observed about Schumer, &amp;quot;People are saying he's a newshound, a camera hog, that he's someone who loses no opportunity to push into a picture.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Schumer blamed [[Donald Trump]] as a &amp;quot;moron&amp;quot; in late October 2020 his administration's response to the [[CCP pandemic]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/29/schumer-calls-trump-a-moron-over-coronavirus-response/ Schumer Calls Trump a ‘Moron’ over Coronavirus Response]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; when he and other Senate Democrats blocked a coronavirus relief bill.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stimulus-bill-senate-democrats-block-republican-proposal/ Senate Democrats block slimmed-down GOP coronavirus bill as talks continue]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Senate confirmation of Supreme Court justices==&lt;br /&gt;
In a speech to a [[liberal]] audience in July 2007, Schumer declared:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5146.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Schumer also said that the Senate should not confirm another nomination by President [[George W. Bush]] to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] &amp;quot;except in extraordinary circumstances.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''id.''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A spokeswoman for the White House, Dana Perino, responded:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''id.''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;This is the kind of blind obstruction that people have come to expect from Sen. Schumer. He has an alarming habit of attacking people whose character and position make them unwilling or unable to respond. That is the sign of a bully. If the past is any indication, I would bet that we would see a Democratic senatorial fundraising appeal in the next few days.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2016 following the death of Justice [[Antonin Scalia]], Schumer said:&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;Republicans won't be able to walk down Main Street or attend town halls without being asked why they won't meet with a nominee or hold hearings or vote [on Scalia's successor]&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/2016/02/24/schumer-says-gop-stance-court-vacancy-indefensible/80877102/|title=Schumer says GOP stance on court vacancy is 'indefensible'|date=Feb. 24, 2016|accessdate=Feb. 29, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Deep State coup==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:CRIMINALS-600x400.jpg|right|350px|thumb|[[President Obama]] and Chuck Schumer with Democrat megadonor and convicted [[rape|rapist]] [[Harvey Weinstein]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://usbacklash.org/harvey-weinstein-caught-on-recorded-nypd-phone-sting-telling-his-sexual-assault-victim-it-wont-happen-again/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
Schumer was complicit in the 2017 [[Deep State]] coup attempt against President [[Donald Trump]] when he made false public pronouncements, including on the US Senate floor, that President Trump was under investigation by the [[FBI]]. FBI Dir. [[James Comey]] explicitly informed Schumer that Trump was not under investigation. As Senate Minority Leader, Schumer's willful and deliberate deception of the American people was an effort to stall or the confirmation of US Supreme Court Justice [[Neil Gorsuch]] by impugning President Trump in election rigging when in fact Democrat supporters of [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] had colluded with [[Russia]] to do.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/FJz3SliN2eM&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==DSCC Controversy==&lt;br /&gt;
During the 2006 Senate election's, Schumer's Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee illegally obtained a copy of the credit report of the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Michael S. Steele, a Republican senatorial candidate, posing as him and using his social security number.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Walter Reed Medical Center Controversy==&lt;br /&gt;
Schumer blasted the Bush administration for sub-standard conditions of wounded military personnel at Walter Reed Medical Center. Schumer was called out by radio host [[Don Imus]] for not visiting with the wounded troops at the [[Washington D.C.]] facility.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/9/124531.shtml?s=ic , NewsMax.com Imus Grills Schumer for Not Visiting Walter Reed, March 9, 2007&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Schumer's role in the [[Financial Crisis of 2008]]==&lt;br /&gt;
The New York Times has accused Schumer of &amp;quot;backing measures now blamed for the financial crisis.... Schumer took steps to protect (financial)industry players from Government oversight and tougher rules.... Over the years he has helped to save financial institutions billions of dollars in higher taxes.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/14schumer.html?_r=1 www.nytimes.com]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Three Branches gaffe==&lt;br /&gt;
Schumer listed the three branches of government as &amp;quot;the House, the Senate, and the President&amp;quot; - while making other intemperate remarks about a &amp;quot;[[government shutdown]]&amp;quot; attempt that he ascribed to Republican budget opponents. [https://www.theblaze.com/stories/sen-schumers-three-branches-of-government-no-longer-includes-judiciary/]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Russian hacking controversy==&lt;br /&gt;
* Chuck Schumer, the Dems’ man in the Senate, made like a Soprano in a TV interview: &amp;quot;Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://nypost.com/2017/01/08/democrats-wage-anti-trump-offensive-for-their-own-gain/]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Meltdown at New York restaurant==&lt;br /&gt;
The media reported that Shumer created a scene on March 26, 2017, when he started yelling and trolling the wife of a former Democrat health secretary under [[Jimmy Carter]] because she voted for [[Donald Trump]] in the 2016 election.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/27/schumer-goes-off-on-trump-supporter-at-nyc-restaurant-witness-says.html Schumer goes off on Trump supporter at NYC restaurant, witness says]. ''Fox News''. March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Mark Green==&lt;br /&gt;
When Mark Green was forced to step down as the nominee for Secretary of the [[United States Army]] thanks to Democrats and their [[liberal media]] stooges [[Demonizing conservatives|attacking him for his positions]] on Islam, gender issues and evolution, Schumer gloated via Twitter: &amp;quot;He was the wrong choice to serve as Secretary, and should not have been nominated in the first place.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2017/05/06/creation/mark-green-right-first-time/ Mark Green was right the first time] at Conservative News and Views&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gas prices==&lt;br /&gt;
In July 2017, soon after it was reported that gas prices had fallen to their lowest level in 12 years, Schumer stated that the price of gas &amp;quot;never goes down.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Rodriguez, Katherine (July 23, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/23/chuck-schumer-gas-prices-hit-lowest-point-12-years/ Chuck Schumer Claims Gas Prices ‘Never Go Down’ as Gas Prices Hit Lowest Point in 12 Years]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 24, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Threats against Supreme Court justices==&lt;br /&gt;
In early March 2020 at a [[pro-abortion]] rally, Schumer threatened [[conservative]] Supreme Court justices [[Neil Gorsuch]] and [[Brett Kavanaugh]] that they will &amp;quot;pay the price&amp;quot; if they don't vote in favor of [[abortion]] on a case over a [[Louisiana]] abortion law.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/chuck-schumer-threatens-kavanaugh-and-gorsuch-will-pay-the-price-if-they-rule-the-wrong-way Chuck Schumer threatens Kavanaugh and Gorsuch will ‘pay the price’ if they rule the wrong way]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Even the [[pro-abortion]], mob rule-backing [[Nancy Pelosi]] have acknowledged Schumer's comments as being &amp;quot;not appropriate&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/not-appropriate-pelosi-says-schumers-supreme-court-threat-wasnt-right 'Not appropriate': Pelosi says Schumer's Supreme Court threat 'wasn't right']&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[Rasmussen Reports]] poll conducted in March 2020 concluded that 59% of likely voters see criticism of individual judges as a threat to the judicial branch's independence.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/march_2020/voters_to_pols_leave_individual_judges_alone Voters to Pols: Leave Individual Judges Alone]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Nancy Pelosi]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Harry Reid]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dick Durbin]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Bernie Madoff]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://www.senate.gov/~schumer/  Official Website]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Charles_Schumer.htm Schumer On the Issues]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Baby.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An unborn child in the womb. Liberals believe that the unborn child has no right to life.]]&lt;br /&gt;
'''Abortion''' is the induced termination of a [[pregnancy]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;American Heritage Dictionary definition, [http://www.bartleby.com/61/7/A0020700.html abortion].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; often causing [[fetal pain]].  Abortion has two victims:  the unborn child, and the mother who can never forget the loss she caused.  Breast cancer rates increase by ''more than six times'' for women who have abortion, according to a recent study.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.indianjcancer.com/article.asp?issn=0019-509X;year=2013;volume=50;issue=4;spage=316;epage=321;aulast=Bhadoria AS Bhadoria, U Kapil, N Sareen, P Singh, &amp;quot;Reproductive factors and breast cancer: A case-control study in tertiary care hospital of North India,&amp;quot; 50 ''Indian Journal of Cancer'' 4, 316-321 (2013)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Additional victims of abortion include after-born children, who have a higher rate of premature birth and birth defects due to the harm caused by a prior abortion.&lt;br /&gt;
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Abortion is a billion-dollar industry in the [[United States]]. Although [[Planned Parenthood]] likes to claim abortion accounts for just 3% of its services, according to its 2007-08 budget, it received $1.038 billion of revenue, and half to two-thirds relates to its abortion services. (''See [[Abortion#Planned Parenthood.27s Budget|Planned Parenthood's Budget]]'') Dr. George Tiller &amp;quot;estimated that he performed 250 to 300 late-term abortions in 2003, each costing an average of $6,000.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Hegeman, R. (2009, March 25). [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/03/25/kan_doctor_testifies_in_abortion_case_against_him/ Kan. doctor testifies in abortion case against him]. ''Associated Press''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  There have been more than 60 million abortions in the [[United States]] since 1973.&amp;lt;ref name=factsheet&amp;gt;''Number of Abortions''. [http://www.christianliferesources.com/?/library/view.php&amp;amp;articleid=1042 U.S. Abortion Statistics By Year (1973-Current)]. National Right to Life Factsheet, January 2012.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(Privacy laws and likely desire to keep this silent holocaust from raising alarm hinders data collection on abortion. CDC researchers have admitted they probably undercount the total number of abortions because reporting laws vary from state to state and some abortionists probably do not report or under-report the abortions they perform. Abortions from CA and NH have not been counted by the CDC since 1998, and reports from other states are also missing for some years.)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Right to choose is no solace, because doing something so wrong will have devastating consequences.  A right to privacy would not permit the taking of life when that life is inconvenient, whether in the privacy of one's own home or own body.  &lt;br /&gt;
{{TOC right}}&lt;br /&gt;
Saying one can't criticize a woman's choice to murder her children is like saying one can't criticize the president without being the president.&amp;lt;ref name=lucente&amp;gt;Lucente Jr., T.J. (2012, January 29). [https://www.limaohio.com/articles/right-78475-privacy-one.html Right to Privacy is Not a License to Kill]. ''LimaOhio.com.'' Freedom Communications, Inc.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Rape or life of the mother are extremely rare circumstances accounting for less than 1% of all abortions, with little bearing on the broader &amp;quot;abortion on demand&amp;quot; issue, particularly since all legislation the Pro-Life movement has been putting out recently has included exceptions for them, and many states had laws allowing abortion for such cases before ''Roe v. Wade'' - abortion was legalized for other reasons. (''See [[Abortion#Arguments On Abortion|Arguments On Abortion]]'') &lt;br /&gt;
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Ultimately, this debate is about when a fetus becomes a human being worthy of all applicable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under the [[Declaration of Independence]], for once it is we should not take its life lightly. And when it comes to that, 18,150 abortions occur after the 21st week of pregnancy&amp;lt;ref name=induced&amp;gt;(2011, August). [https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html/ Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States]. ''Guttmacher Institute''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; - the earliest point children can be born prematurely and live.&amp;lt;ref name=tooyoung&amp;gt;Rochman, B. (2011, May 27). [http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/27/baby-born-at-21-weeks-survives-how-young-is-too-young-to-save/ A 21-Week-Old Baby Survives and Doctors Ask, How Young is Too Young to Save?] ''Time Magazine''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; An additional 45,980 abortions occur in the 16th-20th weeks of pregnancy.&amp;lt;ref name=induced /&amp;gt; These are 60 thousand abortions each year that are clearly murder, since the child is at or near the same stage of pregnancy as children born prematurely via C-Section. Furthermore, substantial fetal development occurs within the first 12 weeks (1st trimester) of pregnancy, including brain wave activity at 6 weeks, complete body sensitivity at 10 weeks, and all facial expressions (including smiling) at 11 weeks.&amp;lt;ref name=clowes&amp;gt;Clowes, Brian, PhD. 2001. [https://www.hli.org/index.php/the-facts-of-life/480?task=view The Facts of Life]. Ch. 12. Front Royal: Human Life International.&lt;br /&gt;
Also in: Sharing the Pro-Life Message. Chicago: Pro-Life Action League, 2009. Print.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; By not erring on the side of caution when potentially infringing on the inalienable right to life given by our Creator, the Pro-Choice movement has brought the blood of countless children on their hands, and on our nation's. (''See [[Abortion#When Does Life Begin.3F|When Does Life Begin?]]'') &lt;br /&gt;
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A growing body of evidence increasingly suggests that abortion is linked to Breast Cancer, later premature births, and other health concerns. Millions of women who had an abortion later suffer psychologically or physically from it, and support groups exist to help.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Rodgers-Melnick, A. (2002, January 20). [http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20020120abortion0120p3.asp Groups support those who regret abortions]. ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Many victims of abortion find healing by speaking out against, and discouraging, similar harm to other mothers and their children.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born,&amp;quot; observed President [[Ronald Reagan]].  He also observed, &amp;quot;With me, abortion is not a problem of religion, it's a problem of the Constitution. I believe that until and unless someone can establish that the unborn child ''is not a living human being'', then that child is already protected by the Constitution, which guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all of us.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Abortion doesn't solve your problems, it only creates different ones,&amp;quot; warned a full-page ad by women who had abortions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Anglicans for Life'' and ''Priests for Life''. [http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/signaturead/ad.pdf We Regret Our Abortions]. ''Orange County Right to Life''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Abortion always ends the life of the unborn child, typically by dismemberment.  Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, future premature birth, mental illness, and other long-term health problems for the mother, as detailed below. (''See [[Abortion#Health Concerns|Health Concerns]]'')&lt;br /&gt;
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One of NARAL's founders, [[Bernard Nathanson]], acknowledged that NARAL in the early days of the Pro-Choice movement simply fabricated statistics on back-alley abortions; inflating the actual numbers ten-fold to get abortion legalized. Rather than making abortion rare, the annual number of abortions has increased 1500% since [[Roe v. Wade]].&amp;lt;ref name=nathanson&amp;gt;Kupelian, David (2005, January 20). &amp;quot;[https://www.wnd.com/2005/01/28544/ Blood Confessions: Ex-Abortionists Spill Their Guts].&amp;quot; ''Whistleblower Magazine''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;''Whistleblower Magazine'' (2003, January 2). &amp;quot;[https://www.wnd.com/2003/01/16460/ Ex-Abortionists Expose America's Greatest Scandal].&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; (''See [[Abortion#History|History]]'') Gallup polling in 2012 reveals that just 24% of Americans support abortion after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy,&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion&amp;gt;''Gallup''. &amp;quot;[https://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx/ Abortion].&amp;quot; Do you think abortion should be legal in most circumstances or only in a few circumstances?&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; even though abortion is allowed in all 9 months.&amp;lt;ref name=ninemonths&amp;gt;[http://www.whyprolife.com/is-abortion-legal-all-9-months-of-pregnancy/ Is Abortion Legal All 9 Months of Pregnancy?] ''WhyProLife.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Just 25% believe abortion should be legal under all circumstances, and an additional 13% believe it should be legal under most circumstances. Most Americans believe abortion should usually be illegal save in rare cases.&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion /&amp;gt; (''See [[Abortion#Public Opinion|Public Opinion]]'')&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Abortion in Poland]] declined by 99% after [[communism]] was overthrown (and abortion abolished&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Catholic World News'' (2007, April 11). [http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=50451 Liberal abortion law takes effect in Portugal]. Trinity Communications.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;), and women's health has dramatically improved there due to fewer abortions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Johnston, W.R., Dr. (2008, October 9). [http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-poland.html Historical abortion statistics, Poland]. ''Johnston's Archive'.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Statistics on abortion==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' [[Abortion statistics]]&lt;br /&gt;
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* As of 2012, it is estimated there has been over 59.8 million babies murdered by abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its 1973 ''Roe v. Wade'' decision. After reaching 25 percent from a high of over 1.6 million in the year 1990, the number of abortions performed annually in the U.S. has leveled off at about 1.2 million infants murdered by abortion a year, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI). By 2016, the number of yearly abortions in America dropped to a historic low of less than 1,000,000.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/health/us-abortions-historic-lows-trnd/ Abortions in the US have been dropping. Now it's at a historic low&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Approximately 22% of all U.S. pregnancies ended in abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Jones RK and Kooistra, K., [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1363/4304111/abstract Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States], 2008, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011, 43(1):41-50. (Excludes miscarriages.)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Only about 1 percent each year are attributed to rape and incest.&amp;lt;ref name=rare&amp;gt;Johnston, W.R., Dr. (2008, October 9). [http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html Reasons given for having abortions in the United States]. ''Johnston's Archive'.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 40% of women ages 15 to 44 have had at least one abortion. 4 out of 10 teen pregnancies end in murder by abortion. Based on the rate of abortion, it was estimated (2000) that 43 percent of American women would  have at least one abortion by the age of 45. &lt;br /&gt;
* 7 out of 10 U.S. women are sexually active (usually as fornicators) but do not want to become pregnant.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Alan Guttmacher Institute'', In Brief: Fact Sheet, [https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html/ Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States], August 2011.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
* Women who have never married and are not cohabiting account for 45% of all abortions. 57% of all women having abortions between 15 and 44 are in their 20's. 36% of non-Hispanic women are abortions were white, 30% are non-Hispanic black, and 25% are Hispanic.&amp;lt;ref name=patients&amp;gt;Jones RK, Finer LB and Singh S, [https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/US-Abortion-Patients.pdf Characteristics of U.S. Abortion Patients], 2008, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* 37% of women killing babies by abortion were Protestant, (include those who identified as “Christian” but who did not specify a denomination) while 28% were Catholic, and 20% identified themselves as born-again, evangelical, charismatic or fundamentalist (in 2000, some 13% of abortion patients aged 18 and older identified as born-again or evangelical before the question was reworded slightly for the 2008 survey), while 27% gave no religious affiliation, increasing from 22% in 2000. (Protestants were under-represented among those committing abortion in proportion to the total number of Protestants nationwide, and the relative abortion rate for this group was lower than the rate for all women.)&amp;lt;ref name=patients /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Although 66% of women having abortions had some type of health insurance, 57% paid for their abortion out of pocket. Among women with private health insurance, 63% paid out of pocket.&amp;lt;ref name=patients /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Arguments On Abortion==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' [[Abortion arguments]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The following are some common Pro-Choice arguments on abortion, and problems with the reasoning.&lt;br /&gt;
===Right to Choose===&lt;br /&gt;
The obvious question not being confronted is what choice is at stake? The choice to kill another human being to bypass the consequences and responsibilities that should accompany the choice to create another life; in essence the choice to murder one's own children so sex can be engaged in freely without responsibility or consequence.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Hoffman, M.C. (2012, May 28). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abortion-is-murder-for-the-purpose-of-population-control-says-turkish-prime Abortion is ‘murder’ for the purpose of population control, says Turkish prime minister]. ''Life Site News''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Sometimes women die from abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See &amp;quot;Documented Incidents of 365 Women Who Have Been Killed by &amp;quot;Safe&amp;quot; and Legal Abortion.&amp;quot; [http://abortionviolence.com/DEATHS.HTM 365 women who have been killed by 'Legal' abortion]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since abortion is deliberate and thought about in advance, it is comparable to a premeditated killing.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;First-degree murder is defined as &amp;quot;a killing which is deliberate and premeditated.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/first+degree+murder First Degree Murder]. ''The Free Dictionary''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
====Rare Circumstances: Life of Mother and Rape====&lt;br /&gt;
''BBC News'' has an article called &amp;quot;Abortion in self-defence&amp;quot; arguing that abortion should be allowed in cases where the mother's life and health are at risk, and that this is justifiable self-defense. However, ''BBC News'' acknowledges that abortion is NOT justified for the following reasons: {{cquote|&amp;quot;But supposing the mother is not in physical danger, what then? There are a number of cases where some people argue that a woman should have the right to an abortion, such as: damage to mental health, damage to family, damage to career prospects, damage to financial prospects, damage to plans for her life. The self-defence argument for abortion seems to fail here, because although a threat to life can be a defence to a charge of killing someone, none of the above would be an adequate defence in a case of homicide, nor would they be regarded as reasons that justified euthanasia. But if we don't regard the foetus as a person with a right to live, or if we regard it as a being that doesn't have a full right to life, then these cases of self-defence may be arguable.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
-''BBC News''.&amp;lt;ref name=bbc&amp;gt;[https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/philosophical/selfdefence.shtml Abortion in Self-Defence]. ''BBC News''. Retrieved July 23, 2012.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}} However, (A) danger to life of the mother, like rape, is a very rare circumstance that accounts for less than 1% of all abortions,&amp;lt;ref name=rare /&amp;gt; (B) all major legislation put out by the Right to Life movement over the past decade has included exceptions allowing abortions for rape and life of the mother (e.g. [[Mexico City Policy]], [[Born Alive Infant Protection Act]], [[Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act]], etc.) and (C) at least 13 states had legislation allowing abortion for rape or life of the mother BEFORE Roe v. Wade&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortiontimeline.html Abortion History Timeline].  ''National Right to Life Committee''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; - abortion was legalized for other reasons. &lt;br /&gt;
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The bottom line is that apart from such extremely rare circumstances, ''BBC News'' acknowledges that &amp;quot;''The self-defence argument for abortion seems to fail here, because although a threat to life can be a defence to a charge of killing someone, none of the above would be an adequate defence in a case of homicide, nor would they be regarded as reasons that justified euthanasia.''&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=bbc /&amp;gt; Choosing to kill another person, in other words, is unjustifiable unless the mother's life is in danger or, debatably,  if rape occurred. In fact, those who bring up cases like rape and life of the mother are doing so because, deep inside, they themselves know that choosing to murder another human being is justifiable only under such extreme circumstances, and NOT for abortion on demand. &lt;br /&gt;
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The only way to justify abortion apart from such circumstances is, as ''BBC News'' says, &amp;quot;''if we don't regard the foetus as a person with a right to live, or if we regard it as a being that doesn't have a full right to life''&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=bbc /&amp;gt; You see, this is not about the right to choose at all, and such a slogan distracts from the real issue - the real issue is whether the fetus is a human being deserving of a full right to life. Because if it is a human being worthy of the right to life, then there is no excuse for &amp;quot;choosing to kill&amp;quot; via abortion on demand.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Right to One's Body===&lt;br /&gt;
The Pro-Choice movement likes to say that women should have a right to their bodies. However, such a right should logically not allow one to harm others with that body, including physical assault, murder, rape, or theft, and therefore, this is not an absolute right, but a privilege that is not intended to exceed another's unalienable rights, including the right to life. As Hugh V. McLachlan of ''Glasgow Caledonian University'' pointed out in 1997, there is no entitlement to one's body and &amp;quot;''we have rights duties, liabilities, restrictions and&lt;br /&gt;
disadvantages as well as rights concerning our own bodies.''&amp;quot; {{cquote|&amp;quot;Consider the assumption at issue in the abstract: 'That particular X is your X and, therefore, you are entitled to do what you want with it'. As a matter of pure logic, the claim is an absurdity. What if 'X' stands for a Thompson Machine Gun? Should we say: 'That is your machine gun and, therefore, you can do whatever you like with it?' On the contrary, although there might be some things which you and only you can of right do to and with the gun, if that particular machine gun is your machine gun then it is incumbent upon you in particular to ensure that certain things are not done with it. Is the situation any different when 'X' pertains to one's body or to parts of it? I do not think so.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-Hugh V. McLachlan, ''Glasgow Caledonian University''.&amp;lt;ref name=mclachlan&amp;gt;McLachlan, H.V. (1997). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1377347/ Bodies, Rights, and Abortions]. Journal of Medical Ethics. Vol. 23. p. 176.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
As McLachlan continues to point out, this emphasis on rights neglects the other side of the coin, responsibilities or duties. He gives on pg. 177 the example of an insurance policy, and how using one's body to commit suicide can invalidate such a contract.&amp;lt;ref name=mclachlan /&amp;gt; Logically, creating another human life should likewise bring responsibly for actions toward that life - how is the decision to create another human life of lesser importance than the decision to sign an insurance contract? Why should one be able to kill a separate person to void the sexual decision to bring about another life, yet not be able to kill oneself without voiding an insurance contract? {{cquote|&amp;quot;Certainly a woman has a right to control her own body, but the unborn entity, though for a time living inside her body, is not part of her body. Hence, abortion is not justified, since no one's right to personal autonomy is so strong that it permits the arbitrary execution of others.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-Francis J. Beckwith, ''Christian Research Journal''.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Beckwith, F.J. (1991). [https://christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life009.html Doesn't a woman have the right to control her own body?] ''Christian Research Journal''. At ''ChristianAnswers.net''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}Ultimately, the real question is whether the fetus in question is another human being to be accorded unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under the Declaration of Independence, for if so, no right to one's body should give power to infringe on its unalienable right to life. Your right to your body does not include the right, in other words, to kill others using that body to avoid the responsibilities and consequences of a sexual decision to create another life. That is what in the real world is called &amp;quot;murder&amp;quot; and it is reprehensible. Therefore, the real question is at what point a fetus becomes a human being.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Right to Privacy===&lt;br /&gt;
To get abortion legalized, the Pro-Choice movement had to argue that women should have a &amp;quot;right to privacy&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Levin, M.R. (2005, March 14). [http://old.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200503140754.asp Death by Privacy]. ''The National Review''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; However, logically, if the fetus is a human being and thus murder would be committed, privacy is no excuse for such murder. Logically, killing someone in the privacy of one's own home should no more be an excuse for murder than killing them in the privacy of one's body. Furthermore, as Judge Henry J. Friendly pointed out in the nation's first major abortion case, [[Hall v. Lefkowitz]], abortion is actually a complete violation of privacy when you look at it, requiring intervention in a woman's most private areas by a physician and variety of medical personnel.&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|A holding that the privacy of sexual intercourse is protected against governmental intrusion scarcely carries as a corollary that when this has resulted in conception, government may not forbid destruction of the fetus. The type of abortion the plaintiffs particularly wish to protect against governmental sanction is the antithesis of privacy. The woman consents to intervention in the uterus by a physician, with the usual retinue of assistants, nurses, and other paramedical personnel, indeed the condition calling for such intervention may very likely have been established by clinical tests... Yet, even if we were to take plaintiffs’ legal position that the legislature cannot constitutionally interfere with a woman’s right to do as she will with her own body so long as no harm is done to others, the argument does not support the conclusion plaintiffs would have us draw from it. For we cannot say the New York legislature lacked a rational basis for considering that abortion causes such harm. Even if we should put aside the interests of the father, negligible indeed in the many cases when he has abandoned the prospective mother but not in all, the legislature could permissibly consider the fetus itself to deserve protection.&amp;lt;ref name=friendly&amp;gt;Randolph, A. Raymond. [http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No3_Randolph.pdf Before Roe v. Wade: Judge Friendly's Draft Abortion Opinion]. ''Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy''. Vol. 29.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
===Women Choose, Not Men===&lt;br /&gt;
The Pro-Choice movement likes to say men and fathers should have no say in the abortion debate, only women. However, as Thomas J. Lucente Jr. points out, this is similar to saying one can't criticize the President unless one is the President. {{cquote|&amp;quot;The pro-abortion crowd will argue that because I am a man, I should not be allowed to have an opinion on abortion, unless, of course, I support the mass murder of 50 million babies in the last 39 years. That's akin to saying I can't criticize the president unless I have been the president.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-Thomas J. Lucente Jr.&amp;lt;ref name=lucente /&amp;gt;}} As [[Alan Keyes]] has pointed out, the Pro-Choice movement essentially is arguing for the baby's rights to be dependent on the mother's desire for it, making women slave-owners, essentially - this is very different from the [[Declaration of Independence]] which says the Creator gives us our unalienable rights, rather than them being dependent upon other people.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Jefferson, T. (1776, July 4). [http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm The Declaration of Independence]. Retrieved from ''USHistory.org''. Independence Hall Association.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; {{cquote|&amp;quot;Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-Alan Keyes, speech at Southern Methodist University, Feb. 24, 1997.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.abortiontv.com/Words/Slavery.htm Former Presidential candidate, Alan Keyes shares his views on the commonalities between abortion and slavery]. ''AbortionTV.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|&amp;quot;... abortion is to our time what slavery was to the 19th Century, and if anyone of conscience went anywhere in the 19th Century and did not confront the American people with the evil of slavery, then they were not doing what statesmanship required... Well, it's a part of her body utterly dependent on her body, not viable apart from her body. She has, therefore, absolute power over this being, and given that absolute power she has the absolute right to dispose of it according to her will. We don't recognize what that's saying? What that's saying is that power makes for right. Might makes for right. If I have you in my power, I may dispose of you and your life according to my will. And if that argument is now accepted, and we have embraced it as a fundamental principle of law, then we have rejected the right principle. For if our right, our most basic and conditional right, the right to life itself comes to us not from God but from our mother's choice, then there is no human right that transcends in its claim, human choice and human power. Abortion is the paradigm, the ultimate paradigm of despotism, tyranny, oppression, slavery, holocaust.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-Alan Keyes, speech in San Francisco, March 3, 2003.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/abortion_quotes.html Abortion Quotes]. ''NotableQuotes.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}} Ultimately, every American has a responsibility to stand up for the rights of other Americans when they are being murdered - regardless of gender. And to say a mother should be able to murder her children whenever she feels like it, apart from the father's opinions, is simply wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
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== When Does Life Begin? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:''  [[When does life begin?]] &lt;br /&gt;
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Logically, one ought to be erring on the side of caution when potentially infringing on another person's inalienable right to life, rather than seeing how close we can come to committing murder without doing so. Abortion in the U.S. is legal in all 9 months (36 weeks) of pregnancy.&amp;lt;ref name=ninemonths /&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
===Premature Birth===&lt;br /&gt;
Even though children can be born as early as 21 weeks after pregnancy&amp;lt;ref name=tooyoung /&amp;gt; the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood's research arm, reports that 1.5% of the 1.21 million abortions in the United States occur after the 21st week of pregnancy.&amp;lt;ref name=induced /&amp;gt; Therefore, 18,150 abortions occur each year after the earliest point that children can be born prematurely and live. An additional 3.8% occur 16–20 weeks after pregnancy, an additional 45,980 abortions each year that are most certainly murder given proximity to time of premature birth.&amp;lt;ref name=induced /&amp;gt; Why is a baby considered human outside the womb, yet nothing more than a fetus to be aborted at or near the same point in pregnancy if still inside the womb? And what will abortionists argue? That this is &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; 50-60 thousand innocent lives being taken each year?&lt;br /&gt;
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===Fetal Development===&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|&amp;quot;Modern biology instructs that the genetic code that will dictate the entire future of the fetus is formed as early as the ___ day after conception; the fetus is thus something more than inert matter. The rules of property and of tort have come increasingly to recognize its rights.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
-Judge Henry Friendly, [[Hall v. Lefkowitz]].&amp;lt;ref name=friendly&amp;gt;Randolph, A. Raymond. &amp;quot;[http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No3_Randolph.pdf Before Roe v. Wade: Judge Friendly's Draft Abortion Opinion].&amp;quot; ''Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy''. Vol. 29.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
According to Brian Clowes, Ph.D,&amp;lt;ref name=clowes /&amp;gt; as cited by the Pro-Life Action League,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;(2009). [http://www.whyprolife.com/life-in-the-womb/ Sharing the Pro-Life Message]. &amp;quot;Life in the Womb.&amp;quot; Pro-Life Action League. Chicago.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; fetal development occurs as follows after conception:&lt;br /&gt;
* 2 weeks: First completed brain cells appear.&lt;br /&gt;
* 3 weeks: Heart begins beating, eyes form; brain, spinal column, and nervous system virtually complete.&lt;br /&gt;
* 4 weeks: Muscle development, arm and leg buds visible, neocortical cells appear, blood flows in baby's veins separate from mother's blood.&lt;br /&gt;
* 5 weeks: Pituitary gland forms, mouth, ears, and nose take shape.&lt;br /&gt;
* 6 weeks: Brain waves can be detected.&lt;br /&gt;
* 7 weeks: Cartilage skeleton completely formed, umbilical cord complete, brain coordinates voluntary muscle movement and involuntary organ movement, lips sensitive to touch.&lt;br /&gt;
* 8 weeks: Based on nervous system development, a fetus can likely feel pain, teeth present, all organs present save lungs, taste buds and fingerprints forming, responds to tapping on amniotic sac.&lt;br /&gt;
* 9 weeks: Fingernails form, can bend its fingers around an object and suck its thumb.&lt;br /&gt;
* 10 weeks: All parts of body sensitive to touch; can swallow, squint, frown, and pucker brow. &lt;br /&gt;
* 11 weeks: Breathing amniotic fluid and does so until birth, urination, all facial expressions (including smiling) possible, taste buds complete.&lt;br /&gt;
* 12 weeks: Can kick, turn over, make a fist, hiccup, cry, open its mouth, press its lips together, and practice breathing.&lt;br /&gt;
* 13 weeks: All senses are present, including vocal chords.&lt;br /&gt;
* 20 weeks: Can be surprised by loud external noises.&lt;br /&gt;
* 23 weeks: A fetus demonstrates REM (Rapid Eye Movement).&lt;br /&gt;
* 4 months: Can grasp, swim, and turn somersaults.&lt;br /&gt;
* 6 months: Hair growth on head and eyebrows, eyelashes form.&lt;br /&gt;
* 7 months: A fetus' hands can support its entire weight.&lt;br /&gt;
* 8 months: Fetus weighs more than 4 lbs., all body systems present.&lt;br /&gt;
* 9 months: After this point, the fetus gains a half lb. each week and 41 of the 45 total generations of cell replication have already taken place.&lt;br /&gt;
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Given this, it is small wonder that 76% of Americans in 2011 disapprove of abortion after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(''See [[Abortion#2nd Trimester|Public Polling]]'')&lt;br /&gt;
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Objectively and logically speaking, based on a large amount of evidence, abortion is a form of murder&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Taylor, Paul F (May 2, 2014). [https://answersingenesis.org/sanctity-of-life/abortion/is-it-really-a-matter-of-life-and-death/ Chapter 12: Abortion: Is It Really a Matter of Life and Death?]. ''Answers in Genesis'' (from ''The New Answers Book 3''). Retrieved January 22, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; as well as child sacrifice.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ham, Ken (October 26, 2015). [https://answersingenesis.org/sanctity-of-life/abortion/abortion-and-child-sacrifice/ Abortion and Child Sacrifice]. ''Answers in Genesis''. Retrieved January 22, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Health Concerns==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' [[Abortion health risks]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Mental Health Risks From Abortion===&lt;br /&gt;
A comprehensive review of literature, published in the ''British Journal of Psychiatry'' suggests that &amp;quot;there is a significant increase in mental health problems after abortion.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;BJP&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url = http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/A11.full#sec-3|title =Abortion, mental health and dental disease|publisher = British Journal of Psychiatry|quote=A comprehensive review of the literature suggests that there is a significant increase in mental health problems after abortion. Coleman (pp. 180–186) suggests that these risks need to be reflected in the delivery of abortion services, and raises the thorny issue that 90% of UK abortions are justified on the presumption that abortion actually reduces the risk to mental health associated with continuing the pregnancy. There is an increasing awareness of increased comorbid physical illness in patients with severe mental illness. Kisely and colleagues (pp. 187–193) found that the levels of advanced dental disease were increased threefold in patients with severe mental illness. The authors suggest that there needs to be improved recognition of this problem – reflected in a more proactive approach to dental hygiene in these patients.|accessdate = 1 September 2011}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;DavenportMD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url = https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/major_study_links_suicide_and_other_mental_health_problems_to_abortion.html|title =Major Study Links Suicide and Other Mental Health Problems to Abortion|publisher = [[American Thinker]]|quote=An important meta-analysis published today in the prestigious British Journal of Psychiatry demonstrates that nearly 10% of mental health problems in women are directly attributable to abortion.  &amp;quot;Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995-2009,&amp;quot; by Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green University, shows that women with an abortion history have an 81% increased risk of mental health problems and 155% increased risk of suicide.  This meta-analysis combines 22 studies of 877,181 women, 163, 831 of whom have had abortions.  A meta-analysis is an especially powerful type of study because it includes a large number of subjects, and by combining studies is much more reliable than a single study.|author=Mary L. Davenport, MD|accessdate = 1 September 2011}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Abortion and Breast Cancer ===&lt;br /&gt;
The vast majority of scientific studies have shown that abortion causes an increase in breast cancer, including 16 out of 17 statistically significant studies.&amp;lt;ref name=trumped&amp;gt;Malek, K. (2003). [http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/malec.pdf The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent]. ''Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons'', 8(2), 41-45.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;quot;A new study coming from researchers in [[Sri Lanka]] finds women who had abortions ... [had a] 3.42 [increased risk] ... compared with those who kept their baby. ... The Sri Lankan study is the fourth epidemiological study in fourteen months to report an abortion-breast cancer link, including studies from the U.S., China and Turkey.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ertelt, S. (2010, June 22). [https://www.lifenews.com/nat6451.html Study Confirms Abortion Triples Breast Cancer Risk Among Sri Lanka Women]. ''LifeNews.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  LifeNews also reported in 2009 that a [[National Cancer Institute]] researcher admitted there was a link between abortion and breast cancer.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ertelt, S. (2009, January 1). [https://www.lifenews.com/nat5850.html National Cancer Institute Researcher Admits Abortion-Breast Cancer Link True]. ''LifeNews.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Studies showing that abortion increases breast cancer predate the political controversy.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;(2002). [http://www.bcpinstitute.org/brochure.htm Breast Cancer Prevention Institute Online Brochure]. ''Breast Cancer Prevention Institute''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; A study at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published in 2009 confirmed a 40% increase in risk in breast cancer from abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Byrne, D. (2010, January 11). [http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byrne-barbershop/2010/01/breast-cancer-oral-contraceptives-abortion-and-lies.html Breast cancer, oral contraceptives, abortion and lies (?)] ''ChicagoNow''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;It is undisputed that childbirth protects against breast cancer, and thus early termination of pregnancy must increase the risk of cancer for the mother compared to carrying that same pregnancy to birth.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Yet the abortion industry conceals this increased risk, just as the tobacco industry concealed its cancer risk for decades.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Addison, T.E., M.D. (1998, July). [http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Tobacco-ChronologyJul98.htm A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World], ''San Francisco Medicine''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A new study on breast cancer in Turkey published in April 2009 in the peer-reviewed World Journal of Surgical Oncology found, through a surveying process, that induced abortion was a statistically significant cause of breast cancer risk. The study concludes, “Our findings suggest that age and induced abortion were found to be significantly associated with increased breast cancer risk….”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ozman, V. et al. (2009, April 8). [http://wjso.com/content/7/1/37 Breast cancer risk factors in Turkish women – a University Hospital based nested case control study]. ''World Journal of Surgical Oncology'', 7(37). doi:10.1186/1477-7819-7-37&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Specifically, the study found that Turkish women who received one or more induced abortions had a 66% higher risk of breast cancer than women who never had an abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Baklinski, T.M. (2009, July 29). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09072903.html Study: Breast Cancer Risk 66% Higher in Turkish Women with Abortions]. ''LifeSiteNews.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Malek, K. (2009, July 28). [http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/090728/index.htm Study: Turkish Women with Abortions Have Statistically Significant 66% Increase in Breast Cancer Risk / Researchers Likely Underestimated the Risk, Reports Scientist]. ''Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. Janet Daling, who considers herself supportive of a right to perform abortions, brought the abortion-breast cancer link into the mainstream with her federally funded research on the topic.  Her report, released in 1994, found a 50% increase in breast cancer risk due to induced abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Janet R. Daling et al., &amp;quot;Risk of Breast Cancer Among Young Women: Relationship to Induced Abortion,&amp;quot; 86 Journal of the National Cancer Institute; (1994);1584&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;(2001, March 28). [http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/032801.htm Women's Organization Accuses MAMM of Misleading Public About Abortion-Breast Cancer Link]. ''Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  She said, &amp;quot;I have three sisters with breast cancer and I resent people messing with the scientific data to further their own agenda, be they pro-choice or pro-life.  I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid and our data is accurate.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;L.A. Daily News, Sept. 1997.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Similarly, an early study published in Japan in 1957 showed that women who have abortions have a much higher risk of breast cancer than those who decide to keep their baby.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Segi M, et al. An epidemiological study on cancer in Japan. GANN. 1957; 48:1-63.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In a peer-reviewed medical journal, Karen Malec observed that:&amp;lt;ref name=trumped /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Thirty-eight epidemiological studies exploring an independent link [between abortion and] breast cancer have been published.  Twenty-nine report risk elevations.  Thirteen out of 15 American studies found risk elevations.  Seventeen studies are statistically significant, 16 of which report increased risk.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S., a specialist in breast cancer an a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has explained the physiology and epidemiology of the abortion-breast cancer link.  She made the following observation:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S, &amp;quot;The breast physiology and the epidemiology of the abortion breast cancer link,&amp;quot; 12 Imago Hominis, No. 3, 228 (2005) (emphasis added).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:This past August in Minneapolis, Patrick Carroll, director of the Pension and Population Research Institute of London, presented a paper to the largest gathering of statisticians in North America.  '''He showed that abortion was the best predictor of breast cancer in Britain.'''  Breast cancer is the only cancer in Britain which has its highest incidence and mortality rate among the upper rather than lower social classes.  Abortion before a full term pregnancy and late pregnancy were the best explanations for this incidence.  He also found that there had been a 70% increase risk of breast cancer between 1971 and 2002 and that for women between 50 and 54 years of age incidence was highly correlated with abortion.&lt;br /&gt;
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Demographic evidence of abortion causing breast cancer includes the following.  Breast cancer rates are far lower in Western countries that prohibited abortion than in those that promoted it.  Ireland, which virtually bans abortion, reportedly has a lifetime rate of breast cancer of only 1 in 13, nearly half the rate of 1 in 7.5 in the United States.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Probability of breast cancer in American Women,&amp;quot; National Cancer Institute (Apr. 15, 2005);  K. O'Flaherty, R. Oakley, &amp;quot;Self-checks 'useless' in breast cancer fight,&amp;quot; Sunday Tribune (Ireland), at 8 (Oct. 6, 2002).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The rate of breast cancer increases steadily as one travels from Ireland, where abortion is illegal, to Northern Ireland, where abortion is legal but rare, to England, where abortion is common.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;R. O'Reilly, &amp;quot;New weapon in war against breast cancer,&amp;quot; The Press Association Limited (Dec. 17, 1998); &amp;quot;Portugal-abortion referendum,&amp;quot; Associated Press Worldstream (June 27, 1998).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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In Romania, abortion was illegal under two decades of rule by the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and the country enjoyed one of the lowest breast cancer rates in the entire world during that time, far lower than comparable Western countries. Romania's breast cancer rate was an astounding one-sixth the rate of the United States.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;A. Khan, &amp;quot;The role of fat in breast cancer,&amp;quot; The Independent (May 18, 1998).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  But after the execution of Ceausescu on Christmas Day, 1989, Romania has taken the opposite approach, embracing abortion to the point that Romania now has one of the highest abortion rates in the world.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;N. Abdullaev, &amp;quot;Russians are quickest to marry and divorce,&amp;quot; Moscow Times (Dec 8, 2004).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  One Romanian observer decried, &amp;quot;The liberalization of abortions in Romania in 1990, the significant increase of the number of abortions at relatively short intervals, determined a rise in the incidence of breast and uterine cervix cancer in my country.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Information packet, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) World Conference on Breast Cancer (July 1997).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Studies on rats, which are an accepted method for identifying causes of cancer in humans,  further confirm that abortion does indeed increase the risk of breast cancer.  As Dr. [[Joel Brind]] observed, &amp;quot;Researchers also widely admit to the biological plausibility of abortion as an independent cause of breast cancer, through the estrogen-mediated stimulation of breast growth in the absence of differentiation. This was demonstrated experimentally in rats in the landmark experiments of Russo and Russo.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[[Joel Brind]], &amp;quot;[http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf Induced Abortion as an Independent Risk Factor for Breast Cancer: A Critical Review of Recent Studies Based on Prospective Data],&amp;quot; J. of Am. Physicians &amp;amp; Surgeons 105 (Winter 2005) (citing Russo J, Russo IH. Susceptibility of the mammary gland to&lt;br /&gt;
carcinogenesis. 1980;100:497-512).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Additional scientific information on the abortion-breast cancer link is available at [http://www.bcpinstitute.org BCPInstitute.org].&lt;br /&gt;
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An expert (Dr. Lynn Rosenberg) hired to defend abortion felt compelled to admit, under cross-examination, that a woman increases her risk for breast cancer by having an abortion compared to carrying her pregnancy to childbirth:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/rosenberg's_testimony.htm Rosenberg's Testimony]. ''Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Question by the attorney: 'So in other words, a woman who finds herself pregnant at age 15 will have a higher breast cancer risk if she chooses to abort that pregnancy, than if she carries the pregnancy to term, [is that] correct?'&lt;br /&gt;
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:Question: 'Looking at that another way, let's compare two women. Let's say both got pregnant at age 15-- one terminates the pregnancy, but the other carries the pregnancy to term. And both women go on to get married and have two kids, say, at age 30 and age 35. Is the risk of breast cancer higher for the woman who had an abortion at age 15 or the woman who had a baby at age 15, all other things being equal?'&lt;br /&gt;
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:Dr. Lynn Rosenberg: 'It's probably higher for the one who had an abortion at age 15.'&lt;br /&gt;
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Despite the overwhelming evidence—and inescapable logic—for abortion increasing breast cancer, promoters of abortion cite flawed articles in an attempt to deny the link. The flaws in these articles are exposed in the [[Harvard abortion study]] and &amp;quot;Legal Implications of a Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer&amp;quot; by Andrew Schlafly in the ''Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons''.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Schafly, A. (2005, Spring). [http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/aschlafly.pdf Legal Implications of a Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer]. ''Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons'', 10(1), 10-14.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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As Dr. Lanfranchi has explained:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Lanfranchi, A. (2008, Spring). [http://www.jpands.org/vol13no1/lanfranchi.pdf The Federal Government and Academic Texts as Barriers to Informed Consent]. ''Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons'', 13(1), 12-15.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Well-documented breast physiology accounts for the fact that oral contraceptives and abortion are risk factors for breast cancer.  There is an effort to suppress this information by federal agencies and those in academic medicine.  Without this information, women cannot make a fully informed choice about their method of fertility control or about whether to maintain an unplanned pregnancy.  Medical ethics demands that they be informed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pro-choice should include ''informed'' choice.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;The Archdiocese of St. Louis, for example, remarked about abortions and increased risk for breast cancer: &amp;quot;To dismiss that link is irresponsible.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5620863.html (Link no longer works)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Yet efforts continue to suppress awareness that abortion increases breast cancer.  Pro-life scientists were almost entirely barred from the National Cancer Institute's &amp;quot;study&amp;quot; of the link, and its resulting statements were fatally flawed as explained in  [[National Cancer Institute on Abortion]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Just as organizations denied or failed to disclose the connection between smoking and lung cancer, many organizations aligned with [[liberal]] politicians deny the correlation between abortion and breast cancer despite numerous studies published in peer reviewed journals indicating a likely connection.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Smelliesdoublecrochet.jpg|right|thumb|250px| The Smellie's double crochet abortion tool was used to grab and forcibly remove the fetus from the womb.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Abortion Causes Future Harm with Premature Births===&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;At least 49 studies have demonstrated a statistically significant increase in premature births (PB) or low birth weight (LBW) risk in women with prior induced abortions (IAs).&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Brent Rooney and Byron C. Calhoun, &amp;quot;Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births,&amp;quot; 8 J. Am. Physicians &amp;amp; Surgeons 46 (Summer 2003). [http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Premature birth tragically causes brain damage, and an array of other severe, lifelong injuries ranging from Cerebral Palsy to blindness, or even death, and few mothers would knowingly increase the risk of that happening.  &amp;quot;There are at least seventeen (17) studies that have found that previous induced abortions increase preterm birth risk” and thereby increase debilitating Cerebral Palsy in children.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Brent Rooney, Letter, 96 European Journal of Obstetrics &amp;amp; Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 239 (2001) (citations omitted).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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In 2008, the generally pro-abortion British medical journal, ''The Lancet'', admitted that a procedure often used in abortion increase the risk of premature birth:&amp;lt;ref name=lancet&amp;gt;Dr, Jay D. Iams, Dr. Robert Romero, Jennifer F. Culhane (PhD), Dr. Robert L. Goldenberg.  [http://www.v2020la.org/pub/PUBLICATIONS_BY_TOPICS/ROP/Primary,_secondary,_and_tertiary_interventions.....pdf] Primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to reduce the morbidity and mortality of preterm birth. Lancet   2008;371:164-175.  While the text of this article conceals the connection with abortion, it cites as support for its claims two studies showing how abortion increases risk of premature birth: the 2004 'Ancel' study of ten European countries and the 2005 'Moreau' study that used French subjects.  Ancel P-Y,  Lelong  N,  Papiernik  E, Saurel-Cubizoilles M-J, Kaminski M.  [http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/3/734.full History of induced abortion as a risk factor for preterm birth in European countries: results of the EUROPOP survey]. Human Reproduction. 2004;112:734-740.  Moreau C, Kaminski M, Ancel PY et al.  [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15777440 Previous I induced abortions and the risk of very preterm delivery; Results of the EPIPAGE study].  British J Obstetrics Gynaecology 2005; 112:430-437.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;For example, greater public and professional awareness of evidence that repeated uterine instrumentation--eg, uterine curettage or endometrial biopsy--is associated with increased risk of subsequent preterm birth might over time influence decision-making about the procedure.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Researchers Rooney and Calhoun observed:&amp;lt;ref name=lancet /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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:Large studies have reported a doubling of [early premature birth] EPB risk from two prior IAs.  Women who had four or more IAs experienced, on average, nine times the risk of [extremely early premature births] XPB, an increase of 800 percent.  These results suggest that women contemplating IA should be informed of this potential risk to subsequent pregnancies, and that physicians should be aware of the potential liability and possible need for intensified prenatal care.&lt;br /&gt;
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Demographic evidence of how abortion increases premature birth includes the following:&lt;br /&gt;
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:* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): &amp;quot;[T]he abortion rate for black women has been approximately '''three times''' as high as that for white women (range: 2.6--3.1) since 1991&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5407a1.htm (emphasis added)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
:* ''Science Daily'''s report on a study by the Washington University School of Medicine: &amp;quot;African-American women are '''three times''' more likely to deliver babies three to 17 weeks prematurely than Caucasian women&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Washington University School of Medicine (2007, February 12). [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070209074144.htm African-American Mothers]. (emphasis added)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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In 2002 an article entitled &amp;quot;Preterm Birth: A Continuing Challenge&amp;quot; noted that premature births are abnormally high in the United States, citing a study that observed that a previous abortion is a &amp;quot;risk factor for both infertility and preterm birth.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Moore, M.L. (2002, Fall). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595132/ Preterm Birth: A Continuing Challenge]. ''The Journal of Perinatal Education'', 11(4), 37-40. doi: 10.1624/105812402X88948&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The rate of premature birth is elevated by the same amount as the abortion rate, as expected if abortion increases the risk of premature birth.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Other Health Risks from Abortion===&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled in 2007 that:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Gonzales v. Carhart'', 127 S. Ct. 1610, 1634 (2007).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; {{cquote|&amp;quot;While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. See Brief for Sandra Cano ''et al.'' as Amici Curiae in No. 05-380, pp 22-24. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow.&amp;quot;}} A study published in the Southern Medical Journal observed that there are higher death rates associated with women who have abortion, and that these higher death rates persist over time and across socioeconomic boundaries.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;D.C. Reardon, P.G. Ney, F.J. Scheuren, J.R. Cougle, P.K. Coleman, T. Strahan, &amp;quot;Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women,&amp;quot; 95 Southern Medical Journal 8, at 834-41 (August 2002).&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In [[England]], the &amp;quot;Royal College of Psychiatrists says women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counselled on the possible risk to their mental health.&amp;quot;  The medical royal college warned that women who have abortions may be at risk of mental health problems.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3559486.ece (Link no longer works)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  A New Zealand study found that abortion in young women may be associated with increased risks of mental health problems.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Fergusson, D.M., et. al. (2006, January). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;amp;db=pubmed&amp;amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;amp;list_uids=16405636 Abortion in young women and subsequent mental health]. ''The Journal of Child Psychology andPsychiatry'', 47(1), 16-24. PMID 16405636.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The researcher in this study, who was not pro-life, was shaken by the study and had to go to four journals before he could find one who would publish it.&amp;lt;ref name=gilson&amp;gt;Gilson, T. (2006, February 24). [https://www.thinkingchristian.net/C1148465919/E20060224082323/index.html Abortion and Mental Health]. ''Thinking Christian''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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The study concludes with the following statement:&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|These findings are inconsistent with the current consensus on the psychological effects of abortion. In particular, in its 2005 statement on abortion, the American Psychological Association concluded that “well-designed studies of psychological responses following abortion have consistently shown that risk of psychological harm is low...the percentage of women who experience clinically relevant distress is small and appears to be no greater than in general samples of women of reproductive age” (American Psychological Association, 2005). This relatively strong conclusion about the absence of harm from abortion was based on a relatively small number of studies which had one or more of the following limitations: a) absence of comprehensive assessment of mental disorders; b) lack of comparison groups; and c) limited statistical controls. Furthermore, the statement appears to disregard the findings of a number of studies that had claimed to show negative effects for abortion (Cougle et al., 2003; Gissler et al., 1996; Reardon &amp;amp; Cougle, 2002).&amp;lt;ref name=gilson /&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Professor David Fergusson, lead author of the New Zealand study stated: &lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|It borders on scandalous that one of the most common surgical procedures performed on young women is so poorly researched and evaluated. If this were Prozac or Vioxx, reports of associated harm would be taken much more seriously with more careful research and monitoring procedures.&amp;quot; &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Throckmorton, W. (2006, January 20). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jan/20/20060120-091648-6456r/?page=all#pagebreak Abortion and Mental Health]. ''The Washington Times''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Another study published in the OB/GYN Survey detailed long-term physical and psychological health consequences of induced abortions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;J.M. Thorp, Jr., K.E. Hartmann, and E.M. Shadigian, &amp;quot;[content.silaspartners.com/156/41045/156_41045_shadigian.1.pdf Long-Term Physical &amp;amp; Psychological Health Consequences of Induced Abortion: Review of the Evidence],&amp;quot; 58 OB/GYN Survey 1, at 67-79 (2003)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Suicide rates among women who had abortions are six times higher than women who gave birth in the prior year. Overall, deaths from suicide, homicide and accidents were 248% higher after an abortion, as found by a 13-year study in Finland of its entire population.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.abortionrecoverycounseling.com/Page8.html (Link no longer works)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the United States, only one state (Missouri) requires that the abortionist have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Mo. Rev. Stat. § 188.080 prohibits an abortion by a physician &amp;quot;who does not have clinical privileges at a hospital which offers obstetrical or gynecological care located within thirty miles of the location at which the abortion is performed or induced.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  In the other 49 states, an abortion patient can and often is left without prompt medical care by the treating physician.&lt;br /&gt;
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One of the largest abortion providers in the United States, the Metropolitan Medical Associates of New Jersey, was shut down in 2007 by state health officials after one of its botched abortions left a 20-year-old woman in a coma for more than four weeks.  She &amp;quot;became severely ill following the abortion and was transferred to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center where she needed blood transfusions and had her uterus removed. She also suffered a stroke due to the serious blood loss and had one of her lungs collapse.&amp;quot; The State of New Jersey had shut down the same facility in 1993 also.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ertelt, S. (2007, March 1). [https://www.lifenews.com/state2137.html Woman Comatose for a Month After Botched Abortion Caused Center’s Closing]. ''LifeNews.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Communist China and the consumption of powdered baby flesh from abortions ==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' *[[Atheists eat babies meme#Atheistic China and baby eating|Communist China and the consumption of powdered baby flesh]] and [[Atheists eat babies meme]] and [[Atheism, Chinese doctors and baby eating]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:China on globe.png|right|thumb|250px|In 2014, ''The Washington Times'' reported: &amp;quot;China’s one child policy, baby trafficking, and sex trafficking of [[North Korean]] women aren’t the worst human rights violation happening in the country. Aborting innocent and healthy unborn children and eating them to boost one’s stamina and sexual health is.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;washingtontimes.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-flesh-outrages-world/ Chinese cannibalism of infant flesh outrages the world], ''Washington Times'', 2014&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]  &lt;br /&gt;
In 2014, ''The Washington Times'' reported:&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|China’s one child policy, baby trafficking, and sex trafficking of North Korean women aren’t the worst human rights violation happening in the country. Aborting innocent and healthy unborn children and eating them to boost one’s stamina and sexual health is. &lt;br /&gt;
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South Korean customs officials recently seized thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh arriving from China. Since August 2011, South Korean officials have intercepted more than 17000 pills smuggled from China.&lt;br /&gt;
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South Korean officials became aware of a horrific practice of eating aborted fetuses after Seoul Broadcasting System showed a documentary on Chinese doctors who performed abortions and then ate the fetuses. One Chinese doctor on the documentary took out fetuses from his refrigerator.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;washingtontimes.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-flesh-outrages-world/ Chinese cannibalism of infant flesh outrages the world], ''Washington Times'', 2014&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140702/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea], ''The Daily Mail'', 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/horrifyingly-ground-baby-pills-are-real-thing/328490/ Horrifyingly, Ground Baby Pills Are a Real Thing] by Alexander Abad-Santos, ''The Atlantic'', May 7, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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*[https://abcnews.go.com/Health/chinese-made-infant-flesh-capsules-seized-korea/story?id=16296176 Chinese-Made Infant Flesh Capsules Seized in S. Korea], ''ABC News'', 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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==History==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:115523-004-FA619CA3.jpg|thumb|right|250px| The perverse and cruel [[atheism|atheist]] [[Marquis de Sade]] advocated induced abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://jme.bmj.com/content/6/1/7.abstract&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
''Please also see:'' [[History of abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Abortion was an extremely harsh '''''punishment''''' in the [[Old Testament]], imposed against those who have &amp;quot;rebelled against&amp;quot; God:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.&amp;quot; (Hosea 9:16)&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.&amp;quot; (Hosea 13:16)&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.&amp;quot; (2 Kings 15:16)&lt;br /&gt;
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The father of [[medicine]], [[Hippocrates]], expressly prohibited abortion in his ethical [[Oath]] long before [[Christianity]].  &lt;br /&gt;
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The ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' article declared concerning the [[atheism|atheist]] and [[sadism|sadist]] [[Marquis de Sade]]:&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|In 1795 the Marquis de Sade published his La Philosophic dans le boudoir, in which he proposed the use of induced abortion for social reasons and as a means of population control. It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abortion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times. It is suggested that it was largely due to de Sade's writing that induced abortion received the impetus which resulted in its subsequent spread in western society.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Farr, A.D. (1980). [https://jme.bmj.com/content/6/1/7.abstract The Marquis de Sade and induced abortion]. ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', 6, 7-10. doi:10.1136/jme.6.1.7&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}} &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Population control]] is based on [[pseudoscience]] and ill founded [[economics|economic]] assumptions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Egnor, M. (2010, November 30). [http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/11/pz_myers_on_abortion040971.html P.Z. Myers on Abortion]. ''Evolution News and Views''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Adolf Hitler and Abortion ===&lt;br /&gt;
''For more information see:'' [[Abortion and Adolf Hitler]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Hitlerspeech.jpg|thumb|290px|right|[[Adolf Hitler]]]]‎In 1942 [[Adolf Hitler]] declared:&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. We are not interested in seeing the non-[[German]] population multiply…We must use every means to instill in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman's health… It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Hoffman, M.C. (2007, September 7). [Israeli Doctor Exposes Nazi Abortion Program https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07090708.html]. ''LifeSiteNews.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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After [[World War II]], the War Crimes Tribunal indicted ten [[Nazi]] leaders for &amp;quot;encouraging and compelling abortion,&amp;quot; which the tribunal considered a &amp;quot;crime against humanity.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Wilke, J.C., Dr., et. al. (2006). [https://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_25.asp#But%20didn%E2%80%99t%20Hitler%20oppose%20abortion? Why Can't We Love Them Both: Chapter 25, Euthanasia]. ''AbortionFacts.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
===Hall v. Lefkowitz===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Hall v. Lefkowitz]] was a court case on November 4, 1969&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;[https://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19691335305FSupp1030_11150.xml&amp;amp;docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 Hall v. Lefkowitz].&amp;quot; 305 F.Supp. 1030 (1969). www.Leagle.com.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; during which Roy Lucas, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Law School, and his self-founded James Madison Constitutional Law Institute, sued to challenge New York's abortion laws. A three-judge court presided which included famous judge Henry Friendly. Friendly wrote a draft opinion in the spring of 1970 declaring government had right to regulate abortion and protect a fetus, contrary to the later [[Roe v. Wade]] ruling. However, shortly thereafter the New York legislature amended state abortion law to allow abortion within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and Hall's case was dismissed as unnecessary.&amp;lt;ref name=friendly&amp;gt;Randolph, A. Raymond. &amp;quot;[http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No3_Randolph.pdf Before Roe v. Wade: Judge Friendly's Draft Abortion Opinion].&amp;quot; ''Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy''. Vol. 29.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Hall v. Lefkowitz|Read some of Friendly's arguments]] made years before Roe v. Wade.&lt;br /&gt;
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===NARAL's Lies About Back-Alley Abortions===&lt;br /&gt;
Bernard Nathanson, one of NARAL's co-founders, described how he and the organization fabricated abortion statistics and used slogans to sway the public during the early days of Roe v. Wade.&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|I remember laughing when we made those slogans up. We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical. We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000. Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law. Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.&amp;lt;ref name=nathanson /&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Roe v. Wade ===&lt;br /&gt;
Prior to 1973 abortion was illegal in most of the United States, though a few states (such as Hawaii and New York) allowed it with restrictions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''A Timeline of Reproductive Rights'' [http://ecampus.bentley.edu/org/wc/reproductiverights.html The Women's Center]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 [[Roe v. Wade]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Online text of [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&amp;amp;court=US&amp;amp;vol=410&amp;amp;page=113 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; decision ruled that abortions are lawful under the [[U.S. Constitution]] up to the point at which the fetus becomes able to survive outside the womb, and an accompanying decision issued the same day captioned [[Doe v. Bolton]] essentially legalized abortion in the unlimited discretion of the abortionist at any time during pregnancy, up to and including birth.  Conservatives immediately criticized these decisions as examples of [[Judicial Activism]]. Ironically, Norma McCorvey, also known as &amp;quot;Jane Roe,&amp;quot; only sought an abortion for herself. She did not wish for her personal battle to result in a nationwide &amp;quot;legalization&amp;quot; of the procedure. The only reason the case bore her name was because of her pro-abortion [[feminist]] lawyer, Sarah Weddington, who sought to have Texas' abortion ban overturned.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/18/norma-mccorvey-jane-roe-of-roe-v-wade-passes-away-she-never-had-an-abortion-and-became-pro-life/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Even more importantly, Roe became pro-life and sought to have the Supreme Court's decision overturned.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Present Day ===&lt;br /&gt;
In 2008, worldwide there were approximately 115,000 abortions done per day.&amp;lt;ref name=abortionno&amp;gt;[https://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html Abortion Facts]. ''The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In 2008, approximately 83% of all abortions were performed in developing countries and 17% occurred in developed countries.&amp;lt;ref name=abortionno /&amp;gt; From 2006 to 2015, the number of abortions in the U.S. fell 24% to 638,169, still a very large number.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Multiple references:&lt;br /&gt;
*Freiburger, Calvin (November 21, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-abortions-drop-to-record-low-since-roe-v.-wade-cdc-reports US abortion rate drops to record low since Roe v. Wade, CDC reports]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved November 22, 2018.&lt;br /&gt;
*Sullivan, Peter (November 21, 2018). [https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/417876-number-of-abortions-in-us-drops-24-percent-from-2006 Number of abortions in US declines to lowest level since 2006]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved November 21, 2018.&lt;br /&gt;
*Leonard, Kimberly (November 21, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/us-abortions-hit-record-post-roe-v-wade-low US abortions hit record post-Roe v. Wade low]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 21, 2018.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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States may regulate abortion, such as requiring a 24-hour waiting period and parental consent for minors.  Abortion clinics often fail to comply with the health standards of surgical facilities, and States can require compliance (but often do not, resulting in discomfort and harm to the victims of abortion).  Many abortionists lack hospital admitting privileges at nearby facilities, so women having complications must go on their own to emergency rooms to see physicians unfamiliar with what actually happened.  For any other operation the cost of treating complications is included in the cost of the operation, but for abortions the abortion clinics take their money and typically do not pay for the care of complications.&lt;br /&gt;
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The more pro-abortion the State regulations are, the larger the number of abortion clinics it will have.  [[Arizona]], though a pro-life State, has a regulatory system that results in twelve abortion clinics operating within its borders.  In contrast, [[Mississippi]] has only one abortion clinic, and [[Missouri]] has only two.&lt;br /&gt;
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====Abortion and Eugenics====&lt;br /&gt;
{{See also|Abortion and eugenics}}&lt;br /&gt;
Abortion and eugenics are often very strongly related.  Abortion is commonly used to kill those babies who happen to suffer from [[Down Syndrome]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10521836&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Bilger, Micaiah (February 7, 2017). [https://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/07/european-nations-are-using-abortion-to-create-a-down-syndrome-free-world/ European Nations are Using Abortion to Create a “Down Syndrome Free” World]. ''LifeNews.com''. Retrieved February 20, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gee, Alison (September 29, 2017). [https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37500189 A world without Down's syndrome?] ''BBC News''. Retrieved February 20, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and other physical and mental issues, to remove said physical and mental issues from the human race.  [[Eugenics]] is essentially the unethical removal of those with physical and mental issues to &amp;quot;purify&amp;quot; the human race.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Iceland]] has very pro-abortion policies and nearly 100% of babies with Down Syndrome are aborted.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Multiple references:&lt;br /&gt;
*Quinones, Julian; Lajka, Arijeta (August 14, 2017). [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/ &amp;quot;What kind of society do you want to live in?&amp;quot;: Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing]. ''CBS News''. Retrieved August 17, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
*Williams, Thomas D. (August 15, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/08/15/iceland-approaches-100-percent-termination-rate-down-syndrome/ Iceland Approaches 100% ‘Termination Rate’ of Babies with Down Syndrome]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 15, 2017.&lt;br /&gt;
*Desanctis, Alexandra (August 16, 2017). [https://www.nationalreview.com/article/450509/down-syndrome-iceland-cbs-news-disturbing-report Iceland Eliminates People with Down Syndrome]. ''National Review''. Retrieved August 17, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; According to Dr. Peter McParland, an obstetrician from the National Maternity Hospital, and Anne Trainer:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://liveactionnews.org/legal-abortion-leading-downs-syndrome-free-world/ Quote of the day: Legal abortion is leading us to a ‘Down’s syndrome-free world’]. ''Live Action News''. February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Trainer, Annie (February 4, 2017). [https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/the-eighth-amendment-protected-my-son-3217231-Feb2017/ 'Abortion is leading us to a 'Down's Syndrome-free' world. I can barely type the words']. ''thejournal.ie''. Retrieved February 20, 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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{{cquote|'In Britain, 90% of babies with Down’s Syndrome are aborted before birth. In Iceland, every single baby, 100% of all those diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome, are aborted. There hasn’t been a baby with Down’s Syndrome born in Iceland in the past five years.'&lt;br /&gt;
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Denmark is following suit, and is expected to be “Down’s Syndrome-free” by 2030 and these cold and chilling statistics show us exactly where legal abortion is leading the rest of Europe.}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Reasons Given For Abortions==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:AbortionReasons.jpg‎|thumb|400px| Primary reasons women reported for undergoing abortions]]&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' [[Reasons given for abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is not a [[conservative]] or [[pro-life]] organization, conducted a poll of more than 1,200 patients undergoing induced abortions at 11 large-scale [[abortion facilities]] in the United States. The women were asked to identify reasons for seeking abortions, and identify the primary motivation. An additional 38 women at four sites were interviewed in-depth.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;agiSurvey&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf Lawrence Finer, et al., &amp;quot;Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives&amp;quot;, ''Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health'', September 2005]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The poll omitted any reference to whether the women were able to see an ultrasound of their unborn children before choosing to have an abortion.  For the vast majority of women who have abortion, the reason is a lack of knowledge about the unborn child as displayed by an ultrasound. Because a large part of their campaign funds are bankrolled by the abortion industry, liberals are frequent opponents to laws making available ultrasound treatment for patients not certain of the decision. Some physicians have been reported intimidating and pressuring patients to continue with an abortion after the patient has had a change of heart, either on the operating table or before surgery. One doctor, who was also employed as a spokesman for a prominent liberal pro-abortion think tank, reportedly forced a patient to undergo the procedure in order to fill a quota on insurance claims.&lt;br /&gt;
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Among reasons provided to the women as part of the poll, the two most common selections were &amp;quot;Having a baby would dramatically change my life&amp;quot; (74%) and &amp;quot;I can't afford a baby now&amp;quot; (73%).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;agiSurvey&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;  Concerns about their own health were mentioned by only 13% of the women, while only 12% mentioned concerns about the baby's health, though only 3% and 4% respectively gave those as their primary reason for seeking abortion.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;agiSurvey&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Interestingly, only 14% indicated &amp;quot;[[husband]] or partner wants me to have an abortion&amp;quot; as a reason, down from 24% in a previous survey in 1987.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;agiSurvey&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; This contrasts with research on women post-abortion, among whom 64% reported feeling pressured by others to abort, and may indicate pressure to abort comes not so much from husbands now as other relationships.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;reardon&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheets/ForcedAbortionFactSheet.pdf David Reardon, &amp;quot;Forced Abortion in America&amp;quot;, April 2010]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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What is often ignored in studies of why women submit to abortions is an ambivalence by some in early pregnancy. Such ambivalence typically resolves when the mother becomes more aware of her unborn child, as displayed by an [[ultrasound]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Lederman, ''Psychosocial Adaptation in Pregnancy'', 1984&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The Unwanted Pregnancy,&amp;quot; ''Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology'', 1970, Cited in Gardner, ''Abortion: The Personal Dilemma'', 1972&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Nichols and Humenick, ''Childbirth Education: Practice, Research, and Theory'', 1988&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Less than one percent of all abortions are due to rape. Abortion does not liberate women. It liberates men from the responsibilities of raising children, as well as responsibility for their sexual behavior, including emotional and financial support. Here is a comparison. The founding feminists Susan B. Anthony and Liz Stanton were pro-life. The radical feminists (feminazis) believe that pregnant women are inferior to non-pregnant women. The biggest financial contributor to abortion rights is the Playboy Foundation, which is supportive of the philosophy of uncommitted, anonymous sex without consequences; women are reduced to the status of a consumer item which, if “broken” by pregnancy, can be “fixed” by abortion. A large majority of women who got an abortion said that they did so because they felt pressured by others. This is why before abortion became legal in the US, women who got an abortion did not receive jail time, but instead, get treated as a second victim while the abortionist gets punished. Instead of legalizing abortion in cases of rape, overturn the 1977 US Supreme Court case of [[Coker v. Georgia]], in which the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty for rapists as a violation of the eighth amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
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Disability does not do anything to take away happiness. Eugenics is a waste of lives and delays the research needed to treat disabilities. We need to help the disabled live independent lives. There eventually be a cure for them as technology advances. In July 2013, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester have learned to shut down the extra chromosome that causes Down's syndrome.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Public Opinion==&lt;br /&gt;
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Public polling, as seen below (sourced from Gallup&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion/&amp;gt;), reveals that Americans are increasingly calling themselves Pro-Life (50%) and continue to say abortion should be legal only in a few circumstances (59%) such as rape (75%) and life of the mother (83%).  &lt;br /&gt;
===Legal or Illegal===&lt;br /&gt;
According to Gallup's most recent poll (May 3–6, 2012), 20% of Americans believe abortion should always be illegal, and 39% believe it should be legal only in a few circumstances, a combined 59% that believe it should always or usually be illegal. 25% believe abortion should always be legal, and 13% believe that it should be legal in most circumstances, a combined 38% that believe  it should always or usually be legal. 4% hold no opinion. The percentage of Americans which believe abortion should always or usually be illegal has varied from a low of 51% (Sept. 6–7, 1994, and Sept. 22–24, 1995) to a high of 62% (May 2–5, 2005). Gallup has polled the question 33 times since it began asking in 1994.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;''Gallup''. &amp;quot;[https://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx/ Abortion].&amp;quot; Do you think abortion should be legal in most circumstances or only in a few circumstances?&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
===Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice===&lt;br /&gt;
Currently, 50% of Americans describe themselves as Pro-Life, 41% describe themselves as Pro-Choice, and 4% as Mixed/Neither, as of the most recent poll (May 3–6, 2012). The percentage of Americans describing themselves as Pro-Life has varied from a low of 33% (Sept. 3–6, 1995) to a high of 51% (May 7–10, 2009). Gallup has polled the question 41 times since it began asking in 1995.&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
===By Trimester===&lt;br /&gt;
Gallup has asked the following question four times from 2003 to 2011: &amp;quot;Thinking more generally, do you think abortion should generally be legal or generally illegal during each of the following stages of pregnancy. How about -- [RANDOM ORDER]?&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The following results were given for &amp;quot;In the first three months of pregnancy&amp;quot; (1st Trimester):&lt;br /&gt;
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! Polling Date&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be legal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be illegal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Depends (vol.)		&lt;br /&gt;
! No opinion		&lt;br /&gt;
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| 2011, June 9–12	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|62%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|35%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%		&lt;br /&gt;
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| 2003, January 10–12	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|66%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|29%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%		&lt;br /&gt;
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| 2000, March 30-April 2	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|65%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|31%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1996, July 25–26	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|64%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|30%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|4%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====2nd Trimester====&lt;br /&gt;
The following results were given for &amp;quot;In the second three months of pregnancy&amp;quot; (2nd Trimester):&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! Polling Date&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be legal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be illegal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Depends (vol.)		&lt;br /&gt;
! No opinion		&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| 2011, June 9–12	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|24%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|71%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| 2003, January 10–12	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|25%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|68%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|4%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 2000, March 30-April 2	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|24%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|69%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|4%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1996, July 25–26	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|26%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|65%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|7%	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
====3rd Trimester====&lt;br /&gt;
The following results were given for &amp;quot;In the last three months of pregnancy&amp;quot; (3rd Trimester):&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! Polling Date&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be legal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be illegal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Depends (vol.)		&lt;br /&gt;
! No opinion		&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| 2011, June 9–12	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|10%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|86%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| 2003, January 10–12	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|10%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|84%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|4%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 2000, March 30-April 2	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|8%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|86%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1996, July 25–26	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|13%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|82%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
===By Circumstances===&lt;br /&gt;
According to the most recent Gallup poll (June 9–12, 2011), the following percentages of Americans say abortion should be legal under each circumstance:&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! Circumstance&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be legal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Should be illegal	&lt;br /&gt;
! Depends (vol.)		&lt;br /&gt;
! No opinion		&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| When the woman's life is endangered	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|83%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|13%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| When the woman's physical health is endangered	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|82%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|15%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| When the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|75%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|22%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| When the woman's mental health is endangered	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|61%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|35%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| When there is evidence the baby may be mentally impaired	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|51%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|46%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| When there is evidence the baby may be physically impaired	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|50%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|45%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| When the woman or family cannot afford to raise the child	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|36%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|61%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
===Pro-Life Initiatives===&lt;br /&gt;
According to Gallup's most recent poll (July 15–17, 2011) these proposals by the Pro-Life movement have received the following public support levels. Those marked &amp;quot;(2005)&amp;quot; were polled most recently on November 11–13, 2005. Those marked &amp;quot;(2003)&amp;quot; were last polled on January 10–12, 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=gallupabortion/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! Proposal&lt;br /&gt;
! Favor	&lt;br /&gt;
! Oppose	&lt;br /&gt;
! No opinion		&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| (2003) A law	requiring doctors to inform patients about alternatives to abortion before performing the procedure&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|88%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|11%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|1%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| A law	requiring doctors inform patients about possible risks of abortion before performing the procedure&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|87%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|11%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| A law requiring women under 18 to get parental consent for any abortion&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|71%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|27%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| A law requiring women seeking abortions to wait 24 hours before having the procedure done	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|69%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|28%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| A law	making partial birth abortions illegal except for life of the mother&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|64%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|31%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|5%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| (2005) A law requiring that the husband of a married woman be notified if she decides to have an abortion &lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|64%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|34%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%		&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| A law requiring women seeking an abortion be shown an ultrasound image of her fetus at least 24 hours before&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|50%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|46%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|3%&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| A law letting pharmacists and health providers opt out of medicine/surgical procedures resulting in abortion	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|46%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|51%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|4%&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| (2005) A constitutional amendment to ban abortion in all circumstances, except to save the life of the mother	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|37%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|61%&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|2%	&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Abortion Alternatives==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''See also:'' [[Abortion Alternatives]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Optionline]] provides consultants that connects individuals to nearby pregnancy centers that offer the following services: free pregnancy tests and pregnancy information; Information about the risks of abortion and the morning after pill; medical services, including [[STD]] tests; early ultrasounds and pregnancy confirmation.  In addition, some of these centers provide information regarding free housing to women who are facing housing concerns.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.pregnancycenters.org/ OptionLine]. ''OptionLine.org''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The primary alternative to abortion is adoption. [[Liberty Godparent Foundation]] is a [[Christian]] organization focused on improving the lives of unwed pregnant teens, babies and adoptive families by providing two alternatives, The Liberty Godparent Maternity Home and Family Life Services Adoption Agency.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.godparent.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=20&amp;amp;Itemid=59 Family Life Services]. ''GodParentFoundation.org''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Catholic Social Services]] provides adoption assistance to people of all beliefs in addition to supporting families in need.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Planned Parenthood's Budget==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''See also:'' [[Planned Parenthood's budget]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Planned Parenthood]] likes to claim that abortion accounts for just 3% of its services.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/planned-parenthood-glance-5552.htm Planned Parenthood At a Glance]. ''Planned Parenthood''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; However, an examination of its finances reveals that much if not most of its [[income]] relates to abortion.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Barto, N. &amp;amp; Musgrave, M. (2012, July 29). [http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2012/07/27/20120727womens-health-care.html Diverting Funds Betters Women's Health Care]. ''The Arizona Republic''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; According to Planned Parenthood's 2007-08 budget, it received $1.038 billion of [[revenue]] from the following sources:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/AR08_vFinal.pdf Annual Report 2007-2008]. Pg. 18. ''Planned Parenthood''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! &lt;br /&gt;
! Revenue&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(millions)	&lt;br /&gt;
! %			&lt;br /&gt;
|-	&lt;br /&gt;
| Health Center Income	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|$374.7	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|36.1%			&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| Govt. Grants &amp;amp; Services&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|$349.6	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|33.7%			&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| Contributions &amp;amp; Requests	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|$244.9	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|23.6%			&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| Other Operating Revenue	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|$68.9	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|6.6%			&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|'''Total Revenue'''	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|'''$1,038.1'''	&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;|'''100.0%'''			&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
Planned Parenthood's reported $374.7 million of revenue from &amp;quot;Health Center Income&amp;quot;. Given that it reported performing 305,130 abortions,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Page 9.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; at an average cost of $450 (which lines up with statistics from the [[National Abortion Federation]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Dudley, S. (2003). [http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/economics.html Economics of Abortion]. ''National Abortion Federation''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;), approximately $137.4 million of that $374.7 million Health Center Income came directly from performing abortions per analysis by [[Live Action]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Schmidt, D. (2010, May 14).  [http://liveaction.org/blog/data-36-7-of-planned-parenthoods-health-center-income-is-from-abortions/ DATA: 36.7% of Planned Parenthood’s 'Health Center Income' is from Abortions].  ''Live Action''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since much of its money comes from Government Grants and Services or Contributions and Requests ($595.5 million) likely related to abortion, in addition to this $137.4 million of direct abortion revenue, it appears probable that as much as half to two-thirds of Planned Parenthood's revenue relates to abortion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Targeted Demographics==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''See also:'' [[Abortion and various groups]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Women in China===&lt;br /&gt;
Forced abortion caused by China's One-Child Policy leads to deaths of mothers,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Bo Gu, B. (2012, June 14). [http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/14/12222877-gruesome-photos-put-spotlight-on-chinas-one-child-policy?lite Gruesome Photos Put Spotlight on China's One-Child Policy]. ''NBC News''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; as well as &amp;quot;gendercide&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Hayes, A. (2012, April 30). [http://articles.cnn.com/2012-04-30/asia/world_asia_china-forced-abortions_1_reggie-littlejohn-china-s-national-population-abortions?_s=PM:ASIA Activists allege forced abortions, sterilizations in China]. ''CNN''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Littlejohn, R. (2012, April 27). [https://www.lifenews.com/2012/04/27/the-real-war-against-women-forced-abortion-gendercide/ The Real War Against Women: Forced Abortion, Gendercide]. ''LifeNews''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Because men tend to be higher wage earners, many families choose to abort their female children, opting instead for males.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Ling, C. [http://www.allgirlsallowed.org/category/topics/one-child-policy-china One-Child Policy Statistics]. ''AllGirlsAllowed.com''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Photos in 2012 of these forced abortions led to national outrage and calls to end China's One-Child Policy.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Riviera, G. (2012, June 14). [https://abcnews.go.com/International/chinas-forced-abortions-child-rule-hits-women/story?id=16558428 How China's Forced Abortion Policy Hits Two Women]. ''ABC News''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Wong, E. (2012, July 22). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/world/asia/pressure-to-repeal-chinas-one-child-law-is-growing.html?pagewanted=all Reports of Forced Abortions Fuel Push to End Chinese Law]. ''New York Times''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;MacLeod, C. (2012, July 24). [https://www.usatoday.com/news/story/2012-07-25/China-forced-abortions/56465974/1 Pressure mounts to stop China's forced abortions]. ''USA Today''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Sudworth, J. (2012, June 15). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18453995 Chinese officials apologise to woman in forced abortion]. ''BBC News''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The sex-selective abortion policy has led to a huge gender disparity in China, 122.66 boys for every girl born, the highest ratio in the entire Asia Specific region,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;(2010, March 9). [https://www.un.org.cn/cms/p/news/27/1346/content.html Gender Inequality Persists in China]. ''United Nations in China''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Ward, C. (2011, August 12). [https://abcnews.go.com/International/chinas-census-shows-growing-gender-gap/story?id=14288216 China's Preference for Boys Shows Growing Gender Gap]. ''ABC News''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and resulted in 32 million single males.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;LaFraniere, S. (2009, April 10). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/world/asia/11china.html Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million]. ''The New York Times''.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;AFP (2010, January 12). [http://news.discovery.com/human/china-birth-rate-single-men.html China's Gender Gap Leaves Millions of Single Men]. ''Discovery News''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Logically this is a driving force behind human trafficking, prostitution, and the female slave trade which occurs near China.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Weisenthal, J. (2010, April 12). [http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-04-12/news/30049254_1_boys-and-girls-selective-abortions-village-hall Amazing First-Hand Account Of The Massive Gender Disparity In China]. ''Business Insider''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Minority Communities===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:4287336112 d3f9126c99.jpg|right|thumb|325px|According to [[Cybercast News Service]]: &amp;quot;An analysis by the Cybercast News Service compared the location of [[Planned Parenthood]] abortion clinics with population data from the U.S. Census in 2000. The results appear to bolster the charge that the organization targets black communities.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;cnsnews.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200502%5CSPE20050207a.html (Link no longer works.)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(photo obtained from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/muriel215/4287336112/ Flickr, see Creative commons license agreement)]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; ]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Each day '''1,786''' African American children are aborted.&amp;quot; According to the [[U.S.]] Census of 2006, African Americans are at 1.96 birth rate which is &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;beneath&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt; the replacement level of 2.1.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1685410938.html African American Pro-Life Group Holds Protest at NAACP] Christian News Network, July 13, 2009&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; At the continued rate, [[racism]] by abortion will decimate the black population of the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to writer George Grant, the author of ''Killing Angel'':&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;During the 1980s when [[Planned Parenthood]] shifted its focus from community-based clinics to school-based clinics, it again targeted inner-city minority neighborhoods...Of the more than 100 school-based clinics that have opened nationwide in the last decade [1980s], none has been at substantially all-white schools....None has been at suburban middle-class schools. All have been at black, minority or ethnic schools.” &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Green, T.L. (2001, May 10). [https://www.citizenreviewonline.org/special_issues/population/the_negro_project.htm The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans]. ''Concerned Women For America''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Planned Parenthood itself reported that its abortions on minorities in 1991 were 42.7% of its total abortions.&amp;lt;ref name=ppracism&amp;gt;Murphy, L.K. (1994, June). [http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLIFE/PPRACISM.TXT Planned Parenthood's Racism]. ''Life Research Institute''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  However, during that time period, minorities comprised only 19.7% of the U.S. population.&amp;lt;ref name=ppracism /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to [[Cybercast News Service]]: &amp;quot;An analysis by the Cybercast News Service compared the location of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics with population data from the U.S. Census in 2000. The results appear to bolster the charge that the organization targets black communities.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;cnsnews.com&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to the ''Open Journal of Preventive Medicine'' in June 2016, abortion was the cause of death of 61% of Black Americans.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Williams, Thomas D. (August 4, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/04/report-abortion-accounts-for-61-of-black-deaths-in-america/ Report: Abortion Accounts for 61% of Black Deaths in America]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 4, 2018.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Political Support of Abortion==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' [[Abortion and politics]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The most powerful political action committee (PAC) is EMILY's List.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.emilyslist.org/newsroom/releases/20070201.html (Link no longer works.)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; EMILY's List contributes money to Democratic candidates who support abortion-on-demand, including forced taxpayer funding of abortion.  EMILY's List candidates also oppose regulations such as:&lt;br /&gt;
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* Providing health information to abortion patients;&lt;br /&gt;
* Requiring that the abortionist have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case there is a complication; and&lt;br /&gt;
* Providing parental notification if the patient is a teenager.  &lt;br /&gt;
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Due to the influence of the abortion industry and EMILY's List, nearly every Democratic presidential candidate and senatorial candidate supports abortion-on-demand. &amp;quot;EMILY's List, the nation's largest political action committee, continues to be the dominant financial resource for Democratic candidates,&amp;quot; its above-referenced website declares. &lt;br /&gt;
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There is no comparably funded organization opposing abortion, because there are no monetary rewards to defending human life.  Instead, candidates and supporters who oppose abortion are motivated by religious and ethical principles.&lt;br /&gt;
===Pro-Life Democrats===&lt;br /&gt;
''See also:'' [[DFLA#2009-2010 Obamacare Influence]]&lt;br /&gt;
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While most Democrats support abortion, a growing number have been affiliating with [[Democrats For Life of America]], also known as Pro-Life Democrats. ObamaCare in 2009-2010 would have passed rapidly if not for their influence, since Democrats had a Supermajority allowing them to pass anything without a single Republican vote. However, 40 Pro-Life Democrats, led by Congressman [[Bart Stupak]] signed a letter refusing to let ObamaCare pass without reforms on the abortion issue, and fought the bill from June 2009 to March 2010, in an attempt to add the Stupak Amendment to the bill (which was added to the House bill but removed in the Senate despite attempts by Sen. [[Ben Nelson]] to add it there as well).&lt;br /&gt;
===Politics and Demographics===&lt;br /&gt;
''See also:'' [[American atheism]] and [[Global atheism]] and [[Decline of atheism]] and [[liberal]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufman wrote in his 2010 book ''Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth?'' concerning America:&lt;br /&gt;
{{cquote|High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the [[Culture War|culture wars]] towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-are-years-2012-and-2020-key-years.html Why are 2012 and 2020 key years for Christian creationists and pro-lifers?]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Ultrasound images==&lt;br /&gt;
About 80% of women who see an ultrasound of their fetus (unborn child) decide not to abort.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;(2005, April 22). [http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/145703/abortion_foes_use_ultrasound__focus_on_the_family_budgets/ Abortion Foes Use Ultrasound ; Focus on the Family Budgets Millions for Pricey Equipment]. ''RedOrbit''.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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*http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/frames.htm&lt;br /&gt;
*https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakelelane/388759116/&lt;br /&gt;
*http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/pregnancy_information/ultrasound/13_weeks.htm&lt;br /&gt;
*http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/pregnancy_information/ultrasound/ultrasound_3d.htm&lt;br /&gt;
*http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/pregnancy_information/ultrasound/triple_jump.htm&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion and the Bible]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion and eugenics]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion Facts]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion funding]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion genocide]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion procedures]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion rates by US state]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortionist]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Anti Abortion activism: a personal essay]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[More News/Abortion|Articles about '''Abortion''' from &amp;quot;More News&amp;quot;]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[:Category:Abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Culture of life]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Separate Life|Essay on abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Eugenics]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Fetus]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Harvard abortion study]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Abortion breast cancer studies]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Homosexual activists and abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Margaret Sanger]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/abrpt/2006abrpt.pdf Minnesota official abortion statistics]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[National Right to Life Committee]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Partial birth abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Planned Parenthood]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Right to life]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Right to life movement]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sanctity of life]] &lt;br /&gt;
*[[Silent scream]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Taxpayer-funded abortion]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Communist China and baby eating]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Atheists eat babies meme]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://creationwiki.org/Abortion Abortion] by [[CreationWiki]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.abortionfacts.com/ Abortion Facts]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.carm.org/abortion.htm Abortion] by [[Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.lifesitenews.com/ LifeSiteNews.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.ProLifeOnCampus.com/ Pro Life on Campus]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.aim.org/wls/category/abortion/ What Liberals Say - Category: Abortion], [[Accuracy In Media]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.investigatemagazine.com/mar3abrt.htm Abortion and breast cancer in New Zealand]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.numberofabortions.com/ Real Time Estimation of Abortions Worldwide]&lt;br /&gt;
{{Abortion}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Liberalism}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Sexuality]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Dominion logo.png|right|350px|thumb|Dominion Voting Systems logo: Red ballots in, Blue ballots out.]]&lt;br /&gt;
'''Dominion Voting Systems''' is a [[Canadian]] company that sells voting hardware and software manufactured with [[Chinese]] components.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/5ZjLrgQDtCQ&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Dominion was founded in 2004 in [[Venezuela]] to rig elections for the [[dictator]] [[Hugo Chavez]] and later [[Nicolas Maduro]].  The software has been used by the [[CIA]] to rig elections in [[Eastern Europe]].  Dominion acquired the vote-rigging software when it purchased Sequoia Voting Systems from [[Smartmatic]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtGEBRRAC50&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; which originally developed the software, and signed a non-competition agreement.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-smartmatic-are-not-actually-competitors/ Dominion/Smartmatic ‘Noncompete’ Agreement Emerges Despite Claims Of Being ‘Fierce Competitors’], Natalie Winters, ''National Pulse'', November 21, 2020.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  All of this is a lie, voter fraud didn't sway the election.&lt;br /&gt;
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All Dominion machines include a “weighted race feature” to fractionalize votes whose only purpose is to cheat in elections.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominion-voting-machines-include-weighted-race-feature-whose-purpose-cheat-elections-contacted-dominion-not-get-response/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  For example, the machine can be set to count a vote for Donald Trump as 0.7 of a vote while counting a vote for Joe Biden as 1.25 of a vote.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/7TLm0D9qvXA&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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As of 2020, the equipment is used in 30 states in the [[United States]].  In the [[2020 Presidential election]], Dominion Voting Systems deleted 2.7 million votes for incumbent [[President Donald Trump]] nationwide. Data analysis found the voting systems switched 221,000 votes in [[Pennsylvania]] from President Trump to his rival, [[Democratic party|Democrat]] challenge former [[Vice President Joe Biden]]. 941,000 Trump votes for President Trump were deleted. Other states using Dominion switched 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, although liberals like to dispute it despite lots of evidence proving it did. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thenewamerican.com/potus-dominion-voting-system-deleted-2-7-million-trump-votes/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  As suspicions arose Dominion shuttered their [[Toronto]] and [[Denver]] offices, refused to testify before a Pennsylvania House committee,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.theepochtimes.com/dominion-cancels-planned-appearance-before-pennsylvania-lawmakers_3587425.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and at least 100 Dominion employees deleted their LinkedIn profiles.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/since-election-day-100-243-dominion-employees-linkedin-deleted-profiles/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/dominion-radicals-screenshots-of-their-scrubbed-linkedin-accounts.html/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
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==Foreign actors==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Biden Putsch.png|right|350px|thumb|]]&lt;br /&gt;
Dominion voting system is a Canadian owned company with global subsidiaries.  It is owned by Staple Street Capital which is in turn owned by UBS Securities LLC, of which 3 out of their 7 board members are Chinese nationals. The Dominion software is licensed from Smartmatic which is a Venezuelan owned and controlled company. Dominion Server locations have been determined to be in Serbia, Canada, the US, Spain and Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[NBC News]] reported in December 2019,&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies, NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said. That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. There is also the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-ownership-growing-scrutiny-inside-america-s-biggest-n1104516&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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In January 2020 Dominion [[CEO]] John Poulos testified before Congress that Dominion machines are composed of parts manufactured in China from &amp;quot;screen on the interface down to the chip component level.&amp;quot;  Under questioning from Democrat Congresswoman [[Zoe Lofgren]], Poulos claimed, &amp;quot;there’s no option for manufacturing of those in the United States.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-uses-chinese-parts/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The [[Chinese Communist Party]] endorsed [[Joe Biden]] for president in the 2020 presidential election.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-china-biden-russia-trump-election-2020-8&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198289.shtml&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On Oct 8, 2020, Staple Street Capital filed [[SEC]] Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities. An earlier payment of $200,000,000 was received in December 2014.  UBS Securities is a [[Swiss]] investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/parent-company-of-dominion-received-400-million-from-a-chinese-investment-bank-in-switzerland/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sworn testimony by an analyst under of the 305th Military Intelligence declared about the 2020 presidential election reads,&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;this affidavit presents unambiguous evidence that Dominion Voter Systems and Edison Research have been accessible and were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as [[Iran]] and [[PRC|China]]. By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, these organizations neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020. This represents a complete failure of their duty to provide basic cyber security. This is not a technological issue, but rather a governance and basic security issue: if it is not corrected, future elections in the United States and beyond will not be secure and citizens will not have confidence in the results.&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
Cyber sleuths scanned Dominion network nodes and found a number of interrelationships with foreign entities, including access to Dominion’s server by a network from Hunan, China. Another forensic review confirmed links to an Iranian IP address, the analyst wrote, and concluded that the totality of “these scanning behaviors showed that foreign agents of aggressor nations had access to US voter lists, and had done so recently.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.dickmorris.com/china-linked-bank-paid-dominion-400-million-four-weeks-before-the-election/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to Gen. [[Tom McInerney]], servers were seized in [[Frankfurt, Germany]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/30N5MVzJXJc&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; where [[fraud]]ulent votes were being cooked up for [[Joe Biden]] during and after the [[2020 presidential election]]. The covert facility where these servers were being housed is run by the [[CIA]], and it is where elections all over the world are monitored and “cooked” to produce predetermined outcomes.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://nationalfile.com/the-kraken-retired-general-says-us-military-intel-group-nicknamed-kraken-seized-dominion-servers-in-germany/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Vulnerabilities===&lt;br /&gt;
Dominion was rejected by the [[Texas]] [[Secretary of State]] for use in elections in 2013 and 2019 over a plethora of issues which led to its failure of basic tests for reliability and accuracy.  Per a comprehensive report from 2019, the Texas [[Attorney General]]'s office recommended that “certification should be denied.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-voting-system-flag/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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A 2017 [[California]] Secretary of State staff review of Dominion's Democracy Suites system completed reported the machines were easily hackable.   The review found security vulnerabilities that required management through control measures within the tabulation locations. One of these was that the ImageCast X (ICX) system runs on an [[Android]] tablet with no form of anti-virus protection which must be handled by locking the ICX ports with a metal cover to prevent introduction of malicious software. The review identified five instances of vulnerable SQL statements inside private functions of the ImageCast Evolution (ICE) system which could be accessed by a knowledgeable insider. Additionally, the ICX device automatically loads data or software from an inserted USB drive, reading it as an .exe file.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vendors/dominion/ds52-staffreport.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In February 2020, [[PBS]] noted that Dominion Voting Systems is a type of system that registers votes in bar codes that the human eye cannot read. The news source quotes researchers as saying: &amp;quot;Voters could end up with printouts that accurately spell out the names of the candidates they picked, but, because of a hack, the bar codes do not reflect those choices. Because the bar codes are what’s tabulated, voters would never know that their ballots benefited another candidate.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/reliability-of-pricey-new-voting-machines-questioned|author=Bajak, Frank - [[Associated Press]]|title=Reliability of pricey new voting machines questioned|date=23 February 2020|accessdate=24 November 2020}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' reported that in 2005 a concerned [[Florida]] election supervisor engaged a data-security expert to check the vulnerability of a Dominion Voting Machine. The expert hacked in, and by changing a few lines of code on the machine’s memory card, changed the results of a mock election. Although Dominion later insisted the vulnerabilities were fixed, the same expert said the fixes were insufficient.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-data-security-expert-fears-u-s-voting-will-be-hacked-11587747159|publisher=Wall Street Journal|title=Why a Data-Security Expert Fears U.S. Voting Will Be Hacked|author=Wolfe, Alexandra|date=24 April 2020|accessdate=24 November 2020}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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All Dominion Voting Machines are connected to servers, including in foreign countries, using SolarWinds software.  SolarWinds software links computer servers and devices (like voting machines) together and is used by numerous U.S. and state government agencies and large corporations.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dominion-voting-machines-trying-hide-relationship-solar-winds/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Election rigging==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Dominion-states-522x600.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Dominion election equipment with Chinese components used in 28 states.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-corrupted-software-used-michigan-county-stole-6000-votes-trump-also-used-swing-states-uses-chinese-computer-parts-machines/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[PBS NewsHour]] reported on the problems with Dominion Voting Systems one week before the 2020 Presidential election.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1327329411805421570&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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An eyewitness testified in a sworn affidavit,&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;the software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral system and software of Dominion and other election tabulating companies relies upon software that is a descendant of the Smartmatic Electoral Management System. In short, the Smartmatic software is in the DNA of every vote tabulating company’s software and system.&lt;br /&gt;
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22. Dominion is one of three major companies that tabulates votes in the United States. Dominion uses the same methods and fundamentally same&lt;br /&gt;
software design for the storage, transfer and computation of voter identification data and voting data. Dominion and Smartmatic did business together. The software, hardware and system have the same fundamental flaws which allow multiple opportunities to corrupt the data and mask the process in a way that the average person cannot detect any fraud or manipulation. The fact that the voting machine displays a voting result that the voter intends and then prints out a paper ballot which reflects that change does not matter. It is the software that counts the digitized vote and reports the results. The software itself is the one that changes the information electronically to the result that the operator of the software and vote counting system intends to produce that counts. That’s how it is done. So the software, the software itself configures the vote and voting result -- changing the selection made by the voter. The software decides the result regardless of what the voter votes.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.14.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
Expert Navid Keshavarez-Nia&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://cybersummitusa.com/2017/06/navid-nia/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; explains that US intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion.  He states that Dominion’s software is vulnerable to data manipulation by unauthorized means and permitted election data to be altered in all battleground states.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.scribd.com/document/486105599/Affidavit-of-Dr-Navid-Keshavarz-Nia-Phd&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He concludes that hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice-President Biden.  The chairman of the [[Federal Election Commission]], Trey Trainor, said there was voter fraud in key states. “The massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/federal-election-commission-chairman-trump-campaign-bringing-legitimate&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The design and features of the Dominion software do not permit a simple audit to reveal its misallocation, redistribution, or deletion of votes.  First, the system's central accumulator does not include a protected real-time audit log that maintains the date and time stamps of all significant election events. Key components of the system utilize unprotected logs. Essentially this allows an unauthorized user the opportunity to arbitrarily add, modify, or remove log entries, causing the machine to log election events that do not reflect actual voting tabulations—or more specifically, do not reflect the actual votes of or the will of the people.&lt;br /&gt;
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After allegations emerged that called into question the integrity of voting machines produced by Dominion Voting Systems, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—part of the [[Department of Homeland Security]]—issued a statement on November 12, 2020 disputing the allegations, saying “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”  What the agency failed to disclose, however, is that Dominion Voting Systems is a member of CISA’s Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two entities that authored the statement put out by CISA.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.trevorloudon.com/2020/11/dominion-smartmatic-it-is-a-mess-here-are-some-top-details/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Within two weeks after the vote rigging and [[election fraud]] was exposed, Dominion shuttered their [[Toronto]] and [[Denver]] offices, refused to testify before a Pennsylvania House committee,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.theepochtimes.com/dominion-cancels-planned-appearance-before-pennsylvania-lawmakers_3587425.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and at least 100 Dominion employees deleted their LinkedIn profiles.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/since-election-day-100-243-dominion-employees-linkedin-deleted-profiles/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Connected to the internet===&lt;br /&gt;
''Vice News'' reported in a piece entitled, ''Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials'', researchers found voting systems have been connected to the internet possibly for years, including in some swing states.&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;A document for modem transmissions from voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems—another top voting machine company in the country—similarly discusses TCP-IP and SSL, both protocols used for internet traffic.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kxzk9/exclusive-critical-us-election-systems-have-been-left-exposed-online-despite-official-denials&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===2020 Presidential election===&lt;br /&gt;
Dominion Voting System is used in 28 states.  In [[Pennsylvania]] a ‘glitch’ was uncovered where nearly 20,000 votes were moved from President Trump to Biden.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/1mrWY3UYL88&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  In [[Wisconsin]] 10,000 votes were moved from President Trump to Biden in Rock County.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://freedomdailypress.com/2020/11/10/breaking-exclusive-system-glitch-also-uncovered-in-wisconsin-reversal-of-19032-votes-removes-lead-from-joe-bid&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/tgps-joe-hoft-steve-bannons-war-room-10-et-americasvoice-news-tv-discuss-recent-wisconsin-finding/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====Michigan====&lt;br /&gt;
:{{See also|Michigan election fraud}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Antrim County.png|right|350px|thumb|Vote switching in Antrim County, MI.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.9and10news.com/content/uploads/2020/12/Antrim_Michigan_Forensics_Report_121320_v2_REDACTED.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
A supposed 'glitch' in software used to tabulate ballots in Antrim County, [[Michigan]] caused [[Republican]] votes to be counted as Democrat.  The switch was first reported by a county clerk. A short investigation revealed that 47 counties in Michigan also suffered from a similar alleged 'glitch' with the same software, which caused some red counties to rake in a higher number of Democrat votes than usual.  State GOP chair Laura Cox reported,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/06/software-glitch-in-michigan-county-tallied-6000-republican-votes-as-democrat/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“Antrim County had to hand count all of the ballots, and these counties that use the software need to closely examine their results for similar discrepancies.  The people of Michigan deserve a transparent and open process.”}}&lt;br /&gt;
Another example was uncovered in Oakland County, Michigan where again a Republican won his race as a result of the alleged 'glitch' being reversed.  An independent forensic audit of Dominion’s machines concluded: &lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail.... The allowable election error rate established by the [[Federal Election Commission]] guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity....These are not human errors; this is definitively related to the software and software configurations resulting in error rates far beyond the thresholds listed in the guidelines....It is critical to understand that the Dominion system classifies ballots into two categories, 1) normal ballots and 2) adjudicated ballots. Ballots sent to adjudication can be altered by administrators, and adjudication files can be moved between different Results Tally and Reporting (RTR) terminals with no audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicates (i.e. votes) the ballot batch.  This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity because it provides no meaningful observation of the adjudication process or audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicated the ballots. &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/antrim_michigan_forensics_report_[121320]_v2_[redacted].pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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====Georgia====&lt;br /&gt;
:{{See also|Georgia election fraud}}&lt;br /&gt;
On October 11, 2020, three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, Judge Amy Totenberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia wrote an opinion in ''Curling v. Raffensperger'' citing a risk of &amp;quot;stealth vote alteration or operational interference&amp;quot; in touchscreen voting devices sold by Dominion Voting Systems if they are not properly audited.  Those risks &amp;quot;are neither hypothetical nor remote under the current circumstances,&amp;quot; Totenberg wrote, adding that the machines can &amp;quot;deprive voters of their cast votes&amp;quot; by storing data in unverified digital QR codes, making any potential manipulation invisible to voters &amp;quot;at least until any portions of the system implode because of system breach, breakdown, or crashes.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://casetext.com/case/curling-v-raffensperger-3&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to [[CNN]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-06-20/h_cea5da87d01a2365d79863c9912d5c64&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|&amp;quot;Gwinnett County, [[Georgia]], an [[Atlanta]] suburb, has faced a day-long delay in reporting a crucial batch of votes due to a technical problem as the presidential race in the state hangs in the balance.&lt;br /&gt;
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At around 5 p.m. ET Friday [Novemeber 6, 2020], Gwinnett County was finally able to upload about 4,000 outstanding absentee-by-mail ballots, as well as re-run roughly 460 early voting ballots that had to be transferred from a &amp;quot;bad data card,&amp;quot; Gwinnett County spokesperson Joe Sorensen told [[CNN]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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Originally, the county had hoped to upload these results at 8 a.m. ET; however, there was a technical issue with the Dominion system used to upload to the Georgia Secretary of State's office, Sorenson said. Gwinnett County says the blame for the delay falls solely on Dominion Voting Systems.&amp;quot;}}&lt;br /&gt;
Two Georgia counties had to extend their voting deadlines to accommodate for delays produced by a last-minute software update. This was called “unprecedented” by local election officials. According to ''[[Politico]]:''&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|&amp;quot;Voters were unable to cast machine ballots for a couple of hours in Morgan and Spalding counties after the electronic devices crashed, state officials said. In response to the delays, Superior Court Judge W. Fletcher Sams extended voting until 11 p.m. The counties use voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems and electronic poll books — used to sign in voters — made by KnowInk.&lt;br /&gt;
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The companies “uploaded something last night, which is not normal, and it caused a glitch,” said Marcia Ridley, elections supervisor at Spalding County Board of Election. That glitch prevented pollworkers from using the pollbooks to program smart cards that the voters insert into the voting machines.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ridley said that a representative from the two companies called her after poll workers began having problems with the equipment Tuesday morning and said the problem was due to an upload to the machines by one of their technicians overnight.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://noqreport.com/2020/11/06/dominion-voting-systems-the-company-at-the-center-of-michigan-and-georgia-voting-glitches/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===2020 Georgia primary===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Image Thumbnail right|File:Raffensperger2.png|200px|Raffensperger}}&lt;br /&gt;
:{{See also|2020 Democrat primaries#Dominion Election Systems}}&lt;br /&gt;
Georgia Secretary of State, [[Brad Raffensperger]] announced the state’s purchase of a $106 million election system from Dominion Voting Systems in July 2019. In a lawsuit, which originated in 2017, critics contend that the new system was subject to many of the same security vulnerabilities as the one it was replacing.&lt;br /&gt;
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In an October 11, 2020 order, just weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg agreed with the concerns associated with the new Dominion voting system, writing that the case presented “serious system security vulnerability and operational issues that may place Plaintiffs and other voters at risk of deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an effective vote that is accurately counted.”&lt;br /&gt;
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“The Court’s Order has delved deep into the true risks posed by the new BMD voting system as well as its manner of implementation. These risks are neither hypothetical nor remote under the current circumstances,” Judge Totenberg wrote in her order.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeff Carlson of ''[[The Epoch Times]]'' reported the findings of Harri Hursti, an acknowledged expert on electronic voting security.  Hursti provided a first-hand description of problems during the June 9, 2020 statewide primary election and runoff elections on August 11, 2020. Hursti summarized his findings:&lt;br /&gt;
*“The scanner and tabulation [[software]] settings being employed to determine which votes to count on hand marked paper ballots are likely causing clearly intentioned votes not to be counted”&lt;br /&gt;
*“The voting system is being operated in Fulton County in a manner that escalates the security risk to an extreme level.”&lt;br /&gt;
*“Voters are not reviewing their BMD [Ballot Marking Devices] printed ballots, which causes BMD generated results to be un-auditable due to the untrustworthy audit trail.”&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Shaya Moss.png|right|300px|thumb|Shaya Moss, the Fulton County Georgia supervisor of registration, stuffed the ballot box with tens of thousands of votes for Joe Biden on the night of November 3, 2020 and in the early morning hours after.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/NCgSFoD0bK0&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
During the runoff elections, on the night of August 11, 2020, Hursti was present at the Fulton County Election Preparation Center to observe the “upload of the memory devices coming in from the precincts to the [[Dominion Election Management System]] [EMS] server.” During this observation, Hursti noted that “system problems were recurring and the Dominion technicians operating the system were struggling with the upload process.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti also noted that it appeared that Dominion personnel were the only ones with knowledge of, and access to, the Dominion server. As Hursti stated in his declaration, “In my conversations with Derrick Gilstrap and other Fulton County Elections Department EPC personnel, they professed to have limited knowledge of or control over the EMS server and its operations.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti noted that this wholesale outsourcing of the operation of voting equipment to the vendor’s personnel was “highly unusual in my experience and of grave concern from a security and conflict of interest perspective.” Hursti referred to Dominion’s onsite operation and access as “an elevated risk factor.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti also noted that the Dell computers running the Dominion server appeared not to have been “hardened”—the process of “securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability.” Hursti said that he found it “unacceptable for an EMS server not to have been hardened prior to installation.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti observed that computers used in Georgia’s system for vote processing appeared to have “home/small business companion software packages” on them. This raised areas of significant concern for Hursti as he noted: “[O]ne of the first procedures of hardening is removal of all unwanted software, and removal of those game icons and the associated games and installers alongside with all other software which is not absolutely needed in the computer for election processing purposes would be one of the first and most basic steps in the hardening process. In my professional opinion, independent inquiry should be promptly made of all 159 counties to determine if the Dominion systems statewide share this major deficiency.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti discovered that one of the computers had an icon for a 2017 computer game called “Homescapes” which Hursti noted called into question whether “all Georgia Dominion system computers have the same operating system version, or how the game has come to be having a presence in Fulton’s Dominion voting system.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti also found a troubling blend of old and new equipment which carried additional security risks due to a lack of patch updates: “Although this Dominion voting system is new to Georgia, the Windows 10 operating system of at least the ‘main’ computer in the rack has not been updated for 4 years and carries a wide range of well-known and publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti noted that the lack of “hardening” created security risks even for computers that were not connected to the internet. He observed that when flash drives were connected to the server, the “media was automounted by the operating system. When the operating system is automounting a storage media, the operating system starts automatically to interact with the device.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti noted that the management of Fulton County’s EMS server appeared to be an “ad hoc operation with no formalized process.” This seemed particularly apparent in relation to the process of storage media coming in from various precincts throughout the night: “This kind of operation i[s] naturally prone to human errors. I observed personnel calling on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flash cards had been delivered from the early voting machines for processing, followed by later finding additional cards which had been overlooked in apparent human error. Later, I heard again one technician calling on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flashes had been delivered. This clearly demonstrates lack of inventory management which should be in place to ensure, among other things, that no rogue storage devices would be inserted into the computer. In response, 3 more compact flash cards were hand-delivered. Less than 5 minutes later, I heard one of the county workers say that additional card was found and was delivered for processing. All these devices were trusted by printed label only and no comparison to an inventory list of any kind was performed.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti also observed that “operations were repeatedly performed directly on the operating system.” The election software has no visibility into the operations of the operating system, which creates additional auditing problems, and as Hursti noted, “Unless the system is configured properly to collect file system auditing data is not complete. As the system appears not to be hardened, it is unlikely that the operating system has been configured to collect auditing data.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Raising even greater concerns was the apparent “complete access” that Dominion personnel appeared to have into the computer system. Hursti observed Dominion technicians troubleshooting error messages with a “trial-and-error” approach which included access into the “Computer Management” application, indicating complete access in Hursti’s opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
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As he stated in his declaration, “This means there are no meaningful access separation and privileges and roles controls protecting the county’s primary election servers. This also greatly amplifies the risk of catastrophic human error and malicious program execution.”&lt;br /&gt;
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During these attempts to resolve the various issues that were occurring in real-time, Hursti noted that it appeared as though Dominion staff shifted from on-site attempts at remediation to off-site troubleshooting:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“The Dominion staff member walked behind the server rack and made manual manipulations which could not be observed from my vantage point. After that they moved with their personal laptops to a table physically farther away from the election system and stopped trying different ways to work around the issue in front of the server, and no longer talked continuously with their remote help over phone.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the follow-up-calls I overheard them ask people on the other end of the call to check different things, and they only went to a computer and appeared to test something and subsequently take a picture of the computer screen with a mobile phone and apparently send it to a remote location.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Hursti stated that this “created a strong mental impression that the troubleshooting effort was being done remotely over remote access to key parts of the system.”}}&lt;br /&gt;
Hursti also noted that a “new wireless access point with a hidden SSID access point name appeared in the active [[Wi-Fi]] stations list”  that he was monitoring.&lt;br /&gt;
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All of this raised material alarms for Hursti, who noted that &lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“If in fact remote access was arranged and granted to the server, this has gravely serious implications for the security of the new Dominion system. Remote access, regardless how it is protected and organized is always a security risk, but furthermore it is transfer of control out of the physical perimeters and deny any ability to observe the activities.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://themarketswork.com/2020/11/15/pre-election-concerns-over-dominion-voting-systems-highlighted-in-georgia-lawsuit/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
===Forensic audit===&lt;br /&gt;
An independent forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines used in Michigan concluded: &lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“The Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.  ...The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study we conclude that the Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan....The allowable election error rate established by the [[Federal Election Commission]] guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/antrim_michigan_forensics_report_[121320]_v2_[redacted].pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Statistical analysis===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:2020 Dominion Systems.png|right|350px|thumb|]]&lt;br /&gt;
Analysis of November 3, 2020 election night data from all states showed that millions of votes were either switched from President Trump to Joe Biden or were lost using Dominion and other systems.  Researchers compiled a full list of votes switched from Trump to Biden or votes erased by Dominion, the vote machines used in many states across the US.  Data captured by the ''[[New York Times]]'' on election night was used.&lt;br /&gt;
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An examination of the data was able to locate an instance where votes were switched from Trump to Biden, so analysis on the entire data set ws performed, starting with the states where Dominion voting machines are used.  The data is from Edison Research and it is the same data that is used for election coverage by [[ABC News]], [[CBS News]], CNN and [[NBC News]].  It is also used for the website of the ''New Yorh Times'' others as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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Based on this initial analysis over 500,000 votes were identified that were switched from President Trump to Joe Biden.  Some votes wee switched from 3rd party candidates to Biden as well.  In addition, another 2,865,757 votes were deleted.&lt;br /&gt;
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The problem is in voting machines. Federal law requires records of federal elections be kept for 22 months.  When a paper ballot is inserted into a tabulator, the tabulator scans the paper ballot and takes a picture. This is called a ballot image, which becomes the official ballot. Many Democrat states and jurisdictions destroy the paper ballot afterword. In one state, [[Massachusetts]], they destroy the ballot image immediately afterward, as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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In states and jurisdictions with touch screens, the ballot image is the only official record. All these ballot images from tabulators and touch screens are stored on microchip.&lt;br /&gt;
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Electronic voting systems are used for the convenience of the vote counters, not the voters. Paper ballots are the only (less) foolproof method.  &lt;br /&gt;
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In Michigan, for example, sworn affidavits claim paper ballots were run through tabulators several times;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[[Michigan#Dominion.2FScorecard_fraud|Affidavits of Mellisa Carone]] and [[Michigan#Ineligible_ballots_were_counted_.E2.80.93_some_multiple_times|Patricia Rose]]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and  so the paper ballots do not even have a barcode to nullify the ballot once its been counted. Even grocery stores can detect with the barcode whether an item has been paid for or not. &lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. [[Shiva Ayyadurai]] of [[MIT]], the inventor of [[email]], did another statistical analysis of voting integrity in Michigan during a video livestream presentation.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Dr. Shyiva demonstrated statistically how an [[algorithm]] took about 60,000 votes away from President Trump and gave them to Joe Biden in Oakland County, Michigan during the course of election day. He demonstrated the same pattern in Macomb County. &lt;br /&gt;
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The slope of linear decline of Trump votes hour-by-hour in Oakland, Macomb, and Kent County, Michigan, was the same in predominantly Republican precincts.  The public data reveal algorithm-manipulated tampering to transfer Trump votes from Republicans to Biden.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;The United States voting systems, the inputs and the outputs, are unverifiable,&amp;quot; says Dr. Shiva, as many jurisdictions don't verify if a real person legally voted (no voter ID), and if the real votes were indeed tabulated truthfully (ballots or images are not preserved).&lt;br /&gt;
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In violation of federal law concerning candidates for federal office, Massachusetts destroys ballots and images on election day, Dr. Shiva says.  Shiva says he was banned from Twitter for saying this, even though he had it confirmed by the Massachusetts [[secretary of state]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Dominion voting systems is set up to make it easy to change &amp;amp; delete results. A [[NeverTrump|Resistance member]] with administrator access in a warehouse full of machines can enter whatever result, and delete previous results.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://twitter.com/PlaysTrumpCard/status/1326508337140207619&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/DVS-DemocracySuite511/documentation/UG-RTR-UserGuide-5-11-CO.pdf Democracy Suite® EMS Results Tally &amp;amp; Reporting User Guide], Version: 5.11-CO::7, May 28, 2019&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Ownership==&lt;br /&gt;
On July 16, 2018 Dominion Voting Systems announced that it had been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a New York-based, private equity firm.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://archive.is/KNHK1#selection-725.0-756.0&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-voting-systems-acquired-by-its-management-team-and-staple-street-capital-300681752.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Staple Street Equity was founded by former members of the [[George Soros]]-funded Carlyle Group. Executive Director of Carlyle Group, William Kennard, is director of Staple Street Capital.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/look-who-owns-dominion-voting-systems-politically-motivated-private-equity-ny-hedge-fund.html/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Kennard was appointed [[FCC]] chairman during the [[Clinton administration]] and was appointed Ambassador to the [[European Union]] during the Obama era.  “Team Obama literally bought the voting machines and software being used to count the votes in this [2020] election,” an independent media member noted.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.worldtribune.com/who-counted-the-votes-who-are-the-stakeholders-in-dominion-voting-systems/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that “Georgia records list eight registered lobbyists for Dominion. One of them is Lewis Abit Massey, a former Democrat Georgia secretary of state who once ran for governor.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.is/Xww2c&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Personnel, lobbyists and political donations===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) records reveal the company is overwhelmingly staffed by [[Democrat]] donors.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_employer=dominion+voting&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  96% of Dominion Voting political donations went to Democrats.  From 2014 to 2020, nine individuals who list “Dominion Voting” or “Dominion Voting Systems” as their employer contributed money to national political campaigns, including the 2020 presidential election.  Employees positions span the entirety of the voting system’s process from set-up to tabulation, including software developers, network engineers, software production specialists, and implementation managers.  Virtually all donations went to Democratic candidates through [[ActBlue]].  &lt;br /&gt;
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Dominion has employed a host of [[Democratic party]]-linked [[lobbyist]]s to assist on issues including “monitor[ing] federal legislation” and “issues related to election security.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2020&amp;amp;id=D000068717&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;   ''Bloomberg'' reported in April of last year [2019] that Dominion Voting Systems — which commands more than a third of the voting-machine market without having Washington lobbyists — has hired its first, a high-powered firm that includes a longtime aide to [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]. They hired Brownstein Farber Hyatt &amp;amp; Schreck. Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi’s former [[chief of staff]], is one of the lobbyists on the account.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://noqreport.com/2020/11/06/dominion-voting-systems-the-company-at-the-center-of-michigan-and-georgia-voting-glitches/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Dominion also employs Brian McKeon.  According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'',&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|&amp;quot;…McKeon previously worked as a senior aide to Sen. [[Barbara Boxer]] (D-Calif.) and was a deputy director for voter protection for [[Obama for America]], helping oversee the effort to recruit and organize [[attorney]]s to be poll watchers in the [[United States presidential election, 2012|2012 election]].&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/07/shaheen-aide-heads-to-lobby-firm-with-senate-democrats-in-demand-on-k-street/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
In 2014, Dominion was listed in the ''Washington Post'' table as having donated between $25,001-$50,000 to the [[Clinton Foundation]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://archive.is/4Q24P&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Richard Blum, [[California]] Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]]’s husband, is a significant [[shareholder]] in the company.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sidney-powell-people-with-links-to-powerful-democrats-using-dominion-voting-machines-to-steal-votes&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Antifa connections===&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2016 Dominion Voting Systems Vice President of Engineering [[Eric Coomer]] was asked if it was possible to bypass election systems software and go directly to the data tables that manage systems running elections in [[Illinois]]. His response was, “Yes, if they have access.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thepostemail.com/2016/09/01/critical-flaws-in-election-security-confirmed-by-dominion-voting-executive/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Bypassing the election systems software means whoever has access can potentially manipulate the vote without many risks of detection.  Coomer was asked who would have access to these data tables?  Coomer replied, &amp;quot;Vendors, election officials, and others who need to be granted access.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.defendthevote.com/114-election-security/508-massive-flaws-election-security-confirmed-by-dominion-voting&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Coomer2.png|right|200px|thumb|Dominion Voting Systems Vice President of Engineering Eric Coomer is a member of the [[Antifa]] terrorist organization.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thespectator.info/2020/11/16/dominions-eric-coomer-is-an-unhinged-sociopath-his-internet-profile-is-being-deleted-and-erased-audio/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
And in 2017 Coomer explained how to alter votes in the Dominion Voting Systems in a [[Chicago]] demonstration.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://rumble.com/vbd3s5-2017-dr.-eric-coomer-explains-how-to-alter-votes-in-the-dominion-voting-sys.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In September and October 2020, Coomer personally was in Georgia to make a “critical software change” to all Georgia's 30,000 Dominion voting machines “without adequate testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission”.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.is/3Bcv5&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominions-trump-hating-executive-eric-coomer-performed-suspicious-update-georgia-week-early-voting-started/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Citizen journalist Joe Oltmann infiltrated Antifa Zoom chats in Denver in which Coomer participated in.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/11/15/eric-coomer-dominion-voting-ties-to-german-antifa-is-foreign-interference/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Oltmann said,&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;His Facebook account, he had posted the Antifa Manifesto a day after it's was posted by a major Antifa organization. So it's not like he waited and somewhere along the line somebody gave it to him. It was literally that day....I wanted to research everything that was out there, like anything, anything that he touched.  And everywhere I ran into him having his fingers in it, like he was the one in [[Arizona]] that was actually pitching the project to the election Commission in Arizona in 2019. October 29th [2020] he was in Georgia as the expert witness in a lawsuit. He was in Georgia selling the product. He was in Georgia for the spokesperson. He was in [[Pennsylvania]] selling the product. He was in Pennsylvania meeting with county clerks. He was in Michigan installing the system. Like this is a guy that's not supposed to be involved in every minute detail of the organization. He is the Director of Strategy and Security. And there he is, everywhere you turn. He's everywhere.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/IbqNLx1KXDw&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:2020-09-26.png|left|300px|thumb|Coomer applied a “critical software change” “without adequate testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission” shortly before voting started in Georgia, according to the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution''.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.is/fx1UO&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Coomer told an Antifa Zoom chat, &amp;quot;Don’t worry&lt;br /&gt;
Trump won’t win the election, we fixed that.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/dh1X4s9HuLo&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
On a conference call with other members of Antifa Coomer is reported to have said:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://en-volve.com/2020/11/16/anti-trump-engineer-of-dominion-voting-systems-said-i-made-sure-trumps-not-gonna-win-in-secret-call-with-antifa-claims-man-who-infiltrated-group/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
Coomer posted on Facebook on July 21, 2016:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;If you are planning to vote for the autocratic, narcissistic, fascists, ass-hat blowhard and his [[Christian]] [[jihad]]ist VP pic, UNFRIEND ME NOW!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
No, I’m not joking.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I’m all for reasoned political discourse and healthy debate- I’m looking at you [3 names of friends].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I disagree with you three on many philosophical grounds but respect your opinions.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only and absolute F**KING IDIOT could ever vote for that wind-bag f**k-tard FASCIST RACIST F**K!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
No bulls**t, I don’t give a damn if you’re friend, family, or random acquaintance, pull the lever, mark an oval, touch a screen for that carnival barker—UNFRIEND ME NOW.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I have no desire whatsoever to ever interact with you.&lt;br /&gt;
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You are beyond hope, beyond reason. you are controlled by fear, reaction, and bulls**t. Get your s**t together.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh, it that doesn’t persuade you, F**K YOU! Seriously, this f**king ass-clown stands against everything that makes this country awesome!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You want in on that? You deserve nothing but contempt.?}}&lt;br /&gt;
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===CCP connections===&lt;br /&gt;
Andy Huang, who serves as core infrastructure manager of information technology at Dominion Voting Systems, previously worked at China Telecom, wholly run by the Chinese government, and identified by the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] as having collaborated with the [[People's Liberation Army]] for over two decades.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.axios.com/defense-department-chinese-military-linked-companies-856b9315-48d2-4aec-b932-97b8f29a4d40.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, the Department of Justice flagged the firm for &lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“concerns that China Telecom is vulnerable to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government” and how “the nature of China Telecom’s U.S. operations” provide “opportunities for Chinese state-actors to engage in malicious cyber activity enabling economic espionage and disruption and misrouting of U.S. communications.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/executive-branch-agencies-recommend-fcc-revoke-and-terminate-china-telecom-s-authorizations&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}&lt;br /&gt;
Huang, who fulfills the critical technology role at Dominion, worked at the Chinese firm from 1998 to 2002.  Tasks which Huang assisted with include the “Xiamen IDC Project,” the “Xiamen Metropolitan-are broadband network,” and the “OA Intranet infrastructure reformation project.”  While the specific nature of his work on these projects is not entirely clear, Cisco, a company he worked with extensively, is responsible for upholding China’s draconian internet firewall.  Huang’s LinkedIn profile displays his employer as one of his “interests.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-techie-worked-for-ccp-military-proxy-flagged-by-u-s-govt-for-malicious-cyber-activity/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Complaints==&lt;br /&gt;
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Sens. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (Mass.), [[Ron Wyden]] (Ore.), and [[Amy Klobuchar]] (Minn.), along with Rep. [[Mark Pocan]] (Wisc.), wrote a joint letter to Dominion in December 2019 warning that use of the company’s voting machines resulted in “switching votes” and other “undisclosed vulnerabilities” that “threaten the integrity of our elections.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-senators-warned-of-potential-vote-switching-by-dominion-voting-machines-prior-to-2020-election&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Klobuchar and Warren.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, who were defeated in the [[2020 Democrat primaries]], warned of Dominion vote switching and election fraud.]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|In 2018 alone &amp;quot;voters in [[South Carolina]] [were] reporting machines that switched their votes after they'd inputted them, scanners [were] rejecting paper ballots in Missouri, and busted machines [were] causing long lines in [[Indiana]].&amp;quot;  In addition, researchers recently uncovered previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in &amp;quot;nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states.&amp;quot; And, just this year, after the Democratic candidate's electronic tally showed he received an improbable 164 votes out of 55,000 cast in a Pennsylvania state judicial election in 2019, the county's Republican Chairwoman said, &amp;quot;[n]othing went right on Election Day. Everything went wrong. That's a problem.&amp;quot; These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/H.I.G.%20McCarthy,%20&amp;amp;%20Staple%20Street%20letters.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
''Bloomberg'' quoted Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden saying,&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|“The maintenance of Americans’ constitutional rights should not depend on the good graces and sketchy [[ethics]] of a handful of well-connected [[corporation]]s like ES&amp;amp;S who have stonewalled Congress, lied to Congress, have questionable judgment when it comes to security, and have repeatedly gouged [[taxpayer]]s.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://about.bgov.com/news/voting-machine-firms-add-lobbyists-amid-election-hacker-concerns/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
===Canada===&lt;br /&gt;
In 2018 a supposed internet connection “glitch” shut down Dominion systems in [[Ontario]] for 90 minutes during voting.  ''Toronto City News''reported:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|&amp;quot;Many voters in Ontario will continue to cast ballots Tuesday after technical difficulties forced at least a dozen municipalities to extend voting in local elections.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dominion Voting Systems, a company that provides tabulation systems in Canada and the U.S., said in a statement that 51 municipalities were impacted by a glitch that stalled online voting for at least 90 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;
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While many impacted communities kept polls open for one or two extra hours, several opted to declare emergencies under the Municipal Elections Act and extend voting for a full day.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of those municipalities include Pembroke, Waterloo, Prince Edward County, Greater Sudbury, and several communities in the Muskoka region.&lt;br /&gt;
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The rest of Ontario’s 417 municipal races went off without technical trouble, but there was no lack of drama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dominion attributed Monday’s election-night delays to “slow traffic” it blamed on an unnamed Toronto “internet co-location provider” for placing a limit on incoming voting traffic. Dominion said the issue was eventually resolved, but many voters still complained of problems.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/10/22/online-voting-systems-delaying-election-results-across-ontario/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Whistleblower allegations==&lt;br /&gt;
Melissa Carone was a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems to do IT work at the TCF Center in [[Detroit]].  Carone gave an interview to Redpill78 on Twitch.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.twitch.tv/videos/798796260?t=0h15m8s&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Carone states in a sworn affidavit that she “witnessed nothing but [[fraud]]ulent actions take place”.  Carone testified,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.greatlakesjc.org/wp-content/uploads/Supplemental-Brief-Motion-for-TRO-Costantino.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox-float|1. My name is Mellissa A. Carone, I was contracted by Dominion Voting Services to do IT work at the TCF Center for the November 3, 2020 election, and I am a resident of Wayne County.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. I arrived at the TCF Center at approximately 6: 15 AM November 3, 2020 and worked until 4:00 AM November 4, 2020. I went home to get some sleep, then arrived back at the TCF Center at I 0:00 AM in which I stayed until 1 :45 PM. During this time I witnessed nothing but fraudulent&lt;br /&gt;
actions take place.&lt;br /&gt;
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3. The counters (which were trained very little or not at all), were handed a &amp;quot;batch&amp;quot; (stack of 50) of mail-in ballots in which they would run through the tabulator. The tabulators would get jammed 4-5 times an hour, when they jammed the computer would put out an error that tells the worker the ballot number that was jammed and gives an option to either discard the batch or continue scanning at which the counter should discard the batch, put the issue ballot on top of the batch and rescan the entire batch. I witnessed countless workers rescanning the batches without discarding them first which resulted in ballots being counted 4-5 times.&lt;br /&gt;
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4. At approximately midnight I was called over to assist one of the counters with a paper jam and noticed his PC had a number of over 400 ballots scanned- which means one batch was counted over 8 times. This happened countless times while I was at the TCF Center. I confronted my manager, Nick Ikonornakis saying how big of a problem this was, Nick told me he didn't want to hear that we have a big problem. He told me we are here to do assist with IT work, not to run their election.&lt;br /&gt;
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5. The adjudication process, from my understanding there's supposed to be a republican and a democrat judging these ballots. I overheard numerous workers talking during shift change in which over 20 machines had two democrats judging the ballots-resulting in an unfair process.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
6. Next, I want to describe what went on during shift change, it was a chaotic disaster. It took over two hours for workers to arrive at their &amp;quot;assigned areas&amp;quot;, over 30 workers were taken upstairs and told they didn't have a job for them to do. These people were chosen to be counters, in which 6 workers admitted to me that they received absolutely no training at all.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
7. The night shift workers were free to come and go as they pleased, they could go out and smoke from the counting room. This is illegal, as there were boxes and stacks of ballots everywhere, anyone could have taken some out or brought some in, and No one was watching them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
8. There was two vans that pulled into the garage of the counting room, one on day shift and one on night shift. These vans were apparently bringing food into the building because they only had enough food for not even 1/3 of the workers. I never saw any food corning out of these vans, coincidently it was announced on the news that Michigan had discovered over 100,000 more ballots- not even two hours after the last van left. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
9. When a worker had a ballot that they either could not read, or it had something spilled on it, they would go to a table that had blank ballots on it and fill it out. They were supposed to be filling them out exactly like the one they had received but this was not the case at all. The workers would also sign the name of the person that the ballot belonged to-which is clearly illegal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
10. Samuel Challandes and one more young man in his mid-20 were responsible for submitting the numbers into the main computer. They had absolutely no overhead, my manager Nick would assist them with any questions but Nick was on the floor assisting with IT most of the time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
11 . There was a time I overheard Samuel talking to Nick about losing tons of data, they all got on their phones and stepped to the side of the stage. I asked Nick what was going one and he told me it was all taken care of and not to worry about it. I fully believe that this was something very crucial that they just covered up.&lt;br /&gt;
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12. I was the only republican working for Dominion Voting, and on the stage there was many terrible comments being made by the city workers and Dominion workers about republicans. I did not give out any indication that I was a republican, I have a family at home and knew I was going to have to walk to my car at the end of my shift. If anyone had an American flag on their shirt or mask, they were automatically deemed to be Trump supporters. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
13. I called the [[FBI]] and made a report with them, I was told that I will be getting a call back.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://youtu.be/uOwbJqPlXHI&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Biden Putsch]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Biden Junta]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{reflist|2}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==External link==&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://archive.is/hqNn2 Miles Guo : The Software for The U.S. President Election Was Supplied by The CCP] ｜ Daily Express – Nov. 12, 2020&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://youtu.be/746HTjhFifA Chanel Rion on “Dominion-izing the Vote”]&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://youtu.be/0eNr2qoHKdQ Attention Dominion and ES&amp;amp;S; Sue me please. I volunteer to be sued!], Edward Solomon, January 26, 2021. Youtube&lt;br /&gt;
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{{communism}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:China]][[Category:Canada]][[Category:Globalism]][[Category:United States Presidential Election, 2020]][[Category:Biden Putsch]][[Category:United States Political Scandals]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Atheism, Chinese doctors and baby eating</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Fetus1.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|South Korean officials became aware of a horrific practice of eating aborted fetuses after Seoul Broadcasting System showed a documentary on Chinese doctors who performed abortions and then ate the fetuses. One Chinese doctor on the documentary took out fetuses from his refrigerator.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-flesh-outrages-world/ Chinese cannibalism of infant flesh outrages the world], ''Washington Times'', 2014&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Israel]] has the world's largest [[atheism|atheist]] population and practices [[state atheism]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.thechapmans.nl/news/Atheist.pdf Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], ''Washington Post'' By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; China has one of the highest rates of atheism in the world.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.thechapmans.nl/news/Atheist.pdf Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], ''Washington Post'' By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; According to a 2012 Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) poll, 47% of Chinese people were convinced atheists, and a further 30% were not religious. In comparison, only 14% considered themselves to be religious.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news|title= Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism  |publisher= [[WIN/GIA|Gallup]]|date=|url= http://www.winmr.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf |accessdate=2012-11-28}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; See: [[China and atheism]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[East Asia]] contains about 25 percent of the world’s population. China’s population represents 20 percent of the people on earth.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.sbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/10/Pages-from-SBJT-V15-N2_Terry.pdf The Growth of Christianity in East Asia]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Razib Khan points out in ''Discover Magazine'', &amp;quot;most [[secular]] nations in the world are those of East Asia, in particular what are often termed “[[Confucianism|Confucian]] societies.” It is likely therefore that the majority of the world’s [[Atheism|atheists]] are actually East Asian.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/11/most-atheists-are-not-white/ Most atheists are not white &amp;amp; other non-fairy tales], Discover magazine&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; See: [[Asian atheism]] and [[Global atheism]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2014, ''The Washington Times'' reported:&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|China’s one child policy, baby trafficking, and sex trafficking of North Korean women aren’t the worst human rights violation happening in the country. Aborting innocent and healthy unborn children and eating them to boost one’s stamina and sexual health is. &lt;br /&gt;
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South Korean customs officials recently seized thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh arriving from China. Since August 2011, South Korean officials have intercepted more than 17000 pills smuggled from China.&lt;br /&gt;
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South Korean officials became aware of a horrific practice of eating aborted fetuses after Seoul Broadcasting System showed a documentary on Chinese doctors who performed abortions and then ate the fetuses. One Chinese doctor on the documentary took out fetuses from his refrigerator.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-flesh-outrages-world/ Chinese cannibalism of infant flesh outrages the world], ''Washington Times'', 2014&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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For additional information, please see: &lt;br /&gt;
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*[https://abcnews.go.com/Health/chinese-made-infant-flesh-capsules-seized-korea/story?id=16296176 Chinese-Made Infant Flesh Capsules Seized in S. Korea], ''ABC News''&lt;br /&gt;
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*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140702/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea], ''The Daily Mail''&lt;br /&gt;
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/horrifyingly-ground-baby-pills-are-real-thing/328490/ Horrifyingly, Ground Baby Pills Are a Real Thing] by Alexander Abad-Santos, ''The Atlantic''&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Atheists eat babies meme]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Atheist doctors]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Atheist hospitals]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Atheism and medicine]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Atheism in medicine]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Atheism and health]]&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Atheism and morality]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Atheism]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Morality]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Medicine]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>COVID-19</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;BertF: eat sh1t and die&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;''See [[coronavirus]] for a more substantive explanation.''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
'''poop virus''', or '''COVID-19''' or '''COVID-19''' or '''Chinese Virus''', is the name of the disease caused by a novel strain of the [[coronavirus]] (SARS-CoV-2 or 2019-nCoV) identified as originating in [[Wuhan, China]] in late November and early December 2019.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17], Josephine Ma, 13 Mar, 2020. www.scmp.com&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The outbreak turned into a [[pandemic]], reaching every continent on the planet by March 2020. Genetic mapping suggests that the Wuhan virus is related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) of 2002 and 2003 as well as to the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) of 2012 to the present. COVID-19 is considered highly infectious with an estimated basic reproduction number (R&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;0&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;) of 2.2. The mortality rate is described as considerably less than 1 percent in people under 65. By comparison, the mortality rate for seasonal influenza is 0.1 percent, SARS was 9 to 10 percent, and MERS was 36 percent.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Fauci&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., H. Clifford Lane, M.D., and Robert R. Redfield, M.D., &amp;quot;[https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387 Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted],&amp;quot; ''New England Journal of Medicine'', March 26, 2020.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A great deal of research is being conducted on this virus. The first vaccine candidates will enter phase 1 trials by early spring 2020. Therapy is currently limited to supportive care. Medication in current use include the antiviral drugs lopinavir–ritonavir, interferon-1β, the dangerous and expensive RNA polymerase inhibitor remdesivir, and [[hydroxychloroquine]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Fauci&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Because of the [[virus]]' ability to replicate exponentially it is difficult to calculate the total number of people infected, as well as a definitive mortality rate.  Quantifying total infections is hampered by the number of test kits available, as well as trained personnel to interpret the results of a novel, previously unknown, virus.  The exponential rate of infections can overwhelm healthcare facilities and healthcare givers.  With only experimental treatments available for a previously unknown virus, experts recommend persons with symptoms remain home so as to not infect others, or even if your symptoms are unrelated to COVID-19 you could become infected at hospitals where carriers likely are present.&lt;br /&gt;
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Many carriers of the virus show no symptoms at all, and may never show symptoms. Social distancing, remaining at least 6 feet away from other people, is recommended to avoid infection and for an untested, [[asymptomatic]] (showing no symptoms) carrier to avoid spreading the virus.  Each survivor of the virus must build immunity through antibodies.  Therefore, the size of a persons initial exposure to the virus is crucial.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ultimately, experts have stated, some 80% of the planet will be exposed to the infection between 2019 and 2021. [[Herd immunity]] eventually will develop in the human species to survive against the infection.  Until a widespread vaccine becomes available in later 2020 or in 2021, practicing such basic habits as handwashing, social distancing, wearing masks to avoid spreading or catching the infection, avoid touch the mucus membranes of your mouth, nose, and eyes, and other sanitary habits are highly recommended for persons who chose to survive this global [[pandemic]].&lt;br /&gt;
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The virus has the ability to survive on surfaces, such as door knobs, money, tables, floors, etc.  Maintaining cleanliness and avoiding contact with surfaces commonly used by the general public is also recommended.&lt;br /&gt;
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World leaders actively hope that COVID-19 can lead to [[The Great Reset]], and are even openly calling for it in the news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Atheistic, Chinese Communist Party and the COVID-19 pandemic ==&lt;br /&gt;
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''See also:'' [[Atheism and the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic]]&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) mandates its members be [[atheists]] (see: [[China and atheism]] and [[Atheism and communism]] and [[militant atheism]] and [[State atheism]]).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19567-china-s-communist-party-reaffirms-marxism-maoism-atheism China’s Communist Party Reaffirms Marxism, Maoism, Atheism], New American, 2014&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.ibtimes.com/senior-chinese-religious-advisor-calls-promotion-atheism-society-2363850 Senior Chinese Religious Advisor Calls For Promotion Of Atheism In Society], ''International Business Times''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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The CCP tried to cover up the emergence of the COVID-19 which prevented the pandemic being contained in its early stages.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;theatlantic.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trolling-world-and-avoiding-blame/608332/ China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World], The Atlantic&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
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China allowed thousands of COVID-19 infected people leave China during the early stage of the pandemic when the world was not aware of it.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-china-confronting-chinese-communist-party/ To Confront China After Coronavirus, We Must See the Bigger Picture], National Review&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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''The Atlantic'' reported concerning the role of the CCP to allow the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic to spread in China and globally during its early stages:&lt;br /&gt;
{{Cquote|China has a history of mishandling outbreaks, including SARS in 2002 and 2003. But Chinese leaders’ negligence in December and January—for well over a month after the first outbreak in Wuhan—far surpasses those bungled responses. The end of last year was the time for authorities to act, and, as Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has noted, “act decisively they did—not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This is what allowed the virus to spread across the globe. Because the Chinese Communist Party was pretending that there was little to be concerned about, Wuhan was a porous purveyor of the virus. The government only instituted a lockdown in Wuhan on January 23—seven weeks after the virus first appeared. As events in Italy, the United States, Spain, and France have shown, quite a lot can happen in a week, much less seven. By then, mayor Zhou Xianwang admitted that more than 5 million people had already left Wuhan.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;theatlantic.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trolling-world-and-avoiding-blame/608332/ China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World], The Atlantic&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Dr. Zelenko's treatment approved for nationwide use ==&lt;br /&gt;
''See also:'' [[Vladimir Zelenko]] and [[Vladimir Zelenko's coronavirus treatment]]&lt;br /&gt;
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As of March 27, 2020, the most successful doctor treating coronavirus patients is [[Vladimir Zelenko]], M.D. as none of this 699 patients have died or have required intubations whereas 1.5% of U.S. coronavirus patients die.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaSHM1TK5tM Vladimir Zelenko: Important March 27, 2020 update regarding my coronavirus treatment regimen]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; See: [[Vladimir Zelenko's coronavirus treatment]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[President Donald Trump]] expressed optimism that Dr. Zelenko's treatment could be expanded to meet the threat of the deadly disease during the national emergency. Several [[Democrat]] governors subsequently issued [[executive order]]s banning the treatment.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/03/democrats-fear-cure.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  On March 30, 2020, the [[Food and Drug Administration]] granted expedited approval of [[hydroxychloroquine]] nationwide for treatment of COVID-19.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  [[War on science|Anti-science]] [[Democrat]] governors however, showing no regard for the lives of their people, resisted the FDA approved treatment.&lt;br /&gt;
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President Trump is now taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc as a prophylactic (preventitive measure), though he first checked with his personal physician that it was safe to do so (people with heart conditions should not take hydroxychloroquine).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsfqJ1TkgP0 Donald Trump says he takes hydroxychloroquine drug for Covid-19]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Origin of Covid-19 virus ==&lt;br /&gt;
:{{See also|CCP pandemic coverup}}&lt;br /&gt;
Chinese students researchers indicated the novel coronavirus may have begun human-to-human transmission in late November 2019 from a place other than the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan.  A study published on ChinaXiv, a Chinese open repository for scientific researchers, reveals the new coronavirus was introduced to the seafood market from another location, and then spread rapidly from market to market.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1180429.shtml&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The Chinese Communist Party deleted the page.&lt;br /&gt;
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===''The Lancet'' disputes CCP wet market claims===&lt;br /&gt;
CCP propaganda outfits announced the virus may have originated at a government laboratory only 280 meters away from the Huanan seafood market. Disease-ridden animals, including more than 600 horseshoe bats, were kept at the facility.  A Chinese-language newspaper published in Hong Kong, ''Ming Pao'', and the British daily, ''The Mirror'' explained that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control, or WHCDC, could have spawned the contagion in Hubei Province.  It stated that it's plausible the virus was leaked from the lab and contaminated initial patients in this epidemic. Sen. [[Tom Cotton]], citing ''The Lancet'', tweeted&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|China claimed—for almost two months—that coronavirus had originated in a Wuhan seafood market. That is not the case. @TheLancet  published a study demonstrating that of the original 40 cases, 14 of them had no contact with the seafood market, including Patient Zero.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tom-cotton-implies-coronavirus-originated-in-wuhan-super-laboratory&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
This suggests that there was an earlier source of the virus that is unrelated to the seafood market and that has not yet been traced.  If this theory is correct, the infection originated no later than November and infected the seafood market in December.  The case histories and the pattern of infection were known to Chinese researchers from the beginning, so earlier reports fingering the market may have been intentionally misleading.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Cohen, Jon, &amp;quot;[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally],&amp;quot; ''Science'', Jan. 26, 2020.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  ''[[The Washington Post]]'', which routinely publishes Chinese Communist [[propaganda]], blasted Sen. Cotton over his comments.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/19/washington-post-uses-chinese-propaganda-in-attempt-to-blast-sen-tom-cotton-over-coronavirus-comments/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On February 6, 2020 scientists from the South China University of Technology uploaded a paper on the origins of Coronavirus: &lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory…… The bats carrying CoV ZC45 were originally found in Yunnan or Zhejiang province, both of which were more than 900 kilometers away from the seafood market. Bats were normally found to live in caves and trees. But the seafood market is in a densely-populated district of Wuhan, a metropolitan of ~15 million people. The probability was very low for the bats to fly to the market. According to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.is/ATNpb&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
China's leftwing censors however deleted the content.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3831465/posts&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Dr. Li issues public warning===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Dr. Li Wenliang]] was an ophthalmologist in [[Wuhan, China]] who became a [[whistleblower]] and victim of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP).  Efforts by Dr. Li to alert the Chinese people to the danger of the [[CCP coronavirus]] in late December 2019, and his subsequent death 5 weeks later did not go unpunished.  Dr. Li has been elevated to the status of saint and folk hero among the Chinese people.&lt;br /&gt;
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On December 30, 2019 Dr. Li posted the lab test result of a coronavirus patient in a group chat to a class of about 150 students writing: &lt;br /&gt;
{{Quotebox|“7 cases of SARS have been confirmed in the South China Fruit and Seafood Market and they were isolated in the emergency department of our hospital.  Please tell your families to take preventative measures.”}}&lt;br /&gt;
Some doctors confirmed that healthcare workers were starting to become infected around this time, a significant sign that the virus could spread between humans.  Health officials in Wuhan were alerted. Instead of ramping up safety measures and alerting the public, on the same day they issued a notice forbidding all medical institutes or individuals from disclosing any information regarding the new disease.  At midnight, Dr. Li was summoned by the CCP Security Police. They questioned him about why he was spreading rumors online. &lt;br /&gt;
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On December 31, Wuhan's health commission posted an announcement about the outbreak on their website. They confirmed 27 cases of the infection and said there was no evidence that the disease was contagious among humans.  According to a research paper written by Chinese officials, which was published later, the number of virus cases had reached at least 105 by the end of 2019. At that point, 15 people had already died.  A media report also showed that one major hospital in Wuhan, Xiehe Hospital, was forced to transform an entire floor of the facility into “quarantine space for contagious disease.”  [[Taiwan]] officials notified the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) that the virus was being spread from human-to-human.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/20/who-taiwan-coronavirus-warning/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Communist party officials in China and military personnel began taking preventative measures, however the public was never alerted.&lt;br /&gt;
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====8 doctors arrested for issuing public warnings====&lt;br /&gt;
On January 3, 2020 Dr. Li was asked to sign a confession to charges of committing [[crime]]s against the [[leftist]] regime, spreading “illegal and false” information and that he had “severely disrupted social order.”  7 other doctors also were charged.  The confesion read:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|&amp;quot;On December 30, 2019, WeChat group &amp;quot;Clinical Wuhan University 04&amp;quot; issued untrue statements about 7 cases of SARS diagnosed in the South China fruit and seafood market. ﻿Now raise warnings and admonitions according to law on the illegal issue of untrue statements on the [[Internet]]. Your behavior severely disrupts social order. Your behavior has exceeded the scope permitted by [[law]], and it violates the relevant provisions of the Law of the [[People's Republic of China]] on Public Security Management Penalties, which is an [[illegal]] act! ﻿The public security organ hopes that you will actively cooperate with your work, follow the advice of the [[police]], and stop the illegal behavior. can you do it?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; ﻿Answer: Yes&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;﻿We hope that you calm down and reflect carefully, and solemnly warn you: if you are stubborn, do not think about [[repentance]], and continue to carry out illegal activities, you will be punished by the law! do you understand?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;﻿Answer: understand&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%9D%8E%E6%96%87%E4%BA%AE%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%AD%E8%AF%AB%E4%B9%A6.png File:李文亮的训诫书.png WikiCommons]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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On December 31, 2019 the CCP controlled Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declared, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IzzCnz4Yr2jEIYZePiu_ow&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[[User:RobSmith/Text of article censored by Google translate]]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The CCP employed standard [[technocrat]]ic and [[bureaucrat]]ic rhetoric to qualm public fears:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox|Twenty-seven cases have been found , of which 7 are in serious condition, and the remaining cases are stable and controllable. Two patients are expected to be discharged in the near future. The clinical manifestations of the cases were mainly fever, a few patients had difficulty breathing, and chest radiographs showed bilateral lung infiltrative lesions. At present, all cases have been isolated for treatment, follow-up investigations and medical observations of close contacts are ongoing, and hygiene investigations and environmental sanitation disposals for South China Seafood City are ongoing.&lt;br /&gt;
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Wuhan organized the consultation of clinical medicine, epidemiology, and virology experts in Tongji Hospital, Provincial Center for Disease Control, [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]], Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Infectious Disease Hospital, and Wuhan Center for Disease Control and other units, and the experts returned from the disease and treatment, Epidemiological investigation, preliminary laboratory tests and other aspects of the situation analysis that the above cases are viral pneumonia. The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.}}&lt;br /&gt;
Tao Lina, a public-health expert and former official with Shanghai's center for disease control and prevention, tells the South China Morning Post, “I think we are [now] quite capable of killing it in the beginning phase, given China’s disease control system, emergency handling capacity and clinical medicine support.”&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mystery-illness-hits-chinas-wuhan-city-nearly-30-hospitalised&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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====WHO collusion with CCP====&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:WHO-CCP Wuhan virus.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The WHO tweeted misinformation from the Chinese Communist Party that the world had nothing to fear from the coronavirus outbreak.]] &lt;br /&gt;
Li was ordered to return to work where he contracted the virus.  On January 6, 2020 the center for disease control in [[Shanghai]] acquired the complete gene sequencing of the new virus. They found over 89 percent similarity between the new virus and the deadly SARS virus that caused a pandemic in 2003.  The information was sent to China's national CDC in an internal document.  From January 6 to January 17, CCP officials reported zero new cases.  In the  11 day period the communist authorities in Wuhan City and Hubei Province held their most important annual political meetings. Over 2,000 “representatives of the people” gathered to discuss the “amazing achievements of 2019” and how 2020 will be “a tremendous and promising year.”  There was little mention of the coronavirus.  On January 14 the [[World Health Organization]] [[tweet]]ed, &lt;br /&gt;
{{Quotebox|&amp;quot;Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan #China&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/18/flashback-who-china-coronavirus-contagious/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}} &lt;br /&gt;
The same day a group of [[Hong Kong]] journalists accompanied Hong Kong experts who were invited to conduct research on the virus outbreak. The reporters were later detained by Chinese Security Police, who photographed their reporter IDs and asked them to delete all footage taken inside hospitals.&lt;br /&gt;
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At this same time a post on the Chinese [[social media]] site Weibo, a person's dad was confirmed to have viral pneumonia. But the Xiehe Hospital in Wuhan refused to admit the father due to a shortage of hospital beds.  Another netizen posted that his entire family was infected. They went to the Tongji Hospital in Wuhan and saw that “there were so many patients that some had to lie on the floor of the corridor.” His father was also sent home to self-quarantine because there weren't enough hospital beds.  The post was later deleted. So were all other posts in the user's account.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.ntd.com/a-timeline-of-events-leading-up-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china_442592.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  That was the week Wuhan authorities didn't report a single confirmed or suspected case.&lt;br /&gt;
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From January 12 to 16, an estimated 3 million passengers left Wuhan by train over the Chinese New Year holiday, to visit family and friends in other cities in China.  On January 17, 2020 Wuhan's tourism bureau issued over 200,000 free tourism tickets. It was an effort to entice people to visit the city so they could experience the “Chinese style and warm sentiments of Wuhan.”  On January 18, Baibuting, a populous district in Wuhan, held an annual banquet to celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday.  Three days before, staff from the neighborhood committee who were concerned about the outbreak asked if they could cancel the banquet, but communist officials denied the request.  Over 40,000 families attended the banquet.  Local communist apparatchiks ordered labs to stop testing for the virus and destroy the existing samples.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRagZsnEc2Q&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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World Health Organization (WHO) boss [[Tadros Adhanom]] was a leader in [[Ethiopia]]'s Tigray People's Liberation Front, a wing of the ruling [[Marxist]] Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.  Adhanom served the repressive regime as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016 after a stint as Health Minister.  As a candidate for the top post, ''The New York Times'' accused Tad Adhanom of covering up at least three [[epidemic]]s.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://archive.is/9B2Zy&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Communist regime did not allow the WHO into China until February 10, 2020 - more than two months after the first cases were observed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Researchers have identified a &amp;quot;tipping point&amp;quot; at which the virus goes from dangerous to deadly in extremely susceptible patients.  A WHO report written 18 days later based on observation in China stated that 80% of infections (&amp;quot;mild cases&amp;quot;) can self-isolate, 13% require hospitalization, and 6% require intensive care.  While many patients experience nothing more than a mild cold, one in seven patients develops difficulty breathing and other &amp;quot;severe&amp;quot; complications, while 6% become critically ill and require hospitalization to stabilize their condition, risking death if they can't receive the highest level of care.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/scientists-warn-about-dangerous-tipping-point-where-covid-19-goes-mild-deadly&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Some questions remain regarding whether the developed world has enough hospital beds available to treat cases requiring hospitalization.  WHO said the coronavirus ''infection rate'' (as opposed to death rate) was thought to be the same as the flu when the virus was only known in China but has since been found to be ''two to three times that infectious''.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/who-raises-death-rate-and-risk-of-coronavirus-one-expert-declares-wwii/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Tad Adhamon criticized travel bans to and from China saying, &amp;quot;There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade.&amp;quot;  The WHO was not allowed into China until February 10, 2020, more than two months after the virus was first discovered.  Adhanom praised the CCP's response: &amp;quot;We appreciate the seriousness with which China is taking this outbreak, especially the commitment from top leadership and the transparency they have demonstrated,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;China is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response.&amp;quot;  Film clips of Adhanom are shown on Chinese television saying, &amp;quot;China took action massively at the epicenter at the source of the outbreak.  This is heroic.  The actions of China is making us safer.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Humphrey, a British investigator who was jailed in China in 2013 had been drugged, chained to a chair, locked in a cage and made to read out a statement written by the police in front of cameras.  The anchor who presented the footage, James Chao, is now a goodwill ambassador with the World Health Organization.&lt;br /&gt;
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The World Health Organization is horribly corrupt.  An audit revealed there has been a surge in internal corruption allegations across the whole of the&lt;br /&gt;
organization with the detection of multiple schemes aimed at defrauding large sums of money from the international body, overwhelming an internal team of full-time investigators.  An ''[[Associated Press]]'' expose in 2017 found that nearly half of the WHO two billion dollar budget went to first-class airfare and five-star hotels.  The United States is the largest contributor US taxpayers fund about a quarter of the WHO budget.  The WHO is working with [[Google]] to ensure that people get information from the [[UN]] health agency first when they search for information about the virus.&lt;br /&gt;
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====Dr. Li's exoneration and death====&lt;br /&gt;
On January 20 [[President Xi]] finally acknowledged the crisis.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://thecritic.co.uk/the-coronavirus-cover-up/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  On January 23 the entire city of Wuhan, 11 million people, was put on lockdown. By the end of the month 50 million Chinese were on lockdown.  On  January 28, the Supreme Court of the Communist Party of China issued a statement that Dr. Li and the other &amp;quot;rumor makers&amp;quot; had been &amp;quot;rectified&amp;quot;, but it was too late.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the evening of February 6, Dr. Li died.  The news quickly aroused strong attention and condemnation.  However, Wuhan Central Hospital later issued a microblog saying that Li Wenliang was in critical condition and doctors were working to save his life.  A number of insiders and doctors disclosed on social media that in the process, the authorities faced public indignation and ordered a series of attempts at resuscitation, but to no avail.  A few hours later, the news of Li Wenliang's death again was released and detonated on WeChat and Weibo.  By 6 a.m. local time, the keywords &amp;quot; Dr. Li Wenliang's death &amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Li Wenliang's death&amp;quot; ranked high on the Weibo topic list, with a total of 670 million views and 737,000 discussions.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/02/07/a102771379.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Before the end of the day news of Dr. Li's death had over 1.5 billion views on Weibo.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-chinese-public-mourns-rages-over-death-of-doctor-who-raised-early-alarm&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  An announcement on NTD of Dr. Li's death read:&lt;br /&gt;
{{quotebox| [NTD Beijing, February 07, 2020] Dr. Wenliang Li , who first announced Wuhan pneumonia, died at the age of 34 on the evening of the 6th due to improper treatment of a new coronavirus infection. His death ignited a new wave of angry tsunami among the public over the CCP's concealment. After Li Wenliang's death was exposed on the [[Internet]], the authorities, under pressure from public opinion, pretended to rescue the whole person, and performed 3 hours of chest compressions and electric shocks on the dead Li Wenliang, causing his ribs to be completely broken and beyond recognition .&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On February 7th, an independent economist, &amp;quot;Financial Cold Eye&amp;quot; (@charles984681), tweeted that the hospital director was afraid that Li Wenliang's death would lead to public outrage. After 3 hours of death, he was continuously subjected to CPR, which is the shock of cardiac resuscitation. It usually takes only a few minutes. After three hours, Li Wenliang's ribs were completely broken and beyond recognition . Tweeted that&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;quot;Dr. Li was wronged alive, and he was abused after his death! With the worst of malice, I can't imagine how despicable this devil behavior is.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In this regard, many netizens have commented:&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;quot;Too evil!&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;quot;Under the autocratic system, the people of Li Min are nothing but the servants of the nobles.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;quot;It is most likely a premeditated murder. This person has become a serious trouble for the nobles!&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In addition, many network screenshots showed that Li Wenliang's treatment was extremely inadequate and timely, and the hospital director was under pressure. Li Wenliang was the worst one among the eight. Li Wenliang's lung film, all white! I never thought about letting him live! This man will be regarded as a hero in the United States! He was killed directly in the CCP! His wife ’s unborn child was also hit!&lt;br /&gt;
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It is reported that Li Wenliang stopped his heartbeat at 9:30 and was intubated 20 minutes later. Finally, he went to ECMO (artificial lung) for a symbolic rescue to calm the anger of hundreds of millions of netizens. CCP officials have been rebuked as &amp;quot;political rescue.&amp;quot;.....&lt;br /&gt;
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There was a regret on the Internet that &amp;quot;the hero is gone&amp;quot;, and lamented, angered, and rebuked the CCP &amp;quot;this regime has committed [[crimes against humanity]]!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;quot;Burning !!! Doctor Li Wenliang died at the age of 34, leaving his wife and unborn child. Wuhan government, Hubei government, don't you give an explanation? Without heart, as human beings, the TAs are just humans! See At the time of this news, do you have any trace of guilt and regret for those &amp;quot;killers&amp;quot; who indirectly kill people? &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;quot;This time, the doctor who first warned the Chinese and the world and informed you of the epidemic was sacrificed today. He is Li Wenliang. After the epidemic was announced, he and several other doctors were arrested by the public security ... With the incident exposed, the Chinese government must Do n’t apologize. The official said it was because of the infection, and we have reason to suspect how he died? &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Password of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China&lt;br /&gt;
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It is said that the magnitude of the rebound [public reaction] has unexpectedly surprised the CCP, and the CCP propaganda department has issued a password.&lt;br /&gt;
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Independent economist Qin Peng tweeted that the official propaganda requirements of the CCP came out as soon as possible.&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;quot;Regarding the death of Dr. Li Wenliang of Wuhan Central Hospital, we must strictly standardize the source [control the narrative] of the manuscript. We are strictly forbidden to use media reports to report without permission. We must not pop-up the window, do not comment or speculate. Search and strictly control harmful information. &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Qin Peng said that if it were not for the life-threatening plague, how many Chinese people could not imagine the evil of the Chinese Communist Party!&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f0pmw8/rumored_dr_li_wenliangs_ribs_were_completely/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; }}&lt;br /&gt;
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===Illegal bioweapon research in Wuhan===&lt;br /&gt;
One theory that has recently been postulated is that the coronavirus may be linked to Chinese bio-weapons research.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2020-01-24-virus-hit-wuhan-has-two-laboratories-linked-to-chinese-bio-warfare-program/?pname=local_social&amp;amp;keyid=KTRH&amp;amp;sc=editorial&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The city of Wuhan, where the virus originated, has the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where &amp;quot;''...it was reported to have studied coronaviruses in the past, including the strain that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, the H5N1 influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue''&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tibetanreview.net/did-the-wuhan-virus-escape-from-chinas-bio-weapons-lab/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  A second facility nearby, Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, is also listed one of eight research facilities under the 1985 Biological Weapons Convention, of which China is a signatory.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr Francis Boyle is an eminent professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in the U.S. In an explosive interview with Geopolitics and Empire, Dr Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act, gave a detailed statement on how the 2019 Wuhan Coronavirus is an offensive biological warfare weapon and that the World Health Organization (WHO) already knew about it.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://greatgameindia.com/dr-francis-boyle-creator-of-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-is-biological-warfare-weapon/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The State Department issued a report in 2019 stating &amp;quot;''Information indicates that the People’s Republic of China engaged during the reporting period in biological activities with potential dual-use applications, which raises concerns regarding its compliance with the BWC.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Compliance-Report-2019-August-19-Unclassified-Final.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  For its part, China has stated that it does not engage in bio-weapons engineering,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/china/biological/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; despite discussion of bio and genetic weapons being discussed at the highest levels of the Chinese military,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://jamestown.org/program/chinas-military-biotech-frontier-crispr-military-civil-fusion-and-the-new-revolution-in-military-affairs/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; as well as a &amp;quot;white paper&amp;quot; drafted in 2001 which stressed ''&amp;quot;...in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the BWC, a necessary verification mechanism should be established&amp;quot;''.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://media.nti.org/pdfs/5a_1.pdf&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[India]]n researchers have found [[HIV]]-derived inserts in the coronavirus [[genome]] that compound the infectious potential and greatly bolster the argument this virus was developed as a bioterror weapon.  A 2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment by [[John Brennan]] and the US [[Intelligence Community]] lists China as a major potential “terror actor” and genome editing as a major terror risk.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/02/01/coronavirus-the-plot-thickens/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Many have expressed skepticism of the bio-weapon theory.  Dr Malcolm Davis, a defense analyst in Australia, tweeted ''&amp;quot;If evidence came to the fore to support such a theory, then yes - but so far, none has. Its more likely the virus jumped from an animal into humans in the Wuhan markets.&amp;quot;''.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://m.noosanews.com.au/news/mystery-lab-30km-from-virus-ground-zero/3931000/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  New organizations - many left-leaning - have also stated that conspiracy theories have been created almost as soon as the news of the pandemic reached the public.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/29/coronavirus-china-lab-mortality-virology-wuhan-virus-not-bioweapon/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51271037&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Early cover story===&lt;br /&gt;
:{{See also|CCP propaganda war}}&lt;br /&gt;
On January 23, 2020 the Wuhan virus exploded.  While Wuhan announced the lockdown of the city, Dr. [[Shi Zhengli]] of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who had isolated the bat virus, spliced it, and made it transmissible to humans, provided the official Chinese communist cover story  that the virus arose in nature. Shi published a paper in the authoritative science journal, ''Nature'' on February 3, 2020 stating that the Wuhan coronavirus was of probable bat origin.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  The paper indicated that the Wuhan virus utilized the same key as SARS to gain entry into the human body. She also announced the 2019-nCoV genome sequence was 96.2% consistent with a bat coronavirus originating in [[Yunnan]], China, called RaTG13, signaling a natural source of the Wuhan virus.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/02/24/study-china-lied-wuhan-virus-did-not-originate-in-meat-market/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The ''Washington Post'' picked up the Chinese fake news narrative and indicated &amp;quot;The trigger point for the current coronavirus remains unclear, but [[China]] has linked the outbreak to the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, which despite its name also appeared to be selling live cats and dogs, wild chickens, snakes and marmots.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-outbreak-underscores-potential-health-risks-in-chinas-wild-animal-trade/2020/01/25/5f5353be-3f6f-11ea-971f-4ce4f94494b4_story.html Coronavirus outbreak underscores potential health risks in China’s wild animal trade], ''Washington Post'', 2020&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  CNN reported concerning China: &amp;quot;Vendors in small city markets often sell wild animals including rodents, yak, snakes and even porcupines, and experts say that makes them far more dangerous. The meat could contain deadly pathogens like the coronavirus.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/world/coronavirus-china-bans-wildlife-trade-trnd/index.html Chinese officials crack down on wildlife markets as coronavirus outbreak nears 3,000 cases]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Wet market&amp;quot; refers to the blood of animals slain on the spot.  The first case can be traced back to November 17, 2019, and the first death on December 9, 2019. Some cases were rumored among stallholders from the Wuhan South China Seafood Market in early December but hushed up by Chinese authorities.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxZ1XIYmGc&amp;amp;feature=push-prem-sub&amp;amp;attr_tag=Pi2j7UuDGqgDAixI%3A6&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  This market is said to have sold processed meats and live animals, including chickens, donkeys, sheep, pigs, foxes, badgers, bamboo rats, hedgehogs, and snakes.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;[https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-chinese-wet-market-photos-2020-1#the-huanan-wholesale-seafood-market-in-wuhan-closed-on-january-1-after-it-was-found-to-be-the-most-likely-starting-point-for-the-outbreak-of-this-coronavirus-called-2019-ncov-1 The outbreaks of both the Wuhan coronavirus and SARS likely started in Chinese wet markets. Photos show what the markets look like.]&amp;quot;, ''Business Insider''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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CNN kept the ball rolling for Chinese propagandists reporting that previous coronavirus outbreaks include SARS-CoV in 2002-2003 and MERS-CoV in 2012. Both of these strains originated in bats.  SARS was transferred to humans through a masked palm civet, presumably in a Chinese wet market.  MERS was transferred through a camel in Saudi Arabia.  The protein codes in the Wuhan virus are most similar to those found in snakes, so it is possible that the virus jumped to humans from a snake.  Snakes often hunt bats for food, but disease rarely transmits from a warm-blooded animal to a cold-blooded animal.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;quot;[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/22/health/snakes-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak-conversation-partner/index.html Snakes could be the source of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak],&amp;quot; CNN, January 24, 2020.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Blood-clotting ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[COVID-19]] has reportedly caused increased blood clotting, which can cause strokes or heart attacks.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid19-stroke-blood-clots-prevent-blood-thinners-virtua-troy-randle-trial-pitt-20210104.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  A participant in one of the [[vaccine]] trials also suffered an unexpected heart attack at age 70, an died.&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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The '''NAACP''' (National Association for the Advancement of Crappy People) was founded in 1909 to work for the rights and advancement of [[African Americans]] (then called &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot;).  &lt;br /&gt;
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund was involved in the famous [[Brown vs. Board of Education]] case in 1954 in which the Supreme Court declared segregated schools were illegal. &lt;br /&gt;
It supported the end of [[Jim Crow]] and [[segregation]] in the 1960s. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recent decades it has been torn by identity politics, liberalism, internal strife and plays a minor role in national affairs but plays a major role in [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]ic affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
The organization's first head, [[W.E.B. DuBois]], was awarded the [[Lenin Peace Prize]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;The Lenin Peace Prize is named for [[mass murder]]er [http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm#part4] [[Vladimir Lenin]], founder of the Soviet state.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; in 1959, and the organization ended up liberal.&lt;br /&gt;
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The NAACP has always been the largest organization of its kind; today it has 300,000 members in local chapters around the country. &lt;br /&gt;
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==History==&lt;br /&gt;
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The NAACP was founded by [[W.E.B. DuBois]], [[Ida B. Wells]], [[Archibald Grimké]], [[Henry Moskowitz]], [[Mary White Ovington]], [[Oswald Garrison Villard]], [[William English Walling]], [[Florence Kelley]], and [[Charles Edward Russell]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Advancement ends==&lt;br /&gt;
The last twenty years has seen the NAACP removed from its noble past to an organization that is just a wing of the Democrat party. As such, the advancement of colored people became a casualty, just rhetoric. The NAACP has wholeheartedly endorsed the genocidal destruction of their very own race by means of [[abortion]].  An overwhelming number of black babies are aborted and [[abortion mills]] are located in predominately inner cities. The NAACP doesn't just look the other way,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.jillstanek.com/genocide/naacp-conventio.html NAACP convention attendees in NYC see black genocide, JillStanek.com, July 21, 2009]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; they actual promote the destruction of their own people via the racist liberal agenda.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.maafa21.com www.maafa21.com]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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More recently, it supports &amp;quot;[[affirmative action]]&amp;quot;. Also, black economist [[Thomas Sowell]] wrote:&lt;br /&gt;
*The NAACP's decision to back the teachers' unions, who donate money to them, against charter schools that provide thousands of black children their only hope of a better life, means that the NAACP should no longer be considered part of the civil rights movement, but just another part of the race hustling racket.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/11/01/random-thoughts-n2239596 Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts - Nov. 1, 2016]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==2010 Annual Convention==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Michelle Obama]] delivered the keynote speech at the convention just one day before the civil rights group condemned racism in the [[Tea Party Movement]]. After the NAACP received national headlines for race-baiting, [[Joe Biden]] said he and Barack Obama don't believe the Tea Party is racist. Muslim American group [[CAIR]] issued a press release defending the NAACP resolution that the Tea Party is racist.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cair-backs-naacp-resolution-on-tea-party-racism-98532894.html CAIR Backs NAACP Resolution on Tea Party Racism, PR newswire, July 15, 2010]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* Jonas, Gilbert S. ''Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909-1969'' (2005). 240 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
* Verney, Kevern and Lee Satan, eds. ''Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP'' (2009), 16 essays by scholars &lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[International Labor Defense]] &lt;br /&gt;
*[[Scottsboro case]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Civil rights movement]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Charter schools]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sarah Breedlove Walker]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38352 Top 10 Examples of NAACP Racism]&lt;br /&gt;
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