Startling Facts on Abortion

January 18th, 2010 - The following is a personal letter I sent to all of my closest family and friends last week. It contains facts and truths that I was horrified to discover earlier this year and I pray that as you read it God would stir in your heart as well.
-Joe Elliott, Director of Austin Lit

To my family whom I love,

I cannot sleep tonight.  I got out of bed at 4am this morning to begin this email that I am compelled to write.  I love you all too much not to make you aware of the truth and give you an opportunity to respond to it. This weekend I am gearing up to take a few van loads of folks from Austin to Houston to participate in an MLK Day Walk in downtown's third ward.  I consider this the most important public stand I have ever been apart of and will be joining thousands and thousands in the Houston area who have been awakened to the truth of what I am about to share with you.

Before I go into detail on what is happening this weekend I want to tell you that 12 months ago I saw abortion as a political issue, that although I was against in principal, did not impact me and was a battle that I need not get involved in.  Over the past year I have had the opportunity to be educated on what is really going on in the abortion industry, how it operates and how our culture has been deceived.  To put it simply, I was shocked and embarrassed that a "Christian" such as myself had no idea about any of this and had been passive on the issue for so long.  Now that has changed and here is a brief snapshot of what I have learned that has awakened my heart and fueled my passion to go from passively to ACTIVELY Pro-life:


First, it is important to understand the founding of any movement and in the case of abortion you need to know Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood (America's #1 Abortion Provider that kills 4,000 babies a day), was an extreme racist.  Sanger was an avid supporter of eugenics and shared the same common beliefs about jews, blacks, hispanics and other minorities as Adolf Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan.  The motivation behind the pro-choice movement from the beginning was about targeting minorities and killing them as fast as possible.  Here are some quotes from her publications and letters:

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
-- Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts.

"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a
deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to
the race."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent
Multiplication of this bad stock."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .

... The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members
is to kill it."
-- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.
Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,
1922.

"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
-- Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control . New York: New
York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.


"The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless
ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose
religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers.
Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper
element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their
support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the
procreation of this group should be stopped."
-- Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It
Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American Birth
Control Conference . Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 11-
12, 1921.

1. Clever marketing has led to the advancement of the abortion industry.  Make no mistake, as former abortionists and abortion facility workers such as Abbey Johnson, Jill Stanek and countless others will tell you, what drives the abortion industry today is MONEY!  The simple human motivation of greed has been masked under a marketing banner of Womens Rights, Women's Choice, Womens Health for decades now.  Former abortion clinic owner Carrol Everett in her book 'Blood Money: Getting Rich Off a Woman's Right to Choose' describes how they had sales meetings which targeted ways to get women to come back for multiple abortions and the deceiving tactics they used to draw women in for free sonograms and other services only to push them on having abortions. 
2. 98% of all abortions occur not because of womens health concerns or cases of rape and incest but simply because having a baby is inconvenient for the woman at that time.  Of the top reasons cited by women as to why they were having an abortion they said:  Can't afford it right now, not ready to be a mom, being pressured from a boyfriend or close family members, and other similar social concerns. 
3. Fact: Women have abortions not because they are Pro-Choice but because they feel as if they have No Choice.  When surveyed, over 60% of women who had an abortion said they would have kept the baby if just 1 person in their life had urged them to do so.
4. Today, abortion clinics make women who are deciding on whether to have abortions feel Heroic for making the decision and affirm them by telling them it is the responsible thing to do and is in their best health interest.  Not only is this part of the sales strategy but it is simply not true.  The physical and emotional scares run deep and never go away.  Not only is breast cancer and other various diseases more common in post abortion women, but the likelihood of becoming sterile is significantly higher as well.  They are also 6 times more likely to commit suicide or suffer from clinical depression. There are 2 women alone in my small 300 member church who have had to start a ministry for post abortion women because of all the emotional trauma that still exists for so many even decades after the abortion!
5. Most abortion facilities will not let women see the sonogram or hear the heartbeat on a monitor when they go in for a free screening because those who do are more likely to realize its a live human being inside them and opt not to abort, which of course is lost revenue. 
6. Abortion clinics intentionally use terms like cells or embryo to refer to the baby inside them as these words help women believe that what they are killing inside them is not a human but a bunch of undeveloped cells.
7. Most abortions occur after the 7th week of a pregnancy when the baby has already developed arms, legs, fingers, toes, circulatory and major muscle systems.  The heart at this point has been beating for 4 weeks already!
8. 100% of the people I have surveyed so far have said that they were glad they were born and if given the choice while in the womb they would vote to be born, not die.