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Name: Evelyn
Country: Peru
Metro: Lima
Gender: Female
Expertise: Professional counselor
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Nonprofit
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9/16/2005
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| Why do so many teens get pregnant if they use condom?I was impressed to read an article by Jennifer Roback Morse on contraceptive failure. She cited two studies that showed that of all women using the pill for one year, somewhere around 8% will experience a pregnancy. Between 14% and 15% of women who use the condom will become pregnant within a year. But these statistics, while technically correct, don’t tell the whole story, not by a long shot. These are the “overall” statistics - these studies break down the population into age groups, income levels, marital status and race. A poor cohabiting teenager using the pill has a failure rate of 48.4%. Over 70% of poor, cohabiting teenagers using condoms, will be pregnant within a year. By contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 6% chance of pregnancy after a year of condom use. This information helps us to tell it like it really is in our Abstinence Education Programs. Check out the source: “Contraceptive Failure Rates: New Estimates From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth,” Haisahn Fu, Jacqueline E. Darroch, Taylor Haas, and Nalini Ranjit, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol 31, No. 2. March/April 1999, pp. 56-63. Let's sharpen our vision and keep getting the message out. Evelyn | | |
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Here are two articles, from Spain and India, about using the pill for the morning after and for “quick and easy” abortions at home, so know one will know about it. The use of the pill is rampant here in Peru too. I hear about case after case. One girl who is 19 has used it 7 times. Another who is 17 has used it 9 times. Anybody can walk into a pharmacy to buy it. What are these girls doing to their bodies and their lives? Let’s renew our vision and reach out to them with a message of abstinence. It works 100% of the time and has no side effects!
Evelyn
Morning-after pill spreading out of control in Spanish schools According to a report in the Spanish daily “La Opinion de la Coruña”, the morning-after pill, approved for use in Spain for emergency only, has spread out of control in schools in the northern Spanish region of Galicia, with some young women taking the drug up to seven times a month. “Doctors are denouncing (the fact) that the pill is being prescribed uncontrollably,” the newspaper reported, and “the practice of turning the post-coital pill into the principal or only contraceptive method is spreading among adolescents” in the region. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=6935
Do-it-yourself abortions
Amrita Singh
[ Saturday, June 10, 2006 11:55:21 pm TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
NEW DELHI: It was just two months into marriage that Gunjan, 21, got pregnant. Uncomfortable with letting either her in-laws or her family know that she had decided not to keep the baby, she opted for a bedroom abortion.
"I wanted to have it in the privacy of my home so I went and bought an abortion pill (Mifepristone or RU-486 as it’s known) from a chemist. But it turned out to be a complete nightmare — both physically and emotionally. Contractions for 10 hours, sweating, screaming and a lot of bleeding.
Her condition became so bad that her husband had to rush Gunjan to a clinic where she spent almost two days under medical supervision. Gunjan isn’t the only one heading to a gynaecologist after a botched up case of abortion.
Ever since the introduction of abortion pills in the country two years ago, do-it-yourself or bedroom abortions have become a popular choice for those who want to end unwanted pregnancies in complete privacy.
But the pill, whose use is now being reviewed by the US Food and Drug Administration, is sold over-the-counter at most chemists even though this is prohibited under the law. Just hand over double its cost and get the medication, no questions asked.
Contra-contraception – NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
4 May 2006
Do you ever get the idea that we are in a battle? Babies are being aborted daily all around us, and people are lost without hope. The good news is that we are making progress! For the last few days that I have been in counseling at the New Life Prenatal Center in Lima I have witnessed the amazing changes as girls decide to keep their babies and prepare for being mothers. I opened my Bible and witnessed two desperate women, ready to take their own lives, turn to God for hope, help and salvation. God is changing lives.
The end of May I was busy with training seminars for 2 new pregnancy care centers here in Peru. We trained more than 20 new volunteers for the soon to open Prenatal Center “The Rock” in José Gálvez, to the south of Lima. Then I flew to the northern city of Chiclayo and trained 10 new and 20 continuing volunteers for the New Hope Prenatal Center that opened their doors in November. The ministry is expanding all over Peru and the world. But there is still a great need as seen in the following news I’ve picked up from around the world.
Let’s keep our vision sharp and keep working!
Evelyn | | |
| New centers in Peru!4 May 2006
Do you ever get the idea that we are in a battle? Babies are being aborted daily all around us, and people are lost without hope. The good news is that we are making progress! For the last few days that I have been in counseling at the New Life Prenatal Center in Lima I have witnessed the amazing changes as girls decide to keep their babies and prepare for being mothers. I opened my Bible and witnessed two desperate women, ready to take their own lives, turn to God for hope, help and salvation. God is changing lives.
The end of May I was busy with training seminars for 2 new pregnancy care centers here in Peru. We trained more than 20 new volunteers for the soon to open Prenatal Center “The Rock” in José Gálvez, to the south of Lima. Then I flew to the northern city of Chiclayo and trained 10 new and 20 continuing volunteers for the New Hope Prenatal Center that opened their doors in November. The ministry is expanding all over Peru and the world. But there is still a great need as seen in the following news I’ve picked up from around the world.
Let’s keep our vision sharp and keep working!
Evelyn
International Pro-Life News Report
Tuesday, 2 May 2006
Singapore Fighting Underpopulation Problems As Abortion Widely Available
Singapore, Singapore (LifeNews.com) -- As abortion and contraception became widely available in this tiny but influential Asian nation, the country's fertility rates have gone down and it now faces an underpopulation problem. The fertility rate, which was as high as six in the late 1950s, fell to 1.83 in 1990, and as low as 1.24 in 2004. With just 4.4 million people, Singapore cannot afford to see its population shrink as that could affect its labor market and talent pool, as well as the more sensitive issue of racial mix. Dating programs and some financial and child care incentives don't seem to be working. Alarmed by the still-plunging fertility rate, the government has increased its financial incentives to encourage bigger families, amounting to cash gifts of $1,889 for the first child and savings of up to $12,000 each for the third and fourth child.
India Doctors Arrested for Performing an Abortion Without Woman's Consent
Burail, India (LifeNews.com) -- Two Indian doctors have been arrested for allegedly performing an abortion on a woman without her consent. The woman is now in a critical condition after the abortion was botched. Dr. Ajit Singh and his wife, Dr. Kamlesh, have been arrested. The police said a man who works as an electrician took her pregnant wife to the doctors, who later accompanied the couple to the hospital after the abortion went awry. When told the husband planned to press charges, the doctors fled. The woman issued a statement to a local judge and said that the doctors did not obtain her consent before the abortion and did not follow proper medical techniques.
Cifras Preocupantes
Según la Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (ENDES), el año 2003 el 13% de las adolescentes de 10 a 19 años ya eran madres o estaban embarazas. Ese año, se produjeron 60 mil partos de adolescentes menores de 20 años, y el 15.7% de las muertes maternas se dieron entre adolescentes. La mortalidad entre los hijos de madres adolescentes es 26% mayor que el promedio general. El embarazo adolescente es una causa importante de abandono escolar, exclusión social, y un factor de reproducción de la pobreza.
Los objetivos de esta Campaña impulsada por PROPOLI son informar y sensibilizar a la/os estudiantes de secundaria sobre la importancia de prevenir un embarazo no deseado, promover el ejercicio de sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos de manera responsable, e impulsar y fortalecer redes sociales e interinstitucionales locales para llevar a cabo acciones en favor de la prevención del embarazo adolescente.
Fuente: Campaña por la prevención del embarazo adolescente. María Esther Mogollón /marie@terra.com.pe / prevenciondelembarazoperu@yahoo.es
http://www.mujereshoy.com/secciones/3466.shtml
Philippines Mayor Orders Police to Crackdown on Abortion Pill
Manila’s mayor has ordered Manila Police District to continue to crack down on vendors selling Cytotec, an abortion inducing drug. Manila police this Sunday, seized 1,792 tablets of Cytotec, a prostaglandin compound used as part of the drug regimen in chemical abortions. The regimen, known collectively as RU-486, is illegal in the Philippines and has caused the deaths, not only of unborn children, but in many cases, of the mother as well. The seizure was part of a buy-and-bust operation and was part of a crackdown on illegal distribution of abortifacient drugs ordered last year. Police arrested Manila resident Teresa Lozada, 48, in the bust outside a church. Lozada was known as one of the biggest sources of abortion pills in Manila. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06042601.html | | |
| Pray for India, Vietnam and North KoreaMy heart breaks for the women suffering in countries all over the world. Most of us have no concept of the number of babies killed both before and after birth because of a blatant disregard for the sanctity of life. These news pieces should drive us to prayer for a pro-life ministry established in each country to save the babies and their mothers. Let us sharpen our vision today and pray for India, Vietnam and North Korea.
Evelyn
Buying a bride in India
A cultural preference for sons over daughters has skewed India's sex ratio in places like Haryana. As a result of female feticide, there are about 861 women for every 1,000 men in Haryana, according to the last census. The national average is 927 women to 1,000 men. Since there aren't enough local women to marry, Haryana's men pay touts to bring women for them to marry and to work on their farms. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4862434.stm
Vietnam Abortion Rates Very High, One Woman Dies Every Five Days
Hanoi, Vietnam (LifeNews.com) -- New reports out of Vietnam, where abortion is legal, are showing the number of abortions in the Communist nation is staggeringly high. In addition, one woman dies form a legal abortion in the Asian nation every five days. The local Pioneer newspaper reported on Monday that there are 83 abortions for every 1,000 Vietnamese women of the childbearing age. That compares with a birth rate of only 17 babies born per 1,000 women. The report said each local Vietnamese woman has approximately 2.5 abortions in her lifetime. About one-third to one-half of the abortions performed there are done in small health clinics but women are dying at an alarming rate. Read the complete story.
North Korea Defector Says Disabled Newborn Babies Are Routinely Killed
by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
March 22, 2006
Seoul, South Korea (LifeNews.com) -- A doctor who defected form Communist-controlled North Korea told a human rights panel on Wednesday that few disabled people are living in the Asian nation because physicians kill any newborn babies with physical disabilities shortly after birth.
Ri Kwang-ch told the panel that infanticide of disabled babies is widespread. "There are no people with physical defects in North Korea." According to a Reuters report, Ri said disabled babies were killed in hospitals or homes and quickly buried. He indicated the North Korean government encourages the practice to "purify" its population and get rid of people who are "different."
North Korea has also come under fire for forcing pregnant women to have abortions if they are in prison or have had sexual relations with a Chinese man.
"Prison conditions were harsh and life-threatening, and torture reportedly was common," the report explained. "Pregnant female prisoners reportedly underwent forced abortions, and in other cases babies reportedly were killed upon birth in prisons."
North Korea officials also torture women from China who are fleeing that Asian nation to escape its coercive one-child policy that has resulted in similar forced abortions, forced sterilizations and imprisonment.
The report said prison officials force mothers recently repatriated from China to watch the infanticide of their newly born infants.
"According to defectors who were imprisoned in the 1990s, in cases of live birth, the child was immediately killed," the State Department report revealed. "[T]he reason given for this policy was to prevent the birth of half-Chinese children."
Related web sites:
State Department Report on North Korea - http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41646.htm | | |
| Italy Elections Focus on Abortion as April Polling Date Gets Closer
Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion is an election issue in Italy for the first time in 25 years and politicians there are putting the abortion issue front and center in their campaigns. The elections take place on April 9 and 10 and the results could affect legislation on abortion, trials of the RU 486 abortion drug and the direction of the nation's bioethics laws. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is making a concerted effort to appeal to Catholic voters who take the Church's pro-life views seriously. He's said he's going to abstain from having sex until after the elections. But Romano Prodi's moderate-liberal coalition is using a morality and religious-based message as well to appeal to voters. Both campaigns are making abortion advocates in the European nation worry about the direction of the country. Legalized in 1978, abortion is a central issue and though it is legal it is sometimes difficult for women to have abortions. Doctors in Italy are increasingly opting against performing abortions, according to a BBC News report. The British news agency reported on the case of one woman who wanted an abortion who flew to Spain for it after 10 doctors told her they would not perform it. In addition, a hospital in the city of Bergamo has allowed a local pregnancy help group to set up shop inside and it frequently helps women choose abortion alternatives. Read the complete story.
First India Doctor Jailed Under Law on Showing Unborn Baby's Gender
Haryana, India (LifeNews.com) -- A doctor in India has been jailed after revealing the sex of an unborn child via an ultrasound to officials conducting a sting investigation. This is the first time a physician has been convicted under a new law preventing revealing a baby's gender that is an attempt to stop sex-selection abortions and infanticides of female babies. Dr Anil Sabhani, and his assistant, Kartar Singh, in the northern state of Haryana, will face two years in prison for violating the new law. Local authorities sent fake patients to his clinic after reports surfaced showing he was violating the statute. Indian authorities found that he told one woman patient that she had a girl unborn child. He promised her he would "take care of it" meaning he would perform an abortion. India banned the use of ultrasound to reveal the gender of an unborn baby for non-medical purposes after officials saw the extent of its use to foster abortions and infanticides. Read the complete story.
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