Pro-Choice author Melody Rose, in her book Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States, discusses Republican and Democrat views on abortion. by comparing voting records, she came to the following conclusion:
After examining the voting records of Republicans and Democrats on abortion related legislation between 1994 and 2005, she says that Mathematically, she calculates that the average party unity score (instances of Republicans voting pro-life and Democrats voting pro-choice) was 87% for Republicans and 71% for Democrats—meaning that Republicans more consistently voted pro-life than Democrats voted pro-choice. She makes the point that the Republican Party is more committed to its antiabortion stand in the Democratic Party is committed to the pro-choice platform.
Melody Rose “Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States” (Washington DC: CQ Press) 2007 Table on page 172
Abortion clinic administrator Eileen Diamond, who works at Choice for Women in South Miami, explains why many abortion clinics do not offer RU-486, the abortion pill:
“It’s just not for everybody. It’s not that easy.”
“Many clinics in S. Florida do not offer abortion pill” Miami Herald May 28, 2001
Quoted by Life Dynamics.
RU-486 or the abortion pill causes extreme cramping and heavy bleeding, and many women have had bad experiences with it. Here is more information on RU-486.
An article in the national Catholic Register mentions counselor Heidi Heystek of Kalamazoo, Michigan, of Freedom Ministries, who is active in a post-abortion healing that was started in a prison.
The article says:
“Although statistics are hard to come by, Heystek estimates that up to 70% of women in prison have had a prior abortion.”
“Women Victimized by Abortion Strengthen Pro-Life Viewpoint” Nancy Valko “The National Catholic Register” Sept 13-19 1998
Gerald R Cunha, University of California, took the reproductive tracts from aborted fetuses and transplanted them into mice and performed other experiments using the body parts of aborted children. He explains why he prefers using aborted babies instead of animals for research.
“There are animal models for studying everything we do. It’s likely we won’t learn anything new [by working on animals]. [But] when you get a positive result in a human, you can be sure.”
So many people in the pro-choice side argue that the unborn baby is not human. In reality, scientists and doctors are completely aware that unborn babies are fully human and fully alive.
Suzanne M Rini. Beyond Abortion: a Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation. (Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, 1988) 43
Ever since abortion was legalized, there has been debate over whether or not the bodies of aborted babies can be used for research purposes. In America of 2012, there are laws that govern the use of fetal tissue. These laws prohibit abortion clinics for making money from selling the bodies of aborted babies. However, there are loopholes in the law that allow clinics to make money off the bodies of aborted children under certain circumstances. Go here to learn more.
The following testimony was presented to the US Supreme Court by the Atty. Gen. of Connecticut with his March 14, 1973 petition for rehearing the appeals of Markle v. Abele (72 – 56 and 72 – 730).
Q: Are you a medical doctor?
A: Yes
Q: At any time did you ever observe abortions at Yale – New Haven hospital?
A: Yes.
Q: Would you please tell us what, if anything, you observed?
A: There are two types of abortions that I have witnessed, one is what they call a hysterotomy when the fetus is much bigger and the pregnancy is much more advanced… This fetus is a fairly well formed fetus and has a beating heart, not necessarily breathing but the heart is beating and it is alive at the time it is taken out. This is put in some kind of the container and, of course, after it has been detached from the womb it obviously dies off in time. I don’t particularly witness that moment when they take the last heartbeat, we don’t go into the detail of monitoring that.
picture of a second trimester unborn baby
Q: Can you give any further details as to how the baby appears once the incision is made and from the time it is taken out?
A: The baby appears well formed, it has all its hands and feet and the mouth and ears and the nose and eyes, and all that.
Q: Doctor, can you tell us what movements, if any, you can observe in such a baby?
A: There are a few purposeless movements of the extremities… Without any purpose, they have this sort of gasping action, sort of moving their limbs about, they call it purposeless, there is no purpose for it, it gives you an idea that some of the musculature is already developed.
Q: Are there movements at the time it is put in a container? [After the umbilical cord is cut]
A: Yes…
Q: Was there a case where some type of surgical procedure was performed on a baby after induced abortion?
A: I did not actually observe the operation itself.
Q: Can you tell us anything about it, to the extent that you know?
A: A baby was aborted by hysterotomy. Then it was taken to another room with a medical student.
Q: Do you know why it was taken out of the room?
A: Well, they wanted to get something out of it.
Q: How did you know they were trying to get something out of it?
A: That’s what they said. I just overheard it. They were going to get some kind of abdominal organ, I think it was the liver. I was not very sure.
Q: You overheard this from whom, a nurse?
A: From the doctor.
Q: Was this the doctor that was presumably going to take this liver or whatever it was?
A: Yes, and the obstetrician that was performing the operation.
Q: When it was taken out of the room, did it have any movements?
A: It had some movements.
Q: Were there any excretions at all?
A: Excretions, urine, yes.
Q: Can you describe how the medical student appeared when he returned?
A: He was sort of pale. He said he felt sort of sick in his stomach. That’s why he left the room and went back to the operating room where I was.
Q: Do you recall what, if anything, the medical student said?
A: He just said he couldn’t stand it.
Q: Do you know whether or not this baby was given any anesthesia when the operation was done?
A: I don’t think so…
Suzanne M Rini. Beyond Abortion: a Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation. (Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, 1988) pages 76 to 78
Secretary of health Kathleen Sebelius encountered pro-life protesters with pictures of aborted babies when she attended a fundraiser for NARAL Pro-Choice America (the fund raiser was also for Obama) Her only reaction to the signs depicting the torn apart bodies of the babies she supports killing was:
“[Abortion] hasn’t had any effect on me at all. Really. I don’t look on an abortion in a strange way. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a male, but when I leave here I don’t feel worried, as if I’ve done something wrong. It’s like any other type of surgery, I just consider it a job. I once did say to myself, “Gee, suppose I’d one day have a dream and see thousands of fetuses running after me.” I just think it’s because we were talking about abortions and how it’s in the dark, you know. People still sometimes feel kinda funny about it. They don’t want openly speak about it ….I feel funny sometimes taking on a fetus by D&C even, when you can see the heart beating. Even with D&C’s you get these feelings that you are doing something wrong. Especially when you see arms and legs coming out. It comes out in so many pieces. We had nurses that couldn’t adjust to this type of work. Many of them quit.”
10 week unborn baby, typical age for abortions
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc) 1976 236 – 237
Pro-Choice author Roger Rosenblatt said, in his book on abortion called Life Itself:
“I would be perfectly willing to concede that life begins at conception, yet I would still advocate a system in which the killing of an unborn child is preferable to forcing an unwilling mother to give birth.”
Roger Rosenblatt. Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind (New York: Random House, 1992) 10
Is it better to kill this ten week old unborn baby or “force” the mother (who 99% of the time chose the act that created the child) to have her baby?
This is what her ten week old baby would look like if she made the choice to abort. This is what the author is advocating:
