RU486 maker Edouard Sakiz says of the abortion procedure,
“RU486 is not at all easy to use… a woman has to ‘live’ with her abortion for a least a week….It’s an appalling psychological ordeal.”
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From the author of the article:
“During the first five years of RU486 use in the United States, almost 900 complications were reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These included hemorrhaging, transfusions and emergency surgeries. Complications from RU486 have killed at least 10 girls due to hemorrhaging, infections, rupture of ectopic pregnancy or heart attacks.”
Gayle Atteberry “’Abortion pill’ not an easy solution to unplanned pregnancy” The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)March 6, 2010
On a pro-choice site for clinic workers, a worker told the following story:
“Last week, a recent immigrant from an Asian country (I won’t say which) came to our clinic for an abortion. I was the abortion counselor that day. She was in her second trimester and wanted to know if we could figure out the sex of the fetus. This isn’t a completely strange question, but I don’t get asked that often.
Because she was less than 18 weeks and because we don’t perform diagnostic ultrasounds, I explained we wouldn’t be able to identify the sex. I let her know that usually diagnostic ultrasounds to determine the sex are done between 18-22 weeks and that if she had a physician/midwife, she could schedule an ultrasound with them at that time (as it is standard practice).
She wasn’t willing to wait at least another month to have an abortion. You know the drill: she’d have to travel out of state; the cost would be much higher; she’d have to spend time away from home; someone would have to watch her small daughter while she left the area (and explain why she needed a babysitter); and her husband would have to get a lot of time off work.
We don’t ask patients why they want to have an abortion. Really, it’s none of our business. Still, lots of women offer their reasons when we ask if they’re sure of their decision, if they have support, etc.
The woman from last week calmly offered she didn’t want to have a girl.
Look, I’m about as pro-choice as they come. As long as it is a patient’s own decision to have an abortion, I’m cool with it regardless of the circumstances or gestation. I’ll admit though, it took me a slight second to register what the patient was telling me. My brain hitched.
I nodded at her and she explained herself, though she didn’t owe me any explanation at all.
In her country (like in many), girls do not have as many opportunities as boys and are considered a burden. She and her family plan to go back to their country soon and they wouldn’t be able to afford another girl (it costs a lot of money to have girls marry/dowries).
There’s been some national controversy about this (like, in May); even the pro-choicers didn’t want to really talk about sex selection abortion occurring. The reality is, though: it does.”
“Sex Selection” The Abortioneers Blog August 16, 2012
“No one is entitled to turn a personal opinion about when a private medical procedure is ethical and when it isn’t into a law that interferes with a decision made between a provider and patient. For many women, an abortion is exactly what they need, and all they need…I’m not convinced that even if they do understand the real and complex reasons behind a woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy, anti-choicers will see how heartless and fantasy-based their belief system is.”
Emily Douglas “Does it Matter why Women Have Abortions?” The Nation Aug 21, 2012
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Breedlove was the director of a for-profit abortion clinic in Dallas which did late-term abortions. She was the clinic director for two years before her pro-life conversion
“I called myself the administrator, but I was a 22-year-old LVN [Licensed Vocational Nurse] with no experience at all. My counselors were not trained as counselors. They were high-school graduates with no type of counseling degree at all. I would call them counselors. We gave the girls no alternative choices when I first started doing this…. On a typical day 20 girls were rushed though. It was almost like a factory line. They were just pushed through one at a time. They were given no personal attention …. A good doctor could do a suction abortion in three minutes. … [The women] were sent home and told to come back in two weeks. When they came back all we did was a urine test to make sure they were not still pregnant. The doctor would walk in and say, ‘Good news, you are not still pregnant,’ and then walk out without ever examining her.”
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legs of a fetus/unborn baby at 11 weeks
The products of conception room: (POC)
“You would just look in the buckets and see arms and legs. I have horrible dreams about that now. It was something you would see in a scary movie.”
According to the author of the article:
“Some of the nine clinic workers actually refused ever to go back there. When Miss Breedlove would ask them to go measure a dead baby’s foot, a standard procedure, some would reply with a flat – no.”
foot of a fetus/unborn baby at 12 weeks
Mark Gabriel was a pro-life protester who was frequently thrown in jail:
“Around January I noticed a definite change,” [Breedlove] she says. Mark and other protesters started asking her to pray with them; something clicked in her and she started talking with them. “They would show me a lot of love. What I used to think was hate was actually love; they would be out there praying for me.”
“Every day I would go in the clinic and hear the same thing over and over again, and I started thinking about what they were saying; questioning my own self.”
She became friends with the protesters. Around this time, she started talking women out of having abortions at her clinic. She would show them the ultrasound and discuss with them the option of having the baby. She had not done this before.
“She started asking women to take a look at the screen with her. “You don’t want to abort this. C’mon, I have some people who will help you “ At that point she would walk them outside and introduce them to the protesters, who would take them to a nearby crisis pregnancy center.”
Partly due to the business lost due to Breedlove’s new attitude, the clinic went bankrupt.
Joe Maxwell with Roy Maynard in Dallas,“Driving Miss Norma“WORLD, August 26/September 2, 1995 – Volume 10 – Number 15
Facts about unborn babies and their development have been known for many years. From a medical textbook from 1945:
“Our own repeated observation of a large group of fetal infants. . . left us with no doubt that psychologically they were individuals. Just as no two looked alike, so no two behaved precisely alike. . . . These were genuine individual differences, already prophetic of the diversity which distinguishes the human family.”
Arnold Gesell, The Embryology of Behavior (1945), cited by Heffernan, “Early Biography of Everyman,” pp. 17, 18.
Quoted in John Jefferson Davis, Ph.D0 Abortion and the Christian: What Every Believer Should Know (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1984)
When a woman came to an abortion clinic contemplating having her baby killed, she expressed her concerns about her relationship with God. A very religious woman, she was worried that God would disapprove of her abortion. She had conflicts in her relationship with her partner, who was very much against the abortion. She also had issues with her career – she wanted to be a teacher, and the baby would stand in the way of her advancement. According to the counselor:
“We talked a great deal about her religious beliefs and her relationship with God. I – no biblical scholar – reminded her of the biblical passage about how nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God.” (Romans 8, it turns out.) Finally, she sat up straighter and said, “God is still with me, I know that! I’m not going to let anyone convince me otherwise!”
She went through with her abortion.
“Bon” and “Lou” “Abortion Clinic Days, in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 148-149
From an author who observed it a busy abortion clinic:
unborn baby at seven weeks – the vast majority of abortions happen at this stage or later
“The core of the pro-choice trench [the escorts] belongs to young student volunteers from “Cutler College”… They jokingly call themselves the “Cheerleaders of Death”… They erupt in laughter about the nickname, and talk about getting black cheerleading uniforms (with skulls) and learning “death cheers.”
James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 53
Kathryn MacKinnon, law professor known for effort to combat pornography and sexual harassment, on the 1975 case legalizing abortion on demand:
“Sex doesn’t look a whole lot like freedom when it appears normaltively less costly for women to risk an undesired, often painful, traumatic, dangerous, sometimes illegal, and potentially life-threatening procedure than to protect themselves in advance. Yet abortion policy has never been explicitly approached in the context of how women get pregnant, that is, as a consequence of intercourse under conditions of gender inequality: that is, as an issue of forced sex.”
Dr. Charlotte Denman Lozier was one of the first women physicians in United States. She was active in the fight to win women equal rights in the 1800s.
In Susan B Anthony’s newspaper, The Revolution, December 2, 1869
“Dr. Charlotte Lozier of 323 W. 34th St., of this city [New York], was applied to last week by man pretending to be from South Carolina, by the name, Moran, as he also pretended, to procure an abortion on a very pretty young girl apparently about 18 years old. The Dr. assured him that he’d come to the wrong place for any such a shameful, revolting, unnatural and unlawful purpose. She proffered to the young woman any assistance in her power to render, at the proper time, and cautioned and counseled her against the fearful act which she and her attendant (whom she called her cousin) proposed. The man becoming quite abusive, instead of appreciating and accepting the Council of the spirit which was proffered, Dr. Lozier caused his arrest under the laws of New York for his inhuman proposition, and he was held and in bail in $1000 per appearance in court.”
20 – 21 of Rachel McNair, Mary Krane Derr, and Linda Naranjo-Hubbl. Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today (New York: Sulzburger & Graham Publishing, Ltd.)
For example, here is a drawing that was given out at abortion clinics – it was put out by the National Abortion Federation, which is an organization of abortion providers. They are aware of the facts of fetal development, they have to be – it is their job to do abortions.
Note – the drawing has been enlarged and is no longer “actual size”
Here is a real picture of an unborn baby at six weeks after conception:
Here is a picture of an unborn baby at nine weeks, from the endowment for human development.
And finally, here is a picture at 12 weeks
Pro-Life sidewalk counselors often offer women literature with accurate pictures of unborn babies and true facts about abortion. Randy Alcorn, pro-life author and activist, tells the following story:
“My wife often used to do sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinics. She offered accurate medical information as well as financial and practical support for women who felt they had no choice but abortion. Routinely clinic workers would take this information out of the woman’s hands or tell them, “It’s a bunch of lies.”
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 207-208
