They said it.
In The New Age Journal, Brenda Petersen wrote the following:
“I approach this abortion as a sacred act of compassion and letting go. Many mothers before me, and grief and with wisdom, have made holy the sacrifice.”
Brenda Petersen, “Moon Times: a Meditation for Spiritual Healing from Abortion” The New Age Journal September/October, 1993 page 65 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
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Singer Madonna describes seeing her unborn baby on the ultrasound for the first time:
“I was stunned when I saw on the ultrasound a tiny, living creature spinning around in my womb. Tap-dancing, I think. Waving its tiny arms around and trying to suck its thumb. I could have sworn I heard it laughing.”
World Magazine, December 1996
Read about Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood clinic director who became pro-life after watching an ultrasound guided abortion.
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Jodia Peters was 16 when she had an abortion. Seven years later, she spoke out in support of Amendment 25, a bill that would require abortion clinics to give information about abortion’s risks, the development of the unborn baby, and abortion alternatives. Women would not be forced to view this information, but it would have to be offered to them. Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups oppose these informed consent laws.
From the author of the article:
“Peters said she had no idea of the possible medical and emotional risks [Of abortion]. Many came true for her. She became severely depressed and had uterine scarring which, five years later, caused the premature birth of her son, Jereth. Now 3, he’s had seizures and faces possible eyesight complications.
Jodia tells her story:
“I think my life would have been different with more information,” she says. “If I had numbers for adoption agencies, or had 24 hours’ notice, maybe I could’ve gotten away from my (family member). But I didn’t know I had any other kind of support.”
Again from the author:
She also wishes she knew what her unborn child looked like at 11 weeks, but she says the ultrasound presented to her by the abortion practitioner was done too quickly. When a doctor showed her Jereth’s ultrasound at the same stage of pregnancy, she clearly saw fingers and toes.
“If I knew, I think I could have stood up to the pressure.”
Jodia Peters says that after the clinic worker obtained her consent for the abortion, the clinic showed her a video on the procedure:
“It showed the instruments they used. I remember the words, ‘gentle suction’ and ‘slight pressure,’ all these rosy words, everything to make me feel good.”
The author continues:
Any feel-good sense vanished when the abortion practitioner entered the room with a brief hello, and quickly began dilating her cervix without taking any time to visit with her.
Right away, she said, “It hurt so bad I wanted to die. I told him to stop. He looked at me and said, ‘I can’t.’ I kicked, tried to get up. The person in there for support was holding me down. I was screaming, crying, kicking, everything.”
She’s still tormented wondering “whether he could have stopped when I told him to.”
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Not until after the abortion was she given a small booklet called “Facts for Abortion Patients.” She recalls reading for the first time about excessive bleeding, possible infection and other dangers and risks associated with abortion. Only then, after reading the book following the abortion, did she learn the name of the abortion practitioner.
One pro-choice activist says the following:
“I am a vegetarian. The killing of sentient, biologically autonomous birds or mammals who have done nothing to me, solely to satisfy a completely unnecessary (and unhealthy) lust for artery-clogging animal fat, is something that I personally consider to be immoral and unethical… even if the embryo is human, it still would not have the right to force the mother to use her body to keep it alive against her will. If the decision to give birth is what she wants, then “life” is a “beautiful choice.” But it is her choice; she cannot legally be forced into it….” [Emphasis in original]
TF Barans “Women’s Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro-Choice Right to Abortion” copyright 1999-2007
Dr. Sidney Laughlin got into trouble for performing abortions in his home and sterilizing his equipment in the dishwasher. Nurse Gayla Ennis, who claimed that she had helped him perform”four or five”abortions, notified authorities who staked out his house, which was across the street from an elementary school.
They found the remains of what officials thought to be a 16 week old aborted baby in his trash. The results of the autopsy on the aborted baby:
“Definitely identifiable human tissue consists of a right and left arm, both of which have been dismembered at the shoulder joint…a portion of the mid body is seen …consisting of the back and buttocks. This specimen contains a definitely identifiable spinal cord with numerous organs of which a kidney is observed. Also present are right and left leg and foot, all having definitively identifiable digits as do the hands.There is a head portion also present which has been macerated and opened and shows no definitive brain, but fragments of what appear to be brain tissue are observed with the remains. … The head has also been dismembered from the remaining portion of the body.”
The nurse claimed that she stopped working with Laughlin after he allegedly aborted a baby at his home that according to her, “looked about 28 weeks”
She told reporters,
“I was shocked and after that one didn’t help him anymore with anything. Sid had a few special instruments that he had special ordered, they were 12 to 14 inches long, had a 1 to 2 inch headwith sharp teeth on the forceps part that he used to break up body parts.”
“Doctor Investigated In Abortion Allegations” Daily Oklahoman 7/15/1992
The state of Minnesota had a parental notification law which was in place in 1981, challenged in 1986, suspended, and then reinstituted.
The number of abortions dropped 34% while the law was in place, the number of pregnancies in the age group dropped 27%
“Impact of MN Parental Notification Law on Abortion and Birth” J. Rogers, et al., American Journal of Public health, March 1991, volume 81, number 3, P294
Perhaps when teenagers realize that abortion is not such an easy option, they are more diligent at using contraception are practicing abstinence. The fact that both the abortion rate and the pregnancy rate went down seems to indicate that when parental consent laws are in place, teens will do more to avoid pregnancy.
Share on FacebookMany women who go to crisis pregnancy centers change their minds about having abortions when they see their baby on the ultrasound screen. Some estimates say that up to 80% of women who see their baby moving on the ultrasound screen choose to give birth rather than have abortions. For this reason, abortion clinics routinely turn the ultrasound machine away from women.
Planned Parenthood another pro-choice organizations vehemently fight laws that would require a woman to see the ultrasound of her baby before an abortion, and even fight laws that would simply give her the option to do so without requiring it.
One pro-choice author, commenting on a proposed law in Louisiana which required a woman to see an ultrasound image of her baby before aborting it, called the ultrasound a “torture weapon.”
Is it really best for women to be kept in the dark about their pregnancies? Any pro-lifer who has listened to postabortion women talk has realized that many of them are traumatized when they are told by clinic workers that their unborn babies are simply collections of cells and then later see a baby on the ultrasound screen, perhaps a subsequent pregnancy. Is it better to keep women in the dark to “protect” them, or to give them all the information about what is going on in their own bodies?
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According to pro-choice activist and author Janet Hadley, sex selection abortions in India are extremely common:
“All over India, there are clinics performing amniocentesis and ultrasound scans, even in districts too poor to afford supplies of clean drinking water. Every day, an estimated 3000 female fetuses are aborted. And there are doctors making a mint.”
Janet Hadley “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press 1996) 88
Despite what pro-choicers often say, sex selection abortions are not confined to India, China, and other countries. Sometimes they happen in the United States.
According to an Indian woman who had an abortion because her fetus was female:
“and I am his wife so I have to give him a son. How can it continue? Maybe I will never have a son? Maybe it is my fault? Only God knows. But what do I have to do? I am so afraid, afraid that my husband will divorce me and take a new wife who will give him sons… He is a man. He has a right to a son.”
V. Roggencamp “Abortion of a Special Kind: Male Sex Selection in India” R. Adritti, RD Klein and ass Minden editors “Test Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood?” (London, England: Pandora 1984)page 272
Pro-Choice feminists have an especially hard time attacking sex selection abortions. The abortion of female unborn babies solely because they are female is obviously a crime against women and a case of misogyny. However, pro-choice feminists have stood beside the argument that abortion is okay for any reason, and that a woman’s motives for having an abortion should not be challenged. Therefore, they have no leg to stand on when they are confronted with abortions that clearly reek of sexism.
Share on FacebookIn an article in Newsweek, author Martha Brant discusses how some clinic directors have decided to dispense with the propaganda and tell women the truth – that abortion kills babies. She mentions that these clinic workers are going to a summit on abortion rights and says:
“Independent abortion clinic directors like Peg Johnston in New York state—who will attend the meeting in D.C.—even use words like “baby” and “killing” because that is what many women who come to her say and feel.
“I’m trying to figure out how I can get [them] through this experience so that [they] can cope,” says Johnston, whose clinic was the target of Operation Rescue protestors and their bloody fetus posters starting in the late 1980s.
Today, Johnston shows her patients their own fetal tissue if they want to see it. “Mostly it’s reassuring. You could say we have our own gory pictures,” she says. Johnston has often been at odds with the pro-choice leadership.”
Martha Brant “Politics of Choice” Newsweek Feb 27, 2006
It is very rare for clinic workers to tell the truth about the unborn baby and about what abortion does to children – see this section where clinic workers described the “counseling” at their clinics
It is not surprising that these clinic workers are “at odds with pro-choice leadership.”
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An article in The Human Life Review quotes judge Lewis Powell describing a woman’s right to an abortion this way:
“The abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus…but also has a right to a dead fetus.”
Hadley Arkes “Slouching Towards Infanticide” The Human Life Review Summer 1998
Calling a fetus, which is an unborn baby, a “growth” shows a remarkable ignorance of biology. An unborn baby is not a growth – here she is a living organism with a heartbeat and circulatory system and DNA that is distinct from the mother. Below is a picture of a sonogram of a “fetus” in the first trimester. Does it look like a growth?
Go here to see a picture of what a “fetus” looks like after an abortion in the first trimester (at 10 weeks)
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