In a 1995 article in Reader’s Digest, a young Chinese doctor describes her experience with a child aborted eight months into pregnancy. The baby was born alive, and:
“As the obstetrician in charge, I had the duty of ensuring that there were no abortion survivors. This meant an injection of 20 mL of iodine or alcohol into the soft spot of the infant’s head. It brings death within minutes.… Next to a garbage pail with the words “Dead Infants” scrawled on the lid was a black plastic garbage bag. It was moving, and cries were coming from the inside…
I had imagined a premature newborn, hovering between life and death. Instead, I found a perfect 4 1/2 pound baby boy, flailing his tiny fists and kicking his feet. His lips were purple from lack of oxygen.
Gently, I cradled his head in one hand and place the fingertips of the other on the soft spot. The skin there felt wonderfully warm, and it pulsed each time he wailed. My heart leapt. This is a life, a person, I thought.”
The doctor tried to save the baby boy, but another staff member later killed him.
Yin Wong, “a Question of Duty,” Reader’s Digest, September 1995: 65 – 70
One might think that such atrocities only take place in countries like China. However, babies are still aborted at this age in America, and many times they are in fact born alive. For some information about babies born alive after abortions in the USA, go here.
This story was taken from the book by James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999). (pgs 172-173)The author goes on to say:
“The Chinese doctor’s experience shows the powerful emotional impact of actually seeing the unborn. As an obstetrician, she knew what a child should look like At eight months after conception. But she did not decide to save the child when she heard how old it was, or even when she heard a cry. It was only when she actually saw and felt the child that she realized she could not kill it.”
Perhaps this explains why seeing the baby on the ultrasound screen is such a powerful experience both for women considering abortion and for abortion providers. Many women have changed their minds about abortions they wanted to have after seeing their child moving and kicking on the ultrasound screen. In addition, there’ve been a number of former abortionist and clinic workers who were converted when they saw a picture of the baby on the ultrasound screen during an abortion. Two of these are Abby Johnson and Joan Appleton.
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