From a woman who aborted a down syndrome baby – she expresses negative feelings towards a woman who asked her when she was going for the “abortion”.
“The truth was, until I heard the word “abortion,” it hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually having one.
I was, of course. But we’d been using euphemisms for days, ever since my doctor called to say my amniocentesis results “weren’t good.”we’d say “when we go to the hospital” or “the appointment” or “after procedure, we can try again….
I’m quite certain that I made the right choice for the three of us. [Her, her husband, and the unborn baby]”
The woman maintains that she made the best decision for her baby, who was a boy. Since Down Syndrome is not detectable until 16 weeks or so, the baby was at least 16 weeks old when she had her abortion. At this stage, abortion is done by D&E, where the baby is torn apart with forceps, the doctor first extracting an arm, leg, etc. Read more about D&E abortions here. And watch a video of the procedure here.
It is interesting to note the distortion of language that takes place to justify the killing, and the brutal killing, of the baby.it reminds me of this quote by a Nazi.
Hermann Pfanmuller, who ran a hospital for the disabled and decided which of his patients would die in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, declared that he:
“worked… solely in the interest of the patients in [his] care.”
Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance: Euthanasia in Germany 1900 – 1945 (New York: Cambridge University press, 1994) 129
and
One Holocaust scholar observed that, after poring through thousands of Nazi documents, he happened upon the word “killing” only once – in an edict concerning dogs.
Raul Hilberg, the Destruction of the European Jews (New York: Holmes & Meiers, 1985), volume 3, 1016
Nazi quotes from James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999)
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