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Embryologic physiology, not legal opinion, should show when life begins

Bernard J Ficarra, M.D, who wrote the book Abortion Analyzed, writes about how life begins at conception:

“A composite, unified, sacrosanct, unanimity of thought as to when life begins can be determined by studying embryologic physiology. Scientifically acknowledged pronouncements should be more acceptable in determining the onset of human life than legal opinion.”

Bernard J Ficarra, M.D. Abortion Analyzed (Laurel, MD: Health Educator Publications, Inc., 1989) 9

Read 40 quotes by scientists and science textbooks proving life begins at conception.

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Mother forces incest victim to have abortion

Ruth, who became an alcoholic after she aborted her baby, describes forcing her teenage daughter to have an abortion years later:

“I continued drinking and my husband took custody of the kids. He got drunk one night, molested my daughter Rosemarie, and got her pregnant. I believed there was a chance the baby would have birth defects, so I used that to justify my insistence that she have an abortion. She didn’t want an abortion so she ran away. We had her picked up and went before a judge who agreed with me that an abortion would be the best thing under the circumstance. Rosemarie finally relented and had an abortion. Later when she married, she lost three babies due to an incomplete cervix. That was really hard for me because I felt it was more retribution. Because of the abortion and all the alcohol and drugs around her, Rosemarie turned to alcohol and drugs herself… I bought into a lie and convinced myself it wasn’t a baby until it took a breath. That way I could justify my own abortion and forcing my daughter to have one too.”

Kathleen Meikle A River of Tears (2017) 123, 124

16 weeks, this baby could be aborted in any state

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Mother refused to abort for Down syndrome, the test was wrong

A woman on facebook shared this story on 5/21/2017

When my mom was pregnant, the doctors told her that the baby was going to be born with down syndrome, this devastated her. Her and my dad have been trying for years, the doctors suggested an abortion if my mother didn’t want to bring a child with a disability into this world. At first she agreed but later changed her mind bc she she was too attached. 3 weeks later my mom got a call saying the test results were wrong, they accidentally mixed up someone else’s test results with hers.

I was happy, sad and mad. I was happy for my mom but sad for the other family because of this huge mixup and extremely mad at the clinic for screwing up. If my mom would have aborted the baby and received this information afterwards, her whole world would have crumpled down.

Although even disabled babies have a right to live, there are many times where the tests are wrong or, like in this case, a mistake has been made.

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Pro-Choicer: Abortion leads to better sex

Cosmopolitan writer Jill Fillipovac posted the following tweet:

Shared by MICAIAH BILGER “Cosmo Writer Says Abortion is Good Because It Leads to Better Sex” LifeNews MAY 9, 2017

9-10 weeks. A baby like this one is dismembered in every abortion

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Woman has abortion because she wants to go sailing

A woman in a study on abortion said she had an abortion because she wanted to enjoy life with her boyfriend and go sailing. Gail, age 26, said:

“It was really easy to make the decision, just because I didn’t want to be pregnant. I don’t like to stay home and cook and take care of a child; they make me nervous. My boyfriend is a student, and he doesn’t work. We have all these plans about traveling, and different things – going sailing, building a sailboat, and stuff. Maybe in a few years, but not right now, anyway. So, when I did find out that I was pregnant, there was really no decision to be made, you know, it had already been thought out.”

The author said:

“Gail had stated earlier in her interview that the fetus does not become an equal human life until it resembles human form.”

Judith G. Smetana Concepts of Self and Morality: Women’s Reasoning about Abortion (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1982) 74 In reality, a preborn baby looks human as early as 7 weeks after conception. Below you can see a preborn baby at 7 weeks, before and after an abortion:

By 9 weeks, the baby is even more human-like.

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Woman pressured into abortion: “our love turned to dust”

Writer Mary Kenny wrote about a woman whose partner pressured her into an abortion. She says:

“When I said I was pregnant,” wrote one young woman, “It just didn’t seem to register with my lover. “Well, you can get rid of it, can’t you?” He said. I had felt so romantic towards him, so much in love that I thought our love would be forever. With the pregnancy, he turned quite cold towards me. I had the abortion, because that was what he wanted, but now our love has turned to dust and I feel very, very sad.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 69

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Doctor: we can bring almost all women safely through pregnancy

Dr. David Paintin of St. Mary’s Paddington said, 1n 1986:

“We can manage nearly all pregnancies today, medically. That is, if the woman wants to continue it. Of course, if a woman with a chronic condition such as heart disease or diabetes wants a termination, she will immediately qualify on medical grounds. But if she really wants the baby, we can usually bring her through.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 123-124

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Husband insists on abortion, wife regrets it

From a woman who had an abortion:

“I was married: I was married to a man I loved. It’s no good crying poverty to me because I’ve been poor all my life until relatively recently. I knew that his mother would rally round and my mother would rally round, and people would give me things and we would manage. That’s what you do. That’s what life is about.”

But her husband insisted she get an abortion.

“We spoke about it afterwards, when I turned on him in great anger. “I’m glad you’ve been able to go through this with so little apparent knowledge of what you have done [she told him]. You really don’t know what you have asked of me… I am living, and will have to live with, what I have done, and you do not know what I have done.” … I do know that it took me several years to make peace with that one.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 67-68

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Planned Parenthood refused to help me

Summer was unmarried when she found herself pregnant. She recalls:

“The next day, I broke the news to my best friend, who was no stranger to unplanned pregnancies, and I asked her what I should do. She came over immediately and talked to me for a few minutes. She told me I didn’t have to have this baby if I didn’t want to and that it was my right and my choice to end the pregnancy. I had heard that before — seen it on billboards even: “It’s your body, it’s your right!” It sounded like it was supporting women’s rights, and I was in support of women’s rights. So why did it seem so unfathomable to me that it might actually be okay if I ended this pregnancy?

I remember growing up thinking abortion was wrong, but I never fully grasped the concept until I had to face an unplanned pregnancy head on. For a split second, it seemed so clear why women would have an abortion. They could make this all go away without anyone else finding out. But I knew in my heart it was the wrong choice. As a Christian, I knew what God said about the sanctity of life. I fast-forwarded my life in my head, pondering the idea of how killing my own child would haunt me forever…..

the looming problem of not having insurance was something I would have to deal with. So off to Planned Parenthood my friend drove me. The entire time, she babbled on about how they help women who don’t have insurance — even if they want to keep their baby — and that they had all these great programs, and they could help me, too.

I quickly ducked into the Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood office in Colorado Springs behind my friend, hoping no one I knew would see me entering. I hung my head, as tears streamed down my face from feeling so overwhelmed and even ashamed that I was pregnant without a plan. My friend had been “helped” by Planned Parenthood several times and did the talking for me.

She let the lady at the front desk know that I was pregnant and that I was going to keep it. The lady sighed and just said nonchalantly, “Our ultrasound machine is broken, and we don’t know when it’s going to be fixed. We can’t help you if you want to keep the kid.” I just stood there staring at her, wishing she would say something reassuring or nice like how it was great that I was keeping my baby. But all she did next was toss a card across the counter saying I should call the number on it. I grabbed the card, and I ran out of there as fast as I could and hopped in the car.

My fingers fumbled over my phone as I tried to dial the number on the card, but it turned out the number of this other clinic was disconnected. So much for all the help Planned Parenthood was going to give me.

She kept her child, got married, and has no regrets.

Summer Burton “When I was pregnant and scared, Planned Parenthood refused to help me” Live Action News January 24, 2017

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