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Crying over 2 lost children

Men often get lost in the abortion debate, they are often depicted as pressuring women into abortions and cold heartedly manipulating them. And in many cases, this is true. But men too can suffer emotional pain and regret because of their partners abortions. Here is one testimony:

“I was a participant in two abortions with my ex-wife… It has been six years since the last abortion, nine since the decision for the first one. Every time I see children of the approximate age of the two lost ones, I cry, no matter where… church, the mall, the park, the library. I want to call their names, Michelle, Danielle, Stephen, William. Their legacy is gone. Their beauty unfinished, nullified by a decision to which I agreed… I have gone from pro-choice to pro-child.”

From an email to the pro-life group Human Life Alliance

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Clinic worker: “I don’t know if we’re going to make it”

“It’s never been this frightening before,” she said. “I don’t know if we’re going to make it.”

Claire Keyes, who works at a Pittsburgh abortion clinic

Sarah Kliff “Roe at 40: ‘It’s never been this frightening before.’ The Washington Post January 14, 2013

The pro-life movement is having more victories than ever before. Maybe, soon babies like the one below will be protected in our country.

8 week old unborn baby – most abortions are done at this time or later

See what he or she looks like after an abortion

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Abortion symposium concludes that human life begins in the womb

From pro-life literature, “Five Ways to Kill an Unborn Child” from the Knights of Columbus:

“The most authoritative scientific conclusion on when human life begins that has been made in recent years, was the conclusion from The First International Conference on Abortion, held in Washington DC, October 1967. Approximately 60 major scientific authorities from the field of medicine, ethics, law and social sciences participated as consultants in this symposium. Carefully chosen for their scientific knowledge and integrity, they presented a cross-section of race, religion, culture, and geographic backgrounds. After several days of “think tank” discussions, the medical group, made up of geneticists, biochemists, physicians, professors, research scientists, etc., came to a near unanimous conclusion (one dissension):

“The majority of our group could find no point in time between the union of sperm and egg, or at least the blastocyst stage, and the birth of the infant at which point we could say that this was not a human life [blastocyst stage occurs approximately one week after fertilization, and would account for twinning]”.… The changes occurring between implantation, the 6 week embryo, six-month fetus, a one week-old child, or mature adult are really stages of development and maturation.”

While some of the members of the panel believe life began before twinning, medical textbooks are unanimous in agreeing that it begins at conception.

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Pro-choice Pastor Roger Paynter on abortion and “God’s will”

Pro-choice Pastor Roger Paynter, in a sermon to his congregation:

“… Abortion is not the automatic breaking of God’s will… In general, we should say that God is against the ending of all life, but that in some tragic circumstances, he understands – even allows – and certainly forgives the choices we have to make.”

Robert M Baird and Stuart E Rosenbaum, editors The Ethics of Abortion, 3^rd edition (Amherst, New York: Prometheus books, 2001) 236

From the remains of a first trimester (10 weeks) abortion. Does this break God’s will?

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“bag of baby parts”

In 1992, the remains of aborted babies were discovered. Instead of incinerating the bodies or sending them to apathology lab, the abortion clinic merely dumped them. The babies ranged in age, some of them up to 5 months old. From the article:

Perfectly formed hands of a baby at 5 months

“Sherri Finik, director of Oklahomans for Choice, a private, nonprofit abortion provider in Tulsa, stressed that the Shawnee incident is “a unique and rare occurrence. It should never have happened. It distresses me that people will not understand that this is not a common occurrence… It makes people question the practices of respectable and professional abortion providers. We would never do anything like what we’ve just seen.”

The Rev. David Monahan, spokesman for the Oklahoma City Catholic Archdiocese:

“The discovery of the fetuses has made the abortion issue “a little more real to us and brought it to our consciousness.

“Especially when I heard the man on television say “I saw little fingers….

Hand of a baby just 12 weeks after conception

“Abortion happens very quietly and out of the way, and we don’t see much evidence of it. We hear the debate going on all the time. This kind of thing brings home what’s happening in our state – how gruesome it is and in my opinion how demoralizing it is.”

Robin James, general manager of KQCV Christian news talk radio:

“The doctor said it was a bag of tissue, but the fisherman said that it was a bag of baby parts – that’s the reality.”

“Foes in Abortion Issue Irate Over Fetal Remains Finding” Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) April 17, 1992

Read of more cases when the bodies of unborn babies have been dumped or discarded in dumpsters

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Expectant father calls love for down syndrome children “a waste”

From a man whose partner was being tested to see if the child she carried had down syndrome or some other disability. He is describing children with down syndrome:

“It’s devastating, it’s a waste, all the love that goes into kids like that.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 134

Sad to say, this attitude is all too common. It is part of why 90% of all women whose babies test positive for down syndrome abort their children. There is, however, a waiting list for adopting down syndrome children. It’s not that these babies are wanted, or that they are invaluable – it’s that their mothers and fathers won’t accept them.

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Women receiving amniocentesis forced to agree to abort by doctors

According to researcher and writer Rayna Rapp:

“In England… three quarters of the obstetricians surveyed in one study replied that they required women to agree in principle to terminate an affected pregnancy before they perform an amniocentesis.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 33

One wonders how the doctors planned to react if the woman broke the “agreement.”

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British reporter goes undercover at abortion clinic, exposes biased “counseling”

From a British reporter who went undercover at an abortion clinic:

Feet at just 7 weeks – most abortions are done at this time or later

“My first call was to Marie Stopes, a nationwide network of sexual health clinics that provide private and NHS abortions. They claim to allow women “access to comprehensive, impartial, and nonjudgmental information” and all counselors are members of B ACP.

On the phone, the operator repeatedly tried to book me in for a medical assessment, the first step to getting an abortion – despite me stressing that I hadn’t yet made up my mind.

I felt bulldozed into starting the termination process and had to insist on having counseling. In real life, a worried woman might have gone along with whatever she was told…

The counseling session took place the next day in Bloomsbury, central London. It cost 80 pounds for just 30 minutes, but would have been free had I been referred by my GP. It quickly became apparent that my counselor, Temi, was quite happy to influence my decisions…

The message seemed very much to be that abortion was the best option. “It goes against our very nature to have an abortion,” she said. “But we do things every day that goes against our very nature.”…

The session came to an abrupt end after 29 minutes and I left not knowing the medical or emotional side effects of abortion. I thanked my lucky stars that I wasn’t scared [and] pregnant for real.”

“Abortion Undercover” Daily Mail, August 30, 2011

As we’ve seen, often abortion clinics try to influence women’s decision and encourage her (and sometimes outright coerce her) into having an abortion. Read about how this happens in America.

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Abortion clinics “overbooked” to guard against “loss of revenues”

From one pro-choice author, who spend time observing at an abortion clinic an interview and clinic workers:

“Like many other nonprofit clinics, Urban [the name the author gave to the clinic discussed in her book] typically overbooked clients, especially at peak hours, to guard against the loss of revenues that would result from too many no shows. This meant, for counselors, a never-ending stream of clients in the waiting room…The clinic had to make the most efficient use of medical personnel, the highest-paid workers in the clinic, for financial reasons and for courtesy.”

Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 83

There are 2 things to take away from this quote. One, that clinics expect a certain percentage of women not show up. This shows that many women are ambivalent about having an abortion even after they make the appointment. The other is that it’s obviously hard to provide quality health care to women when there is such a high patient load. One can wonder how this compromises the quality of care at abortion clinics.

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NARAL on justice Samuel Alito and contraception

Some spin from NARAL:

Justice Samuel Alito wrote:

“What, for example, is the objection to informing a woman that certain methods of birth control are “abortifacients,” i.e., that they do not prevent fertilization but terminate the development of the fetus after conception? Why cannot the State of Illinois require that this information be provided to patients, in the doctor’s own words, so that women for whom the difference is morally significant can make an informal choice? Would a court hesitate for a moment before upholding government’s authority to require that patients be informed about the operation of any other drug or medical device?”

NARAL’s Nancy Keenan responded by saying:

“Alito’s memo is a litany of legal strategies designed to undermine women’s reproductive health. He even confuses birth control with abortion and advocates additional restrictions on women’s access to contraception.”

Washington Post (Campaign for the Supreme Court)

Cited in “This will keep them howling for at least a week” Pro-Life Blogs (Originally from jinvinjeohsophat) December 1, 2005

So apparently even informing women about all the scientific details concerning birth control is “anti-choice” and “interferes with women’s access to contraception.” NARAL opposes giving women information about contraceptives just like they oppose giving women information about abortion. Anything that might make a woman question whether certain forms of birth control birth control or abortion is right for her must be stifled.

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