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Doctor aborts 13 week old unborn baby

In an article about abortionist Dr. William Harrison, the author describes an abortion:

An 18-year-old with braces on her teeth is on the operating table, her head on a plaid pillow, her feet up in stirrups, her arms strapped down at her sides. A pink blanket is draped over her stomach. She’s 13 weeks pregnant, at the very end of the first trimester. She hasn’t told her parents.

A nurse has already given her a local anesthetic, Valium and a drug to dilate her cervix; Harrison prepares to inject Versed, a sedative, in her intravenous line.

The drug will wipe out her memory of everything that happens during the 20 minutes she’s in the operating room. It’s so effective that patients who return for a follow-up exam often don’t recognize Harrison.

The doctor is wearing a black turtleneck, brown slacks and tennis shoes. He snaps his gum as he checks the monitors displaying the patient’s pulse rate and oxygen count.

“This is not going to be nearly as hard as you anticipate,” he tells her.

She smiles wanly. Keeping up a constant patter – he asks about her brothers, her future birth control plans, whether she’s good at tongue twisters – Harrison pulls on sterile gloves.

“How’re you doing up there?” he asks.

“Doing OK.”

“Good girl.”

Harrison glances at an ultrasound screen frozen with an image of the fetus taken moments before. Against the fuzzy black-and-white screen, he sees the curve of a head, the bend of an elbow, the ball of a fist.

“You may feel some cramping while we suction everything out,” Harrison tells the patient.

A moment later, he says: “You’re going to hear a sucking sound.”

The abortion takes two minutes. The patient lies still and quiet, her eyes closed, a few tears rolling down her cheeks. The friend who has accompanied her stands at her side, mutely stroking her arm.

When he’s done, Harrison performs another ultrasound. The screen this time is blank but for the contours of the uterus. “We’ve gotten everything out of there,” he says

Stephanie Simon “Offering Abortion, Rebirth” The Los Angeles Times 29 November 2005

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Another medical (pill) abortion story

One woman tells her story of abortion by pill:

I took my four pills at 2:45. I was fine for about an hour, than the heavy cramping started. This was easily more painful than my recovery from gall bladder surgery which I was pretty suprised about honestly. I took my anti nausea meds before taking the four pills, and then I took a Tylenol with codeine. None of which touched me. I ended up vomiting repeatedly in the bathroom for about 10 minutes. I decided to take a hot bath. This helped a lot at first, I got out of the bathtub and laid on the couch.

About thirty minutes into laying on the couch, I was in agonizing pain, pacing up and down my kitchen, randomly screaming and crying(part of that is probably because I apparently suck at handling pain). This went on until around 7:30. At 7:30 I decided a hot shower might help, I was going nuts with pain at this point and had puked again, I just wanted anything to get rid of the pain. Ten minutes into my shower I had a giant clot of some sort…it was flesh colored and the size of a standard coaster almost. After that I bled a lot and I’m still bleeding, I had one blood clot after that so far. I do feel pretty queasy right now though.

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Abortion provider: selfishness is a virtue

From one abortion worker:

“I think it’s okay to be selfish. I don’t think there’s anything bad about putting yourself first. I don’t mean selfish is in the sense of greediness. I mean thinking clearly about yourself and what is best for you and the world and what you can deal with.… I can list you 1 million reasons why I wouldn’t want to have a kid, and they’re all selfish. But what is the point of being selfless about it? Why have a child that’s not wanted? So I see selfishness as a virtue in making choices for yourself and your life.”

Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 157

most abortions are done at this stage or later

Below: what the baby looks like after an abortion around this age:

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Pro-choice radio talk show host caught on the air saying abortion is “killing a baby”

From pro-life writer Randy Alcorn:

“A radio talk show host told me she was offended that some people called her “pro-abortion” instead of “pro-choice.” I asked her, on the air, “Why don’t you want to be called pro-abortion? Is there something wrong with abortion?” She responded, “Abortion is tough. It’s not like anybody really wants one.” I said, “I don’t get it. What makes it tough? Why wouldn’t someone want an abortion?” She said, suddenly impassioned, “Well, you know, it’s a tough thing to kill your baby!”

The second she said it, she caught herself, but it was too late. In an unguarded moment she’d revealed what she knew, what everyone knows if they’ll only admit it: Abortion is difficult for the same reason it’s wrong—because it’s killing a child.

Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011) 95

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Abortionist: “I hold all life sacred”

From one doctor who performed abortions:

“Strange as it may seem, I routinely murmur “excuse me” before swat a fly. I can’t butcher a chicken without apologizing first. I have grieved for the cat that died beneath the wheels of my car.

Aborted baby at 10 weeks – 40% of abortions are done at this time or later

Yes, I hold all life sacred. But I’m also a pragmatist.… That’s why I performed a small number of abortions when I was in family practice. I never did them without exploring all available options – for both the patient and myself. I also referred a few patients elsewhere for abortions I could do in good conscience.”

Ted Merrill “Abortion: Extreme Views Ignore Reality” Medical Economics, July 15, 1996

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Woman has abortion so she can fit into her wedding dress

An article in the Los Angeles times profiles abortionist Dr. William Harrison, and describe some of his patients. One young woman coming in for an abortion is described this way:

feet of unborn baby at just 7 weeks after conception. Most abortion are done at this time or later

His first patient of the day, Sarah, 23, says it never occurred to her to use birth control, though she has been sexually active for six years. When she became pregnant this fall, Sarah, who works in real estate, was in the midst of planning her wedding. “I don’t think my dress would have fit with a baby in there,” she says.

Stephanie Simon “Offering Abortion, Rebirth” The Los Angeles Times 29 November 2005

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Pro-choicers call adoption “cruel”

Adoption is often portrayed negatively in pro-choice literature. Pro-choice advocates Carole Anderson and Lee Campbell say of adoption,

“The unnecessary separation of mothers and children is a cruel, but regrettably usual, punishment that can last a lifetime.”

Cited by Charmaine Yoest, “Why Is Adoption So Difficult?” Focus on the Family Citizen, 17 December 1990, 10. Quoted by Randy Alcorn.

If adoption is “cruel”and a “punishment” then what is abortion? Abortion result of the tearing apart of an unborn baby like the one below. The picture underneath is that of a child aborted at the same age. We can see clearly that abortion is in fact cruel punishment, not adoption which gives the baby is chance at life and a childless couple or individual a chance to fulfill their dream of becoming parents.

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Conceived in rape: did I have the right to live?

In Randy Alcorn’s book Why Pro-Life?, A person conceived in rape speaks out about how painful it is to hear people justify abortion in cases of rape:

“My mother was raped as a thirteen-year-old. She gave birth to me, then gave me up for adoption. Every time I’ve heard people say abortion is okay in cases of rape, I’ve thought, ‘Then I guess I have no right to live.’ “

Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011) 81

Abortion is not the answer when it comes to rape. Read the testimonies of women who were raped and became pregnant. Read more from people who were conceived in rape.

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Naomi Wolf takes pro-choicers to task for trying to discredit pro-life pictures

Pro-choice groups and individuals often try to discredit the pictures that pro-lifers show of mutilated children who were aborted. Naomi Wolf, a pro-choice feminist, admits that the pictures are real and takes other feminists to task for trying to discredit them:

“To many pro-choice advocates, the imagery is revolting propaganda. There is a sense among us, let us be frank, that the gruesomeness of the imagery belongs to the pro-lifers… that it represents the violence of imaginations that would, given half a chance, turn our world into a scary, repressive place. “People like us” see such material as the pornography of the pro-life movement. But feminism at its best is based on what is simply true…. While images of violent fetal death work magnificently for pro-lifers as political polemic, the pictures are not polemical in themselves: they are biological facts. We know this.”

Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” The New Republic, October 16, 1995

She is referring to pictures like the one below, which shows part of the remains a seven-week-old aborted child. These pictures are difficult to look at, but of one many people over to the pro-life movement. And even pro-choice activists to of seen them and dismiss them cannot deny their effectiveness.

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South Carolina abortions dropped by 53% between 1988 and 2004

Abortions in South Carolina peaked at 14,133 in 1988. In 2004, the number of abortions had dropped to 6,565, a 53% reduction that far exceeds the national decline.

LET COMMON SENSE PREVAIL National Right to Life News June 1, 2008

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