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Student decides not to have abortion after seeing pictures of unborn babies

Abortions in America have been declining for years. Could one of the reasons be that pictures of unborn babies in different stages of development are now readily available online, and more people know what an unborn baby looks like?

In an article in the UD Flyer, college student Linda Lanphere describes what led her to have her son instead of having an abortion:

“[Linda] Lanphere, a senior psychology major, is a UD success story. She said she was shocked last March after finding out she was pregnant. After a month of wrestling over whether to keep her baby, give it up for adoption, or abort, she said pictures of the developing fetus presented in her Christian Marriage class finally convinced her to keep her baby.

“I had an appointment made for an abortion,” Lanphere said. “At the time that he was in my womb, he would have been sucking his thumb, so I couldn’t go through with it.”

Sara Moore “Unexpected Responsibilities Change College Life” Flyer News April 7, 1992

unborn baby at only 7 weeks after conception

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Eileen C Marks on men and abortion pain

Columnist Eileen C Marks wrote about the pain some men feel after their partners have abortions:

“There’s a lot of ambivalence for men when they get in touch with their pain. They didn’t have the physical pregnancy, so often they feel they’re not entitled to the feelings of sadness and anger and guilt and loss that women often feel.”

[She talks about a friend, a man whose wife had an abortion]

“He pleaded with her not to have it. He said his parents would raise the child, or they could put it up for adoption. The marriage broke up as a result of the abortion and other issues. He was really devastated by the experience.”

Phil McCombs “Remembering Thomas” The American feminist vol. 5 no. 1, Spring 1998

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Clinic worker: abortionists she works with are “pathological”

From one social worker at an abortion clinic:

“There’s really pathological things in their [the abortion doctors’] involvement with abortion. Like Dr. Rodrigo. He is very sarcastic and really, you know, like goes after people.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 79

Some abortion doctors show hostility towards their patients.

See here.

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Abortion as Birth Control

“Abortion is a necessary back-up to birth control for couples who want to plan their families.”

Ann Furedi, chief executive of the BPAS

BPAS is the UK’s largest provider of abortions, handling around 50,000 a year.

“Most ‘favour right to abortion” BBC News 8 November 2006

Abortion for birth control? At least she’s honest.

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Abortionist compares aborted baby to “a rose pressed in a Bible”

“The New England Journal of medicine featured an article that describes how to abort one twin without destroying the other. Using ultrasound, Dr. Thomas Kerenyi guided a needle through the mother’s abdomen and then punctured the heart of the twin who had been diagnosed as having Down Syndrome. He withdrew approximately 40-50 percent of the infant’s blood, and the baby died. Several months later,the mother gave birth to the survivor and discharged the remains of the dead infant. At a news conference shortly thereafter, Dr. Kerenyi described the corpse as “flat, fragile and paperlike…like a rose that had been pressed in a Bible for five years.” But that was not a rose pressed lovingly in a Bible. It was the remains of an infant.”

Young, Curt, The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know About Abortion, page 99, Moody Press, Chicago, 1984. Quoted in How Are Abortions Performed: Supporting References “Abortion: A Briefing Book for Canadian Legislators” National Public Affairs Office, updated July 2002

unbornbaby12w-legs — Legs of an unborn baby at 12 weeks

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Abortion is like swimming, says Planned Parenthood director

A first-trimester abortion, said Irving S. Rust, director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx, is

“like swimming. It can be sort of boring and kind of monotonous, but unless you’re good at it, you can wind up with some major complications.”

Sandra G. Boodman “The Dearth of Abortion Doctors; Stigma, Low Pay and Lack of Personal Commitment Erode Ranks” The Washington Post April 20, 1993

abort8w5 — Aborted in the first trimester (8 weeks)

Yeah, just like swimming.

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Betty Friedan Calls Disabled Babies “Monsters”

CNBC’s “Hardball” debate on partial birth abortion between Helen Alvare of the National Council of Catholic Bishops and Betty Friedan, well known pro-choice feminist:

Friedan: “How lacking in compassion you are for women’s right to control their bodies! You want to force women to give birth to monsters! How terrible you are.

Alvare: “Calling disabled people “monsters” is hardly a start for a dialogue.”

Keep in mind that many of the babies aborted in the late 2^nd and 3^rd trimester, when partial-birth abortions were performed, are down syndrome children. Classifying these handicapped children (or any handicapped children) as monsters should be deeply offensive to everyone who cares about the disabled.

“News Briefs ”The American Feminist volume 4 number 3, Fall 1997

24weeksonogram — 24 weeks, average age for partial birth abortion

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Babies are “dangerous epidemics” says Planned Parenthood medical director

This quote shows how Planned Parenthood views children. Mary Calderone was Planned Parenthood’s medical director around the time when Planned Parenthood 1st started doing abortions:

“We have yet to beat our public health drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine; we are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though that is the exact truth.”

Mary S Calderon M.D., Medical Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and founder, Sex Education and Information Council the United States, SIECUS newsletter, February – March 1960

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Aborted baby is “removed organ” to be made use of

On the eve of Roe versus Wade, a New York doctor states that in other countries, aborted babies could be experimented on. This is a reason, he believes, to support legalized abortion and fetal research.

“In Mexico and Scandinavia an aborted fetus is an aborted fetus. It can be treated like a removed organ. We might as well make some logical use of it.”

Dr. Kirt Hirschhorn, Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC

Quoted in the National Observer, March 21, 1973 p4; cited in “The Facts of Life,” Life Messengers

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Response to survey on down syndrome children shows contempt and selfishness

Detroit News survey asking women if they would have an abortion if the baby had down syndrome. One respondent said yes:

“Let’s be practical. I am not giving up 80% or more of my life to care for a Down Syndrome baby that will be depend on me through his/her adult life. “Corkey” was lucky and probably the only cast to get ratings to play on the hearts of others. Let me be as upfront as possible……This is the ‘Me’ generation, and with health costs increasing endlessly, who has the money?”

Quoted in the blog JivinJehosephat

Over 95% of all children with down syndrome report being happy, and many parents, find raising these children very rewarding. There is even a waiting list for adopting down syndrome babies

14-wks — 14-week-old baby – down syndrome is not detectable in a baby like this until he or she is at least 4 weeks older

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