Author: Sarah

Sarah Terzo is a pro-life writer and blogger. She is on the board of The Consistent Life Network and PLAGAL +

“Father of the Fetology” Speaks

Dr. A W Liley, known as the Father of Fetology:

“This then is our picture of the fetus. He does not live in a padded, unchanging cocoon in a state of total sensory deprivation, but in a plastic, reactive structure which buffers and filters, perhaps distorts, but does not eliminate the outside world. Nor is the fetus itself inert and stuporose, but active and responsive.”

A W Liley “The Feotus As a Personality” in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, volume 6 number two (June 1972) 99 – 100

Read about what Dr. Liley says about fetal development here.

Read about when the baby can feel, recognize voices, and dream

Baby at only 84 days old
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10-Year Old Victim of Incest Sent Home from Clinic to Face More Abuse

“It was not an obvious case of child abuse, she came in with her mother. It was legal. It was out front.”

Abortionist Benjamin Graber on why he didn’t report the case of a pregnant 10-year-old to authorities. The girl came in for an abortion, and he performed it on her and send her home. Two years later, the girl’s father was arrested for child molestation.

Kevin Allen, “Doctor May Face Inquiry Unreported Abortion May Have Broken Law” Sun Sentinel Jan 11, 1989

This is yet another case where a young victim of incest was brought the abortion clinic, aborted, and then sent home to deal with more abuse. Abortion is seldom in the best interest of an incest patient, as it disposes of the evidence of the crime and keeps the girl trapped in her dysfunctional family.

 

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Under Oath, Doctor Admits Dismemberment

From testimony in a trial, an abortionist answers a question:

Q. Doctor, when you’re actually performing the removal of the fetus from the uterus, that process usually results in dismemberment of the fetus; is that correct?

A. Usually in my case. Yes, sir.

Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004.

Baby’s legs at 10 weeks. These legs would be ripped off in an abortion at this stage
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Abortionist Dr. Maureen Paul: “I Love My Work”

“I absolutely love my work.”

Dr. Maureen Paul, abortionist who performs, at the time of this writing (17 per day, two days a week)

ELAINE STEPHENS “ABORTION DOCTOR SHOULD CONSIDER HER TERRORISM” Albany Times Union January 26, 1999

unborn baby at 9 weeks

Below: Picture of what a nine week baby  looks like after abortion:

This is the work Dr. Paul loves so much.

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Dr. Angelo, Boston psychiatrist speaks out about aftermath

Dr. E Joanne Angelo, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine and a psychiatrist in private practice in Boston:

“Women who have had abortions… may turn to alcohol or drugs to get to sleep at night or to deaden the pain of their waking hours, or throw themselves into feverish activity in an attempt to forget their sorrow, guilt and shame. Deep feelings of loneliness and emptiness may lead to binge eating, alternating with purging and anorexia, or intense efforts to repair intimate relationships or develop new ones inappropriately, or to an insatiable need to replace lost child at any cost.”

In a Special Word to Women Who Have Had an Abortion (National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington DC, 1999)

Read about the studies about psychological dangers of abortion here.

Read women’s stories of abortion regret here.

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Linda Bird Francke: 71% express negative feelings after abortions

Linda bird Francke interviewed women right after they had their abortions. She found that:

71% expressed some type of negative feeling about their abortion experience.

Keep in mind that she talked to these women as soon as they got off the abortion table. Most post-abortion women claim they feel relief after their abortions. Feelings of guilt and loss usually appear later. The fact that 71% of women were already feeling bad about having an abortion mere minutes after the procedure is very telling.

Linda bird Francke The Ambivalence of Abortion (New York: Random House, 1978)

See studies on abortion’s emotional after-effects here.

Read women’s stories here. 

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Wanted or Unwanted: on how terms change

The late Dr. Barnard Nathanson, abortionist turned pro-life activist, discussed how terms used to describe the unborn baby change based on whether they are a target for abortion or not. Obviously, no one throws “fetus” showers.

“We have moved into a gray world where we change our labels by intent. If the doctor wants to kill off [the unborn baby] (being sure to use the most deadly technique) then [the fetus] becomes an “abortus.” If he wants to preserve it, it is an “immature” or “premature.” In late abortions, if he wants it to die, the operation it is labeled a “hysterotomy”; if he wanted to live, it becomes a “cesarean section.”

Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979)276

A hysterotomy, by the way, is a little used abortion procedure where the mother’s womb is cut open and the baby is removed and allowed to die from prematurity (or sometimes killed by direct action)

Is this 14 week old unborn a wanted “baby” or an unwanted “fetus?”
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On the problems with Roe versus Wade

Justice Blackmun’s former clerk Edward Lazarus, who is now a federal prosecutor:

“What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the constitutional right purportedly interpreted… When Democratic Senators oppose a judicial appointment because of the nominees opposition to Roe, they not only endorsement make a litmus test out of one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era. They practically require that a judicial nominee sign onto logic that is, at best, questionable, and at worst, this disingenuous and results-oriented.”

Edward Lazarus “the Lingering Problems with Roe V Wade, and Why the Recent Senate Hearings on Michael McConnell’s Nomination Only Underlined Them” Findlaw, Thomas Reuters, October 3, 2002

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Pro-choice group encourages women to lie to their friends and family in order to get money for abortion

The National Network of Abortion Funds gives a list of ways that women can come up with money if they can’t afford their abortions. They also advise lying to friends and family members in an attempt to get them to pay for the abortion.

Are there people who might not help me cover the cost of an abortion, but would help me cover other costs? Am I comfortable lying to a friend or family member, telling them that I had an unexpectedly high electric bill or gas bill due to heating or A/C costs?

Fund Abortion Now, can be found at http://fundabortionnow.org/get-help/financial-counseling

A little over 7 weeks. Friends and family of women seeking abortions could be deceived into paying for the destruction of children like this one
From an abortion at 8 weeks
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Oral histories in Australia indicate that illegal abortions were widely available

One researcher commented on illegal abortions which were performed in Australia before the liberalizing of abortion laws:

“Oral histories and memoirs suggest that most women who sought and found abortions had relatively safe operations… Research findings suggest that many or even most women could find a doctor, nurse, or skilled nonmedical provider to perform an “illegal” abortion before the middle of the century.”

Rebecca M Albury Beyond the Slogans: the Politics of Reproduction (St. Leonard’s, NSW Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1999) 7, 13

Legalizing abortion in Australia, like in the US, was not needed because thousands of women were dying from illegal operations. Read about the myth of back alley abortion deaths in America here.

 

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