They said it.
On infanticide in Tibet:
“Three women I interviewed described how a relative or acquaintance of theirs had delivered a healthy baby, only to have a nurse kill it with a lethal injection in the soft spot on the forehead.”
Catherine Whitney Whose Life? (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991) 191
Share on FacebookGiving the reason why surviving siblings of aborted babies may feel grief and guilt, particularly when the abortion is done after the third or fourth month, researchers said:
“In the presence of prenatal life, young children do not separate the concept of “fetus” from the concept of “baby”. The conceptual difference between the two is a medical and social construct of adults and is not easily understood by children whose approach to the world is concrete.”
Furlong R M, Black R B. Pregnancy Termination for Genetic Indications: the Impact on Families. Social Work in Healthcare 1984, fall; 10 (1): 17 – 34
One researcher said:
“Not all unplanned pregnancies are undesired, nor do they necessarily produce unwanted children. Studies… have suggested that whereas possibly a majority of women who have not first planned to conceive experience feelings of grief or anger when they become pregnant, less than one in five remains disappointed and unaccepting throughout the course of the pregnancy.”
Candida Peterson Should We Have a Baby? (Rigby, Australia, 1982) Quoted in Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 36
Share on FacebookKent Kelly wrote the following back in 1981:
“NOW- The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist group in America supporting abortion on demand. Each year, the number of women killed in their mother’s womb is over five times the number of women in this organization.”
He also gives the following statistics:
“The equivalent to 10 large hospitals full of children is killed every day.
The equivalent of 540 school bus loads of children is killed each week.
The equivalent of all the Jews in Israel is killed each 18 months.”
Kent Kelly Abortion: The American Holocaust (Southern Pines, North Carolina: Calvary Press, 1981) 8, 9
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When pro-abortion activists were fighting to make abortion legal, one argument they tried to use was that women who were denied abortion would kill themselves. Even before Roe V Wade, psychologists granted abortions to women who claimed that their pregnancies would drive them to commit suicide.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist and co-founder of the pro-abortion group NARAL, who later became pro-life, said:
“Women do not kill themselves and never have as a result of being pregnant. Interestingly, when we were pushing abortion – we, meaning the high command of the National Abortion Rights Action League, including myself, (Larry) Lader, (Betty) Friedan, in the late ’60s, we asked the Medical Examiner of New York City to go through his files to discover, to give us a figure on how many women who were pregnant had killed themselves, were suicides as a result merely of being pregnant…The Medical Examiner was unable to give us even one case, one case, where a woman had clearly committed suicide because she was pregnant…this was in New York City – so we were chagrined and never, of course, publicized that finding.”
Testimony before the Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan in the Borowski case (Borowski v. The Attorney General of Canada, Transcript of Evidence and Proceedings at Trial, page 409, Regina Saskatchewan, May, 1983)
Another report found the following fact: In the city of Birmingham, with a population of 1,250,000, there was only one case of suicide of a pregnant woman over a twelve-year period.
Sim and Neisser (“Post-abortion Psychoses: A Report from Two Centers,” in The Psychological Aspects of Abortion, eds. D. Mall and W.F. Watts, University Publications of America, Washington, D.C.,1979)
However, based on two studies using medical records, there is a 6-7 times higher suicide rate for women who have abortions. For teens, it is 10x higher.
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From one study that took place right before Roe v. Wade:
“In a series of 73,000 abortions one woman in every 20 had early complications; one in every 200 had major complications.”
These were legal abortions done in California, New York and several other states where abortion was legal before Roe V. Wade, not “back alley” illegal ones.
Christopher Tietze and Sarah Lewitt “Joint Program for the Study of Abortion (JPSA): Early Medical Complications of Legal Abortion” Studies on Family Planning 3, no. 6, June 1972
Share on FacebookIn the 1970s and 1980s, late term abortions were usually done by saline induction. In this type of abortion, a caustic saline solution was injected into the woman’s uterus, poisoning the child.
It was a slow death. One medical study found:
“The time interval between saline instillation and fetal death has varied from as early as 1 hour to as late as 7 hours, with a mean of 4 hours.”
Robert S Galen et al. “Fetal Pathology and Mechanism of Fetal Death in Saline Induced Abortion: A Study of 143 Gestations and Critical Review of the Literature” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 120 (October 1, 1974):353-354
The baby suffered and struggled for life all that time.
Now most late term abortions (except for really late ones, in the third trimester, which are done by induction) are done by D&E, a much quicker process where the baby is dismembered and pulled out with forceps.
Whether a quick, albeit extremely gruesome death is better for the baby could be considered. But late term abortions still destroy a living human being.
The number of abortions has gone down significantly.
There are now 2000 fewer abortions per day then there were in the early 1990s, despite the fact that the population is 20% higher than it was at that time.
Source:
Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 41
Share on Facebook“Women’s preferences for information and complication seriousness ratings related to elective medical procedures” appears in the August edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Written by Priscilla Coleman, David Reardon, and Matthew Lee, the study of a diverse sample of 187 largely low-income women seeking obstetric and gynecological services found that they overwhelmingly wanted to be informed of all known risks associated with elective procedures in general and with abortion in particular….
The study revealed that 95% of the women surveyed at the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, expressed a desire to be informed of all possible complications associated with elective medical procedures, including abortion. This was found to be true regardless of how common or uncommon the particular complications were.”
“Study Reveals Women Want Information on Abortion Risks” NRL News September 2006, Volume 33, Issue 9
Share on FacebookAn abortion textbook gives statistics on late term D&E abortions:
“At least 125,000 D&E’s are performed annually in the United States, the highest number reported anywhere in the world. This number reflects in part the larger US population compared to that of other countries reporting data as well as a higher rate of abortion overall and of second trimester abortion in particular.”
W Martin Haskell, Thomas R Easterling, E Steve Lichtenberg “Surgical Abortion After the First Trimester” in Maureen Paul, E Steve Lichtenberg, Lynn Borgatta, David Grimes, Philip G Stubblefield A Clinician’s Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion (New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1999) 123
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