Pro-choice author says he regrets having his son

Author Brent Elisens, who supports legalized abortion, wrote:

“… Kids are obnoxious, stop loud, obstinate, and because of your votes and professional outrage at everything, you can’t put your hands on them. They’re smart, they know that… I have one son and I regret having him. Not him but having a child at all.”

Brent Elisens The Adoption Option With a Portion of Abortion (2021)

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Pro-choice author: pro-choicers must “humanize” the fetus

A pro-choice author wrote the following in an introduction to her book on abortion, published in 2014:

“I focus on the concerns of women who either have obtained abortions or support women’s ability to choose to do so, and yet regard fetuses as deserving of respect.

This sentiment is increasingly prevalent among the younger pro-choice generation, and it is vital that the pro-choice community defend abortion in a manner that will resonate with them.

Contrary to the worry that doing so will adversely affect abortion rights, the unwillingness to humanize the fetus is turning people away from the pro-choice community.”

Bertha Alvarez Manninen Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Shared Values in the Abortion Debate (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) 6

A human fetus is human, whether pro-choice activists “humanize” him or not. Manninen’s words show that people are ambivalent about abortion and the status of pre-born babies.

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Tests to detect down syndrome lead to two miscarriages for every three Down syndrome babies aborted

An article in The Telegraph said the following:

“Two healthy babies are miscarried for every three Down’s Syndrome babies that are detected and prevented from being born, research has suggested.

The losses are down to the invasive methods used to test for the condition…

The NHS [National Health Service] cites a miscarriage rate of between one and two per cent following the tests, but the researchers, from the charity Down’s Syndrome Education International, point out that only the number of Down’s babies terminated, miscarried or born are recorded, not the number of healthy babies lost….

Although they admit that their ratio is only an estimate, they are backed by a number of independent experts who fear inexperienced practitioners may also be to blame.”

The article also said:

“Professor Kypros Nicolaides, head of the Harris Birthright Centre at King’s College Hospital in south London, said the loss of healthy babies was “completely unacceptable.”

The deaths of babies with Down syndrome through abortion, however, are perfectly acceptable to this doctor.

Aislinn Simpson “Two healthy babies miscarried for every three Down’s Sydrome babies detectedThe Telegraph 16 September 2008

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Researchers suggest denying care to premature babies

Two researchers wrote the following in a medical journal:

“Extremely low birth weight infants who require prolonged, often futile sojourns in neonatal intensive care units or who have poor long-term outcomes have been major consumers of healthcare resources and in some cases a major drain on health maintenance organizations. The allocation of limited resources may in the future mean denying care to some of these infants.”

EWD Young and DK Stevenson “Limiting Treatment for Extremely Premature Low Birth Weight Infants (500 – 750 g)” American Journal of Diseases of Children 1990 144:549

“Poor long-term outcomes” usually translates into a baby having a disability. These researchers suggest letting premature babies die so as not to take up medical resources.

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Two babies- one aborted alive, one born premature

Dr. Ron Paul, Republican politician, told the following story in a campaign commercial:

“I happened to have walked into an operating room where they were doing an abortion on a late pregnancy. They lifted out a small baby that was able to cry and breathe and they put it in a bucket and put it in the corner of the room and pretended it wasn’t there.

I walked down the hallway and a baby was born early — slightly bigger than the baby they put in the bucket and they wanted to save this baby. So they might have had 10 doctors in there doing everything conceivable [to save that baby’s life].

Who are we to decide that we pick and throw one away and pick up and struggle to save the other ones[?] … Unless we resolve this and understand that life is precious and we must protect life, we can’t protect liberty.”

Quoted in Sarah Terzo “Workers share how babies who survive abortions are killed or left to die” Live Action News April 11, 2013

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Pro-Choice author says availability of ultrasound bolstered the pro-life movement

Pro-choice author Rickie Solinger, referring to the fact that the National Right to Life Committee was founded in 1974:

“… By this time, fetal imaging was a routine practice. Being able to “see” and ascribe personhood to the fetus stimulated antiabortion activism.”

Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 16

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Illegal abortionist describes her case

Abortionist Jane E Hodgson challenged the anti-abortion law in Minnesota and became a practicing abortionist after Roe vs. Wade. She committed an illegal abortion so that she could go to court and challenge the laws. Her case was pending when Roe was decided.

Here, Hodgson describes the woman whose illegal abortion she performed to instigate her arrest. Her quote reveals that the woman could have had an abortion despite the law.

“So when Mrs. John Doe, already a mother of three, appeared in my office on April 14, 1970, having contracted German measles during her fourth week of pregnancy, I did not send her to England or Mexico or Montréal. She could have afforded it – but what about future patients who could not?

She could have been aborted here in a local hospital with proper consultations (nothing would have been said) – but what about the next case? And what about respect for law? We both knew we could not dodge the issue.”

Jane E Hodgson “Abortion: The Law and the Reality in 1970” Mayo Alumnus October 1970

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Planned Parenthood VP on causing black babies not to be born

Former Planned Parenthood Federation vice president Naomi Gray on fellow abortion supporters:

“It could then legitimately be said that some white interests are more concerned with causing certain black babies not to get born than they are with the survival of those already born.”

Black Genocide Seen.” New York Times April 16, 1971

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Post-abortive women compares her abortion to rape, turns to alcohol to cope

One post-abortive woman told her story:

“The abortionist and the nurse attendant were cold and unfeeling. Though I was tearful and panicky before and during the procedure, there was no exploration of what I was feeling or experiencing.

The procedure itself was painful as I felt severe pinching and pulling and sharp stabs during the suction abortion. I saw the blood in the tube. I heard the suction interrupted by clumps of tissue. This was emotionally traumatic.

After the abortion, I was changed. My previous sunshiny personality was overtaken by grief. I emotionally flatlined. My child was lost forever.

Prior to the abortion, I had never drank or smoked. I was an A and B student, homecoming queen, served on student council, and marched in the band. I was in a happy two-year relationship with my high school sweetheart.

But after the abortion, we both struggled with anger and guilt over what we had done. Our relationship imploded. I turned to alcohol to help numb my pain and succumbed to a promiscuous lifestyle. I did not feel worthy of dignity after the abortion.

The medical procedure itself felt like a violation. I am not embellishing to say that the abortion I underwent felt like a medical “rape.” The abortionist’s instrument, coupled with the insensitivity, disdain, and lack of respect given to me during the procedure by the medical doctor was a trauma in itself.”

Susan Justice “Retired nurse: Abortion promised an answer, but created trauma in my lifeLive Action News April 30, 2021

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Pro-choice authors admit that the brain of a five week old embryo is a “highly complex structure”

Pro-choice authors Harold J Morowitz and James S Trefil describe brain development in pre-born babies. They are counting from a woman’s last menstrual period, so when they say seven weeks, they mean five weeks from conception (embryonic age):

“At seven weeks, the eye bud is easy to see, and the various bumps and wiggles in the embryo mark places where divisions between different parts of the brain will occur later… At 11 weeks the broad outlines of the familiar human brain are already in place, although a great deal of elaboration is still to come…

All three regions of the brain develop together, and the cells that will give rise to all of them are clearly visible in the four-week embryo… The development of the brain is a smooth continuum, with no place where sharp distinctions can be drawn…

The cells that will eventually be part of the cerebral cortex begin forming in the seven-week embryo… Even at this early stage of development…the brain cannot be thought of as something that is simply a collection of nerve cells. It has a highly complex structure, and it would not function if that structure were not present.”

Harold J Morowitz and James S Trefil The Facts of Life: Science in the Abortion Controversy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) 91 – 92, 100, 101, 117

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