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Salon on fetuses and human life

A pro-choice writer in Salon admits that abortion ends a human life:

“When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born.”

MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS “So what if abortion ends life?” Salon JAN 23, 2013

Yet she still supports killing those fetuses.

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Abortionist: “Abortion has become a commodity”

Late-term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern describes how difficult being in abortionist is:

“Increasingly, doctors have been made to feel irrelevant. Feminist abortion clinics treat doctors like technicians and are especially contemptuous of male physicians. Entrepreneurs who treat abortion strictly as a retail business also tend to treat doctors as technicians. Doctors who perform abortions have usually acquiesced in these roles, and their status has plummeted lower than that of physicians who do insurance company examinations….

Pro-choice organizations often ignore, patronize and disparage the contributions of physicians who specialize in abortions, in contrast with their support for well-known physicians in conventional specialties who perform some abortions.

Abortion has become a commodity, like soap, and its social value has dropped. Competition has become intense and fees have been cut, resulting in reduced income for doctors and others who provide the services as well as poorer treatment.”

Warren Hern “Hunted by the Right, Forgotten by the Left” THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1993

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Human embryologists know life begins at fertilization

“Every human embryologist in the world knows that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization. It is not belief. It is scientific fact.”

Dr. Ward Kischer, Human Embryologist, University of Arizona

Read quotes from embryologist medical textbooks saying life begins at conception

“You Can Stop Injustice” Human Life Alliance Advertising Supplement 2010, 6

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Abortion and playing God

Ridiculous pro-abortion quote of the day:

“If it is a terrible thing to play God by terminating physical life, it is also a terrible thing, in another sense, to play God by imposing as a divine absolute a prohibition that may cause immense suffering to both individuals and society.”

Pro-choice activist

Edward Batchelor, Jr. ed., Abortion: the Moral Issues (New York: Pilgrim, 1982) 109

Apparently, dismembering a baby like the one below in an abortion is playing God, but preventing someone from dismembering the child is playing God… Even more?

Remains left behind after an abortion at nine weeks

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Abortion clinic nurse: abortion is violence

18 wks. Legal to abort in every US state

From an abortion clinic nurse:

“Abortion is the narrowest edge between kindness and cruelty. Done as well as it can be done, it is still violence…”

Sally Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here” Harpers Magazine October 7, 1987

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Medical student on what’s left behind after abortion

Yale Daily News covered the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale (RALY) and the Yale Medical Students for Choice commemoration of Roe v. Wade . The participants simulated doing abortions.

Here’s what one of the organizers—a medical student at Yale named Rasha Khoury—said in the article.

“It’s not as scary as it seems. It’s just blood and mucus,” Khoury said, referring to the fetus remains in the device. She added, “You’ll be able to see arms and stuff, but still just miniscule.” . . .

She also said of the women coming in to have abortions:

“Often times, women are crying and cursing and saying they’re going to hell,” Khoury said. “It may be a quick and easy medical procedure, but it definitely is a very involved social-medical procedure.”…

8 weeks

After pro-lifers started blogging about the quotes, the online version of the article was edited to remove them.

Also from the original article:

Evans and Khoury also explained the finer points of abortion-clinic etiquette, including some potentially sensitive terminology. Khoury said physicians performing abortions generally refer to the aborted fetus remains as “POC,” an acronym for “product of conception,” and refer to fetus’ hearts as “FH.”

“Papaya Abortions” Jill Stanek Jan.28, 2008

Ryan T Anderson “Yale Medical Abortion School” First Things January 28, 2008

John Connolly “Yale Daily News Deletes Article on Abortion-Teaching Presentation” LifeSiteNews Jan 25, 2008

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Student describes seeing baby “struggle against death” after being born alive during abortion

Testimony of a student in midwife school (22 years old, North of France):

“I am a midwife student in my last year, and saw, during an internship in a maternity department of the North of France, a child born alive from an abortion on medical grounds. He was 24 weeks of gestation and the midwife left the child struggling to breathe, by leaving the baby alone on the resuscitation table. He died within 10 minutes, greatly weakened by labor contractions (triggered). We did not check the heart sounds during labor, to “spare” the mother. The midwife told me that in these cases, “it is born dead if he is lucky, otherwise … well … we have no choice … for the parents…” I saw a baby struggle against death, in total indifference to his suffering … A chilling inhumanity … This leads to situations of horror … I saw this at 19, I’m 22, I’ll never forget … I have the desire to become a doctor in order to treat those who no longer have “the right” to be cared for…” I assisted from a distance, because midwives prefer to take care of only the patients in this case, in several abortions on medical grounds between 18 and 24 weeks of gestation, but most children would die as a result of contractions. Here, the term being 23 weeks + 5 days gestation, there was no feticide in accordance with the Protocol: the active gesture of fetal euthanasia, or stopping life with prenatal analgesia. So, I think that the patient had been informed of the likelihood that the child is born alive during the consultation before the abortion; but we have not shown the child to her, occupying her until the time the child dies (“a matter of minutes”). We showed her the baby once it had died. The midwife did not give me figures, but in her speech, it seemed to be recurring for those delicate terms between 18 and 24 weeks of gestation… Not having finished my studies, I still prefer to remain anonymous for a while…”

Grégor Puppinck PhD (Dir.), Claire de La Hougue PhD, Andreea Popescu, Christophe Foltzenlogel “Late Term Abortion & Neonatal Infanticide in Europe” Petition for the Rights of Newborns Surviving Their Abortion ECLJ (European Centre for Law and Justice) June 2015

Although this happened in France, statistics show that 362 children were born alive during abortions between 2001 and 2010 in the US.

(same source)

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Midwife who helped with late term abortions- sometimes they came out alive

Testimony of European midwife Mrs. Siv Bertilsson:

Hello. I have worked 36 years as a midwife in maternity and obstetric care. Now there is a reorganization at the women’s clinic, which means that the late term abortions after week 12 will be performed at the maternity ward. I have during my professional career worked with both gynecology and maternity care. Therefore, I have horrible memories from my time at the gynecology ward where I participated in late term abortions, most around week 16 where the fetus struggled and tried to breathe for 5-15 minutes. Because there are no rules or regulations on what one should do with a fetus that is struggling for life, you leave the fetus to die by itself in a round bowl or a basin. Horribly inhumane, I think. And this is not an unusual event. Approximately 25% in week 16-17 live for a certain time. Now I am reintroduces to this. I had decided to never ever concern myself with this chore. I am now forced to stop working as a midwife? How should I act? And if I’m forced to continue to bring myself to do this again, what do I do with the fetus when it is alive? I read in the Animal Welfare Act how to kill kittens, puppies or other small animals, and there are clear rules for how the killing should be done in a way that does not cause anxiety or pain to the animal…

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Episcopal Bishop Leslie Cadigan gives her reasons for supporting abortion

Episcopal Bishop George Leslie Cadigan:

“It is at once the glory and the burden of each of us that we are called upon to make such difficult personal decisions according to our conscience. When we deny that liberty to any one of our number, we give away a part of our own birthright. When, more specifically, we condemn a woman for making an independent judgment according to her own conscience, relating to her reproductive life, we denigrate her personhood.

The “rightness” or “wrongness” of abortion as the solution of a problem pregnancy is not the critical issue here. The issue is the larger ethical one: can any one of us stand in the role of judge for the personal decisions of others? What robes shall we wear? Greater than the debatable immorality of terminating an undesired pregnancy is the immorality of refusing a woman access to medical help when she has determined that she needs it.”

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 21

So the rightness or wrongness of abortion is not the issue? One would think that if abortion was wrong, it would be wrong because it’s killing of the child. Like the one above, at 9 to 10 weeks. See what a 9 week old baby would look like after an abortion. Killing a child is wrong – wrong in every way – and it should be condemned.

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Aborted baby born alive, left to die in Sweden

Testimony of Mr. Andrea Kischkel, Physician at the Hospital of Gällivare, Sweden, 2014:

“He reported on an abortion, authorized by the Socialstyrelsen, ended at 22 weeks + 3 days at the hospital of Gällivare. Informed shortly before, Dr Kischkel tried to have the mother transferred to the 3rd level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Umeå where neonatologists try to save premature born babies ́ lives from gestational age 22 + 0 weeks. That was refused because it was an abortion. A little girl was born alive on 1st March 2014 at 7:55 pm. The midwives were not allowed to contact the paediatrician on call. Therefore, the child was given no medication, no pain relief although she had been pulled out by vacuum extraction. A midwife swept the baby into warm towels and waited until she had died, nearly half-an-hour later.”

Full report can be found here

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