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Very religious Christian woman comes in for abortion

A clinic worker described one of the women who came to her clinic for an abortion:

“Another [woman coming in for an abortion] who identified herself as Christian, was very active in her church. Before the abortion she said, “I’m in church six days a week, yet here I am.”

She said that her religion forbids abortion, but after a good conversation she said that maybe her church was “too comfortable” in its position against abortion. She thought maybe they needed to examine the aspects of the issue that they were comfortable with.

Even though she was steeped in her religion and its teachings, she knew in her heart that she was making the right choice.”

Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 150

Had this woman gone to a crisis pregnancy center, the counselor would have immediately seen that her ambivalence and religious beliefs were red a flag that indicated that she might have extreme emotional distress after her abortion.

The counselor would be talking about support systems, about getting help from her church in handling the unplanned pregnancy. The counselor would be finding a way that both mother and baby could live.

This also goes to show that even Christian women active in their churches get abortions. Pro-lifers should not assume that just because a woman is Christian, she will never be an abortion patient. Christian women can panic and feel desperate, just like non-christian women.

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Clinic worker is “resentful”

From a nurse who assisted doctors who performed 2nd trimester abortions

‘I used to be intellectually very positive about the subject of abortion, but the part of me that has to do it feels really resentful.'”

Second Trimester Abortion: Perspectives After a Decade of Experience (Berger, Brenner, Keith, eds, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981), in the chapter “Psychological Impact on Patients and Staff,” p. 245.

Those who work at abortion clinics have to see the aftermath of abortion (the aborted children) every day. They sometimes become resentful of their patients, especially those who take abortion lightly

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Sex Selection service gears advertising towards Asian American Community

The book Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War describes how NARAL supported a procedure that would allow sex selection to couples doing IVF. They would check the sex of embryos and only implant the ones of the desired sex. The procedure was pioneered for use when a couple had genetic problems, but it was soon used for sex selection.

“NARAL promoted the postconception technique, known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PDG) as a means of eliminating “inherited diseases” and “genetic defects.” It was already approved for screening out embryos of either sex in families that might pass down a serious inherited disease through that sex. Dr. Norbert Gleicher, chair of a chain of fertility clinics, had a number of clients who didn’t carry such a disease but felt they had too many kids of one sex or not enough of the other. They were willing to pay an extra $3,000 or so to get rid of embryos of the others….Gleicehr took the question to his company’s ethics committee, which concluded that it was not only ethical but also imperative to offer PGD for this purpose. So Gleicher put the question to the ASRM ethics committee. In late September, John Robertson, the committee’s acting chairman, sent Gleicher a letter affirming that the clinic “might ethically offer preimplantation genetic diagnosis for the sake of “gender variety” to a family. Gleicher announced that he would begin selling the service immediately….By July 2002 dozens of clinics were selling PGD in the United States…No law restricted the uses to which PGD could be put. Some doctors casually admitted to helping clients eliminate male or female embryos for nonmedical reasons. “What is medical need?” one clinic operator asked the Los Angeles Times, ”Isn’t the right to happiness and health a part of this?”

William Saletan Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (Berkley: California: University of California Press, 2004) 274-275

A group of feminists sent a letter in protest of the practice

“Nearly concurrent with Robertson’s approval of PDG for sex selection, ads placed by American fertility practitioners offering both pre-and post-conception sex selection have targeted the South Asian community in North America…Those marketing this “service” to South Asians are surely aware that sex selection in India disfavors female children, capitalizing on the strong son preference and overall gender discrimination.”

Nahar Alam et. Al. letter to J Benjamin Younger, MD, 1/15/02

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NARAL Pro-Choice America: pro-lifers are a “threat”

The Ohio National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America) director told the Los Angeles Times,

“no one could have realized that the antichoice people are never going to give up… The average member of the public doesn’t understand significance of the threat that is out there from people like Janet.”

“Janet” refers to pro-life activist Janet L Folger. This quote reveals that pro-abortion groups fear pro-lifers (who they call “anti-choice” and are frustrated that pro-lifers continue to fight for the unborn.

Bob Sipchen “Cause and Effect” Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1997 1 E

Unborn babies (like this one) are the ones really under threat

See pictures of unborn babies aborted at this age

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400 babies saved due to pro-life law, Planned Parenthood unhappy

“That means something like 400 [pregnant women] have had their life substantially disrupted… “It means that 400 real children at the end of those pregnancies are going to be born into families that may have, at very realistic levels, said that, ‘We can’t afford another mouth to feed,’ or ‘I can’t afford child care.’,”

Bryan Howard, president of Planned Parenthood Arizona, on the drop in abortions by 400 after a pro-life law took effect. A law requiring a medical doctor to perform every abortion and meet with the patient 24 hours before the operation to offer her a chance to see the ultrasound.

Jill Stanek “Abortion numbers down in AZ, but Planned Parenthood still does 90%; laments 400 “real children” who may survive”

HOWARD FISCHER “Cause of abortions drop in state disputed” Yuma Sun Oct. 12, 2011

This quote shows that laws offering women the chance to see an ultrasound of their baby reduce the number of abortions and save children’s lives. This is why Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics usually turned the ultrasound away from women and discourage them from seeing the images. Here we see that Planned Parenthood is unhappy about the babies who have been born alive because of the laws. Whether this unhappiness springs from loss of revenue or from anti-child sentiment is unclear.

1sttri_ultra — First trimester 3-D ultrasound

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Abortion clinic tries to take down pro-life billboard

An abortion clinic in Canada has appealed to the govt to get rid of banner saying “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart” and listing phone number where pregnant women can find help to have her baby.

“We wrote letters, we’ve done all kinds of things.”

Leonard Stern “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000

In America, Crisis pregnancy centers that offer similar help are also often under attack by abortion providers.

They do not seem to care that what the billboard says is true (and unborn baby’s heart begins beating at 21 days after conception, before most abortions take place) and that women who call the number will not be prevented from having abortions, but, rather, will be given support if they choose to carry to term

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Advocates for Choice oppose Michigan law showing women pictures

unbornbaby07w-01 — Unborn baby at 7 weeks

When a law in Michigan was proposed allowing women to see pictures of unborn babies before having abortions, pro-choice groups opposed it and successfully defeated that part of the bill, passing only a watered down version. Said one pro-choicer who opposed requiring women to see the pictures:

“To show a picture of a fetus that is very small, making it look huge, is very harassing.”

Carol Misseldine of Lansing Area Advocates for Choice

“Abortion Bill Toned Down” Lansing (Michigan) State Journal March 6, 1992

This pro-choice activist believes that giving a woman information about her pregnancy and unborn child is “harassing” her. Most informed consent laws don’t even require a woman to look at this information, they merely require her to be offered the opportunity to. And yet pro-choice groups oppose them. Shouldn’t a woman have all the facts before she decides? Is it better for a woman to see a picture of an unborn baby after she has had an abortion and been been lied to or been told the baby was just tissue?

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Community Abortion Information and Referral on how to afford an abortion

Community Abortion Information and Referral (CAIR) gives women money that they put towards getting their abortions. They only pays part of the abortion cost. These are the things that the author of this article says she tells women who cannot afford their abortions.

“I had to ask women who weren’t as far along if they could delay their procedure another week or two. I counseled one woman to put a $3,000 procedure on her credit card–even though she was unemployed and had no way of making payments…One woman got a payday loan at a 322 percent annual interest rate. I had to ask women if they had any valuables they could sell to the pawnshop, or if it was possible to put off paying some bills for the month.”

Leela Yellesetty Abortion rights and the ballot box , Socialist worker December 13, 2012

Advising women to drive themselves into poverty in order to avoid giving birth to an unwanted child (who could always be given up for adoption) does not truly help them.

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On the Challenges of Removing Skulls

22wksonogram — sonogram of 22 week old baby- a candidate for this type of abortion

An abortionist describes how hard it is to remove the baby’s skull when doing an abortion.

“When one does a D&E, technically one of the challenges is to remove the fetal skull, partly because it is relatively large, partly because it is relatively calcified, and it is difficult to grasp on occasion.”

Testimony of abortionist Dr Timothy Johnson, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004.

In a second trimester D & E procedure, the baby is decapitated and dismembered. Generally, the head (with the skull) is the last to be removed. Read a doctor’s description of the D & E procedure here.

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