“The majority of women who abort do so because they know that the unwelcome child, born of constraint or misfortune, will be wounded in some unacceptable way. As Artemis might kill a wounded animal rather than allow it to limp along miserably, so a mother wishes to spare the child painful destiny.”
Ginette Paris, the Sacrament of Abortion (translated by Joanna Mott) (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1992) 146 – 147
abortion at 10 weeks- justified to save the baby pain?
Frances Kissling, President and CEO, Catholics for a Free Choice:
“I agree that the way in which the arguments for legal abortion have been made include this inability to publicly deal with the fact that abortion takes a life.”
“The existence of a safe, surgical, legal abortion is often a genuine moral blessing, despite a degree of moral ambiguity that needs to be acknowledged.”
Beverly Wildung Harrison
Our Right to Choose: toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon press, 1983) 18 Quoted in Germain Kopaczynski No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1995) 150
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Dr. Joseph Bruner has operated on second trimester unborn babies with spina bifida. According to one article, “to ease the strain Dr. Bruner often talks to the unborn children while he works – to soothe them and keep them quiet, and to let them know what is going on. Sometimes he conveys a message from the parents, “We love you. We are trying our best to help.”
24 weeks – legal to abort in every US state
“Baby Samuel Photo Changes Family for Life” Atlanta Journal-Constitution April 8, 2000, Pro-Life Infonet, April 10, 2000
Yet Dr. Bruner is also an abortionist who kills children with spina bifida. He says this is “an increasingly difficult position to be in. Because we are performing surgery to improve the lifestyle of fetuses who have spina bifida, it is difficult to justify an operation that could also take that life away. As we walk through this minefield, society is going to have to take a good, hard look at itself, because it is untenable to hold both views.”
“Baby Samuel and Mother Doing Well after Fetal Surgery” WorldNetDaily, February 16, 2000
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Abortion rights groups oppose legislation that would require abortion clinics to be regularly inspected and to be licensed. In some states, veterinary clinics are regulated more strictly than abortion clinics and are more subject to inspection.
“Would we like to do it ( inspect abortion clinics) more frequently? Absolutely,But the nursing homes get more inspection because those are federally funded surveys. We have to figure out how to do the clinic inspections with state dollars.”
Don Williamson, Alabama state health officer
Birmingham News, Clinic’s closing renews debate, 5/21/2006
At a 1955 conference on induced abortion held by Planned Parenthood, Dr. Iago Gladston:
“It is of course true that both the person and the situation may be relieved and somewhat ameliorated by the abortion,just as an individual suffering from a gangrenous foot may be relieved by the amputation of the affected member, but I would like to go on record that in numerous instances both the individual and the situation are actually aggravated rather than remedied by the abortion. Bad as the situation was initially, it not infrequently becomes worse after the abortion has taken place.”
Iago Gladston, M.D., at the 1955 conference on induced abortion held by Planned Parenthood. Quoted in Mary Calderone, M.D., Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (editor). Abortion in the United States. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1956. Page 117.
Feminists for life is a pro-life feminist organization that seeks to empower women to choose life for their children. Members of Feminists for Life believe that abortion is often an easy way out for men man who impregnate women and can can escape the responsibility of parenthood, leaving the woman to deal with the emotional physical aftereffects of abortion. They also argue that many women feel coerced into abortions by their life circumstances and are not choosing abortion freely. Finally, they believe that the legalization of abortion allows society to get by without putting policies in place to help mothers – things like availability of daycare, and and end to job discrimination against pregnant women or women with families, etc., because women are expected to simply “choose” abortion. Here are two quotes from the Feminists for Life debate handbook.
“This is not a choice between vanilla and chocolate. This is a choice like “Do you want me to break your arm, or your leg?” This is a choice that says, “Do you want to see your life derailed, see your dreams turn to ashes – or do you want to undergo humiliating, invasive operation and have your own child die?” “Do you want to sacrifice your life plans, or would you rather sacrifice your offspring?” It’s a lousy choice. Women should not be forced into making such a choice. We should be able to keep both mother and child lives and bodies intact.”
Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 15
“If we could limit abortion to only those women who truly decided to have one, with adequate information without unfair and unjust pressures, we could cut the abortion rate dramatically.”
Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 12
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 131
In his textbook on how to do abortions, Abortion Practice, Dr. Warren Hern describes second trimester abortion:
18 weeks
“[at 18 weeks post fertilization age] it can be a significantly more difficult procedure accompanied by unnerving hemorrhage. Forceps use must be sure and relatively rapid. There is frequently not much time for exploring the nuances of different tissue sensations. Grasping and collapsing the calvaria [upper domelike portion of the skull] are often difficult. Stripping the calvaria of soft tissue is sometimes the first step in successful delivery of this part, followed by dislocation of parietal bones… [From 19 to 22 weeks post fertilization age] A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus, since it may be impossible to apply forceps or to do so while avoiding the thinned out cervix.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) PP 153 154 in Stephen Wagner, Common Ground Without Compromise: 25 Questions to Create Dialogue on Abortion. (Signal Hill, CA: Stand to Reason, 2008)76
In a trial about the partial-birth abortion ban, Judge Arnold explains why he feels that a common late-term abortion technique called D&E (dilation and evacuation) where the baby is torn apart with forceps could be mistaken for partial-birth abortion,where the baby is extracted feetfirst and then killed by plunging scissors into the skull and suctioning the brain. Judge Arnold supports the kind of abortion he is describing:
“In a D&E procedure, the physician inserts forceps into the uterus, grasps a part of the fetus, commonly an arm or a leg, and draws that part out of the uterus into the vagina. Using the traction created between the mouth of the cervix and the pull of the forceps, the physician dismembers the fetal part which has been brought into the vagina, and removes it from the woman’s body. The rest of the fetus remains in the uterus while dismemberment occurs, and is often still living…”
Richard Smith “Candor and the Court: The Supreme Court will confront as never before the violent nature of mid-and late-term abortion” America April 1, 2000
Here is the result of this type abortion at 16 weeks – keep in mind that this procedure is legal in every state of the country and is performed hundreds of times a day:
Frances Kissling, President and CEO, Catholics for a Free Choice:
