They said it.
In a textbook on how to do abortions, late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern says the following:
“The signs of fetal life on expulsion and the repugnance of dismemberment plague the alternatives in midtrimester abortion.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990)
Read about babies born alive during abortions here.
Read about the midtrimester D&E procedure, which dismembers a baby, here.
Share on FacebookAccording to “Michelle” who owns an abortion clinic:
“I’ve thought through this issue, to do it as long as I have, and I have to sleep well at night… Is it life? Clearly it’s life. Does it deserve protection? My answer is “no.” The bottom line, you have two competing interests: the mother and the baby (or the embryo or the fertilized egg). And sometime during that nine month gestation, a woman’s rights are going to digress. At that point, I guess, rights can be ascribed to the fetus.”
She knows that “it” is life, and she even uses the term “baby.”
James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 49
Share on FacebookIn The New Age Journal, Brenda Petersen wrote the following:
“I approach this abortion as a sacred act of compassion and letting go. Many mothers before me, and grief and with wisdom, have made holy the sacrifice.”
Brenda Petersen, “Moon Times: a Meditation for Spiritual Healing from Abortion” The New Age Journal September/October, 1993 page 65 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
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Singer Madonna describes seeing her unborn baby on the ultrasound for the first time:
“I was stunned when I saw on the ultrasound a tiny, living creature spinning around in my womb. Tap-dancing, I think. Waving its tiny arms around and trying to suck its thumb. I could have sworn I heard it laughing.”
World Magazine, December 1996
Read about Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood clinic director who became pro-life after watching an ultrasound guided abortion.
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One pro-choice activist says the following:
“I am a vegetarian. The killing of sentient, biologically autonomous birds or mammals who have done nothing to me, solely to satisfy a completely unnecessary (and unhealthy) lust for artery-clogging animal fat, is something that I personally consider to be immoral and unethical… even if the embryo is human, it still would not have the right to force the mother to use her body to keep it alive against her will. If the decision to give birth is what she wants, then “life” is a “beautiful choice.” But it is her choice; she cannot legally be forced into it….” [Emphasis in original]
TF Barans “Women’s Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro-Choice Right to Abortion” copyright 1999-2007
The state of Minnesota had a parental notification law which was in place in 1981, challenged in 1986, suspended, and then reinstituted.
The number of abortions dropped 34% while the law was in place, the number of pregnancies in the age group dropped 27%
“Impact of MN Parental Notification Law on Abortion and Birth” J. Rogers, et al., American Journal of Public health, March 1991, volume 81, number 3, P294
Perhaps when teenagers realize that abortion is not such an easy option, they are more diligent at using contraception are practicing abstinence. The fact that both the abortion rate and the pregnancy rate went down seems to indicate that when parental consent laws are in place, teens will do more to avoid pregnancy.
Share on FacebookMany women who go to crisis pregnancy centers change their minds about having abortions when they see their baby on the ultrasound screen. Some estimates say that up to 80% of women who see their baby moving on the ultrasound screen choose to give birth rather than have abortions. For this reason, abortion clinics routinely turn the ultrasound machine away from women.
Planned Parenthood another pro-choice organizations vehemently fight laws that would require a woman to see the ultrasound of her baby before an abortion, and even fight laws that would simply give her the option to do so without requiring it.
One pro-choice author, commenting on a proposed law in Louisiana which required a woman to see an ultrasound image of her baby before aborting it, called the ultrasound a “torture weapon.”
Is it really best for women to be kept in the dark about their pregnancies? Any pro-lifer who has listened to postabortion women talk has realized that many of them are traumatized when they are told by clinic workers that their unborn babies are simply collections of cells and then later see a baby on the ultrasound screen, perhaps a subsequent pregnancy. Is it better to keep women in the dark to “protect” them, or to give them all the information about what is going on in their own bodies?
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In an article in Newsweek, author Martha Brant discusses how some clinic directors have decided to dispense with the propaganda and tell women the truth – that abortion kills babies. She mentions that these clinic workers are going to a summit on abortion rights and says:
“Independent abortion clinic directors like Peg Johnston in New York state—who will attend the meeting in D.C.—even use words like “baby” and “killing” because that is what many women who come to her say and feel.
“I’m trying to figure out how I can get [them] through this experience so that [they] can cope,” says Johnston, whose clinic was the target of Operation Rescue protestors and their bloody fetus posters starting in the late 1980s.
Today, Johnston shows her patients their own fetal tissue if they want to see it. “Mostly it’s reassuring. You could say we have our own gory pictures,” she says. Johnston has often been at odds with the pro-choice leadership.”
Martha Brant “Politics of Choice” Newsweek Feb 27, 2006
It is very rare for clinic workers to tell the truth about the unborn baby and about what abortion does to children – see this section where clinic workers described the “counseling” at their clinics
It is not surprising that these clinic workers are “at odds with pro-choice leadership.”
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An article in The Human Life Review quotes judge Lewis Powell describing a woman’s right to an abortion this way:
“The abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus…but also has a right to a dead fetus.”
Hadley Arkes “Slouching Towards Infanticide” The Human Life Review Summer 1998
Calling a fetus, which is an unborn baby, a “growth” shows a remarkable ignorance of biology. An unborn baby is not a growth – here she is a living organism with a heartbeat and circulatory system and DNA that is distinct from the mother. Below is a picture of a sonogram of a “fetus” in the first trimester. Does it look like a growth?
Go here to see a picture of what a “fetus” looks like after an abortion in the first trimester (at 10 weeks)
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Abortionist:
“I don’t like to do abortions. To do an abortion is abhorrent to a gynecologist who has spent all his life trying to save the fetus. But, I will do it.”
Katrina Maxtone–Graham, Pregnant by Mistake, (New York: Liveright, 1973) 279 – 280
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