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Mother of baby with down syndrome is asked why she didn’t abort

Tia Marsili has two daughters with down syndrome. With one of them, she learned of the diagnosis in the womb, and chose not to abort. She says:

“My sister looked at me and said, ‘Why didn’t you abort her?’

I said, ‘What? Because we love her, and she’s my baby, and we love her!’ ‘But you knew,’ my sister said. . . . It was pretty shocking. Even people that close to me.”

Fredrick Kunkle “Down Syndrome Families Brought Into Sharp Focus” Washington Post September 14, 2008

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Pregnant abortionist has no qualms

Abortionist Dr. Pratima Gupta wrote about doing abortions while visibly pregnant:

“It was interesting the number of comments I got. I was trying to hide it for a long time wearing bigger scrubs and wearing my white coat really loose and buttoning it over my belly.

But I got to a point where I just couldn’t hide it anymore despite my best efforts and one time I walked into a patient and her partner looked at up at me and said, ‘Dang Dr. Gupta’… it was just something patients often asked and actually even my colleagues and nurses would say, ‘Don’t you find it hard to do abortions right now while you’re pregnant’?”

Dr. Gupta says “no”.

“I looked at is as this was not their time to become a parent and to continue on with their pregnancy but it was the right time for me.”

JO ABI “Dr. Gupta is pregnant. She’s also an abortion provider.” Mama Mia March 11, 2017

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A preborn baby at 3 months kicks and moves

A book for expectant mothers says the following about preborn babies in the third month of pregnancy:

“You cannot feel these movements, but it is kicking, curling its toes up and down, rotating its feet and wrists, clenching and unclenching its fists, pressing its lips together, frowning, and making other facial expressions…There is still plenty of room in the uterus, so the fetus can swoop and undulate in its own enclosed sea.”

Sheila Kitzinger The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth (New York: Knopf, 1982) 65

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Researcher defends doing experiments on living aborted babies

Dr. Peter A. J. Adam, fetal researcher, on experiments using living preborn and aborted babies:

“Whose rights are we going to protect when we’ve already decided the fetus won’t live?”

Medical World News, June 8 1973 p 21

Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984) 108

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Planned Parenthood CEO admits that pro-life activity deters abortion-seekers

The CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western Washington, Chris Charbonneau:

“We know from past experience that these rallies and prayer vigils create barriers that deter our patients.”

Audrey Barrick “Pro-Lifers Fast this Lent Season to End Abortion” The Christian Post February 5, 2008

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Lives Saved by the Hyde Amendment

From the testimony of Genevieve Plaster, MA, Senior Policy Analyst, Charlotte Lozier Institute, before a Congressional Subcommittee:

“… The Guttmacher review…conducted its own literature review on the impact of the Hyde amendment on abortion rates in 2009. Because the decline in abortion was so clear, even the study’s authors were forced to acknowledge that the “best studies found 18 to 37 percent of pregnancies that would’ve ended in Medicaid funded abortion were carried to term when public funding was no longer available.” We then rightly acknowledge that the Medicaid funded births of these individuals are lives saved due to the Hyde amendment.

The study she cites is:

SK Henshaw et al. “Restrictions on Medicaid Funding for Abortions: A Literature Review” Guttmacher Institute, June 2009

“The Ultimate Civil Right: Examining the Hyde Amendment and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act” Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives 114th Congress, Second Session, September 23, 2016 p 13

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Woman gets picture of her ultrasound after abortion

One pro-choice woman told her abortion story:

“When I met my doctor, she did her best to put me at ease. Dr. Woods was happy to talk about how the ‘war on women’ was affecting her practice. By the time she put me in stirrups, I felt righteously indignant. That feeling disappeared pretty fast, right around the time of the transvaginal ultrasound.

I didn’t enjoy being probed with a giant wand, or hearing the 9-week-old fetus’ heartbeat. I had already gone through plenty of soul-searching, and this wasn’t going to change my mind.

I expected to be sedated for the actual abortion, but Dr. Woods only used local anesthesia. While the whole procedure took about 15 minutes, the pain left me blanched and hyperventilating.

When it was done, she gave me a copy of the ultrasound photo: a little curlicue blob against black. She wasn’t required to do this. I didn’t know what to make of it….

Sweat-drenched, I sipped apple juice and lay in the exam room for a bit—but not for too long. Another patient who had traveled miles and miles to be here was waiting for her turn.”

This quote originally appeared in the article “The Waiting is the Hardest Part: A red-state transplant gets a glimpse of the dystopian future of abortion rights” in Tomorrow magazine.

DAVE ANDRUSKO “After a Horribly Painful Abortion, The Doc Gave Her an Ultrasound Photo” LifeNews FEB 10, 2014

Hands of preborn baby at just 7 weeks after conception.

shout your abortion — Abortion at 8 weeks after conception

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Abortion clinic worker wants to make abortion “beautiful and right.”

A woman who works in an abortion clinic says the following in a blog for abortion workers:

“If I could talk to the president about anything, I’d talk to him about abortion. Basically sacred, an instrument all its own. Let it be. We who wish the best for the women having them, who never ever fall short of empathy—let us dwell in it. Let us usher the women having them. Let us make it beautiful and right.”

“Nth Degrees of Abortion” The Abortioneers February 4, 2009

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Pro-Choice activist admits abortion “takes life”

From pro-choice Alexander Sanger, grandson of Margaret Sanger, and International Planned Parenthood Council Chair:

“While abortion opponents argue that the taking of human life is prima facie is evidence that abortion does not serve a biological purpose, I would argue otherwise…

While abortion takes life, it enables life to reproduce itself successfully, not on nature’s terms but on human terms. The unborn child is not just an innocent life.

While it is the epitome of human destiny and the greatest potential joy that humanity can create, it is also a liability, a threat, and a danger to the mother and to the other members of its family. In order to survive, humanity has necessarily taken preborn life to preserve other life all throughout its evolutionary history.”

Alexander Sanger Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21^st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2004) 261

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