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Pro-choice Reverend says baby “has a right not to be born”

Rev. Owens, who is pro-choice, gives his views about abortion:

“There is a spiritual force within a woman when she’s pregnant and people of great spiritual sensitivity have to deal with the reality of that potential life, and a lot of people don’t think there is this kind of subtlety, and when they do, I’m very supportive of them.

Yes, there’s a spiritual issue involved. I take the idea of ending the life of the fetus very, very gravely.

I’m troubled by that, but this doesn’t in any way diminish my conviction that a woman has the right to do that, but I become distressed when people regard pregnancy lightly and ignore the spiritual significance of a pregnancy…

I remember giving a talk, that I thought that one of my roles was to be an advocate for the fetus, and for the fetus’s right not to be born…

In this sense, that I think if I had my druthers I would probably pursue a course which would, as I do advocate verbally, the need for licensing pregnancies, which seems to contradict what I’ve just said, but I don’t think it really does.”

Kristin Luker “Abortion and the Meaning of Life” in Sidney Callahan and Daniel Callahan, eds. Abortion: Understanding Differences (London: Plenum Press, 1984) 41, 43

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Researcher: “medical hazards of abortion are significant”

Thomas Hilgers, MD studied various sources to determine the safety of abortion. Pro-life writer John Ankerberg writes:

After examining “the vast body of the world’s medical literature on the subject” he concluded that “the medical hazards of legally induced abortion are very significant and should be conscientiously weighed.”

W Hilgers, Dennis J Horan Abortion and Social Justice (Thaxton, Virginia: Sun Life, 1980) 58, 77

John Ankerberg The Facts on Abortion (Smashwords Edition 2011)

This is an older quote, but it shows that shortly after abortion’s legalization, the procedure was not as safe as pro-choice activists had claimed it would be.

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Nursing textbook defines embryo as young human

The textbook Nursing and Allied Health defines the embryo as:

“the human young from the time of fertilization of the ovum until the beginning of the third month.”

Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health (Philadelphia: WB Sanders Co., 1978) 2nd edition, 335

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Former abortionist, now pro-life, speaks about ultrasounds

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who did thousands of abortions but is now pro-life:

“Ultrasound technology has been really the apparatus which has put the window in the womb. This was the first time we really could see the baby. Up till that time we never could. I mean, x-rays were static. You couldn’t really use x-rays to prove or disprove much of anything about the fetus. But ultrasound gives us these very clear, precise pictures, allows us to stimulate the child, see how it breathes, see how it moves, see how it swallows, see how it urinates, see how everything happens.

Now, there’s been a new advance in this ultrasound technology which is known as transvaginal sonography. It’s very exciting. [Before] pictures were great, but they don’t compare to these pictures – it’s valuable for very early pregnancies.

We can see the gestational sac – the little sac of the pregnancy at two weeks following fertilization now with transvaginal sonography. [We] can see the heart beginning to beat at around 3 to 3 1/2 weeks now. So this has pushed back or updated a great many of our data about the unborn baby.

And I don’t doubt that there are new technologies coming even now; for example, color ultrasound which is going to give us even clearer, more vivid pictures and increase our knowledge about the unborn patient here.”

Initial transcript, The Ankerberg Theological Research Institute, Is Abortion Justifiable? Televised program, January 1990, 7

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Pro-Choice feminist on the strongest anti-abortion argument

Pro-choice feminist Jane English:

“Antiabortion forces are indeed giving their strongest arguments when they point to the similarities between a fetus and a baby, and when they try to invoke our emotional attachment to and sympathy for the fetus.”

Jane English “Abortion and the Concept of a Person” in Marty Vetterling–Braggin, Frederick A. Elliston, and Jane English, eds., Feminism and Philosophy (Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield Adams, 1977) 410

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Abortionist gives reason why the pro-life movement is successful

Pro-choice activist Judith Arcana, who has performed abortions, gave the reasons why she thinks the pro-life movement has been so successful in the US. This is one of the reasons she mentioned:

“Third, there is science, the technology of pregnancy. People can now make fetuses live, keep them alive outside of a woman’s body, from far earlier in pregnancy than was ever imagined by us, thirty years ago.

Rapid changes in medical technology have changed pregnancy utterly.

We can now watch babies growing, virtually from the beginning of pregnancy, throughout their development; one result of this is that women relate to the fetus quite differently – primarily after the third or fourth month of course…

Judith Arcana ““Feminist politics and abortion in the US,” Psychology and Reproductive Choice

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Margaret Sanger speaks out against charity

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, writes about “defectives” and the “unfit”:

“The most serious charge that can be brought against modern “benevolence” is that it encouraged the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents, and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression. Philanthropy is a gesture characteristic of modern business lavishing upon the unfit the profits extorted from the community at large. Looked at impartially, this compensatory generosity is in its final effect probably more dangerous, more dysgenic, more blighting than the initial practice of profiteering . . .”

Margaret Sanger The Pivot of Civilization (Oxford/New York: Pergamon Press, 1922) 123

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Neonatologist Robin Pierucci on fetal pain

Neonatologist Robin Pierucci talks about fetal pain:

“In the neonatal intensive care unit, I see premature babies at the edge of viability (23-24 weeks’ gestation) react to painful or uncomfortable procedures every day. For example, when you poke them for blood work, the babies wrinkle up their faces, kick their feet, clench their hands into tiny fists, curl their toes, arch their backs and try to wriggle away, or smack at the offending person. Just ask the nurses.

Measurable physiologic responses to noxious stimuli can include elevated heart and respiratory rates. …. Whether they are term or extremely immature, even though they can’t use words, babies in every neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) clearly do not react well to what the adults know are painful procedures….

Because of years at the bedside it makes sense to me that a later-stage fetus would experience the same reactions as prematurely born infants—who would receive anesthesia to prevent pain during and after their surgeries….

Because of how early in gestation I get to meet these tiny people, it is unthinkable to condone someone else literally tearing apart the same person I would attempt to save.”

Dr. Robin Pierucci “Neonatologist: Babies Do Feel Pain In The Womb. I’ve Seen It” The Federalist JANUARY 29, 2018

In many states, abortion is legal at this age.

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Abortion clinic waiting room full of sunlight

Reporter Kate Pickert describes the abortion clinic Red River, which is the only abortion clinic in North Dakota:

“…inside, on the second floor, the waiting room is filled with sunlight. Lush houseplants are perched everywhere, and signs and posters decorate the walls: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. WE TRUST WOMEN. WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN RARELY MAKE HISTORY.”

Kate Pickert “What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They’ve been losing ever since” Time Jan. 14, 2013

Below is a picture of the ugliness that is actually taking place in this clinic. This is an abortion at 10 weeks:

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Older women saw abortion as “heroic” claims pro-choicer

Pro-choice activist Amy Richards, co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation:

“Older women have always been more likely to talk about abortion because for them it was something heroic. Younger women, we don’t have to talk about it. That doesn’t mean we’re ashamed, but it’s the same way I don’t talk about having warts removed.

REBECCA TRAISTER “Morality play” Salon February 9, 2005

Below: preborn baby at 10 weeks – is killing him the same as removing a wart?

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