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In experiment aborted baby lived 5 hours

In the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, there was an article about a baby who was aborted alive and attached to an artificial placenta. The baby lived for 5 hours.

From the article:

“Irregular gasping movements, twice a minute, occurred in the middle of the experiment, but there was no proper respiration. Once the perfusion was stopped, however, the gasping respiratory efforts increased to 8 to 10 per minute. The fetus died 21 minutes after leaving the circuit.”

Geoffrey Chamberlain “An Artificial Placenta: The Development of an Extra-corporeal System for Maintenance of Immature Infants with Respiratory Problems” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 100 (March 1, 1968): 624\

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Pro-Choice author discourages adoption

Miriam Claire, a pro-choice author who wrote a book on adoption, says:

“Unfortunately, a woman who has a baby and elects to adopt it out as opposed to having an abortion has a picture to remember. Too frequently, she will be haunted by doubts about whether she did the right thing adopting her child out. I think it’s better for the woman to terminate the pregnancy early, before there’s anything she can relate to, and get on with her life.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 220

Adoption is an option both mother and baby can live with.

Even early abortion at only 7 weeks is brutal and violent for the baby

From the remains of a 7 week aborted baby

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Study cut hearts out of living preborn children

A study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology consisted of cutting out the hearts of preborn children who were being aborted:

“The hearts were dissected from the fetuses and were mounted in a thermostatically controlled bath….The hearts survived for many hours without any significant change in their spontaneous contraction rate…Electrograms were displayed on a polygraph and served as a basis for determination of the spontaneous heart rate.”

Bela A Resch et al. “Comparison of Spontaneous Contraction Rates of In Situ and Isolated Fetal Hearts in Early Pregnancy” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 118 (January 1, 1974): 73-74

William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983)

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Couple tries to connect with “spirit” of baby they want to abort

From Lauren, who had an abortion:

“He and I did a lot of meditation together, trying to connect with the spirit of the child. We told it we really loved it, but soon we were going to ask it to leave.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 60

The baby was not asked to leave, he or she was violently dislodged from the womb and sucked out in pieces.

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Mark Crutcher on “likeable” pro-lifers

Pro-life activist Mark Crutcher told the following anecdote:

“Years ago, I saw a television interview with a man who was asked his opinion on abortion. He said he was conflicted on the issue itself, but that he found the pro-choice people to be more likable than the pro-life people. He went on to say, “So if I have to choose one or the other, I guess I’m pro-choice.”

We are fooling ourselves if we think this man’s attitude is uncommon.”

Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 75-76

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Abortion doctor “scares” women who come in

In an article about an abortionist:

Doc puts his hand on her belly and says, “It’s about as big as a softball, a nice, soft softball.” He is smiling, somewhat rakishly; his voice is soft and furred, almost a caricature of an old doctor’s voice. With his thumb, he examines the woman’s cervix. “Tell me if you feel anything,” he says, but she just looks at the nurse with her wide eyes and nods her head, and says not a word. “Well,” Doc says, “then tell me if you faint or if you die.” Then he gives her a painkiller, “a paracervical block,” with a long needle, and she says “I can feel it; I just don’t want to look.”

“Why-because if you don’t look you won’t know how dreadful it is?” he asks, and, with the injection completed, he leaves the room…..

In truth, Doc scares them, the young women who come to the Ladies Center”

Tom Junod ““THE ABORTIONIST” GQ February 1994

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Women with health problems are having babies safely

Geneticist Sir Alfred William Liley says the following:

Now we have the paradoxical situation that women with the strangest conditions and most serious disorders that you can imagine are having babies – this is the safety of modern obstetrics. … We have women who have never been out of a wheelchair in their lives with their spinal deformities, their spina bifida; women who have heart-valve transplants, or have … steel ball valves –replacing normal heart valves; women who have artificial kidneys; women who have a transplanted kidney, women who have all manner of strange disorders, are having babies to fulfil themselves, and this is … the safety of modern obstetrics. And yet, other women, with little or nothing wrong with them are requesting abortion, a therapeutic abortion … because their child represents an inconvenience or nuisance.

Borowski v. The Attorney General of Canada, Transcript of Evidence and Proceedings at Trial, pages 221-222, Regina, Saskatchewan, May, 1983.

A “therapeutic abortion” is an abortion undertaken because of a health risk to the mother. Many times before the legalization of abortion, doctors used health risks as an excuse for doing an abortion on a woman who did not want her baby. Liley points out that there are very few conditions under which pregnancy is so dangerous for a woman that she must have an abortion.

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Family Planning Perspectives on D&E abortions

An article in Family Planning Perspectives describes D & E abortion:

“[A] physician performing a D&E must deal with the second trimester foetus in an intimate, physical way…ossified parts, such as the skull, must be crushed. The bone fragments must be extracted carefully to avoid tearing the cervix. Reconstruction of the fetal sections after removal from the uterus is necessary to ensure completeness of the abortion procedure”.

“Emotional Impact of D&E vs. Instillation,” Family Planning Perspectives, Nov./Dec., 1977.

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My pregnancy was “a gift” but I had an abortion

From one 29-year old woman who had an abortion:

“My boyfriend and I are thinking about marriage, but we’re really focused on our goals right now… I’m training to be a nurse, and he’s training to be a firefighter. We’ve worked for these goals too hard to lose it right now…

I loved being pregnant… I felt beautiful and different from what I normally feel.… The whole time we both knew that we were going to have an abortion. It wasn’t going to go too far. That’s what made it even more beautiful…

I had numerous dreams that it was a boy, which made it more difficult, because I really want a boy…

My sister’s been trying to get pregnant for years and years. She even offered to take the baby, but that was definitely out of the question… I didn’t want anybody else to bring up our child.…

I think God is okay with it… I always wonder whether on a spiritual level it was right or wrong – will I have to face it when I die?… I have fears I won’t be able to have kids and I think – what if that was my only chance?

Still I don’t look back with regret. I feel good about what we did. I don’t even regret getting pregnant; that in itself was a gift.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 37 – 39

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