Andrea Brown wanted to have an abortion until she went to the crisis pregnancy center Bowie Crofton Pregnancy Center and Medical Clinic and was given an ultrasound.
“When I had the sonogram and heard the heartbeat – and for me a heartbeat symbolizes life – after that there was no way I could do it.”
NEELA BANERJEE “Church Groups Turn to Sonogram to Turn Women From Abortions” New York Times February 2, 2005
A preborn baby’s heart begins to beat as early as 16 days after conception.
“I’m not taking that life out of anger or cruelty; I’m taking that life for a purpose. I feel like the American Indian did-I’m saying a prayer to that animal: Give me your life so that I can accomplish this purpose, ‘speed thy spirit on to other places’ so that the life that is lost will one day be replaced.”
Pro-choice author Catherine Whitney makes the following ironic statement:
“Each year at least 1 million teenagers are faced with [unplanned pregnancies]. Half of them get abortions…They are truly the youngest victims of the abortion conflict.”
Catherine Whitney Whose Life? (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991) 176
What about these victims?
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Author Camille S. Williams quotes pro-choice writer Maggi Cage saying that women should embrace the destruction of abortion as part of the “sacred act of creating.”
Williams says:
“The sacred act of creating has to do not only with creating, but with destroying as well.” [Cage] commends cultures in which “abortion is viewed as one way of completing the sacred cycle that begins with sexuality,” condemning the squeamish “white Western culture” in which we “don’t want to accept responsibility for our destructive acts or our negative side, so we deny their existence.” She warns that fear of our own “negative side” turns into shame and guilt. Unless “we embrace the totality of life by accepting both creation and destruction as natural parts of the flow of life, we will continue to turn away from our power and be at the mercy of those who will use shame and guilt to control us.”
Maggi Cage in Woman of Power, quoted in Camille S. Williams “Abortion and the Actualized Self” First Things November 1991
An author who interviewed abortionists and nurses who assisted in abortions says:
“Abortion work is not easy. Late-term abortions are horrific. Nurses doing abortions after the first trimester of pregnancy either seem rather distressed by what is going on, or appear rather as cynical and hard. When they are distressed it may be that their caring role and training is still fundamentally at odds with the termination of pregnancy.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 272 – 273
These nurses had to see aborted children on a daily basis.
In an article, in the IrishIndependent, Dr Susan Robinson, who does abortions in the third trimester, comments on how in the state of New Mexico (where she works) there are no restrictions on late term abortions. There are no legal limits on how late in pregnancy they can be done. She can commit abortions all the way up until birth.
She says:
“So there is nothing legal to stop me from doing any abortion that I think is appropriate.”
The article describes how Robinson uses ultrasound to date the ages of babies in the third trimester. However, this is unreliable:
“For pregnancies above 30 weeks Robinson relies on an ultrasound to check the age of the fetus but admits that this notoriously inaccurate method, combined with the often hazy conception dates provided by the women, can produce a window of error of plus or minus three weeks.”
Robinson gives an example:
“Let’s say the woman is at 31 weeks, well, given the inaccuracy of the ultrasound she could perfectly be 34 weeks. How would I feel if that happened?”
She gives an example where this happened:
“Robinson still recalls the shock she felt when she terminated the pregnancy of a fetus she thought was approximately 32 weeks. But when she saw the aborted body she realised that it was more like 37 weeks. She was devastated. “It was quite a moment,” she remembers”
Although the author of the article claims Robinson was shocked at seeing the 37 week old (full term) baby, there is not much difference between a 32 week baby and a 37 week one. Both are well beyond viability- the age when a baby can survive outside her mother’s womb. Premature babies as young as 22 weeks have survived being born prematurely.
Pro-Choice author Rosalind Petchesky, in Abortion and Woman’s Choice, says:
“Rather than apologize for abortion, feminists must proclaim loudly—as they did in the late 1960s and the early 1970s—that access to safe, funded abortion is a positive social need of all women of childbearing age.”
Rosalind Petchesky Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990)
Quoted in Camille S. Williams “Abortion and the Actualized Self” First Things November 1991
Abortion is not a “positive social need” for the babies it kills.
In an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about babies born alive after abortions, journalists Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds wrote of a doctor who did late term abortions. The article says:
“The psychological wear-and-tear from doing late abortions is obvious. Philadelphia’s Dr. Bolognese, who seven years ago was recommending wrapping abortion live-borns in a towel, has stopped doing late abortions.”
Dr. Bologneseis quoted saying:
”You get burned out…It seemed kind of schizophrenic, to be doing that on the one hand [helping women with problem pregnancies to have babies] and do abortions.”
by Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds “Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 2, 1982
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Dr. Warren Pearse, then executive director of American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was asked what abortionists do when a baby is born alive during an abortion.
”What you would do next [after expulsion] is nothing. You assume the infant is dead unless it shows signs of life. You’re dealing with a dead fetus unless there is sustained respiration- its not enough if there’s a single heartbeat or an occasional gasp.”
“Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” by Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds, Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 2, 1982
“Dr. Nancy Kaltreider, an academic psychiatrist at the University of San Francisco, has found in several studies “an unexpectedly strong reaction” by the assisting staff to late-abortion procedures. For nurses, she hypothesizes, handling tissues that resemble a fully formed baby “runs directly against the medical emphasis on preserving life.”
“Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” by Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds, Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 2, 1982
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