They said it.
One woman who interviewed postabortion women for her book said:
“I have come across women who had a feeling that the baby was going to be abnormal, and so chose abortion. They had no evidence – it was too early to carry out any tests – it was just a feeling.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 59
These women sacrificed their childrens’ lives to a hunch.
Share on FacebookLori, 21, on abortion:
“The decision is up to her. It’s a matter of her body. And it’s like a thumbnail or a tumor. But I see the issue as being pretty much it’s her control over her body.”
Judith G. Smetana Concepts of Self and Morality: Women’s Reasoning about Abortion (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1982) 44
Does this look like a picture of a thumbnail?
Share on FacebookDeclaration by Dr. David Fu-Chi Mark, a distinguished molecular biologist:
A human being at an embryonic age and that human being at an adult age are naturally the same. The biological differences are due only to the differences in maturity. Changes in methylation of cytosine demonstrate that the human being is fully programmed for human growth and development for his or her entire life at the one cell stage.
Report of the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion, pp.21-25. quoted in United Families International Guide to Family Issues: Abortion (Gilbert, Arizona: United Families International, 2007) 24
A doctor who had done abortions explains why he stopped:
“And I just decided it’s not worth it to do, because I have had such terribly strong feelings that it’s turned me off. I feel that I am destroying life. I feel that I’m actually killing them.”
Magda Denes, In Necessity and Sorrow (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1976), p. 144
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Two lawyers comment on Roe v Wade, the decision which legalized abortion:
“The clerks in most chambers were surprised to see the Justices, particularly Blackmun, so openly brokering the [Roe V Wade] decision like a group of legislators. There was a certain reasonableness to the draft, some of them thought, but it derived more from medical and social policy than from constitutional law. There was something embarrassing and dishonest about this whole process. It left the Court claiming that the Constitution drew certain lines at trimesters and viability. The Court was going to make a medical policy and force it on the states. As a practical matter, it was not a bad solution. As a constitutional matter, it was absurd.”
George Kaluger and Meriem Kaluger Human Development: The Span of Life (St. Louis: The CV Mosby Company, 1979) 65 – 66
The following is from a paper by three British OB/GYN’s, which shares their views about the dangers of termination of pregnancy:
“If the termination of pregnancy were as safe as so many advocates of liberal abortion maintain, a patient suffering as a result of the operation could claim that professional negligence was responsible for her subsequent distress or disaster. Such claims would be grossly unfair. There would be great sympathy for a 16-year-old girl whose uterus was torn beyond repair; for the married woman with gut resection and peritonitis; for the mother in monthly distress following hysterotomy because of implantation endometritis in her abdominal wall, vagina or bladder; for the anxious infertile wife who knows the tubal damage now denies her the baby she desires is the delayed price she is paying for her teenage abortion. But the fact remains that none of these situations may be the result of negligence. They are complications which, though well-known to, and well documented by, those with wide experience of an operation which is neither simple nor safe, are seldom mentioned by those who claim that abortion is safe and merely an extension of contraceptive techniques.”
Quoted by Jeanne Head, RN in Alex Barno, M.D. Proposed Constitutional Amendments on Abortion “Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 94th Congress” (Washington DC, US Government Printing Office, 1976) 934
These are only some of the dangers of termination of pregnancy.
Read more about the dangers of abortion
Share on FacebookOne reporter says:
I’ve …noticed that supporters of legal abortion are having a difficult time engaging the current generation of young adults. A recent Rasmussen poll confirms that impression, finding that voters under 40 were less likely than other age demographics to find the abortion issue “very important” while voting and more likely to find the issue “not at all important.” Moreover, there is plenty of survey data which finds that the current generation of young adults is more skeptical about abortion than previous generations. The General Social Survey (GSS) has been collecting opinion data on abortion using the same battery of questions since the 1970s. During the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 were the least sympathetic toward the pro-life position. Yet since 2000, the GSS has consistently found that young adults are actually more comfortable limiting abortion in certain circumstances than are older Americans.
Other polling data shows that young adults are more likely than other demographic groups to support a 20-week abortion ban and are fairly comfortable with a range of incremental pro-life laws.
MICHAEL J. NEW “Of Course Pro-Choicers Are Trying to Rebrand — They’re Losing Among Young Adults” National Review August 6, 2014
Share on FacebookFor a study, a 15-year-old girl named Beckie who had an abortion explained her feelings:
Q: When do you think, in the course of its development, that the fetus becomes a human life?
A: Three months.
Q. What makes it become a human life at that point?
A. Well, either when the heart starts beating, yeah, I guess when the heart stats beating, because that functions everything else, and I believe that starts around three months. Two and a half or three months….after that I consider it murder, whereas beforehand it’s not, you know. (51)
The heart doesn’t start beating at 3 months – starts beating in 3 weeks, and according to some research, even earlier. You can see a video of a baby’s heart beating 4 weeks in the womb. Beckie’s lack of knowledge of fetal development led to her having an abortion when she assumed the heartbeat started later than it really did.
The study also interviewed a woman named Barbara, who also had an abortion. She was also 15.
Q: When you decide that it’s a human being at three months, what things do you think make it human at that point?
A: It’s got a heart. It’s breathing, it’s got a brain, it moves.
Q: Do you think after that point it would be the same as killing?
A: Yeah.
Q: Do you think it would be the same as killing another human being?
A: Yeah. I don’t really think it should be done.
Q: In the first three month, why is it OK?
A: Because it’s just like an egg, inside of you. It’s just like a thing of fluid, almost. I guess that’s all it is. And it doesn’t really have any shape, it doesn’t really have a brain or anything.” (52)
This is what a baby looks like it 8 weeks in the womb. Brain waves start at 6 weeks.
Here is a picture of a baby’s fingers at at 7 weeks
Again, the study shows that a woman who had an abortion did so with a false view of fetal development
From another teen who had an abortion, Ramona, 17:
“Q: You’re saying it becomes a life around the fourth month?
A: Somewhere around, yeah, the fifth, sixth, and on. I mean that’s when it looks like something, you know. But I think that in the first three months, it’s a life, but it’s not, you know, really completely formed, or anything like that…in the lasts three months I don’t think it should be allowed.” (53)
Judith G. Smetana Concepts of Self and Morality: Women’s Reasoning about Abortion (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1982)
The study shows how little these teens know about fetal development. Perhaps if someone had taught them more about how a baby develops, they would not have aborted.
Share on FacebookWhen a woman called Joan Paton was seeking an abortion, her husband went to court to stop her. Author Mary Kenny describes how she felt when she heard on the radio that Paton had had the abortion.
“I remember sitting there and feeling a personal sense of loss. I felt it right there in my belly: a pang. I have had this feeling again since, when sitting in waiting rooms and clinics preparing to interview abortionists for this book. As women have come in, visibly pregnant, I have experienced a sense of melancholy that a life is about to be lost….
She tells the story of a woman who wrote an article in a prominent newspaper asking if she should have an abortion. She describes what happened, how many other women sent a letter:
And I know many women share it, whatever their intellectual views of abortion. In April 1983, a young woman called Lynn Reed wrote a short article for the Daily Mail under the headline “Should I Have an Abortion?” She was aged 35, divorced, and unintentionally pregnant by her boyfriend. The letters poured in – over 500 of them. Of these 452 pleaded with Lynn not to terminate the pregnancy, and many alluded wistfully to regrets about personal abortion decisions. The most common theme was loss, the most common coda to each letter was, “I have never really spoken about this before – please do not reveal my real name.” 59 letters were ambivalent. Eight letters argued for abortion.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 5
Share on FacebookAbortionist Richard Hausknecht on second trimester abortions:
“Any procedure at this stage is pretty gruesome. When I did second-trimester abortions, I did them late in the day, and when I’d get home, my wife would say, ‘You did one today, didn’t you?’ It would be all over my face.”
DEBORAH SONTAG “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” New York Times MARCH 21, 1997
A D&E is the most common method of abortion in the 2nd trimester. See diagram below:
Read an abortionists’ in-depth description of this type of abortion
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