During a WPFW segment called “In Our Voices” with host Nkenge Toure, NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland’s executive director, Jodi Finkelstein, and education and outreach coordinator Amber Banks, called into to discuss their efforts in ensuring women’s “right to choose” in Maryland. Theys said that:
“Our biggest challenge is we are battling apathy in the state of Maryland.”
Cited in Cortney O’Brien “NARAL Complains its Members are “Apathetic” About Promoting Abortion” LifeNews.com 12/6/13
Just another indication that pro-lifers are more passionate than pro-choicers in many areas.
Warren Hern, late term abortionist, on the abortions he performs:
17 weeks
“I don’t know that there is a typical second-trimester abortion. But if you look at the spectrum of abortions (most women are between the ages of 19 and 29) they tend to be younger. Some are older. The typical thing that happens with older women is that they never realize they were pregnant because they were continuing to bleed during the pregnancy. The other thing we see with older women is fetal malformations or Down’s Syndrome. These are being diagnosed much earlier now than they used to be.
18 weeks
We’re seeing a lot of genetic diagnoses with ultrasound and amniocentesis at 17-18 weeks instead of 22-24 weeks. With the teenagers, anybody who has ever worked with or had teenagers can appreciate how unpredictable they can be at times. They have adult bodies, but a lot of times they don’t have adult minds. So their reaction to problems tends to get much more emotional than an adult’s might be. It’s a question of maturity. So even though they may have been educated about all kinds of issues in reproductive health, when a teenager becomes pregnant, depending up on her relationship with her family, the amount of peer support she has–every one is a highly-individual case–sometimes they delay until they can no longer contain their problem and it finally comes out. Sometimes it’s money: It takes them a while to get the money. Sometimes its just denial….”
Discharging the Committee on the Judiciary from Further Consideration Of the President’s Veto of HR 1833, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995 Can be found here.
“As the suction tube is rotated within the womb, the membrane and fluid surrounding the fetus are quickly sucked away and the little being himself is soon torn apart. Finally the placenta, which is well connected to the lining of the uterus, is pulled away. One manual of instruction describes this phase of the abortion: “At any point the material is felt to be flowing into the tube, motion is stopped until the flow stops. Then the slow up and down gradual rotation pattern is continued. Blood-tinged fluid and bits of pink tissue will be seen flowing through the plastic tubing during the entire suction curettage.”
Curt Young, “The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know About Abortion” Chicago, IL Moody Press, 1984 p85
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“Can someone please come up with a “Tripadvisor” for abortion clinics? Who wouldn’t want to rate their clinic experience? It would be cool, in an ideal world, if women felt safe enough to “rate” their experience…. Women don’t share their abortion experiences, but it would make a difference, I think, for women to weigh-in and provide online referrals. I use all sorts of websites like Yelp! that help me determine whether I want to go to a certain restaurant or not. Do I want someone’s opinion on the abortion clinic they went to? Yes, please. “
An abortion clinic is like a restaurant in that it is a business first. Clinic compete for “customers” the same way other businesses do. So it is only logical, what this pro-choice activist (herself a clinic worker) is suggesting.
Even though abortion clinics are doing this kind of thing:
“ Babies born from in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are up to 10 times more likely to suffer from rare genetic disorders, according to a pro-IVF geneticist. In an address to the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, University of Toronto geneticist Dr. Rosanna Weksberg called for more study of a link between fertility treatment and certain rare genetic disorders. “We are seeing a significant increase in risk,” she said, according to the Financial Post. “The most important message is … we need follow-up study.”
For example:
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome occurs in one of every 1,300 fertility-treatment children, compared to one in 13,000 in the general population, according to Weksberg. It causes symptoms such as unevenly sized limbs, an enlarged tongue and a high risk of kidney tumors.
Angelman syndrome occurs in one in 1,500 among fertility-treatment children, compared to one in 15,000 in the general population. It causes serious mental retardation and speech impairment.
In addition to these genetic conditions, there is evidence of an increased chance that a baby will be born at a low weight, and research has also suggested an increased risk of autism, reports the Post.”
Not surprisingly, fertility clinics want to keep these statistics under wraps.
“Weksberg says she would like to partner with fertility clinics to study larger populations of fertility-treatment children, but has not been able to find any willing to work with her.”
JEREMY KRYN “IVF babies up to 10 times more likely to suffer rare genetic disorders: geneticist” LifeSiteNews Sep 26, 2011
“[Abortion] Counselors should also anticipate that many women will exhibit ambivalence. As previously noted, “mixed feelings” about having an abortion was a normal condition for many women.”
Mark Rutledge “Does Counseling Really Help Abortion Patients?” Paul Sachdev “Perspectives on Abortion” (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1985) 231
A 2000 article told the story of Linda Gibbons, a pro-life sidewalk counselor at a clinic in Canada. Gibbons describes what she tells women who are entering the clinic:
“I’ll see a woman who is walking toward the clinic and try to talk to her. I’ve got about seven seconds. Sometimes I’ll say “You do not have to do what you came here to do” or I might say “Did you know your baby’s heart is beating?” I’m not judging them and if she doesn’t stop, if she walks right by, that’s it. We never have more than one counselor approach the woman and we never, ever block her way. She’s anxious enough as it is and it’s unfair to overwhelm her. You don’t have much time, but you try to acknowledge all the pressure and all the circumstances in her life that brought her here.”
Gibbons has “spent most of the past five years in jail serving up to six months at a time.”
In Canada, it is illegal for protesters to go near abortion clinics, even to hold a sign or hand out literature.
A neighborhood said of Gibbons:
“I cannot imagine and I have never heard her say anything abusive or hurtful, let alone scream, yell or swear. That goes for the other picketers as well. It would be out of character from what I have seen of their behaviour.”
Pro-lifers were also arrested for educating public by displaying “obscene signs”
The pro-lifer holding the sign said:
“So I had a picture of a baby and I said “what is the sexual component here? And the poor officer- he was obviously forced to do this- he said the baby was conceived by sex.”
Another woman, (Mrs. Connell) was praying near abortion clinic and was arrested. She has eight children, four of whom are adopted. Two of the adopted children were from Vietman, another two from Brazil. She takes pregnant abandoned teenagers into her home.
As one pro-lifer said of her “She doesn’t just say “have a baby” she gives them a room in her house.”
The Court wanted six months in jail for her.
Meanwhile, the same day:
“Another woman was being sentenced for mischief, you know, vandalism. She had been drunk or on drugs and had caused a huge amount of damage to someone’s property. She had a record as long as her arm and the Crown was looking for three months.”
Leonard Stern “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000
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At a trial where a clinic worker was accused of spraying mace on pro-lifers, a woman with babies with told to leave the courtroom.
“Babies have been banned from the courtroom… An incident in which the codirector of a Robbinsville medical clinic sprayed mace at abortion protesters has evolved into an acrimonious showdown this week in Hennepin County District Court…
And in one of the more unusual twists to the case, a mother who identified herself as an abortion opponent was ordered yesterday to remove two infants from the courtroom because of concerns that they would influence the jury…
The mother, however, said her motives were not political. “Maybe they don’t like seeing living babies,” said Mary Friberg sitting on a bench outside the courtroom. “Besides, I couldn’t afford a babysitter.”
Mark Brunswick “Misdemeanor Trial Turns into Abortion Showdown” Minneapolis Star Tribune May 21, 1992
