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Pro-Life writer quotes embryology textbook

Pro-life writer William M Connolly, in his book One Life:How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion, cites a textbook’s explanation of when life begins.

“A baby begins life as a single cell, smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and would be only barely visible to the naked eye. This cell is created by the union of two parent cells: the female egg cell or ovum, and the male sperm cell.”

Geraldine Lux Flanagan The First Nine Months of Life (Simon & Schuster, 1962)

William M Connolly says the following about Flanagan’s book:

“Simon & Schuster published her book in 1962. So her intent in writing, it seems clear, was merely to be accurately descriptive, and not to weigh in on the abortion controversy…

Ms. Flanigan was educated at Vienna Gymnasium and Radcliffe College. She was a reporter for Life Magazine.

Her husband Dennis Flanagan was the editor of Scientific American. With clear, crisp photography and prose, her 1962 book beautifully illustrates the life of the developing human being from conception, to the first “cleavage” or cell division of the zygote, and at every stage thereafter…

Her book was praised by George W Corner, MD, Former Director of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and professor Emeritus of Embryology at Johns Hopkins University, who wrote the book’s forward.”

William M Connolly One Life:How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 109

Supreme Court Justices had this book at their disposal, but could not come to a conclusion as to whether a fetus was a person.

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Male pro-abortion “feminist” curses at female pro-lifer

Lauren Metz, 18, was participating in a counter-protest at a pro-choice march. She describes the way she and other pro-lifers were treated.

“As we were screamed at, called names, spit on, sexually harassed, and censored by the covering of our signs, the fact that the march was for complete and total abortion freedom was indisputable. A male feminist…called me a piece of s*** and worse. He got within an inch or so of my face, continuing his harassment, exclaiming that he did not want to talk to me, only to harass me.”

Dorothy Cummings McLean “A ‘male feminist called me a piece of s***’: pro-life youth share horror stories from Women’s March” LifeSiteNews Jan 30, 2018

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A woman describes her post-abortion grief

This post-abortion woman felt relieved when her abortion was over. But then the aftereffects began.

“When I went to be checked out by the doctor [after the abortion], an incredible sense of relief swept over me. It was over, finished. The doctor said I was fine and could look forward to having more children. Everything suddenly seemed okay and I could get on with my life now that the “problem” had been dealt with.

Looking back, I can see that I went into that clinic as one person and came out quite different…

I got back together with my boyfriend. We never talked about what I had done or where I had been; it maintained the denial…

Just 13 months after our wedding day, the marriage broke up. I gave up my career; I could not function properly.

Then I just went haywire. Between drinking and taking “uppers and downers”, I struggled with suicidal feelings; I was in a twilight zone where I hated myself, men, doctors and I suppose everything and everyone.”

She married again and had a son.

“… When Benjamin was born, I couldn’t relate to him. Certainly I loved him, but I was terrified of being a real mother to him. I always felt I’d damage him or break his little body somehow, or that I would lose him… Meanwhile I suffered from sleep disorders and couldn’t eat. I’d hallucinate and hear children crying, and dream of rows of tiny grey babies in chains.

Her second marriage fell apart as well.

With two broken marriages behind me, I got involved with a church group which helped you get through the grief over lost relationships. We thought we were dealing specifically with death, divorce and separation, but every time we moved into deeper territory, it was my abortion which caused me pain. In my denial I’d been calling it a “termination”, not abortion, and now my denial was being gently stripped away…

I went to my first SPUC [pro-life] conference. I’d been invited to hear a woman called Olivia Gans, the founder of American Victims of Abortion [a group for post-abortion women, to help them heal]. As she spoke about her life and the things that had been unearthed in the United States about women who had had abortions, I thought, “She’s talking about my life.”

I wanted to cry and scream with relief. I thought, “I’m not crazy after all!”…

She became involved with a post-abortion support group, British Victims of Abortion.

Now I knew I wasn’t alone. After an article about BVA appeared in Bella magazine, I had dozens and dozens of calls in one week from women like me. Healing came from being with other women, breaking down the isolation and naming the pain.”

Melanie Symonds, Phyllis Bowman And Still They Weep: Personal Stories of Abortion (The SPUC Educational Research Trust, 1996) 4 – 7

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Statistics on IVF success rates

Author William M Connolly compiles the statistics on IVF success rates. Below is the percentage of successful pregnancies from various procedures.

“In February 1999, Reuters reported that about 20,000 babies were born with the help of laboratory fertility techniques out of 64,000 attempts in 1996. Reuters cited figures of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The success rates for the various techniques were described as follows:

— Use of frozen embryos – 16%

— In vitro fertilization – 26%

— Gamete intrafallopian transfers – 28%

— Sperm injected directly into ovum’s cytoplasm – 28%

— Zygote intrafallopian transfers – 30%.”

William M Connolly One Life:How the US Supreme CourtDeliberately Distortedthe History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 122

As you can see, IVF techniques have high rates of failure. This leads to many conceived embryos being lost. If life does begin at conception (and you can find 40 quotes from medical textbooks saying it does here) than IVF leads to the loss of many human lives. When you read the following quotes from medical textbooks, keep in mind how low IVF success rates lead to many newly conceived lives being lost.

“Human life begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoo developmentn) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.” “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”

Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2.

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“The oviduct or Fallopian tube is the anatomical region where every new life begins in mammalian species. After a long journey, the spermatozoa meet the oocyte in the specific site of the oviduct named ampulla, and fertilization takes place.”

Coy et al., Roles of the oviduct in mammalian fertilization, REPRODUCTION 144(6):649 (Oct. 1, 2012)

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“In fusing together, the male and female gametes produce a fertilized single cell, the zygote, which is the start of a new individual.”

Rand McNally Atlas of the Body (New York: Rand McNally and Company, 1980) 139, 144.

There are many more quotes like this.

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Man leaves his partner of 6 years when she gets pregnant

Aline. who is 27, describes what her boyfriend did when she told him she was pregnant:

“I just said that my period was late and he said that I had him up against the wall, and he left without a word; we’d been together for six years and a few times we even talked about getting married.”

She had an abortion.

Luc Boltanski The Foetal Condition: A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013) 93

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Kermit Gosnell tricked unwilling teens into having abortions

Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of murdering babies who were born alive after abortions in his filthy clinic, tricked young women into having abortions even when they did not want them. This came from Kareema Cross, who worked with Gosnell. According to writers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer:

“She told detectives about minors who were brought to the clinic against their will by their mothers. If Gosnell sensed the girls might not want the abortion, he would give them a pill. After they had taken it, he would tell them that it was a poison, and that their child was already dead so there would be no turning back. In fact, Cross said, she saw many babies born alive after these mothers were induced.”

Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2017) 124

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What Martin Luther King, Jr. thought about abortion

What Martin Luther King, Jr. thought about abortion was revealed in his advice column in Ebony in June 1958. He referred to a post-abortion man’s decision as “a mistake.” This indicates that he did not approve of abortion. It is impossible to know for certain, but he may have been pro-life today.

Here is the letter from the post-abortion man and King’s reply:

“Question: About two years ago, I was going with a young lady who became pregnant. I refused to marry her. As a result, I was directly responsible for a crime. It was not until a month later that I realized the awful thing I had done. I begged her to forgive me, to come back, but she has not answered my letters. The thing stays on my mind. What can I do? I have prayed for forgiveness.

Answer: You have made a mistake. This you admit. Your admitting this fact is very wholesome, for it is the first step in the process of repentance and personality integration. One can never rectify a mistake until he admits that a mistake has been made.

Now that you have prayed for forgiveness and acknowledged your mistake, you must turn your vision to the future….Now that you have repented, don’t concentrate on what you failed to do in the past, but what you are determined to do in the future.”

Martin Luther King JR. advice column Ebony, June 1958, p. 118

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Abortion clinic director on why women pay in advance

Laura Moody, director of the abortion clinic Hope Clinic, on why they have women pay in advance:

“It’s the nature of the business. Unlike a family doctor, we don’t have a long-term relationship with the patient. They may have used an assumed name or a wrong address or phone number.”

They do not accept charge cards, only cash.

Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion: And It’s a Big Business” Observer-Reporter January 18, 1983

So much for abortion being between a woman and her doctor.

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Post-abortion woman: you will have some regret

Jessica tells her story:

“It’s been just over four months since my abortion. There isn’t a day when I don’t think back and wish I had made a different decision. Prior to making my decision I wish I would have done more research. Looked up more stories. I hope that more people can share their stories and urge people against abortion. Contrary to how this may sound so far I’m not anti-abortion. I and most deffinity pro-choice. Everyone had the choice and I made mine.

I found out I was pregnant at about four weeks, and waiting roughly a week before I told my BF. I really just wasn’t sure how to tell him. We hadn’t wanted kids or anything. We both agreed we were going to wait until I had started my career. We did at the time, and still plan on sharing our lives together. But things happen. I got pregnant. I had previously said that I would never give up a child, but I did. Being naive and young, I let my boyfriend make most of the decision. He drove me, he made the phone calls. To this day, most of my friends and none of my family even know i was prego.

Talk about secrets. This is one that I will live with for the rest of my life. I have absolutly no one to talk to. I can’t talk to my BF as many girls can’t. Men see things completely differently, expecialy when i comes to children. They don’t want them. Not before they’re 30, anyways. Even though I didn’t want a child before, there is nothing i want more now. I don’t know if it is because I’m depressed about not having one, or if I believe that I would make a great mom. That I really just want a child.

When people tell you about the emotional side affects, believe them. Even if you are absolutly sure that you want to abort you will have some regret. Some “what if”s. And you will have feelings about what you did. To what degree no one can say. Make sure you are fully aware of what you are doing prior to making any decisions. Please.”

Jessica “Should have done some research” Aborted Women: In Their Own Words Pregnant Pause

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Superintendent threatens pregnant teacher

Heather R. recalls what her boss said when she found out she was pregnant:

“‘Didn’t you JUST get married? You know your position here is not guaranteed, right?’ [This was] from a school district superintendent. I was a tenured teacher in our district’s magnet academy, and I’d been married 3 years. (What she meant is that my position at magnet wasn’t guaranteed, I could be reassigned to another building. It was basically a threat. Joke ended up on her: I resigned to be a SAHM.)”

Jamie Kenney “17 Moms Share The Worst Thing They Heard After Announcing Their Pregnancy” Romper Sept 6 2016

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