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Study on late term abortion weighs and measures aborted babies

Well-known late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern conducted a study:

“Examination of the tissue postoperatively included weighing the fetus and placenta separately and careful measurement of fetal parts…..

The final estimate of gestational age ranged from 13 to 26 menstrual weeks; 40% of the pregnancies were from 13 to 15 weeks of gestation, 26.8% from 16 to 18 weeks, 15.8% from 19 to 20 weeks, 10.8% from 21 to 22 weeks, 6.4% from 23 to 24 weeks, and 0.2% from 25 to 26 weeks….

Serious underestimation of the length of gestation occurred in two patients with postoperative estimates of gestational age at 25 and 26 weeks, respectively. Fetal weights ranged from 11 to 730 gm, fetal foot lengths ranged from 9 to 51 mm, and biparietal diameters ranged from 18 to 62 mm.”

WARREN M. HERN “Outpatient second-trimester D&E abortion through 24 menstrual weeks’ gestation

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Husband tells wife not to have her baby

A woman who had an abortion talked about another woman she met at the clinic:

“She was Catholic. She had two boys. They lived in a two-bedroom apartment. Her husband worked; she didn’t. She very much wanted a girl. When she got pregnant, her husband said, ‘You cannot have this baby. We cannot afford it.’ He made her go and have the abortion. It was horrible for her because she wanted her girl….She was so clear and so sure that she was going against the Church and going against her basic instincts. It was just horrible for her…”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 31

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Woman seeking abortion sees ultrasound, changes mind

Autumn Williams was planning on abortion, but changed her mind when she saw her child on the ultrasound. She tells her story:

My mind was set on abortion. Finding out I was pregnant a week before leaving for college was devastating. I was mad at my boyfriend, my parents, myself, this baby.

Most of all, I was angry with God, for taking away my hard work, my freedom, college, and my reputation. I had a 5 year plan and I wasn’t going to let it get away from me that quickly….

I was sure I’d only be a couple of weeks along; it would be easy to go through with the procedure if that was the case. As I lay on the ultrasound table I was sure not to look as the technician was scanning, I just wanted it to be over, and only thing in my mind was my 5-year plan [for her future life, which would be destroyed by having the baby].

The nurse asked me if I wanted to know the gender. Before I could answer, or question what she was talking about she slowly turned the screen and she said “It’s a boy”. My eyes fixated on the baby’s profile, a boy, my son. I was six and a half months pregnant…

To this day, I thank [God] every day for finding out when I did, it saved my son’s life. I couldn’t imagine a life without him.”

She later started a pro-life crisis pregnancy center.

Autumn Williams “I Can’t Imagine My Life Without Him” March for Life 2016: Year Round Guide ebook

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Abortion makes woman stop having sex with husband

After her abortion, a woman says she:

“stopped having sex with my husband, became actually repulsed at the sight of him naked, [and] moved into the guest room.”

Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)

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Woman asks if aborted baby was girl or boy

A woman who had an abortion recalls:

“I remember crying and feeling it was painful, but I can’t say I remember pain. I remember asking if he could see if it were a girl or a boy. He said ‘no.’ He said he could usually tell whether the woman having an abortion was a parent because it seemed harder for someone already a mother to have an abortion than it was for those without children. I remember the doctor holding my hand at the end of it, saying, ‘You have to forgive yourself.'”

Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)

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Having abortion clinics meet basic standards is a “right wing agenda”

Jeff Winder, prochoicer, told legislators that making abortion clinics meet basic health standards was:

“taking tyrannical action to promote a religious right-wing agenda.”

Larry O’Dell “Tougher abortion clinic rules approved at Va. Board of Health” Daily Press Sept 14, 2012

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Population control leader says not to save lives in Africa

Office of Population within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1966, first director Reimert Thorolf Ravenholt:

“[T]he main admonition to be made to those persons and organizations in advanced nations wishing to help the Africans is…Beware! Do not harm the communities and nations you seek to help with public health programs! Unfortunately, that admonition has often been neglected by those seeking to help the Africans. A main case in point is the powerful interventionist prevention of infant and child mortality by the many means our society now readily offers; grants of food, potable water, antibiotics, immunizations, etc. How could these be harmful? Quite simply, they are enormously harmful to African societies when the deaths prevented thereby are not balanced by prevention of roughly equal numbers of births. It is the population excesses resulting from well-intentioned but population-unbalancing interventionist activities which are largely driving today’s killing fields in Africa. Many infants and children rescued from preventable disease deaths by interventionist programs during the 1970s and 1980s have become machete-wielding killers.”

RT Raveneholt “Africa’s Population-Driven Catastrophe Worsens” unpublished paper dated June 2000

Steven W. Mosher Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008) 42

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Novelist says war and AIDS should decrease population

Pro-Choice novelist William T. Vollman:

“There are too many people in the world and maybe something like AIDS or something like war may be a good thing on that level.”

Quoted in David Boaz “Pro-Life” Cato Policy Report (July/August 2002) 2

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Woman says she made the right choice, but experiences “grieving process”

From a woman who had an abortion but experiences something she calls a grieving process:

“I will have to reconsider my response as a grieving process, and one that has never ended. I made the absolute right choice to have an abortion, and I was relieved, even happy at the time. I have never once regretted the decision, yet there are feelings surrounding the loss of a potential child that remain with me.”

Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)

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