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Family Planning Perspectives on D&E abortions

An article in Family Planning Perspectives describes D & E abortion:

“[A] physician performing a D&E must deal with the second trimester foetus in an intimate, physical way…ossified parts, such as the skull, must be crushed. The bone fragments must be extracted carefully to avoid tearing the cervix. Reconstruction of the fetal sections after removal from the uterus is necessary to ensure completeness of the abortion procedure”.

“Emotional Impact of D&E vs. Instillation,” Family Planning Perspectives, Nov./Dec., 1977.

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Researcher: many abused children are wanted

Researcher Vincent J. Fontana says that most children who are abused were from wanted pregnancies. This contradicts the claim that abortion prevents child abuse:

“Many maltreated children are children who were very much wanted before birth. Perhaps they were wanted for the wrong reasons…It is only after the children arrive that the doubts set in and the problems surface.”

Vincent J. Fontana, Somewhere a Child is Crying, (McMillan Publishing Company, New York, 1973). 216

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My pregnancy was “a gift” but I had an abortion

From one 29-year old woman who had an abortion:

“My boyfriend and I are thinking about marriage, but we’re really focused on our goals right now… I’m training to be a nurse, and he’s training to be a firefighter. We’ve worked for these goals too hard to lose it right now…

I loved being pregnant… I felt beautiful and different from what I normally feel.… The whole time we both knew that we were going to have an abortion. It wasn’t going to go too far. That’s what made it even more beautiful…

I had numerous dreams that it was a boy, which made it more difficult, because I really want a boy…

My sister’s been trying to get pregnant for years and years. She even offered to take the baby, but that was definitely out of the question… I didn’t want anybody else to bring up our child.…

I think God is okay with it… I always wonder whether on a spiritual level it was right or wrong – will I have to face it when I die?… I have fears I won’t be able to have kids and I think – what if that was my only chance?

Still I don’t look back with regret. I feel good about what we did. I don’t even regret getting pregnant; that in itself was a gift.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 37 – 39

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Study by Anne Speckhard on emotional trauma

Researcher Anne Speckhard conducted a study that showed how abortion causes emotional trauma in women.

She interviewed women who regretted their abortions and found that they experienced the following:

• grief reactions (100 percent)

• feelings of depression (92 percent)

• feelings of anger (92 percent)

• feelings of guilt (92 percent)

• fear that others would learn of the pregnancy and abortion (89 percent)

• surprise at the intensity of the emotional reaction to the abortion (85 percent)

• feelings of lowered self worth (81 percent)

• feelings of victimization (81 percent)

• decreased effectiveness, or suppressed ability to experience pain (73 percent)

• feelings of discomfort around infants and small children (73 percent).

Anne Speckhard The Psycho-Social Aspects of Stress Following Abortion (Sheed and Ward, Kansas City, 1987)

Quoted in: “ABORTION A Briefing Book For Canadian Legislators” Campaign Life Coalition NATIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE July 2002

These women were a selected sample of those who regretted their abortions, so this may not be representative of ALL women who have abortions. But the study shows that some women have emotional trauma due to abortion.

Read more about abortion’s psychological impact and the emotional trauma it causes.

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Abortion clinic describes a D&E as “emptying your uterus”

An abortion clinic describes a D&E abortion this way. The clinic is Women’s Options Center:

During the second trimester of pregnancy (14-23 weeks since your last menstrual period), abortions are performed as two-day outpatient procedures, known as “D&E” (dilation and evacuation)….

When you are well relaxed, the doctor will remove the laminaria and will use suction and instruments to empty your uterus. When you wake, you won’t remember the procedure. After the procedure, nurses will monitor you for two hours as you wake up. You will probably have some cramping and spotting; we will provide you with a heat pack and a maxi-pad for your recovery and ride home.”

In reality, a D&E dismembers a child, tears her apart limb by limb. Here is a diagram:

At 14 weeks, the earliest time this clinic does a D&E, the baby looks like this:

Here is a more detailed description of a D&E from a former abortionist.

A former abortionist explains the procedure in a video.

This is not simply “emptying the uterus” The abortion clinic wants to keep women in the dark about what abortion is like, because they want women to go through with their abortions. They know that if women knew how brutal a D&E is, they might refuse to undergo the abortion.

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Letter to an aborted baby

A postabortion woman wrote the following letter to her aborted baby, who she named Grace:

“Everyone close to me was affected by that awful day – none more so than you and I though. We were in this sad nightmare together, weren’t we? I felt very depressed after I let you go – many days were hard to face, some I didn’t. I told myself it was hormones. I was told to expect this by the terribly cold staff at the clinic – the ones that sent me into a tiny cubicle with a pad, a paper gown and said, “Wait till we come and get you.” They don’t even look at you in the eye. They don’t seem to know your pain, and I hope they really don’t understand what they are doing.

They put my legs in stirrups and got out their vacuum but forgot to tell me how much I would miss you. How this day would never go away. How I would dream about you eight years after that day. They forgot to tell me how I would get to the day when even making a cup of tea would make me cry because the memories refused to go away. But I don’t really blame them Grace – it was me.

After a few months I went into denial… I can’t tell you what I thought in the many years in between – the truth is that I tried to forget. I tried very hard not to think about you at all. You crept up on me at times and sent me into a spin, but only temporarily – I would shut down and move. In my heart I knew you were always there though.

So why now Grace?… Was it because I had a little girl? Is it because my family on this earth is complete? Or was my time up? I don’t know the answer for sure, maybe it was all these things…

I didn’t want to give you an identity for fear it would undo me. Grace seemed a natural name for you.… I hope you like it.”

Anne R Lastman Redeeming Grief: Abortion and Its Pain (Balwyn, Vic: Australia: Gracewing, 2013) 43 – 44

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Woman laughs about losing her grandchild to abortion

From one mother whose daughter had an abortion:

Even though I’m having to say good-bye to my grandson or granddaughter, I know God will bless her with a child, when she is ready for it. And when I’m old enough to be a grandmother. Ha! Ha!

This letter was read by an abortion clinic worker on the 31st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in a speech at the Voices for Choice Rally at the University of Texas on January 22nd, 2004 found on abortionclinicdays.

See what abortion actually did to this woman’s grandchild (graphic)

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Former clinic worker: Ann Caldwell

Ann Caldwell, who later co-edited a book of women’s abortion stories, had an abortion and then worked in a clinic. She tells her story:

“I shall never forget the sounds of the suction machine, the odors of the medical room, or the harsh demeanor of the nurse. I cried uncontrollably for a day. I was very sad at the time, but I quickly buried it… Within several months, I was getting such poor grades in school that a professor told me, “Frankly, I don’t know how you got admitted to this university.” My slide lasted several years, despite the fact that my grades improved. I earned a Master’s degree, but my self-esteem was so poor that I spent three years dating a guy who was addicted to drugs.

To earn money to pay my tuition, I worked every Saturday and Wednesday at the local abortion center. The money was great, and I knew what to tell the girls to expect. I passed out birth-control pills, explained what would happen, and even held their hands during the procedure. The sights and sounds were very familiar to me. Once the doctor asked if I wanted to watch the procedure, which I thought would be interesting… It was so unforgettable, gruesome, and shocking that I could no longer keep my pain buried.

Meeting and marrying my husband was the beginning of my healing. I was so sure that God would punish me for my abortion by not letting us have children that I was impatient to start a family. My first pregnancy was spent awake at night in tears, sobbing over the lost baby, over my own sin, and over the agony my aborted child endured.”

Wendy Williams, Ann Caldwell Empty Arms: More Than 60 Life-Giving Stories of Hope from the Devastation of Abortion (Chattanooga, Tennessee: Living Ink Books, 2005) 136 – 137

In addition to the pro-life book, Caldwell helped establish the National Memorial for the Unborn.

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