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Former abortionist: trimester framework is no longer relevent

The Surpreme Court in Roe v. Wade made major differences in abortion law based on what trimester the baby was in and when the child was “viable.” Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson explains how the trimester framework is no longer scientifically relevant.

“…with the advent of realtime ultrasound in 1976, obstetricians abandoned the trimester concept as a crude and unscientific [and] antique and began to describe pregnancy in the more precise language of weeks… Viability is a pathetically unreliable criterion for protection of a human being under the law; there are so many variables and it is so poorly defined that it is all but useless.

Bernard Nathanson, M.D., Bernadell Technical Bulletin, Vol. No. 1, October 1989, page 1-3, Bernadell Inc., New York

Unborn baby's legs at 12 weeks, end of first trimester — Unborn baby’s legs at 12 weeks, end of first trimester

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Fellow of Board of Anesthesiologists claims baby feels pain in first trimester

In America Medical News, February 24, 1984, Dr. Vincent Collins, Diplomat and Fellow of the American Board of Anesthesiologists, stated:

As early as eight to ten weeks’ gestation, and definitely by thirteen-and-a-half weeks, the human fetus experiences organic pain. Dr. Collins listed the following factors as evidence that the fetus is capable of pain:

• The cortex is developed between four and five weeks of age.

• Reflex actions can be observed between four and seven weeks.

9-10 weeks

• Brain waves are detectable between six and seven weeks.

• Nerves connecting the spinal cord to peripheral structures have developed between six to eight weeks.

• Adverse reactions to stimuli are observed between eight and ten weeks

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

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Study fails to show that unwanted pregnancies cause bad outcome for babies

A study meant to document that children born from unwanted pregnancies grew up with serious problems failed. The study turned up no evidence linking unwanted pregnancies to unhappy children. The study did not find that children who were unwanted in the womb had bad lives. Researchers said:

“There is contention that unwanted conceptions tend to have undesirable effects…the direct evidence for such relationship is almost completely lacking…It was the hope of this article to find more convincing systematic research evidence and to give some ideas of the amount of relationship and undesired effect on children. This hope has been disappointed.”

E. Polman “Unwanted Conceptions: Research on Undesirable Consequences,” Ethics Quarterly, vol. 14, page 143, 1967

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Saline injections could enter woman’s bloodstreams, leading to death

Saline abortions are rarely done today, but were common in the 1970s and 1980s. In these abortions, saline solution was injected into a woman’s womb to poison her baby, who slowly died. Then labor was induced.

An article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology revealed just how dangerous these abortions were.

In the article instructing would-be abortionists how to do saline abortions, it says:

“It is necessary that a woman undergoing a saline abortion remain conscious during salt injection so that her reactions can be monitored. Emergency measures must be taken at the first sign of shock. For this may mean that the needle has pierced one of the woman’s blood vessels. Introduction of the salt solution into her bloodstream can lead to rapid convulsions, cardiac failure and death.”

“Fetal Pathology and Mechanisms of Death in Saline Abortion,” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 120 (1974), 347-355.

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Abortion worker describes “polite” pro-life protesters

The media frequently portrays protesters outside abortion facilities as violent fanatics. This pro-abortion book about doulas who work in abortion clinics captures the polite exchange between a worker going into the clinic and the pro-lifers outside:

“They politely say good morning and offer her a “Jesus Saves” pamphlet as she bounces lightly up the stairs. She tells them, “No thank you.”

Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 205

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Abortionist: women don’t want their regular doctors to know

In The New York Times, Dr. Deborah Oyer, medical director and owner of Aurora Medical Services in Seattle (an abortion clinic) explains how women often try to hide their abortions from their regular doctor:

“In addition, Dr. Oyer said, many women do not want their doctor — or anyone in their town — to know they had an abortion. ”I can’t tell you how many women who come on their own say, ‘Oh, I can’t tell my doctor,’ ” Dr. Oyer said. ”And sometimes their doctor is someone who does abortions in their own office.”

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

The stigma surrounding abortion influences women to keep their abortions secret from people who know them and see them on a regular basis.

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Director of Neurobiology on life at conception

Dr. Sean O’Reilly, Director of the Neurobiology Research Training Program at George Washington University:

“[T]here is nothing in the entire phenomenon of the transmission of life that deserves more to be called an event, scientifically speaking, that does fertilization. It is the natural and scientific boundary at which a new and genetically unique human individual can be said to begin his existence. We conclude, therefore, that by objective and scientific criteria the individual human being is a person throughout his [or her] entire biological development from conception, which is synonymous with fertilization, to natural death… Any other conclusion would be arbitrary, unsupportable by scientific fact or rational argument, divorced from objective reality, and based on a particular ideology, philosophy or creed.”

Direct report on S. 158 by Dr. Sean O’Reilly, dated July 2, 1981

Quoted on page 28 – 29 of Randall J Hekman Justice for the Unborn (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1984)

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Parents call children with Down’s “a gift from god”

Testimony from parents of a Down syndrome child in an editorial in a newspaper:

“There are no more giving, joyful, happy or precious children then Downs children. They are a genuine gift from God. Our son teaches us the meaning of patience and love and faith – just by his very existence.

He has touched the lives of so many of our relatives and friends, adding dimensions they had not known existed. And he has helped us grow as a couple and as parents.”

Randall J Hekman Justice for the Unborn (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1984) 55

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Woman says abortionist was “degrading”

From an interview with one woman who had an abortion:

“I was lying back, so when the doctor came in I never saw him.” I asked Susan if she saw the doctor at all during the procedure. “No. In fact, he really didn’t talk to me. The counselor was the one talking.” I was shocked to think that the doctor had apparently not introduced himself. “He didn’t introduce himself?” I asked. “No. Actually, what I distinctly remember the best is that as soon as the procedure was over, it was, like, he couldn’t wait to get to the door. Maybe he didn’t want me to see the contents, so maybe that was out of consideration. I never saw him again or anything. It seemed a little bit odd to me. You know, it felt a bit degrading. Like I wasn’t worth talking to, or he had better things to do. I think, for a while I kind of rationalized that, well, maybe, he just had a lot of work and other people to perform on. But, in the end, it left me feeling that much worse.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 35-36

Even though pro-abortion activists refer to abortion as a decision made by “a woman and her doctor”, often the abortionist sees the woman for the first time on the abortion table and then never again.

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