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Baby girl born alive after failed abortion

Pro-life author Troy Clark documented the following story in his book:

“Taranda,” age 17, went to a Family Planning Clinic for Reproductive Health for an abortion on December 22, 1989. Dr. Karen J Smiley misdiagnosed the pregnancy at 6 weeks and performed an abortion.

Four days later, Taranda gave birth to a one pound, critically ill infant girl in a hospital corridor. Taranda’s lawyer said, “She’s devastated, obviously. She would never have dreamed of having an abortion had she known it was 26 weeks old.” Taranda needed psychiatric care after her ordeal. The following news agencies reported her story:

The Tennessean 3/15/90: Today’s Tennessean 2/2/90, Associated Press 1/1/90, 1/26/90, and 1/29/90

From Troy Clark, Ph.D. Abortion Every 90 Seconds: The Whole Story (Kindle, 2015)

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Neonatologist testifies about fetal pain

Dr. Colleen A Malloy, Assistant professor, division of neonatology at Northwestern University testified before the House Judiciary Committee in June 2012, and said:

“[T]hus, the difference between fetal and neonatal pain is simply the locale in which the pain occurs. I could never imagine subjecting my tiny patients to horrific procedures such as those that involve limb detachment or cardiac injection.”

David Andrusko “Neonatologist tells Congress the ‘fetus and neonate born prior to term may have an even heightened sensation of pain compared to an infant more advanced in gestation” Part 3 of 4, National Right to Life News Today 5/22/2012

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Abortion clinic gives lower dose of pill to drive profits

An abortion clinic owner increases her profits the following way:

“Now, clinics are grappling with the mifepristone dilemma. Owners feel they have to offer the recently approved abortion pill, formerly known as RU-486, because women are asking for it and seem to expect it. But its price — $270 for three pills — will be a problem. Many owners say that if they charge what it costs to provide the three pills plus the three office visits, the lab work, and the counseling, they will lose customers to competitors who say they will keep the price much lower.

Some have found creative solutions. Ms. Chelian said she is considering offering women just one pill instead of three and to have them sign a form saying they understand that one pill is not the approved dose but that studies have shown that one pill is effective. Then she can charge them just $80 more than for a surgical abortion.”

Gina Kolata “As Abortion Rate Decreases, Clinics Compete for Patients” The New York Times December 30, 2000

Even though giving one pill is not medically recommended, the abortion clinic manages to stay competitive and is able to sell abortions to women by keeping the price down. This shows how abortion clinics are really businesses. They are willing to cut corners with medical care in order to stay competitive and make money

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Memorial for the aborted would be a mile-long

A fact about abortion:

“Were a memorial, similar to the Vietnam Memorial, to be constructed with names of all American children killed in abortions since 1973, it would be twice as tall as the Washington Monument and a mile-long.”

“Choose Life: How Big is 22 Million” NC Right to Life, 1988, No. 1

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Writer gives reasons women have abortions

Leslie Savan wrote the following in the Village Voice:

“…many women of my generation are replacing having children with having abortions, not only in a literal sense but also as a major rite of passage …”wanted unwanted pregnancies” become attractive in the first place because of interacting and not-always conscious motives, among them:

• a desire to know we’re fertile

• to test the commitment of the man…

• abortion as a rite of passage…the fact that more women are aborting makes it more permissible, even intriguing…

• torn between “femininity” and “feminism” getting pregnant proves we are feminine while getting the abortion proves we are feminist…

Leslie Savan,, “Abortion Chic: Attraction of ‘Wanted-Unwanted’ Pregnancies” The Village Voice, February 4, 1981.

9 to 10-week-old unborn baby – most abortions happen about this time — 9 to 10-week-old unborn baby – most abortions happen between 6-11 weeks

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Woman compares her abortion to incest

In a book by a Planned Parenthood worker, a woman named Lisa comments on how painful her abortion was and how it brought on negative emotions:

“My abortion was physically painful. My body doesn’t react well to being invaded – it’s incest stuff. I really think it was emotional pain being put on the physical level because I didn’t know where else to put it.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 34

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Woman asked about “individual” being aborted

A woman who had an abortion recalls the following conversation with the abortionist:

“I was in with the doctor, and I can still remember his face. I said, ‘I’m concerned about the individual that, you know, is being terminated.’ And he said, ‘Oh, they’re not individual yet.’ And that has set with me, because I have a background in Special Ed now. I know genetics and chromosomes, and you just don’t get the same match every time. Like the kid I had later is not the kid I aborted.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 64

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Woman regrets her abortions on her death bed

The following story was told in the Journal of American Culture:

“In the small Idaho ranching community where I grew up there was an old woman, the matriarch of one of the wealthier ranching families, who had had a number of illegal abortions in addition to several children. When she was dying in the hospital, her last words, whispered to one of the nurses, were `Oh, all those little babies! I’m so sorry. What can I tell them? Will they forgive 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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New Scientist magazine: Life begins at fertilization

In an article in New Scientist, a task force of scientists came to the following conclusion:

“The task force finds that the new recombinant DNA technologies indisputably prove that the unborn child is a whole human being from the moment of fertilization, that all abortions terminate the life of a living human being, and that the unborn child is a separate human patient under the care of modern medicine.”

Under Evidence Cited:

“The task force cited scientific advances since 1973 as showing an embryo to be a “whole, separate, unique, living, human being” from the moment of conception. The advances in question include DNA fingerprinting, which shows a pattern of DNA that can identify an individual, and the polymerase chain reaction, which makes it possible to amplify and extract that information from a single cell. Techniques that show an embryo has a complete set of DNA “have proven that each human being is totally unique immediately at fertilization”, the panel’s report says. The task force also cited findings that control of growth and development are established by the embryo’s DNA after the third division of the fertilized egg: this stage is reached long before the embryo is implanted in the womb, which has previously been cited as signifying when personhood began.”

“When does life begin?” New Scientist 3/18/2006, Vol. 189, Issue 2543

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Abortionist: “Abortion providers are “hot”

From one abortion doctor:

“An unexpected side effect of the 2016 election is that many people have become vocal about their support for reproductive rights. Suddenly, dating an abortion provider can be cool, a way to proclaim one’s liberal street cred. I met an investment banker who was close to a decade younger than I am. For him, my profession seemed to add to the edginess of dating an older woman. There was the hard-partying Alaskan fisherman on an extended shore break, who found my commitment to reproductive justice “hot.” So, abortion providers are “hot” now?”

Colleen Krajewski “I used to be quiet about the fact that I perform abortions. Now I’m upfront.” Washington Post July 10, 2017

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