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Crisis pregnancy center sees 95% of women choose life with ultrasound

An article on crisis pregnancy centers said:

…the results of performing sonograms have been startling, abortion opponents say. A survey by the Heidi Group, a Christian evangelical nonprofit organization that advises such centers on fund-raising and administration, found that those using counseling alone reported persuading 70 percent of women considering abortion to abandon the idea. In centers with ultrasound machines, that number jumped to 90 percent, said Carol Everett, the group’s chief executive.

Ms. Palumbo, director of another cpc, always weighed in:

About 45 percent of women who test positive for pregnancy at the Bowie center are “abortion-minded,” Ms. Palumbo, the center’s director said. The use of ultrasounds has convinced 50 to 75 percent of those women to change their minds, Ms. Palumbo said.

NARAL Pro-Choice America fights tooth and nail against laws that would require abortion clinics to show the sonogram to women. NARAL even spends untold amounts of money fighting in court against laws that say the clinic must only ask the woman if she wants to see it.

Nancy Keenan, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, says:

“With or without ultrasound women understand the moral dimensions of their choices.”

NEELA BANERJEE “Church Groups Turn to Sonogram to Turn Women From Abortions” New York Times February 2, 2005

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Woman “fine with her abortion” – until 19 years later

One postabortion woman wrote:

“In 1994, I was with a small group of women, and we were sharing our struggles with one another. One young woman expressed how she had been struggling to bond with her newborn son. She said she had an abortion in college and felt it was why she couldn’t bond with her baby. She said she was going through abortion recovery counseling. I told her I had an abortion when I was 16, and it was no big deal. I said she simply needed to get over it.

About six months later an experience in my basement forced me to recall that conversation. I was cleaning out boxes, and I found my yearbook from my junior year in high school. I picked it up, thinking I’d take a quick stroll down memory lane, but something strange happened. Instead of opening the book and seeing the kids’ faces, the yearbook felt like a baby, my baby. I knew instantly it was my child that I had aborted. I knew she was a little girl. I could feel her resting in my hands. And I knew that I had missed out on parenting a wonderful person, who would have brought a lot of joy into the world.

For the first time in nineteen years, as I felt my baby’s presence in my arms, I realized the full impact of my abortion. And I began to cry. As I cried, I recalled the conversation from six months earlier and I immediately called the woman who spoke about her abortion. Through my sobs, I said I needed help. She came to my house and sat with me while I wept and began to grieve for my aborted baby….

[F]or 19 years I denied my abortion and any feelings about it. If asked about my opinion on abortion I would have said “I’m fine with my choice.” However when my walls of denial came down around me as I felt my baby in my arms, my pain and guilt were very real and I have found many women dealing with the emotional consequences of abortion with similar experiences. There is a sub-culture in our society that is dealing with the pain of abortion usually in secrecy. More than 15 books have been published on this issue and at least twenty-one abortion recovery programs exist nationwide. Abortion doctors fail to warn and prepare women for the psychological damage of abortion. Abortion creates a psychological dysfunction from the traumatic experience resulting in intense fear, the feeling of helplessness or being trapped, and loss of control.

The Reality of Abortion: Reflections on my Journey August 11, 2008. Visited 9/8/2017

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Pro-Choicer: teens should abort their babies because their babies may die

Pro-Choice author Catherine Whitney explained why teens should have abortions:

“Infants born to teenagers have high mortality rates; they are more than twice as likely to die at birth [than] infants born to mature women. Infants who survive or more likely to have health complications and mental retardation.”

Catherine Whitney Whose Life? (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991) 176

Abortion must be available to teens because their babies have “high mortality rates.” Meaning that if the babies are not killed by abortion, they might die. So that is a reason to kill them, to prevent them from dying by killing them.

Very convoluted reasoning.

9-10 weeks. Is it better to kill this baby now to prevent him from later dying?

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Planned Parenthood opposes law that catches child rapists

The Topeka Capital-Journal writes of a new law requiring abortion clinics to keep the DNA of child rape victim’s abortions in order to have evidence to convict sexual predators. Planned Parenthood opposes the law, even though it has already provided leads on three rapists.

“An enhanced effort to prosecute child rapists has netted three leads during the past month for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

But Kansas’ abortion industry — responsible for providing the help — continues its critique of the initiative.

An official from the office of Attorney General Phill Kline told state lawmakers Tuesday that abortion doctors have sent tissue samples from three aborted fetuses to the KBI since July 11. That is when a law went into effect requiring the collection of those samples from girls younger than 14 who seek abortions.

Peter Brownlie, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri says:

“I think it’s an unfortunate law,”

Chris Moon “Abortion providers aiding KBI” Topeka Capital-Journal August 24, 2005

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Abortionist calls abortion by pill “prolonged and messy”

Abortionist Dr. Charles Livengood is glad that the abortion pill is available, but has reservations about it:

”I think it’s good to have mifepristone available. ‘But I do think that an abortion with mifepristone tends to be a prolonged and messy affair as opposed to a quick procedure that I do in the clinic.”

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

Read women’s stories of using the abortion pill

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Pregnant mom sees baby’s heartbeat, decides against abortion

Andrea Brown wanted to have an abortion until she went to the crisis pregnancy center Bowie Crofton Pregnancy Center and Medical Clinic and was given an ultrasound.

“When I had the sonogram and heard the heartbeat – and for me a heartbeat symbolizes life – after that there was no way I could do it.”

NEELA BANERJEE “Church Groups Turn to Sonogram to Turn Women From Abortions” New York Times February 2, 2005

A preborn baby’s heart begins to beat as early as 16 days after conception.

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Abortionist admits he is “taking this life”

An abortionist said the following:

“I’m not taking that life out of anger or cruelty; I’m taking that life for a purpose. I feel like the American Indian did-I’m saying a prayer to that animal: Give me your life so that I can accomplish this purpose, ‘speed thy spirit on to other places’ so that the life that is lost will one day be replaced.”

Tom Junod ““THE ABORTIONIST” GQ February 1994

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Woman: Abortion by pill was “worst experience” I’ve ever had

A woman who had an abortion by pill says it was “emotionally scarring.”

“[Abortion by pill] was the worst experience, the most physically and emotionally painful thing, that I’ve ever been through. The pill (RU-486) for me was the experience of having a baby. Contractions for 10 hours, sweating, screaming, being by myself. It was emotionally scarring and physically horrible.”

“Scientists Will Gather to Discuss Safety of Abortion Pill” New York Times May 11, 2006

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After abortion, women are 85% more likely to have miscarriage

A study found women who had abortions had a higher rate of miscarriage, labor complications, and premature birth:

“Those who had one or more abortions were 85 percent more likely to have a miscarriage in a future pregnancy; were 32 percent more likely to give birth to an infant with low birthweight; were 67 percent more likely to have a premature birth; were 47 percent more likely to have labor complications; and were 83 percent more likely to experience complications in delivery.”

“A Prospective Study of the Effects of Induced Abortion on Subsequent Reproductive Function,” research contract No. N01-HD-6-2802, sponsored by the National Child Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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Who are the youngest victims of abortion?

Pro-choice author Catherine Whitney makes the following ironic statement:

“Each year at least 1 million teenagers are faced with [unplanned pregnancies]. Half of them get abortions…They are truly the youngest victims of the abortion conflict.”

Catherine Whitney Whose Life? (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991) 176

What about these victims?

8 weeks, after abortion — aborted child at 8 weeks

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