They said it.
Author Brent Elisens, who supports legalized abortion, wrote:
“… Kids are obnoxious, stop loud, obstinate, and because of your votes and professional outrage at everything, you can’t put your hands on them. They’re smart, they know that… I have one son and I regret having him. Not him but having a child at all.”
Brent Elisens The Adoption Option With a Portion of Abortion (2021)
Share on FacebookIn England and Wales in 2019:
one in five abortions are carried out at seven weeks (picture below)
one in 5 at 8 weeks (pictures below)
nearly one in 10 at nine weeks,
and the same percentage between 10 and 12 weeks
S. Nye Whose Child? UK Abortion, a Gospel Matter (undated) 31
Share on FacebookIn an email sent out by Live Action, a woman called “Maria” told her story:
“I was 16 when I got pregnant the first time. I was on the pill—actually, I was on the pill both times I got pregnant. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t get pregnant if you’re on the pill, because it’s a lie.
I knew I was pregnant at the moment of conception. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt the presence of another life like an epiphany. I know she was a girl the same way I knew I was pregnant. I can’t explain it. I just know.
It seemed to be a foregone conclusion that I would have an abortion. Everyone in whom I confided my situation presumed that’s what I would do. Not a single person asked me if I wanted my baby, or suggested adoption as an alternative.
In that echo chamber of voices telling me to kill my baby, my own voice was drowned out.
And so, my way of “not hurting” my daughter was to sentence her to death. A culture that had been obsessed with sexual pleasure longer than I’d been alive had brought me up to believe this was the lesser evil.
It bombarded me with stories of women going on to great successes after their abortions, without ever shedding a tear over the dead babies they left in their wakes. It whispered to me that nobody else regretted their abortions, so there must be something wrong with me for regretting mine.
And I believed it. I believed it so sincerely that I did the whole thing over again three years later. I felt the same heartbreak, shame, guilt, and lamenting regret afterward; yet if you’d asked me about it any time over the following 13 years, I would’ve given you 1,001 reasons why what I’d done had been the “right thing.”
I would never have admitted my secret sorrow, because I believed to do so would be to admit my defectiveness. And yet, I had a nagging feeling of empty despair, which ultimately led to an (failed) attempt to take my own life.
Every day since the deaths of my children, I have felt the two holes in my life where my son and daughter should be. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that your life will be more complete after an abortion, because it’s a lie. It will feel like something is missing for the rest of your life.
I’m telling my story with the hope that I might save even just one woman or girl from the suffocating sorrow I have felt all these years—and that I will continue to feel until the day I die.”
Jun 22, 2021 email from Live Action
Share on FacebookA pro-choice author wrote the following in an introduction to her book on abortion, published in 2014:
“I focus on the concerns of women who either have obtained abortions or support women’s ability to choose to do so, and yet regard fetuses as deserving of respect.
This sentiment is increasingly prevalent among the younger pro-choice generation, and it is vital that the pro-choice community defend abortion in a manner that will resonate with them.
Contrary to the worry that doing so will adversely affect abortion rights, the unwillingness to humanize the fetus is turning people away from the pro-choice community.”
Bertha Alvarez Manninen Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Shared Values in the Abortion Debate (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) 6
A human fetus is human, whether pro-choice activists “humanize” him or not. Manninen’s words show that people are ambivalent about abortion and the status of pre-born babies.
Share on FacebookAn article in The Telegraph said the following:
“Two healthy babies are miscarried for every three Down’s Syndrome babies that are detected and prevented from being born, research has suggested.
The losses are down to the invasive methods used to test for the condition…
The NHS [National Health Service] cites a miscarriage rate of between one and two per cent following the tests, but the researchers, from the charity Down’s Syndrome Education International, point out that only the number of Down’s babies terminated, miscarried or born are recorded, not the number of healthy babies lost….
Although they admit that their ratio is only an estimate, they are backed by a number of independent experts who fear inexperienced practitioners may also be to blame.”
The article also said:
“Professor Kypros Nicolaides, head of the Harris Birthright Centre at King’s College Hospital in south London, said the loss of healthy babies was “completely unacceptable.”
The deaths of babies with Down syndrome through abortion, however, are perfectly acceptable to this doctor.
Aislinn Simpson “Two healthy babies miscarried for every three Down’s Sydrome babies detected” The Telegraph 16 September 2008
Share on FacebookResearcher Kevin Sherlock documented the following lawsuits against a California abortionist named Dr. Edgar Guess:
Penelope S had a tubal ligation by Guess soon after he did an abortion on her. She got pregnant again two years later and sued him. She won $15,000 in an arbitration hearing in 1980.
Source: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. C143928
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Maria G had an abortion performed by Guess in 1977. The abortion was incomplete, and she suffered infection, internal injuries, and severe internal bleeding. She also charges that Guess and his staffers failed to give her competent follow-up care, forcing her to go elsewhere for treatment.
Source: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. C229343
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Maria F said that a staffer at Guess’s facility named Nolan Jones botched her abortion in 1977. She remained pregnant and had a second abortion three months later. She also said she suffered other side effects. She was awarded $12,000 by a jury in 1983.
Source: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. C25205
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Maria C sued Guess, who performed an abortion on her but failed to kill her baby. The child survived and was born several months later.
Source: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. C324302
Cited in: Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 38
Share on FacebookTwo researchers wrote the following in a medical journal:
“Extremely low birth weight infants who require prolonged, often futile sojourns in neonatal intensive care units or who have poor long-term outcomes have been major consumers of healthcare resources and in some cases a major drain on health maintenance organizations. The allocation of limited resources may in the future mean denying care to some of these infants.”
EWD Young and DK Stevenson “Limiting Treatment for Extremely Premature Low Birth Weight Infants (500 – 750 g)” American Journal of Diseases of Children 1990 144:549
“Poor long-term outcomes” usually translates into a baby having a disability. These researchers suggest letting premature babies die so as not to take up medical resources.
Share on FacebookResearcher Kevin Sherlock writes about abortionist Dr. Vikram Kaji:
“An abortion provider who may have been performing as many as 800 abortions a month was sidelined in 1993 for his sexual performances with women who were his patients.
New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners officials suspended the license of Vikram Kaji…who operated in Trenton and Bordentown, New Jersey and also in Yardley, Pennsylvania, for sexually abusing three women who were his patients and for indiscriminately prescribing steroids and sleeping pills to one of them…
One woman said Kaji sexually abused her while performing a rectal exam on her. Another woman said Kaji molested her while performing a breast exam on her. The third woman said Kaji persuaded her to have sex with him in his facility, then prescribed her steroids illegally and routinely measured her in the nude after she started an exercise program.
The third woman, who’d been sexually abused by a relative for years, said she was easy prey for Kaji. She said he knew she had been a sexual abuse victim and had a low opinion of herself, so he took advantage of her.
She said she became severely depressed and couldn’t sleep, and Kaji prescribed her Seconal. She said she nearly died after using the barbiturates…
“I felt like I was the bad person, not him. As I’ve gotten better, I’ve realized this man has got to be stopped.”
Kaji admitted to having sex with the third woman. He denied the other charges the other two New Jersey women filed against him. Burlington County prosecutors refused to prosecute Kaji for criminal wrongdoing for the two reported assaults… The third woman went to the medical board on her own.
New Jersey medical board officials suspended Kaji’s license for three years in October 1993. They ordered him not to practice medicine in the state for a year, and then would put him on probation for the remaining two years.…
Kaji said he would shut down his Yardley, Pennsylvania office (New Jersey officials made him shut down his two garden state offices) and try to start a new career in hospital management instead.”
Source: The Trentonian, 10/28/93 and 10/29/93
Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 27-28
Share on FacebookIndian writer and researcher Ashish Bose writes:
“… Very often doctors show utter disregard for medical ethics. They know very well that through ultrasonography it is not possible to determine the sex of the foetus within 12 weeks of conception and yet they conduct these tests and indicate the results (invariably “it is a girl”).
The doctors know that it is just speculation and not scientific observation. In fact, we have come across reports of cases when after abortion it was found that the foetus was male, much to the agony of the parents.”
Ashish Bose “Female Foeticide: A Civilizational Collapse” in
Tulsi Patel Sex–Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies (New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2007) 83
Share on FacebookReporter Malcolm Moore wrote in 2013:
“There are more than 13 million abortions a year, or 1,500 an hour, in China…”
Malcolm Moore “336 million abortions under China’s one-child policy” The Telegraph 15 March 2013
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