“… When you’re not dogmatic, you have to take certain criteria into consideration.… One of which is viability. The other major criterion is the beginning of brain waves. Both occur at around 5 – 6 months. Most abortions are performed before 12 weeks of pregnancy – about 95%.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 63
This abortionist is lying on two counts.
According to the CDC, here is a chart which shows when abortions are performed.
12% of abortions happen after the 12th week – more than double what the abortionist claims. This may seem like a minor exaggeration, but the difference is hundreds of thousands of abortions a year.
Brain waves have been detected in an unborn baby at only 6 weeks and 2 days. The vast majority of abortions, as you can see, take place after this time.
A book by a pro-choice author told the story of Nurit, from Israel, who had an abortion:
“… She was a research student studying about the development of the embryo in medical school in Israel when she aborted a pregnancy in her fourth month of gestation. She discovered that she had been pregnant with twins when she expelled a second male fetus as she rose from a sofa. Uncertain about what to do with the fetus, she decided take it to her lab where they preserved it in formaldehyde. Over 35 years later, Nurit still has the fetus preserved in a jar on her dresser.
4 month living unborn child. This is the age of the dead baby Nurit kept in a bottle
She says this about keeping her aborted baby in a jar:
“I don’t know exactly why I kept the fetus all these years. I never think of it as my offspring, but I didn’t feel that it was right to just throw it away. I don’t know why I brought it with me to America; I guess that I have some attachment to it. It never occurred to me to bury it, and I never felt the need to name the fetus. I have always referred to my son as my firstborn. The fetus wasn’t born, so it didn’t exist for me in that sense, and yet I keep it with me. I don’t know why…I believe that preserving the fetus was a celebration of life.”
She later had another abortion.
From her husband, the father of the aborted baby:
“I didn’t want my wife to have the first abortion, but when I realized her attitude, we decided that it would be the best for us. I didn’t want her to abort our child because having a child for me meant the survival of the Jewish people. I was born in Belgium and lost most of my family in the Holocaust. I felt that abortion was killing a child, but that it was better to do it before we knew him…
Before he was born. My wife was more important to me than the fetus we lost. I didn’t think my wife was right to preserve the fetus. To this day I think that she was wrong to do that. But it was a part of her, and so it’s her right, even if I disagree. This fetus represents death for me, but I am not afraid to face death.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 102 – 103
Judith Jarvis Thompson, pro-choice professor at MIT:
“I am inclined to think also that we shall probably have to agree that the fetus has already become a person well before birth. Indeed, it comes as a surprise when one first learns how early in its life it begins to acquire human characteristics. By the tenth week, for example, it already has a face, arms and legs, fingers and toes; it has internal organs, and brain activity is detectable.”
“Women are generally more willing to talk about abortion than men… If he is still with his partner, he seems to feel threatened by the thought of sharing his experience in words, especially if his partner is present.
It appears that the main reason for this reluctance to talk on the part of men is the fact that abortion causes serious communication problems and emotional conflicts in their relationship with their partner… Both women and men were fearful of renewed conflict and tension over abortion, which might cause an emotional estrangement similar to what transpired at the time of the actual abortion.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 102
“An abortion puts a great strain on a relationship, largely by throwing into question its true nature and thereby administering the shock of disillusionment to one or both parties.… I have been involved in 3 abortion “situations.” In the 3rd one in particular, I was shocked by her failure to tell me of the situation at the time… But I was even more shocked by the great sense of relief I felt at having been saved from becoming the father of her child and thereby tied to her by a lasting bond. This appeared to me a revelation of my true feelings towards her, which were considerably less positive than I had supposed.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 98 – 99
“There are many reasons for choosing to have an abortion. Perhaps underlying them all is a deeply maternal, instinctive feeling that the time is not right to give birth and that to do so would be detrimental to all concerned… For some women, and abortion is one of the most profound events they will experience in life.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 17
Is it “maternal” to kill a baby? Is it not detrimental to the baby to kill him or her?
Perfectly formed legs of baby aborted at just 8 weeks, still around the time when most abortions take placeShare on Facebook
“Why would you feel sadness or loss about something you wanted to get rid of? On the surface it looks like a contradiction… The fact that it was your decision which caused the loss does not allow space for mourning.”
Mira Dana Abortion and the Emotions Involved (London: Women’s Therapy Center, 1984) 12
“I remember thinking before my abortion, “Oh God, don’t let me die because I’m doing this.” I was scared that I was about to have an abortion and that I wouldn’t come out of it. After having the abortion, they couldn’t bring me out of the anesthesia – I had never had a history of problems with anesthesia – I just didn’t seem to want to come back to consciousness, perhaps because I didn’t want to have the abortion. I wanted my boyfriend’s baby, but he said he wouldn’t stay with me if I didn’t have the abortion. I thought that having the abortion would help keep us together. I think the guilt we both felt about the abortion contributed to our eventual divorce three years after we married.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 145
“Physically, taking the pills was a dream. But emotionally, I was very angry… I had weeping fits. Sometimes I’d just look at my kids. My husband was depressed about it too. His way of dealing with it was not talking about it.”
Quoted in Beth Ann Kirier, Los Angeles Times, April 22, 1990
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 142
Many women have a much more difficult time with the pills and a great deal of physical pain and bleeding. They would definitely not call it a “dream.” Read some of their stories here.
“You just get your kids beyond the diaper stage and start to plan for doing things, getting out of the house more. There was just no way at this time for a little one, for starting all over again.”
Suzanne T. Poppema, MD and Mike Henderson Why I am an Abortion Doctor (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1996) 260
Below: baby aborted at 8 weeks. This is around the time most abortions are done.
