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Late term abortionist calls Bill O’Reilly a Nazi

Dr. Warren Hern, who does abortions up until birth, on pro-lifers. An interviewer is speaking to him.

“But O’Reilly says he’s just exercising his right to engage in vigorous debate, you point out.

He’s full of shit. This is not a debate, it’s a civil war. And the other people are using bullets and bombs. I think O’Reilly is a fascist, and he would fit right in in Nazi Germany as far as I’m concerned. “

and later:

“The antiabortion movement is the face of fascism, he says. It cannot be separated from the ruthless and cynical manipulation of antiabortion rhetoric by the Republican party.”

John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor”Esquire September 1, 2009

Warren Hern kills babies like the one below.

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Doctor urges mother to abort baby who may not survive

Mira Ptacin aborted her child when she found out that the baby would be unable to survive after birth (according to the doctor). Her words given idea of what a woman goes through when she finds out that something very, very serious is wrong with her child.

Convinced that her daughter would die, Ptacin was faced with 3 choices – stick out the pregnancy, induce labor early, or have an invasive abortion procedure done. She says:

“The D&E would take 3 days and would be quite painful. First step: dilate the cervix by inserting laminaria rods. Andrew told me that I’d be put under anesthesia. I wouldn’t be awake to see the process. He mentioned forceps, but when he started to explain the actual excavation process, I made him stop. I didn’t want to hear the specifics – what was the point? The details didn’t matter because the result was going to be the same. I just wanted to pick the path that was the least cruel, but I wasn’t sure for whom. Do I choose what is the most respectful for Lily and let her live out her life naturally? Or do I do what would be the least painful for me?”

To the baby, which was old enough to feel pain, the details probably mattered. Below is a picture of a D&E abortion

This was the death that Ptacin chose for her baby. At one point when she was wavering, the doctor said:

“Listen to me, Mira. “Partial-birth abortion” is an inaccurate term,” Dr. Stein told me, over the phone, when I’d finally accepted her phone call. “You must understand that.” She explained how the term I had used to describe the D&E was a political one. Incorrect. Inaccurate. Charged with meeting. That the phrase was coined by the National Right to Life Committee, and that it was not recognized as a medical term by the American Medical Association. Or the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The term “partial-birth abortion” was false. A generalization… The best decision, the healthiest choice, for me, in her opinion, as a health professional, as my doctor, was to terminate the pregnancy, immediately.”

Mira Ptacin “Un–bearing” Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition

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Pro-Choicer admits movement’s racist, eugenic origins

Pro-Choice feminist SE Smith is describing the racist motives of the early pro-choice movement:

“While members of the reproductive rights movement are often deeply uncomfortable with discussing, let alone confronting, the origins of the movement, this is an important and necessary part of fighting for reproductive rights for all… The unfortunate truth is that many of the early fighters for access to reproductive rights did so for less-than-perfect reasons; Margaret Sanger, for example, held up as an icon of birth control, strongly believed in eugenics.

In her “Morality and Birth Control” speech (1918), Sanger stated that “all of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class.” Lest you think this was a one-time issue, she noted in a speech in 1920 that “[Birth control] sweeps the diseased, the weakling and the feebleminded to the wall with her great gestures that clean the world for the fit and the strong.” She was at it again in Birth Control Review in 1921 with “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda”: “On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to discourage the open fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

Sanger felt that poor people, disabled persons, and people of color should not reproduce, and she stated so quite openly. Her advocacy for birth control was rooted in part in a desire to advance a eugenic agenda…

It’s deeply saddening that the origins of the movement lie in eugenics and an attempt to control fertility, not to promote bodily autonomy….

Members of minority groups have good reason to fear the reproductive rights movement, to be concerned by some of its rhetoric, and to feel left out of discussions.…

When I bring these issues up, I commonly encounter significant anger, especially from leaders of the reproductive rights movement who are disconcerted by discussions like this one. Their reactions are often defensive, and are focused on painting the movement in a better light by attempting to negate what I’ve just said.”

SE Smith “Justice for All” in Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition

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Pro-choice woman mourns her abortion and miscarriage

Martha Bayne, who is pro-choice, describes her abortion in college and later miscarriage.

“When I got pregnant at 20, in college, the choice was clear. There was the 45 minute drive to the closest clinic… Afterward, there was pizza….

In the months that followed my abortion I flailed. I don’t remember much, but I do remember the waves of panic. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t breathe. I landed in the emergency room a few times, hyperventilating, numb, convinced I was dying, and my boyfriend was stuck with the fun task of feeding me daily doses of Xanax as I crawled along the semester finish line. After that, I dropped out of school for a while.”

As a working adult, she got pregnant again. She intended to have another abortion.

“[I] could barely take care of my cat. I could not have afforded a child, by the sheer economics of time.”

She went back and forth, trying to decide. Then she had a miscarriage.

“When I saw the first blood I felt a wash of relief, which I quickly plugged with a sandbag of denial.

Perhaps the best-known fact about miscarriage is that no one talks about it. But what they really don’t talk about, when they’re not talking about it, is how much it can hurt. In your heart, yes, and also your guts…

My roommate begged me to go to the ER. And when, hours later, after one final pelvic – splitting contraction, it slid down my cervix with a pop, a 3 inch oyster of blood and tissue and what looked like the tiniest tiny fingers. I yelped, surprised…

It plopped into the toilet and sat there till I scooped it out into an empty hummus container. I poked at it with the end of a plastic spoon. Turned it over. It was so small, this thing that loomed so large.… “

She brought the baby to her doctor, but did not give it to him and kept its existence a secret. She then buried the baby.

“I buried my 7-week-old embryo, my oyster, on the banks of the Iowa River.”

The day after the miscarriage, she was driving between Iowa city and Chicago for a talk she was giving out a book. She wrote:

“I kept having to pull off the interstate and cry. I cried for blotchy days – in the car, in bed, at the clinic where I applied (fruitlessly) for retroactive Medicaid to cover the bills the pregnancy left behind.”

Martha Bayne “Knocked over: On Biology, Magical Thinking, and Choice” Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition

This story shows that we women mourn the loss of our children. Abortion causes suffering because it’s a death, and leads the mourning, just like a miscarriage does. Even a person who is pro-choice and writes an article in a pro-abortion book called “Get Out Of My Crotch” still has a conscience.

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Woman justifies abortion- the unborn baby has no soul

Louise, a woman who had an abortion:

“I firmly believe that the soul does not take possession of the body until after birth. Now, nobody can prove their own theory. Nobody can. But I am as entitled to live according to mine as anybody else is according to theirs.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 28

Whether an unborn baby has a “soul” or not (whether the soul even exists) can never be known. You can look at any human being and justify killing them by claiming that”they have no soul.” The real question should be when human life begins. Life begins at conception. This is not a religious idea but a scientific fact.

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Pro-choicer: “convenience is a common reason for abortion”

From pro-choice, pro-abortion (in her own words) feminist Carolyn Hax:

Admitting that convenience is a common justification for abortion makes some people squeamish …. It is critical that antiabortion zealots not be allowed to elevate the argument about abortion to one of life and death, with nothing in between. Why? Because what lies between are most abortions, which are seldom a matter of life and death….

We came of age as women in the eye of the abortion storm, a relative calm of acceptance during which millions of women learned to take abortion for granted, as a means to a lifestyle that would allow them to view sex as a pleasure and being single as a way of life – a lifestyle that allowed room for irresponsibility.

Even another friend of mine who balked at the thought of defending “abortions of convenience” admitted to having had unprotected sex, more than once, and taken it lightly. Spontaneous sex, brought to you by the safety net of abortion – shall I upgrade convenience to luxury? Other perks of abortion on demand include extended travel, higher education, unbroken career paths, choosing a different father, limiting family size…

To judge by the life choices we make, then, there are dozens of reasons for women to be pro-abortion…

None of this is to say my generation is of one mind or devoid of conscience on the subject. For all you know, I find abortion reprehensible under any circumstances – but even then, I’d be all for it. Because I don’t care if you are in high school or the fetus is unhealthy or it’s a boy and you want a girl. If you don’t want your baby, I don’t want your baby.

dismembered foot of a baby aborted at nine weeks

Carolyn Hax, “No Birth, no Pangs; for Many Young Women, Abortion is a Given.” The Washington Post Mar 21 1993

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3rd trimester abortion clinic worker: “We don’t care what your reasons are”

Dr. Warren Hern’s clinic in Boulder, Colorado does abortions all the way up until birth. A reporter who visited the clinic overheard a clinic worker talking on the phone with an abortion patient.

“Are you on any medication? Have you had surgery in the last year? No, we don’t have any genetics counselors to interpret that for you. We don’t get a lot of protesters. It’s a liberal and tolerant community. If that changes, we will contact you. No, you’ll get up and get in your car and drive home. And Lisa, if you have a change of heart, please call us–our schedule is completely full and you’ll be taking someone else’s place.

After another silence, a soft voice gets softer: I also want you to know, we don’t care what your reasons are. We’re not going to judge you.”

John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor”Esquire September 1, 2009

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Lack of insurance contributing factor to woman’s abortion

Martha Bayne, a pro-choice feminist, describes how she became unexpectedly pregnant in her 40s.

“Congratulations!” [the doctor] said. “This is exciting. There’s no reason this can’t be a normal, healthy pregnancy.” A pause. “You must be a bit overwhelmed.”

I was – and not just by the cells dividing south of my navel. Did you know that, currently, only 12% of individual health insurance policies offer coverage for basic maternity care? That such coverage is mandated by only 9 states? I didn’t, until suddenly I did.

She goes on to describe her problem with insurance:

Carriers in states without a mandate may offer coverage for a rider, a package of benefits that reaches above and beyond the basics. But in addition to being expensive, and often sorely limited in scope, these riders, it turns out, are not something you can opt into once you become, in fact, pregnant. Because, of course, at that point your pregnancy is a pre-existing condition.

To say I was distressed would be a civilized gloss. I burned with the white-hot fire of a hundred suns after gleaning this information from the Internet. Thankfully, a phone call to my own carrier, Aetna, informed me that it was a moot point. Because, not only does Aetna not offer maternity coverage as part of my carefully acquired package, it also does not offer any maternity coverage at all, even as a rider, on an individual benefits package.

Babies, it turns out, are not cost-effective for the insurance industry. Because, guess what? When women purchase maternity coverage, it’s pretty good that they plan to use it.

The base cost of 9 months of prenatal and 3 months of postpartum medical care for routine pregnancy and delivery is widely estimated at $10,000… Even though Aetna wasn’t about to cover me, I make too much money to qualify for Medicaid.

I stood in front of the (very kind) receptionist, sweaty and humiliated. “I’m sorry,” she said.

“Thanks,” I said. “It’s my own fault. I should’ve checked.”

She had the abortion, and at the end of the essay writes:

“For the record: if I’d waited another 2 years to get accidentally pregnant, such coverage would be mandated as part of an essential benefits package by the Affordable Care Act.

Did you know that if you are pregnant and French, you get 16 weeks of mandatory paid maternity leave plus an optional 3 years of unpaid leave, no strings attached, plus low-cost daycare, plus financial support for single parents? They even send a nanny to your house once a week to help you clean up.”

Martha Bayne “Knocked over: On Biology, Magical Thinking, and Choice” in Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition

Democrats for Life supported The Affordable Healthcare Act in part because of the pregnancy benefits. There are, of course, other problems with the Act – such as the fact that in some states it pays for abortions. But this article highlights the necessity of putting programs in place to support pregnant women so they aren’t driven to abortion by lack of money or the inability to get insurance

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Planned Parenthood gets negative reviews on yelp

Here are some excerpts from horrible reviews given by patients at different Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. Mixed in are a few pictures women who died after abortion at Planned Parenthood, pictures of abortion instruments Planned Parenthood uses, and a few testimonies. Planned Parenthood is bad for women and bad for children.

Currette used to scrape the uterine wall during abortion - actual size — Currette used to scrape the uterine wall during abortion – actual size

Planned Parenthood also opposes these inspections

Syringe used in late term abortions to deliver poison to baby. Actual size — Syringe used in late term abortion. It is inserted in woman’s belly into her womb, in order to inject poison into the baby. Actual size

Legislators wanted to pass a law requiring this sign to be put in abortion clinics after a few publicized cases of men forcing women to abort. Planned Parenthood oppose and killed the law. Why? — Regulators wanted this sign to be put in abortion clinics after a few publicized cases of men forcing women to abort. Planned Parenthood opposed and defeated the regulation No signs were ever posted.

2082649_orig — Claire was in her mother’s womb when she went for an abortion. The instruments killed her twin, but she survived and was born months later.

Holly Patterson died after an abortion by pill at Planned Parenthood — Holly Patterson died after taking the abortion pill she got from Planned Parenthood

Mollie Hemingway “‘All Sorts Of Nasty’: These 39 Yelp Reviews Of Planned Parenthood Clinics Will Horrify You” The Federalist OCTOBER 7, 2015

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