George Grant told the following story in his book, Grand Illusions.
“Martha Tollesk’s divorce had been final just 3 days when she discovered that she was pregnant. “Everybody told me that I should just go out and get an abortion,” she said. “I’d just enrolled in night courses at the local community college. I had a great new job. My life was coming together finally. And then this!”
Martha’s friends talked her into visiting a Planned Parenthood center where she received a fistful of brochures and tracts on the benefits and blessings of abortion. “It all sounded so simple and so secure. So I went ahead and scheduled an appointment.” The doctor performed a suction aspiration abortion on her 3 days later. “It was incredibly painful. It was just awful. But they told me all had gone well, and they sent me on home.”
But all was not well. After almost a week, Martha was admitted to the hospital with a number of alarming symptoms: swelling of the abdomen, severe pain, nausea, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, chills and fever, and shortness of breath. The obstetricians diagnosed her as suffering from peritonitis – an inflammation of the membrane covering the wall of her peritoneum. Caused by a small uterine puncture during the abortion, the bacterial infection had quickly spread throughout her body cavity. “They tell me I’m lucky,” she said. “But I’m not sure I call 4 days in the hospital and a close call with death lucky. I call it irresponsible.”
George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 71
According to the documentary “The First Hour” Stojan Adasevic performed more than 550,000 abortions. He would convert and become a pro-life leader. It was an unusual dream that influenced him. In his own words:
“There were times when I used to carry out 20, 25, 30 or even 35 abortions every day. We used to work 5 days a week….
He describes one abortion:
I opened up the womb, tore the placenta, the birth waters flowed out and I got to work on the inside with my abortion forceps. I grabbed something, crushed it a little, removed it, and threw it onto a cloth. I look, and I see a hand – quite a large hand. The child was 3 ½, perhaps 4 months old. I had no tape to measure it.
Someone had spilled some iodine on a part of the table and the hand fell in such a way that the nerve endings came in contact with the iodine. And what happened? I look and I say, “my God, the hand is moving by itself.” I nevertheless carry on with my forceps, and again catch something, crush it, and pull it out. I think to myself, “let it not be a leg.” I pull, and look. A leg. I want to put the leg on the table, carefully, so that it isn’t near the moving hand. As my arm falls, I hear a bang behind my back. I jumped, and automatically, my grip on the forceps loosened. At this very moment, the leg completed a somersault and fell next to the hand. I look – both hand and leg are moving by themselves. I nevertheless, once again, direct my instrument into the womb, and begin to crush everything inside. I think to myself that all I need to complete the picture is the heart. I continue to crush, and crush, and crush, and till I am sure that I have ground everything inside into a pulp, and once again pull out the forceps. As I pull out the mess, thinking it will be bone fragments I lay it on the cloth, I look, and I see a human heart, contracting and expanding and beating, beating, beating. I thought I would go mad. I can see that the heartbeat is slowing, ever more slowly, and more slowly still, until it finally stops completely. Nobody could’ve seen what I had seen, with my very own eyes, and be more convinced that I was that I had killed a human being.”
Foot of baby at 3 months
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“They taught us and they taught us, told us that life began with the first cry. When a baby cries for the first time. That up to that moment a human being is like any other organ in a woman’s body. Like an appendix. The removal of an appendix from a mother’s body is not murder. Only a child that had been born, and had cried, could be killed. It hasn’t cried, then there can be no talk of murder. That is why, immediately after birth, children were taken, and their head’s submerged in a bucket of water. A child that would take in water instead of air. And would never cry. That was, therefore, not regarded as murder. Terrible, but that was how things were.”
“The medical textbooks of the Communist regime said abortion was simply the removal of a blob of tissue,” the newspaper reported. “Ultrasounds allowing the fetus to be seen did not arrive until the 80s, but they did not change his opinion. But I began to have nightmares.
“I dreamed about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from 4 to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear. A man dressed in a black and white habit stared at him in silence. The dream was repeated each night and he would wake up in a cold sweat. One night he asked the man in black and white who he was. ‘My name is Thomas Aquinas.”
“Why don’t you ask me who these children are?” St. Thomas asked me in my dream.
“They are the ones you killed with your abortions,’ St. Thomas told me.
“That same day a cousin came to the hospital with his four months-pregnant girlfriend, who wanted to get her ninth abortion—something quite frequent in the countries of the Soviet bloc. I agreed. Instead of removing the fetus piece by piece, I decided to chop it up and remove it as a mass. However, the baby’s heart came out still beating. I realized then that I had killed a human being,”
After this experience, I “told the hospital he would no longer perform abortions. Never before had a doctor in Communist Yugoslavia refused to do so. They cut my salary in half, fired my daughter from her job, and did not allow my son to enter the university.”
After years of pressure and on the verge of giving up, I another dream about St. Thomas.
“You are my good friend, keep going,’ the man in black and white told him. I became involved in the pro-life movement and was able to get Yugoslav television to air the film ‘The Silent Scream,’ by Doctor Bernard Nathanson, two times.
Webmaster’s note; The changes in pronouns here are probably due to translation errors.
Also, Thomas Aquinas would be a strange figure to appear in an anti-abortion dream. Aquinas was not pro-life in the sense that he agreed with prolifers today. He did not believe life began at conception. He believed that the soul did not enter the baby until at least 40 days after conception (for a boy) and later for a girl. Prior to that, abortion was not killing. So to have Thomas Aquinas appear in a pro-life dream might be unusual.
It is more likely that the abortionist’s dream was not a visitation from a saint but rather a function of a subconcious mind that felt guilty.
‘…I fear the power of choice over life or death at human hands. I see no human being whom I could ever trust with such power–not myself, not any other. Human wisdom, human integrity are not great enough. Since the fetus is a creature already alive and in the process of development, to kill it is to choose death over life. At what point shall we allow this choice? For me the answer is–at no point, once life has begun. At no point, I repeat, either as life begins or as life ends, for we who are human beings cannot, for our own safety, be allowed to choose death, life being all we know.”
Novelist Pearl S. Buck
Foreword to Robert E. Cooke and others, ed.,The Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma(New York: Bantam Books, 1968), ix-xi,x.
On LifeSiteNews, a man gave his testimony of regret after his girlfriend Kelly had 2 abortions. Here is an excerpt.
“We became pregnant three months into our relationship. Kelly and I both grew up attending church and knew how our parents felt about sex outside of marriage, so that seemed to leave very few options for us. Kelly convinced herself she had to have an abortion so that we could try to hide what, honestly, our parents already knew was going on. Her friend took her to have the abortion, and we never discussed it.
Within one month, however, we found ourselves pregnant again, and we aborted the second child just as quickly to hide our shame. This time, I took her to the clinic. As I sat there in the waiting room, I could hear crying and saw women come out with tears running down their faces. This scared me because I was told “this was just a small procedure and it wouldn’t hurt Kelly or the tissue at all.” In my heart, I knew this was a baby, not tissue.
When Kelly came out, she was groggy and looked to be in a lot of pain, which made me furious about the lies we had been told. As we drove home, neither of us said a thing. We sat in silence as I contemplated our decision. Sadly, because of my inability to be a man, I put it all aside and we went on with our relationship.
Kelly and I eventually got married, but many years after the abortions I realized I was in pain. My inability to protect those I was entrusted to care for created a domino effect of bad choices. … I self-medicated my pain with pornography and alcohol and searched for ways to find my voice …. I was a broken man with a broken wife, two children in heaven, and was trying to pick up the pieces of what my indifference had done. I watched Kelly find healing from the abortions and eventually decided I needed help, too. The healing process made me realize that I was meant to be a Daddy to those two children and that my silence never allowed me to be that for them.”
In this video, Citizens for Pro-Life society show you what was thrown in the dumpsters at two abortion clinics in Michigan.
I’m sure that going through the dumpster was something the pro-lifers hated doing. I’m sure they felt dreadful gathering up the remains of these aborted babies. These children, so carelessly discarded, deserve more than a filthy dumpster as their private resting place, though. The babies found here would be buried. The video is to show the reality of abortion in all its hideousness.
Dr. Alec Bourne, who had successfully challenged the abortion law in England by performing an abortion on a teenage rape victim. He later wrote:
“Those who plead for an extensive relaxation of the law [against abortion] have no idea of the very many cases where a woman who, during the first three months, makes a most impassioned appeal for her pregnancy to be ‘finished,’ later, when the baby is born, is thankful indeed that it was not killed while still an embryo. During my long years in practice I have had many a letter of the deepest gratitude for refusing to accede to an early appeal.”
A. Bourne, A Doctor’s Creed: The Memoirs of a Gynecologist, London, 1963
Not all babies who are initially unwanted stay unwanted.
When I was 3 years old I saw my mom on TV. She was speaking to a man about how she killed her baby and regretted it. As she told her story and how she became a pro-life speaker, I watched and listened. My grandma didn’t think I was old enough to understand.
When my mom picked me up that night I asked her why she killed my brother or sister and why she didn’t kill me. My mom said she was in shock that her 3-year-old would ask these questions. She answered them the best she could for me, and as I got older I learned more.
This is the testimony of Alex. She and her mom are now pro-life speakers.
911 Babies recently shared a picture of Baby Charlie, a twenty week old (allegedly) aborted baby.
Here is the story that was shared:
“Baby Charlie was aborted at about 20 weeks of gestation. All his organs were functioning; he just needed time to grow. A pathologist gave him to pastors Norn Stone and Jerry Horn in 1986. They gave the baby to me at the Pensacola march that year. I carried him across America and brought him into churches. The reaction was horror. Many wept, and many cursed me. We buried him in Milton, FL several months later. I couldn’t take any more. He needed the dignity of a burial. I will never forget this little boy. He had one finger that pointed out as if to ask, “Where were you when I was led away to slaughter?” I’ll see you in heaven, baby Charlie”
Penny Lea
Because of the condition of the body, I would estimate that he was aborted by the prostaglandin method, in which the prostaglandin is given by IV or vaginal suppository and forces a woman’s body to go into labor. he may have been injected with poison to prevent a live birth. This method was often used in the mid 1980s. Bruises on the baby’s body imply that labor was traumatic, possibly indicating this type of abortion, which caused what doctors referred to as “tetanic” contractions, which were very strong contractions that are continuous and could damage the baby severely (as well as being very painful for the mother) Another possibility is saline, a salt solution injected into the womb that burns the outer layer of skin. Because there are no visible burns, this was may not have been the method used. Urea, which is another poison, is also a possible cause of death.
Formalin solution is commonly used in abortion clinics to prevent the baby’s from rotting and causing odors in the clinic. This or formaldehyde may have preserved the body. The gray skin is compatible with such preservatives.
I cannot verify from the picture that this is not a stillbirth. Nor have I personally interviewed the writer of the story. Therefore, I cannot state with total certainty that her story is true. But in a stillbirth, the cord is usually cut close to the body. The bruising on the skin is also inconsistent with a stillbirth.
Today, it is illegal to perform experiments on living aborted babies in the US. The issue of fetal experimentation has faded into the background. But it wasn’t always that way. There was a time, shortly after Roe V Wade, when babies who survived abortion not only were allowed to die, they were sometimes experimented on until they died. And experimentation on living aborted babies is legal in some countries.
Dr. Jerald Gaull, then chief of pediatric research at New York State Institute for Basic Research in Mental Retardation on Staten Island, was quoted defending this practice:
“Rather than it being immoral to do what we are trying to do, it is immoral it is a terrible perversion of ethics to throw these fetuses in the incinerator as is usually done, rather than to get some useful information.”
“Operations on Live Fetuses.”San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 1973, page 20.
The book the article was cited in gives the following information:
Dr. Jerald Gaull, …was making periodic trips to Finland “to experiment on aborted but still-living fetuses.” He severed the nerve connections between brain and body, then surgically removed the brain, lungs, liver and kidneys for study and dissection.
Beyond Abortion, A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation* by Suzanne M. Rini, (Avon, NJ: Magnificat Press, 1988) pp.32
22 to 24 weeks – a baby capable of being born alive and experimented on
I encourage anyone who wants more information on this to read Rini’s book.
