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Rev: Pro-lifers make fetus “an idol”; should support abortion

Rev. Robert Buchanan:

“The biblical tradition also acknowledges that we human beings find it difficult to restrain ourselves from making idols that represent the divine. One of the early stories of conflict in this regard is that of the Golden Calf… I suggest that the sacred fetus is the modern equivalent of the Golden Calf. The sacred fetus has become an absolute around which a host of decisions are made. And these decisions become progressively more destructive. If the fetus is sacred, the mother is subservient, a view that is destructive to women.”

The Rev. Roger Buchanan, “The Modern Golden Calf,” Clergy Voices, June 1996, 5

The babies below are both 7 weeks old. Most abortions take place at this time or later. The first one is a healthy child in the womb at that age. The one underneath has been aborted. Is protecting these children making an idol out of them? Or is it justified?

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Father of aborted child wishes he could have saved his baby

A British man discusses his girlfriend’s abortion:

“Becoming a parent is supposed to be one of the most exciting – and of course scary – moments in the journey of life and losing a child is said to be one of the worst. Now, I found myself tasting both sensations at once. I had quickly come to terms with the prospect of parenthood, before fighting in vain to save the life I helped create. Nothing can describe the profound sense of powerlessness that comes with watching someone terminate a life that you helped create. I felt alone in a sea of pain, desperate to keep afloat.

Despite my best efforts, Jenny went through with the abortion. The pregnancy was over and, weeks later, so was our relationship. Six months later, she got in touch and suggested that we meet again. But the pain was too great and we parted ways for good.

Wounds do heal over time – even deep ones – but scars remain. Eight years later, I find myself incredibly blessed with a beautiful, bright and loving wife, a 19-month-old son and a daughter due in January. At times, I can’t help but look into my son’s deep grey-blue eyes and wonder what his older brother or sister might have been like.

Sadly, my story is not unique; other men have experienced the same anguish. …”

Tony Perry “‘I wish I could have prevented my girlfriend’s abortion’ Telegraph 12 Sep 2014

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Pro-choice author: 2nd & 3rd trimester abortions are “overwhelmingly” done for reasons other than health

From pro-choice author Sarah Erdreich:

“While 88% of abortions are performed within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, women who have abortions later in their pregnancies overwhelmingly cite a delay in making the necessary arrangements, including raising money and getting an appointment as the reasons for having 2^nd or 3^rd trimester procedures.”

Sarah Erdreich Generation Roe: inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013) 19

This means that babies aborted in the 2nd and 3rd trimester are “overwhelmingly” aborted because their mothers had difficulty making arrangements to kill them. These women, therefore, are not suffering from serious health problems. Rather, 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions are done “overwhelmingly” on healthy mothers with healthy children. Below you can see the hand of a baby aborted at 28 weeks. Is it acceptable for a woman to have an abortion this late because she was unable to arrange an abortion earlier?

Incidentally, price is often cited as a major reason why women have late abortions. Women have a hard time coming up with the money to pay for the procedure, which can be very expensive and which gets more expensive as each week goes by. Perhaps if abortion clinics are so dedicated to women having access to abortion, they could lower their prices and take slightly smaller profits. Pretty unlikely though.

Sonogram at 26 weeks. Candidate for an abortion for convenience — Sonogram at 26 weeks. Candidate for an abortion

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People see abortion as “dirty” and “the dark side of medicine,” says abortionist

“Abortion has failed to escape its back alley associations… [It is the] dark side of medicine…

Even when abortion became legal, it was still considered dirty.”

Abortionist Morris Wortman

Democrat and Chronicle, July 5, 1992

Life Dynamics “Access: Key to Pro-Life Victory”

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On abortion and “priorities”

“Mostly, this must seem selfish, when I had an abortion a decade ago, I knew I was killing. There was no other way to think about it, to describe it… But I was killing a very small piece of life in favor of my bigger life. That’s important, it makes you get your priorities straight.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 137

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Actress Jennifer O’Neill on regretting her abortion

Actress Jennifer O’Neill:

“… I was told a lie from the pits of hell. I had the abortion and paid for it all my life until I healed and am now able to help other women. By age 38 I had mourned 9 miscarriages – certain that they were the result of my agonizing abortion.”

Quoted from a Letter from Joseph Scheidler, director of the Pro-Life Action League, February 21, 2003 Intecon Abortion: Pros and Cons (Bloomington, IN AuthorHouse, 2004) 396

For information on studies that show a connection between abortion and miscarriage, and other reproductive health problems, go here.

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Average age of aborted baby was 11 weeks in 1991

In 1991, the average age of an aborted baby was 11 weeks.

“America Must Decide” The Life Chain People, 1991

I am looking for more current statistics. The Alan Guttmacher institute groups all abortions before ten weeks together in its statistics, so its impossible to extrapolate from their data. Last time I looked, 42% of abortions took place at ten weeks or later.

In the early 90s, there were over 4,000 abortions a day, with some estimates as high as 4,500.

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Abortionist label is “kiss of death” in medicine

“[Hospital administrators say] abortion is a sleazy and offensive procedure… The doctor who does abortions – even if they are only a small part of her practice – is known as an abortionist… This label is the kiss of death for any professional hopes a doctor might have.”

Glamour, October 1993

Quoted in Mark Crutcher “Access: the Key to Pro-Life Victory” Life Dynamics Incorporated

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Atheist Christopher Hitchens on abortion

“I do, as a humanist, believe that the concept “unborn child” is a real one and I think the concept is underlined by all the recent findings of embryology about the early viability of a well conceived human baby, one that isn’t going to be critically deformed (or even some that are) will be able to survive outside the womb earlier and earlier, and earlier and I see that date only being pushed back. I feel the responsibility to consider the occupant of the womb as a candidate member of society in the future, and thus to say that it cannot be only the responsibility of the woman to decide upon it, that it’s a social question and an ethical and a moral one. And I say this as someone who has no supernatural belief.”

Hitchens versus Turek debate, September 9, 2008

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“You will never see an [abortion provider] Nominated to the Department of Health and Human Services

An abortion clinic worker talks about stigma. After saying that she finds it easy to dismiss criticism when it comes from pro-lifers, she says:

“What’s harder, though, is to talk about how our parents sidestep friends’ questions about what their progeny are doing these days, or how high school reunions are at even greater risk of being depressing/distressing/disastrous than for everyone else, or how we worry about our kids learning what we do not because we aren’t proud but because their classmates’ parents might shame or punish them.

We go to schools that don’t want to talk too much about abortion because some nebulous outside audience may object; we attend reproductive health lectures by professors who feel comfortable accommodating the opinion that it’s OK to be anti-reproductive health; we don’t get hired because someone thought we’d bring unnecessary attention to an organization that doesn’t even really care about abortion either way, maybe they even support what we do, but just wants to get its own work done without pointless interference. You will never see an abortioneer nominated to the Department of Health and Human Services.”

“All stigma great and small” The Abortioneers September 29, 2011

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