Lifesitenews tells the story of a woman who was pressured into having an abortion by her Planned Parenthood counselor. Lynn Zent, who is now a dedicated sidewalk counselor, tells the following story:
“I just wanted to make it all go away, and the only way to do that was to just do it. Originally it was a wanted baby, but the counselor said ‘why don’t you come back in a few weeks and we will talk?’ When I went back she proceeded to fill my head with things such as ‘You are so young’, ‘You have your whole life ahead of you’, and ‘You have a young child already’. She convinced me how difficult it would to be in school with a new baby and going through a then divorce from my first husband.”
Lynn made the appointment, but at the last second she changed her mind. She had been given a twilight sleep shot, and she said it did not work very well. “I tried to get up off the table and the nurse held my shoulders down and told me to just lie there and shut up. The experience was horrible.”
“I remember the doctor walking out and telling the nurse ‘It’s all there’, and I remember thinking, ‘what is all there?’ I thought it was just a blob!” Lynn as she recalls friends telling her that baby development and graphic pictures on the Internet were all fake. ….
“I was okay with the abortion for awhile because I joked about it to get through it. The experience was just so horrible. I even remember the nurse who held me down had short curly red hair,” said Lynn. “I don’t even know her name or the doctor’s name who performed the abortion.” …
Lynn also sent off to Planned Parenthood for her abortion records because she had read somewhere that you have the legal right to collect them within seven years. While it helped her tremendously with closure to her painful past, it angered her to see the documents. They had falsified her records stating that someone was with her and had checked the box that said she was firm in her decision to abort.
“They purposefully made an appointment when they thought so-called protestors would not be outside, because they knew I might change my mind,” Lynn recalled.
LifeNews covers how Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC mocked unborn babies by deliberately breaking a model of a fertilized egg and acting as though unformed fertilized eggs were what was destroyed in abortion. She said:
“Oh, no. That might be bad. I seemed to have popped open the fertilized egg. We’ll put that back together. But the very idea that this would constitute a person, right? And that some set of constitutional rights should come to this. Look, I get that that is a particular kind of faith claim. It’s not associated with science. But the reality is that if this turns into a person, right, there are economic consequences, right? The cost to raise a child, $10,000 a year up to $20,000 a year. When you’re talking about what it actually costs to have this thing turn into a human, why not allow women to make the best choices that we can with as many resources and options instead of trying to come in and regulate this process?”
In reality, it is babies like the one below that are being aborted. The baby in the picture is a weeks old. The 2nd picture shows what a baby this age looks like after an abortion. The typical abortion is done around this age.
Dr. A. Panay performed over 10,000 abortions. She now compares abortion to infanticide. According to the article:
“[Dr. Panay says that] abortion destroys women, it violates their spirit and their souls, and equally important, it damages the reproductive tract to the extent that she believes gynecologists are seeing more problems with infertility than ever before.”
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) 8-29-9. Quoted by Life Dynamics.
Ashley Crowley, whose mother was a teen when she gave birth to her, had an abortion when confronted with a similar situation. Her baby’s father verbally abused her when he found out she was pregnant. She told her story at Abolish Human Abortion:
“And just like my mother, I became pregnant around the same age she became pregnant with me. Somewhere along the road when we were dating, he had promised to step up if I should ever get pregnant, but upon telling him the surprising news, he called me a whore and demanded I abort the “wretched nuisance”.
… I told my mother I was pregnant, taking her to a Planned Parenthood facility where I knew full well they offered abortions. I tricked my mother into taking me to this place because although we were going to find out how far along I was, I never informed her what they would offer me under the table. But what I hadn’t noticed was their prerogative to transfer upon finding out I was over 18, intentionally isolating me from my mother to go over what services they rendered. I never felt they cared about my situation later on, but because of the mental state I was in, they easily deceived me by saying this would be the only guaranteed way to fix all my problems.
My parents told me if I put my baby up for adoption, they would fight tooth and nail for custody. Additionally, a woman I worked with had offered me money for my baby, and the father of my child didn’t want anything to do with her. But what led me to Baby Erin’s fate was looking at the life of a friend of mine life who struggled to raise her own child as a single mother; received no help from her daughter’s father, and caused a tremendous rift in her parents’ relationship. I felt this baby inside of me was a burden, as much as I had fallen in love with her, so when the clinic determined I was “ripe enough”, I terminated my pregnancy on February 23rd, 2009 at about 7 weeks into my first trimester.
Week 7
….. I’ll never know if Erin was going to be a boy or a girl. There isn’t a grave I can visit to lay a wreath of flowers on. I don’t even have a picture of Erin. All I have is a receipt of the amount it cost to have Erin killed. Erin exists now only in my memory.”
Pro-life author George Grant interviewed 3 teenagers discussing how abortions among high school students rose when an in school sexual health clinic opened up in their school.
From Grant:
“Milly Washington, Lanita Garza, and Denise Rashad attended high school together in Minneapolis. 2 years ago, the district installed an experimental school-based clinic on their high school campus. “At first I thought it was a real good idea,” Denise told me.
“Yeah. Me too,” Lanita chimed in.
“I mean, there’s been lots of girls that’s left school cause they got in trouble,” said Denise, “and I believed this might help some.”
“But it hasn’t,” Milly said. “All it’s done is make it so gettin’ in trouble is normal now.”
“And with an easy way out,” Denise added.
“Yeah. Abortion. It’s weird, but you know, a couple of years ago, I didn’t know anybody who’d had an abortion,” said Milly. “Now it’s like everybody’s had at least one. Lots have 2. Or even more than that.”
George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 99
LifeNews recently wrote about an abortionist named Willie J. Parker who identifies as Christian. He performs abortions up to 24 weeks and 6 days.
What inspires this African American doctor to kill 24 week babies like the one below? The words of Martin Luther King Jr.
24 weeks
“In listening to a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King, I came to a deeper understanding of my spirituality, which places a higher value on compassion. King said what made the good Samaritan “good” is that instead of focusing on would happen to him by stopping to help the traveler, he was more concerned about what would happen to the traveler if he didn’t stop to help.
I became more concerned about what would happen to these women if I, as an obstetrician, did not help them.”
He also says:
“ I think my work is honorable and important, and I won’t be distracted. It’s what I believe in my heart is the right thing to do.”
baby being aborted at 24 weeks
There is, however, a limit to his “altruism.” He won’t do abortions after the legal cutoff.
“I don’t do abortions beyond 24 weeks and 6 days. In the absence of lifesaving measures, my cutoff is the legal limit. That becomes a moving target, but nobody in D.C. does them beyond 25 weeks.Once a fetus has the possibility to survive outside the womb — with or without extraordinary support measures — I will not do an abortion. The only exception is if a woman’s life is in danger or the fetus is fatally flawed.”
From the introduction of a Sidewalk Counseling book by former clinic worker Judy Fetrow:
As a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Specialist, Judith worked as an abortion counselor and as a surgical assistant during abortion procedures. This brought her face to face with what abortion is, the killing of a child.
When Judith worked for Planned Parenthood, pro-life activists would often ask her when she thought life began. She would answer, “Life begins at conception and what I do is murder.”
LifeNews describes terrible conditions found in one abortion clinic:
A June 1, 2012 inspection of the Amethyst Health Center for Women in Manassas found 17 pages of deficiencies including infection prevention citations, storage and dispensing of drugs citations, quality assurance citations, maintenance citations, and local and state code standards citations.
Even more disturbing:
Incredibly, this came just two months after a 3/27/2012 meeting of the abortion center’s “Quality Assurance Committee” including “Administrator/Owner, Medical Director/Physician, Counselor, LPN, CNA, and a consultant” concluded, “The staff was polled regarding any concerns about patient care and nothing was identified … No concerns have been identified and no measures need to be implemented at this time by the Quality Assurance Committee.”
According to Medical Students for Choice, an organization that advocates for medical schools to train more abortion providers over a third of OB/GYN residents have no training in first trimester abortions. The organization also says that nearly all family practitioners lack this training:
“97% of family practice residents and 36% of OB/GYN residents have no experience in first trimester abortion procedures.”
Robin Marty, Jessica Mason Pieklo Crow After Roe (Brooklyn, New York: ig Publishing, 2013)
