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On collecting “fetal tissue”

Abortionist: Abortion is a moral choice”

Steven Mosher describes scene of forced abortion in China

How many people agree with Roe vs. Wade: Poll Numbers Over the Years

Woman on her way too an abortion clinic sees Choose Life license plate, chooses against abortion

Unborn children have short-term memory, Dutch study finds

Postabortion women: they gave me no options and no information

Postabortion women discusses lack of counseling at abortion clinic

Abortion is “terrible and necessary” says pro-choicer

Abortionist doesn’t want to think he’s “killing a baby”

One article discussed the H. Ronald Zielke Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders, hosted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It contains fetal tissue.

“According to the bank’s 234-page “Catalog of Available Tissue,” updated July 1, it also stores tissue from hundreds of fetuses, including those with chromosomal disorders, anencephaly (a brain malformation)—and many with no disorders at all, marked as “control” tissue and spanning ages 10 to 39 weeks.”

How does it get this “tissue”?

“Jennifer Boulanger of the Allentown Women’s Center in Allentown, Pa., said her clinic supplies tissue to the University of Washington. She said her clinic is not paid for the donations, but the university provides her staff with the supplies needed to collect and ship the specimens….To ensure tissue freshness, “the specimens are FedExed overnight” to Seattle, …The recipient, named misleadingly the Birth Defects Research Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for over four decades. It’s known within the research community as a top government distributor of fetal tissue. Last year the Puget Sound Business Journal stated the lab “in 2009 filled more than 4,400 requests for fetal tissue and cell lines.”… To date, it has retrieved the products of 22,000 pregnancies. According to a description the lab provided in its most recent grant applications, an increase in nonsurgical abortion methods has “created new obstacles to obtaining sufficient amounts of high quality tissue. To overcome these problems and meet increasing demand, the Laboratory has developed new relationships with both local and distant clinics.”

Daniel James Devine “The Demand for Death: Medical Research & Fetal Tissue” Religion Today August 08, 2011

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From one abortionist:

“There are even members of the pro-choice community who are questioning the morality of reproductive freedom. These people believe that abortion must be available, but that it is inherently bad – a necessary evil.… In fact, the decision to have an abortion is clearly an extremely moral choice; it is a choice that liberates, empowers, and benefits women that society.”

Henry Morgentaler, “The Moral Case for Abortion” Free Inquiry, Summer 1996

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Steven Mosher was an anthropology student in Stanford University’s PhD program who witnessed how Chinese women were forced to have abortions during fieldwork in China. He’d originally been pro-choice and supported population control but described:

“There were 18 women, all from 5 to 9 months pregnant, and many red eyed from lack of sleep and crying. They sat listlessly on short plank benches arranged in a semi circle about the front of the room, where He Kaifeng, a commune cadre and Communist Party member of many years standing, explained the purpose of the meeting in no uncertain terms. “You are here because you have to “think clear” about birth control, and you will remain here until you do.”…

[After reasoning and bribery failed to convince the women to have abortions]

“None of you has any choice in this matter. You must realize that your pregnancy affects everyone in the commune, and indeed affects everyone in the country.” Then, visually calculating how far along the women in the room work, he went on to ask, “The 2 of you who are 8 or 9 months pregnant will have [an abortion by] cesarean; the rest of you will have a shot which will cause you to abort.” Several of the women were crying by this point.”

Steven Mosher, Broken Earth: the Rural Chinese (New York: Free Press, 1983) 225

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Quinnipiac University Poll. Jan. 30-Feb. 4, 2013. N=1,772 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.3.

“In general, do you agree or disagree with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to an abortion?”

		Agree	Disagree	Unsure
		%	%	%
	1/30 – 2/4/13	63	30	7
	2/14-20/12	64	31	5
	4/14-19/10	60	35	5
	7/8-13/08	63	33	5
	8/7-13/07	62	32	6
	11/28 – 12/4/05	63	32	5
	7/21-25/05	65	30	6
	5/18-23/05	63	33	5

This poll shows that the majority of Americans from 2005 t0 2013 support Roe Vs. Wade.

Most Americans, however, do not know that Roe Vs. Wade legalized abortions throughout the third trimester of pregnancy. Go here for more info on late term abortions.

Do you know what abortion is like? Read doctor’s descriptions of abortion procedures here.

Seven-week-old unborn baby – most abortions happen around this time

Another poll:

NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Bill McInturff (R). Jan. 12-15, 2013. N=1,000 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.1.

Little hand left over from an abortion at 7 weeks

This second poll mischaracterizes the decision of Roe Vs. Wade. Roe v. Wade actually said that the state could not regulate abortion in the first two trimesters (so it legalized first and second trimester abortions, up to 24 weeks) but that the state COULD regulate it in the third trimester. Not that it HAD to, just that it could. That is why some states have laws against late term abortion. So this poll is misleading.

“The Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe versus Wade decision established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Would you like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn its Roe versus Wade decision, or not?”

		Yes, overturn	No, not overturn	Unsure
		%	%	%
	1/12-15/13	24	70	6
	12/9-12/05	30	66	4
	7/8-11/05	29	65	6

Remains of a fourteen week old baby after abortion.

Another poll:

Pew Research Center. Jan. 9-13, 2013. N=1,502 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.9.

“In 1973 the Roe versus Wade decision established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Would you like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn its Roe versus Wade decision, or not?”

		Yes, overturn	No, not overturn	Unsure/ Refused
		%	%	%
	1/9-13/13	29	63	7
	Republicans	46	48	6
	Democrats	20	74	6
	Independents	28	64	8

	11/3-6/05	25	65	9
	7/13-17/05	29	65	6
	6/8-12/05	30	63	7
	1/03	31	62	7

This poll also mischaracterizes Roe Vs. Wade

Below; Late term abortion, legal in many states. For example, in my home state of NJ, there are no restrictions on how late a person can get an abortion.

Read about how the baby above was found by pro-lifers at an abortion clinic.

Another poll:

USA Today/Gallup Poll. Dec. 27-30, 2012. N=1,012 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 4

“Would you like to see the Supreme Court overturn its 1973 Roe versus Wade decision concerning abortion, or not?”

	Yes, overturn	No, not overturn	Unsure
	%	%	%
12/27-30/12	29	53	18
5/8-11/08	33	52	15
5/10-13/07	35	53	12
5/8-11/06	32	55	13
1/20-22/06	25	66	9
7/7-10/05	28	63	9

From an aborted baby at 9 weeks. The coin is there to show the size of the remains of the aborted child so that his/her age can be verified by a look in an embryology textbook

Are the pictures on this site real?

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Sometimes something as simple as a “Choose Life” license plate on a car makes a huge difference in someone’s life. One article tells the story of a woman who was on her way to an abortion clinic:

“On her way to the abortion clinic she followed a car with a Choose Life license plate. As she got closer, she could not bring herself to keep her appointment. The message on the plate spoke so loudly to her. She followed through with her pregnancy and now has a nine-month-old son.”

As told by Russ and Jill Amerling in Judy Madsen Johnson Stories from the Frontlines: the Battle against Abortion, (self published, 2014) 97

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Dutch researchers say unborn children may have their short-term memory formed at 30 weeks into the pregnancy. Dr. Jan G. Nijhuis, director of the Centre for Genetics, Reproduction and Child Health at Maastricht University Medical Centre in Holland, conducted the research.From the article in LifeNews:

He [Nijhuis] and his team published their findings in the July/August issue of Child Development.

“This is the next step into a better insight in the development of the fetal central nervous system,” he told HealthDailyNews. “We aim to develop an ‘intra-uterine neurologic examination,’ which could then be used in fetuses at risk.”

In the research, the Netherlands scientists surveyed 93 pregnant women and they measured the responses from unborn children to repeated “vibroacoustic” stimulation.

“We used a vibroacoustic stimulator, which leads to a combined stimulus of vibration and sound,” Nijhuis told HDN. “The stimuli were applied to the maternal abdomen above the fetal legs for a period of one second every 30 seconds. We counted the number of stimuli after which the fetus does not respond anymore.”

When the unborn baby no longer responds to the audio stimulus, the child is referred to as “habituated” — in other words, they consider the sounds safe.

Researchers consider that a form of learning, where unborn children are aware of potential danger and recognize the sounds as something that will not harm them.

Dr. Richard O. Jones, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, responded to the study.

“I’m almost certain the baby heard it quite clearly and it was probably pretty loud,” he said.

“I almost wish I could do an ultrasound looking at the baby while they were making these loud noises. I would not be at all surprised to see the baby putting its hands over its ears,” he added.

Steven Ertelt “Unborn Children May Already Have Short-Term Memory Formed at 30 Weeks” LifeNews July 15, 2009

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Sue, who had an abortion at 15, says the following:

“I was sent to the Family Planning Center for help; well, they helped me all right, so much so they had me booked in for an abortion the next day.

Their reasons were I could not take care of myself let alone a baby. I had no permanent home, and to even think of keeping “it” was totally selfish on my part. They gave me no options and no information; my rights as a human being were not valid because of who I was, just another stupid teenager who got pregnant.

I wanted so much to talk to someone, maybe someone would say, “Don’t do it, I will help you through,” or maybe, “You can keep your baby, there is help available and there are people who care,” but instead I was herded into a room with about ten other girls like cattle and spoken to like I was a piece of dirt and treated as such.”

Melinda Tankard-Reist “This Wasn’t Really Counseling At All” Raising Questions About “Choice” and Pre-Abortion Counseling” From Giving Sorrow Words: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion

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From Sam, a postabortion women:

I had to stumble through a system which was not supportive of my emotional needs, and I certainly did not make an informed decision. At no stage did [they] discuss the alternatives, or the procedure, possible effects or how I felt for that matter … This wasn’t really counseling at all, and my guess was it was to satisfy some legal requirement … no professional created an opportunity for me to discuss anything, really … no one that I came across ever said to me, “Why is this happening to you, what is wrong, why have you had more than one abortion, what can we do about it?”

Melinda Tankard-Reist “This Wasn’t Really Counseling At All” Raising Questions About “Choice” and Pre-Abortion Counseling” From Giving Sorrow Words: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion

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“Our culture needs new rituals as well as laws to restore abortion to its sacred dimension, which is both terrible and necessary.””

Pro-choicer Ginette Paris

Ginette Paris, The Sacrament of Abortion, trans. Joanna Mott (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1992), pp. 92

Is killing this baby really necessary?

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“Do you approve or disapprove the Roe versus Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision? If you don’t know enough about this to have an opinion, please just say so and we’ll move on.”

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One doctor describes why he finds it difficult to be an abortionist:

“Killing a baby is not the way I want to think about myself.”

From the book Second Trimester Abortion: Perspectives After a Decade of Experience (Berger, Brenner, Keith, eds, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981), in the chapter “Psychological Impact on Patients and Staff,” p. 246.

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