“There are about 535,000 traditional birth attendants in Bihar for a population of 100 million. In several districts of the state, [the researcher] found that each midwife killed as many as 5 newborn girls a month. The study, released in 1995, was in a formal exercise, but [the researchers] believe that “if anything, the survey underestimated infanticide.”
An organization called Adithi, founded by Vigia Srinivasan, did the research.
Miriam Jordan “Brief Lives” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2000
Pro-choice author Daniel Callahan, who was a leading 1960s abortion-rights advocate and published a book in 1970 supporting abortion. 2 decades after abortions legalization, he said:
“If legal abortion has given women more choice, it has also given men more choices as well. They now have a potent weapon in the old business of manipulating and abandoning women.”
Paige Comstock Cunningham and Clark Forsythe, “Is Abortion the “First Right” for Women?” Abortion, Medicine, and the Law edited by J Douglas Butler and David W Walbert, 4th edition, 1992 154
According to Thomas Glessner, “Prior to ultrasound technology, pregnancy centers reported that of the abortion-minded’ women who came in for testing and advice, about 20 percent to 30 percent decided to remain pregnant. With pregnancy centers using ultrasound machines, that proportion has jumped to 80 percent or 90 percent.”
Jennifer Kabbany “Abortion vs. UltraSound,” Washington Times, October 29, 2003
“… What is a sonogram? A picture, produced by sound waves. It is a factual thing, a part of reality, difficult to manipulate. Which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t involve emotion. When I saw James’s [her son’s] first sonogram, at 4 ½ months, I fell hopelessly in love. I could hardly feel him moving inside me yet, and I had been worried, after my miscarriage, that there would be something wrong. But on the screen my husband and I saw a perfectly round head, beautiful spinal cord, legs kicking, and hands grasping.. As we watched, the baby (we didn’t know the sex) opened its hand and proceeded to suck its thumb… What makes a sonogram so dangerous and emotionally troubling for abortion advocates is the obviousness of a separate life inside a woman’s body, not an appendage. The fetus seems so happy in its own little world, so safe and unconcerned in a close, warm womb where all its needs are automatically met.
The view of the womb we get from a sonogram illuminates what ought to be the safest time in a human’s life. Instead, the sanctuary of the womb is invaded routinely, with the support and even encouragement of society. The Planned Parenthood clinic across the street from our apartment offers abortions up to 16 weeks – just about the age of James’s first photo, which I have lovingly placed in his first photo album. In the sonogram, he held his hand with his thumb out and his fingers tucked in; he still holds his hand that way. In my womb he was active at night and had hiccups several times a day; he still does. His sonogram was simply an introduction to the person we are getting to know. How can doctors deliberately tear our little beings who are able to move around and suck their thumbs? And how can their mothers allow it?
Second trimester
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Now that I have James, I see myself quite differently. I have someone who thinks the world of me! I have someone who, as long as he lives, will be able to say “my mother…” and mean me! I have someone who must be put first, and that is a relief. And I have someone who, God willing, will live beyond me, which makes the world seem a more comfortable place. And right now I have an adorable baby whose smiles melt my heart and whose perfect little face brings tears of joy. I wouldn’t have missed this experience for anything.
1st trimester
Maria McFadden “Motherhood in the 90s: to Have or Have Not” Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996)117-119
Dr. Dr. Kenneth L Wright testified in a court hearing that he received $200 per abortion was able to perform 60 per day, yielding $12,000 worth of business every day.
Catholics United for Life Newsletter October 1981 Quoted in David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 235
This was in 1981 – nowadays, abortionists are paid even more– The average abortion in 2014 costs 400 – $500 In the 1st trimester and up to over $1000 in the 2nd and 3rd.
5 – 6 weekshand of baby aborted at 7 weeks
To read more about people making money through abortion, go here
Pro-choice activists like to point to women’s testimonies that claim that they are happy after their abortions and do not regret them. What they ignore is that often guilt and grief set in many years later.
“Between 60 and 70% of women who eventually confronted negative feelings about their abortions admitted that there was a period of time during which they would have denied to others, and themselves, any regrets or negative feelings. On average, this period of denial was about 5 years, with a low of one month and a high of 20 years.”
David C Reardon, “Psychological Reactions Reported after Abortion” The Postabortion Review 2 no. 3 (Fall 1994): 4 – 8
Film star Margot Kidder’s illegal abortion “haunted” and “scarred” her deeply, though she said she did not regret the abortion.
“I cried for the loss. I went through the grief. But I always knew I would not have been a good mother then. I knew that having that baby would have been wrong for the baby, and you don’t do that to children.” She remembers saying, “I want my baby back”; she remembers the “horrible, horrible nightmares” after the abortion. “They were constant and went on for a long time – images of children running at me with slashed wrists, of dead babies… coming out of my vagina… The nightmares stopped when I had my child.”
Margot Kidder, as interviewed in Angela Bonavoglia ed. The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1992) 99 From
Camille S. Williams “Feminism and Imaging the Unborn” Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996)
This video is making its rounds on facebook and other social media. While I have not been able to find a translation of what the doctors are saying, it is likely that this is a miscarriage and not an abortion, as abortions at this stage are done by D & E, which dismembers the child. The child is most likely between 15 and 18 weeks old.
If you click here, you can see what babies at this stage look like after being aborted.
A researcher who sat in on sessions where “genetic counselors” spoke to pregnant women, describes how the counselors explained the risks of genetic abnormalities:
“… the very fact that risks can be expressed in numeric form allows counselors, if they choose, to merely pass information on to clients in an objective fashion; for example, “The normal population risk is 3%. Your risk is 6%.”… Such risk statements without elaboration are rare… For example, consider the difference between the following statements, each of which is correct: “Your risk is 3% greater than that of the general population” and “Your risk is double that of the general population.” Risk statements of the latter form are more common than bare, unelaborated numbers, despite the counselors’ commitment to not intruding on the privacy of patient decision-making.”
Charles L Bosk All God’s Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992) 28 – 29
So we see how hospitals, perhaps because of fear of malpractice, sometimes use subtle ways to overstate the risks of a child developing a genetic problem. This may lead to more abortions as parents overestimate the risks and abort healthy children.
