They said it.
From pro-choice activist and author Alexander Sanger:
“The pro-choice idea that abortion should be legal and available to all women who want one no matter their circumstances garners in polling the support of about one quarter of the American people. We have to do better than that.”
Alexander Sanger Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2004) 16
Share on FacebookA reporter spoke about advances in ultrasound technology that produced very clear fetal images:
“While such images won’t quell the abortion debate anytime soon, their beauty alone deserves pause and admiration.”
JULIAN KESNER Life as you’ve never seen itNew York Daily News October 12, 2006
Above three pictures: Legal to abort in every US state.
Below: Legal to abort in some states.
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A woman was unsure about having an abortion. An abortion clinic worker told her the following:
“I have had many abortions. I have have [sic] many close friends who have had many abortions. Working at a clinic we have a lot of women who have had 10+ abortions. I have a child, some of them have children and none have had problems becoming pregnant because of the abortions. You are more likely to have problems with fertility after giving birth than having a properly performed abortion.”
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In a paper put out by the Family Planning Associates medical group, a group of abortion clinics in Southern California, the following risks are described:
“However, it is clear to us that even when the surgeon is highly skilled and experienced in the method dilation and extraction [abortion] that there is a risk of perforation of the uterus by the various instruments that are required. There is an additional risk of laceration of the uterus either by the instruments or by the fetal tissue itself.
… The most common problem encountered in termination of early pregnancies is infection and retained tissue (incomplete abortion).”
Diane Monahan and Karen Sullivan–Ables “What to Know before You Choose… Abortion As Your Option” The Precious Feet People, undated
Share on FacebookAn Ob/Gyn doctor who operated two abortion clinics in Jackson, Mississippi is now a pro-lifer who works with the American Rights Coalition. According to her, abortion-related deaths are usually hidden from the public’s view.
“It’s a very scary thing,” says McMillin. “If a woman has an abortion and some placenta is retained and gets infected, she starts bleeding. If she dies due to blood loss, the cause of death will not even mention that she had an abortion. And if she didn’t tell anyone she was having an abortion, the whole thing could go undetected.”
Camille Otto “Should Abortionists Be Sued” The Association
Share on FacebookA woman who had an abortion gives advice to other women facing the same dilemma:
“You’ve got to tell yourself, I am worth a hell of a lot, and I come first. ….my well-being, my peace, my value comes first. The focus of my life should – and can – be me,… So when the outside says you should be thinking of the child, say No. The only thing you should be thinking about is you.”
Quoted in Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 72
Pro-abortion columnist Ellen Goodman :
“Over the years, I’ve rejoiced at sonograms and picked names for what we call a baby when it’s wanted and a fetus when it isn’t.”
LET COMMON SENSE PREVAIL National Right to Life News June 1, 2008
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Dr. Landrum Shettles (Rites of Life,The Scientific Evidence for Life Before Birth, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1983) described the activities and development of the fetus in utero from the third month on, based on his own observations:
“Activity is far from merely random, by the end of the [third month]. There is a purpose in what the fetus does. It is already practising for life outside the womb. Brain development is sufficiently advanced that the fetus can react to touch, turn its head, kick its legs, flex its wrists, make fists and even curl its toes. It also sucks its thumbs and swallows amniotic fluid, getting ready for the day when it will have something more substantial to consume. It practices breathing, even though it still has no air; using features that are no distinctly baby-like, the fetus begins to perfect some of the facial expressions by which is till later let its parents know its moods, its likes and its dislikes.”
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By the end of the third month all arteries are present, including the coronary vessels of the heart. Blood is circulating through these vessels to all body parts. The heart beat ranges during the fetal period from 110 to 160 beats per minute. All blood cells are produced by the liver and spleen, a job soon taken over by the bone marrow. White blood cells, important for immunity, are formed in the lymph nodes and thymus.
During the fourth, fifth and six months, the fetus more than quadruples its weight, going from one ounce to as many as seven ounces. By the end of the sixteenth week, it is likely to be six inches or more in length. During the fourth month the ears begin functioning, and the heart is pumping several quarts of blood each day.
The fifth month adds about two more inches of growth. The fetus may weigh a pound, and if born prematurely at one of the best neonatology centres has a 70 percent chance of survival. By the end of the fifth month, fingernails and toenails are present and growing, and the nipples have appeared in the mammary glands of both sexes.
In the sixth month, movement, which
began much earlier, becomes more pronounced. Hair follicles and sweat glands develop. Cartilage gives way to real bone. The eyelids are open. The fetus weighs almost two pounds and by
the end of the second trimester will measure a foot in length.
Abortion: A briefing book for Canadian Legislators, National Public Affairs Office, Campaign life coalition, Suite 100, 1355 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1Y 3C2
Share on FacebookA former clinic worker identified as “Sandra” describes late-term abortions at the clinic where she worked. According to a mailing sent out by And Then There Were None, a ministry for former clinic workers:
Sandra” began her work in the abortion industry as a translator, but eventually, she was “there holding the instruments as the baby came out, alive.” Sandra continued, “The largest I saw done illegally was 28 weeks. They were supposed to go up to 25 weeks… the doctor would fudge the numbers on her chart.”
One woman tells of her abortion:
“One reason I chose to abort was simply because I didn’t want to tell my parents that I made a mistake. I knew they would have loved me through the entire thing, should I have decided to bring the baby to life; and I knew they would have supported me if I it still decided to abort after I told them. My parents were like that, unquestioningly supportive. We just didn’t have a communicative relationship. But in my mind I felt that I needed to attain certain goals to keep them pleased with me. That was something I needed, to have them pleased with me. Becoming pregnant definitely did not fit into the scheme of things.
I remember thinking about this friend I had a nursing school who had problems with her ovaries. She wasn’t sure she could conceive, so she allowed herself to get pregnant on purpose to see if she could get pregnant. Then she went and had an abortion. I remember thinking at the time that was a really stupid thing to do. The way she used her boyfriend, that’s what I thought about, too.
I looked up to her; I was trying to learn from her. The blind leading the blind, I suppose…”
She then told her boyfriend about the pregnancy.
“He asked me what I was going to do, and I told him I was going to have an abortion. Then he asked me not to do it. He wasn’t very forceful about it at first; I think he saw on my face that I was more or less resigned to having the abortion. But then he did try to talk me out of it, saying he was ready to get married, even though we’d been seeing each other for a month, maybe, at the most. In fact, he begged me to marry him. I remember that night when we were in bed; he put his hand on my tummy and he cried, because he didn’t want me to have the abortion.…
Anyway, by the time I got around to telling my boyfriend about my planned abortion, I really hadn’t thought much about his feelings. I didn’t think that he had much to say about it. I didn’t really think about whether I should involve him in the decision or not. So I was the only one to make the decision. My boyfriend was brought up a good Catholic, desperately wanted to have children, and knew that abortion was wrong. He tried to convey that to me.
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After the abortion.
“I went back to my boyfriend’s apartment. I felt so relieved and so pampered. He had a pitcher of ice water next to the bed, and he had the blankets turned back. But he wasn’t there; he didn’t want to be there. I went to sleep, but only for a while. I had to be back to camp that night. My boyfriend came back and was concerned about me being able to drive during the hour and a half trip. But I had to be back, so I waved goodbye.
That was the last time I ever saw him. I came back to his apartment three weeks later to pick up some things I had left there, and he wasn’t there. When I asked his roommate, where he was, he said that my boyfriend wasn’t going to come, that he didn’t want to see me. That was the end of the relationship; he couldn’t face me.
That’s where I remember feeling guilty. At that time I was angry and very, very hurt. I knew this man loved me; he did. I had told him I loved him, though not enough to get married. I expected him to come crawling after me to keep pursuing me; that’s what I wanted. But it never occurred to me then that he just couldn’t look me in the eyes, knowing what I did to his child.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987)152 – 155
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