They said it.
“I do take all steps to remove everything, but certainly I have been called back about, I think three times now, where there is a piece of — usually it’s a piece of bone found in the uterus.”
Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004
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From the article “Counseling Single Abortion Patients: A Research Overview and Practice Implications” by Paul Sachdev:
“Young single women are particularly vulnerable to intense emotional trauma upon unwanted pregnancy as they generally lack the needed emotional support and participation from the male partner involved in the pregnancy. Frequently, the pair-relationship terminates following pregnancy and abortion.”
Gail Grenier-Sweet, ed “Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices” (Lewiston, NY: Life Cycle Books, 1985) 236
Read studies about abortion’s emotional effects here.
Read stories and testimonies from post-abortion women here.
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“In its seventh week [the unborn baby] bears the familiar external features and all the internal organs of the adult…The brain in configuration is already like the adult brain and sends out impulses that coordinate the functions of other organs…The heart beats sturdily. The stomach produces digestive juices. The liver manufactures blood cells and the kidneys begin to function by extracting uric acid from the child’s blood…The muscles of the arms and body can already be set in motion. After the eighth week…everything is already present that will be found in the full-term baby.”
From a group of scientists, physicians and professors released amicus curiae brief (95:13-14)
Scientists for Life, Inc. and Edward C. Freiling “The Position of Modern Science on the Beginning of Human Life, Faxton, VA: Sun Life, 1983) p 17
This tiny, recognizable, perfect little hand is a scrap left over from an abortion done at 7 weeks after conception. Nearly 15,000 abortions happen at this stage every week.
See more pictures of babies aborted at 7 weeks here.
Share on Facebook“The fusion of sperm and egg membranes initiates the life of a sexually reproducing organism.”
Marsden et al., Model systems for membrane fusion, CHEM. SOC. REV. 40(3):1572 (Mar. 2011)
Steven Ertelt ”Undisputed Scientific Fact: Human Life Begins at Conception, or Fertilization” LifeNews.com 11/18/13
Life begins at conception. See more quotes from medical textbooks and scientists.
Share on FacebookDr Susan Robinson, a former colleague of George Tiller who still performs late term abortions, discusses the women who come in for late second trimester and third trimester abortions:
“Women whose fetuses have terrible abnormalities are a lot easier for people to understand. The husband and wife want to spare their baby whatever suffering that baby would have.
‘Then there’s the group of women who didn’t know they were pregnant,’ she said. ‘They were told they were not pregnant for one reason or another and they are just as desperate.’”
“After Tiller: Meet the only four doctors in the U.S. who still perform third-trimester abortions despite constant threats to their lives” Mail Online Jan 21, 2013
Thus we see that these late term abortions are not always done because of health problems in the baby, but are also done on healthy mothers with healthy babies who “didn’t’ know they were pregnant” until the third trimester.
An abortionist describes his job:
“It is difficult to grasp the head; it is round, it slips out of the instruments that we generally use. Either those instruments or the head can be extruded outside the uterus and cause perforation.”
Testimony of abortionist Dr Timothy Johnson, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004
One researcher describes how the abortion rate went up after legalization. This shows that when abortion is legal, many more women take advantage of it.
“ The abortion rate rose from 5 abortions per thousand women in 1970 to 25 per thousand in 1980.”
Mei Ling Rein. Abortion: an Internal Social and Moral Issue (Wylie, Texas: Information Plus Reference Series, 2000)38
This is a 500% increase.
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“They delivered the fetus intact until the head was still trapped behind the cervix, and then they reached up and crushed the head in order to deliver it through the cervix.”
Testimony of abortionist Dr Timothy Johnson, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004.
Share on FacebookTestimony of Steve Calvin, M.D., specialist in maternal – fetal medicine, before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights, Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing on “The 25th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade: Has It Stood the Test of Time?” January 21st, 1998:
“… At the time of the Roe V Wade decision, ultrasound during pregnancy was largely experimental. During the 70s and 80s the beneficial uses of ultrasound in pregnancy multiplied…
Current ultrasound imaging techniques reveal the marvelous complexity of prenatal growth and development… However, the use of this wonderful window on the womb has become increasingly disconcerting for some who would rather view the fetus as pregnancy tissue or the product of conception.
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We are clearly in a new era of obstetrics because of ultrasound and the expanding concept of treatment of the fetus as a patient. Yet there is an inescapable schizophrenia when modern medicine works under ethical rules which say that a fetus is a patient only when the mother has conferred the status.”
Ultrasound has been a powerful pro-life tool. It is not surprising that pro-choice groups have sought to prevent mothers from seeing their unborn babies on ultrasound when they are considering abortions. Read quotes about ultrasounds here.
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Q. How many abortions of first and second trimester have you done during the course of your career, if you can just estimate that?
A. I’m sure you’re talking about hundred thousands.
Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004
Every abortion he did killed a baby like the one below.
Baby aborted at 7 weeks
