Human Embryology Textbook on when individual life begins

“It is the penetration of the ovum by a sperm and the resulting mingling of nuclear material each brings to the union that constitutes the initiation of the life of a new individual.”

Clark Edward and  Corliss Patten’s Human Embryology, McGraw – Hill Inc., 30

Read more scientific textbooks verifying life begins at conception here.

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Former abortionist describes 12 week old unborn baby

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist, describing a 12-week-old unborn baby:

12 week unborn baby

“Now this little person, at 12 weeks, is a fully formed, absolutely identifiable human being. He has had brain waves for at least six weeks; his heart has been functioning for perhaps eight weeks; and all the rest of his human functions are indistinguishable from any of ours.”

Transcript of John Ankerberg Show February 25th, 1990

Below:From a 12 week unborn baby after being aborted:

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Dr. Carolyn Westhoff on Draining the contents of the skull

It is, in my experience and my opinion, less risky to put a hole in the base of the skull. Because the contents of the skull are liquid the skull contents may often drain out spontaneously as soon as there is a hole in the skull.”

Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 2, 200. Dr. Westhoff does late term abortions (after 20 weeks)

Dr. Westhoff does late term abortions, many after 20 weeks.

24 weeks

 

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Pro-choice psychology professor on inner city babies

Abortion supporter David Lykken supports preventing the inner city  poor (who are often minorities) from having children:

“If you live in the projects on welfare, then you can’t have a baby. And that sounds awful. … But the question is, if you live in a plague area, have you a right to bring a child into a plague area?”

David Lykken, professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota Quoted in William Norman Grigg. “Are You Fit to Be a Parent?” The New American, January 23, 1995, pages 12 to 14

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Dr. Cassing Hammond on dismembering babies

An abortionist describes talking to the patients who come in for late term abortions:

“We actually have a large number of patients who look at us and say, let me get this straight. What you will be doing is dismembering the fetus. And we say, yes, that’s exactly what we are doing.”

Dr. Cassing Hammond, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004

And dismembered in an abortion at this age:

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Babies born alive after abortion in Canada

An article in a Canadian Institute for Health Information publication found the following instances of babies born alive after abortions:

19 weeks
  1. “A patient presented at 20 weeks gestation, requesting a therapeutic abortion. She was started on misoprostol, intravenously. The fetus was successfully expelled. A heart beat and respirations were detected at birth.”
  2. “Medical abortion at 23 weeks gestation for fetal anencephaly. Labour induced with intravenous Syntocinon. Fetus was born alive and survived for one hour.”
  3. “A patient presented at 19 weeks gestation for a therapeutic abortion. She was started on misoprostol intravenously. The fetus was expelled. A heartbeat was detected. The fetus expired 7 minutes later.”

Jonathon Kay ‘Homicide’ or not, abortion is a subject that too few Canadian politicians are willing to tackle” National Post 13/2/1

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/01/jonathan-kay-homicide-or-not-abortion-is-a-subject-that-too-few-canadian-politicians-are-willing-to-tackle/

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Abortionist is asked if babies he dismembers feel pain

14 weeks

In court, an abortionist was asked if it ever crossed his mind whether the unborn baby felt pain while being dismembered.

THE COURT: Does it ever cross your mind when you are doing a dismemberment?

THE WITNESS: I guess whenever I —

THE COURT: Simple question, Doctor. Does it cross your mind?

THE WITNESS: Does the fetus having pain cross your mind?

THE COURT: Yes.

THE WITNESS: No.

THE COURT: Never crossed your mind.

THE WITNESS: No.

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.

Below: Dismembered at 14 weeks. did this baby feel pain?

Read about fetal pain here. 

Read more court testimony here.

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Abortion clinic worker: “No blood on my hands”

From one abortion clinic worker:

“There ain’t no blood on my hands. I used gloves.”

Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012)267

9 week old unborn baby
9 week old after abortion
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Feet were moving during dismemberment, says abortionist

From an abortionist testifying in court:

THE COURT: Were the feet moving? [During the dismemberment abortion]

THE WITNESS: Feet could be moving, yes.

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. Read more of his testimony here.

He is talking about a D & E abortion. Read a former abortionist’s  detailed description of one here.

18 weeks. Common age for a D & E (dismemberment) abortion

 

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Dr. Alveda King talks about her abortions

Dr. Alveda King, pro-life activist, describes how she was tricked into having an abortion she didn’t want.

“My involuntary abortion was performed just prior to the passage of Roe versus Wade by my private pro-abortion physician without my consent. I had gone to the doctor to ask why my cycle had not resumed after the birth of my son. I did not ask for, nor did I want an abortion.

The doctor said, “You don’t need to be pregnant, let’s see.” Without asking for my permission, he proceeded to perform a painful examination, which resulted in a gush of blood and tissue emanating from my womb. Afterwards, the doctor explained that he performed an abortion that he referred to as a simple procedure, “local D&C.”

She went on to have a legal abortion a number of years later:

“Soon after the Roe V Wade decision, I was again pregnant. There was adverse pressure and beyond this, a threat of violence from the baby’s father. The ease and convenience afforded through Roe versus Wade made it all too easy for me to make the fateful and fatal decision to abort our child. I went to a Planned Parenthood sanctioned doctor and was advised that the procedure would hurt no more than “having a tooth removed.”

The next day, I was admitted to the hospital, and our baby was aborted. My medical insurance paid for the procedure. As soon as I woke up, I knew that something was very wrong. I felt very ill, and very empty. I asked the doctors and nurses about the way I was feeling, but they reassured me, “it will go away in a few days. You will be fine.”

They lied.

Over the next few years, I experienced medical problems. I had trouble bonding with my son and his five siblings who were born after the abortions. I suffered from eating disorders, depression, nightmares, sexual dysfunctions, and a host of other issues related to the abortion that I chose to have.… I experienced uncontrollable waves of guilt over the abortion, I chose to have. The guilt made me very ill…

My children have all suffered from knowing that they have a brother or sister that their mother chose to abort. “You killed our baby.” Often they asked if I had ever thought about aborting them…

This has been and still is very painful for all of us. My mother and grandparents were very sad to learn about the loss of the baby. The aborted child’s father also regrets the abortions. If only I knew…

Had it not been for Roe versus Wade, I would never have had that second abortion.”

“How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder Our Children?” Dr. Alveda King in Doctor Alveda King and Dr.La Verne Tolbert Life at All Costs: an Anthology of Voices from 21st-Century Black Pro-Life Leaders (Xlibris Corporation, 2012) 111, 131-132

 

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