“The Logic of Abortion Is Merciless”

An article in The National Review discusses the horror of partial-birth abortions and late-term abortion in general:

“The campaign against partial birth abortion has revealed that the public’s moral sentiments, if not always its moral reasoning, remain healthy. It has revealed something, too, about the politicians, the writers, the judges, who support abortion on demand. They have watched a baby, partly out of the womb, have her skull punctured and her brains sucked out. They have been asked, “Must even this be tolerated?” and they have looked at this grisly scene and answered “yes. Even this.”   The logic of abortion is merciless.”

“Ruling Without Mercy” The National Review 6/28/00

Diagram of a partial birth abortion. Now the partial-birth abortions are illegal, abortions in the second trimester are either done by injecting poison into the womb or by D&E. A D&E diagram is below.

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The Dangers of a Second Trimester Abortion

An abortion provider talks about the dangers of second trimester abortion.

“When you do a termination at this stage, you’re at a greater risk for perforation, laceration, hemorrhaging”

David Morton, “Anonymous Abortion Provider” July 12-July 18. 2000. Alternative Weekly

second trimester – 16 to 20 weeks
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Dr. Warren Hern In His Book Abortion Practice Warns of Dangers of Abortion

From abortion provider Dr. Warren Hern, in his “how to do abortions textbook”:

” Abortion is a blind procedure that proceeds by touch, awareness, and the nuances of sensations provided by instruments, honesty and caution. While competent orientation in the performance of an abortion is essential, abortion, almost more than any other operation, demands experience to develop skill. Experience that is not interpreted honestly, however, becomes the mere repetition of mistakes. The operator must be brutally honest with himself to make the necessary corrections from second to second while performing the procedure. Has the suction tip passed through the uterine wall? Is the material grasped with the forceps unyielding? Is the material uterine wall and not fetal tissue? Is the patient merely agitated or is she having severe vasovagal episode?

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990)  ( Chapter 5, PG. 103)

Despite the difficulty of performing abortions, Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice organizations have push for laws allowing nurses and other non-doctors to perform them.

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The American Medical Association Opposed Abortion

American Medical Association Resolution 1859:

“Resolved, that while physicians have long been united in condemning the act of producing abortion, at every period of gestation, except as necessary for preserving the life of either mother or child, it has become the duty of this Association in view of the prevalence and increasing frequency of the crime, publicly to enter an earnest and solemn protest against such unwarrantable destruction of human life.

Resolved, that in pursuance of the grand and noble calling we profess, the saving of human lives, and the sacred responsibilities thereby devolving upon us, the Association present the subject to the attention of the several legislative assemblies of the Union, with the prayer that the laws by which the crime of procuring abortion is attempted to be controlled may be revised, and that such other action may be taken in the premises as they in their wisdom may deem necessary.

Resolved, that the Association request the zealous cooperation of the various State Medical Societies in pressing the subject upon her legislators of the respective states.”

Quoted in:

Dyer, Frederick “Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. and the Physicians Crusade against Abortion” Life and Learning IX, 1998

Most people do not know that it was doctors, rather than feminists or laymen activists who opposed legal abortion and fought to protect unborn children in the 1800s. These doctors knew that life began at conception. At this time, also, most feminists such as Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed abortion as well.

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Pro-Choicer Argues for Abortions For Poor Women

Pro-Choice activist Austin Cline talks about poor women and abortion, and seems to make the argument that it is cheaper for society for these women to have abortions than for them to give birth to their babies.

“The lack of funding for abortions can easily put them out of the reach of poor women who are likely seeking abortions because they cannot afford to care for more children. Ultimately, the state pays more to help these families.”

Austin Cline “Religious Groups Aim to Eliminate Women’s Rights” in Lucinda Almond The Abortion Controversy (New York: Greenhaven Press, 2007) 55

The fact that it is cheaper to kill life then to support it should not be an argument in favor of legalized abortion.  The argument reeks of disdain for the poor, saying that it is better for them to kill their children than allow them to become a burden on taxpayers.

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Abortionist Comments on the Ease of Getting around Parental Notification Laws

From an article that a reporter wrote after observing at an abortion clinic: A teenager who had an abortion had to go through a judge to bypass the law that required her to tell her parents about her pregnancy. The article says:

Getting a judicial bypass was not difficult, she said. The clinic scheduled her appointment early in the morning, and after taking a pregnancy test, for which she paid $200, she met with a judge briefly in his chambers.

According to the abortionist who performed the surgery:

“If you go to the judge and say, ‘I’m afraid to tell my parents because they might harm me,’ that’s all you need to say,” said Dr. Tom Tvedten, who has been performing abortions in Arkansas for 20 years, and now works part time at the Little Rock clinic. “It doesn’t have to be true, because how would anybody know?”
He added, “But every time a restriction is placed on us, it increases our costs, and that cost is passed on to the consumer.”

JOHN LELAND  “Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly  “New York Times September 18, 2005

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Dr. Mengele: It will go on and on

Dr. Nyiszli: “When will all this extermination cease?”
Dr. Mengele: “My friend, it will go on, and on, and on.”

Conversation in the Auschwitz Medical Detachment in 1941, from the American film The Nuremberg Trials

aborted babies
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Canadian Woman Has 26 Week Abortion

A Canadian women who says she has aborted five pregnancies told a radio show host that her last abortion was performed while she was 26 weeks pregnant for no serious reason.

“But the last time it happened to me, the fifth time, I got pretty far into the pregnancy,” a caller named Karel told show host Isabelle Maréchal from 98.5 FM in Montreal on April 9.

“I was 26 weeks,” said Karel.

The host was incredulous. “Oh wow, and they aborted you anyway?” she asked.

Karel: At the CLSC on Rue Sanguinet. They handle pregnancies of more than 24 weeks.

Host: Did you have a problem? Was it a [high-risk] pregnancy that endangered your life?

Karel: No, I had no problems. I was O negative, but that was no problem, because today I have a child…

Host: “I don’t understand how they could’ve aborted you at 26 weeks if you weren’t in a high-risk pregnancy…At 26 weeks? That…that’s two-thirds of a pregnancy. We can’t say it’s an embryo any more

…..

Host: We can always debate about the [moral] state of the fetus, but it looks more like a baby than an embryo at 26 weeks.

Karel: Yes, he even moved. I thought it was gas. But it wasn’t gas, it was kicks…The guilt that I experienced with that…I know there are plenty of people who judge but… it’s gone beyond that. I am where I am. And I will tell you I’m very happy. And I don’t regret it to be honest with you.

PETER BAKLINSKI “I aborted healthy 26-wk baby for no reason, Canadian woman tells talk show host” Life Site News April 26, 2013

sonogram at just 24 weeks

This would contradict the statement made by pro-choice activist Carolyn Bennett:

No physician in Canada can terminate a pregnancy over 24 weeks without serious indications such as if the life of the mother at risk, or if the fetus has very serious malformations….  I challenge him to find ONE late trimester abortion perfomed in Canada to a healthy mother with a healthy fetus. I am one of many politicians ‘willing to tackle’ this subject. He needs to be one of many journalists who are prepared to admit when their fine prose may have misled Canadian, in this case to admit that late-trimester abortions are NOT happening in Canada without ‘reason’.

Carolyn Bennett, “Last Two Days on Twitter: Trying to Deal with the Misrepresentation in the National Post on Late Trimester Abortion”

remains of a baby at 24 – 26 weeks
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Professor on Lack of Media Coverage of Gosnell Trial

Marc Lamont Hill, a Columbia University professor known for his frequent appearance on Fox News

“For what it’s worth, I do think that those of us on the Left have made a decision not to cover this trial because we worry that it’ll compromise abortion rights… Whether you agree with abortion or not, I do think there’s a direct connection between the media’s failure to cover this and our own political commitments on the Left… I think it’s a bad idea…I think it’s [the bias is] dangerous, but I think that’s the way it is.”

Ben Johnson “Liberal commentator: we ‘made a decision’ not to cover Gosnell to protect abortion” Life Site News April 17, 2013

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Doctor: “Thank God I Have One That is Not Screaming!”

“I went to the Aware Women’s Clinic on Friday, May 24, 1986. There were at least 15 of us that were there that day. The took us all into a room so we could fill out a form and they gave us all some kind of pill. I do not know what it was. The only question that I remember answering was the last one, “Do you really want to have this abortion?” I wrote no. They collected our forms and few minutes later a nice lady came and took me out of the room. We went down a hall and into her office. She very kind and soft spoken, she was the grandmotherly type. She asked me why I put no on the last question. I told her that I loved the feeling of being pregnant. I also told her the story that lead me to the clinic. She agreed with the other ladies and assured me that I was making the best choice. It was only a blob of tissue, not a baby yet, I was too young to have a baby anyway, when I left there that day I would never have to think about it again, etc…. so, I allowed them to kill my baby that day….When I first arrived at the clinic there was a girl there about 14 years old. She was crying and begging her parents not to let them kill her baby. Someone on the staff came and took her and her parents to another room away from the rest of us. I did not see her again that day. However, I did hear her screams an hour or so later.

After I joined the group again, they took us into a room for us to change into a gown. We were all just sitting in that room in silence and awkwardness. The nurse came in and told us they would start the procedures soon and they would take us one at a time. (like an assembly line) The minute she walked out of the door we heard the 14 year old. She was yelling and begging the doctor not to kill her baby. I will never, ever forget the sound of her screams as long as I live! The lady that took me into her office earlier came into the room with us. She said that the girl was okay, they hadn’t even started the procedure yet she was just a little frightened. (YEA RIGHT!) Well, you can guess who they took next? Me of course. I know they were worried that I was about to leave the clinic.

The grandmotherly lady took me in there herself and told me she would hold my hand. The doctor said only two things to me. The first was, “Thank God I have one that is not screaming!” Then he turned on a machine that sounded like a huge vacuum cleaner. The grandmotherly lady told me it would hurt a little but would only take a minute, and the doctor finished the procedure. The second thing he said to me was, “You were barely six weeks along,” and he left the room.

I was looking through a medical book two years after my abortion and I flipped the page and there was a two page spread of what a fetus looked like during a pregnancy. My entire world came crashing down that day. I saw for the first time what the baby looked like when I allowed it to be killed. I had a nervous brake down that night. I begged God to please give me back the baby! For the next five years I stuffed it way down inside me. I just could not believe what I had done. I could not think about it anymore.”

“Kirsten’s Story” The Forerunner May 24, 1986

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