Study from Hawaii: Abortion Experienced As Murder

Researchers discussed the emotional impact of abortion on providers:

 “in Hawaii, McDermott and Char reported that “the nurses themselves felt that they had replaced the illicit underground abortionists in other cities, and, like them, they were personally involved in the slicing and chopping up of “babies” (the word they used to describe expelled fetal parts and fetuses)

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Kibel reported nightmares in nurses who had participated in many abortions… he concluded that “regardless of one’s religious or philosophic orientation, the unconscious view of abortion remains the same… that unconsciously the act of abortion was experienced as an act of murder….

Physicians are no more immune.  Many countries have reported increased depressive reactions and breakdowns among their guilt ridden doctors.”

Thomas W.Hilgers and Dennis J.Horan , Abortion and Social Justice (Thaxton Virginia: Sun Life, 1980) P. 77

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Former Abortionist Believes Unborn Babies Feel Pain

The late Dr. Nathanson, former abortion provider and pro-choice advocate:

“I think the baby probably feels pain in all of them [abortion procedures] [although] the degree, the sophistication of the [pain] perception certainly varies with the length of gestation… [but] there is is really little question that pain is felt in some degree or other during an abortion.”

Initial transcript, The Ankerberg Theological Research Institute “Is Abortion Justifiable?”  Televised program, January 1990

Here is a diagram of a first trimester suction abortion, the most common abortion procedure in the US

And here is a diagram of the most common second trimester abortion technique, the D & E:

In each, the baby is violently torn apart. Most likely, this dismemberment causes pain.

 

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Killing to Spare a Baby Suffering

“The majority of women who abort do so because they know that the unwelcome child, born of constraint or misfortune, will be wounded in some unacceptable way. As Artemis might kill a wounded animal rather than allow it to limp along miserably, so a mother wishes to spare the child painful destiny.”

Ginette Paris, the Sacrament of Abortion (translated by Joanna Mott) (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1992) 146 – 147

abortion at 10 weeks- justified to save the baby pain?

 

 

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Catholics for Free Choice President Admits That Abortion Takes a Life

Frances Kissling, President and CEO, Catholics for a Free Choice:

“I agree that the way in which the arguments for legal abortion have been made include this inability to publicly deal with the fact that abortion takes a life.”

Speaking Frankly,” Ms., May/June 1997, page 67

 

 

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Beverly Wildung Harrison: Abortion Is a “Genuine Moral Blessing”

“The existence of a safe, surgical, legal abortion is often a genuine moral blessing, despite a degree of moral ambiguity that needs to be acknowledged.”

Beverly Wildung Harrison

Our Right to Choose: toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon press, 1983) 18 Quoted in  Germain Kopaczynski No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1995) 150

abortion at 14 weeks – legal in every state in the United States
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Virginia Doctor Talks About Malpractice with Anesthesia

Recalling cases of malpractice involving abortion, Dr. William Harp stated:

“I can remember three [anesthesia-related] cases in the last five years. Two of those cases were abortions; another was a plastic-surgery case.”

Dr. William Harp,  Virginia medical board’s executive director

“Regulations have made office-based anesthesia safer” Richmond Times Dispatch, 5/22/2005

Women still die in legal abortions. Read about some of those deaths here

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Sex Selection Abortion Statistics in South Korea

“In South Korea, where fetal testing to determine sex is common, male births exceed female births by 14% in contrast to a worldwide average of 5%. In Guangdong province, the China news agency Xinhua reported, 500,000 bachelors are approaching middle-age without hopes of marrying, because they outnumber women ages 30 – 45 by more than 10 to 1.”

“Asia: Discarding Daughters” Time, special Fall edition 1990, 40

Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)

 

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Surgeon Saves Unborn Babies Yet Aborts Others

Dr. Joseph Bruner has operated on second trimester unborn babies with spina bifida. According to one article, “to ease the strain Dr. Bruner often talks to the unborn children while he works – to soothe them and keep them quiet, and to let them know what is going on. Sometimes he conveys a message from the parents, “We love you. We are trying our best to help.”

24 weeks – legal to abort in every US state

“Baby Samuel Photo Changes Family for Life” Atlanta Journal-Constitution April 8, 2000, Pro-Life Infonet, April 10, 2000

Yet Dr. Bruner is also an abortionist who kills children with spina bifida. He says this is “an increasingly difficult position to be in. Because we are performing surgery to improve the lifestyle of fetuses who have spina bifida, it is difficult to justify an operation that could also take that life away. As we walk through this minefield, society is going to have to take a good, hard look at itself, because it is untenable to hold both views.”

“Baby Samuel and Mother Doing Well after Fetal Surgery” WorldNetDaily, February 16, 2000

Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)

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Late-Term Abortions More Dangerous Than Early Abortions

17 weeks

In an abortion – every week of delay increases the danger by 20%. An abortion is 20% more dangerous every ongoing week of pregnancy

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, abortionist: press conference. Statement read at a joint press conference with the Manitoba Coalition for Reproductive Choice in Winnipeg, Friday, June 23, 2000

10 to 12% of all abortions are done in the second trimester or later.

 

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Adoptions At Planned Parenthood Decrease from 1997 – 1998

According to Planned Parenthood, there were 9,200 adoption referrals in 1997, but that number had dropped to 2,486 by 2000.

“That’s a whopping 73.5 percent decrease from what they were in 1997,” said Ed Szymkowiak, spokesman for STOPP International, a subsidiary organization of the American Life League. “During the same time period, Planned Parenthood’s abortion procedures increased 19.3 percent.”

Abortions Outpace Adoption 80-1 at Planned Parenthood
By Jason Pierce
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
May 08, 2002

 

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