They said it.
The entry for “Fetus” in the Encyclopedia of Human Biology says the following:
“[in the third month] Electrical activity of the nervous system is discernible… Attempts to suckle have been seen in utero and in aborted fetuses of 3 months.”
“Fetus.” By Frank D. Allan in the Encyclopedia of Human Biology. Academic Press, 1997. Volume 3. Page 962
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On what the unborn baby feels:
“At 7.5 weeks’ gestation, reflex responses to somatic stimuli begin, and touching the perioral region [mouth] results in a contralateral bending of the head. The palms of the hands become sensitive to stroking at 10.5 weeks, and the rest of the body and hindlimbs become sensitive at approximately 13.5 weeks. Shortly after the development of sensitivity, repeated skin stimulation results in hyperexcitability and a generalized movement of all limbs. This hyperexcitability has been interpreted as evidence for the presence of a functional pain system, reflecting an immature but intact pain response with early hypersensitivity to stimulation.”
Derbyshire, Stuart W.G. PhD. “Fetal ‘Pain’-A Look at the Evidence.” American Pain Society Bulletin. July/August 2003. Vol. 13, Num. 4. http://www.ampainsoc.org/pub/bulletin/jul03/article1.htm
Share on FacebookRick Harris, Alabama Bureau of Health Provider Standards director, discusses the closure of abortion clinics in Alabama:
“This will make three clinics on probation and one that has lost its license. When four out of ten of the industry gets licensing action, that’s a high number. That’s a real high number.We’re doing a lot more enforcement of other facilities, too. You don’t hear about it very much, but it’s going on.”
The Associated Press, Health dept. wants probation for Birmingham abortion clinic, 11/17/2006
The national news very seldom covers the deaths of women from legal abortion or the closing of clinics due to filthy or dangerous conditions.
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In a textbook on how to do abortions, late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern says the following:
“The signs of fetal life on expulsion and the repugnance of dismemberment plague the alternatives in midtrimester abortion.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990)
Read about babies born alive during abortions here.
Read about the midtrimester D&E procedure, which dismembers a baby, here.
Share on FacebookAccording to “Michelle” who owns an abortion clinic:
“I’ve thought through this issue, to do it as long as I have, and I have to sleep well at night… Is it life? Clearly it’s life. Does it deserve protection? My answer is “no.” The bottom line, you have two competing interests: the mother and the baby (or the embryo or the fertilized egg). And sometime during that nine month gestation, a woman’s rights are going to digress. At that point, I guess, rights can be ascribed to the fetus.”
She knows that “it” is life, and she even uses the term “baby.”
James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 49
Share on FacebookIn The New Age Journal, Brenda Petersen wrote the following:
“I approach this abortion as a sacred act of compassion and letting go. Many mothers before me, and grief and with wisdom, have made holy the sacrifice.”
Brenda Petersen, “Moon Times: a Meditation for Spiritual Healing from Abortion” The New Age Journal September/October, 1993 page 65 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
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Singer Madonna describes seeing her unborn baby on the ultrasound for the first time:
“I was stunned when I saw on the ultrasound a tiny, living creature spinning around in my womb. Tap-dancing, I think. Waving its tiny arms around and trying to suck its thumb. I could have sworn I heard it laughing.”
World Magazine, December 1996
Read about Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood clinic director who became pro-life after watching an ultrasound guided abortion.
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Jodia Peters was 16 when she had an abortion. Seven years later, she spoke out in support of Amendment 25, a bill that would require abortion clinics to give information about abortion’s risks, the development of the unborn baby, and abortion alternatives. Women would not be forced to view this information, but it would have to be offered to them. Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups oppose these informed consent laws.
From the author of the article:
“Peters said she had no idea of the possible medical and emotional risks [Of abortion]. Many came true for her. She became severely depressed and had uterine scarring which, five years later, caused the premature birth of her son, Jereth. Now 3, he’s had seizures and faces possible eyesight complications.
Jodia tells her story:
“I think my life would have been different with more information,” she says. “If I had numbers for adoption agencies, or had 24 hours’ notice, maybe I could’ve gotten away from my (family member). But I didn’t know I had any other kind of support.”
Again from the author:
She also wishes she knew what her unborn child looked like at 11 weeks, but she says the ultrasound presented to her by the abortion practitioner was done too quickly. When a doctor showed her Jereth’s ultrasound at the same stage of pregnancy, she clearly saw fingers and toes.
“If I knew, I think I could have stood up to the pressure.”
Jodia Peters says that after the clinic worker obtained her consent for the abortion, the clinic showed her a video on the procedure:
“It showed the instruments they used. I remember the words, ‘gentle suction’ and ‘slight pressure,’ all these rosy words, everything to make me feel good.”
The author continues:
Any feel-good sense vanished when the abortion practitioner entered the room with a brief hello, and quickly began dilating her cervix without taking any time to visit with her.
Right away, she said, “It hurt so bad I wanted to die. I told him to stop. He looked at me and said, ‘I can’t.’ I kicked, tried to get up. The person in there for support was holding me down. I was screaming, crying, kicking, everything.”
She’s still tormented wondering “whether he could have stopped when I told him to.”
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Not until after the abortion was she given a small booklet called “Facts for Abortion Patients.” She recalls reading for the first time about excessive bleeding, possible infection and other dangers and risks associated with abortion. Only then, after reading the book following the abortion, did she learn the name of the abortion practitioner.
One pro-choice activist says the following:
“I am a vegetarian. The killing of sentient, biologically autonomous birds or mammals who have done nothing to me, solely to satisfy a completely unnecessary (and unhealthy) lust for artery-clogging animal fat, is something that I personally consider to be immoral and unethical… even if the embryo is human, it still would not have the right to force the mother to use her body to keep it alive against her will. If the decision to give birth is what she wants, then “life” is a “beautiful choice.” But it is her choice; she cannot legally be forced into it….” [Emphasis in original]
TF Barans “Women’s Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro-Choice Right to Abortion” copyright 1999-2007
Dr. Sidney Laughlin got into trouble for performing abortions in his home and sterilizing his equipment in the dishwasher. Nurse Gayla Ennis, who claimed that she had helped him perform”four or five”abortions, notified authorities who staked out his house, which was across the street from an elementary school.
They found the remains of what officials thought to be a 16 week old aborted baby in his trash. The results of the autopsy on the aborted baby:
“Definitely identifiable human tissue consists of a right and left arm, both of which have been dismembered at the shoulder joint…a portion of the mid body is seen …consisting of the back and buttocks. This specimen contains a definitely identifiable spinal cord with numerous organs of which a kidney is observed. Also present are right and left leg and foot, all having definitively identifiable digits as do the hands.There is a head portion also present which has been macerated and opened and shows no definitive brain, but fragments of what appear to be brain tissue are observed with the remains. … The head has also been dismembered from the remaining portion of the body.”
The nurse claimed that she stopped working with Laughlin after he allegedly aborted a baby at his home that according to her, “looked about 28 weeks”
She told reporters,
“I was shocked and after that one didn’t help him anymore with anything. Sid had a few special instruments that he had special ordered, they were 12 to 14 inches long, had a 1 to 2 inch headwith sharp teeth on the forceps part that he used to break up body parts.”
“Doctor Investigated In Abortion Allegations” Daily Oklahoman 7/15/1992
