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American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology On Unborn Babies and Pain

When President Reagan said that unborn babies feel pain during abortion in 1984, it provoked a reaction from pro-choice circles who denied this. A letter was written by a group of professors including two past presidents of the American College of obstetrics and gynecology, backing the fact that fetuses feel pain.

“Real-time ultrasonography, fetoscopy, study of the fetal EKG and fetal EEG have demonstrated a remarkable responsiveness of the human fetus to pain, touch, and sound. That the fetus response to changes in light intensity within the womb, DC, to cold, and to taste (by altering the chemical nature of the fluid swallowed by the fetus) has been exquisitely documented in the pioneering work of the late Sir William Lily – the father of fetology,”

page 96
J C. Wilke and Mrs Wilke Why Can’t We Love Them Both : Questions and Answers About Abortion (Hayes Publishing Company; 2000)

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Dr. Warren Hern Describes Abortion Through the 24th Week

From abortion doctor Warren Hern:

“A frequent problem at the beginning of this series was difficulty in removing the fetal skull from the uterus. The incidence of this declined with experience, with more aggressive use of laminaria in dilatation, and with acquisition of new and more satisfactory instruments for performance of this procedure. It still occurs occasionally, and it is managed by completing the procedure under direct ultrasound visualization or having the patient wait in the recovery room for one or two hours. The part being sought invariably migrates to the lower uterine segment and is easily grasped and delivered.” (emphasis editor’s)

Outpatient second-trimester D&E abortion through 24 menstrual weeks’ gestation by Warren Hern Boulder Abortion Clinic

z22to24wk4 (1) — 22 to 24 week-old unborn baby

Quoted by Live Action

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Women Regret Their Abortions: Legal or Illegal

Abortion is a traumatic experience for many women, and this trauma is very real whether abortion is legal or illegal. Look at these two stories from the 1870s. They echo the same cries of pain from aborted women today.

“I go to church in despair, and I hear the minister proclaim free pardon to all sinners through the blood of Christ. Does he know what he is saying? Would he offer me the same comfort if he knew the extent of my guilt; if he knew that I had sinned, presuming upon that very grace which he declared is able to save the uttermost? And yet, if there be any truth in the doctrine, it ought to apply to all kinds of degrees of wickedness. But what avails God’s forgiveness if I cannot forgive myself? And what is salvation? Can God heal my self-inflicted wound, and save me from the inevitable result of my evil conduct? Nothing but a child can satisfy the earnings of maternal love; and I know of no joys of heaven that could make me happy there, unless this craving of my nature be first supplied or the instinct annihilated. Somebody else may have my mind and heart – I want my baby!”

And from another woman:

“I envy a mother who goes to weep beside her baby’s grave; because she knows where it is is laid, and remembers how it looked in life, and is not ashamed to say, “I have lost a child.” And when I hear mothers lamenting over such a loss, I pity them indeed; but I feel like saying to them, “you think you’re deeply afflicted, but your trouble is really light, because it is not mingled with remorse, and you are not to blame for the infant’s death.” Truly all sorrow that I have ever known or heard of is not to be compared with my sorrow, and that of others who have sinned in like manner!”

Elizabeth Edson Evans “the Abuse of Maternity, through Its Rejection” Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1875, Quoted in Rachel McNair, Mary Krane Derr, and Linda Naranjo-Hubbl. Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today (New York: Sulzburger & Graham Publishing, Ltd.) 75-76

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Like Brushing Your Teeth?

One pro-choice activist said the following:

“A set of blueprints is not a house; the DNA of a zygote is not a human being. There is no moral obligation to conserve DNA if there was, no man would be allowed to brush his teeth and gums, for in this brutal operation hundreds of sets of DNA are destroyed daily.”

Garrett Hardin, professor of biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Quoted in Redbook Magazine, May 1967. Also quoted on page 101 of Ruth Barnett.They Weep On My Doorstep. Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Publishers, 1969.

aboort9w — remains of an abortion at nine weeks

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Abortionist: Abortion is a Violent Act

“Abortion is, by almost any standards, a violent act. .. On the positive side, it gives women the means to decide their own fates and control their own reproductive lives. But it also puts more of the weight on women’s shoulders, allowing men and society in general to literally scrape and vacuum away their responsibilities.”

Don Sloan, M.D., with Paula Hartz. Choice: A Doctor’s Experience with the Abortion Dilemma (New York: New York International Publishers 1992) 178 Sloan has performed over 20,000 abortions.

Quoted by Live Action

fig06hand12 — hand of a 12 week old unborn baby

abort12w5 — leg of baby aborted at 12 weeks

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Slate Article: Pro-Choicers View Pro-Lifers as Insincere

From one article about legislation that would have banned sex selection abortions (abortions done because the gender of the unborn baby is female but the parents prefer a male, or vice versa):

“A trio of writers at the Huffington Post condemn the gender bias that leads to sex-selective abortion but call the bill’s supporters “hypocrites … who don’t care about sex discrimination.”

While the author criticizes the pro-life movement for not doing enough to prevent abortion, he also says:

“…too many in the pro-choice movement refuse to believe that anyone who’s pro-life actually cares about the unborn. They can’t allow themselves to believe anything but that we hate women and are afraid of sex, because if they acknowledge that our concern is for the unborn, they might have to challenge their own beliefs.”

unbornbaby20w-01 (1) — 20 week-old unborn baby

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“It’s worth pointing out that sex-selective abortions are, by nature, late-term abortions. You can’t find out the gender of a fetus until 18 to 20 weeks, if then. Perfectly healthy children that are nearing viability are being aborted because of sexism. That’s the most important thing.”

Rachael Larimore, columnist for Slate, “How far apart we are on abortion” The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) June 2, 2012

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Women Suffer after Abortions, Pro-Choicers Deny Their Pain Is Real

One woman said the following after her abortion:

“I developed anorexia shortly after my abortion, but I never connected the two. I disowned my body. I became an 80 pound skeleton. A totally nonsexual, non-woman.”

De Puy, C and D Dovitch. The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery after an Abortion (New York: Fireside, 1997; P 58

Another woman, who considers herself pro-choice, said:

“The inner torment is so unbearable that the only peaceful state I can imagine his death.” Says of the exercise that she is doing. “… Perhaps I can die if I keep going in this heat… I cannot drive my physical body to death. I’m a Frankenstein who has transformed myself into a monster that will not die.”

Nathanson S. Soul Crisis: One Woman’s Journey Through Abortion to Renewal, (New York: New American Library, 1989) page 148, 150

Both previous quotes cited in

Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles. Women’s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence Second Edition (Toronto, Canada: The deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 2003)

Yet pro-choicers say:

“The concept of “post-abortion syndrome” as a traumatic response to abortion is a myth, developed by those who seek to discourage women from choosing abortion as an option when faced with an unwanted pregnancy.”

“Countering Misinformation: the myth of “postabortion syndrome” ANSIRH: Advancing New Standards and Reproductive Health Care, UCSF

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Woman Who Aborted Due to a Problem with the Baby Expresses Confusion and Regret

One woman who had an abortion after tests showed that her unborn baby would be badly handicapped and chose to abort said the following:

“We had only one isolated piece of information, not a whole crystal ball. How were we to know what would be best?…

A person reeling from shock, numbed by a sudden catastrophe, cannot think.”

“Brown, Judy” (pseudonym) The Choice. Journal of the American Medical Association 1989, 262:2735

Many times, couples with pregnancies where the baby is going to be handicapped or very ill are rushed into a decision by doctors once they find out that the baby is going to have problems, and before they fully absorbed the information or the weightiness of the choice that awaits them.

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President of NARAL Pro-Choice America Expresses Her Concerns

In the United States, the tide is turning against the pro-choice movement. Several polls have been done recently that show that there are more people who consider themselves pro-life than pro-choice. Some pro-choice leaders have talked about what this may mean.

“Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, told Newsweek of her anguish as she watched last year’s March on Washington. “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young,” she said. “There are so many of them, and they are so young.

Fred Barnes “Hidden Persuaders: The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement” The Weekly Standard NOV 7, 2011

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