From an article in British newspaper The Telegraph:
“According to statistics, thousands of women are using the service to terminate unwanted foetuses; in some cases up to nine times…
In 2010, 189,000 terminations took place, with more than 64,000 of them being performed on someone who had already undergone the procedure….
The figures showed the majority of repeat abortions happened in London, with more than half of all of the procedures performed in Croydon being on women for the second time or more….
In 2010, 85 women had an abortion for the eighth time.”
According to pro-choice author Miriam Claire, who wrote an entire book defending abortion:
“Some women are surprised by the depth of their feelings of loss after an abortion, and they assume responsibility for this grief through a sense of guilt, because their choice to have an abortion brought about the loss.”
According to a story in the Vancouver Sun, a Chinese woman underwent a forced abortion where the baby was born alive. Seeking asylum in Canada, she told her story to the board determining whether she would be allowed to stay. According to the Vancouver Sun:
“She told the board she underwent a forced abortion 13 years ago, when she was seven months pregnant with her third child. After the abortion, she told the board, she had another child in hiding. When authorities discovered she was pregnant with a fourth child, she was dragged to the hospital for another abortion, which included the fetus being injected with a poison in front of her. Later, she was forcibly sterilized.”
The woman says that after the second abortion:
“I thought she [the baby] was alive. After it was aborted [the nurse] threw it in the corner on the floor. … I told them: `It is alive baby, let me have it, raise it.’
They said: `No, because of the injection it’s going to die soon.’ … I saw her die and it was very painful. My heart got broken then.”
Chad Skelton “Woman gets refugee status despite no fear of persecution” The Vancouver Sun 02 Jun 2000
An article in the Christian Century tells of the following:
“CAN WE FORECAST a connection between genetic discrimination and selective abortion? Yes. A couple in Louisiana had a child with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder leading to chronic lung infections and excruciating discomfort.
When the wife became pregnant with the second child, a prenatal genetic test revealed that the fetus carried the mutant gene for cystic fibrosis.
The couple’s health maintenance organization demanded that they abort. If they refused to abort, the HMO would withdraw coverage from both the newborn and the first child. Only when the couple threatened to sue did the HMO back down and grant coverage for the second child.”
T Peters “In search of the perfect child: Genetic testing and selective abortion” The Christian Century Oct 30, 1996
An article in The Christian Century tells the following story:
“A Pennsylvania couple has sued a public school guidance counselor, charging that he violated their constitutional rights by helping their minor daughter obtain a secret abortion…..
The teenager, who subsequently graduated from high school in June 1999, told the counselor that she was a Southern Baptist and that abortion was contrary to her and her parents, beliefs, the suit alleges.
The suit further charges that Hickey responded to the teen’s doubts by telling her “welcome to the adult world” and “someday you’ll look back on this and laugh.”
“Counselor sued in teen abortion case” The Christian Century, 1999 p. 116
Sharon N wrote an article about her abortion and the regret she felt for Live Action News. She says:
“A woman I knew from the National Organization for Women had made the appointment for me. I waited until they called my name, and then I saw the “counselor.” She was young (early twenties) and asked me whether I wanted an abortion. All I could do was sob.
She then handed me a tissue and said, “Poor baby.”
Pro-life author Rick Garrett describes him this way:
“Ronan O’Rahilly is the human embryologist who developed the classic Carnegie stages of human embryological development. He also sits on the international board of Nomina Embryologica (which determines the correct terminology to be used in human embryology textbooks).”
According to O’Rahilly:
“the fusion of the sperm (with 23 chromosomes) and the oocyte (with 23 chromosomes) at fertilization results in a live human being, a single-cell human zygote, with 46 chromosomes – the number of chromosomes characteristic of an individual member of the human species, not a blob of cells that are part of the mother’s body.”
Rick Garrett The Duping of America (Maitland, Florida: Liberty Hill Press, 2021) 114
A pregnancy resource center staff member who works with post-abortive and pregnant women says:
“Society tends to portray abortion as an easy, quick fix with no regrets. Research shows us that is just not true. We are blessed to provide love, support, and encouragement for all women, no matter their pregnancy decision.
When a pregnant woman enters our door, there are two lives that need tending. We mourn the loss of one life when women choose abortion, but we are still committed to the care of the mother’s life and pray the best for her as she travels the road to after-abortion recovery.”
Peter Singer, who is a professor at Princeton University, wrote a book arguing for euthanasia and infanticide. He cites a survey of doctors to argue that it is hypocritical to allow late-term abortion but not infanticide:
(Note, the book was written in 1994, so the survey is no longer “recent.”)
“A recent survey asked paediatricians in senior positions in the United Kingdom to say whether they agreed or disagreed with a number of different statements among which were:
Abortion is morally permissible after 24 weeks if the fetus is abnormal;
There is no moral difference between the abortion of a fetus and the active termination of the life of a newborn infant when both have the same gestational age [that is, the same age dating from conception] and suffer from the same defects;
There are no circumstances in which it is morally permissible to take active steps to terminate the life of an infant with severe defects.
Nearly 40% of the senior paediatricians responding indicated that they agreed with all three of these statements, even though you can’t agree without contradicting yourself…
Senior paediatricians have come to accept prenatal diagnosis and late termination of pregnancy if a serious abnormality is found. They can also see there is no real difference between a late fetus and a newborn infant at the same gestational age.
But active euthanasia for severely disabled infants remains illegal and is not sanctioned by medical codes of ethics, no matter how premature the infants may be, or how serious their defects.”
Dr. Anthony Levatino, who performed over 1000 abortions, describes a first-trimester suction aspiration abortion:
“The baby has a heartbeat, fingers, toes, arms, and legs, but its bones are still weak and fragile.
The abortionist takes a suction catheter… It’s clear plastic, about 9 inches long and it has a hole through the center. It is inserted through the cervix into the uterus. The suction machine is then turned on with a force 10 to 20 times more powerful than your household vacuum cleaner.
The baby is rapidly torn apart by the force of the suction and squeezed through this tubing down into the suction machine, followed by the placenta.
Though the uterus is mostly empty at this point, one of the risks of a suction D&C is incomplete abortion, essentially pieces of the baby or placenta left behind. This can lead to infection or bleeding. In an attempt to prevent this, the abortionist uses a curette to scrape the lining of the uterus.
The curette is basically a long-handled curved blade. Once the uterus is empty, the speculum is removed and the abortion is complete.
The risks of suction D&C include perforation or laceration of the uterus or cervix, potentially damaging the intestine, bladder, and nearby blood vessels, hemorrhage, infection, and in rare instances, even death. Future pregnancies are also at a greater risk for loss or premature delivery due to abortion-related trauma and injury to the cervix.”
