Posted on 01/10/2013 9:41:48 AM PST by Morgana
A pro-life group has released the graphic images today of a woman who was killed in a botched legal abortion. The group says they are some of the first images ever seen publicly of a woman who was brutalized by an abortion that claimed her life.
When 18-year-old Marla Cardamone was killed having an abortion at a Pennsylvania hospital, her mother, Deborah, vowed that she would never let her daughter be forgotten. Then, late last year, she approached the pro-life group Life Dynamics and asked the group’s president Mark Crutcher to help her show the public the risks women face when they submit to abortions.
Today, Life Dynamics is releasing a new brochure revealing what happened to Marla and her unborn son, including ghastly photos from Marla’s autopsy. The organization has also created a new website SafeandLegal.com that features the images and more information on how botched legal abortions kill and injure women.
“The pro-life movement has never had images to illustrate the unimaginable brutality and ugliness of women being killed in America’s “Safe and Legal” abortion clinics. But those days are over,” Crutcher told LifeNews. “We are going to show America what it looks like when women climb onto a table in one of these places and end up on an autopsy table a few hours later.”
“These images are a powerful new weapon unlike anything the pro-life movement has ever had before. Because of Deborah’s courage, we finally have the ability to expose one of the pro-choice lobby’s dirtiest little secrets,” Crutcher continued. “And that is exactly what Life Dynamics is committed to doing. Starting today, we are sending a clear and unmistakable message to Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry that they will no longer be allowed to kill the Marla Cardamones of this world and then just walk away from them like they never existed.”
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, which is co-sponsoring this project along with Operation Rescue and Life Dynamics, also talked about the new images.
He said, in 1996 that then-President Bill Clinton famously said he would like to see abortion “safe, legal and rare.” Seventeen years later, abortion remains legal. It kills more than a million unborn babies a year, so it is certainly not rare. And as a new project called “Safe & Legal” demonstrates, abortion is not safe for women, he continued.
“We are bringing graphic visuals to the truth that abortion harms women,” he told LifeNews.
“I am grateful to Marla’s mom, Deborah, and her husband for their full support of this project and their permission to use these photos,” said Fr. Pavone. “As they know, this project isn’t just about Marla; it’s about the countless women Marla represents, who are killed by abortion without the world ever knowing.”
This past July, Priests for Life and its Director of African-American Outreach, Alveda King, helped bring attention to a young mother, Tonya Reaves, who was killed after a botched second-trimester abortion in Chicago.
“The utter failure of the abortionist to get help for Tonya after she developed complications constitutes nothing less than murder,” Fr. Pavone explained.
“We ask everyone to get involved and to spread the truth about Marla and others killed and wounded by abortion,” said Fr. Frank. “As Deborah Cardamone has said often, we have to speak, because if we are silent, we are part of the problem.”
safe and legal autopsy ping.
Wonder if the elected President from Kenya will share his condolences with the family.
Wonder if the elected President from Kenya will share his condolences with the family.
I wish there were simlar graphic photos that demonstrated the mental and emotional butcher job that also takes place very frequently.
She was so pretty. Beyond Horrifying.
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I just hope the PhonyCons do not start attacking the release of this powerful evidence. In recent times we have had those masquerading as “conservatives” who are more concerned with what “MSNBC thinks” and not supporting conservative beliefs like pro-life.
Love your tagline!
“Anybody vowing to remember the granddaughter/grandson? Anybody seeking justice for the innocent victim here?”
“Or are we going to direct our anger solely at those providing the “service” and let their customers off the hook?”
Good points.
What was the cause of death? Hemorraging?
“Yeah, her daughter, the murderess”.
I think the Mother approaching the pro-life group and requesting her daughter’s autopsy pictures be displayed for all to see is beyond selfless and brave. I feel so sorry for her.. she lost both her daughter and unborn grandchild. Through her immense grief, hopefully she has provided a wake up call that abortion affects families. Entire families. “.. we should be thankful that the life of this innocent child was paid for with the life of the murderess”... all I can say is that I see two dead people. I feel sorry for both.
I won’t join you in your heartless comments.
The girl was 18. She was most likely a product of the public education system, and as such had been brainwashed by that and the pop culture/media into thinking she was doing nothing wrong.
I see two victims here.
This madness must stop. To stop it we need to make these kids understand what they are doing.
Currently they are being deceived by the media, the Democrats and the educational systems in this country that they are doing nothing wrong.
“I think the Mother approaching the pro-life group and requesting her daughter’s autopsy pictures be displayed for all to see is beyond selfless and brave. I feel so sorry for her.. she lost both her daughter and unborn grandchild. Through her immense grief, hopefully she has provided a wake up call that abortion affects families. Entire families. “.. we should be thankful that the life of this innocent child was paid for with the life of the murderess”... all I can say is that I see two dead people. I feel sorry for both.”
I am with you on this. That little girl on the table had no idea what she was getting herself into. Even Jesus said on the cross “Forgive them Father for they know no what they do”.
I just know she thought she was getting rid of a “bunch of cells” or whatever planned parenthood told her. Come on we all know this.
This Grandmother has lost her daughter and grandchild all at once because of the lie that abortion is safe and legal. It is only legal it is hardly ever safe.
To steal a meme from Joe Biden. “sure, some people say we can’t ban abortion, because it is a “right”, but if we can save JUST ONE LIFE”.....
You know, it’s hard for me to understand what convinces people like you that they are so morally superior that when someone does something to save the lives of people she has never met and never will meet in this life, you still get to poo-poo it. And not even poo-poo it as nothing, but poo-poo it as somehow excusing the sort of murder she is trying to prevent.
Give me a break.
I’m not poo-poo’ing it. I’m attacking it.
Maybe if pro-lifers stopped coddling and mourning these murderous women, and instead started calling them what they are, this so-called brainwashing of young girls would stop being so successful.
You want to save the lives of babies you’ve never met and never will meet in this life? Start attacking their would-be murderers. Start calling out these unfeeling, heartless mothers, instead of enabling their wicked murders by supporting their “victim” status.
Poo-poo’ing indeed. Give yourself a break.
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