“… one of the greatest fears I have is that we will not have doctors to provide care; will not have places and that this procedure will become more and more isolated from women’s health.”
Posted on 09/23/2014 7:46:38 AM PDT by wagglebee
James McMahon, late term abortionist, now deceased, once said: “I frankly think the soul or personage comes in when the fetus is accepted by the mother.”
LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990
McMahon performed partial-birth abortions when they were legal. It’s interesting what he says here – one wonders what gives a woman so much power that she can create a soul just by her attitude and opinion. If the woman never accepts the baby, if she still continues to reject the baby after he or she is born, does the baby still not have a soul?
“… one of the greatest fears I have is that we will not have doctors to provide care; will not have places and that this procedure will become more and more isolated from women’s health.”
Peggy Romberg, director of Texas Family Planning Association
From a speech given to Texas Tech Medical Students for Choice, March 31, 2000
Quoted in Mark Crutcher “Access: the Key to Pro-Life Victory” Life Dynamics Incorporated,
Molly Yard, then president of the National Organization for Women, gave an interview with New Dimensions magazine about when a “fetus” becomes human being:
Q: When do you believe the fetus becomes a viable human being?
A: If you read the medical knowledge, 26 weeks is probably the earliest. As a matter of fact, I was just reading figures that indicate that a fetus born before 30 weeks has almost no chance of making it and, if it does, it is going to suffer all its life from all kinds of problems.
Q: Would you recommend 30 weeks is a cutoff point for allowing abortions?
A: I am not recommending anything. I am saying that Roe V Wade was very properly decided. It says that women have a constitutional right to control their reproductive lives, that they have the absolute right to choose it in the 1st and 2nd trimesters, and in the 3rd trimester the state has an interest
“Voices of the Abortion Debate” New Dimensions, 1990First of all, does it really make sense to say that this baby below (28 weeks) is not a person
But this baby (32 weeks) is a person?
What’s the huge difference between the two? There’s not much difference on a developmental level, though one does have stronger lungs than the other. Both are capable of surviving outside a woman’s womb. Of course, Molly Yard’s statistics on when the baby can survive are outdated –In fact, they weren’t even true in 1990. Today, the survival rate of babies at 27 weeks is 90% or higher. babies as young as 21 weeks have survived being born prematurely.
Roe V Wade did allow restrictions on abortion in the third trimester, but these restrictions could only go into effect if they had an exception for the “health” of the mother. Doe v. Bolton, a companion case to Roe V Wade that is lesser-known, defined health in very broad terms, including emotional health, meaning that such a law (banning third trimester abortions) is toothless and cannot truly be enforced– The woman could make the case that the abortion would be detrimental to her emotional well-being.
Note also that Molly Yard is not prepared to ban abortion, even after, in her opinion, the “fetus” becomes a human being.
This is quite the rationalization.
So if the mother rejects her baby, the baby has no soul. Obviously the baby is being rejected, so there’s no soul to have to worry about when you take the baby’s life. Wow. These people can talk themselves into ANYTHING being ok.
What???
WOW! So mothers are God?
So if the mother dies during birth, then the baby comes out a ginger?
Just more wicked psychobabble to deceive gullible females and keep the abortion mills grinding.
It has long been proven that the human fetus recognizes its mother’s voice very early in the gestation. It’s a baby from the moment of conception.
Because.....science
I frankly think that asking a confessed murderer for his opinion on a question of theology is more ludicrous than asking a serial embezzler to perform a financial audit.
Actually, the soul only appears after the child becomes a conservative.
The "acceptance by the mother" is not part of the scientific and spiritual equation - the human baby has a soul given to him by God at conception.
Pro-aborts can argue all they want but the truth is the truth.
you know I have forbidden you to kill, generation! if you call yourself Mine and call yourself part of My Church and you preach against killing, how is it you kill? do you presume to maintain that you are in the right and insist of your innocence before Me in the day of Judgement when you heap up crimes of unborn children? from Heaven I watch frightful sights; ah! how I suffer to see how the womb that shapes this child, rejects him and sends him to his death without a name and without regret; the womb that shaped him recalls him no longer; for these, I say:Game Over!"you may sharpen your sword, but the weapon you prepared will kill you; now you are not pregnant with child but with iniquity; you are going to conceive Spite and you will give birth to Mishap; you have dug a pit, hollowed it out, only to fall into your own trap! your spite will recoil on your head and your brutality will fall back on your head;"
Psalm 7:12-16
Put the D&C tools down and back away from the table slowly.
Then get on your knees and beg for forgiveness!
To an abortionist, a tissue blob is formed at fertilization, not a human being. But when the mother decides she'll keep it, a signal goes down the spinal cord, somehow jumps into the umbilical cord, then travels into the womb, and POOF!!! It's a human being.
So babies destined for adoption have no souls?
I wonder what he would say if Jesus gave him a short reprieve from where he is now to give us on this side of eternity?
See my tagline.
May I be so bold as to make a little correction. James McMahon, late term abortionist, now deceased rotting in hell waiting for the Great White Throne judgement that will put it in the lake of fire for all eternity. Praise GOD!!!,
The soul and body are both there at the moment of conception.
Well at least they admit to the existence of soul.
Celebrate the Sanctity of Life!
Well, it DOES seem plausible, there ARE a few mothers who never accept their own offspring and there DO SEEM TO BE some soulless monsters walking around. I suppose whether the father accepts the baby has nothing to do with it either way.
Closed captioned for the sarcasm impaired.
It’s still murder.
I think he knows better now.
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