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.”
She thought she was willing to pay the price for having an abortion.
That day it was “buy one, get one free”.
It gives other pregnant women a(nother) reason to think twice before aborting.
Ouch!
Sorry. I know it was mean, but it strikes home.
Let me explain the analogy since you missed it:
Should we save the victims one by one? Or would it be better to go after the killers instead?
Do we treat the symptoms as they arise? Or shouldn’t we instead treat the disease?
Do we save a handful of Jews at a time from death camps? Or do we march in with guns blazing and instead put an end to the evil Nazi regime that’s slaughtering them?
If these women are killing their babies because they’re “basically good people” whom our culture has convinced that abortion is not murder, maybe we could put a swift end to all this butchery by shouting far and wide that it IS murder. It’s worked in the past. What’ve we got to lose? (Except a smile of approval from certain of our fellow pro-lifers.)
Do we save a handful of Jews at a time from death camps? Or do we march in with guns blazing and instead put an end to the evil Nazi regime that’s slaughtering them?
Saving a handful of Jews at a time does more good than simply calling the Nazis what they are - and for those who crow about doing the latter to disparage the activities of the former is beyond contemptible.
Oh, stop pretending you’re Jesus.
By your and others’ logic, we’d have never stormed Germany. Instead we’d have simply described Hitler and his Nazis as “basically good people” who believed what they were doing was hunky-dory.
That wacked-out thinking is costing lives. And you think saving one here and one there makes it okay. Sheesh.
By your and others’ logic, we’d have never stormed Germany. Instead we’d have simply described Hitler and his Nazis as “basically good people” who believed what they were doing was hunky-dory.
That wacked-out thinking is costing lives. And you think saving one here and one there makes it okay.
Evade. Distort.
Do you often have this much trouble understanding analogies? Or do you simply dislike mine on general principles?
However, there aren't any.
My thoughts on abortion...too bad we can’t abort certain folk ex-post-facto style for their being so much in favor of this evil, murderous activity.
They support the murder of millions, yet scream bloody murder in support of abolishing the constitution and our God ordained rights when school children are killed by a mad-man who is a product of the evil culture they have created.
You first.
No, I understand, and I appreciate your cordial manner as well.
I guess I'll say this and leave it here: I agree with you that almost any woman who procures an abortion is participating in the murder of an innocent person. There's no getting around that, and I don't absolve those who've done it of the act just because they were in difficult circumstances.
But when you look at how Jesus and those who worked closely with Him in ministry handled people who were also knowingly doing sinful stuff, what you see is that there was a spirit of gentle firmness, not a diatribe. The Bible takes sexual sin very seriously, even referring to a woman who seduces men as being like a person who eats them like bread or pushes them into a grave. Not as bad as murder, but still...and look at the way our Lord treated the woman at the well, the woman caught in adultery and the woman who anointed his feet. Heck, look at how he treated Saul, a mass murderer, and the thief on the cross.
Lastly, I know people who have looked an abortion-minded mom in the eyes and told her she'll be a murderer if she goes forward with the abortion. But if they had opened with that, or mounted it as some sort of public campaign...yeah, no dice.
Thanks for listening, and have a great week.
Yep.
If I were to show every high school student the crime scene photos and autopsy photos from a drunk driver killing himself and another person, I doubt anyone would say I was trying to drum up sympathy for the jackass. They would know I was showing those kids where a certain road would lead.
So, if someone showed a high school kid a photo of a drunk driver on the autopsy table, they would be absolving the drunk driver of his wrongs and treating him as a poor, sweet victim?
You didn’t very well comprehend the post to which I was responding.
Read the whole conversation.
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