Posted on 12/01/2004 6:58:44 AM PST by NYer
(AgapePress) - "[A]t the end of the day, the truth is that when you perform an abortion you are killing something," said Dr. David Molloy of the Australian Medical Association.
For pro-lifers, that is a statement of the obvious. But what if you were confronted with the full horror of what that death represented -- and still didn't care? Is it possible that pro-abortionists could finally admit that abortion is murder, but then collectively shrug their shoulders?
That seems to be the case after the release of a British documentary entitled My Fetus, which aired in Britain in April, and then in Australia in August. The documentary contains footage of an unborn baby being sucked out of a mother's womb, shows dismembered babies -- one of whom is being rinsed in a sieve -- and other remains being carefully put back together in order to ensure that no body parts were left in Mommy's tummy.
The film is apparently staggering in its emotional impact. One pro-abortion journalist, Lauren Booth of the Daily Telegraph (London), who has herself had an abortion, watched the documentary and was stunned. "My hand flew to my mouth in shock," she said. "I swallowed. I didn't want to say it, but the word 'murder' came to my lips."
There is tremendous irony involved here, however, because My Fetus was not made by pro-lifers. It is the work of pro-abortion activist and filmmaker Julia Black, daughter of Tim Black, who heads up Britain's largest abortion provider. Black had her own abortion when she was 21.
So what was her reason for making such a film? She told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that it was to "reclaim the most powerful weapon the anti-abortion groups currently have -- the fetus and the baby." Black wanted pro-abortionists to be faced with the gruesome reality of what they were advocating -- in order to better defend it. Certainly not apologize for it.
What's truly horrifying is Black's apparent indifference to the gruesome reality of what her film presents all too clearly. In an interview with ABC's Tony Jones, Black said the idea of "dismembering a baby and pulling it out in pieces ... is obviously horrific. But at the same time, it is easy to get caught up in that emotion."
Later she told a newspaper, "I can take on board the emotional significance, but I still really do believe it's my right and I don't regret my abortion and I would never say I would never have one again."
It's one thing for someone to advocate abortion in ignorance of what is being done to an unborn child, or even to support abortion while refusing to look at the nature of the act. But how does one stare dismemberment in the face and simply shrug?
A similarly abhorrent attitude was expressed nonchalantly in the U.S. by another pro-abortion evangelist, Amy Richards. A feminist activist and author, an abortion rights advocate who has worked with Planned Parenthood, and a co-founder of a feminist organization that has financed abortions, Richards recounted in The New York Times Magazine how she handled the news that she was pregnant -- with triplets.
"I'd have to give up my life," Richards thought after getting the bad news. "[N]ow I'm going to have to move to Staten Island. I'll never leave my house because I'll have to care for these children. I'll have to start shopping only at Costco [a wholesale club] and buying big jars of mayonnaise."
Her decision? She asked her obstetrician: "Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?" When told that an abortion specialist could, in fact, perform a "selective reduction," Richards agreed.
Her boyfriend balked before the deed was done, however. Richards recounted: "But Peter was staring at the sonogram screen thinking, 'Oh, my gosh, there are three heartbeats. I can't believe we're about to make two disappear.'"
It mattered not to Richards. She waved off her boyfriend's request that they at least consider having the triplets, and Richards proceeded to have two unborn children aborted.
The deaths of two innocent children, of course, is deplorable enough. But again, as in the case of Black, it is the ruthlessness exhibited by Richards that is most chilling. As one woman wrote to the editors at The New York Times, "Of all the reasons for having an abortion, I never thought that the prospect of living in Staten Island and shopping at Costco would be among them."
Just how hardened to suffering and our own iniquity can our hearts become? It seems likely that pro-abortionists will continue to plumb hell's depths before being able to provide an answer to that one.
After reading this I think we're living on the threshold of the Apocalypse and developing a callousness for murdering unseen victims is a warm up exercise for what lies in the near future.
I think your right.
I am horrified just "thinking" in my mind what happens to a baby during an abortion
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by sending the whole bunch to Central Africa!
I used to post over on DU. Most of my posts were in the threads on abortion.
It amazed me how many people over there really would defend this attitude.
Sadly, there are more people who think this way than you'd like to believe.
If only you could convince him that it was counter to Bush's beliefs : ) I believe the film could be a boon to the pro-life movement...show the pro-choice crowd exactly what they are advocating.
Eventually, I brought her to face the fact that she had murdered her own child, thinking that fact would have an effect.
It didn't. Once she realized what she had done, she immediately decided she had done her child a favor by killing her.
The plain and simple fact is that nearly everyone who promotes abortion is a stone cold murderer.
>>Either way you're still talking with heartless fascist bastards.<<
Give your Mom a big hug for teaching not to say what you really feel in public. I'm sure you could win the war with any drunken sailor if you did say what you are thinking.
This article brings out why abortion is ultimately a religious issue. If you are not convinced that human life itself is sacred, and made in the image of God, than the grotesque nature of the procedure be no more significant than, as someone said above, dressing a deer carcus.
This is why the issue has to be the fact that humans are made in God's image and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity--as human life is especially sacred. The argument cannot be simply that abortion kills human life--because ultimately those behind abortion, shrug their shoulders and say, "so what?"
This issue perfectly illustrates what happens when the separation of church and state becomes radical--and religion is relegated to the realm of personal emotions--irrelevant to political issues. Religiously informed opinions are every bit as valid and more, as those from mere secular sources--and deserve, indeed need, a place at the table of political discourse.
>>I didn't want to say it, but the word 'murder' came to my lips."<<
Apparently 'slaughter' isn't in her vocabulary/
Thanks for the memories!
If conservatives fail to "conserve" and act like 1970s-era liberals, we will see euthanasia of both seniors and unwanted children under the age of two, homosexual marriage in all 50 states, and the elimination of the age of consent for sexual activities.
Once abortion was legalized, the slide down the slippery slope began. With 40 million less taxpayers, it is to be expected that "their" peers, left to bear the costs associated with an aging generation that supported abortion, will turn the table and legalize euthanasia.
May God have mercy on us all!
And I suppose it matters not to Richards when her surviving child finds out that her/his two siblings were murdered so that she didn't have to live on Staten Island and shop at Costco?
Gawd, I hope this woman "gets it" before her Judgement Day.
I am going to have to disagree with you. Abortion is a moral issue, but not a religious issue. Atheists can know that abortion is wrong, as some do, just like they know stealing is wrong.
"I'd have to give up my life,...I'd never be able to leave my house."
Where on earth do these people come from? One doesn't give up a life, but gets one even larger. As far as never leaving the house I can't imagine. I moved from the city to a rural ranching community. Took four children under six years thirty miles to buy groceries. (And, yes, we shopped at Wal-Mart) We always made a party of it. When that became difficult, I simply bought a cow. Learned to milk, make butter, cheese, and sell the surplus to neighbors. I bought all the appliances for a new house with the money. Our veternarian always laughed, said he'd never seen a play pen installed in cattle corrals--which always seemed a puzzle. How did pioneers keep thetr kids from getting squashed?
I drove a 1965 Mustang (still have it) to the barns to milk. One morning, I left the kids in the car. when I returned I always drove to the house with the milk bucket balanced on the console, holding the bail and lifting it when I hit a bump in the road to keep from drowning the kids. That morning there appeared a flying missile in the car. It kept flying around the inside of the car and hitting everyone in the head threatening to brain us or drown us in five gallons of milk. When I stopped, I discovered the kids had been playing with a large spool of sewing thread and the end had caught on something on the outside of the car. As I drove along it bounced all over as it unwound. I took the spool, cut the thread and placed it on the dash of the car--I thought. Later, when we went to town, I got four kids from the car in the Safeway grocery store parking lot. they began staggering, stumbling,and falling down on the the asphalt. It was then I discoved they'd unwound the remainder of the thread and it was hopelessly knotted and tangled in all their shoelaces. For a time, they seemed hoplessly connected. This is where I learned to bite thread in two with only my teeth, while crawling around in a greasy parking lot on my hands and knees.
Question? How do all these murderous women who abort their babies fill their days? Or better--how do they ever develope a reputation sufficient to enable them to get the entire grocery store to themselves?
Liberals, especially feminists, are the most absurd people on this planet. They lecture us all about the horrors and inhumanity of capital punishment but wouldn't hesitate to heinously murder an innocent and defenseless unborn child.Would someone please tell me how that makes any sense at all.
my post number 17 in this thread has a more detialed account of the first degree premeditated murders going on in the netherlands and soon to be here in america if some people getthier way
Thinking about what the baby must be going through used to really bother me. I may be in denial, but I now believe that God would never put an innocent life through the pain of an abortion. While it's a sin on the souls of those having abortions, I think that God must step in at some point to spare the baby the pain of the procedure itself. I also take some measure of comfort in the fact that the murdered baby earns a "free ticket to heaven," Original Sin notwithstanding. I'm sure I'll get a few replies contending these beliefs, but it won't change them in my mind.
That said, I continue to fund pro-life groups and attend pro-life rallies; I haven't given up the fight.
Some, but not all. This film has re-energized the pro-life debate in England. At least that's what I've read.
If these photos and videos were ineffective in swaying people to the pro-life position, organizations like Planned Parenthood wouldn't fight the broadcast of these videos tooth and nail.
I also know from hearing former abortionists and directors of crisis pregnancy centers speak, that abortion-minded women change their minds when they see sonograms of their unborn children, about 85%, to be exact..
If we ever do get to the point where the majority of people in our society see videos like this and remain indifferent to abortion, we can be sure that God's wrath will be right around the corner. He is amazingly patient with us.
The Hard Truth had that effect on me. I felt like I'd been hit by a bus, and I felt a tremendous amount of grief.
Nevertheless, it's mandatory viewing for anyone and everyone. There's a holocaust going on in our country just like there was in Nazi Germany in 1943.
If you ever wanted to know what it was like to live in Nazi Germany in 1943, take a look around you.
The Eclipse of Reason is similarly disturbing, but "The Hard Truth" packs a little more punch.
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