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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.
"How long till some one thinks that the old pamphlet "A Modest Proposal" is a real blueprint? How long till they start up the camps and the ovens?" That is a battle between the red and blue states. If the country went all blue it WOULD happen in short order IMO.
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Very well put!
Isn't it strange that a pack of cigarettes must have a warning label concerning effects of use? And abortions do not.
In addition, why is there a drinking/smoking legal age limit? But any woman/girl can get an abortion on demand.
Why are animals treated with more respect by liberals than humans?
Why does our media withhold information about abortion from the general public?
For everyone reading this thread, please, please speak out against the atrocity that is abortion. We must continue to work to stop the senseless killing of our children. Planned Parenthood is in our public schools now. Please call or write your local Congressmen to stop these murderers from infiltrating our schools. Please purchase a video of an abortion and show it to your friends and family.
Together we can fight and win this war against God's precious infants. Since those poor babies can't speak for themselves, we must speak for them, no matter how difficult it may be for us.
Most importantly please pray to God to change the hearts and minds of the uninformed and ignorant.
Black's strategy is brilliant: harden the pro-abortion crowd into the reality of what they are doing. Any act, no matter how horrific, attains normalcy in the minds of its practitioners and witnesses with regular commission over the passage of time. Murdering Jews become the norm.
You and I and those like us may be in the queue, perhaps many decades from now. Do not think for an instant that the same type of rationalizations made for abortion on demand - based as they are on expediency and the "good" of society (building a "better world" to use Margaret Sanger's words) - cannot be applied to any who are out of step with this brave "new" ideology.
Welcome to FR, Raquel. Life and death issues assume a prominent place in our various discourses. You're among (mostly) like-minded folks.
I COMPLETELY agree with you.
While I will NEVER condone abortions for ANY reason (not for rape, nor incest, nor disability, nor mother's health) I will say that these children are blessed. Blessed to never have to live on this planet where NOTHING is sacred. Blessed to not have to live with parents who never wanted them and were even willing to kill them before ever meeting them face to face. Blessed to be in Heaven and not having to wait years and years and endure hardships.
These little souls are blessed, but it is not my place to "bless" my child in this manner. Plenty of babies never make it past birth alive, and those are hard enough for a mother to endure. How can these "people" kill their babies? I will never understand it. I just realize that the babies get to go right back home with their real Father, who would never hurt them or hate them.
God bless all their little souls, and may he help their would-be parents understand what they have done and change their lives to use their experiences to convince others not to make the mistakes. That's all I can do to keep sane...is to hope that some women, somewhere, are using their mistakes to teach other women.
We've already got one here ...
http://www.silentscream.org/
The same people often say and I suppose you are for the death penalty. I am and they think I am terrible to want justice for a heinous murderer. They cannot bear the thought of a human monster being justly killed at the same time they say killing an innocent child is perfectly OK. They think I am the one who is cruel and hypocritical. I think they are nuts.
"... I think that God must step in at some point to spare the baby the pain of the procedure itself." Sadly, I must interject that God does not 'step in' and save babies the pain inflicted by heinous abusers, so it is horribly clear to this ol' freeper that the inhumanity of the serial killing for the unborn goes through the course of horrific pain (where the nervous system is developed) then death. The evil is then upon the serial killer and those complicit with the deed(s). We ought not shy away from admitting the extent of the evil, there are eternal souls at stake for the truth.
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