Abortionist Morgentaler Patient: "I Told Him I Don't Want to Do This to My baby."

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/15/08 | LifeSiteNews

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VANCOUVER, January 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It's been more than thirty years, but social worker Vicky Green still vividly remembers her abortion experience with Dr. Henry Morgentaler, and she tells part of her story in the short film '1st Degree Morgentaler' by John S.C. Hetherington.

The powerful short film juxtaposes shots of Dr. Morgentaler explaining his rationale for supporting the "right to choose" abortion, against the testimonial of Mrs. Green.

"We came to a stop light and I wanted to get out and run," says Mrs. Green, recalling her former boyfriend driving her to Dr. Morgentaler's first clinic in the east end of Montreal. But soon she found herself face to face with the doctor himself, "I was surprised it was Dr. Morgentaler doing the abortion."

After a brief counseling session she told him, "I don't want to do this to my baby." According to Mrs. Green Dr. Morgentaler replied, "It's not a baby." She says she cried the whole way through the abortion procedure.

The ten minute film is being released as part of the online film contest Project Breakout. Interestingly the date of the announcement of the winners of Project Breakout happens to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the January 28, 1988 Supreme Court ruling, known as the 'Morgentaler Decision,' which decriminalized abortion in Canada. Since that ruling, the fate of Canada's abortion law has been in the hands of Parliament, and, since it has failed to act, there has been no legal restriction on abortion for twenty years.

After making the contest finals and editing his material together, Mr. Hetherington said, "When I learned the Project Breakout winners were to be announced on January 28th, the 20th anniversary of 'The Morgentaler Decision'; I knew entering this film was meant to be."

'1st Degree Morgentaler' is one of 15 films in the finals of the Project Breakout contest. It can be viewed and voted on from Monday January 14th to Sunday January 27th. Fifteen votes are allowed per person each day, and the audience vote counts for twenty-five percent of the overall rating.  "Your support would be much appreciated," said Hetherington.

Click this link to view and vote for '1st Degree Morgentaler' each day beginning January 14th.
http://shortfilm.projectbreakout.com/media_page/entry_id/219

There is a short registration process requiring name, postal code and email provides an activation code permitting voting. 

Filmmaker's site with info. on how to obtain a DVD copy by donation.
http://www.shoutlife.com/abortedartist

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After a brief counseling session she told him, "I don't want to do this to my baby." According to Mrs. Green Dr. Morgentaler replied, "It's not a baby." She says she cried the whole way through the abortion procedure.

What a monster.

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[Peter Libra]

His own personal holocaust, he the perpetrator.

[Comparative Advantage]

You’re right about that. How ironic. A victim of the holocaust gets his psychotic revenge. How is he any better???

[puroresu]

Morgentaler is the lowest of the low.

[RKBA Democrat]

“After a brief counseling session she told him, “I don’t want to do this to my baby.” According to Mrs. Green Dr. Morgentaler replied, “It’s not a baby.” She says she cried the whole way through the abortion procedure.”

OK. Here’s something I don’t understand. Was this woman restrained? Was she under threat of bodily harm? Obviously she was having second thoughts with regard to the course of action that she had selected. It’s unfortunate that she did not follow through with that second thought and simply walk out the door with the big EXIT sign.

While the abortionist is clearly culpable, as well the man who impregnated her, the woman bears her share of the responsibility as well. While it takes two to tango, it takes at least three to commit an abortion.

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[verga]

OK. Here’s something I don’t understand. Was this woman restrained? Was she under threat of bodily harm? Obviously she was having second thoughts with regard to the course of action that she had selected. It’s unfortunate that she did not follow through with that second thought and simply walk out the door with the big EXIT sign.

Okay that is exactly the thought running through my mind. No one forced her to go in there, and who paid for this? Did she?

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's hard to explain, and impossible to justify, this woman's apparent passivity in going through with an abortion that she did not want to have. But it's comparable to any number of other situations where people are inexplicably passive in cooperating with what they know is wrong.

You yourself, I'm sure, have read about mass murders where the heavily armed murderer, for example, enters a classroom and says, "OK, everybody line up against the back wall," and behold, everybody does. When that guy killed those ten little Amish schoolgirls in Nickel Miles, PA, he first told the adults and the boys to leave the room: and they did.

In Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram's famous Experiment 18, he tells students ("S") to administer electric shocks to other students ("C"). The "S" students think they are working with the professor and are part of the team, but actually it is they who are the "subjects" of the experiment. The "C" are the true collaborators with the professor and are never actually being shocked, but are playing the part.

In the end, the professor was ordering the "S" group to administer what they thought were dangerous and painful shocks to the "C" group--- shocks supposedly up to 450 volts-- as part of the "experiment." The "C" group would be crying out, screaming and writheing with pretended pain, and yet 37 out of 40 "S" students continued to administer the full range of "shocks," even when they believed them to be in the fatal range.

It was a troubling experiment then, and it's still troubling now. People will cooperate with outrageous acts when told to do so by an authority figure in a setting where obedience is clearly expected.

Like I said, it's hardly justifiable. But it happens all the time.

[RKBA Democrat]

“You yourself, I’m sure, have read about mass murders where the heavily armed murderer, for example, enters a classroom and says, “OK, everybody line up against the back wall,” and behold, everybody does. When that guy killed those ten little Amish schoolgirls in Nickel Miles, PA, he first told the adults and the boys to leave the room: and they did.”

Yes, I’m familiar with how people tend to act passively when faced with evil acting under the color of authority. The stalinist and Nazi holocausts are even more notorious examples. Yet it still doesn’t justify the passive or active complicity of those involved.

Thank you for reminding me of experiment 18. It’s a great moral lesson that should be taught to kids.