CONFESSION OF AN EX-ABORTIONIST

http://www.aboutabortions.com/Confess.html ^ | Dr. Bernard Nathanson

[cpforlife.org]

I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions.

This legitimises my credentials to speak to you with some authority on the issue. I was one of the founders of the National Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) in the U.S. in 1968. A truthful poll of opinion then would have found that most Americans were against permissive abortion. Yet within five years we had convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to issue the decision which legalised abortion throughout America in 1973 and produced virtual abortion on demand up to birth. How did we do this? It is important to understand the tactics involved because these tactics have been used throughout the western world with one permutation or another, in order to change abortion law.

THE FIRST KEY TACTIC WAS TO CAPTURE THE MEDIA

We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60% of Americans were in favour of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the serf-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000. Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law. Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalising abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1500% since legalisation.

THE SECOND KEY TACTIC WAS TO PLAY THE CATHOLIC CARD

We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its "socially backward ideas" and picked on the Catholic hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as "we all know that opposition to abortion comes from the hierarchy and not from most Catholics" and "Polls prove time and again that most Catholics want abortion law reform". And the media drum-fired all this into the American people, persuading them that anyone opposing permissive abortion must be under the influence of the Catholic hierarchy and that Catholics in favour of abortion are enlightened and forward-looking. An inference of this tactic was that there were no non- Catholic groups opposing abortion. The fact that other Christian as well as non-Christian religions were {and still are) monolithically opposed to abortion was constantly suppressed, along with pro-life atheists' opinions.

THE THIRD KEY TACTIC WAS THE DENIGRATION AND SUPPRESSION OF ALL SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION

I am often asked what made me change my mind. How did I change from prominent abortionist to pro-life advocate? In 1973, I became director of obstetrics of a large hospital in New York City and had to set up a prenatal research unit, just at the start of a great new technology which we now use every day to study the foetus in the womb. A favourite pro- abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Foetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy. Why, you may well ask, do some American doctors who are privy to the findings of foetology, discredit themselves by carrying out abortions? Simple arithmetic at $300 a time, 1.55 million abortions means an industry generating $500,000,000 annually, of which most goes into the pocket of the physician doing the abortion. It is clear that permissive abortion is purposeful destruction of what is undeniably human life. It is an impermissible act of deadly violence. One must concede that unplanned pregnancy is a wrenchingly difficult dilemma, but to look for its solution in a deliberate act of destruction is to trash the vast resourcefulness of human ingenuity, and to surrender the public weal to the classic utilitarian answer to social problems.

AS A SCIENTIST I KNOW, NOT BELIEVE, KNOW THAT HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION

Although I am not a formal religionist, I believe with all my heart that there is a divinity of existence which commands us to declare a final and irreversible halt to this infinitely sad and shameful crime against humanity.

[Dr. Nathanson has since converted to Catholicism, being baptised in 1996.]

[Alain2112]

I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions

"Doctor" Nathanson should do the honorable thing, and eat a bullet.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Salman]

Interesting. I know a nurse who became pro-life after seeing ultrasound scans of fetuses when assigned to the obstetrics unit of his hospital. He never had anything to do with abortions, but he had previously been "pro-choice".

To those who object to the use of the term "fetus", let me say that whatever monkeying around with terminology the pro-aborts may do, it is a legitimate term. It doesn't mean an undifferentiated tissue mass.

"Fetus" is Latin for "little one" and in modern medical terminology is the name for a particular phase of development. A human fetus is a human. It's not a man or woman. It's not a child. It's not a baby. It's still a human.

[2timothy3.16]

Thoughts of a Baby in the womb
by "Rachel Burns"

Mommy keep me safe,
Mommy keep me warm,
Handle me with all your love,
Mommy keep me from harm.

I'm only six weeks old today,
This birthday gift to me,
A pair of bright blue eyes,
That someday you will see.
I've barely got ears,
A little puppy nose,
and at the end of my feet,
Little things called toes.
Looking forward to my life,
toys, teddy bears, snails,
and long fairy tales.

Where are we going mommy,
in a bath, on a bus ride or,
perhaps far away.
Where are we going being pushed
at all force.
How funny it feels passing through
doors,
people dressed in green,
if they hurt you mommy just scream.

What's happening mommy,
I'm starting to cry,
Mommy come quickly,
they're making me die,
Killing me slowly,
Pulling me apart,
everything inside of me
even my heart,
Bye mommy, good-bye
But how I wanted to see
the grass, the trees,
hear a sweet song,
feel a sweet breeze.

Bye mommy
good-bye
I love you
I really do
.
.
.
.
I just wish you could have loved me too.

No, it's not a choice,

it is a baby!

For ACP's Pro-Life center, click here.

On September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacked the USA killing 2500 men, women, and children.
Everyday, mothers in the USA kill over 5,000 of their babies. They kill their babies using pills and surgery.
They kill these little ones while their baby sleeps in the supposed safety of her womb.
The baby is trapped, the baby has no where to run, no where to hide, and the only person in the world that can help him or her is the one that takes the pill or takes him or her to a butcher to be slaughtered, ripped apart and sold for body parts.
Before you kill your baby, ask yourself this:
What did the baby do?
Why am I killing my baby?
What did he do that is so bad that I am going to kill him?

It's sad, but in the last 360 days since Sept. 11-2001, terrorist have killed 3008 men, women and children in the USA and while serving in the military of the USA. But, in that same 360 days, 1,505,000 babies have been murdered by abortion, while they were trapped in their mothers wombs. Some of the babies where killed by pills in the first thirty days of pregnancy, others were killed by partial birth abortions in the last thrity days of her pregnacy.
I have to ask, what did those babies do that caused them to be killed? What was their crime? What did they do that they were punished by being ripped apart or slowly destroyed by being eaten up with a saline solution?

They say, "be pro-choice" well, I say you have a choice.

Below are two pictures, they will show the results of the choice you make concerning the life of your baby:


This is what your baby will look like thirty days after he or she is born, if you choose to let him life.


Below is what your baby will look like if you choose to have him or her aborted.

As the mom, it is your choice:

The abortionist makes a lot of money off of your dead baby, it sells the parts of your baby piece by piece, here is a not to graphic idea of what is done to your baby. Keep in mind, the baby was yours, it is you that will be haunted by what you have done to your baby till the day you die, but, the profits are the abortionist. Vaccines made from your aborted baby, and then forced on children.

[cpforlife.org]

GREAT JOB!

[fellowpatriot]

One would have to wonder if the good doctor and his brethern will work as feverishly to abort this horrible law as they did to give it birth. I doubt it.

This good doctor has worked very feverishly to try to atone for his mistakes. I attended a RTL convention back in the early 80's where he was the keynote speaker. He also produced the very contraversial film, 'Silent Scream'.

[sweetliberty]

" Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public."

That is the way the liberals approach everything they want to shove at us.

[2timothy3.16]

Not mine, one of Bob's

[Colofornian]

The Hand of God book

In this book, Nathanson mentions a pro-life event in 1989 south of L.A. that was a key catalyst in moving him to the Christian faith (he became pro-life before he became a Christian). That event was a rescue at a abortion clinic. As pro-life folks were singing & praying while sitting down all around a Cyprus, CA, Nathanson came around the back door and sat down for a while next to me--temporarily risking arrest w/the rest of us.

He had to catch a flight...and the police were taking their time before deciding to arrest us--thus keeping the clinic shut down for the entire day. The police detained us (hundreds) at a local tennis court.

We eventually wound up paying a fine. It was good to read in Nathanson's book that the event impacted his faith walk!

On that day, God was not only saving babies physically, but Dr. Nathanson spiritually

[Tribune7]

bump

[MHGinTN]

"Fetus" is Latin for "little one" and in modern medical terminology is the name for a particular phase of development. A human fetus is a human. It's not a man or woman. It's not a child. It's not a baby. It's still a human. 'IT' is a fellow human being from conception onward. The utility of killing some to avoid the responsibilities of parenthood appears to still influence the acceptance quotient of the American people.

I'm trying to raise the consciousness of Americans to the truth of human individuality from conception (whether in vitro or in a body) onward. It may not seem so important, especially when men like Orrin Hatch insist that en embryo in a petrti dish isn't a human, but if we Americans don't soon get a handle on the reality that even a human embryo is a unique individual, we will be conceiving for cannibalizing of younger individual human beings to treat older individual human beings ... we will be embracing cannibalism for its utilitarian value.

The slide down the slippery slope was slow at first, embracing forms of contraception that also worked to end early conceived life (as with IUDs and the first contraceptive pills), picked up some degree of slope with in vitro fertilization, then became a precipitous decline toward the pit with Roe v Wade.

We have slipped so far down and are now on such a steep incline, sliding toward the open maw of the pit, that we cannot bring ourselves to look at the truth of our dehumanization and instead focus upon the 'great medical marvels' to be found/discovered in cannibalism.

[old-ager]

'""Doctor" Nathanson should do the honorable thing, and eat a bullet.'

Truly the words of satan himself. Bad job, Alain2112.

[cpforlife.org]

MHGinTN & ALL:

Just two points.

(1)Contraceptives like the pill can and do cause chemical abortions.

See How The "The Pill" Works

In fact there are SEVERAL more abortions from the secondary "back-up" effects of contraceptives than surgical abortion.

See Chemical abortions in the United States

Before 1930 ALL Christian churches openly condemned contraceptives. Why? Because it leads to abortion. Abortion and Contraception are from the same poisoned tree.

(2) I believe we past the open maw of the pit (ref to your last para.) in 1973. When Roe happened, ANYTHING then became possible.

Chemical abortions in the United States (1965-1996)

Because many contraceptive measures are abortifacients (drugs that induce or cause abortions), it is important not to overlook the number of children killed by chemical abortions. Since 1965, an average of 11 million women have used abortifacient methods of birth control in the United States at any given time. This means about 14 million chemical abortions are committed in the United States each year, giving a total of 450 million chemical abortions between 1965 and 1996. **

THE PILL

The "birth control pill" is also not merely a contraceptive. Although it is designed primarily as a contraceptive, it is not always effective as such . . . and when it is not effective, it has a "back-up" mechanism that is clearly abortifacient! The "pill" has three mechanisms of action. You can easily look them up in the Physician's Desk Reference.

It attempts to suppress ovulation. When successful in this action, an egg is not released and conception, of course, cannot occur.

It thickens the woman's cervical mucus. Thus, the sperm are restricted from moving up the reproductive tract. This is also contraceptive.

However, the "pill" causes certain changes in the uterine lining so that if conception does occur, the new life meets a hostile environment when it arrives in the uterus 6 to 10 days later. It cannot implant. It dies. This is abortifacient. As you see, this is similar to the IUD. Why, then, do some Christians continue to accept the "pill" as a morally acceptable choice in planning families? One attempted justification centers upon the uncertainty of just how often the "pill" works as an abortifacient. Unlike the IUD, such persons might argue, the "pill" is primarily contraceptive since it suppresses ovulation most of the time. (The most obvious exceptions here are the "mini-pills" which have no estrogen and allow ovulation to take place 40-60% of the time. This is published in Emory University's Contraceptive Technology.)

Initial studies showed that even the early "pill" formulations (which were much more likely to suppress ovulation due to their higher doses of estrogen) still allowed "breakthrough ovulation" to occur 13% of the time! An award-winning study by the Dutch gynecologist Dr. Nine Van der Vange presented at the Second International Conference of the Society for Advancement in Contraception (SAC) in Jakarta showed that low-dose contraceptive pills do not always suppress ovulation. In follicular ultrasound measurements she found detectable follicular growth in 52 to 56% of the cycles investigated, and preovulatory size follicles in at least 30% of the cycles. Proof of ovulation based on ultrasound exams and hormonal indicators occurred in about 4% of the cycles studied. In summarizing her presentation before the Society, Dr. Van der Vange remarked, "We conclude that the contraceptive preparations are more complex than has been thought. They are not only based on inhibition of ovulation." Dr. Ronald Chez, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), publicly stated that the "pills" of today, with their lower estrogen dose, allow ovulation up to 50% of the time! Dr. Thomas Hilgers, the renowned fertility expert who is currently the Director of the Pope Paul VI Research Institute, was present when this statement was made but the NIH has never published this information. In fact, the NIH has been more than a little hesitant to publish specific data in the medical journals to which private MDs have access. The drug companies are similarly reticent to provide such data. Nevertheless, the scientist mentioned above was at that time the head of the pregnancy re-search development branch of the NIH, itself the spearhead for contemporary medical research!

So, then, just how often does the "pill" have to rely on this abortive "backup" mechanism? No one can tell you with certainty. Perhaps it is as seldom as 12% of the time; but perhaps it is as frequently as 50% of the time. Does it matter?

The clear conclusion is that it is impossible for any woman on the "pill" in any given month to know exactly which mechanism is in effect. In other words, the "pill" always carries with it the potential to act as an abortifacient! In light of these realities, can Christian couples truly neglect the disturbing ramifications that use of either the IUD or the various "birth control pills" create? Those Christians who are sincerely committed to God and His Word must strictly obey His clear mandate ----"Thou shalt not kill." This is a most important message, involving human lives and loyalty to the commands of Holy Scripture, which Christian couples must hear and heed.

David Sterns, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, and is Board Certified in internal medicine and electrocardiology. His wife, Gina Sterns, R.N., holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Biola University. Dave and Gina have two children. They attend Harvest Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska.

Pam Yaksich, a high school principal and teacher of science, biology and theology, has worked as a medical researcher with the physicians of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction. Pam is also the Chairman of the Vital Signs Ministries Board.

For further information and documentation, order the eight-page booklet The Birth Control Game

Available for $2.00 from: American Life League P.O. Box 1350 Stafford, VA 22555 (703) 659-4171 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Signs Ministries vitalsigns@vitalsignsministries.org P. O. Box 3826 Omaha, NE 68103 (402) 341-8886

[Sloth]

"Fetus" is Latin for "little one" and in modern medical terminology is the name for a particular phase of development. A human fetus is a human. It's not a man or woman. It's not a child. It's not a baby. It's still a human.

I never have objected to the word "fetus" being used, as it perfectly accurate -- but on what basis do you claim that a fetus cannot be properly referred to as a child or a baby?

[Sloth]

In light of these realities, can Christian couples truly neglect the disturbing ramifications that use of either the IUD or the various "birth control pills" create? Those Christians who are sincerely committed to God and His Word must strictly obey His clear mandate ----"Thou shalt not kill."

Depending on the actual statistics, the same could be said for simply having sex. Sex results in a certain number of miscarriages, so to be 100% certain of not causing an infant's death, one would have to be celibate.

[MHGinTN]

Permit me to offer the following regarding the continuum of individual human life, the huamn lifetime: with conception, a new individual human being comes to exist; there are distinct stages or ages along the lifetime continuum of an individual human being, conceptus, zygote, blastocyst, embryo, fetus, newborn, prepubescent, etc. When the individual human being is a zygote, they are not yet a fetus; when the individual is in early fetus age, they are not yet a fully constructed, organ by organ organism, yet they are already and have been since conception an individual human being.

Perhaps it is good to notice the effort by defenders of the indefensible to dehumanize the unborn, as in 'not yet fully human'; Salman was addressing this specious approach to trying to establish a 'reasonable doubt' that the unborn are not quite individual human beings. Science proves and relies on the truth that from conception onward, as long as the individual organism remains alive, that human organism is a human being, albeit an individual human being at earliest ages along its unique continuum of life.

[MHGinTN]

"... to be 100% certain of not causing an infant's death, one would have to be celibate." Nonsensical, since the age of the individual defined as infant isn't reached until birth, rgardless of the number of months since conception.

[Sloth]

Yes, I understood that & agree... but Salman said that a fetus is *not* a child or a baby, implying that "child" and "baby" are strictly defined terms related to stages of development (like embryo), which they aren't. I am 28 years old, but I am still my parents' child. I was also their child at 10 weeks gestation.

[Sloth]

Fine, replace the word "infant" with "human".

[MHGinTN]

I agree with you. In fact, if my two years of Latin in Middle School still serve (decades ago), 'foetus' is translated 'little child' rather than little one.