Posted on 09/17/2003 5:13:33 PM PDT by madprof98
The waiting room of a Pittsburgh clinic is covered with rows of pink paper hearts with messages on them. But it's not Valentine's Day.
"To my little angel," reads one, "You will always be my baby. I will see you in heaven, sweetheart. I love you!" This message, like the others, is addressed to a freshly aborted baby.
These paper hearts are the brainchild of the November Gang, a small network of abortion clinics who want to help women see the softer side of fetal dismemberment. Much to the chagrin of pro-life organizations, the Gang was recently profiled in Glamour magazine.
Established in November 1989, the Gang recognized how alienated some women felt when they listened to the pro-choice movement's impersonal rhetoric on abortion, which was just regarded as a surgery.
But to the Gang, choosing abortion is sort of like puberty. The process can be complicated and painful, but it's often liberating and beneficial in the end.
Before an abortion at a Gang-affiliated clinic, a counselor will ask the woman how she feels about abortion and then "echo her language" from there. If the woman uses words like "baby," the counselor won't disagree. However, if a patient calls her fetus "a bunch of cells," the Gang won't talk about "stuff that's not there," as one Texas clinic owner put it.
In other words, the objective reality of stopping an unborn child's heart is irrelevant. What is important is how the woman feels about it. And if the November Gang can gently steer her feelings toward rationalizing the abortion while erasing her guilt and worries, they have another pink heart to add on the wall.
This isn't to say the Gang forces women to abort. If the patient describes abortion as murder, the clinic will suggest that the woman wait and think about her decision.
But Gang counselors carefully direct questions in a way that could make a spin-doctor's head spin. One question they often use is, "Can you see abortion as a 'loving act' toward your children and yourself?"
And when a churchgoing young woman asked whether God will forgive her for "killing my baby," the counselor asked, "Do you think there are any things that God considers completely unforgivable?" A moment later, the woman shook her head.
(There was obviously no mention of Jesus' command in the Gospels that "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.")
But the November Gang doesn't only rely on manipulative words. They also engage in a series of bizarre rituals that brainwash their clients into thinking that abortion is loving and compassionate.
Aside from the heart-shaped Valentines ritual, religious women are encouraged to mock Christian beliefs as they give "baptisms" to their aborted child by sprinkling holy water over its mangled corpse (euphemistically called "fetal tissue" in the Glamour article).
The Gang glows over their strategy's success. "It's wonderful to see someone, perhaps for the first time, making a choice based on love for herself and belief in herself and not simply letting life happen to her," said one member.
But life didn't just "happen" to these women. None of the women quoted in the article claimed they were raped or were in mortal danger by carrying a child. But two women said they became pregnant because the Pill failed for them.
By choosing to gamble on contraception and then consciously choosing to have sexual intercourse, these women chose to have "life" happen to themselves. But the unborn children had no choice in the matter.
In fact, for an article entitled, "Are You Ready to Really Understand Abortion," it sure doesn't go much into the actual abortion part.
It doesn't really describe how the November Gang tenderly destroys an unborn child by sucking it up in a vacuum, or how the unborn is lovingly hacked into bacon bits with a curette.
And it doesn't mention that the child's limbs begin moving at eight weeks, or that it starts leaping in the womb at 11-12 weeks, according to an article last weekend from London's Guardian newspaper.
But who can blame Glamour? Info like that might cause their readers to smear their L'Oreal.
I can't judge the November Gang on whether they think they truly care about women. But they certainly don't care about the unborn. Their "counseling," complete with its borderline human-sacrifice rituals, is more than misguided-it's satanic.
Like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the Gang tempts a woman by assuring her, "Ye shall surely not die...ye shall be as gods." It promises godlike power to create one's own destiny through so-called "choice," even to the point of rationalizing self-interest above the concern for others.
Evil needn't manifest itself through blazing, bloody pentagrams. It manages to work quite well through pink paper hearts.
Marvin, I really do believe that 4-D technology will be the death-blow to the pro-death lobby... that's why they are so rabid in opposing its appearance across the country.
Once a woman sees that what is in her belly is not an "undifferentiated tissue mass" but a baby-- it's all over for them, and they know it.
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Dang straight.
But prolifeconservative is right, this is the face of evil.
This is an absolute must-read, but brace yourself.
In other words, the objective reality of stopping an unborn child's heart is irrelevant. What is important is how the woman feels about it. And if the November Gang can gently steer her feelings toward rationalizing the abortion while erasing her guilt and worries, they have another pink heart to add on the wall.
How much worse can things get?
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