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Images of smiling babies in the womb have pro-abortion activists screeching
Union Leader ^
| September 23, 2003
| Michelle Malkin
Posted on 09/23/2003 2:19:56 AM PDT by sarcasm
ALL OF BRITAIN was buzzing last week after a tabloid published highly controversial photos not of a topless supermodel or two female pop singers kissing or Prince William in a grass skirt, but of angelic babies smiling in the womb.
The ultrasound images, taken between 26 and 34 weeks after conception, were released by Professor Stuart Campbell and widely circulated on the Internet via the Drudge Report. Campbells an obstetrician at the privately run Create Health Centre in London. For the past two years, the medical facility has offered state-of-the-art 3-D/4-D scanning equipment services to expectant parents. Campbell performs an average of 30 scans a week. His outspoken enthusiasm for this blessed technology is refreshing. Parents love them, he told the Mirror. I hear so many couples laughing when they see the pictures its wonderful.
Campbells high-tech window to the womb also shows the babies moving their limbs at 8 weeks, leaping and turning by 12 weeks, curling their toes and fingers at 15 weeks, and yawning at 20 weeks. The clients reactions are overwhelming, Campbell said, especially with fathers, who rarely get involved. Before, they sat in the corner. Now, they really show emotion. I enjoy scanning and looking at babies. It is so informative about babies and behavior. Every scan is an adventure.
How have pro-abortion activists abroad reacted after seeing the happy, grinning photos of these unborn babies? With reflexive scowls and dour grimaces, naturally.
Anne Karpf, a commentator for the British-based Guardian who bills herself as a medical sociologist, says the photos are deeply disquieting and ridicules the anti-abortion lobby for being intoxicated with evidence of a fetus humanity. (God forbid this cold woman ever be exposed to a pregnant mommy experiencing the undiluted joy of a baby kicking inside her for the first time.) Australian Birth Control Services medical director Geoff Brodie complained that the photos will be picked up by those groups that use anything and everything to stop terminations but ignore the fact that women have a right to choice.
Here in America, the pro-abortion lobby is having the same toxic reaction. It was bad enough when conventional, 2-D sonograms revealed unborn hearts beating and blurry hands waving, but the abortionists are absolutely aghast over rapidly spreading access to 3-D/4-D ultrasound technology. When General Electric began running incredibly moving ads last year celebrating the companys new innovations in sonography, a writer for the liberal American Prospect complained the commercials were a milieu of clever illusion that blur(red) the distinction between a fetus and a newborn infant.
This from the masters of deception who gave us the infamous euphemisms fetal matter and uterine tissue, which have successfully blurred the distinction between human life and disposable Kleenex for more than three decades.
Similarly, pro-abortion advocates have attacked legislation in Congress, introduced by Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, which would guarantee free ultrasound screenings to any woman who visits a non-profit crisis pregnancy center that receives subsidies for sonogram equipment. Kathryn Allen, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman, griped, With all the problems going on in our world, I cant imagine that Congress would spend its time and energy on ultrasound for anyone.
Allison Herwitt, director of government relations for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, also attacked pro-life supporters of the bill. They dont want women to go to Planned Parenthood, where theyll get their full range of options, said Alison Herwitt. They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers expense.
Liberals in America are all for the government giving away any health services for free except if its a service that has the ability to persuade a wavering patient to preserve a life instead of end it.
These amazing advances in golden-hued ultrasound have illuminated an insurmountable truth: No amount of NARAL money or National Organization for Women screeching can overcome the persuasive power of an unborn childs beaming face.
Michelle Malkin is author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (Regnery).
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3dultrasound; 4d; abortion; michellemalkin; pregnancy; prolife; righttolife; smilingbabies; ultrasound
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To: Snidely Whiplash
It's worth pointing out that only about 10% of abortions are done after 12 weeks - about 60% are done at or before 8-9 weeks, and about 88% are done at or before 12 weeks. While those pictures of the babies are cool, they aren't really relevant to the overwhelming majority of the abortions done in the US.I'm convinced that abortions are sold as a matter of convenience to the pregnant lady. Now if she sees a 3D/4D of her child at 6 weeks gestation and then a tape of a child at 2 months, then 3 months further along to show her the rapid development of the child...I am also convinced there would be a lot fewer abortions.
And the medical staff would not even need to comment on the subject. The child would silently argue in his/her own behalf to all but the most heartless people.
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posted on
09/23/2003 4:18:08 AM PDT
by
Ghengis
To: EternalVigilance
My kind regards to you, friend.
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posted on
09/23/2003 4:18:42 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: Snidely Whiplash
While those pictures of the babies are cool, they aren't really relevant to the overwhelming majority of the abortions done in the US. Kinda relevant to the kid getting his limbs ripped off or his skin burned off or having his brains sucked out, don't you think?
You apologists for abortion are the main reason it still continues.
If that sounds harsh, too bad.
To: Snidely Whiplash
It's worth pointing out that only about 10% of abortions are done after 12 weeks.10 percent of total abortions is a lot of dead babies.
To: EternalVigilance
I may be wrong, but I don't think Snidely Whiplash was being an apologist. I read it as the true sick reasoning they will use to continue with their evil practice of killing babies - before the images in the pictures are formed.
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posted on
09/23/2003 4:44:18 AM PDT
by
fml
To: FlyVet
Evil finds truth to be "deeply disquieting". Good. Live with it. Squirm. Screech. Feel uncomfortable. Lay awake at night thinking about it. It's good for ya. And, you deserve it. Superbly stated.
BUMP!
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posted on
09/23/2003 4:49:35 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(All Hail the Mighty Kansas City Chiefs)
To: Labyrinthos
10 percent of total abortions is a lot of dead babies. Yup, about 300,000 here in the USA alone.
Never forget, there have been no IRS audits of abortionist or their mills since 1976, with no chance of an IRS audit, how many cash abortions do you think get reported?
Best guess, over half the abortions in the USA are paid for with cash and are not reported by the abortionist.
To: sarcasm
bttt
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posted on
09/23/2003 4:51:38 AM PDT
by
firewalk
To: sarcasm
Anne Karpf, a commentator for the British-based Guardian who bills herself as a medical sociologist, says the photos are deeply disquieting and ridicules the anti-abortion lobby for being intoxicated with evidence of a fetus humanity. Wow, what a sick statement. I imagine quite a few Nazi officials said similar things about people who were "intoxicated with evidence of a Jew's humatity".
To: Snidely Whiplash
By your numbers 10% are done after the 12th week, that represents about 160,000 abortions annually, or 400+ a day.. I'd hardly call that an irrelevant number. That's about 5 times the number of people killed daily in car crashes, and over 3 times the death toll of Vietname annually.
Abortion is infantacide pure and simple, no amount of spin can change that fundamental fact.
To: HamiltonJay
Ditto!
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:15:20 AM PDT
by
Ed_in_NJ
To: sarcasm
Good article!
Thanks and Baby Bump!
Tia
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:30:39 AM PDT
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: jaykay
"You mean it's a person??? < /sarcasm>
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:41:42 AM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: newgeezer
ping to the pics.
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:45:22 AM PDT
by
biblewonk
(Spose to be a Chrisssssssstian)
To: sarcasm; dighton; aculeus; general_re; L,TOWM; Constitution Day; Chancellor Palpatine; ...
Saaaa-lute!
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posted on
09/23/2003 5:47:41 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængrüppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
To: Snidely Whiplash
I beg to differ.
It pushes back, in the minds of the undecided, the invisible line in the minds of mothers - at what point is this a life?
It raises very considerable doubts in the minds of mothers, and that is excellent news for adoption agencies and for those that believe that abortion is our generation's slavery issue.
In a very real sense, every human life is in danger until it passes through the vagina. At that point, liberals are the party of children /sarcasm off.
To: Snidely Whiplash
Yes, Snidley, they are. The abortion industry uses every tool to fight any restrictions on abortion, so those who are engaged in trying to roll back the slaughter have to use every tool we can get our hands on as well.
These photos are extremely powerful because they impact directly in the mind of people. They say "I am not a blob of fetal tissue, I am a baby."
Before, the abortionists and their allies decried the use of photos showing the horrible aftermath of abortion, and a lot of people thought they had a point. It was horrible.
But these pics? These pics are exactly the opposite. They are cute. They cause positive emotions, and that is why the abortionists worry about them.
They know this technology will be damn effective in deterring abortion.
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posted on
09/23/2003 6:07:50 AM PDT
by
Ronin
(When the fox gnaws -- smile!)
To: Ronin
I will be so glad when innocent babies stop getting slaughtered. More at
http://www.abortiondebate.org. God bless all the little children born and unborn.
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posted on
09/23/2003 6:38:31 AM PDT
by
goodseedhomeschool (returned)
( designeduniverse.com Fighting evos exposing years of lies, restoring conservatism.)
To: shetlan
Keeping you and yours in my heart.
Thanks for the inspiration you always provide.
Sincerely Matthew
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posted on
09/23/2003 6:48:14 AM PDT
by
Fearless Flyers
(Proud to be of The Brave and the Free, http://fearless-flyers.com)
To: sarcasm
"Allison Herwitt, director of government relations for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, also attacked pro-life supporters of the bill. 'They dont want women to go to Planned Parenthood, where theyll get their full range of options,' said Alison Herwitt. 'They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers expense.'"
Wow. Talk about being a hypocrite. She's A) pissed off because women are being offered another option besides abortion and B) attempting to take the moral high ground by saying that her side is being denied it's say.
I once heard some liberal say on TV that nobody is pro-abortion, but that hey support the right to choose. This right here shows how wrong they are. These people show all the earmarks of people who want to see as many babies sucked down the drain as possible. These people are sick, and I truly believe that if they were tested by a psychiatrist he'd find me to be right.
Of course, I'm sure that there's a welfare recipient somewhere who is too lazy to get a job who's SO much more deservent of the money in this woman's opinion.
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posted on
09/23/2003 6:51:16 AM PDT
by
Sofa King
(-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS! http://www.angelfire.com/art2/sofaking/)
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