Images of smiling babies in the womb have pro-abortion activists screeching

Union Leader ^ | September 23, 2003 | Michelle Malkin

[Fledermaus]

Please site your source on those statistics.

[Robert_Paulson2]

"Wow, some weapon."
truth always is.

[night reader]

Abortion is infantacide, pure and simple.

Infanticide? The term is too sanitary. "Mass murder" is better terminology. "Slaughter of the innocents" is a more accurate description. Massacre... butchery... there are many terms more descritive than infanticide.

Abortion on demand is murder for convenience.

[bicycle thug]

It takes a village to lynch a child. I hope these pictures keep some of those village idiots awake at night.

[Kieri]

Murder is still MURDER. If you've been imbibing Red Rum, you may be confused as to what is human and what is not.

[Fledermaus]

Great points...which makes you wonder why Democrats care if we are "losing about one soldier a day in Iraq" which would be 365 for a year.

Let's see...365 highly trained soldiers that are trained to fight could die each year to secure a free Iraq and drive a stake into the heart of darkness that is Islamic fundamentalism versus 85,000 babies being aborted over three months old in the womb.

Boy, it must be hard being a lying, worthless Democrat having to rationalize those judgements.

[Aarchaeus]

...crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers’ expense.”

Wow, some weapon.

Yes, a very powerful weapon. And these people, led and taught by their demon-masters, recognize truth as a weapon. A weapon against deceit and destruction. That is why they fear it so much.

[night reader]

The main reason abortions continue is that there are women who want to have them.

Well, yeah. That's the reason for every crime I can think of... because people want to do it or at least want the perceived benefits of doing it. But society looks at the costs and makes certain activities illegal. In this case, the cost is a human life and abortion should be illegal unless another life (the mother's) is in extreme jeopardy.

Should we prosecute the mother? No. But the abortionist should be prosecuted for murder in the first, and all who assist him, even down to office staff should be charged and prosecuted as accessories.

[LWalk18]

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 don't know so many posters are criticizing what you said, I agree with you. Most mainstream people know perfectly well that a baby at 26 weeks is human- nearly everyone knows of a family member, coworker, or friend who gave birth to a premature baby, sometimes at early 24 weeks, that has survived and even thrived. The "blob of cells" argument is primarily used to justify early abortions (first trimester). The article mentions that these ultrasounds show the humanity of young babies as early as 8-12 weeks; we should show those as well. Not to say that the smiling pictures are not very valuable, but a full education in the growth of a baby from zygote to newborn should be shown and celebrated.

[LWalk18]

I meant from fertilized egg to newborn- I don't want to leave that stage out!

[montag813]

Wow, some weapon. It shows pictures of the baby. So much more harmfull then the weapons at Planned Parenthood.

It is indeed a weapon...a flamethrower aimed right at the fat wallet of Planned Parenthood.

[Kieri]

The CDC's preliminary report shows that in the year 2000:

27,963 infants died (NOT abortions)
51,788 died from diabetes
67,024 from Influenza

In other words, more BABIES were MURDERED in 2002 than the victims of diabetes and the flu.

Did I mention the estimated number of breast cancer deaths in 2002 is 39,600 women and 400 men? We're murdering more preborn than are dying of breast cancer.

Sadly ironic.

[montag813]

[Kieri]

51,788 died from diabetes
67,024 from Influenza

These numbers are for people of ALL ages, from children to adult. I needed to clarify.

[Kieri]

51,788 died from diabetes
67,024 from Influenza

These numbers are for people of ALL ages, from children to adult. I needed to clarify.

[Kieri]

51,788 died from diabetes
67,024 from Influenza

These numbers are for people of ALL ages, from children to adult. I needed to clarify.

[Kieri]

Sheesh, sorry everybody. The page kept timing out! I had no idea it was posting!

(*#&(&^@#$ AOL.

[RightOnline]

"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 can’t imagine that Congress would spend its time and energy on ultrasound for anyone.”"

God forbid that we let so many airheaded women actually understand that those are BABIES they're threatening to have ripped apart inside their own mommy's body.

Such people are beneath contempt. God have mercy on their souls.

[MHGinTN]

I've seen fairly accurate CDC numbers that show a max of just over 300,000 abortions (registered, legal and illegal, incidentally) per year prior to the Roe 'ruling', nationwide. Even in the first two or three years following the Roe and then Doe v Bolton decision, the number of registered abortions was well below 400,000 per year. [In the interest of honesty, those numbers do not reflect the D&C's done where it is very possible a pregnancy was aborted within the first six weeks from conception but the procedure was registered as treating 'endometrial infection' or removal of a 'lost IUD' (which was the case with my first wife when we became pregnant with a Dalcon Shield in situ, decades ago).]

I'm afraid I myst disagree regarding the following: "Roe also gives the states the option of banning all abortions (w/ a life of the mother exception) after viability, a line which is blurry at best (depends how you define "viable"), but begins at around 24 weeks." The subsequent rulings such as Doe v Bolton and Casey v Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania accomplished the broad spectrum sanctioned serial killing. With the Stenberg v Carhardt ruling we had reached the insane state of legalizing infanticide as I characterized it in my post to you. The right to a dead baby was realized in all its demonic glory as embraced by the likes of Boxer, Harkin, Murray, Kennedy, et al.

As to the value of realtime video of smiling babies in the womb from even as early as 18 weeks (I'll post a vid of a 26 week old at the end of this screed), the visualizations serve to cancel some of the dehumanization achieved by the forces aligned for legal serial killing, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to then make the connections so many of us at FR offer regarding the earlier ages of these little ones. If you've not read it, I have an essay on my profile page that addresses the individual humanity of the earliest ages of these newly conceived little ones (it's the second one posted there).

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

There is an article about this in Reader's Digest, and, it's almost fair.