Posted on 10/29/2004 11:06:08 AM PDT by animoveritas
One October morning in Las Vegas, a teenage girl, five months pregnant, checked into Humana Sunrise Hospital to under-go a prostaglandin abortion. Prostaglandin abortion is a simple — but dangerous — procedure in which the pregnant mother is given a pill which causes her to go into labor and expel her baby. On this morning the girl's labor was slow to commence and the abortionist ordered that she be given a second pill.
Editor Sherman R. Fredrick of the Las Vegas Review Journal described what happened next: "Later nurses heard a shriek, entered the room and found the girl screaming. She had given birth to `Adam,' a one pound, four ounce crying arm-waving `fetus'-baby." Since the abortionist was not present, nurses rushed Adam to the neonatal intensive-care unit.
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An excellent article indeed. Reading it made my blood boil.
An excellent article indeed. Reading it made my blood boil.
Their works are evil works, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. — Isaiah 59:7
One October morning in Las Vegas, a teenage girl, five months pregnant, checked into Humana Sunrise Hospital to under-go a prostaglandin abortion. Prostaglandin abortion is a simple — but dangerous — procedure in which the pregnant mother is given a pill which causes her to go into labor and expel her baby. On this morning the girl's labor was slow to commence and the abortionist ordered that she be given a second pill.
Editor Sherman R. Fredrick of the Las Vegas Review Journal described what happened next: "Later nurses heard a shriek, entered the room and found the girl screaming. She had given birth to `Adam,' a one pound, four ounce crying arm-waving `fetus'-baby." Since the abortionist was not present, nurses rushed Adam to the neonatal intensive-care unit.
"Returning," wrote Fredrick, "the doctor discovered what had happened and, according to witnesses, turned pale. He left the floor and a short time later called the nurses from neonatal and told them that `doctor's orders' were to remove Adam from specialized care, take him off oxygen and send him back to his original ward."
At first the nurses refused, but after some ca joling a nurse went to neonatal, took Adam off oxygen and brought him back to the abortion chamber where he lay gasping for breath for another hour. When he died he had lived three hours and twenty-five minutes.
Adam was issued a birth certificate and a death certificate — at the same time. Eyebrows were not raised at what would seem unseemly, however, because such occurrences are not unusual under America's "new" constitution. Adam's case was unusual only because it was reported by the local daily. (Of course, it was ignored by the news media in general.)
How can it be that — in America — Adam could suffer such a fate, to be simply set aside in a dark room to die? Was our nation not founded on the "self-evident truths," spelled out in The Declaration of Independence, that the protection of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (italics added) is the foundation of legitimate government?
Thomas Jefferson, chief author of The Declaration of Independence, warned the nation that "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Alas, the Constitution lasted as a constitution little more than a century before it began to be dismantled "by construction." Slowly throughout the decades of the 20th century, America's constitutional foundation has crumbled as our leaders have compromised the legitimacy of our government by deliberately ignoring the Constitution, as we shall see.
Ethics and Medics recently carried an interesting observation: "In 1924 a German revolutionary wrote in his book that in order to develop a eugenics program to remedy the nation's social ills, Germany should be guided by the programs in the United States. That revolutionary leader was Adolf Hitler and the book was Mein Kampf."
The roots of America's current abortion holocaust go back a hundred years to the eugenicists and birth controllers who originally furnished the sustenance for Hitler's fevered mind. From the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, the American Birth Control League (later renamed Planned Parenthood) had close ties to the Nazis. In fact, the eugenic laws adopted by Hitler came from American eugenicist Harry Laughlin's model "Eugenical Sterilization Law," for which Laughlin received an honorary degree from the University of Heidelberg, a center for studying "racial problems."
Throughout the 1930s such luminaries as Dr. Ernst Rudin, curator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics during Hitler's Third Reich, were regular contributors to Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Review. In turn, American racist Dr. Lothrop Stoddard, a director of the American Birth Control League, sat in on Germany's Eugenic Supreme Court and wrote in the Birth Control Review that "The sterilization law is weeding out the worst strains in the Germanic stock in a scientific and truly humanitarian way."
Following World War II, in revulsion against Nazism, the World Medical Association (of which the U.S. was a founding member), after consideration of war crimes presented by the U.N. War Crimes Commission, adopted the Declaration of Geneva. This document stated that "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity." A year later the International Code of Medical Ethics incorporated the Declaration's principle: "A doctor must always bear in mind the importance of preserving human life from the time of conception until death."
In 1959 the General Assembly of the U.N. unanimously adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The Preamble states that the child, because of its dependence, needs "special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth" (italics added).
In Mein Kampf Hitler boasted that people would sooner believe a big lie than a small lie. In a 1970 editorial in California Medicine, the official publication of the California Medical Association, Hitler's observation was shamelessly illustrated. The editor, a physician, urged that abortion be legalized throughout the U.S. and suggested how it could be done:
Since the old ethic has not yet been fully displaced it has been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra- or extra-uterine until death.
The very considerable semantic gymnastics which are required to rationalize abortion as anything but taking a human life would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under socially impeccable auspices. It is suggested that this schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is necessary because while a new ethic is being accepted the old one has not yet been rejected.
Soon after California Medicine called for "semantic gymnastics," two troubled young women began their journey into history by becoming victims of the "schizophrenic sort of subterfuge" of two feminist attorneys.
Norma McCorvey was a homeless and hungry "hippie," disheartened by her squalid, lonely life and an unwanted pregnancy. When she found out she was pregnant, she'd first wanted to have an abortion, but then changed her mind and resolved to give her baby up for adoption. When she asked for help, she was referred to attorney Sarah Weddington.
Ms. Weddington had recently graduated from law school and was just back from Mexico where she'd had an abortion. And as an ardent feminist, she was looking for a way to challenge the anti-abortion laws of Texas.
In lonely, hungry Norma, she saw her opportunity. She plied Norma with pizza, offered friendship, and enticed her into helping to challenge the Texas anti-abortion laws. Norma agreed, and in short order a gang-rape story was fabricated, a lawsuit was filed, and Norma McCorvey ("just some anonymous person who suddenly emerges," according to a NOW activist) became the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade.
In Georgia another young woman, Sandra Cano, didn't want an abortion either. In fact, she wasn't even pregnant. She asked ACLU Attorney Margie Hames of Atlanta for legal help to divorce her husband. Like Ms. Weddington, Ms. Hames was also looking for an opportunity to challenge abortion restrictions. In Georgia, which had legalized abortion but didn't want to become an abortion "Mecca," abortionists were not allowed to abort citizens from out of state.
Ms. Hames ignored the fact that Ms. Cano wasn't pregnant. She also ignored the fact that, as a Georgia resident, Ms. Cano had no standing to challenge the nonresidency requirement. She gave Ms. Cano papers to sign, and without bothering to read the papers Ms. Cano affirmed that she was pregnant, mentally unstable, incapable of caring for a child and therefore in need of an abortion. She became the "Mary Doe" of Doe v. Bolton.
At the time these women approached their lawyers, abortion was just emerging as a feminist issue. Early feminists had been fiercely anti-abortion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organizer of the first women's rights convention in 1848, called abortion "a disgusting and degrading crime." Dr. Alice Stockham, an early feminist physician, called it the "fearful crime of feticide." And Susan B. Anthony, early crusader for the women's vote, wrote that "No matter what the motive...the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life; it will burden her soul in death." It was in fact the 19th-century feminists who campaigned to pass the laws that criminalized abortion.
Until the present generation it was a basic tenet of Christian faith, questioned by no religious group, that life is the first and most fundamental human right, and American reverence for life was especially firm when confronted with abortion. Even when humanist education triumphed in the 1960s and the influence of Christian moral teachings in American culture began to collapse, few Americans supported abortion.
When several states, pressured by feminists, legalized abortion, other states rushed to reaffirm their laws defending life. In 1971 the Connecticut Legislature voted 132 to 28 against legalizing abortion and every Christian body supported their action. In referenda the following year, citizens in other states voted overwhelmingly against legalization of abortion.
But within months of these votes, the Supreme Court in effect deleted "life" from the "self-evident truths" of America's Declaration of Independence and with that contemptuous fiat initiated moral and legal chaos throughout the nation. In one single moment Roe v. Wade began the transmutation of abortion from a loathsome abomination into the paramount sacrament of our secular society. Like the education and media establishments before them, the American judiciary declared war on all Americans who defend human life.
When Susan B. Anthony denounced women who had abortions, she had added a further condemnation: "Thrice guilty is he…who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime." Throughout history, unwilling to face responsibility for the pregnancies they cause, men have been stronger advocates of abortion than women. So it's fitting that two men bear special responsibility for legalizing abortion.
In the 1960s the modern feminist movement was initiated by Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique. Surprisingly, when she wrote her book, Ms. Friedan didn't consider abortion a feminist issue, and early editions contained no mention of abortion. But shortly after the book's publication, Lawrence Lader, a zealous pro-abortion activist, and Dr. Bernard Nathanson, operator of the nation's largest abortion mill, Acme Reproductive Services, met with and converted Ms. Friedan to what had become their obsession — the legalization of abortion on demand.
As a result of the meeting, Ms. Friedan incorporated her newfound crusade into subsequent editions of The Feminist Mystique, and the Furies were let loose. Together Dr. Nathanson, Larry Lader, and Ms. Friedan founded the National Abortion Rights Action League and set about infecting the entire nation.
Years later Dr. Nathanson, now prolife, recounted how they went about the country "doctoring polls, manipulating the press, lying with statistics, falsely claiming that abortion was only a `Catholic' issue, and so on." When lecturing or testifying before congressional committees, as he was increasingly asked to do, Dr. Nathanson spoke of the "dangers of illegal abortion," of the "fact" that pregnancy threatened thousands of women's lives, and the "fact" that every year 10,000 American women were dying from "back-alley abortions."
His words carried weight. He was a renowned physician, Director of Gynecology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, Chief of Obstetrical Service at St. Luke's Hospital Center, and Clinical Professor at the Medical College of Cornell University. (It was his testimony that persuaded the Supreme Court, and he is universally acknowledged as the "father of legalized abortion.")
Dr. Nathanson's "facts," of course, were blatant lies. He later wrote in Aborting America: "I confess that I knew the figures were totally false…," but they were "useful" and so he used them "shamelessly."
The truth was that, as the 20th century progressed, fewer and fewer mothers died from abortion as medical practice improved and antibiotics were introduced. In fact, records show that since Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortions have been far more deadly to mothers than they had been previously.
In the decades preceding legalization, most abortions were called "therapeutic" and were done in hospitals. Dr. Mary Calderone wrote in 1960 in the American Journal of Health that "90% of all illegal abortions are presently done by physicians." Understandably, if the abortions were illegal, doctors were very careful not to risk a mother's death and invite subsequent investigation.
Was abortion necessary to save "thousands of women's lives"? No. Dr. Arthur O'Leary wrote in Catholic New York: "In past years I was privileged to have [delivered] countless babies. My father did as many before me. Neither of us ever encountered a `medical indication' for abortion. In fact, before 1973 it was medically legal to abort a mother as a life-saving procedure. Records indicate that the total number of abortions done at St. Luke and Cornwall hospitals [both nonsectarian] prior to 1973 was one."
Today the situation is tragically different. Over 90 percent of abortions are done in freestanding abortion clinics. Many of these clinics are unregulated and filthy, and many use untrained personnel. One has only to talk with a doctor or nurse in the emergency room of a metropolitan hospital to know the carnage visited on women by "legal" abortions.
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Great job and a very warm welcome to Free Republic.
Ya beat me to it NYer! Umbert Rules.
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And the democrat party would claim the doctor was doing what he was legally hired to do, kill a living tissue blob. I wonder, has Kerry voted on the 'Born Alive Infants Protection Act'? The democrats don't like bills like that because it causes people to pause and reflect on just when is there an INFANT to be protected! Kerry has not flip-flopped one bit on his defense of partial birth abortions, so don't say he's all flip-floppy.
Absolutely fantastic article...... I had not seen it before. Thank you, thank you.....
Why should God forgive us when he tells us to never harm his children????
What has happened to the beautiful world GOD created????
God gave us just TEN COMMANDMENTS, we have seen them all vanish and it must just break his heart to see how evil his world has become. I truely wouldn't blame him if the wiped out this world.
God *shouldn't* forgive us, but He does, because His love is more perfect than our fallen minds or hearts can grasp.
BTTT.
I am beyond words. Pro-choice is a cover for Pro-DEATH!
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Life Magazine has ranked Margaret Sanger as one of the most important persons of this century. She is the founder of Planned Parenthood and an "outstanding" proponent of eugenics. In April of 1932 she advocated an option "to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation [concentration camps] or sterilization." ("A Plan For Peace," Birth Control Review; see 'appendix' for this full unabridged semie with bad genes. She and others pioneered forced sterilization in the 20th century. The Swedish sterilization was in place by 1935. The German program began in January 1934, but the U.S. state of Indiana passed a forced sterilization law (for "mental defectives") in 1907 (when Adolf Hitler was only 18 years old). Before the German program began, at least seventeen U.S. states, including California, had forced sterilization laws. Before 1930 there were 200-600 forced sterilizations per year in the United States, but in the 1930s the rate jumped to 2,000-4,000 per year. (1)
Margaret Sanger's eugenics
I am reading an outstanding book right now. Salvation is from The Jews, by Roy H. Schoeman, which delves into the influence Margaret Sanger had on Hitler's plans to create a "Master Race". The book is available through most book stores, as well as Amazon.com. Strongly recommended!
To: mondonico
Wow, that's truly sad. How the hell could you deal watching/hearing that baby die like that? Insane. I used to think abortion was no big deal when I was younger. "I'm not a woman so what do I care." That's what I used to say. Then I became a father. At the 12 week ultrasound, I had a Zen moment and finally understood why my mother and father were staunch pro-life. Medical advances in neo-natal care, and another Bush term will take care of Roe v. Wade once and for all.
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