Posted on 11/15/2002 6:54:17 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Aside from the millions of mangled babies, he neglects to inform his readers of the statistics for women who have died from "post abortion complications", conducted in legally operated clinics! Here's another doctor's view.
Those who support abortion on demand will claim that the reported complication rate for abortions is low. They may be right. Not necessarily because there are few complications, but because the complications are underreported. They are underreported because there is no accurate process in place today to quantify the harmful repercussions of abortion. The abortion industry has successfully kept abortion and abortionists free from the type of review, regulation, and accountability that is an integral part of the rest of the medical profession. Let me give you some real life examples.
I recently took care of a woman who almost died because she'd had an abortion. A few days before I saw her, she'd had an abortion because of a positive pregnancy test. Now, after an abortion, the clinic will examine the remains which have been scraped from the uterus to take inventory of fetal parts in order to ensure that the entire pregnancy was totally eliminated. This clinic noted that there were no fetal parts, which meant that the pregnancy had not been in the uterus.
This situation is known as an ectopic pregnancy, where the pregnancy is not in the womb, but in the fallopian tube. An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition; the ectopic must be removed or it will grow to a size that will rupture the fallopian tube and result in massive internal bleeding that can kill the mother.
In any legitimate medical facility, a woman with an ectopic pregnancy would have an immediate ultrasound to assess the ectopic, be admitted to the hospital, and have surgery before it could rupture and potentially take her life. In this abortion facility, the woman was sent home and told to call her doctor. Unfortunately, time was not on her side -- before she ever had the chance, her ectopic pregnancy ruptured, she was rushed to the ER by ambulance, and taken immediately to the operating room.
Had this quality of care been provided by any other medical provider--family physician, obstetrician, or emergency physician--it would be considered grossly negligent. By an abortion provider, it does not even cause a stir. In fact it goes unnoted and unreported.
A few years ago, a young woman about twenty years old came to the ER because she was feeling very sick. She'd become increasingly ill ever since the abortion she'd had about a week earlier. I had her admitted to the hospital from the ER with a severe pneumonia. The following days revealed that the pneumonia was just a part of the problem--she had overwhelming sepsis, which is infection throughout her entire body which had, at its source, the abortion.
This woman died. The admitting physician never reported the incident as abortion-related, nor did she inform the abortion provider of the results of his "care." He was still practicing, without the slightest idea that his intervention had led to his patient's death.
The medical diagnosis reads "severe pain"--the real cause is abortion. The record reads "vaginal bleeding"--the real cause is abortion. The operative note says "ruptured ectopic pregnancy and internal hemorrhage"--the real cause is abortion. The autopsy states "cause of death--overwhelming sepsis"--the real cause is abortion.
There is no other practice of medicine where people can suffer and die from complications of your intervention without your being in some way professionally accountable, involved in their care, and at the very least, made aware of it--except abortion.
Abortion is a horrible abuse of the practice of medicine, ending one and a half million lives every year, yet our nation has made it legal. It is an invasive medical procedure, which in my own singular experience as ONE DOCTOR, has led to the death of one woman and the near death of another, yet its practitioners are not held to the same standards of care as the rest of the medical community.
Abortion is bad medicine. It is bad because it pushes sloppy medical care upon women who have been led to believe that their only choice is to abort their babies. It will always be bad medicine because it takes away an innocent human life. Our nation, our community, our mothers, sisters, daughters deserve better.
Dr. Lenora W. Berning, M.D. is a physician with Lancaster Emergency Associates LTD., at Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania. This article is excerpted from a press statement made by Dr. Berning. Reprinted with permission.
Originally published in The Post-Abortion Review, 8(2), April-June 2000. Copyright 2000, Elliot Institute.
Might I add that women who are injured after abortion, if they survive at all, get no justice in our courts since most of the judges are pro-choice and have an agenda to push.
Is that an improvement? The average veterinary clinic is better regulated than the average abortion clinic. The average beauty salon is better regulated than an abortion clinic!
I would take it that you're a man? Answer this: would you want the products of your conception removed against your will??? What if your girlfriend or wife was pregnant with your healthy baby, got into a big fight with you and...decided not to have it in say...the 9th month? Get this! She can! Legally, you have no choice in the matter. She can still be rid of your kid!
Don't take my word for it, either...there are scores of would-be fathers who are grieving for the children they wanted!
And it won't be, if he doesn't repent before he dies.
Look at Russia. Six out of every ten pregnancies end in abortion; by the year 2050 the Russian population will have contracted by 20%, from 150 million persons to 125 million persons. This is like the U.S. population contracting about 60 million persons. Russia is dying a slow death, and its people and economy will go down with it.
Plutarch noted that the decline and fall of ancient Greek civilization was precipitated by the free practice of abortion and infanticide. Today, Europe is facing demographic problems similar to Russia's due to abortion: the average European today is 35; by 2050 the average European will be 55. This is because of low fertility rates in Europe and widely practiced abortion.
Think about it. If there was a disease that killed 1/3 of all newborn children right after they left the birth canal, do you or do you not think the U.S. government would allocate every resource possible to cure such a disease? Of course! Because a country needs the next generation to survive.
If you want to destroy a civilization, introduce widespread abortion. It does the trick pretty quickly.
3-5 botched illegal abortions A DAY showing up in his hospital requiring some sort of emergency follow-up care? Forgive me if I find that just a bit hard to believe.
And I find it appalling and despicable that a practicing ob/gyn, who is no doubt intimately familiar with all stages of in utero development, can be such an unapologetic proponent of abortion. Shame on you, Dr, if I dare call you such.
Very good point. Having children and bringing them up with traditional Christian beliefs means that we will reproduce ourselves, but the evil supporters of contraception, abortion, sodomy, etc. will have disappeared.
Psalm 128
1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD , who walk in his ways.
2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house;
your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.
4 Thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD .
Psalm 37
34 Wait for the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a green tree in its native soil,
36 but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.
37 Consider the blameless, observe the upright; there is a posterity for the man of peace.
38 But all sinners will be destroyed; the posterity of the wicked will be cut off.
Millions? Hardly. In fact, minimal compared to the number of live births that occur each year (almost 4 million). The chance of miscarriage greatly reduces as pregnancy progresses. It is 10% at 3-6 weeks gestation, 5% at 6-12 weeks (or less chance if heartbeat is detected), 3% in the second trimester, and 1% are stillbirth fullterm. And if we could somehow add to that the number of viable babies that are aborted each year as well, no comparison at all.
Look at all of the horrific deformities, diseases and complications that routinely arise during pregnancy.
Again, statistically minimal. And how many of those deformities and diseases are brought about by abusive behavior or environmental encounters during pregnancy? Example - smoking, drinking, drug use, exposure to toxins, passing of disease such as STDs, inadequate prenatal care etc. How many really are true unpreventable deformities and disease? Again, minimal, considering that the total of birth defects is 3% of all US births each year. And once more, if we could add in the total number of viable aborted babies, those figures would go down even further.
In many of these situations, abortion is the only option if the woman is to survive.
Absolutely not true. According to the CDC, maternal mortality from 1982-1996 was 7.5 deaths per 100,000 live births, maternal deaths being defined as any occurring during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42 days post delivery that were directly attributed to complications of pregnancy/childbirth. And incidentally, contrary to popular propaganda, the AMA has stated that there are absolutely no instances where PBA is used as a life-saving measure for the mother.
Yet you people still claim that your invisible deity is pro-life. How strange.
Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee..."
I am an atheist who is stridently anti-abortion. Abortion is a ritualized mass murder cult, a collective human sacrifice of the idolatrous and Pagan Religious Left...
Where do I get this idea?
Consider the words of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan:
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of DarknessChap. xlv. Of Demonology and other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles.
[14] An image, in the most strict signification of the word, is the resemblance of something visible: in which sense the fantastical forms, apparitions, or seemings of visible bodies to the sight, are only images; such as are the show of a man or other thing in the water, by reflection or refraction; or of the sun or stars by direct vision in the air; which are nothing real in the things seen, nor in the place where they seem to be; nor are their magnitudes and figures the same with that of the object, but changeable, by the variation of the organs of sight, or by glasses; and are present oftentimes in our imagination, and in our dreams, when the object is absent; or changed into other colours, and shapes, as things that depend only upon the fancy. And these are the images which are originally and most properly called ideas and idols, and derived from the language of the Grecians, with whom the word eido signifieth to see. They are also called phantasms, which is in the same language, apparitions. And from these images it is that one of the faculties of man's nature is called the imagination. And from hence it is manifest that there neither is, nor can be, any image made of a thing invisible.
[15] It is also evident that there can be no image of a thing infinite: for all the images and phantasms that are made by the impression of things visible are figured. But figure is quantity every way determined, and therefore there can be no image of God, nor of the soul of man, nor of spirits; but only of bodies visible, that is, bodies that have light in themselves, or are by such enlightened.
[16] And whereas a man can fancy shapes he never saw, making up a figure out of the parts of divers creatures, as the poets make their centaurs, chimeras and other monsters never seen, so can he also give matter to those shapes, and make them in wood, clay or metal. And these are also called images, not for the resemblance of any corporeal thing, but for the resemblance of some phantastical inhabitants of the brain of the maker. But in these idols, as they are originally in the brain, and as they are painted, carved moulded or molten in matter, there is a similitude of one to the other, for which the material body made by art may be said to be the image of the fantastical idol made by nature.
"...but for the resemblance of some phantastical inhabitants of the brain of the maker. But in these idols, as they are originally in the brain, and as they are painted, carved moulded or molten in matter, there is a similitude of one to the other,..."
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