Bonding With Baby; Why Ultrasound is Turning Women Against Abortion

Crisis Magazine ^ | December 2002 | Mark Stricherz

[muawiyah]

Kind of always wondered why Planned Parenthood and NARAL want to keep African-American young women totally ignorant of alternatives to abortion.

[LiteKeeper]

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[Jeff Chandler]

"I didn't realize that's something inside of you," ...I could see the hands and the feet, and I could hear the heartbeat.

 

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[friendly]

Kind of always wondered why Planned Parenthood and NARAL want to keep African-American young women totally ignorant of alternatives to abortion.

Margaret Sanger and her Planned Parenthood were/are devout racists who believe in aborting blacks and others of their supposed subhumans to prevent their population increase. It is also an extremely lucrative business.

[Sungirl]

Goody....another out of wedlock baby that tax dollars can help support.

[syriacus]

Poor women provide better prenatal care after seeing them (this helps explain why three pro-choice black members of Congress, who represent poor districts like Newark, New Jersey, and the south side of Chicago, support Glessner’s legislation)

This makes sense...

[syriacus]

another out of wedlock baby that tax dollars can help support

And who will most likely grow up, get a job, and pay into the Social Security system.

[lizma]

I remember when I first saw the GE 4D ultrasound commercial. I was truly amazed and thought good news for the Pro-life movement.

Sorta ends the "it's just a blob of tissue" argument, doesn't it?

[Karsus]

I guess you think it is better to just kill the kid?

[NativeNewYorker]

It says something wonderful about our culture that our "underclass" would see their unborn children as something wonderful...as opposed to China and India, where ultrasound is used for sex-selection abortions.

QUESTION: Can someone please explain to me why a young woman would choose abortion over carrying the child to term and putting it up for adoption?

Is is the discomfort/pain of pregnancy and childbirth? The altered body?

[MatthewViti]

"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth."

-- Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Beiaxhiu - the *real* Sister Agnes), regarding abortion, in her closing remarks at her last prayer breakfast in the United States

"I was for abortion, I thought it was a woman's right to terminate pregnancy she did not want. Now I'm not so sure. I am a student nurse nearing the end of my OB-GYN rotation at a major metropolitan hospital and teaching center. It wasn't until I saw what abortion really involves that I changed my mind. After the first week in the abortion clinic several people in my clinical group were shaky about their previously positive feelings about abortion. This new attitude resulted from our actually seeing a Prostaglandin abortion, one similar in nature to the widely used saline abortion. . . this method is being used for terminations of pregnancies of sixteen weeks and over. I used to find rationales. the fetus isn't real. Abdomens aren't really very swollen. It isn't 'alive.' No more excuses...I am a member of the health profession and members of my class are now ambivalent about abortion. I now know a great deal more about what is involved in the issue. Women should perceive fully what abortion is; how destructive an act it is both for themselves and their unborn child. Whatever psychological coping mechanisms are employed during the process, the sight of a fetus in a hospital bedpan remains the final statement."

Quoted in "The Zero People: Essays on Life" by Jeff Lane Hensley, editor. Ann Arbor: Servant Books, 1983

"The doctors would remove the fetus while performing hysterotomies and then lay it on the table., where it would squirm until it died. ..They all had perfect forms and shapes. I couldn't take it. No nurse could."

--Joyce Craig, director of a Brooklyn clinic of Planned Parenthood. who assisted in abortion for two months, then quit. p 34 of "Rachel Weeping"

"From May to November 1988, I worked for an abortionist. He specializes in third trimester killings. I witnessed evidence of the brutal, cold blooded murder of over 600 viable, healthy babies at seven, eight and nine months gestation. A very, very few of these babies, less than 2%, were handicapped...I thought I was pro-choice and I was glad to be working in an abortion clinic. I thought I was helping provide a noble service to women in crisis....I was instructed to falsify the age of the babies in medical records. I was required to lie to the mothers over the phone, as they scheduled their appointments, and to tell them that they were not 'too far along' Then I had to note, in the records that Dr. Tiller's needle had successfully pierced the walls of the baby's heart, injecting the poison what brought death...one day, Dr. Tiller came up the stairs from the basement, where the mothers were in labor. He was carrying a large cardboard box, and ducked into the employees only area of the office so that he wouldn't have to walk through the waiting room. He passed behind my desk as I sat working on the computer, and he turned the corner to go around a short hall. He called out for me to come and help him. the box was so big and heavy in his arms that he couldn't get the key into the lock. So I unlocked the door for him, and , pushing the door open, I saw very clearly the gleaming metal of the crematorium- a full sized crematorium, just like the one's used in funeral homes. I went back to my computer. I could hear Dr. Tiller firing up the gas oven. A few minutes later I could smell burning human flesh. Mine was the agony of a participant, however reluctant, in the act of prenatal infanticide."

--Luhra Tivis on her experience in the abortion business Quoted in Celebrate Life Sept/Oct 1994 "Where is the Real Violence?"

"I am deeply troubled by my own increasing certainty that I have in fact presided over 60,000 deaths. There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy"

--Dr. Bernard Nathanson, "Deeper Into Abortion" New England Journal of Medicine Nov 1974 p 1189

"You would just look in the buckets and see arms and legs. I have horrible dreams about that now. It was something you would see in a scary movie."

--Former clinic worker Kirsten Breedlove

My 23rd abortion changed my mind about doing abortions forever. This patient was a little overweight and ultimately proved to be a little farther along than anticipated. This was not an uncommon mistake before ultrasound was readily available to confirm the gestational age. Initially, the abortion proceeded normally. The water broke, but then nothing more would come out. When I withdrew the curette, I saw that it was plugged up with the leg of the baby which had been torn off. I then changed techniques and used ring forceps to dismember the 13 or 14 week size baby. Inside the remains of the rib cage I found a tiny, beating heart. I was finally able to remove the head and looked squarely into the face of a human being -- a human being that I had just killed.

-Dr. Paul Jarrett

"Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child."

- M. Teresa, National Prayer breakfast, 2/3/94

"Each child is sent into this world by God with a unique message to deliver, a new song to sing, a personal act of love to bestow."

- John Powell, S.J.

"Once you permit the killing of the unborn child...you are setting off a chain reaction that will eventually make you the victim."

- Dr. R.A. Gallop, Univ. Of Montana

"Roe vs. Wade was a declaration of war on defensless baby boys and girls in the womb whose only 'crime' is that they exist."

- Dr. Wanda Franz, NRLC President

[Drew68]

And who will most likely grow up, get a job, and pay into the Social Security system.

Or join a gang, rob people, and spend time in prison.

[Karsus]

So it is better to kill the child?

[Jeff Chandler]

Goody....another out of wedlock baby that tax dollars can help support.

Another reason to curtail social welfare: it encourages the rationalization of the discarding of the concept of sanctity of human life, and does so in the name of fiscal responsibility.

[537 Votes]

I guess you think it is better to just kill the kid?

Isn't it funny how conservatives get stuck with the racism label, even though we're the only ones in our society who want to save the lives of millions of preborn black babies? And isn't it strange how liberals and moderates get so worked up over the possibility that an unaborted black child might grow up to be on welfare?

If Trent Lott had come out swinging on these points, he would still be Majority Leader and the liberal media would have found something else to talk about the past couple of weeks.

[Jeff Chandler]

If Trent Lott had come out swinging

 

In some parallel universe, perhaps?

[Drew68]

So it is better to kill the child?

I place very little value on children born into these circumstances. So to answer your question, yes, a safe, legal abortion should be encouraged to seventeen year-old, unwed, future welfare recipient Ebony. Society will benefit in the long run. So will Ebony.

[MatthewViti]

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

~Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980

[Sungirl]

I posted this in another thread.....

Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time.

Right. That's why the biggest problem should be addressed (pre-marital sex) instead of preaching about a consequence (abortion). But when I bring it up to teach kids that...well...even freepers plead guilty...and continue preaching about something that happens after the crime. It's like shutting the barn door after the horse got out. So...it sounds as if this problem will always be. People will get pregnant and have abortions.

Nip it in the bud. Start at the beginning ... Pre-marital sex. If people really care about abortion...preach against pre-marital sex. You will stop alot of abortions that way. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time (time=raising kids).