Anne Walshe defends the women who come in to her clinic to abort their babies in the second and third trimester. She says:

“What’s the difference? Abortion is abortion. The nice folks who are debating this, who want to draw the line and put a limit on gestational age, will just be putting a restriction on poor women. Women who want abortions get them. It will just force the poor women back to unacceptable remedies.”

Ultimately, Walshe is correct about there not being much difference between an early abortion are late abortion. Each one ends the life of an individual in the womb. The unborn baby at three weeks is just as alive as the unborn baby at three months, which is just alive is the unborn baby nine months, which is, in turn, just as alive as the infant that has been born. It is the same child in different stages of development – whether it is one day old, one month old, or one-year-old, is the same individual who has been conceived and whose life is ended violently in an abortion.

Source: LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990 

Bigelow argues that Jesus Christ would approve of legalized abortion. In a lNovember 22, 2002 letter, he wrote the following:

“Christianity has always emphasized the importance of responsible decision making, and nothing is more important than the decision of when, or whether, to have children …. one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing a pregnancy…Jesus was for peace on earth, justice on earth, compassion on earth, mercy on earth, and choice on earth.”

The contents of this letter were discussed  by Bill O’Reilly of Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor.”

Many Christians are pro-life activists who oppose abortion and consider the killing of a baby. But Pastor Bigelow is a member of a growing group of clergy men and women who support abortion and are willing to work with Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations.

Was Jesus pro-choice?

Most modern-day scholars believe that Jesus was a pacifist. He was nonviolent. His famous “turn the other cheek” command in highlights the fact that he did not return violence with violence. Therefore, it is very hard to believe that he would support violence perpetrated on the most helpless among us, unborn children. The prophet and teacher who said “allow the little children to come unto me” does not seem like the kind of person who would support tearing children apart inside their mother’s wombs.

But according to Planned Parenthood, abortion is simply the removal of a pregnancy, an act that empowers women and allows them to practice their own form of compassion and choice. However, pictures of actual abortion victims show the lie behind this belief. Here is a picture of an aborted baby at nine weeks after conception.

It is hard to imagine Jesus Christ supporting what was done to this child. Yet more and more clergy members are speaking out in favor of abortion. One can only wonder if they’ve witnessed pictures of what they are claiming Jesus supports. Has Bigelow seen the pictures of the torn apart babies? There is no way to know – but one thing is clear. Those who do not know the facts may be taken in by religious rhetoric that justifies abortion. This is why it is so important to spread the truth  about what abortion does to unborn children.

You can read more quotes from Christian clergy who support abortion here: http://clinicquotes.com/site/story.php?id=19

In a recent article in LifeSiteNews which can be found here http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-abortion-clinic-worker-speaks-out-for-life/ clinic worker Jewels Green discusses the counseling she gave women at the abortion clinic where she worked for five years. 

Green said that the began working in the abortion business so that she could help the women coming in for an abortion with their decision. She wanted to give them thorough counseling because she herself had had an abortion years ago and suffered serious depression leading to a psychiatric hospitalization afterwards. Therefore, she hoped to make the experience easier for other women.

However, she soon became aware that she and the other counselors at the clinic were not properly equipped to handle ambivalent women. They had little knowledge of places where women could find practical help with things like housing, financial aid, medical insurance, etc. She says:

“This is where the pro-choice movement and clinics fail. Sure, we had a little notebook with the names and numbers of two local adoption agencies, but we were never trained or taught how the adoption process works so we could explain it to women. We had the phone number of the local WIC office, public assistance, etc., but again, knew nothing about the process should anyone ever ask for details. If a pregnant woman wanted to learn more about these other choices, the best the “options counselor” could offer was a post-it note with a phone number hastily scribbled on it.”
In contrast, crisis pregnancy resource centers are generally very well equipped to help their clients who are unsure or who do not want an abortion. Many of them offer material items on site as well as referrals for everything from low cost medical care to shelters for homeless or battered mothers.

In a different world,  maybe abortion clinics could send their unwilling or ambivalent patients to pregnancy resource centers for REAL help. But this will happen around the time a certain undesirable  piece of real estate down South freezes over.

 For more testimonies from abortion providers on abortion clinic counseling, go here: http://clinicquotes.com/site/story.php?id=502

Picture: 20 week old unborn baby

I recently read this book: Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 

it has some very interesting quotes in it. Here is one by an abortionist who has been practicing for decades:

“On some mornings, I leave my office, and if I turn right I go down the hallway to the [abortion facility] and terminate. I am a destroyer of pregnancies. If I turn left down the same hallway, I go toward the nursery and the labor and delivery unit and take care of the myriad of complications in women who are in the throes of problem pregnancies- and I do things to help them hold on. It’s all so schizophrenic. I have a kind of split personality.”

Quoted from Don Sloan with Paula Hertz “Abortion: A Doctor’s Perspective/A Woman’s Dilemma.” (New York: Donald Fine INC, 1992)

it is easy to imagine that the effectiveness and compassion of a doctor who saves babies and yet performs abortions may be decreased by the fact that an hour after saving a fetus, he is planning to destroy fetus it must lead to a great deal of confusion in the mind of the Dr. and I wouldn’t be surprised if it had a profound effect on his effectiveness dealing with problem pregnancies. A good reason why women should ask their doctor performs abortions before choosing a gynecologist.

You have to wonder how a doctor can transition from murdering children to preserving their lives.

Based on a recent study, 64% of women having abortions say that they were coerced or unduly influenced by their partners or ex-partners. (1) Many times, the father simply does not want the baby. He may not want to pay child support, or he may be an abuser who wants power over his partner. Men often have a strong interest in making sure their children are not born, since they are required to support these children once they come into the world. This is true in America and in many other countries. The law says that men must pay child support, and help out the mother and baby. Therefore, many men try to pressure their partners and having an abortion.

This has long been argued to be the case in pro-life circles, but one prominent pro-choice activist has admitted that it happens all too commonly.

American abortion advocate Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, said the following in his article “An Ethical Challenge to Pro-Choice Advocates.”:

“That men have long coerced women into unwanted abortion when it suits their purposes is well known but rarely mentioned. Data reported by the Alan Guttmacher Institute indicate that some 30% of women have an abortion because someone else, not the woman, wants it.”(2)

Is a positive step that pro-choice people are admitting that women are coerced into having abortions. However, pro-life and pro-choice people disagree on the solution. Pro-life people in America have proposed laws requiring abortion clinics to screen patients more carefully and make sure that they are not being coerced into an abortion against their wills. Abortion providers have resisted this law. Planned Parenthood and other groups have campaigned against any kind of regulation of the abortion business, even regulations that are specifically designed for the woman’s benefit. Pro-life groups often feel that these abortion providers do not want to lose money by having fewer women choose abortions. They have a vested financial interest in seeing as many women get abortions as possible.

The problem of women being pressured into abortions is common throughout the world. For those of us who have loved ones who become pregnant in difficult circumstances, we must support the pregnant woman through her trials and encourage her to choose life.

For more information and examples of women who are coerced into abortion, go

http://clinicquotes.com/site/story.php?id=75

Footnotes
1,   I.L. Horton and D. Cheng, “Enhanced Surveillance for Pregnancy-Associated Mortality-Maryland, 1993-1998,” JAMA 285(11): 1455-1459 (2001); see also J. Mcfarlane et. al., “Abuse During Pregnancy and Femicide: Urgent Implications for Women’s Health,” Obstetrics & Gynecology 100: 27-36 (2002).2. Daniel Callahan “An Ethical Challenge to Pro-Choice Advocates” Commonweal November 23, 1990, page 684, quoted in David C Reardon “Making Abortion Rare: a Healing Strategy for a Divided Nation” (Springfield, Illinois: Acorn Books), page 84

Much has been said in pro-life circles about the pain many women feel after an abortion. There are many organizations and ministries dedicated to helping post-abortion women cope with the pain of losing their children. Usually, pro-choice groups deny that women regret their abortions, maintaining that women usually feel only relief. In reality, many women do suffer, often after years of denial during which they maintain that their abortion was the best choice they could have made.

In Salon Magazine, one pro-choice post-abortion woman sought advice on how to cope with the pain of her abortion. She says:

“In December of 2010 I had an abortion. It has haunted me ever since.
… I was pregnant and I chose not to continue the pregnancy even though deep down I desperately wanted a child.
I made this choice based on my relationship with the baby’s father, who dropped me off at the clinic and I never saw again, despite having a three-to-four-year, on-and-off relationship. He promised me marriage and more children when we were ready for it, i.e. five or 10 years from now.His last words to me were, “Don’t worry, I’ll be back.” But that never materialized.….I haven’t dated, least of all had sex with anyone, since that day. It feels like a part of me died that day and will never return.”

This testimony appeared on the pro-choice leaning magazine Salon and can be found at http://www.salon.com/2011/07/18/post_abortion_trauma/

It was posted on July 17, 2011. The letter reveals that even pro-choice women suffer from post-abortion grief and sorrow.
For more stories of post-abortion women, go to http://clinicquotes.com/site/category.php?id=7

When pro-lifers fight abortion, we are fighting not just for the babies but for their mothers as well.

Babies have now been born at 21 weeks and survived. The first baby to survive at 21 weeks was named Kenya King. Her story was told in the Miami Herald. After a lengthy stay in the hospital, she was sent home wiht her mother, a healthy baby. Here is a picture of her.

Babies can be aborted at 21 weeks in every state in the United States, as second trimester abortions are legal anywhere. There are no restrictions on abortions at this stage. They can be obtained by any woman for any reason. 

Some people claim that children born very prematurely are so handicapped that they have unhappy lives, and that they should not be saved at these young ages. 

However, a study of teenagers who were born premature (at 20-23 weeks) revealed that:

“[They] view their health-related quality of life is quite satisfactory.”

The study that showed this was Self Perceived Health Status and Health Related Quality of Life of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants At Adolescence” JAMA, August 14, 1996, P453

In some cases, babies aborted in the late second trimester and third trimester are born alive during abortions and then must be disposed of by the abortionist. These cases are relatively rare, yet they do happen. They happen often enough for a law to be passed governing what happens in this instnace, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which was signed in to law by President George W. Bush.

To read about the act and about babies born alive by accident during abortions, go here: http://clinicquotes.com/site/category.php?id=20

In order to prove that abortions are done after viability in the United States, here are some ads from clinics that are advertising to do them. These ads come from newspapers throughout the country. Thank you to Priests for Life for finding them:

In America, only 4% of abortions happen after twenty weeks, but that adds up to 20,160 a year. Most of these are done on healthy mothers with healthy babies.

The recent scandal over grants to Planned Parenthood pitted two views of abortion against each other. These have clever names: Right to life and pro choice. One side would allow abortions, the other would outlaw them in any circumstance. Is there another approach to this issue.

Without stereotyping anyone, it’s clear that there are people who are the captains of their fate and others who seem to be blown about by the winds of chance. The second type, usually with low incomes and low education, often finds themselves losing their jobs and housing, getting up with the wrong crowd and it the case of many young women, getting pregnant. Often they can neither afford to raise a child or even abort it.

I suggest not only allowing abortions, but for those who can’t afford it, free ones, provided by government. On top of that, the government should provide a one time grant of $10,000 that could be used only for housing, health care and/or education.  This would give marginal people a chance to better their lives. 

We don’t need a big government agency to determine eligibility. The offer would be open to all, but only once. Clearly the women who have planned to have a child and who are able to care for and raise one would not toss out motherhood for a grant that they don’t really need. The women who are poor and desperate and now pregnant would be the ones to take advantage of this, perhaps giving them their first opportunity to be in control of their own lives.

10,000 bucks may seem a lot of money, but think about what we spend on child welfare, health care through emergency rooms and the crime associated with unwanted children raised in poverty. 

The most recent piece of legislation seeks to require women to get an ultrasound as a pre-requisite for abortion.  The aim- to complicate the process and increase the cost of abortion for both the insured and uninsured as a measure of deterrence.  The irony of having the elephant usher in regulation is a giggle and a half.

The debate between both parties has driven the subject into separate shades of grey, highlighting a more critical issue in contemporary American society- the over-complication of morality.  Consider Lincoln- “When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.  That’s my religion.”  Instead of tailoring the debate to focus on mentality and maintaining a proactive respect for life and the act of creating life, both sides dilute the argument with salt and pepper.  Clearly, there are situations where abortion should be an option while at the same time there exists cases in which action should have be taken before abortion was considered as a clean-up for a screw-up.  The tragedy in both this recent piece of legislation and the ongoing debate is truly the loss of a society where law and regulation is not the determinant ethic, but the individual and their pursuit of what is truly right and what is truly wrong.    

There generally two types of abortion, natural abortion commonly referred to as a miscarriage and induced abortion which is a deliberate brought on due to several circumstances, the base reason is that the pregnancy is usually unwanted.

Victims of abortion are usually rape victims, Commercial sex workers, girls who experience early pregnancies among others. In the early years, it was very dangerous to abort and in deed most of the victims usually ended up dying to this cause. However, today with the advancement in technology and research, abortion has become less harmful, more safer methods of abortion have been discovered which have attributed to the increase in abortion rates.

Victims are blinded by how safe these methods are, not looking at the intensity of this horrible crime; no doubt abortion is a crime in the eyes of man and God. Doctors say that it’s just a tissue but that’s not the reality, its life that they are taking away. Even if man researches for thousands of years, he will never be able to explain how life is made, science can explain the whole process of reproduction from A to Z but not how life is made. Who then are we to take away what we cannot even explain in the simplest of terms.

One thing that hurts are the women who have carried out abortion and have no regrets, I know that is a lie; they go ahead and mislead innocent women to engage in this horrible act. When I visited Am Not Sorry , i was surprised by what i saw, women on this site are continuously caring out abortion and are proud of it. Their stories betray them; they clearly bring out the element of murder in abortion.

You might not understand how dangerous abortion is and how much you need to stay away from it until you have a look at the documentaries; you need to hear from women with a conscious, they will tell you what they feel about abortion. Usually abortion becomes more risky as trimesters advance; the methods used to carry out abortion also vary depending on the trimesters. Survival of the victim becomes more risky too, more bleeding is experienced.

Abortion is like salting a snail, no doubt it eventually dies.  We should stay away from abortion as much as possible. methods alone that used in carrying out abortion are very violent, they involve suffocating the foetus, injecting poison into the heart of the foetus, injecting chemicals into the uterus to dismember and tear apart the foetus, cutting the foetus into pieces and crushing the skull of the baby. Based on the techniques used in abortion alone, it’s clear that abortion is murder, all methods aim at taking away the life of an innocent baby. I know you want me to call it a tissue but that’s not the reality, no abortionist will tell you that what they are about to remove is a baby; they will all refer to it as a tissue. Sucrose is a sugar likewise that which they refer to as tissue is a baby.

I know that even after reading all this you might not clearly get the true picture of what abortion is.

Just in case you are not contented, click on the link Graham collection to check out these images and videos that expose abortion. (I do not actually recommend you to.) I was silenced and puzzled for the whole day when I saw these videos; I had so many questions to ask.  Worse still there’s no way you will clearly know what abortion is, unless you look at these pictures and videos, you will never know the evil rooted in abortion.  Just in case you insist on watching them please click on the link below.

 That baby that you killed will haunt you the rest of your life. Say No to Abortion, Don’t Salt The Snail.

Be a Pro-life not a Pro-choice