According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions,[1] an approximately 125,000 murdering of helpless creatures per day, a silent terrorism which is even cruel than World Wars I and II combined which is approximated with 50 million deaths (Battle Deaths 15,000,000; Battle Wounded 25,000,000 Civilian Deaths 45,000,000) whereas killing of babies are still counting day and day out, an act which is abominable in the eyes of God (Matthew 19:18 ; Ephesians 4:31; Matthew 22:39-40); Romans 13:9).
In developing countries, unsafe
abortions are the leading cause of death,[2] accounting for 15% of maternal deaths
across the globe. Unsafe abortions result in seven million women requiring
treatment for complications happening annually, with Pakistan having the
highest rate of unsafe practicess.
Carol
Everett, director of four clinics (two of which were owned by her), who was
involved in the abortion industry in the Dallas, Texas, area from 1977 to 1983was responsible for the clinics' daily operation
and who had an abortion soon after it was legalized in 1973, speaks out on what she saw in the abortion
industry. She says that the governing force behind the abortion industry is money. It
is a very profitable business and the largest unregulated industry in the
nation. Most of the clinics are run in chains because it is so money-spinning.
According
to her, women are deceived in abortion. Every woman has two questions, "Is
it a baby?" and "Does it hurt," which the abortionist must answer with a lie
"NO to secure the sanction of the woman and the generation of the clinic's
fee. The women were told that they were dealing with a "product of
conception" or a "glob of tissue” and told that there would be only
slight cramping, where in fact, an abortion is excruciatingly painful.
The
abortionist who’s now a pro-lie says that there’s no real counseling being
offered at the clinics but rather sold abortion
She
said that an aborted baby is disposed by putting them down in the garbage
disposal. Some second and third trimester babies' muscle structure is so strong
that the baby would not fall to bits, so they must be disposed of through trash
receptacles.
She
added that abortion in the last 18 months that she was in the business, they
were completing over 500 abortions monthly and killing or maiming one woman out
of 500. Common complications that occur are perforations or tears in the
uterus. Many of those result in hysterectomies The doctor might
cut or harm the urinary tract, which subsequently requires surgical repair. A
complication that is rarely made known is the one in which the doctor
perforates the uterus and pulls the bowels through the vagina, resulting in
colostomy. Some of those can be reversed, some must live with the
colostomy for the remainder of their lives.
Everett
decided to get out of the abortion business when she experienced a profoundly
religious transformation. At about the time she doubted, a Dallas television
station did an expose revealing the abortions performed at her clinic on
non-pregnant women - all for money! She finally realized, that as
abortionists they weren't helping women but destroying them - and their
children. By then her conversion was complete knowing that she not only
had to stop being involved with abortions, but she had to help promote the
truth.
Former abortionist, Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D., the son of a distinguished medical practitioner and professor who
specialized in obstetrics and gynecology, was once a pioneer and a leader in the "abortion industry, had his first engagement with
abortion as a medical student at McGill University in Montreal.
Having
impregnated a girlfriend, he set up and paid for her illegal abortion. Many
years later, he would mark this episode as his “preliminary excursion into the
satanic world of abortion.” He would become a nearly obsessed crusader for
abortion and campaigner for its legalization turning him to be an abortionist.
In
the mid-1960s, with the sexual revolution thundering after Alfred Kinsey’s
fraudulent but influential “scientific” studies of sex and sexuality in
America, Hugh Hefner’s aggressive campaign to legalize pornography and, perhaps
above all, the wide distribution of the anovulant birth control pill, Nathanson
turned to be a leader in the movement to topple laws forbidding abortion. He
co-founded the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL),
which later became the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and is
now NARAL Pro-Choice America. It aimed to get rid of the cultural disgrace on
abortion, eradicate all meaningful legal restrictions on it, and make it as
broadly available as possible across the nation and the globe.
Attaining
these objectives, Nathanson later divulged that he and fellow abortion
crusaders practiced dubious and in some cases openly deceitful strategies.
First, they promoted the idea that abortion is a medical issue than moral,
persuading people of the rather obvious falsehood that a normal pregnancy is a
natural and healthy condition if the mother wants her baby and a disease if
otherwise. The point of medicine, to conserve and restore health, had to be
changed as giving health care consumers what they happen to want; and the
Hippocratic Oath's explicit prohibition of abortion had to be
eradicated. In the end, Nathanson and his collaborators succeeded in selling
this propaganda to a small but extraordinarily powerful group of men: in the
1983 case of Roe V. Wade, seven Supreme Court justices led by Harry Blackmun,
former counsel to the American Medical Association, nullified virtually all
state laws giving meaningful protection for unborn children on the ground that
abortion is a “private choice” to be made by women and their doctors.
Second, Nathanson and his friends lied
incessantly and enormously concerning the number of women who died yearly from
illegal abortions. Their area of play to voters, lawmakers, and judges was that
women are going to seek abortion in roughly uniform figures whether it is legal
or not.
Third,
the early advocates of abortion deliberately exploited anti-Catholic hostility
among liberal elites and many ordinary Protestants at the time to show
resistance to abortion as a “religious dogma” that the Catholic hierarchy
sought to enforce on others in violation of their freedom and the separation of
church and state.
Despite
the irrefutable historical fact that proscription of abortion were rooted in
English common law and bolstered and expanded by statutes enacted across the
United States by tremendously Protestant majorities in the 19th century,
Nathanson and other abortion movement leaders decided that the Catholic Church
was flawless for the role of liberty-extinguishing tormenter. Its male
priesthood and authority structure would make it easy for them to show the
Church’s resistance to abortion as hatred of women, for which concern to
protect unborn babies was a mere ploy. Being adamant, the Church’s real intention
was to limit women’s freedom in order to hold them in positions of extreme
compliance.
Fourth,
the abortion group urge the conservatives and liberals alike by promoting
expulsion of fetus as a method of combating impoverishment. Initially,
Nathanson himself believed that legal abortion and its public funding would
reduce out-of-wedlock childbearing and poverty, though he remained endorsing
this tale after the total weight of facts compelled him to disbelieve this
pretence that blinded him.
Over
the years, while performing abortions for what he looked upon as rightful
“health” reasons, Nathanson started transformation by the advent of new technologies, especially fetoscopy and
ultrasound, that made it increasingly difficult, and finally impossible, to deny
that abortion is the intentional killing of a unique human being - a child in
the mother’s womb.
By
1980, the weight of confirmation in favor of the pro-life position had
overpowered Nathanson and ejected him from abortion practice. Soon he advocated
the fight against abortion and exposed to the world the lies of abortion.
In
fact in 1985, Nathanson provided the new fetal imaging technology to create a
documentary film, “The Silent Scream,” (as shown below) which uplifted the pro-life movement and
threw the pro-choice side onto the defensive by presenting graphic detail the
killing of a twelve-week-old fetus in a suction abortion.
President Ronald Reagan showed the film in the White House and hyped it in speeches. Like Nathanson, Reagan, who had signed one of the first abortion-legalization bills when he was Governor of California, was a zealous convert to the pro-life cause. During his term as president, Reagan wrote and published a powerful pro-life book Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation which Nathanson affirmed for telling the truth about the life of the child in the womb and the injustice of abortion.
With the scientific facts and generally accepted principles of the rights and dignity of the human person as a conduit for his enlightenment, Nathanson was slowly drawn to faith in God and ultimately to Catholicism by the moral witness of the advocates among his newfound pals in the struggle for the unborn. He was baptized and received into the Catholic Church in 1996. He was “like St. Paul, who was a great persecutor of the Church, yet when he saw the light of Christ, he was perhaps the greatest apostle for the Gospel (Acts 9:1-31). Dr. Nathanson was similar to that after his conversion and went all around the world talking about the babies and the evils of abortion.”
References:
[2]
Hannah Osborne, ShoutYourAbortion:
Pregnancy termination has transformed women's lives and should be celebrated, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/shout-your-abortion-pregnancy-termination-has-transformed-womens-lives-should-be-celebrated-1520690
[3]
Robert P. George, Bernard Nathanson: A Life
Transformed by Truth, February 27th, 2011, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/02/2806/
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