Holiday for Abortionists—Seriously

TownHall ^ | 3/9/04 | Joel Mowbray

[diotima]

This Wednesday, March 10th, is a holiday with which you may not be familiar, but should be: the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers.

The very fact that there exists such a “holiday”—created in 1996 and co-sponsored by more than twenty major groups, including Planned Parenthood and National Organization for Women (NOW)—says everything you need to know about the pro-abortion movement today.

Most ordinary Americans who identify themselves as “pro-choice” would be disgusted that abortion providers are being hailed as heroes. Even to people who support keeping the procedure legal, abortion is not something to be glorified.

The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers cannot be dismissed as something celebrated by fringe elements, though.

Aside from Planned Parenthood and NOW, it is endorsed by such mainstream “pro-choice” groups as National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The abortionist appreciation “holiday,” according to the web site of the umbrella group that founded it, Refuse and Resist, entails such as activities as “local appreciation day events,” and asking people to use their “imagination, creativity and dedication to help create a climate” where abortionists “can hold their heads high.”

The Refuse and Resist web site also encourages people to give gifts to their friendly local abortion providers.

So what do you get someone after a long day of collapsing the skulls of unborn children so their tiny bodies fall lifeless out of the uterus? A “breakfast basket of fruit or muffins” is recommended.

Some will complain that I’m making abortionists look worse by highlighting partial-birth abortion, a particularly gruesome procedure.

But that’s the thing about abortion. It’s always gruesome. It’s always violent. The end result is always that an unborn child dies at the hand of the abortionist.

Over the years, though, most Americans never really had to bother much with the details of abortion. All that changed, however, with the long-running debate over partial-birth abortion.

When the partial-birth abortion issue came to prominence in 1995, support for abortion was at its highest point in nearly two decades. Gallup found that 56% of Americans identified themselves as “pro-choice,” compared to only 33% calling themselves “pro-life.”

The hard-core abortion supporters preferred the clinical-sounding medical term “dilation and extraction.” The public didn’t.

Once Americans were forced to consider the ugly reality of a procedure where full-term babies are partially delivered breech (meaning feet first) so that the brain could be suctioned out, support for abortion—not just partial-birth—plummeted.

Since 2001, roughly the same number of people polled by Gallup identified themselves as “pro-choice” as “pro-life,” a seismic shift in public opinion in just six years.

Most Americans now find abortion morally wrong when done in any type of procedure, and only one-third think that ending the life of the unborn child is morally acceptable, according to a Gallup poll released last summer.

Perhaps the most logical explanation is that more and more people recognize the core nature of abortion. Even the most common procedures, such as “suction curettage” (typically performed in the first trimester) or “dilation and evacuation” (usually done in the second and third trimesters), are too horrifying to fathom.

As described by pregnantpause.org, “suction curettage” is where an abortionist inserts into a woman's dilated cervix a tube with a sharp edge on it that "is connected to a suction device, similar to a home vacuum cleaner but much more powerful. Between the sharp edge and the force of the suction, the developing baby is torn apart and the pieces sucked out through the tube.”

Even more gruesome is “dilation and evacuation.” From pregnantpause.org: “A seaweed-based substance called ‘laminaria’ is inserted into the cervix to dilate it, usually overnight. The next day forceps with sharp metal teeth are inserted and used to twist and tear off the unborn baby's limbs and remove them piece-by-piece. The head is usually too large to be removed whole and must be crushed.”

It’s not difficult to see why the more the details of abortion creep into the public debate, the more pro-life Americans become. It’s only natural. Abortion’s “ok”—as long as it is just a “choice.”

When people are forced to think about the details inherent in an abortion, however, fewer and fewer people support “choice” when they realize what that “choice” actually entails—and fewer still will celebrate the abortionist “holiday.”

[cpforlife.org]

"Between the sharp edge and the force of the suction, the developing baby is torn apart and the pieces sucked out through the tube."

The picture below is of Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life

Fr. Pavone is holding a suction curet, the kind used to murder children waiting to be born. He is standing in a former abortion chamber, which by the grace of God was closed down in May of 1994 and is now the NATIONAL AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL, of which I am a board member.

Notice also the sink and garbage disposal. That is where God's precious children were discarded--into the city sewer system.

I have stood in that spot many times--it is a very disturbing place to be. This one mill destroyed 30,000 precious children from 1986 - 1994. I am also the webmaster for the memorial and we have tried to fully document the holocaust that took place there and which continues 24/7 in America and around the world.

Many area high schools have toured the Memorial in Baton Rouge. It is the only one of it's kind in the entire nation, as the three rooms where the killing occured has been left untouched--preserved for historical record.

I realize this is all very sick and disturbing--but this is the very nature of the abortion industry, it dismembers children and scars women for life.

I ask that everyone please visit the website and see it all. It is not unlike a tour of Dachau or Aschwitz. Please forward the site to everyone. They need to know the truth.

Kevin Jeanfreau
deputy director
Knights for Life
aka. Freeper cpforlife.org

[weegee]

Monday March 8th was International Women's Day (a socialist holiday that dates back to the beginning of the 20th century). The socialists (especially the NOW NAGS) must have a busy week.

[Fledermaus]

No lady, the heroes are men that wouldn't impregnate you to begin with.

Although she looks kinda cute! ;-)

[Fledermaus]

Funny. I thought all these stupid left wing idiots LOVED parasites!

They all are usually parasites on government and society constantly holding their hands out for money.

Can we abort them?

[cpforlife.org]

Holiday for Abortionists—Seriously

Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

[BibChr]

Where does one buy a black arm-band?

Dan

[onyx]

Isn't this disgusting? Unbelievable. Damn these people.

[non-anonymous]

FWIW, the co-sponsors list, from atlanticblog.com:

• Abortion Access Project
  
• Abortion Clinics Online
  
• ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project
  
• American Medical Women's Association
  
• Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
  
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective
  
• Catholics for a Free Choice
  
• Center for Reproductive Rights
  
• Choice USA
  
• Feminist Majority Foundation
  
• Medical Students for Choice
  
• Ms. magazine
  
• NARAL Pro-Choice America
  
• National Council of Jewish Women
  
• National Network of Abortion Funds
  
• National Organization for Women
  
• Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
  
• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
  
• Third Wave
  
• National Abortion Federation
  
• National Coalition of Abortion Providers
  
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America

I still can't believe the word "catholic" appears in that list.

[BibChr]

<< Isn't this disgusting? Unbelievable. Damn these people. >>

Altogether too likely.

But it was a serious question -- where do you buy black arm-bands? Do you have to go to a mortuary?

Dan

[Guillermo]

Who on earth made that display?

[I still care]

Doug from Upland originally posted it, and I kept it for future reference. Check "properties" for the website, it was from a prolife website.

[I still care]

If you check that organization out, they are not really practicing Catholics - they call themselves that for impact. I think I read once the leader doesn't even attend church.

[Steve0113]

If you check that organization out, they are not really practicing Catholics - they call themselves that for impact. I think I read once the leader doesn't even attend church.

You're correct, but it's much worse than that. Planned Parenthood registered the name "Catholics For a Free Choice" (CFFC) as a subsidiary of theirs, mostly as a joke. For years, CFFC existed only as letterhead paper in a drawer.

Then along came Frances Kissling, a former nun with a virulent hatred of the Catholic Church. She jumped at the chance to run an organization with a name like that, and she brought CFFC to life, so to speak. However, last I heard, CFFC still has no members; relying solely on foundations for its funding.

CFFC does not and has never had any connection with faithful Catholics, and certainly not with the RC Church itself. CFFC's name is a lie.

BTW, I'm quite sure Frances Kissling does not attend church.

[Aquinasfan]

I thought they were going to take a holiday from killing babies. My mistake.

[Mr. Silverback]

ProLife Ping!

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

...and asking people to use their “imagination, creativity and dedication to help create a climate” where abortionists “can hold their heads high.”

Truly this requires a tremendous amount of creativity. (Is kerry's wife paying for this?)

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[lainde]

bttt

[NeoCaveman]

Catholics for a Free Choice

Which is one excommunicated woman and her computer, and funding lots of funding from nefarious sources.

[Constitution Day]

My God, that is chilling.