Posted on 12/04/2005 3:14:02 AM PST by beaversmom
For many Americans abortion is a choice, a concept, a constitutional right, an issue relegated to political campaigns or a simple medical procedure, which is ultimately, something they'd prefer not to think about.
This week the Los Angeles Times' provided its readers an enormous service.
Dr. William Harrison, Fayetteville's self-proclaimed abortionist, opened his doors to Stephanie Simon, a Times staff writer, providing her an all-access pass to the realities that exist within an abortion clinic's walls.
"I am destroying life," Harrison told Simon. It was a brash statement rooted in honesty, but it's also a point that many in the pro-choice community aren't willing to concede. They believe that cells, tissue or, at best, the potential for life are housed in the womb.
It's ironic that many on the left, who lecture on about the need for science's preeminence when foundations of life on Earth are taught in America's classrooms, cast aside science as it relates to basic questions about life's beginning in the womb. They claim that questions about when life begins are better answered by philosophy or religion.
Not Harrison. The 70-year-old doctor knows exactly what he does.
He has been in the business since 1973, when Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion on demand. He estimates having performed "at least" 20,000 abortions.
He described what he does in paradoxical terms. While admitting to being a life-taker, Harrison also claimed to be a life-giver: Harrison calls his patients "born again." Simon quoted him as saying: "When you end what the woman considers a disastrous pregnancy, she has literally been given her life back."
Simon moved from the interview with Harrison to his "operating table," where an 18-year-old who was 13 weeks pregnant, laid with her feet in stirrups and her arms strapped down.
The nurse injected her with drugs before the abortion, including a sedative that would "wipe out her memory of everything that happens during the 20 minutes she's in the operating room. It's so effective that patients who return for a follow-up exam often don't recognize Harrison."
Simon detailed the image from the ultrasound, taken prior to the abortion where "the curve of a head, the bend of an elbow, the ball of a fist" could be seen. Harrison warned the young woman of cramping she would feel and a "sucking sound" she would hear while he worked to get "everything out."
Two minutes and it was all over. Simon saw tears in the patient's eyes, a blank post-op ultrasound - another life ended - and a confused young woman, who was barely an adult.
There were those who arrived at the clinic undecided about abortion. Simon observed Harrison's nurse showing those women a couple of statistics about the number of women who have abortions and then asking them, "You think there's room in hell for all those women?"
There were many other women who arrived seeking to end the lives inside them, some for very specific reasons.
A high school volleyball player who was three months pregnant said "she doesn't want to give up her body for nine months" and a 23-year-old real estate agent said, "I don't think my dress would have fit with a baby in there." She was busy planning her upcoming wedding.
A 32-year-old college student sought her fourth abortion because she kept "forgetting to take her birth control pills." A single mother of three would rather end the life of the little boy in her womb than give the child up for adoption because she "couldn't bear to give away a child and have to wonder every day if he were loved."
What a choice.
I wonder if her fiancé knew she was pregnant and that she opted for an abortion.
What a surprise they'll all have when they try to rationalize the murder of their unborn child while providing their explanations on Judgement Day, especially with the soul of that child seated next to God. Oh, I forgot, God forgives everybody for everything, even when they knowingly do wrong, aren't seeking forgiveness and don't have a clue what being contrite is.....and everybody goes to Heaven and there is no Hell, right?
There are no words to describe the awfulness of this, but the article at least comes close.
You don't think GOD will buy the too-tight wedding dress story? Sorry, I'm being sarcastic in case that's missed by anyone.
bttt
So she would rather live every day with the fact that she murdered her baby. Murder is better [to her]than adoption.
My husband had a friend...Let's caller her Susie. She was married to a really good friend actually. She had an abortion so her wedding dress would fit. Unfortunately, this procedure left her barren. She was never able to have chldren and eventually adopeted.
We have another friend who's girlfriend inisisted on an abortion. He wanted to get married and have the baby. He went with her to the appointment. The girl had lied about how far along she was. The baby was born alive, but died later. This friend never spoke to this girl again, and the memory still haunts him-eighteen years later.
What abortion providers fail to warn young girls is that abortion can affect your ability to have children later. The woman who had four abortions will be lucky if she can carry past the third month-multiple abortions damage your cervix.
I'm left with deep sorrow. 20,000 by one doctor.
I also try to imagine myself in the womb when the intruments come in at me.
It really is horrible. It's affected this country in so many negative ways. Young people have been brainwashed to think it's okay.
Sadly, yes. And then some.
"They believe that cells, tissue or, at best, the potential for life are housed in the womb."
No--it's what they say they believe. If they thought about it at all, they'd realize that's what the womb is--even absent an embryo.
Hey,c'mon...look on the bright side here.Multiply 20,000 by,say,$800 and you get 1.6 million dollars.
That sum of money would make for a very...shall we say...affluent lifestyle for our beloved abortionist.
Who knows,he may have even gotten in on Google at $20/share thanks to his hard work and dedication in helping women avoid inconvenience.
(end sarcasm)
This is really sad, but I'm not surprised. This story is being told in hundreds of abortion mills across the country. But it's not hopeless. I believe the pendulum is swinging the other way regarding society's acceptance of abortion. What we cannot accomplish through legislation we can accomplish by continuing to tell these stories and warning women of the consequences.
When I was pg with my third, my husband ran into a friend who was picking up Gatorade for his fiancee who was sick with morning sickness. My husband offered congratulations. I thought it was sweet of the guy (my husband is too dense to do something like that!) A few weeks later we learned that the woman ended up having an abortion..a few months before their wedding. My hunch was that it was for a similar reason. Per Mr. Cat, the fiance (now husband) didn't seem concerned about his future wife's decision. Our daughter is two and we see this man from time to time, and I wonder if he ever feels guilty (since their child would have been almost the exact same age). I doubt it, though.
I would be seriously disturbed if a woman aborted any child of mine for any reason other than the pregnancy posed a life threatening health risk. And even then I'd expect to try and do anything to save both lives.
I pray I never have to make that decision.
I am bolstered by a story of a woman who declined medical procedures that would've harmed her unborn child. She saved her child, but died herself.
This reminds me of a book I once read...
"Lime5" by Mark Crutcher (lifedynamics)
detailing the real situation behind the myth of "safe legal" abortions.
Required reading for anyone who thinks an abortionist is a real doctor - or a family planning clinic is a real medical facility.
Truly scary stuff.
Murder inc.
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