Posted on 05/03/2003 5:02:46 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
"Doctor" Nathanson should do the honorable thing, and eat a bullet.
To those who object to the use of the term "fetus", let me say that whatever monkeying around with terminology the pro-aborts may do, it is a legitimate term. It doesn't mean an undifferentiated tissue mass.
"Fetus" is Latin for "little one" and in modern medical terminology is the name for a particular phase of development. A human fetus is a human. It's not a man or woman. It's not a child. It's not a baby. It's still a human.
Mommy keep me safe,
Mommy keep me warm,
Handle me with all your love,
Mommy keep me from harm.
I'm only six weeks old today,
This birthday gift to me,
A pair of bright blue eyes,
That someday you will see.
I've barely got ears,
A little puppy nose,
and at the end of my feet,
Little things called toes.
Looking forward to my life,
toys, teddy bears, snails,
and long fairy tales.
Where are we going mommy,
in a bath, on a bus ride or,
perhaps far away.
Where are we going being pushed
at all force.
How funny it feels passing through
doors,
people dressed in green,
if they hurt you mommy just scream.
What's happening mommy,
I'm starting to cry,
Mommy come quickly,
they're making me die,
Killing me slowly,
Pulling me apart,
everything inside of me
even my heart,
Bye mommy, good-bye
But how I wanted to see
the grass, the trees,
hear a sweet song,
feel a sweet breeze.
Bye mommy
good-bye
I love you
I really do
.
.
.
.
I just wish you could have loved me too.
They say, "be pro-choice" well, I say you have a choice.
Below are two pictures, they will show the results of the choice you make concerning the life of your baby:
This is what your baby will look like thirty days after he or she is born, if you choose to let him life.
Below is what your baby will look like if you choose to have him or her aborted.
As the mom, it is your choice:
The abortionist makes a lot of money off of your dead baby, it sells the parts of your baby piece by piece, here is a not to graphic idea of what is done to your baby. Keep in mind, the baby was yours, it is you that will be haunted by what you have done to your baby till the day you die, but, the profits are the abortionist. Vaccines made from your aborted baby, and then forced on children.
This good doctor has worked very feverishly to try to atone for his mistakes. I attended a RTL convention back in the early 80's where he was the keynote speaker. He also produced the very contraversial film, 'Silent Scream'.
That is the way the liberals approach everything they want to shove at us.
In this book, Nathanson mentions a pro-life event in 1989 south of L.A. that was a key catalyst in moving him to the Christian faith (he became pro-life before he became a Christian). That event was a rescue at a abortion clinic. As pro-life folks were singing & praying while sitting down all around a Cyprus, CA, Nathanson came around the back door and sat down for a while next to me--temporarily risking arrest w/the rest of us.
He had to catch a flight...and the police were taking their time before deciding to arrest us--thus keeping the clinic shut down for the entire day. The police detained us (hundreds) at a local tennis court.
We eventually wound up paying a fine. It was good to read in Nathanson's book that the event impacted his faith walk!
On that day, God was not only saving babies physically, but Dr. Nathanson spiritually
I'm trying to raise the consciousness of Americans to the truth of human individuality from conception (whether in vitro or in a body) onward. It may not seem so important, especially when men like Orrin Hatch insist that en embryo in a petrti dish isn't a human, but if we Americans don't soon get a handle on the reality that even a human embryo is a unique individual, we will be conceiving for cannibalizing of younger individual human beings to treat older individual human beings ... we will be embracing cannibalism for its utilitarian value.
The slide down the slippery slope was slow at first, embracing forms of contraception that also worked to end early conceived life (as with IUDs and the first contraceptive pills), picked up some degree of slope with in vitro fertilization, then became a precipitous decline toward the pit with Roe v Wade.
We have slipped so far down and are now on such a steep incline, sliding toward the open maw of the pit, that we cannot bring ourselves to look at the truth of our dehumanization and instead focus upon the 'great medical marvels' to be found/discovered in cannibalism.
Truly the words of satan himself. Bad job, Alain2112.
Just two points.
(1)Contraceptives like the pill can and do cause chemical abortions.
In fact there are SEVERAL more abortions from the secondary "back-up" effects of contraceptives than surgical abortion.
See Chemical abortions in the United States
Before 1930 ALL Christian churches openly condemned contraceptives. Why? Because it leads to abortion. Abortion and Contraception are from the same poisoned tree.
(2) I believe we past the open maw of the pit (ref to your last para.) in 1973. When Roe happened, ANYTHING then became possible.
Chemical abortions in the United States (1965-1996)
Because many contraceptive measures are abortifacients (drugs that induce or cause abortions), it is important not to overlook the number of children killed by chemical abortions. Since 1965, an average of 11 million women have used abortifacient methods of birth control in the United States at any given time. This means about 14 million chemical abortions are committed in the United States each year, giving a total of 450 million chemical abortions between 1965 and 1996. **
THE PILL
The "birth control pill" is also not merely a contraceptive. Although it is designed primarily as a contraceptive, it is not always effective as such . . . and when it is not effective, it has a "back-up" mechanism that is clearly abortifacient! The "pill" has three mechanisms of action. You can easily look them up in the Physician's Desk Reference.
It attempts to suppress ovulation. When successful in this action, an egg is not released and conception, of course, cannot occur.
It thickens the woman's cervical mucus. Thus, the sperm are restricted from moving up the reproductive tract. This is also contraceptive.
However, the "pill" causes certain changes in the uterine lining so that if conception does occur, the new life meets a hostile environment when it arrives in the uterus 6 to 10 days later. It cannot implant. It dies. This is abortifacient. As you see, this is similar to the IUD. Why, then, do some Christians continue to accept the "pill" as a morally acceptable choice in planning families? One attempted justification centers upon the uncertainty of just how often the "pill" works as an abortifacient. Unlike the IUD, such persons might argue, the "pill" is primarily contraceptive since it suppresses ovulation most of the time. (The most obvious exceptions here are the "mini-pills" which have no estrogen and allow ovulation to take place 40-60% of the time. This is published in Emory University's Contraceptive Technology.)
Initial studies showed that even the early "pill" formulations (which were much more likely to suppress ovulation due to their higher doses of estrogen) still allowed "breakthrough ovulation" to occur 13% of the time! An award-winning study by the Dutch gynecologist Dr. Nine Van der Vange presented at the Second International Conference of the Society for Advancement in Contraception (SAC) in Jakarta showed that low-dose contraceptive pills do not always suppress ovulation. In follicular ultrasound measurements she found detectable follicular growth in 52 to 56% of the cycles investigated, and preovulatory size follicles in at least 30% of the cycles. Proof of ovulation based on ultrasound exams and hormonal indicators occurred in about 4% of the cycles studied. In summarizing her presentation before the Society, Dr. Van der Vange remarked, "We conclude that the contraceptive preparations are more complex than has been thought. They are not only based on inhibition of ovulation." Dr. Ronald Chez, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), publicly stated that the "pills" of today, with their lower estrogen dose, allow ovulation up to 50% of the time! Dr. Thomas Hilgers, the renowned fertility expert who is currently the Director of the Pope Paul VI Research Institute, was present when this statement was made but the NIH has never published this information. In fact, the NIH has been more than a little hesitant to publish specific data in the medical journals to which private MDs have access. The drug companies are similarly reticent to provide such data. Nevertheless, the scientist mentioned above was at that time the head of the pregnancy re-search development branch of the NIH, itself the spearhead for contemporary medical research!
So, then, just how often does the "pill" have to rely on this abortive "backup" mechanism? No one can tell you with certainty. Perhaps it is as seldom as 12% of the time; but perhaps it is as frequently as 50% of the time. Does it matter?
The clear conclusion is that it is impossible for any woman on the "pill" in any given month to know exactly which mechanism is in effect. In other words, the "pill" always carries with it the potential to act as an abortifacient! In light of these realities, can Christian couples truly neglect the disturbing ramifications that use of either the IUD or the various "birth control pills" create? Those Christians who are sincerely committed to God and His Word must strictly obey His clear mandate ----"Thou shalt not kill." This is a most important message, involving human lives and loyalty to the commands of Holy Scripture, which Christian couples must hear and heed.
David Sterns, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, and is Board Certified in internal medicine and electrocardiology. His wife, Gina Sterns, R.N., holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Biola University. Dave and Gina have two children. They attend Harvest Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Pam Yaksich, a high school principal and teacher of science, biology and theology, has worked as a medical researcher with the physicians of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction. Pam is also the Chairman of the Vital Signs Ministries Board.
For further information and documentation, order the eight-page booklet The Birth Control Game
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I never have objected to the word "fetus" being used, as it perfectly accurate -- but on what basis do you claim that a fetus cannot be properly referred to as a child or a baby?
Depending on the actual statistics, the same could be said for simply having sex. Sex results in a certain number of miscarriages, so to be 100% certain of not causing an infant's death, one would have to be celibate.
Perhaps it is good to notice the effort by defenders of the indefensible to dehumanize the unborn, as in 'not yet fully human'; Salman was addressing this specious approach to trying to establish a 'reasonable doubt' that the unborn are not quite individual human beings. Science proves and relies on the truth that from conception onward, as long as the individual organism remains alive, that human organism is a human being, albeit an individual human being at earliest ages along its unique continuum of life.
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