Images of smiling babies in the womb have pro-abortion activists screeching

Union Leader ^ | September 23, 2003 | Michelle Malkin

[sarcasm]

ALL OF BRITAIN was buzzing last week after a tabloid published highly controversial photos — not of a topless supermodel or two female pop singers kissing or Prince William in a grass skirt, but of angelic babies smiling in the womb.

The ultrasound images, taken between 26 and 34 weeks after conception, were released by Professor Stuart Campbell and widely circulated on the Internet via the Drudge Report. Campbell’s an obstetrician at the privately run Create Health Centre in London. For the past two years, the medical facility has offered state-of-the-art 3-D/4-D scanning equipment services to expectant parents. Campbell performs an average of 30 scans a week. His outspoken enthusiasm for this blessed technology is refreshing. “Parents love them,” he told the Mirror. “I hear so many couples laughing when they see the pictures — it’s wonderful.”

Campbell’s high-tech window to the womb also shows the babies moving their limbs at 8 weeks, leaping and turning by 12 weeks, curling their toes and fingers at 15 weeks, and yawning at 20 weeks. The clients’ reactions are overwhelming, Campbell said, “especially with fathers, who rarely get involved. Before, they sat in the corner. Now, they really show emotion. I enjoy scanning and looking at babies. It is so informative about babies and behavior. Every scan is an adventure.”

How have pro-abortion activists abroad reacted after seeing the happy, grinning photos of these unborn babies? With reflexive scowls and dour grimaces, naturally.

Anne Karpf, a commentator for the British-based Guardian who bills herself as a “medical sociologist,” says the photos are “deeply disquieting” and ridicules the anti-abortion lobby for being “intoxicated with evidence of a fetus’ humanity.” (God forbid this cold woman ever be exposed to a pregnant mommy experiencing the undiluted joy of a baby kicking inside her for the first time.) Australian Birth Control Services medical director Geoff Brodie complained that the photos “will be picked up by those groups that use anything and everything to stop terminations but ignore the fact that women have a right to choice.”

Here in America, the pro-abortion lobby is having the same toxic reaction. It was bad enough when conventional, 2-D sonograms revealed unborn hearts beating and blurry hands waving, but the abortionists are absolutely aghast over rapidly spreading access to 3-D/4-D ultrasound technology. When General Electric began running incredibly moving ads last year celebrating the company’s new innovations in sonography, a writer for the liberal American Prospect complained the commercials were “a milieu of clever illusion” that “blur(red) the distinction between a fetus and a newborn infant.”

This from the masters of deception who gave us the infamous euphemisms “fetal matter” and “uterine tissue,” which have successfully blurred the distinction between human life and disposable Kleenex for more than three decades.

Similarly, pro-abortion advocates have attacked legislation in Congress, introduced by Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, which would guarantee free ultrasound screenings to any woman who visits a non-profit crisis pregnancy center that receives subsidies for sonogram equipment. Kathryn Allen, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman, griped, “With all the problems going on in our world, I can’t imagine that Congress would spend its time and energy on ultrasound for anyone.”

Allison Herwitt, director of government relations for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, also attacked pro-life supporters of the bill. “They don’t want women to go to Planned Parenthood, where they’ll get their full range of options,” said Alison Herwitt. “They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers’ expense.”

Liberals in America are all for the government giving away any health services for free — except if it’s a service that has the ability to persuade a wavering patient to preserve a life instead of end it.

These amazing advances in golden-hued ultrasound have illuminated an insurmountable truth: No amount of NARAL money or National Organization for Women screeching can overcome the persuasive power of an unborn child’s beaming face.

Michelle Malkin is author of “Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores” (Regnery).

[jaykay]

These babies' smiles will never grace the covers of Time, Newsweek, NY Times, Wash. Post, etc.. or CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC newscasts. It is up to us to show them to as many people as we can.

[backhoe]

Well, what else can be expected?

Once a woman sees that what she carries in her belly is not an "unviable tissue mass"-- but a baby- the pro-death arguments fade like shadows before the sunlight:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921369/posts

Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND)
Citizen magazine ^ | June 2003 | Karla Dial

Ever since I heard of this new technology, I've maintained that it is the Stealth Bomber that is going to zoom in under the pro-death crowd's radar and nuke them... once a woman sees what is really in her womb, it ceases to be a "tissue mass" and becomes... a baby. Her baby.

Silent Scream made an impact on those few who saw it.

Fetal Psychology wasn't even a blip.

[bitcon]

Allison Herwitt, director of government relations for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, also attacked pro-life supporters of the bill. “They don’t want women to go to Planned Parenthood, where they’ll get their full range of options,” said Alison Herwitt. “They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers’ expense.”


Wow, some weapon. It shows pictures of the baby. So much more harmfull then the weapons at Planned Parenthood.

[EternalVigilance]

Where's the pictures??

[Ronin]

...“will be picked up by those groups that use anything and everything to stop terminations but ignore the fact that (we believe) women have a right to choice (to kill their baby).”

(parenthesis mine)

Yup! Got that right, witch!

This is wonderful!

It removes any doubt from the equation. These women are not killing "blobs of fetal tissue" they are killing babies.

Their "right to choose" is definitely in the ropes and will not last much longer.

[jaykay]

[backhoe]

Pictures? Here--

http://www.fetalfotosusa.com/Slides/4D/index.html

[Sacajaweau]

Post the picture of the baby in the womb and the abortionists vacuum cleaner side by side. Then let the caption read "Which One Is A Weapon".

[Marie Antoinette]

~will be picked up by those groups that use anything and everything to stop terminations but ignore the fact that women have a right to choice~

Well, using their logic, I have a right to terminate that guy's life also. He's simply a blob of tissue that somehow escaped a womb.

Lucky guy, though. No matter how evil I think he is, I choose life.

Marie's Husband

[Ronin]

Excellent idea.

[jazzlite]

Abortion, to me, is butchering a baby. The proponents do not want witnesses to the little person being murdered. These photos demonstrate that babies are not blobs when people do not want them..They are human beings, just like Lacy Peterson's little Conner. I surely do hope that, after all these years people will begin to understand that abortion is, indeed, a vicious crime against our most helpless. Our nation and the world certainly is in a lot of moral trouble..

[smadurski]

I read an article in a parenting magazine about this rechnology seems it is actually reducing the nymber of abortions.

[smadurski]

oops technology sorry its late

[8mmMauser]

Thanks for this article, and thanks to Michelle Malkin for more of her hard hitting writing

[Snidely Whiplash]

It's worth pointing out that only about 10% of abortions are done after 12 weeks - about 60% are done at or before 8-9 weeks, and about 88% are done at or before 12 weeks. While those pictures of the babies are cool, they aren't really relevant to the overwhelming majority of the abortions done in the US.

Snidely

[FlyVet]

Anne Karpf, a commentator for the British-based Guardian who bills herself as a “medical sociologist,” says the photos are “deeply disquieting” and ridicules the anti-abortion lobby for being “intoxicated with evidence of a fetus’ humanity.”

Evil finds truth to be "deeply disquieting". Good. Live with it. Squirm. Screech. Feel uncomfortable. Lay awake at night thinking about it. It's good for ya. And, you deserve it.

[EternalVigilance]

Thanks.

Smilin' back at ya, kid...

[Truth666]

"not of a topless supermodel or two female pop singers kissing or Prince William in a grass skirt"
Don't bring Prince William into this. The media is censoring since 2001 that he refused to ever be King !

[EternalVigilance]

Thanks, backhoe!

[Ghengis]

It's worth pointing out that only about 10% of abortions are done after 12 weeks - about 60% are done at or before 8-9 weeks, and about 88% are done at or before 12 weeks. While those pictures of the babies are cool, they aren't really relevant to the overwhelming majority of the abortions done in the US.

I'm convinced that abortions are sold as a matter of convenience to the pregnant lady. Now if she sees a 3D/4D of her child at 6 weeks gestation and then a tape of a child at 2 months, then 3 months further along to show her the rapid development of the child...I am also convinced there would be a lot fewer abortions.

And the medical staff would not even need to comment on the subject. The child would silently argue in his/her own behalf to all but the most heartless people.

[backhoe]

My kind regards to you, friend.

[EternalVigilance]

While those pictures of the babies are cool, they aren't really relevant to the overwhelming majority of the abortions done in the US.

Kinda relevant to the kid getting his limbs ripped off or his skin burned off or having his brains sucked out, don't you think?

You apologists for abortion are the main reason it still continues.

If that sounds harsh, too bad.

[Labyrinthos]

It's worth pointing out that only about 10% of abortions are done after 12 weeks.

10 percent of total abortions is a lot of dead babies.

[fml]

I may be wrong, but I don't think Snidely Whiplash was being an apologist. I read it as the true sick reasoning they will use to continue with their evil practice of killing babies - before the images in the pictures are formed.

[Skooz]

Evil finds truth to be "deeply disquieting". Good. Live with it. Squirm. Screech. Feel uncomfortable. Lay awake at night thinking about it. It's good for ya. And, you deserve it.

Superbly stated.

BUMP!

[2timothy3.16]

10 percent of total abortions is a lot of dead babies.

Yup, about 300,000 here in the USA alone.

Never forget, there have been no IRS audits of abortionist or their mills since 1976, with no chance of an IRS audit, how many cash abortions do you think get reported?

Best guess, over half the abortions in the USA are paid for with cash and are not reported by the abortionist.

[firewalk]

bttt

[RogueIsland]

Anne Karpf, a commentator for the British-based Guardian who bills herself as a “medical sociologist,” says the photos are “deeply disquieting” and ridicules the anti-abortion lobby for being “intoxicated with evidence of a fetus’ humanity.”

Wow, what a sick statement. I imagine quite a few Nazi officials said similar things about people who were "intoxicated with evidence of a Jew's humatity".

[HamiltonJay]

By your numbers 10% are done after the 12th week, that represents about 160,000 abortions annually, or 400+ a day.. I'd hardly call that an irrelevant number. That's about 5 times the number of people killed daily in car crashes, and over 3 times the death toll of Vietname annually.

Abortion is infantacide pure and simple, no amount of spin can change that fundamental fact.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Ditto!

[tiamat]

Good article!

Thanks and Baby Bump!

Tia

[Aracelis]

"You mean it's a person??? < /sarcasm>

[biblewonk]

ping to the pics.

[BlueLancer]

Saaaa-lute!

[RinaseaofDs]

I beg to differ.

It pushes back, in the minds of the undecided, the invisible line in the minds of mothers - at what point is this a life?

It raises very considerable doubts in the minds of mothers, and that is excellent news for adoption agencies and for those that believe that abortion is our generation's slavery issue.

In a very real sense, every human life is in danger until it passes through the vagina. At that point, liberals are the party of children /sarcasm off.

[Ronin]

Yes, Snidley, they are. The abortion industry uses every tool to fight any restrictions on abortion, so those who are engaged in trying to roll back the slaughter have to use every tool we can get our hands on as well.

These photos are extremely powerful because they impact directly in the mind of people. They say "I am not a blob of fetal tissue, I am a baby."

Before, the abortionists and their allies decried the use of photos showing the horrible aftermath of abortion, and a lot of people thought they had a point. It was horrible.

But these pics? These pics are exactly the opposite. They are cute. They cause positive emotions, and that is why the abortionists worry about them.

They know this technology will be damn effective in deterring abortion.

[goodseedhomeschool (returned)]

I will be so glad when innocent babies stop getting slaughtered. More at http://www.abortiondebate.org.
God bless all the little children born and unborn.

[Fearless Flyers]

Keeping you and yours in my heart.

Thanks for the inspiration you always provide.

Sincerely Matthew

[Sofa King]

"Allison Herwitt, director of government relations for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, also attacked pro-life supporters of the bill. 'They don’t want women to go to Planned Parenthood, where they’ll get their full range of options,' said Alison Herwitt. 'They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers’ expense.'"

Wow. Talk about being a hypocrite. She's A) pissed off because women are being offered another option besides abortion and B) attempting to take the moral high ground by saying that her side is being denied it's say.

I once heard some liberal say on TV that nobody is pro-abortion, but that hey support the right to choose. This right here shows how wrong they are. These people show all the earmarks of people who want to see as many babies sucked down the drain as possible. These people are sick, and I truly believe that if they were tested by a psychiatrist he'd find me to be right.

Of course, I'm sure that there's a welfare recipient somewhere who is too lazy to get a job who's SO much more deservent of the money in this woman's opinion.

[ought-six]

10% of the 43 million abortions in the U.S. since ROE V. WADE equates to 4.3 million. Sounds like genocidal numbers to me.

[steve-b]

legislation in Congress, introduced by Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, which would guarantee free ultrasound screenings

Lie. The screening is not "free". It is paid for with money stolen from others.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Thinkin' Gal]

I had an ultrasound of my daughter at about 13 weeks. Even with the 'primitive' 2D ultrasound, the technician (who had probably seen hundreds of these things), stared at the screen in wonder and amazement. When the image appeared, it showed a baby 'reclined' on the placenta, sucking her thumb. He thought at first it was just a peculiar angle, but as we both continued to watch the screen, the thumb-sucking continued. She'd pull the thumb out, fiddle around, put it back, etc. It was really cute, and truly fantastic considering that the thumb on a 13-weeker is pretty tiny.

The Molech worshippers at the death clinics have always known that these are real live babies, but have cashed in on the concept of out of sight out of mind, as they made up whatever they wanted about these little ones. Now that technology is rubbing their noses in the truth, they are offended. They rightly worry that the detailed images will cut into their profits.

Many in the pro-abort camp do not have the same "pro choice" viewpoint when it comes to trees, spotted owls, obscure frog species, baby seals, mountain lions that attack livestock, etc. They turn into rabid pro-lifers when in comes to enviro causes. It makes me suspect that instead of respecting human life as that which is created in God's image, they respect plant and animal life as that which is created in *their* gods' image... Gaia and/or assorted nature gods, and the like.

[EternalVigilance]

Thumbsucking babes in the womb BUMP!

:-)

[Snidely Whiplash]

By your numbers 10% are done after the 12th week, that represents about 160,000 abortions annually, or 400+ a day.. I'd hardly call that an irrelevant number.

First, I don't want to minimize the reality of abortion at all, but the facts is the facts, and spreading misinformation (or disinformation) just weakens the cause.

The actual number of abortions performed in 1999 - the last year for which I could find data - was just under 862,000. Ten percent of that would thus be a little over half (86,179) of your imputed number. This from the CDC:

Abortion Surveillance - US, 1999

Snidely

[HamiltonJay]

Last numbers I saw were 1.6 Million a year, even if they are 862,000 that doesn't in the least make it less relevant... that's still 86,200 children a year are aborted after 12th week, which means nearly 250 a day... that's not an inrrelevant number.

That's still at least 2 times the number that die in car wrecks and more per year than died in the vietnam war.. just in the 10% category... calling that irrellevant is perposterous.

Abortion is infantacide, pure and simple.

[MHGinTN]

Bump to wisdom! Gaia indeed! The father of lies takes many names, don'tcha know.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Sounds like genocidal numbers to me <<

It is! We're killing ourselves. When I was younger and dumber I thought that life started at birth. Now I KNOW life starts at conception.

And while we’re murdering the next generation of firefighters, policemen, scientists, businessmen, etc. the muslims are breeding faster and faster.

This mentality of it’s all about me and it’s okay as long as I feel good is spelling the end of the US and the end of Freedom.

[fortaydoos]

The slaughter continues and yet our Republican House, Senate, White House and Supreme Court do nothing. Truly we are witnesses to mass murder of historic proportions here.

God save us all for allowing this to happen, and continue to happen.