This is a picture of a month-old unborn baby. During an abortion, a “clump of cells” this age is most often suctioned out of the womb.
When I saw the picture, I thought about a soft-spoken, left-leaning acquaintance of mine who came out swinging against me on the issue of child-killing. I think it was in response to this column.
Of all the issues I address in my columns, this was the one that aroused her passion. She vehemently defended the “right” to kill a child.
Yesterday when I read this headline, “Judge Quizzes Doctor Whether a Baby Ever Cries During an Abortion,” I hesitated to read the story because I didn’t want to know the answer.
U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey is hearing evidence about the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. Child killer Carolyn Westhoff, who performs or supervises over 500 abortions a year, was questioned by Judge Casey.
The doctor testified that she usually takes steps to collapse or crush the head of the fetus to extract it from the uterus, a statement that prompted the judge to ask, “Do you tell the women that, do you use the words collapse or crush?”
“No I do not,” she said.
“I didn’t think so,” Casey said.
Later, the judge asked her if she tells women undergoing abortions when she knows the procedure must include brain extraction to collapse the fetus head. He asked the question just after she said some women like to hold the fetus to aid grieving.
“Did you tell them you were sucking the brains out of the same baby they desired to hold?” the judge asked.
“They know the head’s empty,” the doctor responded. “I don’t tell them I’m sucking the brain out.”
When Westhoff added that she doesn’t “think that helps the grieving process,” Casey snapped, “I didn’t ask that.”
In testimony a day earlier, Dr. Cassing Hammond said he sometimes tells women that he will crush the skull of the fetus during an abortion.
“We want them to know exactly what the procedure is going to entail,” said Hammond, who estimates having performed 3,000 abortions in the last 15 years.
Hammond, who works at Northwestern University Medical School, said the doctors “actually try not to sugarcoat this for them because they’re the ones who are going to undergo the procedure.”
He said many of the women before an abortion are emotionally fragile.
“We don’t go into gory detail,” he said.
Indeed. The gory death business is booming.
LifeNews.com reports on Planned Parenthood’s 2002-2003 Annual Report.
Commenting on Planned Parenthood’s financial condition, president Gloria Feldt chirps, “It’s been a tough year!” Meanwhile, the child killers raked in $288.2 million from their abortion mills, $254.4 million from taxpayers and $228.1 million in donations, totaling $766.6 million with a profit of $36.6 million.
Here’s a link to a PDF of their latest Annual Report.
Oh, and 227,385 babies were killed.
One of their inane “Visions for 2025″ is this pathetically ironic statement: “We believe in acting courageously, especially as allies with those who have little or no voice and little or no power.”
While grown women have the power to make responsible choices every day, the unborn have no power and are the ones suffering from — for all we know about it — painful deaths. Some topic for a Monday morning, right?
One more thing. Read this “sermon” given at a Unitarian Universalist “church” on why abortion isn’t murder. I looked up the organization’s web site and found its beliefs. Another example of a man-made religion.
Related Sites
National Right to Life
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African Americans and Abortion
African American Life Alliance
