Guide to Informed Choices
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1125 Quoting Ted, 23 years old, in Lastman, ―Broken Branches,‖ p 4. (Issue 54 Oct/Nov 2006) All quotes from Anne Lastman used with permission. 1126
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Notes for Reason #84 1128
Quoting Sarah Norton, 1889 in Feminists For Life of America, (no title – mission page). 1129 O‘Beirne, Women Who Make the World…, p. 159. 1130
Quoting Sarah Norton from Woodhull's and Claffin's Weekly, November 19, 1870 in Feminists For Life of America, ―Feminist History: Voices of our…‖ 1131
Quoting Elizabeth Cady Stanton from Letter to Julia Ward Howe, October 16, 1873, recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library in Feminists For Life of America, ―Feminist History: Voices of our…‖ 1132
Quoting Susan B. Anthony from The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869 in Feminists For Life of America, ―Feminist History: Voices of our…‖ 1133
Quoting Matilda Gage from The Revolution in Feminists For Life of America, ―Feminist History: Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898).‖ 1134
Quoting Emma Goldman from Mother Earth, 1911 in Feminists For Life of America, ―Feminist History: Voices of our…‖ 1135
Quoting Victoria Woodhull from Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard, November 17, 1875 in Feminists For Life of America, ―Feminist History: Voices of our…‖ 1136
Quoting Eliza Duffy from her book ―The Limitation of Offspring‖ The Relations of the Sexes, 1876 in Clark, ―Eliza Bisbee Duffy.‖ 1137
Quoting Alice Paul in a conversation as retold by acquaintance Evelyn K. Samras-Judge in an interview with Mary Meehan on March 21, 1986. ―Life Quotes,‖ Meehan Reports in Wikipedia, ―Alice Paul.‖ There has been some debate over this, though I believe the pro-life perspective is right…. On Wikipedia you can see the debate from pro-choicers that Alice Paul did not oppose abortion. However, it is based wholly on reasoning, whereas the pro-life side quotes an acquaintance who directly asked her where she stood.
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Quoting Robert Casey in Brainyquote, ―Robert Casey Quotes.‖ 1139
See the following references: 61% women pro-life compared to 53% men referring to the January 1998 Wirthlin poll commissioned by Family Research Council, referenced by The Pro-Life Infonet, in (No name web page), ―1998 Abortion Poll,‖ http://www.euthanasia.com/poll.html (accessed 3/25/09). AND
Nathanson with Ostling, Aborting America, p. 189. AND Ganz,
Thou Shalt Not Kill, p. 161. 1140
Durst, ―Real Men Choose Choice.‖ Note: I corrected ―how are best interests‖ to ―how our best interests.‖ 1141 Ganz,
Thou Shalt Not Kill, p. 171. 1142
Gillespie, (personal webpage), ―Great Quotes from Modern Pro-Life…‖
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Santorum, Letters to Gabriel: The true…, p. 39. 1144 To read some examples of this go to: ‗Sandi,‘ ―A Story of Grace‖ 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices
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Doctors urged the mother to terminate when an 18-week ultrasound showed a lethal form of Skeletal Dysplasia (where the chest is too small to support the growing lungs, which in turn cannot provide the body with enough oxygen). Multiple ultrasounds confirmed the abnormality. After coming to terms with the devastating news the parents decided to simply hold their daughter for the expected 4-6 hours she was with them. When the mother declined all offers of termination, her doctor refused to continue with her and others urged her abort. The mother didn‘t feel that taking her baby‘s life was her decision to make. After a normal birth the baby was baptized and held by family members. When she suffered some mild respiratory distress, the parents said their tearful goodbyes as the staff took her to be checked over. It was a shock when a staff member came back with the surprise that the baby was totally normal, apart from being very tiny for her age. The planned memorial service turned into a celebration of her life. Today she is a happy and healthy, intelligent little girl, still small for her age.
1145 Baklinski, ―Baby born healthy defies doctor's…‖ Parents Becky Weather and Kriss Kramer were naturally surprised and delighted when Brandon was born. He was not born blind nor deaf nor without a brain, as doctors had insisted he would be. Instead he was born perfectly normal. Ultrasound, in this case, proved to be a wrong diagnosis. The new parents shudder at the thought of terminating him just weeks before birth as doctors had recommended. Doctors had told them he would die after a couple of hours. They are now looking forward to spending Christmas with their live and completely normal son.
1146 Saltenberger, Dangers of Legal Abortion, pp. 14-17. 1147 Ertelt, ―Italy baby boy dies when…‖ A woman was told her child had a defective esophagus, and this was confirmed by two ultrasounds. After an induced abortion at 22 weeks doctors were surprised that the fetal heart was still beating and that they had made a mistake – the child was healthy. Instead of trying to kill her, now they tried to save her. The baby suffered brain hemorrhage due to the abortion and, after living 6 days, died.
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Schultz, ―Healthy baby born after prenatal…‖ When prenatal scans showed no signs of life or growth, doctors told Julie Brown, a 29-year-old UK woman, her baby was dead and that a D&C needed to be performed. The woman had the abortion but imagine her shock when 3 weeks later she discovered she was still pregnant – the abortion had failed and her child had been alive to begin with! After Jake was born, Julie said, ―The thought of them trying to get rid of a perfectly healthy baby makes me sick to the pit of my stomach, but I've got to move forward now."
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Owen, ―Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture‘…‖ An Italian woman requested an abortion after an amniocentesis found that one of the 18-week-twins she was carrying had Down‘s syndrome. Apparently the twins had moved after they were tested and so the healthy baby was aborted. When this was discovered the woman insisted that the other baby, the child who carried Down‘s syndrome, also be aborted. The Times Online says, ―Her husband said that they were ―truly desperate over this terrible mistake‖ and were consulting family lawyers.‖ Right. They killed the wrong one and now we want a lawsuit, or something like that.
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To read some examples of this go to: Ertelt, ―British unborn baby fought off…‖
When Denise and her partner, Peter Thomas, were told their baby had a neuroblastoma, a type of type of cancerous tumor, doctors suggested abortion. The parents decided against abortion. Over the next few weeks repeated ultrasounds showed the tumor decreasing in size all by itself. A few more weeks later doctors gave the amazing news that the cancer had disappeared completely. Kiah Thomas was born a healthy little girl with no signs of the tumor.
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1151 ‗Laura,‘ ―The Best Decision We Ever…‖
When parents Laura and Gary went in for an 11-week ultrasound, they were told their child had a large cystic hygroma surrounding her - a fluid bubble that was nearly half as big as the baby. Nothing could be done, and to top it off, the child could have Down ‘s Syndrome or something worse. Abortion was the suggested option but when parents‘ said no they had further tests done. Four weeks later those tests came back negative for a chromosomal disorder. Relief. Further ultrasounds as the pregnancy progressed showed the fluid sac shrinking till at birth there was just some skin that was stretched by the fluid, but little Holly May was normal.
1152 Stokes, ―Mother has healthy baby boy…‖ When Gaynor Purdy, a 28-year-old newlywed, went to the doctors with her pregnancy, doctors told her there was something wrong with her baby, a fatal heart defect and a chromosomal abnormality called Edwards Syndrome. Twice immediate termination was encouraged as doctors supposed he would have no quality of life, might die before 4 months and have to undergo open heart surgery at birth. In deciding with her husband, Gaynor said, as long as her baby was fighting, they would fight with him. After a premature birth Kai was rushed to intensive care, but was able to leave in 6 weeks. His heart was not as bad as doctors had thought – they called him a little miracle baby - and it was actually healing itself. As for the chromosomal disorder, it‘ll be wait and see, and he is scheduled for corrective surgery later on in the new year…For now, though, his parents are just enjoying their little boy. 1153
For some basic information and photos go to www.justthefacts.org and click on ―foetal surgery.‘ 1154
See an example of this in Horner and Martindale, Loved By Choice: True Stories…, pp. 158-163. 1155 To read some examples of this go to: 1. IgniterMedia, ―99 Balloons.‖ 1156
2. http://babyfaithhope.blogspot.com 1157
Martha Beck quoted in Borchard, I Love Being a Mom, p. 98.
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Maier, ―Things Danny Taught Me: A…‖ 1159
Anonymous, ―When what seems broken is…‖ 1160
IgniterMedia, ―99 Balloons.‖ 1161 Chandler, ―A leap of love: Adoptions…‖ 1162 Horner and Martindale, Loved By Choice, p. 163. 1163
Rays of Sunshine, ―Nikki's Story.‖ 1164 Quoting Everett C Koop, Surgeon General of the U.S. during Ronald Reagan‘s government, in Reagan, Abortion and the Conscience of…, pp. 45-46. 1165 Quoting Lawrence Brodeur, assistant prosecutor to the Baby Doe court case in Lyon, Playing God in the Nursery, p. 54.
Notes for Reason #86 1166
National Institutes of Health, ―Papers Commissioned for the Human…," p. 305. 1167 Quoting from Dorothy E. Vawter and others, The Use of Human Fetal Tissue: Scientific, Ethical, and Policy Concerns (Minneapolis: Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, January 1990), p. 224 in Maynard- Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, p. 84. 1168
Charen, ―Body Parts for Sale – Fetal… 1169
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RD-20, University of Washington: National Institutes of Health, ―Availability of Human Fetal Tissue.‖
1170 National Institutes of Health, ―Report of the Human Embryo…,‖ p. 60 (PDF p. 76). 1171 Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, p. 53. 1172
Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, pp. 109-110. 1173 McCorvey and Thomas, Won by Love, pp. 7, 62. 1174
See, for example, the admission that babies are born alive sometimes during an abortion, from an unidentified nurse employee at the Planned Parenthood Freehold Center, in a secretly recorded conversation with an unidentified female investigator: Student‘s For Life, ―Planned Parenthood Admits Current Infanticide.‖ AND Ertelt, ―British study of hospitals over…‖ 1175 For an example of the baby being left to die: jillstanek.com, ―Jill Stanek.‖ infolive.tv, ―Premature Baby Declared Dead, Found…‖ For an example of a baby that was directly killed: Rini,
Beyond Abortion: A Chronicle of…, p. 81. 1176
Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, p. 110.
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National Institutes of Health, ―Papers Commissioned for the Human…," p. 306 (PDF p. 305) and Footnotes #109: p. 319 (PDF p. 318). 1178
LifeSiteNews.com, ―New Zealand experiments use fetal…‖ 1179 Kolata, ―Parkinson's research is set back…‖ 1180 Vanderheyden, ―List of Canadian vaccines made…‖ AND Children of God for Life, ―Use of Human Cell Lines…‖ 1181 New York Times, ―Clinic to import fetal tissue…‖ 1182 Rosenthal, ―Fetal skin cells found to…‖ 1183 Margaret R. Johnston, ―We have met the enemy, and she/he is us,‖ in Jacob, Abortion Under Attack, p. 84. 1184
LifeSiteNews.com, ―Abortion encouraged in Ukraine as…‖ Another story related to body parts harvesting from babies, in this case, born: On the 26 th
of August 2005, the United Kingdom‘s news service, the BBC, reported that prosecutors from the Assembly of Europe are investigating three suspicious cases, possibly many more. Under investigation at this time were three particular incidents of healthy Ukrainian mothers being told their baby died at birth and later finding out that their child‘s exhumed body had had his or her organs and brains removed. BBC News, ―Ukraine baby theft claims probed.‖
A Ukrainian investigator, looking into the charges of alleged baby snatching for body parts, was fired after she called for all maternity hospitals to be looked into. Schultz, ―Ukrainian investigator fired for expanding…‖ 1185 Thompson, ―A barbaric kind of beauty.‖ 1186 The allegations were made by investigator and former policeman Sergei Shorobogatko in: Parfitt, ―Beauty salons fuel trade in…‖ 1187
Bloomfield, ―Fetus cells used in controversial…‖ 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices
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1188 Neocutis Inc., ―Neocutis Bio-restorative Skin Cream.‖ Donated fetal skin: Neocutis Inc, ―Technology.‖ 1189 McGovern, ―Price lists for aborted baby…‖ 1190 Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, p. 62.
1191 Quote within quote from Vawter et al from The Use of Human Fetal Tissue in Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus, p. 61. 1192
Price list from Miles Jones ―according to March 2000 accounts of ABC's 20/20 and the Kansas City Star,‖ with documentation provided by Life Dynamics in Rossomando, ―No federal law broken in…‖
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Rossomando, ―No federal law broken in…‖ 1194
Smith, ―Statement of Rep. Christopher H….‖ 1195
Smith, ―Statement of Rep. Christopher H….‖
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Chamberlain, The Mind of Your Newborn…, pp. xv – xvi. 1197
reading one interesting story about this woman in a coma. The doctors spoke to the woman and asked her – if she could hear - to think of things in her mind. One of the activities was playing tennis. Although this woman was basically a vegetable, the right parts of her brain ‗lit up,‘ showing that she was responsive even though she was unconscious and totally unable to control her body. In fact, her brain scan results were indistinguishable from healthy volunteers. You can read this story at:
MedGadget:Internet journal of emerging medical technologies, ―Coma Tennis.‖ 1198
Restak, The Infant Mind, pp. 33, 43. 1199 Lakshmi Bangalore, Ph. D., Eric H. Chudler, PhD. (Series Editor) Brain Development (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007), p. 26. This particular textbook shows the brain at 25 days, 35 days, 40 days, 50 days, 100 days, 5 months and 9 months. 1200 McDonald, ―Prenatal Development — The Dana Guide.‖ Original reference was to a grain of salt and ¼ inch. A pea is the author‘s creative visioning of ¼ inch. 1201
Restak, The Infant Mind, pp. 25, 27, 76, 77, 104. 1202 These are the cells, but the not the connections. Restak, The Infant Mind, p. 39. 1203
Estimate extrapolated from a brain weight graph in Restak, The Infant Mind, p. 19. Estimate of what that weight is equivalent to comes from a personal web page –Skala, ―How much does a sheet…‖ According to this site, 1 sheet of paper is ―about 4.5 grams‖ 1204 Restak, The Infant Mind, p. 72.
1205 Why the different dates? There are different viewpoints! Many very mainstream pro-life books assert a timeline originating from Dr. Hamlin ("Life or Death by EEG," JAMA, Oct. 12, 1964, p 120) which says that 6 weeks is the date. However, one pro-choice blogger, Margaret Sykes, maintains that there was a referencing error and it was really 3 months (12 weeks) Who is right? Do you believe a medical doctor who says 6 weeks or a blogger who says it‘s 12? A mistake is possible, but as far as authority goes, I‘m leaning towards 6 weeks. Even if the blogger was correct and brain activity doesn‘t occur till 12 weeks, that is actually a more popular time for abortions than 6 weeks. For the 6-week date see, among others: Wirth, Prenatal Parenting, p. 32. 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices
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For the 12-week date see: Sykes, ―Brain Waves' When?‖ 1206 Verny with Kelly, The Secret Life of the…, p. 42. 1207
Wirth, Prenatal Parenting, p. 20. 1208 Bainbridge, Making Babies, p. 130. 1209
Chamberlain, Mind of Your Newborn, p. xvi. 1210 Wirth,
Prenatal Parenting, pp. 32. 1211
Observable facial expressions: Wirth, Prenatal Parenting, pp. 32; Unique facial expressions: Tallack, In the Womb, p. 215. 1212
Chamberlain, The Mind of Your Newborn, p. xv. 1213 Restak, The Infant Mind, p. 29. 1214
Restak, The Infant Mind, p. 1. 1215 The 10% of your brain theory is largely thought to be untrue. However, Einstein did state, "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources." There is some debate on this. While everyone‘s brain can light up on the screen showing activity, clearly, some people are more intelligent than other people of the same size brain – and some people are more active thinkers. Boyd, ―Do People Only Use 10…‖ 1216
This fellow is not just a local doctor either. His job includes staff neonatologist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. Wirth, Prenatal Parenting, p. 32.
1217 Karr-Morse and Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing…, p. 31. 1218
McDonald, In the Womb. (DVD) 1219 McDonald, In the Womb. (DVD) 1220
Here is another source for reference: Derbyshire, ―Foetuses 'may be conscious long…‖ 1221 Verny and Weintraub, Tomorrow‘s Baby: The Art and…, p. 159. 1222
Pert, Molecules of Emotion: The Science…
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Verny and Weintraub, Tomorrow‘s Baby: The Art and…, p. 158. 1224
Notes for Reason #88 1225
Karr-Morse and Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery, p. 40. 1226 Janov,
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