Guide to Informed Choices
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generalize. We don‘t focus on the procedure. But we need to — if we want to make an informed choice. I found a great quote from a pro-choice book and it was so great that the rights holder denied me permission to publish it here (so, I didn‘t)! The quote concerned the author who was viewing a D&C abortion for the first time and how shocked she, the pro-choice author, was. You can just picture her there, standing behind the abortionist as he does his work. She is in shock watching as a miniature leg including knee and toes is removed from inside the woman, followed by a rib cage and distinctly human head (yes, this is all described in the pro-choice book). You can only imagine the astonishment she feels, she who is pro-choice and sees abortion as necessary. She sees it as necessary, a necessary sorrow, hence the title In
Necessity and Sorrow .
Borrow it from the library one day. It‘s very eye opening. 484
(sorry, I couldn‘t quote it for you), it‘s not hard to see why a training manual for abortion clinics advises caution when showing the procedure to new medical students: An experience at one clinic with a medical student trainee illustrated the need for additional screening…The clinic made the mistake of having her watch several procedures, when she should probably have spent more time in counseling situations and in debriefing her experiences first. 485
medical students have to be gently acclimatized to that fact.
Avoid focusing on the details, advises abortion training manual ―Information should be appropriate for public consumption… focus on the public issue involved (…freedom of choice, and so forth) and not on the specific details of
the abortion procedures.‖ 486
— Abortion Practice , advice for dealing with the news media
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Manual Vacuum Aspiration: hat is it and what does it do? Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA), also referred to as Early Abortion, is just what it sounds like: sucking out the potential embryo with a handheld device. I say potential, because at this early stage it‘s often too hard to tell if you‘re actually pregnant — and I think that‘s part of the appeal. Sort of like, get this and you‘ll never know if it was an abortion or a Menstrual Extraction — another term they use to describe this procedure. 487
When is it used? Up to 5-8 weeks (depending on who you ask)
What they tell you The procedure is like ―bringing down your period 488
What they don‘t tell you They are lying to you. The purpose of this abortion is not to encourage your period (such a joy! I couldn‘t wait!) but to induce an abortion of the growing human embryo. While it‘s true that the embryo IS miniscule and undeveloped, he or she is alive and has a primitive beating heart. You see, we‘ve got ourselves into this moral quicksand where we rationalize things — after all, it‘s not a baby yet. But on what day after the 8 th week — and before 40 (less if she‘s born early) does this little being turn into a baby? It‘s this: ―it doesn‘t look like a baby so it mustn‘t be‖ belief. But there are many appearances in the stage of babyhood, all valid.
Suction Aspiration: hat is it and what does it do? Sometimes called ―vacuum
aspiration,‖ this method is the most common abortion procedure for early pregnancies. After administering a pain killer, the abortionist dilates the cervix and inserts a tube attached to a machine that has an exceedingly powerful suction — 29 times more powerful than a regular household vacuum cleaner (that‘s why women say it‘s so loud). 489
When it is turned on it literally sucks up and pulls off the wall of your uterus the growing embryo which, of course, ends his life and your pregnancy.
When is it used? First trimester abortions
Information abortion clinics present to clients The procedure is performed by vacuum aspiration (D&A) which is a vacuuming of W W
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the contents of the uterus, no cutting is involved. 490
—Texas abortion clinic
information Confessions from pro-choice literature ―To provide abortions meant a daily struggle to balance the stories of contraceptive failure and desperate life situations against
what abortion destroyed. And what abortion destroyed was unnerving... an eleven-week POC harbored tiny arms and legs and feet.‖ 491
—Caught in the Crossfire
A more honest description from this abortionist‘s training manual The physician will usually first notice a quantity of amniotic fluid, followed by placenta and fetal parts, which may be more or less identifiable. The patient usually experiences moderate to severe cramping at this point. As the suction cannula becomes obstructed, it may be withdrawn. 492
—Abortion Practice
I felt the LIFE being sucked out of me After awhile she led me to the room and told me to lie on the table. She got me ready for the doctor. I never saw his face and he never spoke a word to me. The nurse held my hand and told me it wouldn‘t hurt much. That was the most horrifying moment of my life. I‘ve felt worse physical pain, but no pain really can compare to this. I felt the LIFE being sucked out of me. I heard the vacuum tube suck, and clog and suck and clog and my imagination was filling in all the blanks. The whole thing was so surreal, yet so horrifically real! I couldn‘t believe what I had just done. I don‘t remember much after the procedure. I don‘t think I got out of bed for 3 or 4 days. I just lay there, remembering. I slowly got back into the swing of things. Functioning on a somewhat normal level took me weeks to accomplish. One day I decided to clean the apartment. I pulled out the vacuum cleaner and flipped the switch on. I was sucked back to that awful room, on that horrible table, and relived it again. I just sunk to the floor in a puddle of my own shame and guilt and tears. Needless to say, I had some pretty nasty floors for a couple of years. 493
—Carol
Dilation and Curettage (D&C) hat is it and what does it do? When suction alone is not sufficient a D&C may be performed. It stands for Dilation and Curettage and basically means that after W
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dilating the cervix, an instrument with a loop on the end (called a curette) scrapes out the embryo, killing it. Suction may still be used to help empty the uterus. When is it used?
Late first trimester and early second trimester abortions
Dilation and Evacuation (D&E): hat is it and what does it do? Probably the most common second trimester procedure, the D&E, is basically the same as a D&C, but for later abortions. This time a pair of forceps may also be used to separate the baby for removal. One pro-choice medical site describes the D&E as ―a combination of vacuum aspiration, forceps, and D&C.‖ 494
When is it used?
Second and third trimester abortions. Information from an abortion clinic on this second and third trimester procedure After adequate cervical preparation, the evacuation procedure is performed under deep pain free anesthesia administered by our certified anesthesia staff. Gentle curettage is performed to complete all procedures. 495
A more straightforward perspective from an abortion training textbook Fetal tissues become much more cohesive and difficult to dismember… A long, curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus, since it may be impossible to apply forceps.
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—Abortion Practice Induction abortions: hat is it and what does it do? Induction abortions involve inducing labor prematurely in order to expel the fetus before his natural birth. Some abortions make efforts to kill the fetus first: others assume he will die in the rough process or be unable to survive at birth. Induction abortions are especially useful when the fetus‘ tissues become more difficult to dismember with a D&E abortion. 497
The Abortion Pill, used early in pregnancy, is also a form of medical induction. Let‘s look now at two types of induction abortion around today. The early induction (abortion pill) and the late induction.
RU-486:
What is it and what does it do? RU-486 (its trial name), also known as the Abortion Pill (its common name), mifepristone (its technical name) or W W
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Mifeprex (its sale name), is the only drug created specifically as a human pesticide. As with induction abortions, RU-486 is a medical (i.e., not surgical) form of abortion. It is often administered in conjunction with misoprostol, even though the FDA has not approved the drug for this use. 498 RU-486 works by tricking the body into thinking it is not pregnant. The drug blocks the body‘s natural pregnancy hormone (Progesterone) from working and without it, the uterus cannot support an embryo and miscarriage occurs. As one abortion clinic describes it, ―Without this hormone, the lining of the uterus breaks down, the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb) softens, and bleeding begins.‖
499 RU-486 is often used in conjunction with methotrexate, which blocks folic acid, an essential nutrient for embryo cell division and growth. It can also be used with misoprostol (scientific name) also known as Cytotec (brand name), which stimulates contractions. 500
The history of RU 486 The history of the abortion pill also known as RU-486 is eye opening. It was formulated by the French company Roussel Uclaf, hence the letters ‗RU‘. Roussel Uclaf‘s parent company is Hoechst AG, which itself is a smaller part of the I.G. Farben Chemical Company that
manufactured the
poisonous gas Zyklon B used on Nazi holocaust victims. 501 (The company didn‘t wind down after the Holocaust — it just changed names!) More recently the marketing rights for RU-486 were transferred from Roussel Uclaf to the Population Council, possibly because pro-lifers were boycotting Hoechst‘s best selling drug Allegra
. 502
So, in effect, the pill changed hands from a company producing holocaust chemicals to an organization which has eugenic roots. The Population Council set up Danco Laboratories, which themselves made arrangements with
a Shanghai pharmaceutical company named Hua Lian to produce the abortion pill. 503
pharmaceuticals from China are rightly placed — this is the exact same company that produced the tainted products! 504 In a scary correlation, one of the tainted drugs was a leukemia drug. The tainted ones caused paralysis in recipients. The name? Methotrexate, the very same drug numerous abortion clinics also use as an injection as part of their medical abortions. 505 If that‘s not enough, documents obtained by Judicial Watch show
that the
company producing them failed their first safety check and was still not in compliance when
the FDA
approved the
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company. 506 It seems fitting that today a population control drug would be produced by the country that does it best — China.
When is it used? Early first trimester abortions
Reassuring words on RU-486… Due to five recent deaths after Mifepristone (RU486) Medical Abortions, we have decided to discontinue offering Mifepristone until there is a satisfactory explanation for these unfortunate events. 507
— Little Rock Family Planning Services An odd comment from a practicing abortionist I can say in all honesty that the experience is a sobering one . 508 —Suzanne Poppema
I just knew what it was, I was crying …I was crying, he was crying and he just kept saying sorry, and that I shouldn't be upset. How couldn't I be upset it was a VERY
emotional thing. So about 3:00 I start getting these horrible cramps. I didn't know what was wrong with me. But the doctor gave me 2 Vicodones 10mg each. So I took one. Then I start bleeding and I freaked out a little… So here I am bleeding like crazy. Then I feel this "thing" come out of me. It was the first baby. It was the worst feeling in the world. The tiny little baby was like holding on for dear life. I felt it coming down and it was touching the walls of me until it was completely in the toilet bowl. I started crying because I just knew what it was. Then about 25 minutes later that same feeling. The second baby was coming out holding on for dear life. I was just in so much pain — not even the physical pain. I mean yes it hurt like hell — but the emotional pain was a million times worse. I think the pill is worse than the surgery abortion because technically YOU
are the one that is aborting the baby. -Wendy
but it was no doubt my baby When the hour was up, I had to walk around. I was in no pain at this stage, as the nurse had given me strong pain killers. I walked for a good 2 hours, but no bleeding. Then I got the most hideous cramping. The nurse told me to keep walking around, no matter how painful it was. I did as she said... I walked and I walked... then I had that sudden feeling of the beginning of a period. I rushed back, went to the bathroom, and indeed I had started to bleed. There was only a tiny bit of blood, a tiny clot. I was convinced it was my baby, and lost all control. I came out of the room, crying uncontrollably, and went and found a nurse. I broke down and said "I don‘t
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know what to do." She went to take me into a room to talk to me. I didn‘t want to talk to her, to nobody. She asked what was wrong. I just said I was in pain. It was a lie. I was scared of what I had just seen. She asked if I wanted an injection to take away the pain. I refused. I was in some pain but I didn‘t deserve for it to be taken away from me.
I went back to my bed and said to myself I will rest for 10 minutes then get up and walk again. I ended up falling to sleep, for roughly half an hour. I woke up suddenly, not knowing where I was, then it all became clear. I sat up in the bed, and pulled the covers off of me. I stood up. All of a sudden blood gushed out of me, and went all on my pajama bottoms. I was so scared I didn‘t know what to do. I buzzed the nurse and she came in, gave me a nighty and told me to go to the ladies. I stood in the bathroom for a good 5 minutes, not wanting to see what had happened, but I knew I had to get cleaned up. The nurse poked her head round the door and asked if I was alright. I said yes. Another lie. I wasn‘t alright. I didn‘t want to get cleaned up. Another 5 minutes later I took my PJ bottoms off. I had to put the pads in the bin. That‘s when I saw the contents what was on it. I started crying again. I didn‘t want to put the pads in the bin! It had my baby on it! Obviously not in form of a baby, but it was no doubt my baby,
MY BABY ! I couldn‘t look at the pads, I ripped them off, but then I couldn‘t find the bags that you have to put them in. I was getting very distressed at this point, holding 2 pads with MY BABY on them! —Hayley LATER INDUCTIONS: What is it and what does it do? In later induction abortions labor may be started using prostaglandin suppositories or injections of oxytocin. It can also be triggered by removing most of the fluid around the baby. Sometimes part is replaced with something toxic to the baby, like urea. 509 Other times the baby is killed first with a potassium chloride injection. 510
The baby generally dies before birth and I say generally, because pro-choice literature admits that a ―disturbing‖ ―complication" is, sometimes a fetus will be ―born alive.‖ 511 According to one abortion training manual, ―up to 7% of abortuses will show signs of life.‖ 512
live-baby procedure might not be a very agreeable procedure, it doesn‘t happen too frequently. Yet 5,174 inductions for 2005 is hardly nothing. 513 By the pro-choice estimate above, that means that in the same year up to 362 aborted babies showed signs of life after being aborted. Of course, the vast majority of them show signs of life before the abortion .
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When is it used? Second and third trimester abortions
My mother started yelling, ― DON ‘ T LOOK , DON ‘ T LOOK
!‖
It was April 27 1978. I only have very vague memories — the doctor‘s huge hands, the large needle they stuck in my tummy, the terrible pain, then climbing off the bed to go to the bathroom. As I climbed over the bed rail I felt something unusual and my mother started yelling, "D ON ‘ T LOOK DON
‘ T LOOK
!" I never looked.
My mother went to her grave twenty years later never mentioning the incident to me again. …This year, 28 years later, I was finally able to talk to my Dad and found how he Yüklə 4,63 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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