Guide to Informed Choices
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tries to deflect that concern. ―This pregnancy and you are the same thing,‖ she adds. 21
This might sound like a truthful response but, as we see later, it‘s not. A second example comes from Adena, who shared her abortion story with me. She says that her counselor: A SSURED me that since I was only a few weeks pregnant, that it really WASN ‘
BABY , it was just a clump of cells, and the procedure would only take a few minutes. After a short waiting period in recovery I would be able to leave. As we will see later in this reason and Reason #8 , Adena was definitely lied to. A third woman asked her doctor, ―Is there a baby in there?‖ The doctor told her, ―Don‘t be stupid, it‘s just blood.‖ The S
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woman had an abortion but it was incomplete. She went to the hospital. The nurse explained what was wrong — ―the doctor had left parts of the baby inside you.‖ She panicked, ―Baby? What baby? Didn‘t the doctor say, just blood?‖ Unfortunately this is a true story. Rose Acuna was her name. She sued the doctor for misleading her but her case was dismissed. 22
Gotta love it ―In an ironic twist of fate the abortionist had to sign her birth certificate.‖ 23
A fourth example comes from Lana. Although she had had an abortion, she wasn‘t really clued in to what was going on — that is, until she viewed a program on fetal development: Oh the pain I felt, there are no words!!! M Y G OD , M Y G OD , WHAT HAVE I DONE ?
I STARTED CRYING AND THEN SCREAMING . I
ran in the bedroom and locked the door and cried for hours. I hit the walls and cried why???
Again and again, women are being lied to regarding the true nature of abortion. Just how are abortion clinics doing this? Through their choice of words. Some real examples from abortion clinics hese are some actual words they use! The Tucson Woman‘s Clinic website advises: This method is limited to women who are 49 days ( SEVEN WEEKS ) pregnant or less…With this method, failure to completely expel the
products of
conception will necessitate the use of vacuum aspiration. 24
The Early Options clinic website advises on 10-11 week abortions that
An embryo cannot be seen until you have missed at least two periods. At that point the pregnancy is about the size of a pea, and the embryo is not formed.‖ 25
Assuming your period comes 2 weeks after you ovulate and that next period is 4 weeks later, we are talking about a 6 weeks embryo here. It‘s interesting that is the extent of their information given, yet what they were supposedly describing in this chart is an aspiration procedure for 10-11 weeks.
This is what magnified ―products of conception‖ look like around seven weeks:
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Did you know? The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is in bed with the abortion industry. Their pamphlet on induced abortion uses these same industry-censored descriptions. 27
All Women‘s Clinic website says regarding abortions 7-12 weeks: The machine's suction empties the contents of the uterus through the tube. Then the doctor carefully checks the walls of the uterus with a spoon-shaped curette; and in early abortions, the doctor will repeat the ultrasound to make certain that the patient is no longer pregnant and no products of conception remain in the uterus.
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Take a look at these very cute magnified ―unformed‖ ‗products of conception‘, shown prior to abortion, this photo taken at 11 weeks:
Confessions from Pro-Choice literature ―As a biology major, she was fascinated by the veins and villi, the tiny threads waving from the placenta, of eight and nine-week POCs
[product of
conceptions]. On the human level, though, she was horrified by the little arms and legs lying in blood. Each time she asked herself, ‗What are we doing here?‘ ‖ 29
—Sue Hertz, Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion‘s Front Line
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Old Pueblo Family Planning describes a first trimester procedure (up to 12 weeks) like this: When the cervix is open wide enough, a small plastic tube is inserted into the uterus and is connected to a suction machine. The tube is moved along the inside of the uterus for 40-50 seconds in order to remove all of the pregnancy tissue with gentle suction. 30
Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside counties describes the same thing, saying: This procedure ends an early pregnancy by gently suctioning the lining of the uterus and removing all of the tissues of the pregnancy. 31
Finally, Boulder Abortion Clinic says this about their first trimester procedure: The suction cannula is then inserted into the cervix and the uterine contents removed by vacuum aspiration. When this phase is completed (about 2 minutes), the uterus is explored with other instruments that permit the physician to remove all tissue, thereby reducing the risk of complications. 32
Now take a look at what‘s just been labeled pregnancy ―tissue/s‖ during the first trimester (This photo from 8 weeks):
19 weeks abortion: After that, the uterine contents are evacuated surgically by using forceps and other instruments placed into the uterus through the vagina and cervix. 33
Here is a photo of ―the uterine contents‖ at 14 weeks. Have a think about which parts they will be using the forceps for:
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Use your imagination — if you dare ―For pregnancies that are advanced beyond 15 weeks…the physician uses suction as in first trimester procedure, and forceps to remove fetal parts that are too large to pass through the suction tube.‖ 34
—―Abortion Facts,‖ All Women‘s Center
Fayetteville Women‘s Clinic describes abortions to 18 weeks: For surgical abortions we use a combination of Valium and Versed intravenously, which makes you forget the entire procedure after you receive these. Then we give you a paracervical block, which numbs the mouth of the womb and remove the pregnant tissue . 35
This is what ―pregnant tissue‖ looks like (this photo 16 weeks):
What information does
Choices Women‘s Medical Center provide on their 13-24 week terminations? After that he has access to the inner part of your uterus and by use of various instruments, the pregnancy is removed . 36
On
their website
the Atlanta
SurgiCenter tells women about the procedure for 15-26 week abortions: The D&E procedure consists of two parts: dilatation and evacuation. Dilatation means a slow and easy enlargement of the opening of your uterus… Evacuation is the removal of the contents of the uterus. 37
After describing their procedure on the ―contents of the uterus‖ and ―pregnancy,‖ the abortion clinics accidentally forgot to include this visual (20 weeks):
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Did you know? Abortion clinics avoid using words like fetus, baby or unborn child to protect both themselves and the women from the horror of abortion.
But while they disguise the reality for their patients, their own training manuals employ words we associate with babies. For example, Abortion Practice notes that at 12 weeks gestation the knee-heel length should be 13 mm (0.5 inches), the foot length 8 mm (0.3 inches), the biparietal measurement or head diameter is 18 mm (0.7 inches) and the fetal weight is 14 grams — about the weight of a blue tooth headset or an empty Coke can. 38
Surely if these things can be measured, it is a baby, not a blob!
Words can‘t change reality Joanne wrote to me after her abortion. She was clearly shocked by the whole graphic procedure — it was not something she‘d ever expected: It felt like they were sucking everything in my torso out. It was a violent feeling… After, I saw the nurse take what looked like a large pickle jar to the sink and she swirled it. I couldn't believe they could get that much out of someone. I saw a few things floating around in the jar (white things with the red blood)...awful.
Sabrina was instructed not to look: As a sixteen-year-old girl, while I lay there on the abortionist table, I looked over and saw my baby mutilated in the glass container that was connected to the abortion machine, and this image has forever been etched in my mind. As I looked over and saw it, I asked the nurse if that was my baby? Her reply was, "No, that is not what you think it is; now will you please look the other way?" indicating the direction opposite of my baby… After seeing the visual I got, I knew the "truth" that my baby was mutilated. I cannot imagine the agony this caused my baby, as she died.
Why? What is there to hide? ―Most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable for patients to view the products of conception.‖ 39
—Warren Hern, Abortion Practice
―Abortion clinics are misleading you by hiding the reality of what they do‖
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Reason #4 Abortion clinics are allowed to lie to you
It‘s actually legal! Quotable Quote ―Abortion providers are the only medical personnel who have
a "constitutional right" to withhold information, even
when directly questioned by the patient. This right is supposedly granted so
that "conscientious physicians" might
‗protect‘ women from being frightened by the risks they face or upset by what the abortion procedure will do to their unborn children.‖ 40
Aborted Women: Silent No More
egally, the abortionist (or his representative) is NOT required to inform women of anything. It is solely up to his discretion as to how much information he chooses to give. Yes, the Supreme Court said this themselves. 41
While the law says that women must grant ―informed consent,‖ this means absolutely nothing when you look at the lengths the Supreme Court went to keep you from getting information. Why, for example, did the Supreme Court strike down an Ohio state law that was designed ―to insure that the consent for an abortion is truly informed consent.‖ 42
Why, in Pennsylvania‘s Thornburgh v. ACOG, did the Court prohibit the State from making any law if it required that ―informed consent‖ meant anything specific or particular including:
the medical risks of your specific procedure
the medical risk of carrying to term
the potential for psychological effects from the abortion
development
the fetus‘ gestation and potential viability
in medical benefits and child support 43
Yes, they forbid all this! It‘s downright rotten for women not to mention that it is bullying by the Court who has no constitutional right to tell Americans what law they can or cannot pass. So what‘s their reason for keeping women in the dark? We‘re fragile creatures who get upset easily. For example, viewing factual information on fetal development ― may serve only to confuse and punish her and to heighten her anxiety.‖ 44
That was L
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the Chief Justice. Other reasons they forbid laws to protect women? They could be an 'obstacle' to the abortionist 45 (certainly it might take extra time from his patient schedule), some information might not be relevant to all woman 46
information not making it to women), and it
could influence some woman‘s
decisions. 47 For being pro-choice this seems pretty biased to me. Justice White, who disagreed with the Court‘s majority opinion, pointed out that: ―It is the very nature of informed-consent provisions that they may produce some anxiety in the patient and influence her in her choice. This is in fact their reason for existence, and — provided the information required is accurate and non-misleading — it is an entirely salutary reason.‖ 48 In other words, the whole purpose of informed consent
is to provide such information so that later when you come across that same information you won‘t wish you had made another choice. Denise has had two abortions and she feels that, had she been fully informed at the time, she would have never gone through with them: In my midtwenties, again I was single and pregnant. I asked the doctor what was developed? He put a dot on the page, and said, "See, it‘s nothing, just a "clump of tissue." He lied to me. I was about 9 weeks pregnant at the time. Had I known that 3 weeks after conception my babies had perfect beating hearts, perfect arms, legs, fingers and toes, I would have never gone through with it…. At the age of 30 I discovered the
truth about
fetal development and for years suffered the deep sorrow, remorse, guilt, and pain of having my own children murdered at the hands of doctors. Indeed, ―informed consent‖ means nothing if relevant information is withheld and prohibited!
We have a license to lie ―We doctors have a license to lie. And it‘s true. (laughter) It‘s absolutely true. Sometimes you need to lie to a patient about things. ‖ 49
—Abortionist Dr. Alberto Hodari, caught on tape!
Reason #4 ―Abortion clinics are lying to you and it‘s legal‖
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Reason #5 Most women want support — not abortion
An unwanted choice No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg. 50
ost women I‘ve met don‘t want an abortion. Yet, they are full of fear and sheer terror at the thought of having to do it alone. Without support. Without money. While pro-choicers often say that abortion is a woman‘s choice, for countless women it doesn‘t feel like one. Indeed, abortion often seems like the only choice. Even one pro-choice book confesses that abortion can often seem expected if the circumstances are not perfect. 51
Pregnant women do want and need support. And they deserve it too! If you are in a situation like this, I want to remind you, ―You do have a choice. There are options. Abortion is not the only solution.‖
Go to Reason #19: There are practical options to make things work for you.
To read some women‘s stories, read on.
Pregnant women want and need support I didn‘t really want an abortion… But they pressured me into the abortion, saying that welfare wouldn‘t pay for giving birth but would pay for the abortion. 52
—Vanessa Laundry, Aborted Women indy was worried that a pregnancy would mean loss of vital resources. She didn't have support: In my crisis, all I could think about was losing my scholarship at the university where I was pursuing engineering and getting kicked out of the house.
Haley didn't know about other agencies who would help her. She didn't have support: I didn‘t know what to think. I just started crying. Also my mum started crying. Neither of us know why we cried. Maybe it was the shock. ...I thought long and hard; would I be able to supply for my baby? because the father sure didn‘t have the money... I knew deep down I would not be M C
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able to support my baby. Nineteen-year-old Christine felt there was no way the father would support her or their child. She didn‘t have support: I truly believed that the father of the baby would hate me for the rest of my life if I decided to have the baby. I couldn‘t see past that fear, to realize that he could have eventually grew to love the baby that was growing inside me.
Sure Brittany had a choice, but she feared rejection if she kept the baby. She didn't have support: All I could think was, I'm going to be kicked out, my family will reject me, and my music was over if I kept my baby.
Becky had no one to turn to. Her family was not there for her and she didn‘t know what to do. She didn‘t have support: And there I was in the midst of all this family drama, pregnant. I was devastated and scared, and I didn‘t feel like I had anyone to turn to.
Reassured by the probability that he would marry her if she got pregnant, Wendy was stunned when she got a different response. She didn‘t have support: ―What if I get pregnant?‖ I said Yüklə 4,63 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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