Educating Tweeter

The more I talk to, listen to, dialog and debate with prochoice people, the more I realize that they don’t really know what an abortion is.

They know that the embryo or fetus is removed from the womb. Whether it’s a life or not – they differ on this point.

But the procedure itself? A great deal of ignorance surrounds it, and that’s not surprising, because it’s a Taboo. Abortion clinic websites talk blithely of the uterus being emptied via a thin tube, and products of conception being removed, and the rest is just like your period.

The Feisty Tweeter who I am currently in a dialogue with thinks that Melissa Ohden’s birth records are faked, and she told me that because her birth records say ‘born prematurely’  it proves that there was no abortion. So, she reasons, Melissa's mother is 'an anti-choice nut' as are any parents who back up survivor stories.

They made it all up.

Sigh. It isn’t her fault; that I know, though Feisty Tweeter's imagination ran riot.

All it takes is to explain the medical record to a lay person. My qualification - I trained and practiced as a midwife. I realize it must be difficult for a lay-person and they tend to zone in on Terminology familiar to them, that they can understand, and rely on that. Like the term 'premature birth.'  Everybody knows what that is - a baby born too early.

The Record from August 29 1977

But just a few lines up from the phrase 'premature birth', the Neonatologist wrote that ‘Saline Infusion was done for an abortion but was unsuccessful’.  What I have been trying to explain to Feisty Tweeter is that this Infusion was meant to kill the fetus. Then the fetus would be delivered dead. And that would be an Abortion. But the fetus did not die, and after labor was induced to expel what they thought would be a dead body, she was born alive, and yes, ‘born prematurely’ as the record correctly says, because it was well before 40 weeks.

‘Having an abortion’ means that the baby has to be deliberately killed while still inside the mother. Technically all abortions result in a birth. The vast majority of these ‘births’ are of a small dead human being, usually in pieces, or intact with the signs of the method of killing upon the head or chest – big needle-mark, huge purple swelling.

I will be saying a lot more about the need to educate people. The mainstream media isn’t going to do it for us!