What Abby Saw

Abby Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas, was asked to hold the ultrasound transducer on a patient's abdomen during a 13-week termination of pregnancy. She had to watch the screen to make sure she had it in the right spot, and what she saw there was a baby whose reactions clearly showed terror as the instrument stabbed it, same as you or me if we were being attacked. Her horror grew over the next minutes as she watched the little one die before her eyes. and she left the room in a state of shock, never to return to that job.
She had never known.
Abby Johnson wrote the book unPlanned.  http://www.abbyjohnson.org/about/

Society, what have I done?
The greatest criminals obtain a merciful end,
But for me, none.
Maire Flannery,
no copyright

Baby Bump

It is called a baby bump because there is a baby inside. Otherwise, it would be called a fetus bump.

Informed Choice better than just Choice

Reproduced from the National Pro-Life Alliance.
http://www.prolifealliance.com/

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

And studies show that between seventy and ninety percent of women who see a sonogram of their unborn baby choose life and reject abortion.
What's more, abortionists know it.

That's why abortionists typically refuse to show ultrasound images to women, although they virtually always use it themselves to perform abortions.

The fact is sonograms show an incredibly powerful image and can mean instant "conversion."

That's what happened to Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson who, when asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion, looked on in absolute horror, watching the 13 week baby fight, but ultimately lose its life.
Abby was so appalled that she resigned her position as a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director and became a pro-life activist and author.

That's why National Pro-Life Alliance members and other pro-lifers have and will continue to push for laws requiring abortionists to show women an ultrasound image of their unborn baby before performing an abortion.

The good news is that twenty-one states have now passed such laws and a federal law has been introduced to do the same thing nationally

Lincoln

Saw 'Lincoln'. Great movie! I was comparing the fight for freedom for slaves as being similar to the fight we have today to consider all unborn humans having equal rights.
You see some, if killed, are considered murder victims.
What is the difference if one is killed by an assailant wielding a gun, or a medic weilding a curette?
Unborn babies are people too and the unwanted as well as the wanted have a right to be born.

BORN ALIVE

An unplanned pregnancy may often be a crisis, but everyone hates abortion, even the most ardent pro-choice people (whose views I respect) have that view. So we are all happy that having a mom look at an ultrasound of her fetus before she makes up her mind about abortion usually results in no abortion! How happy that should make everybody who hates abortion.

There have been a few abortion survivors and surely they, grown now, need to be listened to. After all, they were directly involved. One survivor had recurrent nightmares of being in the womb and being attacked - as a teen, she found out that her mother had had an abortion that failed.
Another had recurrent nightmares that she was trying to hide in her room from a large knife that approached her. Another was born alive and rescued from a trash can after she cried.
They are persons now, and they were persons then.
http://www.theabortionsurvivors.com/
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-am-an-abortion-survivor-giving-voice-to-the-491-canadian-babies-born-aliv

GOD holds out His mericful and loving arms to all of us harmed by this.

KUDOS for IRISH OBSTETRICIANS

Ireland is one of the safest countries in the world to have a baby. The easiest figures for me to lay my hands on for this blog are from 2010: Ireland: 6 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births; http://www.indexmundi.com/ireland/maternal_mortality_rate.html
the figure for the USA is 20 -  http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/maternal_mortality_rate.html


CSPAN brought us the recent proceedings from Dáil Eireann (the Irish Parliament) which involved Obstetricians explaining their role in protecting a mother's life in pregnancy when there is a serious medical issue. This is in the wake of the very tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital; the pro-choice lobby point to Ireland's politicians failure to legislate on the 1993 X Case as a contributing cause of  death.

So what is a doctor to do when faced with an obstetric emergency? If the only option to save the mother is to terminate the pregnancy, they do that.

'We never kill babies,' emphasized the very impressive Dr. Rhona Mahoney, Master of one of Ireland biggest Maternitiy Hospitals, The National Maternity Hospital (commonly known as Holles St) in Dublin, in response to a question from the Floor of the House. Holles St. is the busiest maternity hospital in Ireland.

Dr. Mahoney went on to say that it happens that she and her colleagues have to terminate pregnancies early because of a risk to a mother's life, but that the baby is given every care available. Unfortunately, sometimes the baby is just too young and small to live.
I can't tell you how refreshing it was to hear a discussion about crisis or problem pregnancies where the word 'baby' is not taboo.
And KUDOS to Irish OBs - the professionalism of the Team who gave their presentations - Dr. Rhona Mahoney, Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith, Master of the Rotunda Hospital and Dr. Mary McCaffrey from Tralee Hospital, County Kerry, was evident. Their love for their patients and their dedicatation to Mothers and Babies was there for the world to see.
Watch the Full Session here http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CurrentAb