This is the 2nd part of the abortion series I am
doing and quite honestly this one makes me sick to my stomach. It is difficult
to grasp how anyone – after hearing what abortion really is and does – could
ever seek out an abortion. The intent of this part is not to simply gross you
out or to be as graphic as possible, but to educate and hopefully open some
eyes of those who have been blinded by soft, cushion-y words on this form of
murder.
There are many ways to perform an abortion and keep in mind
what abortion means. Abort – to stop, to bring to a halt, cut short. Abortion
stops life, it cuts short a baby’s life. So here are several methods of
abortion.
Planned parenthood has a section of their site devoted to
reassuring women about their abortions. 2 of the “in-clinic” procedures they
discuss are 1. Aspiration (also known as
vacuum aspiration) and 2. Dilation and Evacuation. Aspiration takes place before 16 weeks – a
woman is given a form of sedation and then once the cervix is dilated a speculum
is put into place. The Doctor will then insert a tube into the uterus and will
suction it out. Planned Parenthood puts it this way - “gently empties your
uterus”. This is the softened way of saying that the baby who has been growing
for up to 16 weeks inside your womb – who has developed to the point of looking
very obviously “baby” – even having eyelids!! – is being sucked out – ripped
from your womb and obviously dying as a result of this horror. This procedure
takes 5 -10 minutes. That’s it. Life snuffed out in less than 10 minutes time.
Dilation and Evacuatin – D&E – takes less than 20
minutes and is not that different from aspiration, but it can be used after 16
weeks – on an even further developed human being. “Medical instruments and a machine gently
empty your uterus” – quote from Planned Parenthood. Perhaps this procedure, as
the aspiration above, is gentle on the woman – I don’t know – but it most
certainly is nothing close to gentle for the innocent life being killed.
Fortunately, Partial birth abortion has been banned in our
country. This is a particularly heinous method where the head is “decompressed”
prior to “evacuation”. The way this
procedure works is that the doctor, using forceps, pulls the baby’s legs out
through the vagina (partially “born”) and then makes an incision in the base of
the skull and inserts an instrument and twists it making the opening larger in
order to suction out the baby’s brain to make the head smaller to “deliver”. I applaud those who had any part in banning
this procedure in the USA!!
There are also pills that can be taken early in pregnancy to
terminate the pregnancy. Some argue that this is not “abortion”, but I say it
is. In order to be pregnant, a life needs to be beginning inside of you. In
order to “end a pregnancy” you take a pill. How is that not abortion – ending a
life? Since life begins the moment the sperm and egg unite, taking a pill to
end it is killing a life.
There are other types of procedures used in abortion, but
they are mostly just slightly different forms of the ones mentioned above. Regardless of the type, the outcome of
abortion is always the same – the death
of a baby. Our country is responsible
for 50 million babies being murdered and this is something planned parenthood
views as a “success”. They also say that
1 in 3 women will have at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old
– that is astounding to me. It also tells me that abortion touches many lives
all around us. Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice advocates will tell us
that they are concerned with women and their safety and that they are saving
lives by performing abortions safely, but in the next part of this series I
will show how abortion is actually anti-women and how the options women have in
a pro-life scenario is actually pro-woman.
In my next entry, I will answer this question: Why is our world so
incredibly obsessed with “Women’s Rights”? ……
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