SO, if there is anything that i will get up on my soap box for it's abortion. thinking about it literally makes me sick to my stomach.
this book does an amazing job of laying out the pure basic scientific and medical facts of a developing fetus. it leaves the religion out and proves that abortion is still murdering a baby. i was intrigued yet horrified at the history as to how and why abortion became legal, and it is fascinating the double standards of the laws that are in effect today. such as, in many states there have been laws passed to prevent fetal homicide, declaring it murder for anyone but the mother to deliberately take the life of a preborn child. so, if a woman is scheduled to get an abortion, but on the way to the clinic her baby is killed in-utero, the baby's killer will be prosecuted for murder. but if this murder doesn't occur, an hour later the doctor will be PAID to perform a legal procedure killing exactly the same child. what? how does that make sense?
also, two years before abortion was legalized, a pro-choice advocate instructed nurses in a prominent medical journal by stating "through public conditioning, use of language, concepts and laws, the idea of abortion can be separated from the idea of killing." the same year a L.A. symposium offered training: "if you say, 'suck out the baby', you may easily generate or increase trauma; say instead, 'empty the uterus', or 'we will scrape the lining of the uterus', but never, 'we will scrape away the baby.'" the most horrible thing for me was a doctors instructions on how to perform an abortion. his description: i began an abortion on a young woman who was 17 weeks pregnant....then i inserted my forceps into the uterus and applied them to the head of the fetus, which was still alive, since fetal injection is not done at that stage of pregnancy. i closed the forceps, crushing the skull of the fetus, and withdrew the forceps. the fetus, now dead, slid out more or less intact.
i find it unfathomable to understand the logic behind someone who agrees with pro-choice. in fact i have an extremely hard time not hating those people or a woman who has gotten an abortion. this book truly helped me try and learn to care and love for these people. to forgive and learn to help those who don't understand. i'm still learning and i'm still trying to have compassion for such a person who believes it's okay to perform abortions. i'm glad that i have some insight and i'm grateful that i'm willing to try to forgive and love. above all i hope that one day medical advancements will put an end to the debate of abortion, and just consider it murder once and for all.
