{"id":227535,"date":"2020-07-20T12:43:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227535"},"modified":"2020-07-20T02:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T07:26:46","slug":"women-abortions-recall-lies-preborn-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-abortions-recall-lies-preborn-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Women who had abortions recall the lies they were told about their preborn children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion author Carole Joffe\u00a0spent time observing the workings at an abortion facility and interviewed abortion industry workers. She wrote of the training abortion workers received about how to refer to the preborn baby:<\/p>\n

[A] good deal of time was devoted to \u201cword sensitization\u201d \u2013 the need to choose one\u2019s words with extraordinary care when discussing the abortion procedure with clients.\u2026 The most interesting problem was how to refer to the product of the abortion. Although it was acknowledged that many clients would refer to this as the \u201cbaby,\u201d or the \u201cpregnancy,\u201d new counselors were, not surprisingly, urged not to use these charged terms, but instead to use the more neutral, though admittedly more awkward, \u201cproduct of conception\u201d or \u201ctissue.”(1)<\/em><\/p>\n

Abortion facilities usually avoid the use of the term \u201cbaby\u201d unless a woman insists on using it. Emphasizing the humanity of the child doesn\u2019t sell abortions.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Report: Doctors lied to abortion-minded women to dehumanize their preborn babies<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One abortion doula, who comforts women as they kill their babies, said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been taught to follow the patient\u2019s lead. If she calls it her baby, then I do too. But with the next patient, just as far along, it\u2019s fetal tissue, it\u2019s the products of conception. One stumbles over her words, says \u201call the stuff inside,\u201d and that feels right, too.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, the nature of a preborn baby doesn\u2019t change based on the woman\u2019s perception of him or her.<\/p>\n

Some abortion workers always dehumanize the preborn child. Abortion facility worker Sallie Tisdale said, \u201c[I] describe the procedure to come, using care with my language. I don\u2019t say \u201cpain\u201d any more than I would say \u201cbaby.”(2)<\/p>\n

Women who now regret their abortions recall this dehumanization.<\/p>\n

Linda Keener Thomas was 20 weeks along and recalled what the abortion worker told her:<\/p>\n

Abortion seemed to be my only choice. It would solve everything. So I called a clinic for information and asked the lady, \u201cIs\u00a0it\u00a0a baby?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, honey, it\u2019s just tissue. After all, you want to finish school, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I clung to that statement like a drowning person clutching a life preserver, repeating it over and over until I almost believed it. But deep in my heart I knew the truth that it was a baby, my baby.(3)<\/em><\/p>\n

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20 week baby in the womb<\/p><\/div>\n

In an amicus brief<\/a>\u00a0submitted for the Supreme Court for the case Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt<\/em>, another woman said, \u201cI was told my baby \u2018was just tissue the size of a peanut.\u2019 It was easy and slight pain like menstrual cramping. No, I had no idea I would be depressed for six years.\u201d<\/p>\n

A post-abortive woman named Margaret recalled:<\/p>\n

[I] was told, \u201cYou are in an unsupported situation and we can help you because you can have an abortion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Seeking reassurance, I asked \u201cIt\u2019s not a baby, is it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d they replied. \u201cIt\u2019s just a blob of cells at the moment and the sooner it\u2019s done the better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

From this moment on, my denial hardened. It couldn\u2019t be a baby, and I was doing the best thing possible for everyone concerned.(4)<\/em><\/p>\n

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preborn child at 16 weeksVictoria from Pennsylvania told the harrowing story of her third abortion. Her Planned Parenthood counselor told her her child was a \u201cblob of tissue,\u201d even though she was four months along:<\/p>\n

My last abortion was done at four months. I felt there was no way out, I felt trapped. I was dropped off at Planned Parenthood, and went in alone, and petrified.<\/em><\/p>\n

At that abortion mill, I was told that \u201cit\u2019s the best thing to do, you won\u2019t feel anything\u201d and it\u2019s only \u201ca blob of tissue.\u201d The nurse escorted me to the \u201cprocedure room.\u201d The room was cold, with a distinct smell. While waiting for the pain meds to kick in, I saw in the corner a large canister with a long tube and attached on the end was a very sharp object. Then I heard the sucking machine. The doctor took that tube with the sharp object attached and shoved it up inside of me with such force that I couldn\u2019t breathe. The pain medicine never kicked in. I was crying, telling them the pain medicine isn\u2019t helping. I felt everything. I begged the nurse to help me, to stop. The pain was unbelievable! No one listened. They just continued to suck my baby through that tube into pieces.(5)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Face of preborn baby at 16 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n

Workers at abortion facilities routinely lie about fetal development and encourage women to think of their babies as just \u201ctissue\u201d or cells. They do this because many women would not have abortions if they knew the truth about fetal development.<\/p>\n

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  1. \n
    Carole Joffe\u00a0The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers<\/em> (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986)94<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n
    Wendy Williams, Ann Caldwell\u00a0Empty Arms: More Than 60 Life-Giving Stories of Hope from the Devastation of Abortion\u00a0<\/em>(Chattanooga, Tennessee: Living Ink Books, 2005) 143<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here” Harpers Magazine<\/em> October 1987<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n
    Melanie Symonds, Phyllis Bowman\u00a0And Still They Weep: Personal Stories of Abortion<\/em>(The SPUC Educational Research Trust, 1996) 54<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n
    Janet Morana\u00a0Shockwaves: Abortions Wider Circle of Victims\u00a0<\/em>(New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Corp., 2017) 21 \u2013 22<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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