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\"Auschwitz\"Never underestimate an abortion ideologue\u2019s capacity for hypocrisy and detachment. In one of the sickest examples imaginable, Jezebel blogger Katie JM Baker profiles<\/a> Gisella Perl, a Jewish gynecologist sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and forced to assist Josef Mengele. Baker hails Perl for \u201csav[ing] countless lives during the Holocaust.\u201d How? By giving pregnant prisoners \u201cundercover abortions with her bare hands.\u201d From Perl\u2019s entry<\/a> at the Holocaust History Project:<\/p>\n

In an interview with Nadine Brozan for the New York Times in 1982, Dr. Perl recalled her initial experiences with Dr. Mengele’s “cure” for pregnancy in Auschwitz. ”Dr. Mengele told me that it was my duty to report every pregnant woman to him,” Dr. Perl said. ”He said that they would go to another camp for better nutrition, even for milk. So women began to run directly to him, telling him, ‘I am pregnant.’ I learned that they were all taken to the research block to be used as guinea pigs, and then two lives would be thrown into the crematorium. I decided that never again would there be a pregnant woman in Auschwitz.”19<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

After Dr. Perl’s startling realization of the fates of the pregnant women discovered by Dr. Mengele, she began to perform surgeries that before the war she would have believed herself incapable of – abortions. In spite of her professional and religious beliefs as a doctor and an observant Jew, Dr. Perl began performing abortions on the dirty floors and bunks of the barracks in Auschwitz “using only my dirty hands.”20<\/a><\/sup> Without any medical instruments or anesthesia, and often in the cramped and filthy bunks within the women’s barracks, Dr. Perl ended the lives of the fetuses in their mothers’ womb (estimated at around 3,00021<\/a><\/sup>) in the hopes that the mother would survive and later, perhaps, be able to bear children.<\/p>\n

In some instances, the pregnancy was too far along to be able to perform an abortion. In these cases Dr. Perl broke the amnionic sac and manually dilated the cervix to induce labor. In these cases, the premature infant (not yet completely developed), died almost instantly.22<\/a><\/sup> Without the threat of their pregnancy being discovered, women were able to work without interruption, gaining them a temporary reprieve from their death sentences.<\/p>\n

One of the little-discussed circumstances surrounding the issue of abortion in concentration camps was the fate of the infants who were not killed — along with their mothers — in the womb. In Auschwitz, infants were immediately killed through a variety of methods, both by Nazi and Jewish medical staff by “pinch(ing) and clos(ing)” the newborn’s nostrils and when it opened its mouth to breathe\u2026 gave it a dose of lethal product,” or drowning it in a pail of whatever liquid was available. The staff preferred this death to watching the child starve to death, according to Mengele’s orders.”23<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Baker finds this \u201chorrifying but also inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

If \u201cinspiring\u201d my stomach to send lunch back up counts, maybe.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s analyze the situation: mother and child alike were both<\/i> going to be killed anyway if the pregnancy was discovered. Leaving wasn\u2019t an option. Freedom was nonexistent, and the perspectives of all involved were colored by living in hell on earth. Even if we concede that the abortions Perl performed were morally acceptable (which is still debatable<\/a>), how would that make a case for abortion on demand? How would it possibly follow that it\u2019s acceptable to kill a baby in circumstances where the mother faces no such risk, where she has other options, and where the baby will live?<\/p>\n

Perl herself doesn\u2019t seem to have thought it did. HHP says that because of her \u201cprofessional and religious beliefs,\u201d she would have found abortion unthinkable outside the death camps and quotes her as justifying her actions by noting that \u201ctwo<\/i> lives would be thrown into the crematorium\u201d otherwise. After the war, she dedicated her life to Holocaust remembrance, infertility treatment, and delivering babies – not destroying them. The New York Times<\/i> quotes<\/a> her as saying, \u201cNo one will ever know what it meant to me to destroy those babies, but if I had not done it, both mother and child would have been cruelly murdered.\u201d Perl never pretended they weren\u2019t babies, that their lives didn\u2019t matter, or that their deaths weren\u2019t cruel.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most grotesque is how Baker\u2019s abortion dogma – and, we may safely surmise, that of the rest of Jezebel\u2019s bloggers and a majority of their readers – is unfazed by the material she quotes. It\u2019s bad enough whenever<\/a> pro-aborts fail to draw lessons about devaluing human life from the Holocaust\u2019s example, but here, Baker quotes language about \u201ctwo lives\u201d being present in pregnancy, and Perl \u201cend[ing] the lives\u201d of fetuses \u201cusing only my dirty hands.\u201d Yet none of it sparks deeper reflection on what she and her colleagues\u2019 cherished act consists of and takes away.<\/p>\n

This is why we don\u2019t look to champions of one holocaust to find understanding of another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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