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\"abortion<\/a>Creepy though it may be that anyone can muster the moral detachment necessary to support legal abortion, the desensitization necessary to personally perform one rises to an entirely different level of depravity<\/a>. While mere advocates may be deceived or willfully ignorant, abortionists possess more than enough knowledge to know exactly what they\u2019re butchering, experience the bloody deed, and decide that their consciences can handle doing it regularly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s noteworthy that so few doctors are willing to get their hands dirty, as Pro-Life Action League\u2019s Eric Scheidler writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The younger doctors are apathetic and the old doctors are retiring,\u201d complained MSFC conference speaker Dr. Rachel Phelps, a former pediatrician who now serves as associate medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rochester\/Syracuse Region.<\/p>\n

Phelps noted that only 2% of obstetricians perform over 50% of all abortions, and declared that without providers, \u201cabortion may as well be illegal.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

According to the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood\u2019s research wing, the number of U.S. abortion providers decreased 38% between a peak of 2,908 in 1982 to only 1,793 providers in 2008, the most recent year for which data were available \u2026<\/p>\n

Data from the Federation of State Medical Boards reveals [PDF]<\/a> that only 0.2% of physicians provide abortions. That\u2019s only 2 doctors out of a thousand.<\/p>\n

A recent survey of 1,144 obstetricians revealed<\/a> that while 97% said they\u2019d had patients who sought abortions, only 14% percent ever provided them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Signs of the same reluctance can be found among the medical professions of Canada<\/a>, the U.K.<\/a>, Portugal<\/a>, France<\/a>, and Italy<\/a>. Why might that be?<\/p>\n

We can see pro-choicers\u2019 default answer coming a mile away: \u201cBecause anti-choice violence scares them away!\u201d This, of course, is a red herring – no respected pro-lifers or meaningful segment of the movement supports violence against abortionists, and violence by lone extremists is similarly rare; Feminist Majority Foundation<\/a> puts the grand total of anti-abortion murders at\u2026ten people. That\u2019s about 0.07% of the 14,748 total murders and manslaughters<\/a> committed in 2010 alone, and about 0.00002% of the murdering done<\/a> by the poor abortionists themselves since Roe v. Wade<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The less defamatory variation is that mean old anti-choicers have stigmatized abortion to the point where many doctors don\u2019t want to deal with the image problems. As Scheidler says, we\u2019ll gladly cop to that one:<\/p>\n

\u00a0For 40 years, we have been peacefully protesting at their abortion clinics\u2014a pro-life presence that has only increased in recent years with initiatives like 40 Days for Life. We\u2019ve picketed their homes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve made sure<\/a> that the word \u201cabortion\u201d conjures up the ugly reality of abortion\u2019s victims\u2014abortionists\u2019 victims.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also shined a light<\/a> on the malpractice and criminality of which so many abortionists are guilty of. We\u2019ve made \u201cabortionist\u201d a dirty word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, shaming the abortion industry wouldn\u2019t be nearly as effective if abortion weren\u2019t intrinsically shameful, and the heart of the disconnect is something pro-choicers simply can\u2019t blame on pro-lifers, no matter how hard they try.<\/p>\n

Most doctors still take their profession seriously, respect the preservation of life as medicine\u2019s most basic and essential end<\/a>, and follow the medical evidence<\/a> to its inescapable conclusion that unborn children fall within that mandate. To any doctor worthy of the title, all life is incalculably precious, and treating one patient doesn\u2019t mean killing another.<\/p>\n

This above all is why the recent pro-choice push to cast abortion as a central component of women\u2019s health care was so obscene: because abortion is fundamentally opposed to the very nature of health care. That most doctors want nothing to do with the vile practice is no coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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