{"id":79922,"date":"2015-11-13T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=79922"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:27:55","slug":"former-abortionist-life-begins-conception-preborn-feel-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortionist-life-begins-conception-preborn-feel-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood abortionist: Life begins at conception"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coral Ridge\u00a0Ministries released a series of pro-life videos called \u201cThe Truth about Abortion.\u201d The videos, which were uploaded on January 15, 2009, feature comments from former abortionist Dr. Robert Siudmack.<\/p>\n

In the first video, Siudmack states that life begins at conception:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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As a doctor, I know, as do my colleagues, that life begins at conception. That life begins the moment of conception is no longer a matter of personal opinion. It is an established medical fact. And this fact is not in dispute in any reputable medical textbook in the world. At the beginning of conception, a distinct, living, and whole human organism is formed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Read excerpts from medical textbooks <\/a>that verify that each unique human life begins at conception.<\/p>\n

Suidmack\u00a0also quotes the American College of Pediatricians’\u00a02004 policy statement:<\/p>\n

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\u2026 The body of scientific evidence that human life begins at conception \u2013 fertilization\u2026 Scientific and medical discoveries over the past 3 decades (since Roe versus Wade) have only verified and solidified this age-old truth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more about the American College of Pediatricians’ views.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Siudmack also says\u00a0that<\/a> preborn babies can feel pain, a\u00a0scientific belief that is shared by\u00a0many<\/a>\u00a0embryologists, pediatricians, researchers, and other medical professionals:<\/p>\n

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The baby has a brain. It has a nervous system. It has nerve endings. And it doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to put the dots together that obviously the baby has the capacity to feel sensation and pain. In fact, when we do ultrasounds on many of these babies, when we want to try to get it to move, we\u2019ll jostle the woman\u2019s abdomen and the baby does feel the sensations of movement and encouragement to move, and it, in fact, responds to that. Studies have also shown that the baby responds to music, it responds to sound. This is all a function of the baby\u2019s nervous system. So yes, the baby does feel, and can feel pain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Siudmack\u00a0comments on <\/a>how ultrasound shows the humanity of preborn babies:<\/p>\n

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One of the greatest technological developments in the last 30 years is the development of the ultrasound. No longer can we say that the fetus is just a blob of tissue. The ultrasound proves conclusively that a distinct, living and whole human being has been created, with fingers and toes, and arms and legs, and a face, and a beating heart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In fact, ultrasound has been pivotal in the conversions of several abortionists.<\/p>\n

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The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an abortionist who presided over 60,000 abortions and was the founder of NARAL, changed his beliefs as a result of the invention of ultrasound.\u00a0According to Nathanson:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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By 1984, however, I had begun to ask myself more questions about abortion: what actually goes on in an abortion? I had done many, but abortion is a blind procedure. The doctor does not see what he\u2019s doing. He puts an instrument into a uterus and he turns on a motor, and the suction machine goes on and something is vacuumed out; it ends up as a little pile of meat in a gauze bag. I wanted to know what happened, so in 1984 I said to a friend of mine, who was doing 15 or maybe 20 abortions a day, \u201cLook, do me a favor, Jay. Next Saturday, when you doing all these abortions, put an ultrasound device on the mother and tape it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did, and when he looked at the tapes with me in an editing studio, he was so affected that he never did another abortion. I, though I had not done an abortion in five years, was shaken to the very roots of my soul by what I saw.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Silent Scream,\u00a0<\/a>created by Dr. Nathanson, shows an ultrasound of a first trimester preborn baby being torn apart in an abortion. Released in the 1980s, it convinced many people to join the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n

Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describes the prevalent first trimester D&C abortion procedure in the video below.<\/p>\n