{"id":85128,"date":"2016-03-14T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=85128"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:00:39","slug":"abortion-facilities-have-history-of-deceptive-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-facilities-have-history-of-deceptive-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Abortion facilities have history of deceptive counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion facilities\u00a0have a long, shameful history of lying to abortion- minded women about the development of their babies and the risks of abortion. We also have testimonies from women about their experiences. One woman named Sue said:<\/p>\n

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The doctor said: \u201cDon\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not formed till after 12 weeks.\u201d Then I saw the\u00a0Human Body program [on the ABC]. I would not have gone ahead if I\u2019d been told the truth about the formation of the baby.\u201d(1)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Below is a picture of an ultrasound of a pre-born baby at just 10 weeks in the womb.<\/p>\n

\"ehd-10\"<\/p>\n

Another woman was told that her baby at 3 months was \u201cjust a clump of cells.\u201d When she found out the truth, it inspired her to do an experiment:<\/p>\n

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When I saw that a 3-month-old \u201cclump of cells\u201d had fingers and toes and was a tiny, perfectly formed baby, I became really hysterical.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been lied to and misled, and I\u2019m sure thousands of other women are being just as poorly informed and badly served. To prove it, John [her husband] and I visited most every clinic in Cleveland. I pretended I was pregnant and asked for guidance.<\/p>\n

What we heard was incredible. One counselor told us the fetus did not begin to resemble human being until 7 months, another said 5 months, and so it went. (2)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A reporter for the LA Times visited a facility and actually caught a \u00a0\u201ccounselor\u201d there lying to a woman. The article quoted her telling a woman who was\u00a05 weeks pregnant, “It\u2019s completely formed about nine weeks.\u00a0Yours is more like a chicken yolk.”*(3)<\/p>\n

At 5 weeks, a pre-born baby\u2019s heart is beating. You can see a video capturing it here <\/a>in a baby that is only 4 \u00bd weeks old.<\/p>\n

The baby has the beginning of limbs<\/a>, a brain that is divided into 2 hemispheres,<\/a> and a circulatory system.<\/p>\n

While a 5 week\u2013old preborn baby still has a lot of development to go, he or she is definitely not \u201ca chicken yolk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another observer at an abortion center, Peter Korn, told of\u00a0the following conversation between an abortion worker and a woman named Peggy, who was ambivalent about getting an abortion. Peggy asks:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIs it true that at six weeks it has a heartbeat?\u201d Carye<\/p>\n

[The counselor] says nobody is sure exactly when the heart begins beating, and tries to deflect that concern. (4)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In reality, the fact that a fetal heart starts beating 3 weeks after conception has been known to science since 1964.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

There is no disagreement in the medical community as to when the baby\u2019s heart starts beating.<\/p>\n

Former abortion workers have also admitted that they lied to women. For example, Kathy Sparks said:<\/p>\n

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Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask what her baby was like at a certain point in the pregnancy: Was it a baby yet? Even as early as 12 weeks a baby is totally formed, he has fingerprints, turns his head\u2026 But we would say \u2018It\u2019s not a baby yet. It\u2019s just tissue, like a clot.'(5)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Abortionist Alberto Hodari, in a speech at Wayne University, claimed that abortionists had \u201ca license to lie\u201d to patients. Students for Life has a recording:<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZHorxgzc-vc&w=420&h=315]<\/p>\n

Clinicquotes has more examples in its section on Abortion Counseling.<\/a><\/p>\n

Live Action has also caught\u00a0abortion\u00a0workers and abortionists lying in undercover videos. In these 3 videos, abortion center\u00a0workers give blatantly false information to women posing as abortion patients:<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UIXHrusvMDw?list=PLD5405628AA510ADF&w=560&h=315]<\/p>\n

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  1. Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women\u2019s Stories of Grief after Abortion<\/em> (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007)\u00a0180<\/li>\n
  2. David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More<\/em> (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 250<\/li>\n
  3. Offering Abortion, Rebirth\u201d LA Times<\/em> Nov 11, 2005<\/li>\n
  4. Peter Korn. Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press) 1996 p 25<\/li>\n
  5. Gloria Williamson \u201cThe Conversion of Kathy Sparks\u201d Christian Herald January 1986 p 28<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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