Sometimes when you read articles about abortion, you forget exactly what is at stake. When I read the following article about an Arkansas abortionist with a messiah complex — he believes that with abortion he destroys life but that by doing so his patients are "born again" — I noted that this abortionist "draws his own moral line" at 26 weeks, or the end of the second trimester.
I went to Google Images and searched out an image of a 26-week-old fetus to accompany this post. I was jolted when what I found was an image of a premature baby who had been born between 25 and 27 weeks gestation. That is the image I chose to include.
"The 17-year-old in for a consultation this morning assures the nurse that she does not consider the embryo inside her a baby.
"’Not until it’s developed,’ she says. ‘That would be about three months?’
"’It’s completely formed about nine weeks,’ the nurse tells her. ‘Yours is more like a chicken yolk.’
"The girl, who is five weeks pregnant, looks relieved. ‘Then no,’ she says, ‘it’s not a baby.’ Her mother sits in the corner wiping her tears.
"[Dr. William F.] Harrison draws his own moral line at the end of the second trimester, or 26 weeks since the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period. Until that point, he will abort for any reason.
"’It’s not a baby to me until the mother tells me it’s a baby,’ he says."
so… I guess in this guy’s head I wasn’t a baby either when I was born at 25 and a half weeks. Gee, I’m feeling the love from this sick individual
Laura, who is happy to be alive
I can’t fathom the thought processes of this twisted doctor and his open acknowledgement that he’s “taking life”, yet also “giving life to the mother”. And the poor patients that are only more misguided and supported in their denial of the child inside them, whatever logic they use to come to that point (and even if they do know it’s a baby), just saddens me.
My cousin was born at 27 weeks…She’s 1 yr old this month, and now healthy and doing well. This guy’s sick
I’ve spent a bit of time trying to find an article on the BBC’s site that I read a few days ago. The search can’t seem to find it (I doubt they’d have removed it.) Otherwise, I’d post a link to it.
It was talking about how out of 5000 to 7000 late term (up to 26 or so weeks I think, maybe 29) abortions they have per year in the UK (I think it was the UK), 50 of them survive. That’s 1% to 0.7%. Large if you consider that the idea is to end the life of the child. There was this one person who her mother tried to abort her life 3 times.
That girl is obviously pro-life.
Then there’s this.
I’m guessing that the girl who was aborted 3 times on the web site that I linked to was likely the same girl that they referred to in that other article I couldn’t find. I don’t know if her mother attempted to abort her at 20something weeks or not. I’m pretty sure the BBC article was definately about second trimester babies surviving though.
Lo-o-ong ago, I actually saw this guy at a Unitarian church service. The featured speaker that day was a lesbian peace activist.
I guess that was the only “church” in town where he felt comfortable.
His office is only a few blocks away from the University, from whence come most of his victims.
For the pro-abortion people who fight to the end for the right of a mother to KILL her baby: If you accept the concept that the “fetus” in the womb is NOT a baby (although given the chance the fetus would grow into a baby and subsequently a human being), then could you please explain when the fetus DOES become a baby? Once you name a day (6 weeks, 8 weeks, etc) can you please explain WHY the fetus WASN’T a baby before that day? I.E. What makes the fetus a baby?
I am repulsed and tremendously saddened by people who try to defend a mother murdering her child in the womb. The abortionist considers himself God which is the logical end of the road for the humanistic point of view he has.
Charlotte
P.S. I believe the Unitarians are not considered by organized churches to actually be a “church” per se. The members consider their “church” a fellowship. And truly, they really ARE NOT a church since they embrace all sorts of things such as Wiccans and pagans.
Would a Church true to God have a person who participates in and espouses MURDERING babies speak from their lectern?
DJ –
I read the same article you’re referring to. You can find it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1892696,00.html
Peace.
I actually read this article a few days ago and it was so upsetting. It seemed to be written from a pro-abortion position (it is the LA Times afterall), but I think it actually made a better case for the pro-life movement. Every “mother” interviewed was doing it out of “convienence” and their complete ignorance of the facts would be astounding if it weren’t so typical. The statistics given at the end didn’t seem acurate either, but then thier sources were “Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights” and the CDC.
So, since my twin sister and I were born at 25 and a half weeks we could have been killed by this monster? Wow. Glad I was born in a differnet State entirely.
That reminds me, in Ancient Rome kids were not seen as viable until age 7 or 8. They were sacrficed in pagan rituals until that age. They were not considered HUMANS. In that aspect we are pagan Rome all over again.
Could you document that, Julia? That sounds more like Carthage, which Rome defeated in the Punic Wars. The Carthaginians definitely did practice child sacrifice.
Thanks for the link KristyB. I could have sworn I read it on the BBC site. Oh well.
All I have to say is may God turn his heart like he turned Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s heart. Dr. Nathanson founded NARAL, aborted his own child, and eventually repented of his past life and became a Catholic and now spends his time speaking out against abortion.
Don’t forget the sacrificing of children to Moloch in the Bible. They sacrificed their children to the demon god Molech so they could afford to have better lives in the Old Testament.
Julia, the Romans and the Greeks did not sacrifice their babies. I don’t know about the Greeks, but the Romans are the source of many references to the Carthagian practice of human sacrifice, which they found appalling. Carthage, of course, was a Phoenician colony; they brought along the sacrifices to Moloch that the prophet fulminated against.
What the Romans and Greeks did was throw babies in the trash.
I was born three months premature, almost to the day (Mom’s due date would have been Christmas, but I was born on Sept. 23rd). That’s, what, 24 weeks?
I weighed all of 2 lbs, 2 oz, and was about a foot in length. Not to mention all the difficulties a premature baby is born with (undeveloped intestines, for one), this was the early 1980s. Given today’s neonatal care and abilities, that might as well have been the Dark Ages. I had less than a fifty-fifty chance of survival. Thank God for the Alexian Brothers, eh?
Now I’m in my mid-twenties and fairly healthy, and mostly over the various physical and emotional developmental problems that bothered me in my earlier years.
I work for my local government and am fairly involved in my parish. In other words, I’m alive and well and by no means a burden to society.
And this abortionist would have said a day before my birth that I was a mere clot, not a human being.
Wretched. Pray for their conversion and public repentance.
Ok, a friend told me it was Ancient Rome. Sorry. Thanks for the accurate information Mary.
Thank you, Jimmy, for commenting on this article.
I thought it particularly telling that he thinks the women he is performing abortions on are “born again” and that he’s “given life” to over 20,000 of them.
Reminds me of the distinction between the pro-aborts who hold up signs saying, “This is my body,” and the priest who at the Consecration says, “This is my Body.”
BTW, G. K. Chesterton’s “The Everlasting Man” has a great section about God’s hand on Rome as it fought against Carthage and the ancient cult of Moloch. It even makes reference to Hanibal, whose name means, “sent by Baal”. Carthage was the “modern” incarnation of the enemies of Israel (the Phoenecians), and Rome became the “modern” equivalent of Israel, through the Incarnation within the Roman Empire and the seat of Peter being in Rome.
“The Everlasting Man” – highly recommended reading.
I just found out some other interesting information about the abortionist mentioned in this article.
It appears that “Dr.” William Harrison likes to write reviews on Amazon.com (see http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2C2SRGZARH5R1/002-0985127-1978420?_encoding=UTF8 for his profile and reviews).
On top of that, he reviewed Bill Clinton’s book “My Life” on July 24, 2004. Here is the beginning of his review:
I am almost 69 years old, and have been a student of all of the presidents of my lifetime, starting with FDR and going to GWB. I have known Bill and Hillary Clinton personally since they both moved to Fayetteville to teach at the University of Arkansas Law School in the early 70s. I met Hillary first as her physician and she soon introduced me to her then boyfriend, Bill. My wife and I became good friends with Bill and Hillary and strong supporters for his political campaigns over the years.
This does not prove that Hillary once had an abortion, but it does show why the Clintons are such strong supporters of abortion – Harrison is a proselytizer for pro-abortion to all his patients, and urges them all to be abortion activists.
I’m having a very difficult time right now. My husband and I have been married for 15 months. We are expecting our first child in March 2006. However, before my husband and I became engaged, he told me that he and his former girlfried had aborted their baby. He would never make that choice again. He is a very loving, giving, and thoughtful person. He was raised Catholic. Now we attend a protestant church together. I know his mistake bothers him everyday. We don’t talk about it. Sometimes I get so angry at him for killing his child. I love him so much, but I can’t stop thinking about what he did in the past. Is there anybody that knows of any literature to read regarding this issue. I need to move on past this and get ready for our son’s arrival.
To Robin-
Seek out Project Rachel. It may give you and him both some peace. It is a group that helps people deal psychologically with their past abortions and into the forgiveness that God offers.
Jimmy,
I am 49 now but when I was born, in 1956, I was a preemie at 2 lbs 12 ounces. Everyone was so scared that I would not live that I was baptised on the same day December 20th.
I was just 26 weeks old too.
I guess to some I was not alive either.