Ten Truths- Abortion

Coral Ridge Ministries
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Dr. D. James Kennedy, Founder

From the 10 Truths Series
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TRUTH #2 - An Aborted Baby Dies a Violent, Painful Death
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Dr. McArthur Hill, who performed first trimester abortions, confessed, “I have taken the lives of innocent babies, and I have ripped them from their mother’s wombs with a powerful suction machine…. There isn’t any way that you can say that there isn’t a human body inside of those containers when you can look and see the little arms, feet, and faces.”14
Dr. David Brewer spoke about his experience doing saline abortions, in which a baby is chemically burned to death. “[S]he was going to pieces; she was having a nervous breakdown, screaming and thrashing.… I walked in, and here was her little saline abortion baby kicking. It had been born alive, and was kicking and moving for a little while before it finally died of those terrible burns, because the salt solution gets into the lungs and burns the lungs, too.”

What Abortionists Do
In recounting a dilation and evacuation abortion, Dr. Anthony Levantino explained, “[A]s a doctor, you are sitting there tearing, and I mean tearing—you need a lot of strength to do it—arms and legs off of babies and putting them in a stack on top of the table.”
One nurse who participated in a late-term abortion recalled, “The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out …The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby went completely limp.”

Even the most graphic descriptions fall short of capturing the sheer brutality of an abortion procedure. Carol Everett, a former abortion clinic owner, told an audience, “There are no words to describe how bad it really is.”
Abortion proponents cloak the various procedures used to end the baby’s life in bland clinical terms, seeking to make the matter more palatable to the public. However, when you read the grotesque details of what actually happens behind clinic doors, it is impossible to minimize the horror. The procedure is not a neat surgical extraction of excess tissue; it is the violent dismemberment of a defenseless baby.

After reviewing testimonies involving just one method of abortion, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “The method of killing a human child … is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion.”18 Antonin Scalia (Newscom/Getty)
The horrific nature of abortion is only compounded by the mounting evidence that unborn babies are sensitive to touch and pain. After reviewing testimony offered to a congressional committee, Senator Sam Brownback told fellow senators, “We now know that unborn children can not only feel, but that their ability to experience pain is heightened. The highest density of pain receptors per square inch of skin in human development occurs in utero from 20 to 30 weeks gestation.”

Dr. Steven Calvin, perinatologist at the University of Minnesota ,explained that “neural pathways are present for pain to be experienced quite early by unborn babies.”20
“Severe and Excruciating” Pain

Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a pediatrician from the University of Arkansas, testified that babies suffer “severe and excruciating” pain during second and third trimester abortions.21
Many mothers can tell you stories about the reactions of their unborn children to stimuli from outside the womb—voices, sounds, pressure, and movement. One expectant mother, for example, recalled how the child within her jumped at the sound of a slamming door. Are we so naïve as to believe that these same babies are numb to the sharp, gleaming instruments of the abortionist?

The powerful movie, The Silent Scream, used ultrasound technology to film an actual abortion. The procedure was narrated by an experienced abortionist:
[T]his suction tip which you can see moving violently back and forth on the bottom of the screen is the lethal instrument which will ultimately tear apart and destroy the child.… Now the child’s heart rate has speeded up dramatically. And the child’s movements are violent at this point. It does sense aggression in its sanctuary. It is moving away ...one can see it moving to the left side of the uterus...in an attempt ... a pathetic attempt to escape the inextricable instruments which the abortionist is using to extinguish its life.

In a sermon titled “The American Holocaust,” Dr. Kennedy discussed how deceptive euphemisms—words like “women’s rights” and “reproductive health”—create a façade for an evil comparable to Nazi war crimes:
In the Nuremberg Trials the Nazis were denounced for killing people in their gas chambers, for aborting children in their concentration camps and killing them….Malcolm Muggeridge says something which I think is very interesting. He said, “Surely some future Gibbon, surveying our times will note sardonically that it took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion...”

We cannot—we must not—mince words on this subject. The truth about abortion is that it subjects a living human being to a grotesque, often excruciating death.
Next week: TRUTH #3 - Abortion Hurts Women—Now and in the Future