Abortion Compassion

Abortion Compassion

Jim Hollingsworth

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Table of Contents

Abortion History and Practice in the United States

The Hippocratic Oaths

Abby Johnson: Her Story

The Power of Unplanned

Colleen Tronson Testimony

Abortion Anguish

Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger and the Racist Roots of Planned 

Parenthood

Bernard Nathanson, Abortionist Turned Pro-Life 

Champion, Dies at 84

Dr. Kermit Gosnell

Julie Wilkinson

Melissa Ohden

The Survivors 120

Abortion Misconceptions

The Biblical View of Abortion

Fetal Development

President Ronald Reagan’s Abortion Trac

Dr. Kermit Gosnell

Testimony of Ryan Bomberger

Overturning Roe v. Wade

Abortion Laws State by State

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health organization

Other Books by the Author

Climate Change: A Convenient Truth

Cortez: A Biography

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To mothers—all those mothers who love children and who have chosen to keep their children or carry them and put them out for adoption.

Preface

Life is precious. Very few people wish they had never been born. Very few people ever become so frustrated with life that they take their own lives. True, both Job and Jeremiah reached the point in their very frustrating ministries that they wished they had never been born, where they considered their own lives a curse. (See Job 3 and Jeremiah 20:14–18)

Remember the character George Bailey in the movie It’s a Wonderful Life? He came to the point where he wished he had never been born. So the angel Clarence gave him his wish. George had to see what impact his one frustrating life had on other people. George finally realized that it was a wonderful life after all.

All life is precious: any life. No matter how handicapped a person may be at birth, they still fight to live. One person, in particular, was born without arms or legs. Oh, he did have a tiny foot, but that was all. As a young child, he tried to take his own life but could not be successful for a number of reasons. He learned to trust God at an early age and later went on to hold positive life seminars in hundreds of cities throughout the world and wrote several books about the value of life. (Nick Vujicic’s Life without Limits and other similar works. He later married and is raising a great family.)

Life is important. That is why the framers of our republic stated simply in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments (the Bill of Rights) that no person could be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process of law meant simply that they had to be guilty of a crime convicted in a court of law by a jury of their peers.

The opinion of the US Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade dealt with the question of when a person becomes a person with all the protections of the Constitution. That the Court’s opinion was seven to two and not unanimous indicates that their decision was very subjective. (The reality is also that, of the seven, five were appointed by Republican presidents.) This was not a medical decision but a political one.

Abortions have always taken place, and they probably always will. Even should the Supreme Court decide to reverse their original decision in Roe v. Wade, there will still be abortions. The question is not a matter of law but a condition of the human heart. As long as we hold a cheap view of human life, there will always be abortions, if for no other reason than convenience.

Most people who have had abortions have later regretted their rash action. Some suffer every year when the time arrives that would have been the birthday of their little one whose life was taken. Many nurses who have assisted in abortions have finally recognized the error of their ways and have left the abortion clinics and have become pro-life.

Some doctors performed thousands of abortions only to realize the magnitude of their error. They became strongly pro-life until the day of their deaths.

This book has been written in the hope of turning someone away from the desire for an abortion. The action of a moment can lead to a pregnancy which will result in the birth of a child, either a live one or a dead one, but there can be no other result. It was also written for those who want to help another see the error of abortion.

So why write another book on abortion? There have been many great books written on the subject as well as a few movies. Knowing this, we have sought to make some of this information available and have reproduced it here. If you want to know more about the authors, you can read their books or watch their films. If we have caused even one little life to be saved, then our task is rewarded. Many women sought abortions because they were told lies about the unborn. We hope the facts shared here will help them see the truth, that there is a precious child growing inside their bodies from conception. They all have the same right to life that we have, and there is no one to defend them.

Many states have worked on legislation on abortion. Some laws would not take effect unless the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade. Some would stop all abortions at a certain point, many only after the child becomes viable or when they can feel pain or even after a heartbeat is detected. Others believe that all legislation needs to simply outlaw all abortions beginning with conception. There have been strong disagreements over these various positions.

But in life, we must deal with what is achievable. Court cases often hinge on what is practical and not on what is good or right. That being true, it is easier to get legislation passed which stands some chance of surviving a court battle. And as we said, even one life saved makes it worth it. If we cannot save all, would we, therefore, refuse to save any? I think the question answers itself.

If we encountered a house on fire and we knew we could not save everyone, would we refuse to save anyone? Of course not. We would risk our own lives to save as many as possible.

Our goal needs to be to save all from abortion, from conception to birth, but would we refuse if we could only save a few?

Someone may have placed this book in your hands. Even the fact of its existence may cause you extreme anger. Our only hope is that you will read it all and then pass it along to someone who is thinking of an abortion or who would think of an abortion, should the need become necessary.

Abortion has gradually gone from being a medical issue to being simply a political issue. Thus, the Republican Party has traditionally been pro-life, and the Democrats have traditionally been pro-choice. This is an unfortunate dichotomy as there are other issues that separate the two parties.

So our hope is to one day see some pro-life Democrats who will cause other of their friends to also see the truth about life. Life is a precious gift from God, and we must work to preserve it at all points, from conception to natural death. I hope you find the reading of this short book profitable.

(Just a note about the Mississippi court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This case will be heard by the US Supreme Court this fall. It is unlikely that this book will be in print by then, so why write it? No matter how the case is decided, there will still be the need for changes in the human heart concerning life’s questions. That is the reason this book was written.)

Thanks for caring,

The author

Introduction

Abortion History and Practice in the United States

On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that an unborn child was not a person and therefore had none of the guarantees of the protection of life, liberty, or property found in the United States Constitution. Since that time, literally millions of innocent children have lost their lives at the hands of doctors who have abandoned the traditional Hippocratic Oath which forbids abortions. They have done this in order to further a medical career. These men (and women) have turned a profession which was dedicated to the saving of life into that which has, as its major aim, the taking of human life.

At the time the Court ruled, there was considerable controversy concerning abortions. Many abortions were being performed illegally, and there were many medical risks for the mother as well. The Court believed that Roe would put to rest the controversy and that life would once again be peaceful.

But such has not been the case. Much to the consternation of the Court, each year sees a greater and greater number of demonstrations against the decision they made in Roe. Although the crowd can be and often is wrong, I believe it behooves the Court to reconsider its decision and, in fact, rescind the decision it made in Roe v. Wade.

But this the Court is very reticent to do for two reasons. First the Court stated in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (a Pennsylvania case) that to reverse the decision would undermine confidence in the court, and second, the Court also stated that a whole generation of women have grown to adulthood and have established careers based upon the belief that their careers would not be affected if they should get pregnant. They could terminate the pregnancy with an abortion, and their careers would be saved.

There is nothing in all this about the position of the US Constitution, nor is there any mention of what does or does not constitute a person. Further, there is no real consideration of what constitutes life. True, the Court did consider many aspects of when life began but never really came to grips with the continuum of life, parent to child etc. The Court simply based its decision not on any solid Constitutional basis but on the so-called right to privacy (to be secure in person etc.) and the belief that a woman had liberty. Thus, this so-called right to privacy and liberty has been used as the basis to deny literally millions of children the most basic of all human rights, the right to live.

We hope to show in this treatise that unborn children are in fact people who have a right to live just as anyone else does.

Chapter 1

The Hippocratic Oaths

One thing also that is worth considering is the Hippocratic Oath. Here is the original oath and the revised oath. Every doctor who subscribes to the oath promises not to perform an abortion.

The Classic Hippocratic Oath

I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea, and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgment.

I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his sons as brothers. I will teach them my art without reward or agreement; and I will impart all my acquirement, instructions, and whatever I know, to my master’s children, as to my own; and likewise to all my pupils, who shall bind and tie themselves by a professional oath, but to none else.

With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.

Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.

Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.

I will not cut for the stone, but will commit that affair entirely to the surgeons.

Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.

Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast.

If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate!

The Revised Hippocratic Oath

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.

I will not be ashamed to say I know not, nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.

Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.

Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings; those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.

May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

(The Hippocratic Oath: The Original and Revised Version, The Practo Blog for Doctors, posted March 10, 2015, https://doctors.practo.com/the-hippocratic-oath-the-original-and-revised-version)

Notice that the revised oath does not say anything about not causing an abortion.

Chapter 2

Abby Johnson: Her Story

Abby Johnson has a story to tell. She knew the truth about abortion clinics, but for some reason, that truth did not affect her until something dramatic happened to her on the job. Here is her story.

Unplanned: Could Roe v. Wade Be Overturned Soon?

Troy Anderson

Vol. 35, No. 7, March 28, 2019

With abhorrence at abortion laws allowing the killing of an infant moments before he is born, new anti-abortion movies, and new Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade may fall.

Abby Johnson was Planned Parenthood’s superstar. In eight years, she rose from a college volunteer to one of their youngest clinic directors to Employee of the Year.

Then she assisted with an ultrasound-guided abortion for the first time, and what she saw changed everything.

We were expanding abortion services in our affiliates to perform abortions through six months of pregnancy, Johnson told The New American. I didn’t support abortion that far into the pregnancy. Then we were instructed to double our abortion quota—a certain number of abortions that we had to sell to women coming in, which was bothersome to me.

At the time, Johnson believed, foolishly, what she had been told—that Planned Parenthood was trying to keep abortion rare, but the demand to double their abortion quota didn’t align with what she believed the nonprofit organization’s mission was. [Thus, she realized that, rather than being a charity dedicated to helping women, Planned Parenthood was nothing more than a business taking advantage of women in their weakest moments. Ed.]

Then, in October 2009, a co-worker asked her to assist with an abortion at the clinic in Texas.

Ultimately, I left [Planned Parenthood] after witnessing a live ultrasound-guided abortion procedure where I saw a 13-week-old baby fight and struggle for his life against the abortion instruments only to lose his life, and I knew that there was humanity in the womb, Johnson says. I knew that for all these years I had essentially put the rights of the woman above the rights of the unborn child, and it became very clear to me in that moment that our rights should be equal—that one shouldn’t supersede the other.

After Johnson quit her job, Planned Parenthood sued and tried to slap a gag order on her.

They tried to get a permanent gag order against me so I wouldn’t be able to talk about my experiences and the things I knew about the organization, Johnson says. "And that was actually what was picked up by the media and really propelled me to then start sharing my story publicly and then subsequently writing Unplanned [a best-selling book based on her experiences]."

Divine Orchestration?

Described as a divinely orchestrated thing by those involved, a film based off her book, also called Unplanned, opened March 29 [2019] amid a number of other pro-life films, as speculation grows that the US Supreme Court may soon weigh in on the controversial 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in America. The decision ruled that state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional.

Since that time, more than 61 million unborn children have died [now 64 million, ed.], according to National Right to Life, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization.

Planned Parenthood, which reported more than $1.6 billion in revenues in 2017–18, while posting over $240 million in excess revenues, is estimated to have made nearly $160 million performing over 330,000 abortions last year, according to National Right to Life’s annual report.

I went in really naïve about what abortion was, what the abortion industry was, Johnson says. I certainly learned that it is an industry; that they are in this for profit. I remember being told by a supervisor that nonprofit is a tax status, not a business status.

They’re not a charitable organization. Abortions are not done for free. They are not done because they are trying to help women. They are done because they are trying to exploit women and manipulate women in a very vulnerable time of their lives, and I think we need to talk more about that—what true women’s empowerment means because I don’t think Planned Parenthood really understands what that is, and I think to profit off the crisis of another human being is really the antithesis of what it means to empower someone.

With President Trump’s appointment of conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the high court, and the possibility he may make other appointments if one or more of the aging, liberal justices die, concerns are growing among abortion supporters that the Supreme Court may weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade. [Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away; and Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative jurist, has taken her place as of October 2020.]

If Trump names a replacement for 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has suffered health-related setbacks over the years and had two malignant nodules removed from her left lung in December, Republican appointees to the high court would outnumber Democratic ones six to three. [See note above.]

At least 20 abortion-related cases are now in the pipeline to the Supreme Court, and legal experts say any one of them could be the one that results in a decision that would send shockwaves around the planet.

"I think we are living in times where we