Former Abortionist Uses Medical Animations To Show
What Happens To Baby and Mother During Abortion
by Dr. Susan Berry24 Feb 2016
Pro-life organization Live Action is showing a video
series in which a former abortionist uses medical animations to reveal the
harsh reality of abortion for both mother and baby.
The group’s goal is to cut through the pro-abortion
rhetoric that speaks of “tissue masses,” “clumps of cells,” and “products of
conception,” especially at a time when abortion has become a major issue
in the 2016 election.
The video below features former abortionist Dr. Anthony
Levatino – who performed more than 1,200 abortions – using accurate medical
depictions of what happens during the abortion procedure. No graphic photos of
real babies are used in the series.
“I’d like to challenge the abortion lobby – Planned Parenthood,
NARAL,
and the rest – to respond to these videos,” Lila Rose said during a web
conference for media Tuesday. “After seeing the videos, most people would
have a difficult time telling a woman that abortion is ‘health care’ or
‘empowering,’”
Rose, president of Live Action, said her group’s nine
years of video investigations have led to the realization that most of the
general public is uninformed about what happens during an abortion.
“The abortion lobby masks the procedure in euphemisms,”
she explained. “’Terminating the pregnancy,’ ‘tissue mass,’ ‘product of
conception.’ The majority of the public has no clue about what abortion really
does to a child in the womb; how developed the child actually is during an
abortion; and the risks of abortion to the mother’s health and safety.”
Rose described the abortion industry’s continued denial
of the presence of a human baby during pregnancy. By way of example, she
referred to abortion political advocacy group NARAL’s tweet
during the Super Bowl, protesting a Doritos ad featuring parents viewing their
unborn baby’s ultrasound. NARAL attacked what it called the ad’s “anti-choice
tactic of humanizing fetuses.”
The new web video series, Rose says, will “change the
debate about abortion.”
“Our experience shows that once someone sees the reality
of abortion, it’s hard for them to go back and justify it,” she asserted.
The series consists of four videos – each about four
minutes in length. The videos reflect accurate medical information about
abortion and use animated medical depictions inside the uterus. Though the
videos do not show graphic photos of abortion, the medical animations allow the
public to see the violence of abortion.
According to Live Action, all information presented in
the videos is backed up by peer-reviewed medical journals and has been reviewed
by practicing OB/GYNs, medical professionals, and former abortionists.
The four videos – located at www.AbortionProcedures.com
– address the most common abortion procedures:
·
The abortion pill – which deprives the unborn
baby of blood and nourishment until it dies
·
The suction D&C – which uses a vacuum to
pull the baby apart
·
The D&E abortion – which uses forceps to
tear limbs from larger babies
·
The chemical injection abortion that stops the
fetal heart and causes the mother to deliver the baby stillborn a few days
later
“After seeing these videos, the public isn’t going to buy
the rhetoric of the abortion lobby,” Rose states. “In 2016, ‘war on women’
and ‘extremist’ labels just won’t work.
“In four short minutes, Americans will see the reality of
abortion,” she adds. “And that’s the last thing the abortion industry wants,
because it knows that once people are exposed to the violence of abortion, they
reject it.”
A recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll found a full
81 percent of Americans favor some restrictions on abortion – including limiting
the procedure after the first three months – and a continued ban on public
funding of abortion.
In the survey of 1,700 Americans, even 66 percent of
respondents who identify themselves as pro-choice say, “Abortion should be
allowed, at most, in the first trimester, in cases of rape, incest or to save
the life of the mother, or never permitted.”
Planned Parenthood
Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was the founder &
president of America Votes, and a grant
overseer for the Turner Foundation.
Note: Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
NARAL
Pro-Choice America is a
national partner with America Votes.
Caroline
Fredrickson was a general counsel for the NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Washington legislative director for
the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU), and is the president of the American
Constitution Society.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the American
Constitution Society, and the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a friend of Michael Douglas, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a contributor for MoveOn.org.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Media Matters, and
the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).
Ilyse Hogue was
the director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org,
is a senior adviser for Media Matters,
and the president of the NARAL
Pro-Choice America.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, and the chairman for the Turner
Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, the founder & president of America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
NARAL
Pro-Choice America is a national partner with America Votes.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, the chairman for the Turner
Foundation, and the chairman for the United
Nations Foundation.
Nafis
Sadik is a director at the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), a director at the United Nations Foundation, and was an executive director for the United Nations Population Fund.
Pro-Choice Americans Praise Family-Planning Funding
Increase
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2008
Washington, D.C. – Nancy
Keenan, president of NARAL
Pro-Choice America, praised lawmakers for
passing an historic funding increase for international family-planning
programs. The move came last night when the House Appropriations Subcommittee
for State and Foreign Operations unveiled and passed its appropriations bill
for fiscal year 2009.
"This increase is
critically important to ensure that women receive the family-planning care they
need," Keenan said. "As women around the world struggle to obtain
basic reproductive-health care, we need to invest in these essential programs
that provide services, such as cancer screenings and prenatal care."
The bill increases USAID
funding, from $461 million to $600 million for international family planning.
It also provides $60 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),
and includes language clarifying that these funds must be released. Bush has
cancelled funding for this program for seven consecutive years. UNFPA provides
critical family-planning services, prenatal care, and other primary health
services in more than 100 developing countries.
Keenan said the
subcommittee's action underscores how pro-choice congressional leadership can
have an impact on women's everyday lives.
"Pro-choice Americans
applaud Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and other members of the subcommittee for their
commitment to women's health," Keenan said. "President Bush has
starved these programs for his entire presidency – and when it was under
anti-choice control, Congress usually followed his lead. Thankfully, under new
pro-choice leadership, Congress has put aside the usual Bush-style politics of
rhetoric and division, and instead focuses on positive policies to provide
essential healthcare to the world's poorest women."
# # #
Contact:
Media@ProChoiceAmerica.org
Media@ProChoiceAmerica.org
J. Brian Atwood
was an administrator for the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID), and is a director at the Population Services International.
Population Services International
SALIN project in Mali
With support from the Dutch
government under the Strategic Alliance with International NGOs (SALIN), Population Services International undertook a 30-month project, from July 2008, aimed at
meeting post-partum family planning needs, increasing contraceptive prevalence
rate (CPR), and decreasing maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Mali.[4] This was in line with Millennium
Development Goal 5.[5] Family planning can help time and
space pregnancies or prevent unplanned pregnancies, reducing maternal
mortality.[6]
Mali women of reproductive
age have little knowledge on family planning methods and are largely unaware of
the health benefits of family planning.[6] Mali's contraceptive prevalence rate
of 6% was among the lowest worldwide and had stagnated since 2001, with the
exception of the capital, Bamako, where the CPR decreased from 19% to 16% from
2001 to 2006.[4] At least one in 25 women in Mali die
from pregnancy-related causes or resulting lifelong complications.[6] There is also limited access to
long-acting family planning methods.[4]
Clinic event days were
designed to promote family planning. While women waited to have their child
immunised on immunisation days, the midwife and the clinic personnel give a
30-45 minute presentation on the importance of family planning as well as the
contraceptive options available.[6] Women were encouraged to raise
concerns and the discussions helped to dispel common misconceptions. PSI also
provided a subsidy for the women who chose to receive a long-acting
contraception method, increasing access to and affordability of family planning.[6]
As of 31 October 2010, a
total of 1,666 health talk sessions were held and 69,055 women were reached:
1,396 intrauterine devices (IUD) and 14,547 contraceptive implants were
inserted.[4]
The IUD provides protection from unintended pregnancies for up to 12 years and
the implant for up to 5 years.
Frank E. Loy is
a director at the Population Services
International, and was the president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (think tank).
German
Marshall Fund of the United States (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, the chairman for the United
Nations Foundation, and the chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, the founder & president of America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
NARAL
Pro-Choice America is a national partner with America Votes.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a national partner with America Votes, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
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