Siblings of Children Lost to Abortion Say They Have a ‘Longing to Have Known’ Their Sibling

By Cassy Fiano
Live Action News

A new article at Romper purports to help women who have had abortions break the so-called abortion stigma: by telling their surviving children the stories of their other abortions. The author, Priscilla Blossom, explained that she was already considering how she would, one day, tell her son of her abortion.

“I want him to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that his mother believes in a pregnant person’s right to choose,” she wrote. “I want him to know someone, first-hand, who can talk about abortion, and who doesn’t regret her positive experience. I want him to know that if he should ever know someone who is in need of an abortion or considering one, that I can be a trusted individual and, moreover, a resource. I want him to grow up acknowledging everyone’s bodily autonomy (something we already practice via lessons in consent). And a conversation about my abortion experience will help me facilitate all of these messages and lessons.”

One mom said that the story of her miscarriage gave her children nightmares, making her realize that she couldn’t tell them about her abortion — yet she said she worried that not telling them violated her “work values,” as she works as an abortion activist. Another mom explained that she wrote an “open letter” to her children that was about to be published online, so she let them read it first and admitted that she had an abortion as well. Another said she chose abortion because her marriage was going well.

“I explained (truthfully) that while I still had baby fever after having had her, I got pregnant at a time when her dad and I were doing really well and focusing on our own relationship,” she wrote. “It was not a good time for us to have another child.” READ: Abortion affects sibling survivors: ‘I miss them although I never knew them’

Noticeably absent is any discussion of how news of prior abortions affected the children. And telling children that you’ve aborted their siblings isn’t a great way to destroy stigma, but is, in fact, cruel. It causes them immense pain — as sibling survivors have explained.

One sibling wrote of the pain they felt after learning of their mother’s abortion.

“We let it drop and I forgot about it,” they wrote. “But I had not really forgotten. I didn’t think about it consciously for years.” They continued that years later:Suddenly I found myself thinking about my little brother! I became disoriented and lost control of the car for a moment as I burst into tears having lost him. I was astounded by my reaction, but I couldn’t shake the sadness and longing to have known him.

Other siblings have similar feelings.

She tells me that she speaks to him sometimes, in her mind and in her dreams. She wonders about the life they would have had growing up together. Would they have fought a lot? Would he have counseled her on boy matters? Would he have scolded her for her overzealous high-school drinking?

She believes that in this other world, she is already an aunt. Her brother would have met a girl. Married her. Had babies my friend would babysit and spoil shamelessly.

She feels cheated. She feels lonelier than an only child should feel.

Feelings of survivor’s guilt are not uncommon, according to Dr. Philip Ney, who says that sibling survivors have “lifelong struggles about existing” after learning that their survival is based on arbitrary decisions on whether a child was wanted or not.

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Joe Scarborough Claims VP Mike Pence Doesn’t Follow Bible, Ignores Biblical Admonition to Protect Life

By Scott Whitlock
Life News

The hosts of Morning Joe are angry once again. During a discussion on Tuesday of the policy of separating the children of illegals at the border, Joe Scarborough decided to play Bible expert and wondered if Mike Pence cuts out sections of the Bible (in the style of Thomas Jefferson).

Scarborough angrily lectured: “Mike Pence says he’s a Christian first. That’s fantastic. I’m sure he is. I do wonder if he has Jefferson’s Bible? If he’s cut out Matthew 25? If he’s cut out the part where Jesus actually is asked by disciples who is going to be able to sit on your right hand and who is going to be cast away?”

He continued: “And Jesus goes through the list and he talks about anyone that does this for the least among us is doing it to me. They will be with the sheep. Those who don’t will be tossed out — with the goats.”

Did Scarborough or other MSNBC hosts ever cite the Bible to Hillary Clinton when discussing the Democrat’s rabid support for abortion? Do the words in Matthew 25:40 about “the least of these brothers and sisters” matter in regard to the pro-life cause? And how often do liberals get called out for not living up to the Bible? Are these Democrats guilty of having Jefferson’s Bible?

In the same segment, former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who recently left the party, slimed the U.S. as worse than Venezuela and Cuba because they don’t have “internment camps for babies.”

The extraordinary and astounding hypocrisy of it to see the constancy of the assertion of Christian virtue by political leaders in this country who have established internment camps for babies and toddlers. And by the way, I never in a million years thought I would sit here or anywhere and say this. But the difference now between Venezuela and Cuba and the United States is this: Venezuela and Cuba are the countries without internment camps for babies and toddlers.

LifeNews.com Note: Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center and a contributing writer to NewsBusters, its blog where this item first appeared. Scott’s blogs have been featured in the “Inside Politics” section of the Washington Times and linked to on the Drudge Report. He is a graduate of George Mason University. This originally appeared at Newsbusters.

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Hospital Staff Caught Euthanizing Hundreds of Patients: “If a Nurse Didn’t Like You, You Were a Goner”

“Exactly the same cause of death was routinely given by those doctors involved in the “life-shortening” of the mentally incapacitated in Germany in 1939-41.”

By Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
Life News

More details are emerging of the scandal in which at least 450, and probably more than 650, people’s lives were ended as a result of being given dangerous amounts of unnecessary opiates.

Shocking Statistics

The report of The Gosport Independent Panel into Gosport War Memorial Hospital found that only 45% of those administered terminal quantities of diamorphine (which can be appropriate in alleviating severe pain at the very end of life) were said to be in pain. Many of the case studies showed that even where pain was noted, it was not properly assessed, and the effect of medication was not monitored.

In 29% of cases, no reason or rationale was given for prescribing the lethal doses. In 26%, reasons were given that would “rarely, if ever, be regarded as appropriate indications,” such as deterioration, distress, or agitation.

Nurses Euthanising Difficult Patients

Writing in the Times, Dominic Lawson points out that “the ones most likely to get the treatment appeared to be not the sickest, but the most ‘difficult’. As the stepson of one of the victims remarked: ‘If a nurse didn’t like you, you were a goner.'”

This is clear from the testimony of whistle-blower Pauline Spilker, who said: “It appeared to me then and more so now that euthanasia was practised by the nursing staff. I cannot offer an explanation as to why I did not challenge what I saw at that time . . . I feel incredibly guilty.”

Euthanasiast Culture

In addition to the case she described of an 80 year old man who was active and mentally alert but “difficult” there were other cases of tricky patients being quietened with non-clinically indicated opiates. Dr Barton, who was responsible for the prescribing on the wards, defended the use of diamorphine on a lady with dementia who was “not [in] physical pain but not happy, not comfortable, not easy to look after.” Commenting on a report condoning her actions, the panel said: 

“This is an extraordinary conclusion, explicitly condoning the use of large doses of diamorphine simply to control symptoms of confusion and agitation, contrary to all relevant guidance.”

Patient with Learning Difficulties Killed

Dominic Lawson highlights a case that he, as the father of an adult with Down’s syndrome, finds particularly shocking – that of 78-year-old Ethel Thurston, who had learning difficulties, and was admitted with a fractured femur.

At another hospital, the doctor assessed her as having the “physical potential to remobilise” and she was admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital for rehabilitation, care and mobilisation. Within days, Dr Barton wrote on her notes “please keep comfortable. I am happy for nursing staff to confirm death.” 

These euphemistic words appeared on many patients’ records, despite them for the most part being admitted for respite or rehabilitation, not end of life care. 

The panel also found that the medical team were putting patients onto end of life pathways without proper consultation with them or their families. (Concerns over practices such as these have been raised in the last few years in connection with the now infamous Liverpool Care Pathway and its successors.)

Where Have We Seen This Before?

Miss Thurston was put on high doses of diamorphine and midazolam (the panel noted that the “starting dose of diamorphine was excessive, at least three times the recommended dose equivalent” and it could find no clinical indication for the drugs at all) and died seven hours later.

The cause was said to be “bronchopneumonia”. Almost all these deaths were attributed to pneumonia, without any further explanation.

As Dominic Lawson notes: “Exactly the same cause of death was routinely given by those doctors involved in the “life-shortening” of the mentally incapacitated in Germany in 1939-41.”

LifeNews Note: Courtesy of SPUC. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is a leading pro-life organization in the United Kingdom.

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Blogger's Note:  A Holocaust Against Humanity

If a baby is not safe within the shelter of its mother's womb, then no one is safe. 

The 'slippery slope" after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion has come to pass. A culture of death is taking root even in the medical community. The Hippocratic Oath has become irrelevant among some in the medical profession.  

We are becoming a utilitarian society where only the healthy and productive will be allowed to live. This 'Holocaust against Humanity' is the evil that results when man becomes God.  

Wherever God's Truth prevails and His grace, love and power resides in the souls of men, peace reigns in a nation.  Pray for an end to abortion and a return to peace through Christ, the Prince of Peace.

Ohio’s First Abortion Company Closing Columbus Facility After Long Sordid History

Mark Harrington, President
Created Equal

A Columbus, OH abortion company, “Founders Women’s Health Center,” is shutting their doors at 1243 E. Broad St. Founders was the first abortion center in Ohio after abortion was decriminalized in 1973.

“Founders” has a sordid past:

• Killed thousands of babies – First and foremost, this abortion company has been murdering children for decades causing the deaths of thousands of innocent preborn children.
• Tax Liens – “Founders Women’s Health Center” owes over one million dollars in taxes to the City of Columbus, State of Ohio, and the Federal Government (IRS).
• A revoked hospital agreement – Grant Hospital revoked their transfer agreement with the abortion clinic.
• An uninsured abortionist – Main abortionist has no medical malpractice insurance.
• Overdue fines – Owes the Ohio Department of Health $40,000 in fines.
• Injures women – One abortionist perforated the uterus of mother with a non-uterine pregnancy leaving her sterile.
• Employed a known child sex offender - Dr. Tom Michaelis’ medical license was revoked after he pled guilty to sexual imposition. While employed by Founder’s Women’s Health Center, Michaelis was indicted by the US Attorney on federal child pornography charges.

In just five years, 7 abortion centers have closed in Ohio!


We are grateful for all the hundreds of activists who have prayed, protested and sidewalk counseled outside this abortion center over the decades.

“For time being at least, Columbus, OH will be reduced to having one abortion center. It wasn’t long ago there were seven killing centers in this city of 2 million residents. In 2013, there were 14 abortion centers. Thanks to the faithful efforts of the pro-life community, abortionists are increasingly having difficulty keeping their grisly businesses open.” – Mark Harrington, President, Created Equal

“Abortion is a scourge on our families, our communities, and our moral consciousness. For nearly three decades, Ohio’s first abortion clinic was housed at 1243 E Broad Street, in a building co-owned by three of Ohio’s first abortion providers. The doors of that building are shutting. That is a good thing for this community.” – Beth Vanderkooi, Executive Director, Greater Columbus Right to Life.

We are still gathering information about what next steps, if any, will be taken by this abortion company and will let you know of any further developments.

 View Mark Harrington's video, Ohio’s First Abortion Company Closing Columbus Facility below or watch it on YouTube using this link.  

 

Created Equal exists to establish the concept of human equality and expose the lethal injustice of abortion. Our projects include campus outreach, urban outreach, sidewalk counseling, Justice Rides, Operation Overpass, Project Weak Link, and others.

We will continue this work until the day abortion is abolished, but we need your help. Please consider donating to this mission.  Use this link to help Created Equal with their work.  

 

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Supreme Court Strikes Down California Law Forcing Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion

"...a government that tells you what you must say—under threat of severe punishment—is alarming.”

By Steven Ertelt
Life News

The Supreme Court has struck down a California law forcing pregnancy centers to promote abortions. The high court decision is a massive victory for pro-life advocates and pregnancy centers that want to provide pro-life options for pregnant women considering abortion without being forced to promote abortions.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this year in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, a lawsuit brought by pregnancy centers that don’t want to be compelled to advertise abortions.They say the California Reproductive FACT Act violates the free speech clause in the First Amendment.

Today, the nation’s highest court struck down the law, saying it “likely violates the First Amendment.” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for the 5-4 majority in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Alito and Gorsuch joined. The four abortion advocates, Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan ruled that pregnancy centers can be forced to promote abortions.

“The licensed notice is a content-based regulation. By compelling petitioners to speak a particular message, it “alters the content of [their] speech,'” the Supreme Court added.

Thomas wrote that “the people lose when the government is the one deciding which ideas should prevail…. This Court’s precedents are deeply skeptical of laws that ‘distinguis[h] among different speakers, allowing speech by some but not others.’”

Tuesday’s ruling from the Supreme Court could impact similar pro-abortion anti-free-speech laws enacted in other states, including Hawaii and Illinois.

Alliance Defending Freedom President, CEO, and General Counsel MichaelFarris told LifeNews he was delighted by the decision.

“No one should be forced by the government to express a message that violates their convictions, especially on deeply divisive subjects such as abortion,” said Farris. “In this case, the government used its power to force pro-life pregnancy centers to provide free advertising for abortion. The Supreme Court said that the government can’t do that, and that it must respect pro-life beliefs.”

“Tolerance and respect for good-faith differences of opinion are essential in a diverse society like ours,” Farris added. “They enable us to coexist peacefully with one another. If we want to have freedom for ourselves, we have to extend it to others.”

NIFPA president Thomas Glessner also was happy about today’s ruling.

“The right of free speech protected in the First Amendment not only includes the right to speak, but also the right to not be compelled by government to speak a message with which one disagrees and which violates one’s conscience,” said Glessner in comments to LifeNews.

“The court correctly found that the California law clearly offends this principle. We are very pleased with the court’s decision and for what it means for the many pro-life centers that serve and empower women in California and throughout the country.”

Farris argued in court on behalf of the pregnancy centers.

“Today, before the United States Supreme Court justices, I argued on behalf of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates that the California law forcing pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise for abortions is unlawful government-compelled expression,” he told LifeNews after the oral arguments.

 “A government that tells you what you can’t say is dangerous, but a government that tells you what you must say—under threat of severe punishment—is alarming.”

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Watch Pro-Abortion Irish Politicians Squirm When Asked About Abortion

By Claire Chreiten
Life Site News

IRELAND, May 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Doing what the liberal media refuse to do, a courageous Irish man asked the politicians who support repealing his country's pro-life Eighth Amendment a few basic questions on abortion.
They either gave vague answers or wouldn't say anything at all.

Watch below.

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Blogger's Note: Ireland's Pro-Life amendment was repealed by a majority of voters on May 25, 2018. Those who were opposed to the repeal of the 8th amendment vow to keep fighting the referendum. Read CNS News article about the pro-life battle to restore the sanctity of life in Ireland.

Without Adoption, Many Wouldn’t Be Here

By Maria Gallagher
National Right to Life

My co-worker surprised me one day by asking, “Did you see what’s on your cup?”

I turned the red paper cup around and looked at the wording imprinted on it. It stated, “Face it. Without adoption, Wendy’s wouldn’t be here.”

I knew it to be true. The founder of Wendy’s, the late Dave Thomas, had been adopted as a child. As an adult, after building a successful nationwide restaurant chain, he became a tireless advocate for adoption.

Think about it. Consider the jobs that would have been lost, the relationships that never would have formed. The people who would not have had Dave Thomas to look up to as a mentor and a business leader, were it not for adoption. Just one child. One story. One adoption.

Multiply that by the many, many people whose families have been formed by adoption. A dear friend of mine recently adopted a little girl who is the love of her life. A colleague’s family has been happily expanded through adoption. And my own family has been richly blessed as a result of adoption.

Adoption saves and enhances lives. It forms strong families who greatly enrich our communities and our country. It is a life-giving alternative to the hopelessness of abortion.

So I would like to raise my cup and toast all those families whose lives have been forever changed by adoption. Your courageous, heroic witness inspires those who love and admire you.

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Texas Governor Promises to Honor Pro-Life Teen’s Dying Wish and ‘Outlaw Abortion’

“Let’s end this holocaust in the mighty Name of Jesus.” 
Jeremiah Thomas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott | Jeremiah Thomas speaking with the Governor

By Dorothy Cummings McLean

Life Site News

The Governor of Texas has promised a pro-life teen dying from cancer that he will “outlaw abortion altogether in the state of Texas.”

Governor Greg Abbott, 60, called his constituent Jeremiah Thomas as the teen lay in the cancer ward of a children’s hospital. The Governor was connected to the teen through “Make a Wish,” a program that allows young people who are terminally ill to fulfill a personal dream. Many children choose to meet a personal hero, like a sports star. Thomas decided to use his "wish" to reach out to the governor and ask him to do something to end the killing of preborn babies.

Jeremiah asked the Governor to treat abortion “like an act of murder.”

“For my wish, I wanted to talk to you and discuss a bill of abolition [to end abortion]” he said

Jeremiah told the governor that a recent poll showed that 68% of [Republican] Texans want abortion abolished.

“Sir, you would be representing the demands of Texans if you would pass this bill,” he said.

“We could end abortion here and now.”

The boy’s face lit up at the governor's response, which was recorded on video and uploaded to Facebook.

“Your wish is on the Republican party platform position,” Governor Abbott said, “and we’re going to be pursuing this…And that is to outlaw abortion altogether in the state of Texas”

Jeremiah Thomas

Facebook / screen grab

“So, your wish is granted,” he added.

Jeremiah Thomas, 16, was an all-star, state champion athlete when he was diagnosed with cancer in March 2018. His father Rusty, the director of pro-life group Operation Save America (formerly known as Operation Rescue), has been reporting from his son’s bedside, not only to ask for lifesaving prayers, but to witness to his son’s love for God.

Jeremiah was diagnosed with osteoblastic osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that is resistant to radiation therapy. The boy had two tumors on his spine and one on his chest. The cancer progressed, defeating treatment. Jeremiah has now become paralyzed from the waist down and is in constant pain. From the very beginning, he had only a 10% chance of survival.

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PPFA of Pennsylvania Pledges to Invest $1.5 million to Re-Elect Pro-Abortion Governor

Senator Scott Wagner, Wolf's opponent, had a 100 percent pro-life voting record while serving in the PA state legislature.

By Maria Gallagher
National Right to Life

The political arm of the nation’s largest abortion operation plans to spend a record-setting amount of money in the campaign leading up to the November election in Pennsylvania.

The political action committee of Planned Parenthood in the Keystone State has announced it will invest $1.5 million in the Governor’s race and other campaigns throughout the Commonwealth.

Spokeswoman Sari Stevens said in a news release that Governor Tom Wolf is “…a brick wall against efforts to roll back health care access and rights of Pennsylvanians.”

That is code language for “the Governor has never met an abortion restriction he liked.”

Wolf has come to be known as the most pro-abortion governor in Pennsylvania history. This is especially disconcerting, given the legacy of the late Governor Robert Casey, Sr.

Robert Casey, Sr. famously challenged the Democratic Party with his principled pro-life stand. (He is not to be confused with his pro-abortion son, a United States senator.)

Gov. Wolf once volunteered as a clinic escort at a Planned Parenthood facility. He is famous—infamous, actually—for rejecting a bill that would have banned the outrageous practice of dismemberment abortion, where a living preborn baby is torn limb by limb from a mother’s womb.

His staff has also indicated that he would veto House Bill 2050, the Down Syndrome Protection Act, if it comes across his desk. House Bill 2050 would ban abortion for the sole reason of a Down syndrome diagnosis. The bill passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming, bipartisan, veto-proof margin and is now pending in the state Senate.

In contrast, Wolf’s Republican opponent, former state Senator Scott Wagner, had a 100 percent pro-life voting record during his tenure in the state legislature. Wagner also pushed for enforcement of the state’s abortion center regulation law and sponsored a bus to the March for Life in Washington, D.C.

Note: Maria Gallagher is Legislative Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation.

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Faith Chose Life for Her Son Thanks to a Pregnancy Resource Center

Faith and Noah joined Pregnancy Resource Center of Rolla at the Walk for Life

By Nancy Flanders
Live Action News

For women facing unplanned and crisis pregnancies, a pregnancy resource center can be the ultimate lifeline when someone feels like they’re drowning. At 21 years of age and still in school, pregnancy and motherhood were not in Faith’s immediate plans. However, when she learned she was pregnant, she was excited. But others in her life were less supportive than she hoped.

“Being a little bit younger and unmarried, people tend to think it’s not as much of a blessing as it really is,” Faith told Live Action News. “They make you think it’s more of a burden to be carrying this life. 

That is not what I needed at that time. And then my baby’s father started considering it more of a burden than a blessing, and made me think about abortion, and suggested that it would be our best option. That was never even an option in my opinion. And just the fact that it was even an idea worth considering? It’s horrible.”

Before sharing the news of her pregnancy, Faith had gone to see the staff and volunteers at Pregnancy Resource Center of Rolla in Missouri. They confirmed that she was indeed pregnant and Faith expressed her joy.

“When Faith first came to us, you know, she’s just this young, beautiful, excited woman,” explained Jane Dalton of PRC of Rolla and director of St. Raymond’s Society, a transitional home for pregnant and newly parenting women. “… She was so excited about [her pregnancy]. Very happy about it. She wasn’t in crisis at all.”

After her baby’s father suggested abortion, and feeling like she had few choices, Faith returned to PRC of Rolla, remembering how they had treated her with dignity and respect, and had been non-judgmental of her situation.

Upon learning of Faith’s pregnancy, many in her life were “negative and telling her she’ll have to drop out of school, that her life as she knows it is over….” said Dalton. The baby’s father suggested having another baby later rather than continue the pregnancy. “He was the one who was the hardest for her. So when she came back to us, she was in crisis.”

Faith said that Dalton ensured her that everything was going to be okay, and reminded her that she was already a mother, and had already been taking steps to create the life she wanted for her child.

"Things are never what you think they should be or what you want, but it all ends up coming out exactly the way it should and exactly the way God intended,” she explained.

Although Faith’s relationship ended, the next couple of months of her pregnancy went well for her. She learned she was expecting a boy, but then her living situation suddenly changed, and she turned again to PRC of Rolla. That’s when Dalton introduced her to St. Raymond’s Society.

Live Action News: Faith and Noah's story continues here

Voices for Life is an e-publication dedicated to informing and educating the public on pro-life and pro-family issues. To read our Mission Statement, use this link.  Follow us on Facebook, Google, and Pinterest.  Help us spread the pro-life message by sharing our articles on your favorite social networks.

Pregnant, need help or know someone who does?  

National Hotline: Call 1-800-712-HELP or Text 'HELPLINE' to 313131.
In Southeast Penna:  Call the Community Women's Center at  215-826-8090

If you or someone you know is suffering after abortion, confidential non-judgmental help is available.  Call Project Rachel's national toll-free number 888-456-HOPE (4673) or visit hopeafterabortion.org.