Now we can discern the chilling silent
scream on the face of this child who is
now facing imminent extinction.
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My name is Bernard N. Nathanson. I'm a
physician practising obstetrician and
gynaecologist and I think I've had
passing experience in matters of
abortion. Now, when I was a medical
student in 1949 we had no such science
as foetology. We were taught that the
unborn child the foetus was something in
the uterus but it was really an article
of faith as to whether or not it was a
human being and whether or not that
human being had any unique personal
qualities. But the whole story has
changed since the 1970s. It was at that
time that the science of foetology
exploded in the medical community it
exploded by means of the introduction of
great new technologies such as
ultrasound imaging electronic foetal
heart monitoring foetology hysteroscopy
radio immuno chemistry and a host of
other dazzling technologies, which today
constitute in fact the corpus of the
science of foetology real-time
ultrasound that is imaging of the child
in motion has been available as a
clinical tool since 1976
the room for the ultrasound examination
consists of a conventional examining
table as well as the ultrasound imaging
device itself a bulky appearing machine
here now the pregnant woman is
positioned on the table for the
examination the abdomen is suitably
draped the head of the instrument is now
placed over the uterus this device in
turn consists basically of a crystal
which sends out pulsing high frequency
sound waves and a transducer, which
collects the echoes of these waves the
echoes are then collated by a computer
which in turn assembles them into a
recognizable image of the living unborn
child and the child can be imaged by
either a linear scan, which is useful for
later pregnancies or a sector scan, which
is more accurate for delineating the
child in an early pregnancy such as this
one the image reconstructed from the
echo pattern is capable of truly amazing
resolution and so discerning is this
instrument that the tiny valves of the
heart can be studied as they snap open
and shut during the contractions of the
heart mothers and fathers for the first
time have been afforded a view of their
unborn child by this spectacular
technology and those technologies those
apparatuses and machines, which we now
use every day have convinced us that
beyond question the unborn child is
simply another human being another
member of the human community
indistinguishable in every way from any
of us now for the first time we have the
technology to see abortion from the
victims vantage point ultrasound imaging
has allowed us to see this and so for
the first time we are going to watch a
child being torn apart dismembered
disarticulated crushed and destroyed by
the unfeeling steel instruments of the
abortionist but we are looking at here
is a depiction of the development of
this child in its prenatal stage of life
but from virtually the very beginnings
to the end of that stage we have here
the child at four weeks eight weeks at
12 weeks at 16 weeks at 18 weeks 20
weeks and at 28 weeks as you can see
there is no revolutionary or dramatic
change in the form or in the substance
of this person throughout this
developmental stage now this little
person at 12 weeks is a fully formed
absolutely identifiable human being he
has had brain waves for at least six
weeks his heart has been functioning for
perhaps eight weeks and all the rest his
human functions are indistinguishable
from any of ours
now this book is Williams obstetrics
16th edition written in 1980 it is a
standard text book used throughout every
medical school in the United States
preface of this book published in 1980
cautions us as follows happily we have
entered an era in which the foetus can be
rightfully considered and treated as our
second patient who would have dreamed
even a few years ago that we could serve
the foetus as physician traditional
medical ethics
and precepts command us that we must not
destroy our patients that we are pledged
to preserve their lives now let's see
what abortion does to this our second
patient we have then the 12-week unborn
child in the uterus being this
muscle surrounding the child when the
abortionist commences the procedure he
will first place this instrument, which
is known as a speculum into the woman's
vagina and will then open it in order to
visualize the cervix to the neck of the
womb here having visualized the cervix
the abortionist then takes this
instrument, which is known as a ten Acula
m-- and fastens it securely through the
speculum onto the cervix in this manner
clamping shut the tenaculum and getting
a firm grasp on the cervix the next
instrument, which is brought and play is
called the sound this instrument is then
introduced into the uterus and it is
then removed the abortionist having
ascertained exactly how deep and in fact
how large the uterus
and then this set of dilators these
metallic curved instruments are used to
affect the opening of the cervix in
order to introduce finally the abortion
instruments themselves the abortionist
first introduces the most slender of
these instruments into the cervix to
dilate the cervix turns the instrument
around to a slightly larger end
introduces that end and then works his
way through the various graduated
increasingly larger ends of this
dilating instrument he will then take
the instrument known as the suction
apparatus, which is opened it is in a
sterile container prior to the actual
use of the instrument and then this will
be inserted through the dilated cervix
up into the uterus and will then
puncture the SAC surrounding the child
allowing the amniotic fluid to escape
the instrument then will come into
direct contact with the child and with a
pressure of approximately 55 or so
millimetres of mercury applied to the
end of this instrument as it is attached
to a long thick suction tubing at this
end and to the abortion instrumentation
that is the machine at the other end the
suction tip will begin to tear the child
apart the pieces of the body are torn
away one by one
until finally all that remains are
shards of the body and the head itself
the head will be too large to come
through this instrument itself this will
necessitate the introduction of this
instrument called a polyp forceps into
the uterus through the already dilated
cervix and the polyp forceps then
attempt to grasp the free-floating head
of the child in the uterus between the
rings of this instrument the head is
then crushed
the contents of the head removed and
finally, the bones of the head and the
abortion is then effectively at an end
we've seen what the 12-week child
appears on the ultrasound screen and we
have also seen the mechanics the actual
steps of a 12-week abortion now for the
first time we're going to see a film
made with real time ultrasound imaging
of a 12-week abortion bear in mind that
this is not an unusual instance a late
abortion this is one of the 4,000 or so
a day done every day in the United
States this film was made at an abortion
clinic the physician who performed the
abortion was a young man who was working
in two different abortion clinics at the
time he had already done close to 10,000
abortions in his young life when he was
asked to attend the editing session to
view the film he was so appalled at what
he had done that he left the room
momentarily came back to finish the
editing but never again did another
abortion the young woman who used the
real time ultrasound camera
I was a feminist and a strong Pro
abortionist but she too was so moved by
what she saw at the editing session that
she never again discussed the subject of
abortion now let's turn to the actual
film itself we are now looking at a
sector scan of a real time ultrasound
imaging of a 12-week unborn child the
child is orientated in this direction
you are looking now at the head of the
child here the body of the child here
and this image is the child's hand
approaching its mouth looking a little
more closely at the child we can discern
the eye or the orbit of the eye here the
nose of the child here the mouth of the
child here and we can even look at the
ventricle of the brain here this is a
fluid-filled space in the brain we see
the body of the child here with the ribs
in silhouette and the spine of the child
at the back this rather granular area of
tissue at the top of the sector appears
to be the placenta or afterbirth of the
child and we can begin to see down here
the thighs the lower extremities of the
child coming off the body in this manner
now let's move to the action we now see
the heart beating here in the child's
chest the heart is beating at a rate of
approximately 140 a minute and we can
see the child moving rather serenely
in the uterus one can see it shifting
position from time to time it is still
orientated in this manner and the mouth
is receiving the thumb of the child the
child again is moving quietly in its
sanctuary now this shadow, which we are
seeing down at the bottom of the screen
is the suction tip we have coloured the
suction tip deliberately in order for
you to discern it more clearly but the
abortionist has now dilated the cervix
and is now inserting this suction tip
which you can see moving back and forth
across the screen you will note that as
the suction tip, which is now over here
moves toward the child. The child will
rear away from it and undergo much more
violent much more agitated movements the
child is now moving in a much more
purposeful manner its orientation
changes from time to time it is rearing
again here now the suction tip has not
actually touched the child even though
the child is extremely agitated and
moving in a violent manner the child has
now moved back to the profile view and
the suction tip is flashing once again
across the screen the child's mouth is
now open and we will see that again on a
freeze-frame in a moment but this
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 it is only after the
fluid has been broken the SAC has been
disrupted that the tip will actually
come against the child but we can see
the tip moving back and forth as the
abortionist seeks the child's body once
again we see the child's mouth wide open
in a silent scream in this particular
freeze-frame this is the silent scream
of a child threatened in imminently with
extinction
now the 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
inexorable instruments, which the
abortionist is using to extinguish its
life now the heart has again perceptibly
speeded up we can time this at
approximately 200 beats per minute and
there is no question this child senses
the most mortal danger imaginable the
membrane has now been punctured and the
fluid has escaped one no longer sees
that large reservoir of fluid
surrounding the child but once the fluid
has been drained off the suction tip has
now been firmly clamped to the child's
body and the child is being pulled in a
downward direction by the abortionists
suction tip with the negative pressure
applied to it and the body is now being
torn systematically from the head the
head of the child being in this
direction Here I am now outlining the
child's head the lower extremities have
already been lost and we see the suction
tip flashing from time to time in the
screen as a typhoon like series of
echoes and the child is being tugged
back and forth as the suction tip has
now been applied to the body and the
abortionist is exerting his traction on
the child in this manner the child's
head is still discernible here the body
is no longer discernible it has now been
torn from the head what we see now is
the head itself with what is called the
mid-line echo of the head and the
spicules or fragments of bone now this
head, which I'm outlining here
on this 12-week child is simply too
large to be pulled in one piece out of
the uterus the abortionist is going to
have to employ this instrument the polyp
forceps in an attempt to grab the head
the abortionist will attempt to crush
the head with this instrument in this
manner and remove the head piecemeal
from the uterus the abortionist and the
anaesthesiologist have a secret language
between them, which shields them from the
grisly reality of what is going on the
abortionist and the anaesthesiologist
together refer to the head of this child
which is now being sought as number one
and the anaesthesiologist will inquire of
the abortionist is number one out yet
are we finished we now see
intermittently the shanks or blades of
this instrument appearing in the image
here the head tends to float freely in
the uterus here are the shanks or blades
of the instrument coming across here and
the head is now being locked on by this
polyp forceps and the head is being
pulled down toward the cervix now all we
see remaining are simply the shards the
broken fragments
the pieces of tissue, which document that
there was once a living defenceless tiny
human being here in considering the
impact of abortion on our society let's
look at some figures as to what has
actually happened in the last 20 years
we have reliable figures indicating that
in 1963 long before abortion became
legalized by the infamous roe v wade
decision there were approximately
100,000 illegal abortions done annually
in the United States and very few legal
abortions in 1973 the first year in
which that row v Wade decision prevailed
in this country there were 750,000
abortions done and in 1983 the last year
for which we have full and complete
figures there were 1.5 million abortions
now let's look at abortion as an
industry last year there were 1.5
million abortions done in this country
and the average cost of abortion is
about three to four hundred dollars per
operation this has created an industry
in this country of about five to six
hundred million dollars a year, which
would qualify to be on the fortune 500
list of largest industries in world 90%
of these monies are going into the
pockets of physicians and the remainder
into the pockets of the entrepreneurs
who run the clinics now we've had some
recent investigations the question of
these clinics are being
franchised out like fast food services
the country we know there are chains of
them in California and through the
South-west and even in the south-east of
the United States and there is some
evidence now that increasingly these
clinics are falling into the hands of
the ma of the crime syndicate here in
the United States and that this money
abortion money is tainted not only by
the blood of the innocent victims of
abortion but by the dark hand of the
crime syndicate in the United States
when discussing abortion we must also
understand that the unborn child is not
the only victim women themselves are
victims just as the unborn children are
women have not been told of the true
nature of the unborn child
they have not been shown the true facts
of what an abortion really is women in
increasing numbers hundreds thousands
even tens of thousands have had their
wombs perforated infected destroyed
women have been sterilized castrated
all as a result of an operation of which
they have had no true knowledge this
film and other films, which may follow
like must be made a part of the informed
consent for any woman before she submits
herself to a procedure of this sort I
accuse the National Abortion Rights
Action League I accused Planned
Parenthood and all its co-conspirators
in the abortion industry of a consistent
conspiracy of silence of keeping women
in the dark with respect to the true
nature of abortion and I challenge all
those purveyors of abortion to show this
real-time videotape or one similar to it
to all women before they consent to
abortion you know I think I know a
little bit about abortion I was one of
the founders of neighbour Hall in 1969
it's now known as the National Abortion
Rights Action League and for a period of
two years I was the director of the
largest abortion clinic in the Western
world since those times we have a
science, which is known as foetology
which has allowed us to study the human
foetus
and all of those studies have concluded
without exception that the unborn child
is a human being
indistinguishable from any of us and an
integral part of our human community No
the destruction of a living human being
is no solution to what is basically a
social problem I believe a resort to
such violence is an admission of
scientific and even worse ethical
impoverishment somehow I refuse to
believe that Americans who have put men
on the moon can't devise a better
solution than the resort to violence I
think we should all here and now devote
ourselves to an untiring effort to
devise a better solution the solution
compounded equally of love and
compassion and a decent regard for the
overriding priority of human life that's
all
for Humanity's sake here and now stop
the killing
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