Pro-life vid of day: Abortion snuff film bothers even lib CNN pundits
by Jill
Emily Letts’ abortion video* has been around a couple months, but it’s getting scrutiny now due to an essay she just had published in Cosmopolitan, which included this gem:
I remember breathing and humming through it like I was giving birth. I know that sounds weird, but to me, this was as birth-like as it could be. It will always be a special memory for me. I still have my sonogram, and if my apartment were to catch fire, it would be the first thing I’d grab.
Grabbing the precious sonogram of the baby you murdered? I can’t fathom the thinking. But I’m not the only one. CNN’s Dr. Drew and an all woman pro-choice panel interviewed Letts on May 6, and they let her have it, asking questions seemingly from the mouths of pro-lifers. (Except, “Did you get pregnant on purpose?” I wouldn’t even have thought of that. Perhaps I should have.)…
*In actuality, this was not an “abortion video.” If was a self-absorbed facial close-up by the perpetrator. Live Action’s Lila Rose noted:
She claims to film an abortion, but that is the one thing we don’t see. We don’t see the powerful suction machine ripping the developing embryo from the safe harbor of Letts’s uterus. We don’t see the child’s delicate arm and leg buds ripped apart by the force of the suction tube, or the child’s body parts floating afterward in a pool of blood and amniotic fluid in a medical receptacle.
All we see is Letts’s smile, not her victim. In a society that religiously ignores the victim, we will never achieve lasting peace…. a society that has come to embrace the slaughter of a child as “empowerment.”
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Ms. Letts is a self-absorbed, spoiled brat. And, now the mother of a dead baby.
She needs help.
Pray for her.
Agreed, Carla. She is clearly unstable and will become even more so as time goes on if she doesn’t get help.
Well put Jill.
What really disturbs me is how she’s like “I can create a life!” “It’s like giving birth”.
Um, no.
I went to read the full article and shes also says ” I do not have any long term relationship or boyfriend so I was the only one to have a say so in my termination. My daughter will be 23 years old May 21. Im so glad shes pro life
Shes not going to be of any help to some women she receives emails from. One woman wrote ” I aborted weeks ago and I still feel awful.” She assured her she would heal in time. Also stated “Will I regert my abortion 20 30 years from now”? “I doubt it”.
That panel was a giant mess. Taking a innocent human life will always have a stigma, because it’s always wrong.
This woman is embarrassing to the aborts because she blows many of their canards out of the water: 1. That abortion is something that women do not take lightly (apparently she did take it very lightly) and 2) Women do not use abortion as a means of birth control ( apparently she did so as well). As for having getting PG on purpose she might have. I think it was Nat Hentoff who said that he knew of women who got PG on purpose and aborted to “prove” they were feminists.
This woman seems deranged, but aborts are hypocritical for criticizing her. After all, women should be able to abort for ANY reason at ANY time in the pregnancy. They created this monster, now they have to live with it.
I will pray for her. I find it fascinating that people on her side are asking her these types of questions.
This is a sad, baffling (baffling because I can’t wrap my brain around her thought-process or why people would find abortion okay in the first place–people have tried to explain it and it still doesn’t make sense to me).
The whole thing is a mess, and they all need prayers.
I do agree with phillymiss about Emily bringing to the forefront and blowing the top off pro-choicers’ favorite phrases.
Also she did not create life. GOD did! And he made that child for a reason. Not for you to kill it for the sake of a movie. She also lists shes an actress. Where? It seems to me that she got pregnant so she could make this video. She said ” I couldnt find any movies on abortion to give an accurate portrayal so I decided to show people its quick simple and easy.” ….What if you cant ever get pregnant and make a life again?
Kinda totally disqualifies her as a victim. The only victim here is that dead baby.
Hi phillymiss that info is very disturbing!! PG on purpose and aborting to show they were feminists? Depraved.
I cant watch the video. She received death threats and hate male. Her only response was ” I will not respond to hate with hate.” After youve just committed the ultimate act of hate by killing your child? As Ive said earlier my soon to be 23 year old daughter has ovarian cancer but she will never get a chance like you did Emily. You are 2 years older than my girl. Where are your morals?
Meaning I cant access the video because it now says its disabled. I dont care to watch a baby killed thank you. Not as mom is humming along. All about YOU huh? Your comfort. No pain. Never mind what you did to that baby. Im glad people are letting you have it! AND NOW you have an IUD?? Shes unstable and she needs help!
The more I think about this video the more I feel that there is something off about it. Of course; that someone would make a video like this in and of itself is disturbing. However; I mean really off in terms of the video itself. This video was created for a contest. How was it that this woman became pregnant just during the time of the contest? I think this was a planned PR stunt. I wonder if this was fake and that is why she seems to have such an abnormal affect (humming, laughing, etc.). I honestly have to say I wonder if this woman was even pregnant to begin with. Probably just wishful thinking on my part and hoping we really haven’t sunk this low….
Hey CNN “pro-choice” folks ~ If abortion is simply a woman’s choice, she doesn’t need to provide you with a satisfactory justification or display appropriate affect. Why does this video bother you? Is abortion more acceptable to you if women are sad, hurt, and devasted when they have their child killed?
Part of me does think she got pregnant on purpose.
I don’t want to accuse her of it because everyone on both sides of the debate agree that’s disgusting and depraved.
But think: her job is at an abortion clinic. She is clearly pro choice and obviously she feels strongly about it, it’s something she’s more than willing to showcase her support for. Add in the fact that even though her job is to educate on contraception, she didn’t use any. You would imagine someone who is very educated on STIs and has easy access to birth control would at least be buying condoms, if not taking the pill. In one of the articles she was apart of, she admitted abortion was her immediate choice. No consideration of adoption, no looking for resources for parenting. No “between a woman and her doctor” or even a woman and her partner- the father wasn’t involved. But the perfect timing of it all is the real suspicious thing. She finds herself pregnant, for the first time, after not using any preventative measures, even though she’s educated, right when there’s a publicity contest making rounds. It seems to me a little fishy.
My theory is she likely was using some form of birth control, thus there were no previous pregnancies. She had so much conviction and passion about de-stigmatizing abortion- plus a selfish hunger for attention from the movement she loves so much- when this opportunity came along she decided she wouldn’t just put herself in a position where she would win, but where she would be seen as a hero. So she stopped taking birth control. She booked the abortion, filmed it. What else explains the timing PLUS the lack of birth control PLUS the lack of a long, through decision making period, PLUS the fact it was her first pregnancy even though she hadn’t used BC PLUS the fact she was all highly and “this is like, so radical” about it even though both sides admit this is fairly unusual for abortion patients. She wasn’t making a hard medical decision based on her needs and desperation, she was making a political statement.
Im actually undecided myself. It may not have been real. Just a stunt by PP to make abortion look like a 5 min no biggie procedure? Or as Megan said did she really get pregnant just to show abortion? PP or whatever clinic this is lie so we shall never know. At least we know most people are saying “shame on her”.
I mean who got her pregnant? It HAD to be someone shed been seeing. Getting pregnant is not rocket science . All of us are adults and we know how its done.
Hi Lifejoy,
Excellent points. Who cares? You PA folks wanted abortion on demand, you got it. Quit your whining.
Hi heather,
Like that English streetwalker, this is another attention whore looking for her 15 minutes of fame. Why weren’t we shown the actual operation and only subjected to an ongoing display of her face?
She doesn’t want hormones in her body but she has no problem advising other women to take oral contraceptives? There ARE other methods of contraception and she of all people should know where and how to get them. Maybe she would have if abortion wasn’t so readily available.
I agree with Megan. I think this “lady” got pregnant on purpose. She is making a political statement that having conceived the baby she has power to terminate. She also gets her 15 minutes of fame and is making a name for herself. Something similar to the women recently who was willing to sell her virginity to highest bidder. This is about power. Her power over her baby, and her body.
Well the bottom line is she expanded the Pro-Lifecause by saying unreservedly, “I can create life !” Actually quite powerful as pro-aborts listen to those words and ,thus, the truth is out. and her follow-up video echoes:” I can create Life and I choose to kill it”
If we could all in compassion send her the info for Rachel’s Vineyard, she can be helped.
I thought the same thing about the video as Lila Rose before reading her comments. I wrote the following on FB in response to this article questioning whether Emily Letts was really pregnant and had a real abortion.
http://clashdaily.com/2014/05/dear-emily-letts-show-us-proof-pregnancy-dont-believe/
“An interesting theory about the video. Other commentators such as Elizabeth Scalia have seen what they believe is emotional devastation in Emily following “the procedure” indicating its authenticity. What occurred to me in watching the video is that this is a video that purports to show an abortion that does not in fact show an abortion — that is, in the way that say TLC or the Discovery Channel presents a surgical procedure through video (i.e. we see the incision, the tumor or diseased tissue removed, etc.). This was clean, antiseptic, bloodless. But this chosen method of presentation doesn’t necessarily call into question the authenticity of the video as depicting a real abortion, only its honesty. To honestly depict an abortion one must see what is removed and how. Instead, this is hidden beneath a medical sheet whereas all that is shown is a bright-eyed patient whose hand is being held by a caring medical attendant. This perspective fits perfectly with the aim of the video — to show abortion as painless, easy, and guilt-free. It is of course much easier to be guilt-free about what isn’t shown and what one doesn’t see — ironically, that which is the very center of the action depicted but which is from the point of view of the camera, entirely ignored.”
Also In an add for Preterm.. another Cleveland abortion clinic it advertises comfort sedation or a silent suction machine. The woman may also listen to their I pod music while on the table.
what a bunch of idiots in that video..