Quote of the Day 8-24-10
“Back alley” abortions were common during this era — decades before the Roe vs. Wade decision legalized abortion in the United States.
John Medford, a longtime resident at the building and one-time chair of the co-op, said he suspected abortions might play a role in the case.
“It was kept secret for 74 years and my theory is that this rolls back the cover on a cruel, tragic and unjust time in America for women.” Medford said. “Ending pregnancies this way would have been commonplace. This was business as usual in all social strata.”
~Los Angeles Times, reporting on the deceased babies found in a steamer trunk wrapped in 1930’s newspapers, August 20
Aug.24, 2010 6:00 am |
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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.
It was kept secret for 74 years and my theory is that this rolls back the cover on a cruel, tragic and unjust time in America for women.
I’m thinking that time in America would have been more cruel, tragic and unjust for the babies whose lives were ended so mercilessly. And still are. :(
“Ending pregnancies this way would have been commonplace.”
Ending pregnancies this way IS commonplace!!! Kill them back then. Kill them now.
“Ending pregnancies this way would have been commonplace.”
Just nowhere near as common as it is now of course.
Wrongity mcwrong, LA Times. Infanticide was commonplace, abortion was not yet commonplace. “Back Alley” abortion statistics have always been exaggerated. The numbers aren’t even a fraction as high as pro-aborts claim. And even if the numbers of abortions had been higher, which they weren’t, it still wouldn’t justify making them even more common. Murder is murder, whether it’s the unborn, infants, or adults. The dark part of history is right now, not at some earlier time when such a thing as orphanages existed. Know why we don’t need orphanages now? Because the babies get murdered before their first breath. How much darker could it get than that?
Where is Mary when I need her? She has much knowledge of the simple fact that most abortions back then were done in doctors offices. Not “back alleys.” But why use facts when hysterical rhetoric plays on the emotions??
Yes, Carla, the ‘back alley’ is a myth, which is why I always put it in quotes. Even the medical directory of planned parenthood (Dr. Calderon, I believe was her name) in 1960 admitted that deaths from illegal abortions were rare because they were done by what must have been fairly competent physicians. She also, in the same 1960 article, stated that yearly deaths due to illegal abortion were in the hundreds NOT the thousands. But the pro-aborts will keep perpetuating the same old urban legends and lies.
And the bodies of deceased babies found in medical waste these days compared to the ones wrapped in a newspaper is better HOW?
Carla, you’re right. In the black community, there were always doctors that did abortions — I have firsthand knowledge of this.
Paging Dr. Nathanson! :)
There is no evidence, as of yet, that these two babies were aborted. They are saying it’s a possibility. Why does every case like this have to point to abortion or have abortion in the headline. Maybe she miscarried these babies and could not afford to bury them…it was the 1930 for crying out loud, remember the big Depression…the dust bowl.
But back to the subject of abortion then and abortion now…difference is you are protected by law…a baby still dies.
Vita – that’s an easy one to answer – the ones placed in the steamer trunk were non-profitable – while today’s medical waste is expensive and therefore demands a higher abortion fee.
The feeding of the innocent to Molech never ceases to amaze me.
Medford’s sense of cruelty is completely off the mark. He needs to experience an abortion video.
“Wrongity McWrong”?? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks, I needed a laugh today. :-)
The RealChoice blog has more info on the common myth that “back-alley abortions” were commonplace. Most “back alley” abortions were performed by practicing physicians in a clandestine manner to avoid prosecution. It was fairly rare for them to be performed by laypeople or self-induced at that time.