Abortion worker: “Tiny arms and legs” are “unwanted growth”
by Kelli
I followed my trainer to the lab where products of conception (P.O.C.) were inspected to make sure the doctor removed all the bits that, if left behind, could cause an infection. My trainer made a point to show me the tiny arms and legs floating in the glass baking pan. At 10 weeks and beyond, those appendages are formed and clearly recognizable.
It was all so heavy. The loneliness of those little arms and legs. That girl, so clearly suffering during the procedure. Before my job at the clinic, my stance on abortion had been so black and white. I had been firmly pro-choice for as long as I could remember. Was it possible that working here could change my mind?…
Abortion is fraught with so much negative sentiment, and in a sense, abortion is plucking a life from existence that has yet to have the opportunity to thrive. No one is claiming it’s pleasant. There is nothing black and white about abortion. It’s every shade of gray. But for us pro-choicers, the woman’s life trumps the embryo or fetus. That’s the bottom line. We place value on a woman’s ability to know what is best for her. It simply needs to be a safe and legal option. When I started at the clinic, all I saw was the individual moment of pain, but over the years I began to see a much richer portrait — women coming out the other side, relieved, even if it was simply a relief to have the procedure behind them. They could go back to their lives.
Seeing every side, the whole complicated and profound process, I came out more pro-choice than ever. I started to see it from a purely biological standpoint. We were removing an unwanted growth to preserve the woman’s chosen course.
~ Amy Beeman, Salon, May 24
[Image of 10-week fetus via babybytes.ni]
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.
How does one life trump another unless it is the rare case of the mother facing imminent death? Aren’t we all created equal? Amy, you are really saying it is the women’s chosen lifestyle that trumps the life of the embryo or fetus. In which case, she is putting material goods over the life of human being.
Many women are ambivalent about the pregnancy and find it hard to know what is best. I was one of those women but persevered and chose life. What about the ones who are coerced? What about the ones who feel they have no other choice? Who would choose life if given another way out.
Really, Amy, there is no going back to their lives. They may no longer be pregnant, but to act like nothing ever happened is a form of denial. The chosen course has not been preserved because the pregnancy already altered that. Have you followed up with these women many years after to see if your observations still hold true?
So many psychological defense mechanisms here…
This is why the work of And Then There Were None is so important.
IMO Amy Beeman is more of an unwanted growth on society than any of those dismembered babies whose body parts she counts. Sh e is an accomplice to the sociopathic murder and uses her caring for the choice of the murderer as an excuse. Gang-bangers do the same thing.
The relief lasted a few days.
There was no going back to my life. The life I once knew was over. My baby was alive when I walked in and dead when I walked out. I left her there.
And now? Almost 25 years later? My life was never the same after that day. I have regretted it ever since. Although forgiven in Christ I still carry the burden. Still regret September 5th, 1990 and the desperation and fear that led me there. I would give anything to go back and fight for my daughter’s life.
I know now what I didn’t know then.
I am grateful to Amy for speaking truth.
Abortion kills a fully alive, growing, innocent human being.
They kill them for profit and DO NOT CARE.
Nearly every story from the brave women of Silent No More tells the same thing: The immediate emotion after the abortion is relief. The abortion workers cling to this… they are so happy to see how relieved the woman feels.
But the relief is brief. A few hours, a few days perhaps. Then the pain comes. The crushing weight of having taken the life of her child. And the pain does not go away…. This is why post-abortive women are at such great risk of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, risky and abusive sexual relationships, and even seeking to get pregnant again. They are trying to numb and forget their pain.
This is why the pro-life movement has healing ministries to help post-abortive women. Somebody needs to show love and respect to these women.
The abortion industry will not let women acknowledge their own pain…. See how Amy refuses now to acknowledge the children whom she almost felt some connection with. If a post-abortive woman approached Amy for help, Amy would try to remind her of how “relieved” she felt right after the abortion. Amy would counsel her to cling to that feeling.
After all, the abortion industry does not get paid for dealing with the post-abortive women. “Through the money in the till, throw the baby down the sink, throw the mother to the curb. NEXT!”
She observes the arms and legs. She talks about the child’s life being plucked away. And then ends with calling the child a growth? The mental gymnastics must be exhausting! How do you observe and note the life and humanity of the child and then arrive back at the pro-abortion mentality? Wow. Talk about contorting your mind intentionally to avoid arriving at a horrifying conclusion.
No Amy. The preborn are living human beings just like you and I. And you are guilty of their deaths. It is a horrifying conclusion but the sooner you face that reality the sooner you can extricate yourself from the whole bloody business and find healing.
Carla you are a brave, brave woman and the truth is that we’ve all made mistakes, been deceived by the wicked one and have regrets.
Thank you Jesus for your Blood that washes away all our sin!
And now we use our regret as fuel for our activism in the fight.
I love your summary of Amy’s deluded discourse.
“But for us pro-choicers, the woman’s life trumps the embryo or fetus. That’s the bottom line. We place value on a woman’s ability to know what is best for her. It simply needs to be a safe and legal option.”
Change the word ’embryo’ to ‘infant’ and the word ‘fetus’ to ‘toddler’ and re-read your sentences, Amy.
“…It simply needs to be a safe and legal option.”
except, it ISN’T “safe”, Amy. Oh, it’s “legal” – for now –
but it will NEVER be “safe” , because it’s a completely
INTRUSIVE, UNNATURAL procedure. It’s not “meant” to happen to a human body. Not to the mother, and CERTAINLY not to the baby.
That’s why women’s psyches will never feel “safe” after abortion . That’s why abortion worker’s consciences are not “safe” , That’s why babies are not “safe” in the one place they SHOULD be – their mother’s womb.
You can (try to) keep it LEGAL all you want to –
But, try as you might, you will NEVER make it “safe”.
But the relief is brief. A few hours, a few days perhaps. Then the pain comes. The crushing weight of having taken the life of her child. And the pain does not go away…. – for a few, as with most acts we decide in life.
This is why post-abortive women are at such great risk of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, risky and abusive sexual relationships, – correlative, not causal.
It’s safer than full term delivery Pamela.