The Silent Holocaust

Abortion Debate Facts

It is interesting to note that a
number of prominent abortionists have changed their position and
are now active "pro-life"
protectors of the unborn. Below
is the story of the most influential abortionist of our age who was
the driving force behind the
passage of "Roe vs Wade."

CONFESSION OF AN EX-ABORTIONIST

By Dr. Bernard Nathanson

"I am personally responsible for
75,000 abortions. This legitimizes my credentials to speak to you with some authority on the issue. I was one of the founders of the National Association
for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) in the U.S. in1968. 

A truthful poll of opinion then would
have found that most Americans were against permissive abortion. Yet within
five years we had convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to issue the decision,
which legalized abortion throughout America in 1973 and produced virtual abortion on demand up to birth. How
did we do this. It is important to
understand the tactics involved because these tactics have been used
throughout the western world with one permutation or another, in order to
change abortion law.  

THE FIRST KEY TACTIC     WAS TO CAPTURE THE MEDIA 

We persuaded the media that the cause
of permissive abortion was a liberal enlightened sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would
be soundly defeated, we simply
fabricated the results of fictional polls.
We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60% of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion.
This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling
lie. Few people care to be in the
minority. We aroused enough
sympathy to sell our program of
permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done
annually in the U.S.

The actual figure was approaching
100,000 but the figure we gave to the
media repeatedly was 1,000,000.
Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of
women dying from illegal abortions
was around 200-250 annually. The
figure we constantly fed to the media
was 10,000. These false figures took
root in the consciousness of
Americans convincing many that we
needed to crack the abortion law.

Another myth we fed the public
through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the
abortions taking place illegally would
then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a
primary method of birth control in the
U.S. and the annual number of
abortions has increased by 1500%
since legalization.

THE SECOND KEY TACTIC WAS TO PLAY THE   CATHOLIC CARD.

We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and it's "socially backward
ideas" and picked on the Catholic hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played
endlessly. We fed the media such lies
as: "We all know that opposition to abortion comes from the hierarchy and
not from most Catholics" and "polls
prove time and again that most catholics want abortion law reform."

And the media drum-fired all this into
the American people, persuading them
that anyone opposing permissive
abortion must be under the influence
of the Catholic hierarchy and that Catholics in favor of abortion are enlightened and forward- looking.  An inference of this tactic was that there
were no non-Catholic groups opposing abortion. The fact that other Christian
as well as non-Christian religions
(and still are) monolithically opposed
to abortion was constantly suppressed, along with pro-life atheists' opinions.

A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to
insist that the definition of when life
begins is impossible; that the
questionis a theological or moral or
philosophical one, anything but a
scientific one. Foetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the
protection and safeguards that any
of us enjoy.

Why, you may well ask, do some
American doctors who are privy to
the findings of foetology, discredit themselves by carrying outabortions? Simple arithmetic at $300 a time,
1.55 million abortions means an
industry generating $500,000,000 annually, of which most goes into
the pocket of the physician doing the abortion.

It is clear that permissive abortion is purposeful destruction of what is undeniably human life. It is an impermissible act of deadly violence.
One must concede that unplanned pregnancy is a wrenchingly difficult dilemma, but to look for it's solution
in a deliberate act of destruction is to
trash the vast resourcefulness of
human ingenuity, and to surrender
the public will to the classic utilitarian answer to social problems.

AS A SCIENTIST I KNOW,   NOT BELIEVE, KNOW THAT HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION.

Although I am not a formal religionist,
I believe with all my heart that there is
a divinity of existence, which commands
us to declare a final and irreversible
halt to this infinitely sad and shameful crime against humanity."  

(The reason Dr. Nathanson stopped doing abortions was not
for theological reasons, but sociological reasons and because of what having an abortion did to women.  Later, in 1966, he converted to  Catholicism.)

Not only has doctor
Nathanson, who presided over
the largest abortion clinic in the world, changed his position, but Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe"
of Roe vs. Wade, is now a
strong Right to Life advocate,
and alsoan organizer of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, to assist pregnant women who need help. Such centers now out number
abortion clinics.

Others have changed their
position also.  The following prominent abortionists are
now "Right to Life crusaders:

Dr. Anthony Levatino did
abortions for eight years in
Albany NY. He did three
abortions an hour and said he
could make more money in
an hour and a half doing
abortions than he could caring
for a women for nine months
and delivering her baby. Dr. Lavatino and his wife were
trying to have their own baby
and could not conceive.
"There I was throwing kids in
the garbage, five or six a week.
Just give me one,” he thought. Eventually they adopted a
child who was later involved in
an automobile accident and
died in Dr. Levatino’s arms.
“If you loose a child you look
at things differently,” he said. What was uncomfortable for
him became intolerable and he stopped doing abortions.

Dr. Joseph Randal of Atlanta
GA estimates he performed
32,000 abortions. He stopped
doing his “pregnancy
termination procedures” when
a woman convinced him of the immorality of abortion. He
now does volunteer counseling
on alternatives to abortion.

Debra Henry worked in a
Detroit abortion clinic as a
certified medical assistant. Workers were not allowed to
refer to the unborn child as a
baby, only as “tissue”or a
“clump of cells.” She quit her
job and is now assistant
director the Michigan Pro-
Life Action League.

Carol Everett, although not
a health professional, owned
two abortion clinics in Dallas
where she would assist the
doctors. Because of the guilt
from operating the clinics for
six years, she sold her
business and contributed
most of the proceeds to the
“Right to Life Movement.”

There are probably more abortionists who have
changed their position that
we don't know of.  We have
never heard of a "Right to
Life" advocate who changed
in favor of abortion.

   The Silent Holocaust

The numbers of abortions performed in the United States since Roe vs Wade are almost incomprehensible...

U.S. Abortion Deaths Compared to U.S. War Deaths:

Each " " symbol represents 100,000 people (or a fraction)
killed.

Revolutionary War -
4,435 deaths.
                                            1/22

Civil War (both sides) - 498,332 deaths.

World War I - 116,708
deaths.

World War II -
407,316 Deaths.

Korea - 25,604 Deaths.

1/4

Vietnam - 58,168 Deaths.

1/2
______________

Persian Gulf War -
148 Deaths
Iraq War - 1,600 Deaths
and counting
______________

Deaths from all U.S. Wars Combined - 1,112,301
 

(Each figure represents
100,000 lives. Each row
represents one million
lives)

(46 MILLION PLUS)