a choice? a right?
This is not a right to choose. It’s a license for homicide.
Blood Confession - How Lying Marketers Sold America on Unrestricted Abortion - David Kupelian
“In 1985, intrigued by the question of what really happens during an abortion in the first three months of a pregnancy, Nathanson decided to put an ultrasound machine on the abdomen of a woman undergoing an abortion and to videotape what happens.
“We got a film that was astonishing, shocking, frightening,” he says.
“It was made into a film called The Silent Scream. It was shattering, and the pro-abortion people panicked. Because at this point, we had moved the abortion debate away from moralizing, sermonizing, sloganeering and pamphleteering into a high-tech argument. For the first time, the pro-life movement now had all of the technology and all of the smarts, and the pro-abortion people were on the defensive.”
Nathanson’s film provoked a massive campaign of defamation on the part of the pro-abortion movement, including charges that he had doctored the film. He hadn’t. “I was accused of everything from pederasty to nepotism. But the American public saw the film.”
In 1987 Nathanson released another, even stronger film called Eclipse of Reason, introduced by Charlton Heston. “The Silent Scream dealt with a child who was aborted at twelve weeks,” said Nathanson. `But there are four hundred abortions every day in this country that are done after the third month of pregnancy. Contrary to popular misconception, Roe v. Wade makes abortion permissible up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy. I wanted to dramatize what happens in one of these late abortions, after the third month.
“They took a fetuscope, which is a long optical instrument with a lens at one end and a strong light at the other. They inserted the fetus-cope into the womb of a woman at 19 1/2 weeks, and a camera was clamped on the eyepiece and then the abortionist went to work. (more…)
