WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT ABORTION (Part 1)

The terrible jobs some people do...

Ireland is the first country on the planet to vote for abortion. It wasn’t a close thing either, it was voted in by an overwhelming majority of voters, 66.4% to 33.6%. 

In the days following the referendum I was at a birthday party in Ireland. I met a woman who couldn't contain her glee at the decision. I commented that it was weird how in all the talk before the vote I didn’t hear any description of what an abortion actually entailed. Her response, which could only have been delivered by someone with an advanced education was, “ why would we have needed that?”. Any ordinary Joe or Jane would think it absolutely vital that people know exactly what they were voting for. 

I was thinking about this recently when I remembered a photograph taken by police crime scene photographers at Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic. He is serving three life sentences for killing patients and babies born alive after late abortions. In the picture there are two sieves, they look like the kind you’d use to sieve flour for a cake. When I first saw the sieves I asked a woman who had worked at an abortion clinic to explain why they were there. She told me that after vacuum abortions, someone has to sieve through what they suctioned out to find all the bits of the baby so they were sure no bit was left behind, in the woman, that could cause infection. It makes medical sense. Vacuum abortions are the early abortions the ones we are often told by abortion zealots that just remove a clump of cells.

But the presence of the sieve means that’s a lie, it means there are recogniseable “bits” that need to be found and reconstructed to make sure they have all been removed. Those bits, to be clear, are little arms, legs, a torso, a head, not the clump of cells activists like to claim. 

And someone does this sifting as a job. Day in and day out, they sift through the remains of little humans and make sure all the little body parts can be found. This is not like any other medical work in that it is totally unnecessary. The little innocent human they piece together was just violently killed. What does that do to the person who has that job? 

It reminded me of the extraordinary description by the author Verlyn Klinkenborg who visited an abortion clinic in 1995 for an essay for Harper’s magazine. After viewing the remains of an abortion at ten weeks, he wrote 

“ I felt a profound and unmistakable kinship with the foot and hand in the tray, a kinship so strong it was like the rolling of the sea under my feet[.] … I was surprised by my own sadness, by the sense of loss that I felt[.] … I found it so much easier to be moved by the sight of the disembodied hand the size of a question mark gleaming under fluorescent lights. … In that tiny, naked hand there was the imputation of innocence" 

All over the “developed world” there are people who do this sifting for baby body parts for a living. This and many more details about the reality of abortion were not explained to the Irish electorate who resoundingly voted for this horror. The rest of the world is no better. The abortion business, and it is a business, thrives on the ignorance of the customers and the bystanders who support the carnage. 

Anyway, here's the picture I can’t stop thinking about, it’s from the infamous abortion clinic run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell at 3801 Lancaster Ave in West Philadelphia. I don’t think it takes a genius to work out why pro abortion activists never want pictures like this to be seen and explained, but as they say on NBC…the more you know.