March 23, 2005

Things I Wish I Hadn't Learned At Work

While it's good to be working for a cause, it's hard to be submerged in all that i'm working against. At times i can't stand the feeling that i'm the only one knowing this stuff, so i'm putting it out there and telling myself that at least now i'm not alone in how i'm feeling.

---Since Roe v Wade, there have been more than 40 million recorded abortions. (The entire population of San Diego is just over 1 million.)
---An unborn child has less legal protection from pain than commercial livestock.
---Dilation and Evacuation Abortions involve the dismemberment of the unborn child by a pair of forceps; sometimes the head is too large and must be crushed for removal. Instillation Abortions involve replacing amniotic fluid with a concentrated salt solution, which the child inhales as the salt burns its skin for up to an hour. In neither technique is the unborn provided with any anesthesia, despite the fact that @ 20 weeks he/she is fully capable of feeling pain but has not developed the mechanisms for inhibiting or moderating pain that adults and children have.
---More children are killed by abortion every year than the total number of Americans killed in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, WWI & WWII, and the Vietnam, Korean and Persian Gulf Wars combined.
---Induced Labor Abortion forces a preterm baby (up to an incl. 9 months) out of its mother, alive, where it is left on a table to die (which can take several hours); hospitals are not even required to wrap the baby in a blanket.
---Californians pay for more than 91,666 abortions a year, about $51,863,235.00 .... and that was in 1998.

-kal

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