Simple procedure

"Aborted yolk sack" what on earth, "it looks like cotton." I've seen aborted baby pictures, you would have to be on some type of hallucinogen to think this. The blatant lies of those who are pro-abortion are just beyond idiotic. It reminds me of how on the way back from the march for life in DC this pro-abortion male college student was screaming at the top of his lungs at this elderly, stooped-over man who had a walker, "You are a very hateful man, stop imposing your beliefs on me." You could just hear the hate dripping from the college students growling scream.

This is particularly sad in that so many women who are suffering from having had abortions state that they were assured by DOCTORS that 1)they were obligated to have an abortion for the sake of their health or their family and 2) it would just be a simple medical procedure. Just is sad is the reality that suicide can also be a simple procedure, though for the most part, why would a post-abortive mother who feels she is already dead on the inside bother with technicalities.

I haven't read article yet, but will. When I hear that a pro-abort finds the abortion a simple procedure, I always hope that they actually show others how simple it is and what it means ----- the reality will shock those listenting to the dufus state "simple procedure" and "not a big deal".

Some technical detail may help here:

"The yolk sac [in humans] is a pear-shaped bag which attains an average size of 5mm [less than 1/4 inch] by the middle of the second month. It subsequently shrinks somewhat and converts into a rather solid structure containing flaky debris. The sac usually persists throughout pregnancy and can sometimes be found in the afterbirth, beneath the amnion and near the attachment of the umbilical cord to the placenta. Although the human yolk sac is not functional in the sense of storing an appreciable amount of yolk, it may well play a significant role in the transfer of nutritive fluid to the embryo..."

[Arey, Developmental Anatomy, emphasis added]

At 9 weeks, the fetus is about 30 mm (an inch and a quarter) - or as big as an adult thumb - but definitely resembles the adult form with face, head, arms, legs, fingers and toes.

That is one of the worst defences of abortion I have heard in a long time. You see, it's no big deal, really. We just tear the baby limb from limb, and then scrape the uterine cavity to make sure we got all the body parts out. It's so simple. I don't understand why the media wants to make it sound so complicated.

I suppose rounding up Jews, putting them on trains, and sending them to Aushwitz was also a relatively simple procedure for the Nazis and their collaborators during WWII. Perhaps a member of the Hitler Youth would explain, "look, it's such a simple procedure. I don't know why the Catholic Church is making such a big deal out of it. You just put them in the gas chamber, press a button, and the gas floods the room. It's done in no time at all."

The "yolk sac" comment of mine was to point out the dehumanization of the unborn babies, whatever the pro-abortionist called a dead ground up unborn baby a "yolk sac" that looked like "cotton." This is very inhuman and disgusting of them.

(However, thank you for the medical definition; it was well meant. I just wanted to make clear what I meant, in my first post.)

When I was a medical student doing an ob-gyn month, I tried to see as many procedures as I could. One morning the chief resident was doing "elective" abortions. She did not understand why I chose not to see "elective" murders.
My wife miscarried her 4th pregnancy at just under 12 weeks. At that point, it was obvious it was a boy, as well as having fingers and toes. It remains difficult for me to understand why some women elect to kill these innocents.

The real irony for me here is how pro-aborts try to leverage people's passions by talking about how terribly awful 'back alley' abortions would be if Roe v. Wade were reversed. But if it is so simple, then what's the big deal?
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Actually, they lied about 5,000 women dying in back-alley abortions, according to former abortionist turned Catholic Dr. Bernard Nathanson. He performed thousands of abortions until one day a fellow aborionist used a sonogram machine to see the 'simple' procedure.
Dr. Nathanson never did another abortion.
I have buried two of my unborn babies who died in the 7th week of pregnancy, and what I saw was NOT cotton-like, they were recognizable as tiny humans, even though their little bodies were somewhat degraded by the time they died.

What's interesting is that both sides seem to believe that the same scientific evidence will support their views.

As I've been trying to tell a friend of mine, the issue is more than simply showing the scientific evidence and even the pictures. The entire culture has to change to recognizing the innate value of every human life, rather than valuing it based on skill and accomplishment.

I think that's why our culture has become so vulgar with its language, with what it shows on TV, with the way so many in it live their lives. They simply don't even recognize their own value or others to treat themselves in others with dignity and respect.

Looks like cotton? Say what? Hmm, when my wife was 8 weeks pregnant (6 weeks from conception) my son had a skull, arm buds, leg buds, the beggining of a spine, and a heart beat.

I was just going to make an observation related to Angela's point, that this seems to be the natural result of using utilitarianism or pragmatism as your sole rule of ethics. They don't notice themselves enduring a great struggle or hearing ominous background music, so there must not be any great moral problem with doing an abortion.

I sometimes get the strange feeling that, having written off an absolute morality, relativists are sometimes surprised to recognize moral judgments that still need to be made. "Well, we can't use traditional morality. What's left? Well, these vacuum aspiration abortions sure seem convenient...."

It looks like cotton unless you love it as your own.

It is a simple procedure until you realize you have a lifetime of coping with the guilt.

The other argument, that it is a dolphin (or parasite) that evolves into a human is just as ridiculous. Do you mean to tell me there was a time when you were not human? When were you not you? Even better: if the thing that would become me was at one time not-me, then where did *I* come from? This is utter superstition. You might as well say maggots grow into rats.

Of course, this also begs the question: if I used to be dolphin, then what do dolphins grow from?

For that matter, shooting someone to death with a handgun is so easy a child could do it. But the media attention around it....

Just one more thing to point out. Someone said "Looks like a cotton ball unless you love it as your own." The person was referring to the yolk sac, not the child. The yolk sac is similar to the placenta in that it is not actually a part of the child. Its only there during the earliest part of development. I don't remember its actual purpose, but it should be noted that he's pointing out a part that isn't a part of the child. I makes me curious if he's spending more time pointing out the yolk sac, the amnoitic sac and placenta more than concentrating on the actual embryo.

Oh looks like someone more knowledgable than I clarified the yolk sac and that i was wrong that it only exists during the early part of pregnancy. I suppose that's why I only got a C in embryology

Tom K., I was thinking something similar when I read this.

What is most disturbing is the underlying theme that "Abortion is really easy and convenient". I have asserted more than once to friends that babies aren't NEARLY as inconvenient, time-consuming, etc. as teenagers. Articles like this make me wonder how long before euthanasia techniques are touted for their simplicity.

Elizabeth, it doesn't matter what it looks like after you puree it. One Feminist for Life went to a screening of a pro-abortion video, during which the narrator assured everybody that an aborted fetus looks nothing like a baby. She showed a picture of some glop in a petri dish to back her claim.

The FFL member held up a jar of apple sauce and asked, "Does this look like an apple?"

Of course after your puree it, you don't see any arms or legs!

I also talked to an abortion clinic staffer once who insisted that what they abort looks nothing like a baby, no arms or legs. I asked if she ever looked at the ultrasound before the abortion. She said yes. I asked if she ever saw arms and legs on the ultrasound. She said yes. I asked, "What happens between the ultrasound and the petri dish?" She was quiet for a long time, then said, "I never thought about it."

I agree with Dannyboy. I thought their argument used to be that abortion should be legalized because too many women die from backstreet abortions?

Oh, I see. Abortions remove yolk sacs. Who cares about those pesky yolk sacs, anyway? Makes you wonder what the pro-lifers are fussing about, doesn't it?

I predict the pro-choicers will ultimately lose because they must rely on their rhetoric to hide the truth about what they are doing. Want to drive them crazy? Every time they use some craven terminology, use the most concrete term you can to clarify what they are talking about. When they say "Look at the yolk sac, it looks like cotton," look confused and say, "Yolk sac? Are you saying the dead baby looks like cotton, or the actual yolk sac? Because in the pictures I've seen, the dead baby looks more like a battle victim than a piece of cotton." They probably will have you escorted out, but it will be so worth it...