August 20, 2009 8:22 AM
Newsweek reporter witnesses abortion - but only first trimester
From Citizenlink - I just wish she had watched a third trimester abortion so she could have gotten the full impact:Newsweek Reporter Witnesses an Abortion
Pro-abortion reporter, Sarah Kliff, is surprised by her reaction to witnessing an abortion.
Sarah Kliff has covered abortion at Newsweek for two years. So she was surprised at the discomfort she felt when faced with the prospect of watching an abortion for a story she was doing on Nebraska late-term abortionist, LeRoy Carhart.
Kliff spent four days at Carhart's Omaha clinic interviewing patients, hearing their stories and eventually viewing at least one first-trimester abortion.
"There was a discomfort I hadn't expected," she said, "my emotional reaction to watching abortions. I had (and still have) difficulty understanding my own reaction, both relieved to have watched...and distressed by the emotionality of the process."
It's something many in the pro-abortion camp are reticent to admit. Kliff faced odd reactions when she returned home.
"Friends who supported legal abortion bristled slightly when I told them where I'd been and what I'd watched," she said. "Acquaintances at a party looked a bit regretful to have asked about my most recent assignment."
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action, said the inner struggle is hard to ignore.
"When you come face to face with the violence of what abortion really is," she said, "it can be a different story, as this reporter learned. Abortion kills children, and witnessing an abortion demands a response to that truth."
Kliff acknowledged that abortion is not just another medical procedure.
"Abortion involves weighty choices that, depending on how you view it," she said, "involve a life, or the potential for life."
Earll said, "The finality of abortion is almost palpable and once it's done, someone has died and you cannot reverse it. That may be what the reporter experienced."
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Comments
Every woman who seeks to have an abortion should have to witness one first hand before getting one herself.
Posted by: MrsD | August 20, 2009 3:12 PM
I've posted this several times on the Newsweek site, but
so far it hasn't shown up.
“You witnessed a hit man murder a unique human being made in God’s image and with a God given right to life.
I expect you will be haunted by the horror of what you write about so dispassionately; more than you imagine.
Did the killer let you stick around while he reassembled the body parts he so cavalierly dismembered? That is the necessary follow up, to be sure nothing is left in the uterus, which could cause infection.”
Posted by: leslie Hanks | August 20, 2009 3:16 PM
Every woman who seeks to have an abortion should have to witness one first hand before getting one herself.
Perhaps every man should as well before having sex. Sole responsibility doesn't fall only to the woman.
[I'm inclined to agree with you. Maybe instead of teaching kids to put condoms on cucumbers, we could have them watch an abortion on film.]
Posted by: Wordsmith | August 20, 2009 4:02 PM
