We Can’t Stop Fighting for 67 Million Babies Killed in Abortions

My wife and I watched Sunday night’s National Memorial Day Concert on PBS. While this is a yearly tradition for us, this tribute to 250 years of military service struck home in an especially powerful way. All the tribute enactments were mesmerizing, but Jonathan Banks’s portrayal of the experience of service members during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor brought me to tears.

Monday night—Memorial Day—we watched Tom Hanks narrate the first segments of a 20-episode World War II documentary series that premiered on the HISTORY Channel.  We’re told the docuseries will “cover the entire scope of World War II.”

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The first parts only touched on the Holocaust which no doubt will receive a much more detailed treatment in the many episodes to come.

I thought to myself, will the sheer unadulterated horror of the massacre of six million Jews have the same effect, the same grip, on younger viewers that it had—and continues to have—on me? Will the passage of time mean that the impact on our souls of the systematic genocide of millions of innocent women, children, and men will weaken? To which I say

We must NEVER FORGET!

So, too, must the monstrous slaughter of more than 65 million preborn babies never lose its capacity to rally us to fight for the littlest Americans.

Years ago Anthony Levatino, M.D. performed abortions before he became pro-life. In his testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Judiciary Committee, Dr. Levatino went into considerable detail in describing a “D&E” abortion–an abortion technique that dismembers the baby.

He asked the subcommittee members to “Imagine, if you can, that you are a pro-choice obstetrician/gynecologist like I once was. Your patient today is 24 weeks pregnant (LMP).”

He went on:

“Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp [an instrument for grasping and crushing tissue] grasping anything you can. At twenty-four weeks gestation, the uterus is thin and soft so be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls.  Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard – really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long.  Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.”

As difficult as this is to read, it is twenty times more difficult to watch the video of Dr. Levatino’s oral testimony (www.youtube.com/watch?v=t–MhKiaD7c&feature=youtu.be).

When I saw that Sopher clamp, I swallowed hard. And then, holding the Sopher Clamp as he spoke, Dr. Levatino concluded his testimony with

“you know you did it right if you crush down, a white material runs out of the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. Then you can pull out skull pieces. Many times a little face will come back and stare back at you…And if you think that doesn’t hurt, if you believe that isn’t an agony for the baby, please think again.”

I wasn’t there but I was told that some of the subcommittee members were visibly moved. Those that weren’t were no doubt soul mates of a pro-abortion woman from the DC Abortion Fund who mocked and trivialized what she had seen.

After completely misrepresenting what Dr. Levatino said about why abortionists shifted to the dismemberment “D&E” abortion technique (ah, the beauty of paraphrasing—you can attribute whatever you want to the speaker), the pro-abortion observer offers this oh so revealing passage.

“Levatino said he performed abortions earlier in his career, and he described the procedure and his eventual dislike of it in explicit detail. Any medical procedure or routine trip to the doctor can sound positively gruesome when described with the proper adjectives (try detailing your last dental cleaning with the help of thesaurus.com). Anti-choice activists like Levatino are most successful when they have us all cringing instead of thinking rationally. But H.R. 3803 doesn’t allow for much science and reason.”

Ripping off arms and legs—and brains spilling out as a baby’s head is crushed—is just like “your last dental cleaning.” Only an “anti-choice activist” could NOT see the similarity.

This ability to be bored and annoyed in the presence of soul-sucking brutality is, I gather, the product of what she saw as a commitment to “science and reason.”

I wrote at the time.

Thank goodness I can still cringe. I would hate to think what it would say about me if I couldn’t.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.