To the editor:
Recently I read Thomas Sowell’s book, “Race and Culture: A World View.” Sowell, in a chapter entitled “race and slavery” laments the “peculiar institution” of slavery as not so peculiar as we have been led to believe.
Throughout all of recorded history (and probably in pre-historic times) slavery has been with human kind. Sowell describes this persistent evil as graphically and as systematically as I have ever read.
As Sowell described the institution of historically world-wide slavery, I could not help but think of a modern day (also historically world-wide) institution: abortion.
Now, don’t run away because I have raised this painful subject! That’s what folks in the 18th century did when slavery was rightly condemned. It has taken almost 200 years before most folks have come to the consensus that slavery was something about which to be ashamed.
I expect that my readers will all remember the scenes of devastation during Hurricane Katrina. We saw the George Floyd tape innumerable times. We have recently seen the departure of planes from Afghanistan innumerable times. We respond to video in ways with which the written word can never compare.
No television station will broadcast the process of an abortion. Today most folks would prefer to be blind to the destruction of innocents in the womb. It may take a couple of hundred years before the world will be brave enough to condemn this institution but, in time, evil will be seen for what it is.
Though it disgusts me to do so, but because the dishonest press refuses to broadcast such images, I submit the following:
Early stage (up to 10 weeks) pregnancies are eliminated by the taking of two pills. Mifepristone (RU-486) is ingested one day and Misoprostol the next day allowing the mother to dispose of her child through a toilet and into the sewer system.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, this takes place in 36 percent of medical abortions.
At 12 weeks, Aspiration abortion is the procedure of choice. A suction catheter is inserted into the mother’s uterus and a suction machine with the force 10-20 times stronger than a household vacuum is turned on.
The preborn child, whose body is tiny and fragile, is violently torn apart by the force. Gutmacher reports that most abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
From 13-24 weeks of pregnancy, the most prevalent abortion method is the D-and-E (dilation and evacuation) abortion. The abortionist uses a sopher clamp to dismember the child limb from torso in utero and then finishes the abortion by using a curette to scrape the uterus for any remaining pieces.
Guttnmacher reports that 25 percent of abortions in the United States are committed between 9-12 weeks of pregnancy, although D-and-E abortions are also committed up to 24 weeks. Abortions after 21 weeks account for 1.2 percent of total abortions.
Induction abortion is the method performed after 25 weeks. The abortionist injects a substance into the preborn child to cause cardiac arrest and then induces labor over a period of two to three days. During this time the mother will carry her dead baby inside her as she gets ready to deliver the child. We are sure that in this procedure the child can feel pain.
Television could broadcast this misery as it does other tragedies but will refuse to do so. Now that you know the truth about this procedure, will you get the picture that abortion always stops a beating heart and that, like “Dred Scott,” Roe versus Wade’s days are numbered? The Supreme Court knows that what I have shared with you is the truth.
John J. Kwiatek
Beverly
