I mostly try to keep things light around here but every once in a while I am shocked into seriousness. This article from the Yale Daily News (**note original story removed. The google cached version can be viewed here) contains some of the most awful if not downright satanic quotes I’ve ever read.
The article starts with students who showed up being greeted by “models of the female pelvis complete with fallopian tubes, cervixes, vaginas — and papayas on which to perform mock abortions.”
In commemoration of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale (RALY), in conjunction with Yale Medical Students for Choice, demonstrated different abortion methods and techniques, answered questions students had about the procedures and encouraged students to be active in abortion-rights groups. The presentation was part of a week-long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the landmark decision.
The presenters began by showing the students different surgical tools used during different stages of a pregnancy and ticking off statistics about the safety and number of abortions performed in the United States. She lamented that eighty-five percent of counties in America do not have any abortion providers.
Then comes one of the most abhorrent quotes I’ve ever seen in print:
Evans and Rasha Khoury MED ’08, another member of Medical Students for Choice, who said she plans to become a gynecologist and expects to perform abortions, went on to describe one of the most common abortion procedures, manual vacuum aspiration, which “creates suction to evacuate pregnancy,” Evans said. The technique is a good option because the device involved is reusable and relatively cheap, she said.
“It’s not as scary as it seems. It’s just blood and mucus,” Khoury said, referring to the fetus remains in the device. She added, “You’ll be able to see arms and stuff, but still just miniscule.”
Arms and stuff. It doesn’t get much better after that.
Evans and Khoury also explained the finer points of abortion-clinic etiquette, including some potentially sensitive terminology. Khoury said physicians performing abortions generally refer to the aborted fetus remains as “POC,” an acronym for “product of conception,” and refer to fetus’ hearts as “FH.”
The women said that the most complicated part of the procedure can be the emotional fallout some patients experience.
“Often times, women are crying and cursing and saying they’re going to hell,” Khoury said. “It may be a quick and easy medical procedure, but it definitely is a very involved social-medical procedure.”
So we have a procedure where little arms and POC’s (That’s babies to you and me) which leaves women crying and fearing for their souls and then comes this.
The presenters also urged the crowd to become involved in the abortion-rights movement by joining Reproductive Health Externships, a campaign in which volunteers are taught how to conduct abortions.
“It’s fun because you meet people from all over the country who do them,” Khoury said. “It’s pretty inspiring.”
The week’s events began with the showing of a documentary about abortion Monday and will end Saturday with a performance by the all-female comedy group the Sphincter Troupe.
My God. What is wrong in this world? Fun? Inspiring? How do we ever come back from this?
UPDATE: Yale seems to have removed this story from their website. I’ll call tomorrow asking why. But in the meantime I placed a copy of the entire article below.
Students who walked into WLH 119 on Tuesday night were greeted with models of the female pelvis complete with fallopian tubes, cervixes, vaginas — and papayas on which to perform mock abortions.
In commemoration of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, the 35th anniversary of which is this month, the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale (RALY), in conjunction with Yale Medical Students for Choice, demonstrated different abortion methods and techniques, answered questions students had about the procedures and encouraged students to be active in abortion-rights groups during last night’s presentation. The presentation was part of a week-long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the landmark decision.
“I’m here to talk about what happens after you get past the picket lines,” Merritt Evans MED ’09, a member of Yale Medical Students for Choice, told the assembled crowd of about 15 students.
The presenters began by showing the students different surgical tools used during different stages of a pregnancy and ticking off statistics about the safety and number of abortions performed in the United States. Eighty-five percent of counties in America do not have any abortion providers, Evans said.
Evans and Rasha Khoury MED ’08, another member of Medical Students for Choice, who said she plans to become a gynecologist and expects to perform abortions, went on to describe one of the most common abortion procedures, manual vacuum aspiration, which “creates suction to evacuate pregnancy,” Evans said. The technique is a good option because the device involved is reusable and relatively cheap, she said.
“It’s not as scary as it seems. It’s just blood and mucus,” Khoury said, referring to the fetus remains in the device. She added, “You’ll be able to see arms and stuff, but still just miniscule.”
Evans and Khoury also explained the finer points of abortion-clinic etiquette, including some potentially sensitive terminology. Khoury said physicians performing abortions generally refer to the aborted fetus remains as “POC,” an acronym for “product of conception,” and refer to fetus’ hearts as “FH.”
The most complicated part of the procedure can be the emotional fallout some patients experience, she said.
“Often times, women are crying and cursing and saying they’re going to hell,” Khoury said. “It may be a quick and easy medical procedure, but it definitely is a very involved social-medical procedure.”
The presenters also urged the crowd to become involved in the abortion-rights movement by joining Reproductive Health Externships, a campaign in which volunteers are taught how to conduct abortions.
“It’s fun because you meet people from all over the country who do them,” Khoury said. “It’s pretty inspiring.”
The ethical implications of abortion may be a topic of endless debate, but Elizabeth Kim ’11, who attended Tuesday night’s meeting, said she remains unsure of where she stands on the issue.
“I wanted to learn about the scientific and medical process before I can make any conclusions about the ethics,” she said. “It disturbed me how quick and clean the procedure is, because it is a big deal.”
The week’s events began with the showing of a documentary about abortion Monday and will end Saturday with a performance by the all-female comedy group the Sphincter Troupe.
January 23, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Full agreement, Matthew. Old Testament prophets would recognize and identify such Moloch-like child sacrifice in a heartbeat.
Why doesn’t the MSM simply call abortuarial killings what they are — human sacrifice? I presume it is because they refuse to see that in rejecting the biblical faiths, Judaism and Christianity, the vacuum has been filled by neo-pagan worship of the old gods of blood.
January 24, 2008 at 12:56 am
I mean, really, it seems America is spent. The autonomous Self is our God, abortion the sacrament. Maybe we do need a neo-fascist theocratic takeover.
January 24, 2008 at 1:04 am
The world is spent. Listen, there is nothing we can do at this point other than endure.
Western civilization must fall. I say stand back, let Rome burn, and try not to get caught in the collapse.
January 24, 2008 at 5:09 am
Thanks to Google, the article has been cached.
January 24, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Are you sure this happened at Yale, and not Wolfram and Hart?
January 24, 2008 at 2:05 pm
did somebody here just drop and “Angel” reference on me? Next you’ll be over here asking about Starbuck’s religious preference?
January 24, 2008 at 3:45 pm
There was a fleeting bit of (relatively) good news: the assembled crowd of about 15 students.
Only fifteen students showed up. It’s not zero, but very close to it, and we know at least one of the students there was curious and became disturbed by what she saw. There is a reason to hope.
(I wonder if we’ll hear how many people attend the Sphincter Troupe performance?)
January 24, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I’m working on a post of how I went from being pro-choice to pro-life, and will have to remember to link to this. One of the many reasons I had a change of heart is because I looked around at the pro-choice movement and was often shocked and horrified at some of the things my fellow abortion rights activists did and said…like this.
My husband went to Yale, I’ll have to send this to him. Really disturbing.
January 24, 2008 at 8:37 pm
My own thoughts echo Jennifer’s. In fact, I was just talking with a reporter from our local Catholic paper about my family’s involvement in the March for Life here. I said that one big reason my wife and I came back to the Catholic church and got involved in pro-life ministry was our revulsion at the callousness of pro-“choice” people like these medical students. They are proof positive that human beings stand in need of a Redeemer.
January 25, 2008 at 2:50 am
Full agreement. I only can recommend the new book by Leon Podles titled Sacrilege which shows many more things like this.
January 25, 2008 at 4:50 am
Thank goodness only 15 students attended… that ought to tell them something.
If I’d attended something like this in college, it would have spared me many years of being pro-choice.
And I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if those 15 students in attendance don’t become pro-life, now that they’ve seen the ugly face of the pro-choice movement. When I was in college, it seemed like being pro-choice was simply the acceptable thing, and we were never given any compelling reasons not to be pro-choice. The sad part is that I went to a Catholic school, where there should have been more than enough compelling reasons…
January 25, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Abortionists are not concerned with women except as objects of humiliation and degradation; they have surrendered to Satan, and delight in blood, murder, and the grotesque display of body parts.
— Mack
January 26, 2008 at 12:05 am
Anybody else remember that Talking Heads song with the refrain, “…same as it ever was…same as it ever was…”
Here is an excellent post by the brilliant Mike Aquilina, an expert on the early Church, about horrific lack of respect for life in ancient Rome. Not much has changed (it’s just that now we have acronyms like POC that let the people involved in this barbarism (like those “best and brightest” Yale trainees) feel OK about what they’re doing. Then, as now, Christians were basically the only ones sticking their necks out and taking a stand.
No, it’s not the end of civilization, it’s an example of what “civilized” people have always been capable of when they CHOOSE to ignore, or defy, God:
http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2008/01/22/persons-in-the-hood/