Yes, it's an abortion

Andrew Bolt

There are some experts who don't want you to know what really goes on in an abortion clinic. You see, you may get the wrong idea. Which is, in fact, the right idea, but wrong if you have it.

So the Australian Medical Association boss, Dr Bill Glasson, was apologetic when he heard what the ABC was going to screen.

My Foetus is a documentary shot by the then pregnant Julia Black, daughter of the founder of Marie Stopes International, a big British chain of abortion clinics. Black had an abortion at 21, and has long supported a woman's "right" to abortion.

She still clutches to that view, even after making the documentary and showing what happens when a fetus is sucked out at four weeks, looking just like a baby in miniature.

Mind you, her faith was shaken, not least when a doctor described what it was like for him to kill an older fetus in the womb, and then to dismember it so it could be pulled out, limb by small limb.

But Glasson, the doctors' union boss, thinks all this should be kept secret. "It's unnecessary," he raged. "Voyeurism at it's worst." He added: " I really wonder what they're trying to achieve here...The fact that we now have to see a baby being sucked out at the time of abortion achieves very little, so I would be very much against it."

I agree. We will be sickened. Horrified, even. But isn't that exactly why we need to see this film?

Glasson and others who condemn it seem concerned that if we for once do see what we allow abortionists to do to a fetus, and what that fetus looks like as it is killed, our support for this business would plummet. Late-term abortions in particular might be seen for what they are - plain murder. Perhaps that is why we have never before been shown such things on television. It is certainly why pro-abortion lobbyists talk only about a "woman's right to choose", and never about the fetus they may choose to kill, for sound reasons or flippant.

But what kind of moral cowardice are people such as Glasson promoting? Is it truly moral for us to fund up to 100,000 abortions a year without being allowed to see what we are assisting?

Argue the rights to abortion all you like, and even now I argue with myself about it. But if we won't admit - or let others see - what we are really doing with abortions, we are guilty of a monstrous deceit.

And it is only because we do not see that we allow abortions such as the following: In Darwin, a 22 week old fetus, a girl, was aborted, still alive, and left to die in a steel dish. That took 80 minutes, and nurses later told a coroner they could hear her cry and cry, but no one held or helped her.

In Melbourne, such "mistakes" don't happen. Instead, a baby only two weeks from birth was killed in the womb and aborted because its mother was terrified it had dwarfism.

In Queensland, Dr David Grundmann kills fetuses about 20 weeks old and sometimes even 28 weeks, an age at which they can be saved if born - by a technique he once described on the ABC.

"(It's) essentially a breech delivery where the fetus is delivered feet first and when the head of the fetus is brought down into the top of the cervical canal, it is decompressed with a puncturing instrument so that it fits through the cervical opening."

Translation: The baby is stabbed in the head, which is then squashed.

Oh, yes. It is horrible to read. How disgusting of me to mention all this. But isn't it also horrible and disgusting that we permit and pay for precisely such abortions?

Why do we? Because, I suspect, we do not see, and are not shown, what abortion is. My Foetus will show the suctioning, if not the stabbing and dismemberment. If you cannot bear to even watch, ask why you can still bear to allow such things to be done.