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PR: Ultrasound Tour starts on 12th November
09.11.2007
It would be hard for what Jenni Maas calls the abortion peddlers to argue the case for legal abortion in the face of the story she has to relate, so it’s probably one they would rather wasn’t heard. (That’s not to say that some pro-abortion extremists wouldn’t callously say to her face that it would have been her tough luck if she had been aborted as the privilege of life is an arbitrary right which can’t interfere with the dogmatic liberalism of free love. Missing the point, they might say, ‘you were nearly aborted, get over it’.).
In truth though, Jenni’s story is one that is seldom heard. That’s because despite the fact that the thin end of the abortion wedge is invariably the special case, the exceptional circumstance where the terrible pain of some unfortunate women is used to manipulate a surge of misplaced compassion in the general public, pregnancies from rape are rare and they make up only a tiny fragment of the wholescale slaughter-for-profit that the abortion industry actually is. Nonetheless, Jenni Maas is the inconvenient rebuttal of that pro-abortion argument, the living proof of the logical argument that she is not guilty of her father’s crime and that her murder would not have cured her mother of her undoubted hurt and injury.
Jenni will take part in a five-date speaking tour of a selection of Irish colleges next week (from Monday, 12 November, to Monday, 19 November), organised by Ultrasound, the third-level pro-life group associated with Youth Defence. The group hosted Gianna Jessen, the abortion survivor, two years ago, and their work in the colleges is first-class. This year’s Witness Tour aims to give students a close-up perspective of abortion. In the abortion debate where the arguments are continuously dragged to the hypothetical realm of worst-case, and special-case scenarios, people will be confronted with a face - a possible victim of abortion who will surely pose the question, ‘would you have killed me?’
At one time Kathy Sparks would have answered yes to that question, probably without a moment’s hesitation. She was an assistant in an abortion centre in Granite City, Illinois, who eventually became sickened by the callous, avaricious slaughter she was mixed up in and finally rejected her amoral lifestyle. She will cast additional light on the real motives of abortionists when she shares her experience from the stage.
Kathy’s progression from sinner to penitent was an interesting one. Like Lady Macbeth she exulted in the prospect of her actions but eventually sank into depression and disgust with herself. She had no reservations about going into the killing industry and at first she would casually handle the jars of babies’ remains and sometimes swirl them to view all the various parts of the dead child’s body. She says she was ‘wicked to begin with’, so it wasn’t difficult for her to fit into the rhythm of things at the abortion clinic.
Kathy says:
‘I was trained to do all sorts of fun medical things, like take blood pressure. I just really loved it; I really liked it; I liked my job. I got to wear a white uniform. All the desires in my heart to be a nurse were being somewhat fulfilled, as evil as it was. I did not see how evil abortion was. It did not bother me at all. When I saw my first abortion procedure, I didn’t see it any differently than dissecting a frog in biology. I had blinders upon my eyes, as I believe many people involved in the abortion industry do.’
Although her candid account is disturbing, it is a revelation into the cogs and mechanisms of the abortion industry and how it dehumanises everyone involved in it. She tells how she became inured to the grisly sights she would see day after day.
‘I worked in the clean-up room, in my opinion the worst part of the clinic because it was so messy. You had to wear rubber gloves and it was like washing dishes. That’s where the babies were brought back. At the time I worked there, they only did first trimester abortions; they didn’t have facilities to do second trimester. But, oftentimes, second trimester abortions were performed and these babies we would not put in the little jar with the label to send off to the pathology lab. We would put them down a flushing toilet. They had a toilet that was mounted to the wall, and it was a continually flushing toilet; it didn’t have a lid or a handle. That’s where we would put these babies. They knew that they couldn’t turn them in or they were going to be found out that they were doing abortions which were too late-term. This is what I participated in while I worked there.
‘Here I was, twenty-one years old, and very much into the world. I did drugs, I drank; I was just a very, very bad sinner.’
She recounts how the abortion counsellors would manipulate women who were uncertain, so as to make sure they proceeded with the abortion. ‘Oftentimes, if it was money, she would tell them how much baby items cost. You know, it does cost $3,000 to have a baby now, and, you know, baby shoes are $28; sleepers are $15. You know, that’s what’s wonderful about abortion; we can take care of this problem and you don’t have to worry about it until you are financially prepared to have a child. So that’s what the counsellors would do.
‘The counselling at this particular abortion clinic was so effective that ninety-nine out of every 100 women would go ahead and abort. So that’s very effective counselling; a very important part of that abortion clinic.’
Kathy’s redemption was slow and painful and she describes how at her worst point, sickened by what her life had become, she tried to end it with her husband’s revolver. She hadn’t the strength to pull the trigger and in desperation rang her husband’s mother. That was the turning point in her life, in a slow and uncertain path to redemption.
These are powerful, unmissable testimonies. Ultrasound say all are welcome to the talks, which take place according to the schedule below.
The Ultrasound Tour
Monday, 12 November - DCU, 7pm. Room HG20
Tuesday, 13 November – Maynooth University, 7pm, Room JH3
Wednesday, 14 November – GMIT, Galway Campus, 7pm. Room 903
Thursday, 15 November – UCC, 7pm. Room Boole 3
Friday, 16 November – Dublin – Media, etc
Monday, 19 November – University of Limerick, 6:30pm, Jean Monet Theatre
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