In 1889, Herman W. Mudgett built a hotel in Chicago in anticipation of the huge tourist boom that was expected with the upcoming 1893 World’s Fair. Except this wasn’t a normal hotel at all, it was a weird mystery fun house, with trapdoors, hidden stairways and surprise chutes to the basement.
Herman W. Mudgett was the real name of H.H. Holmes, America’s first ‘famous’ serial killer, who used the upper floors of his hotel to torture and kill hundreds of people – most of whom were women.
Holmes built sound-proof rooms in which his victims would die of starvation and thirst. He had built rooms with gas pipes that let him asphyxiate his victims. Some of his victims were
dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models and then sold to medical schools. He would also require some of his workers (who were also to become his victims) to take out life insurance which he was the beneficiary to.
Holmes was eventually caught and confessed to the crimes. The Murder Castle burned down shortly after Holmes’ capture and a post office was built on the site in 1938. It still stands today and is almost certainly haunted.
Here is a drawing of the Murder Castle by Holly Corden. It gives you a good idea of what the inside looked like.
At 23 weeks chances are good that this fetus is being removed because it is:
a) Already dead b) Suffering abnormalities such as it developed no brain, or had a serious genetic condition that would kill it quickly. c) Was actively dying (not dead yet but would be within a few days, 100% guarunteed, 0 chance of saving it) d) Was actively killing the pregnant person.
Late term abortions, as shown here, make up only 1.5% of all abortions. The above four reasons are the only reasons such procedures are performed. Almost every abortion performed after 20 weeks is done on a wanted pregnancy. So you know what that means? You’re calling people who miscarried murderers. You just implied people who had a miscarriage or would have died murderers. How dare you call yourself pro life for that.
Now for the fun fact: They used to use a different procedure for these abortions in which they removed the fetus intact and allowed these people to grieve for the intact fetus, have pictures, etc. Pro lifers decided people losing a wanted pregnancy should not be allowed to grieve an intact fetus and we were left with this.
Congrats. Your movement is the reason they use this one now when people lose a wanted pregnancy late into the pregnancy. Your movement is intentionally making it harder for people to recover from the lose of a much wanted pregnancy. It’s your movement who left grieving people with this instead of allowing them something easier to deal with, something that would let them hold their deceased fetus.
Congrats. If you think you were ‘saving’ something think again. You’re hurting born people. You’re hurting people who lose a wanted pregnancy by shaming this abortion procedure. And you’re movement is the reason this is procedure doctors are forced to use now. You’re probably an awful and mean person to tell people losing a wanted pregnancy that they’re killers.
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