Communication

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Mistys' Journal

Hi! My name is Misty. Well, actually, I don’t have a name yet, because I haven’t been born yet, but, I sure like that name. It sounds like a soft, spring day when gentle rain gives life to all the earth. When the rain brings a soft, fresh scent as it cleanses.

Mommy is going to be so surprised when she finds out about me! I was just conceived last night and already I am so excited about life that I can hardly be still. I can’t wait to actually see and feel the rain, to smell the flowers, play in the grass and everything else. Most of all, I can’t wait to see my Mommy’s face and feel her arms wrap around me as she holds and cuddles me close to her. Just thinking about it makes me feel all warm inside.

Right now, I am no bigger than a grain of salt. But, I’m still alive. Already, everything about me has been determined. My sex (and as I told you-I’m a girl) my hair color, my eyes, my skin, my features and even my height! They have a funny name for me-a big long name for such a tiny person: embryonated ootid. But, that’s just a technical term-for I know that I’m a human baby. And I have been busy. I have been taking a ride down my Mommy’s fallopian tube to her uterus where I will stay warm, cozy, fed and protected until I am born into the world. And while taking this ride, I have been growing! I began just as one cell and now I am a bundle of cells. I sure have been busy.

Wow has things been happening fast. Guess where I am at? I made it to my Mommy’s uterus or womb! It took me ten days to get here, but I made it! Mommy was ready for me. Her uterus actually increased its mucous membrane just for me. And instead of eating from an egg sac Mommy is feeding me. Through her umbilical cord and chorion (my future placenta) my Mommy’s blood brings me my food for nutrition and even oxygen so that I can breathe. How lucky I am to have such a caring Mommy that takes care of me the way she does.

Something exciting happened today. I am twenty-one days old and I actually got to feel my heart start beating. Yelp, I now have a heartbeat of my own. Yesterday, my nervous system actually started forming. I am growing so very fast. I still look funny, actually, I think that I look like a tadpole, but I am still growing and developing and before long I will look just like the big people only in a smaller size.

I am four weeks old now and have another new technical name-embryo. How funny people can be with all their labels and names. Why not just call me a baby? You can tell my head is my head now and even my brain has started to form. I have tiny buds on me now, but they will grow to be my arms and legs. I now have a beating heart, a brain, spinal cord and the beginnings of my arms and legs. How happy I am to be growing so fast.

It’s been a whole month now and here I am at two months old and I look like a small human being now! I have my fingers and toes and everything. I can even smell now. And of course those funny specialists have another name for me: foetus. Even though not fully developed yet, all my major organs and systems are formed. I even have ears, ankles and wrists and eyelids! I’m still so tiny though-I’m only about one inch long and only weigh about an ounce. I still have a lot of growing to do. But, only seven more months to go and I will get to see the world!

Another month and here I am three months old! Again, I have another name- fetus. I have soft finger and toenails now! Just think, one day I will get to paint them pretty colors! And, if a doctor wants to use his special instrument, he can now hear my heartbeat! My mouth feels funny though, because I have about twenty buds in it. But, I will need them because they will someday grow into teeth so I can eat real food. And I have grown even more. I grew three inches in the last month! Everything about me has formed, so all I need to do now is mature and grow. I can even move now! I can move my head, wave my hands, kick my feet and even suck my thumb.

My liver now produces blood cell, my brain sends impulses to my muscles and even controls my heart. My stomach now even produces gastric juices and my kidneys have begun to work. They can even distinguish my RH-factor with blood tests now. I can feel a touch now too. And I can even hear and see now. Sometimes I put my hands up to my ears when the noise gets too loud. I look just like a big human being now, only very, very small. But I will grow! Everyday I’m working hard to grow. I’m getting more and more excited just thinking about life and being out in the world with my Mommy. I love her so much for protecting and taking care of me while I grow. She is so special to share her body with mine so that I can live too.

Yesterday, I was so excited and happy. Today I am devastated and scared. This will be my last entry in my journey into life. Mommy has decided to abort me. They said something about it being her body and freedom of choice. But it is my body that they have decided to kill and they have given me no choice. If they had, I would choose to live.


Kathleen Ann Shelton


NOTE:

Types of Abortion

The abortion process is the horrible killing of an unborn, helpless and defenseless baby. When looked at realistically, the cruelty and brutality of what occurs during the process if an abortion is clearly obvious. In the privacy of the mother’s womb, unseen and hidden, the baby’s body is ripped apart, poisoned, sucked and vacuumed out, his brains removed or similarly other cruel and inhuman methods. The end results are the same; the taking of an innocent life. There are seven main types of abortion that are currently used and practiced in the United States.

Suction Curettage: This process is used for approximately eighty percent of abortions. It is commonly used for the first through the third month of pregnancy. The mother’s cervix or mouth of her womb is dilated using dilator rods. The cervix is closed tightly to protect the unborn child during pregnancy and sometimes because of this, this procedure damages the cervix. A hollow tube with a knife-like edged tip, a powerful suction tube, called a suction Curette is inserted through the cervix into the mothers womb. The strong suction tears the unborn child apart and the pieces of the baby and placenta are sucked into a jar or container. However, the head cannot be sucked out since it is so large. Instead, it must be crushed, then extracted. Dilation and Curettage (D & C) is similar to the suction process with the exception of the insertion of the curette or loop shaped knife that cuts the baby apart and scrapes the baby’s pieces out through the cervix.

Dilation and Evacuation (D&E): This procedure is used primarily during the fourth through the eight month of pregnancy. Laminaria (seaweed) and dilator rods are used to dilate the cervix. Once the cervix has been dilated, forceps are inserted and they twist and tear the unborn child into body parts in order to remove them in pieces. Then, the unborn child’s skull and spine are literally crushed to be removed by ring forceps. After the body parts have been extracted, a scooped shaped surgical instrument is used to scrape out what has remained in the uterus.

Partial Birth Abortion or Dilation & Extraction (D & X): This vicious and cruel method is used from the fifth month of pregnancy up through the ninth month. Laminaria is used here also to dilate the mother’s cervix. The abortionist, guided by ultrasound, grabs the baby’s legs with forceps and pulls them down into the mothers’ birth canal. Next, the baby is delivered with the exception of its’ head. With its’ body out and its’ head still in the uterus or birth canal, blunt, curved Metzenbaum scissors are forced or jammed into the baby’s skull. Next, the scissors are spread open to enlarge the opening. Once the hole in the baby’s skull has been sufficiently enlarged, the scissors are removed and a suction catheter inserted. This catheter is a high powered suction tube that evacuates the baby’s skull, removing its’ brains, causing the baby’s head to collapse. Afterwards, the dead baby and it’s placenta are removed and discarded.

Saline Solution Method (Salt Poisoning): This method is used from the fourth through the seventh month of pregnancy. A long needle is inserted into the mothers’ abdomen and a concentrated salted solution is injected directly into the amniotic sac and fluid that surrounds the baby. The baby swallows or breathes this solution and with its’ skin severely burned, the baby is slowly poisoned. It takes from one to two hours for the unborn baby to die from salt poisoning, dehydration, hemorrhages of its’ internal organs and convulsions. The mother will go into labor and delivers a dead or dying shriveled baby. Unfortunately, some babies survive this procedure and are born alive with severe burns to their bodies and other complications.

Prostaglandin/ Chemical: This procedure is used from the fourth through the eighth month of pregnancy. Prostaglandin is a hormone like compound that is manufactured by the Upjohn Company. Prostaglandins induce labor. They are applied to the mothers’ uterine muscles or injected into the amniotic sac that surround the baby. This causes intense contractions and the mother goes into labor, giving birth to a very young child. Harmful side effects along with live births are common. Because of the rate of occurrences of live births, this method is now falling out of favor.

Inter-cardiac Injection or Digoxin Induction: Performed from the fifth through the eighth month of pregnancy. The mothers’ cervix is dilated and ultrasound is used to locate the exact location of the baby’s heart. A syringe is filled with digoxin, a heart moderating drug, and a needle injects the digoxin directly into the baby’s heart, killing the baby with an immediate heart attack. This procedure is commonly used in “pregnancy reduction” abortions-when multiple babies are in the womb and some are killed because of defects or simply to reduce the amount of live babies born.

Hysterectomy/ Cesarean Section: This harsh method is performed during the sixth through eighth month of pregnancy. An incision is made through the mothers’ abdomen into her womb. While still in its’ mothers’ womb, the baby is then killed by strangulation or other means.

Kathleen Ann Shelton

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