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The Scoop On Scoping Out Snopes

    Near the beginning of 2019, several news sources began to report that abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide during 2018.  Breitbart reported, “There were more deaths from abortion in 2018 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined.”1
     Snopes quickly ran a rebuttal.
     The Snopes article stated that to make such a claim was a “political position, one which is at odds with the scientific/medical world.  The medical community does not confer personhood upon fetuses that are not viable outside the womb….”2  That statement is simply false.
      C.W. Kischer, who was a professor of anatomy and human embryology, made the sweeping statement, “Every human embryologist, worldwide, states that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization (conception)….  We exist as a continuum of human life, which begins at fertilization and continues until death.”3  Dr. Jerome LeJeune, who was a pediatrician and professor of genetics in Paris, testified before a Congressional subcommittee, saying, “after fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being” and that this “is no longer a matter of taste or opinion,” and “not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence…. Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.”4  Since the definition of a person is a human being, science and medicine say that a human being, a person, comes into existence at conception.  It is not pro-life people who are at odds with the scientific/medical world.  It is pro-murder people who are anti-science and anti-medicine in this matter and it is the Snopes article that is taking a political position.  Who does the article cite for support?  Two sources were the United Nations’ WHO, a political organization, and also Guttmacher, which is a pro-murder organization, a political organization.  Does anyone spot bias?
     The article went on to list religion, philosophy, science, and other areas as giving no clear answer as to when “personhood begins”.  It then quoted another article saying, “As scientists have peered into wombs with ultrasound and looked directly at sperm entering an egg, they’ve found that all the bright lines they thought existed dissolving.”  That’s simply not true either.  A scientist named Coy wrote in 2012, “The oviduct or Fallopian tube is the anatomical region where every new life begins in mammalian species. After a long journey, the spermatozoa meet the oocyte in the specific site of the oviduct named ampulla, and fertilization takes place.”5  If anything, the truth is exactly the opposite of the Snopes’ article.  Science has simply piled evidence on top of evidence that humans come into existence at conception.
     Let’s take a look at another part of the same sentence we just examined.  Bethania Palma wrote, “Stating that abortion is the ‘leading cause of death’ worldwide (as opposed to a medical procedure) is a problematic pro-nouncement….”  Here, the pro-murder piece seeks to cover up the true nature of abortion by speaking of it as if it were merely a medical procedure. This is a common practice by pro-murder advocates as they seek to conceal the truth.  The truth is that abortion is a medical procedure wherein an unborn human being is deliberately killed to end a pregnancy.  Palma, on Snopes, sought to take out what happens to the unborn child in abortion indicating that abortion was not a cause of death, but a medical procedure.
    The Snopes article then went on to quote an article on Wired, which said, “When life begins is, of course, the central disagreement that fuels the controversy over abortion.”  That’s totally false.  Professor Hymie Gordon of the Mayo Clinic testified before a Senate committee in 1981, saying, “By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception” and “unequivocally, that the question when life begins is no longer a question for theological or philosophical dispute.  It is an established fact that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception.”6
     The article then quoted biologist Scott Gilbert as saying, “The entity created by fertilization is indeed a human embryo, and it has the potential to be human adult. Whether these facts are enough to accord it personhood is a question influenced by opinion, philosophy and theology, rather than by science.”  What Palma does (and other pro-murder advocates frequently do) is a bit deceptive, shifting from one word or phrase to another as if they are the same.   She wrote “…no definitive answers as to when personhood begins…” and then quoted as proof  “When life begins” followed in the same quote by “when does a fetus become a person”.
     Science does say that the life of a new human being begins at conception as already proven.  Many similar quotes could be given that say the same thing.  What’s a person?  “A human being regarded as an individual,”7 says one dictionary.  “A human, an individual,”8 says another. “A human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing,”9 says a third.  A human being is a person and a person is a human being.  Therefore, when science says that a human being comes into existence at conception, it is saying that a person has come into existence then.
     By hurriedly posting this article to counter a claim about the number of abortion murders worldwide in 2018, Snopes showed its bias, lack of objectivity, and inaccuracy in an article so flawed.  Ironically, on the same page as the article was this, “Snopes.com has long been engaged in the battle against misinformation….”  I now wonder how much bias and misinformation is in the other articles they post in which they have a vested interest like they do in abortion.
     Let the Snopes reader beware!

                                                                                                                                Dennis Lange

 

1 https://www.breitbart.com/health/2018/12/31/abortion-leading-cause-of-
  death-in-2018-with-41-million-killed/

2 https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/01/03/abortion-leading-cause-of-
  death/

3 Christine Watkins, editor The Ethics of Abortion (New York: Greenhaven  
  press, 2005).  http://clinicquotes.com/embryologist-everyone-knows-life-
  begins-at-conception/

4 http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Mar/8/scientists-attest-life-   
  beginning-conception/Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to
  Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session April 23-
  24, 1981.

5 Coy et al., Roles of the oviduct in mammalian fertilization, REPRODUCTION
  144(6):649 (Oct. 1, 2012).

6 Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary
  Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981.
  http://naapc.org/why-life-begins-at-conception/

  Part was found above and part was found the book: The Life and Death
  Debate: Moral Issues of Our Time by James Porter Moreland, Norman L.
  Geisler, p.34,35.

7 https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/person

8 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person

9 http://www.dictionary.com/browse/person

Dianne Feinstein’s Huge Ignorant Goof

 
    As I was passing by my television the other day, I heard Murdercrat Senator Dianne Feinstein of California interviewing supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and say something about abortion.  So, I later took the time to listen to her words on YouTube because I knew she would say something wrong.  All abortion murder advocates do.  They lie, deceive, and use empty slogans and arguments. 

     Feinstein questioned Kavanaugh and revealed her ignorance of the issue, saying, “Do you agree with Justice O’Connor that a woman’s right to control her reproductive life impacts her ability to ‘participate equally in the economic and social life of the nation’?”1 Anyone, including O’Connor and Feinstein, who thinks that abortion controls reproduction, is completely wrong.  One has ALREADY REPRODUCED when an abortion takes place.  Abortion kills the human being that came into existence in that womb at conception.

     Then, Feinstein made a gross error.  She said, still addressing Kavanaugh, “In the 1950’s and 60’s, the two decades before Roe, deaths from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million.  That’s according to the Guttmacher Institute.  So a lot of women died in that period….  I don’t want to go back to those death tolls in this country.”2

…..If one knows the issue because he has studied it (because he cares), then he knows immediately that those figures are wrong.  Feinstein made a horrible mistake that makes illegal abortion seem like a terrible killer of women that it never was. (Instead, it’s a terrible killer of their unborn children.)

     Twenty years compose those two decades and the range in deaths per year using the erroneous figures she gave would mean that from 10,000 to 60,000 women died each year from illegal abortions.  But even the lower figure is totally false. 

     Abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathan, one of the leading pro-abortion figures prior to Roe, writing in his book Aborting America about the number of women dying from illegal abortions, said, “How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal?  In N.A.R.A.L we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always ‘5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.’  I confess that I knew the figures were false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it.  But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?  The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.”3  He admitted, “I was selling a bill of goods.”4

     What is the truth?  The truth is that Guttmacher does use the figures Feinstein gave for those two decades, but the figures are not for the number of deaths from abortions but for the number of illegal abortions.  The Guttmacher site reads, “Estimates of the number of illegal abortions (emphasis mine – DL) in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year.  One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina, concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced abortions occurred in 1967.”5

     About deaths from illegal abortions, Guttmacher went on to say in the same article, “One stark indication of the prevalence of illegal abortion was the death toll. In 1930, abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women—nearly one-fifth (18%) of maternal deaths recorded in that year. The death toll had declined to just under 1,700 by 1940, and to just over 300 by 1950 (most likely because of the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, which permitted more effective treatment of the infections that frequently developed after illegal abortion). By 1965, the number of deaths due to illegal abortion had fallen to just under 200, but illegal abortion still accounted for 17% of all deaths attributed to pregnancy and childbirth that year.  And these are just the number that were officially reported; the actual number was likely much higher.”  Using the reported statistics from 1950 (just over 300), the deaths from illegal abortions during the 50’s and 60’s would have been closer to 6,000 instead of the 200,000 Feinstein gave.

     A pro-murder Feinstein staffer doing research most likely made the mistake, but didn’t know enough about the issue to instantly recognize it. Pro-murder Senator Feinstein didn’t know enough about the issue so she continued the error.  How many Senators listening to her didn’t know she had made a gigantic mistake?  How many millions who heard her words on television or as I did more distinctly on YouTube not know she had made a mistake?

     The problem in abortion murder is that people on both sides of the issue are ignorant about the issue.  Countless millions have the same ignorance Freinstein revealed because they are so involved in watching movies, sports, soap operas, playing games, and pursuing their trivia in their lives that they don’t really care to learn about the issue of abortion which has resulted in the murder of 60,000,000 unborn babies since Roe vs. Wade in 1973 and continues at the rate of 2500 murders per day.

     How about you?  Are you going to learn the issue?  If you’re pro-murder, you just might find out you’ve been duped.  If you’re pro-life, perhaps you’ll discover the rock-solid basis for your stance.  If you’re a politician who is supposedly pro-life, you would find out that the issue belongs to those who are pro-life and you can destroy the Murdercrats in elections by focusing on abortion murder and educating an unknowing public.

    Read a book.  Try mine – Murdercrats: Millions of Abortion Murderers, available at Amazon.  When 2500 murders are occurring every day, there is too much at stake to be ignorant about the issue.


Dennis Lange

 

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBK1iBT9Ofg

2 Ibid.

3 Nathanson, Bernard. Aborting America (Garden City, NY: Doubleday &
   Company, Inc., 1979), p.193.

4 Ibid, p.161.

5 https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2003/03/lessons-roe-will-past-be-prologue