A new film publicizes the trauma of a baby born alive in a Florida abortion clinic, and the responses of those around the mother.
It’s called 22weeks and runs only 25 minutes. Puerto Rican writer, director, and producer Angel Manuel Soto read accounts of what he thought to be a horrible crime considering federal law.
“There was a Born Alive Infant Protection Act that was passed in 2002,” he notes, “and according to this story, that law was not executed.”
22weeks tells the real story of a woman having a live baby during an abortion, and it is a documented event that took place at the EPOC Clinic of Orlando Women’s Center. She was locked in a bathroom crying for help when the baby was born. She was ignored even though the staff could see the baby moving. She trapped herself in the bathroom until police could arrive.
Soto recognizes that abortion is legal — but…”as she exercised the right to do something, …her other rights were denied — and so were the baby’s,” he states.
The film is a drama rather than a documentary, and is showing in some theatres and on college campuses so far. It also will be shown in Washington, DC, in January — on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
According to Soto, the actual mother depicted in the film as previewed it, approves of it, and considers it accurate and professionally done.
Pro-life activist Jill Stanek tells WorldNetDaily that some people just are not going to believe this happened. “This is not something that doesn’t happen,” she said. “It’s not isolated.” Stanek is the Chicago nurse who blew the whistle on a hospital when she discovered babies who were being aborted alive were shelved to die in a soiled utility room.
I‘ve noticed in the past that whenever anyone tries to shed light on the abortion problem by using visual aids, (pictures or video) their immediately attacked and branded as crazies. These attackers can even come from inside the church waving the banner that seeing pictures or video of dead babies will harm some children who might see it. I wish them well with their film and hope that they will be successful in educating the masses to the true horror of abortion. • In the U.S. 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred. WORLDWIDE
Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000
Where abortions occur:
83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in developed countries
ABORTION STATS
U.S. Abortion Deaths Compared to U.S. War Deaths
Revolutionary War – 4,435 deaths
Civil War (both sides) – 498,332 deaths
World War I -116,708
World War II – 407,316
Korea – 25,604 death
Vietnam – 58,168 deaths
Total killed due to abortion since 1973 – 35,000,000 (35 million deaths). This is a 1996 statistic the no. of legal abortions performed to date in the U.S. exceeds 47 million.
WHO’S HAVING ABORTIONS (age)?
52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25:
Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions;
Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%
WHO’S HAVING ABORTIONS (race)?
While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women.
Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion.
Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.
WHO’S HAVING ABORTIONS (marital status)?
64.4% of all abortions are performed on never married women.
Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions.
Divorced women obtain 9.4%
WHO’S HAVING ABORTIONS (religion)?
Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.
Catholic women account for 31.3%
Jewish women account for 1.3%
Women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions.
18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as “Born-again / Evangelical.”
An average of 666 abortions each and every day!
WHO’S HAVING ABORTIONS (income)?
Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions.
Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%
Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%
Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%
WHY WOMEN HAVE ABORTIONS
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest;
6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child.
93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).
AT WHAT GESTATIONAL AGES ARE ABORTIONS PERFORMED:
52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy.
25% happen between the 9th & 10th week.
12% happen between the 11th & 12th week.
6% happen between the 13th & 15th week.
4% happen between the 16th & 20th week.
1% of all abortions (16,450 / yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.
LIKELIHOOD OF ABORTION:
An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old.
47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.
BABIES BORN OUT OF WEDLACK
78% black
15% Hispanic
7% white
If anyone else has any newer stats or any more info that might be helpful please add. Thanks your brother in Christ perry.