Abortion
- Lafyva
- May 26, 2019
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 21
The Silent Scream
http://www.worldometers.info/abortions/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gON-8PP6zgQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_Scream
This was the first time the images of an aborted fetus were given an electronic platform, as opposed to the printed form of the imagery used in prior years.
Notice how the critics at the time call the scream a lie, the movement a lie, but not one word about the heart rate going from 140 to 200 while both of these things happen in this 12 week abortion.
World wide abortion rates since this video:
AI Overview
Many states have laws requiring ultrasounds before an abortion, with some mandating that the provider display the image and describe it to the patient. Some states also require the provider to play the sounds of the fetal heartbeat. These laws often include waiting periods, requiring multiple appointments, and can create barriers to accessing abortion care.
Why do some women kill their babies? How does ethology explain the phenomenon of infanticide?
*** (... ) A common cause of infanticide is the depressive state of the mother, which considers that by killing her child, she is sparing the citizen of needs and humiliation, she is doing her a favor [Wilson, Daly, 1997, p. 159, 165]. These women view the child as their property and justify their murder by 'protecting' the child from the pains of a burdening, flawed life; and some mothers, physically destroyed by their act, later commit suicide [Wilson et al. , 1995, p. 289]; similar reasons—intolerable poverty—may be at the root of infanticides committed by men[ibid. , p. 288].
In general, however, infanticide is caused by a number of factors, which act cumulatively: economic constraints, overpopulation, and the intention to achieve higher reproductive success within another relationship [Hawkes, 1981]. There have been cases of single mothers killing their child or children after engaging in a relationship with a better socially, richer man who would not tolerate those foreign children for him. Interestingly, infanticide is one of the very few categories of violence in which women outclass men [Bourget et al. , 2007, apud Liddle et al. , 2012, p. 14].
In behavioral biology is known the Bruce Effect, originally discovered in house mice, when a female physiologically compromises her pregnancy if she feels the presence of another unknown male [Bruce, 1959]. The effect is common to other mammals as well, being found in lions and some monkeys. The mechanism of pregnancy loss (feticide) is neuroendocrine in nature and is very complex, involving structures of the brain (the tonsils, hypothalamus) with blocking the secretion of prolactin and progesterone hormones, vital for the functioning of the uterus. The evolutionary explanation is: if a pregnant female is accessed by a foreign male (and his presence cannot be avoided), it means that there is a risk that the male will kill her chicks immediately after birth (this is often the case when not mere species), respectively for females it is more convenient, less expensive, to terminate the pregnancy rather than carry it all the way through and lose the chicks anyway. In addition, if this foreign male is a dominant one, the female can mate with him, giving birth to chicks that will later benefit protection and a higher social status. We see here that infanticide is often an effect or a side-product (byproduct) of sexual selection.
Sometimes, infanticide occurs in the form of cannibalism when the female sees that her chicks will not survive due to the food crisis or being threatened by an impending danger. In the presence of a captor, male guinea fowl (sea fish) can eat their own caviar; in the view of the cost/benefit ratio, it is evolutionarily more justified for adults to eat their own guava (which is an important calorie source) rather than eating them lashes consumed by a kidnapper [Chin-Baarstad et al. , 2009]. The rattlesnake of Crotalus polystictus often eats its own underdeveloped eggs or stillborn chicks; in this way, the female recovers her strength to lay other, more viable eggs [Mociño-Deloya et al. , 2009]. Cats can euthanize their chicks if they have underdeveloped their maternal instinct or to recover from a severe period of gestation, or if the chicks were born with abnormalities (undetectable by the human eye), and the mother cat does not want to consume all the energy tick for their sake.
The female bear who cannot find resources to feed her young chick, or who sees that it is weak and peppered, may decide to kill it; if she herself suffers from malnutrition, she could eat her own chick. When the female, in unfavorable circumstances, kills her chick, she does not harm her reproductive chances, but enhances them, in view of more favorable conditions. In the Saguinus mystax tamarind monkeys, a case was described when the adult female killed her baby chick, from which she fed both herself and her pregnant adult daughter. The sacrifice of a small chick, difficult to raise, to ensure a good gestation of another, more mature chick, is an example of infanticide aimed at the advantage of another, healthier or more numerous offspring [Culot et al. , 2011] Similar procedures have also been seen in wasps, when the female kills some of her tender larvae to feed with them the older chick. Such a thing happens in conditions of nutrient deficiency, with the sacrifice of some larvae being justified, by saving an entire colony [Kudo, Shirai, 2012].
Overpopulation is another factor of great impact in producing conflicts with a lethal effect; it is known that in animals, with the increase in population density, over the optimal limits, frustration also increases. Consequently, overpopulation causes various instances of intra-group murders, including infants, in human communities [Wilson, 1975/2003, p. 208; Divale, Harris, 1976; Moore, 1999]. In the Neolithic period, the "surplus" babies were simply left in abandoned camps, where they were starving and these acts were a common strategy to regulate the density of the population in tribes, during climatic conditions this is harsh.
In Confucian Chinese culture, after the birth of the child for three days he was not considered a human being; in this time the murder of the child (called "postnatal abortion") was not under the incidence of any moral or legal law. The three days constituted a term in which parents decided whether they had enough resources to save the child's life. There are reports of the custom of killing unwanted babies, by innanity, in Russian villages [ orа зааретян, 2008]. Biologist Jared Diamond has described practices of aborting birth or infanticide among the aborigines on Tikopia Island (Oceania) as traditional ways of regulating demographic processes. Pregnant women were put on their bellies hot stones to stimulate abortion, and in case the children were born, they were suffocated or buried alive. Methods to reduce the number of adults were also applied: some committed suicide willingly, others (especially young bachelors) were boarded on boats and sent on an irreversible journey on the ocean, which was often known to have a tragic ending [ Diamond, 2008, p. 401].
