The following comes from a May 6 story on LifeSiteNews.com.
A 25-year-old abortion counselor who filmed her own abortion for a contest in March now says in a piece published in Cosmopolitan that she hoped her YouTube video would portray “a positive abortion story.”
“I know that sounds weird, but to me, this was as birth-like as it could be,” Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor, said of her abortion experience. “I remember breathing and humming through it like I was giving birth.”
“It will always be a special memory for me,” added Letts, who says that she kept the sonogram and that if her apartment ever caught fire, it would “be the first thing I’d grab.”
At the end of her video Letts, an abortion doula at Cherry Hill Women’s Center, boasted, “I don’t feel like a bad person. I don’t feel sad. I feel in awe of the fact that I can make a baby, I can make a life.”
“It will always be a special memory for me,” the 25-year-old former actress said.
She posted the heavily-edited, three-minute-long video – which shows her in a medical setting for only one minute – online after winning the Abortion Care Network’s “Stigma Busting” video contest.
Although the video purports to depict an abortion, neither the abortionist nor the baby are shown at any time, with the camera remaining focused exclusively on Letts throughout. “I was a professional actress for many years. I loved acting,” she writes. “While I was pregnant and waiting for my procedure, I thought, ‘Wait a minute, I have to use this.’”
The abortion facility wanted to use it, as well, she writes. “At first they wanted to sit down and talk about the real consequences of this. There are a lot of politics involved,” she says. “We knew we could have hundreds of protesters at our door; we could have bomb threats. Working at an abortion clinic, every once in awhile it feels like you’re working in a war zone.
“But,” she says, “I said, ‘Bring it,’ and they were on board….”
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Only 1-2 weeks pregnant. Takes a pregnancy test on a whim and sees 2 pink lines.
Uhhhh.. Like to know what pregnancy test she used.
A sonogram at 2-3 weeks shows nothing. Why would she keep it and risk her life in a fire to save it?
“I don’t feel like a bad person”
Nor did Hitler!
Nor do the politicians who legislate and fund abortion and sodomy during the week and receive the Holy Eucharist on Sunday!
We are quickly getting worse and worse, as we sink deeper in to the bog of immorality. What is next? Probably a show, WHO WANTS TO HAVE AN ABORTION? Satan and his demented disciples will stop at nothing to encourage immorality and death. May God have mercy on us!
“THIS IS MY BODY” on You Tube. Pass this on to others.
A DNA test will prove the claim “This is my body” is wrong.
What are you taking about Ron?
You commented without watching the video. – par for the course.
Uncalled for, Linda.
For those who do not watch the video – and there will be readers who don’t – the usually cry of abortion advocates is IT’S MY BODY. Ron was merely indicating that a child from the moment of its conception has it’s own DNA, indicating that it is a separate body and not the woman’s at all.
Watch the video Ann, this video “This is My Body” is about Christ as well as the women in relation to abortion.
It has nothing to do with DNA.
It is recommended by Father Pavone and Priests for Life.
It is people like you who need to investigate before inserting foot in mouth.
Pay attention, Ann Malley.
For Ron to state or imply that the VIDEO is WRONG – which discourages others from watching it – is WRONG. -And you should not encourage ‘foot in mouth’ behavior.
If he did not watch it, he should not comment.
Ann Malley, please apologize –
“This is My Body” – JESUS
Mt 26:26; Mk 14:22.
“This is My Body which is given for you” – JESUS
Lk 19:19.
Any Christian who has ever read the New Testament is familiar with these words of Christ, and certainly any Catholic who has ever been to Mass.
“This is my Body” is a beautiful video.
I’m paying attention, Anonymous, Paula, and Pete.
What I took issue with is not the Gospel and not the video either. That wasn’t my point. My point was that Ron didn’t watch the video – not a grave offense – but responded to what, sorry, is a catch phrase used by many pro-aborts – where they insist “It’s my body!” to protest at pro-life rallies. They often sit on the ground with legs splayed, sporting red spray paint in all the right places.
I venture Ron has been to his share of abortion protests and on the pro-life side. Hence the reference to DNA.
As for apologizing, there is no need as I did not negate the video or its message. It was the unnecessary “…par for the course” that seemed unfair, especially as Ron was unfairly denigrated on another thread by the same poster only minutes earlier.
Lest others aren’t paying attention, “Ron” is the same Ron who was part of the brave crew taking the video footage of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being given Holy Communion at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco’s Castro District. The video and subsequent documentation of said sacrilege being sent to the Vatican.
That said, saying and/or implying that Ron is ‘par for the course’ isn’t paying attention. As for your comment, Anonymous, “…and certainly any Catholic who has been to mass” is also unhelpful. You know not of what spirit you are when you cast such unproductive barbs.
People should not comment without knowing what they are commenting on – insert foot in mouth.
This is a beautiful video.
Think about it – who said “This is my Body”, and do you really think He was talking about DNA.
I agree that folks shouldn’t comment on videos they haven’t watched. That said, doing as much isn’t a basis for denigrating someone who obviously loves and fights for the Church.
So no, Our Lord wasn’t thinking about DNA, but the DNA defense is the precise tool to combat the “It’s my body” cry of those who lobby for abortion.
Here is a scientific site that should be passed on to others –
Let them see whom they are killing.
“ENDOWMENT for HUMAN DEVELOPMENT”
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=44
Abortion is the murder of an innocent human being for the convenience of another.
Poor little sick young lady. Prayers for her and her dead baby. She will one day feel such shame, anguish, despair and loss. I pray that when that happens someone will bring her to Our Lord to ask for His mercy. She will lovingly receive it. Know that something dreadful has happen to this girl that she would do something so vulgar as to video tape the killing of her child and call it “birth like”.
She is obviously not a feminist because a feminist would think of all the women in the sisterhood who are suffering because of not being able to conceive or bring a pregnancy to term and carry the baby for one of them.
She is obviously not a LGBT rights activist because she would have carried the baby for a same-sex couple who wanted to adopt.
She is an actress.
This is a fake video.
Exactly, Jim. It is as phony as a three dollar bill. Just another way to suck naïve young women into abortions.
Bogus video.
I’ve never seen a “happy” abortion. Every woman is scared to death, shaking or crying.
I agree that this video is fake.
If it were so great, why not state the name of the wonderful abortionist or the wonderful abortion business?
Maybe she was simply having a vaginal exam with PAP and is doing her best as a C class actress to portray the way she thinks a woman might act during an abortion?
Women who tell me about their abortions are always despondent with tears in their eyes and regret in their heart.
Interesting. Strange, too. Do you mean she was hired as an actress to promote PP? Or her own agenda? Doubly strange.
I think Dana is closest to the truth behind this strange account. “[Was] she hired as an actress to promote PP?” The best way to deceive people is with an [apparently] innocent and pretty face. All an act orchestrated by the beast that hides in the reeds, Planned Parenthood.
She says that she is in awe that “I can make a baby, make a life.” Is she also in awe that she can kill a baby, take a life? If it was such an awesome experience, is she going to get pregnant again so that she can make a life and take a life?
This is very sad folks. She is a product of this society. God have mercy. Help her Lord understand the error of her ways.
“For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.” Psalm 23:4
Lord help our youth through this walk in the midst of the shadow of death, help them uncover the deceptive ways that this modern day life has imposed upon them. Lord this is the way the youth see things, they do not reason well and their humanity has been cheapened to secular ideals. Lord you are our almighty Abba Father. Empower us Lord to reach out to these young ones, to reach them before the enemy does and before they get to this point as this young lady has. Its such a dark place to be Father. Reclaim your children Father and bring us healing once again. Forgive us our imperfections and our failings for not acting fast enough. Your mercy we pray for. Jesus reclaim your youth, don’t let the enemy have his way with them any longer! In Jesus name we pray, His will be done! Now and forever! Amen!
Pray for this young woman, a perfect example of Satan’s success story: a modern American Pagan. There is no help for us as a country, either, if courts and politicians continue to bless these people in their flawed choices. Perhaps a democracy is not such a positive political model, after all. This is a truly awful story. She is asking the wrong questions and observing the wrong things. But, “who am I to judge.” Yes, Pope Francis said this in a somewhat broader context, but not in a way to really soften this question. Ms. Letts glories in her murder of her own child; our society should not continue to succeed if this is the kind of person that is being born and bred in the USA. Too bad generations of priests have advised many young women that such activity is to be ruled by the individual conscience.
St. Christopher, generations of priests have not taught that abortion is a matter of conscience. Procuring an abortion excommunicates a person. The excommunication can only be lifted by the bishop.
If she were Catholic, why, she couldn’t receive the Holy Eucharist in a dozen American dioceses.
Regardless if she’s a paid actress or not, this is still very damaging for all the lost souls who can’t hear the truth. This woman still needs our prayers for her deceit that will bring others to harm.