They said it.
A quote by an abortion worker at the blog “Abortion Clinic Days” under the heading “Sending her Home” (May 2006) is as follows:
“I have also seen many times a woman changing her mind a number of times.”
Yet as you read the quotes in this section, you will see that many abortion providers attempt to talk women into having abortions, and others provide little or no counseling.
Share on FacebookAre some women ambivalent when they come to an abortion clinic? In the experience of some abortion providers, the answer is yes
At Newsreview.com “Inside an Abortion Clinic” clinic counselor “Laura” says:
” Maybe 30 percent [of the women] are kind of talking through doubts, maybe 5 percent go away.”
Chrisanne Beckner “Inside the abortion clinic” Newsreview.com January 29, 2004
Share on FacebookClinic worker Greta states:
“There are some women who are like “I don’t know what I want to do,” and the system is we assume women are totally clear in their decision the minute they walk in the door. If they’re not, we have to back up – And that’s challenging from a “workflow point of view.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37
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In one abortion clinic, a worker named Mira is quoted saying:
“We don’t counsel women- we assume if a woman says “I’m here to have an abortion” that she’s thought about that”
The interviewer herself then says:
“Several health workers pointed out that they occasionally dealt with ambivalent clients, even though Center methods were predicated on not probing women for doubts.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37
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“Professionally, we are obliged to give accurate, current and factual information to our patients to assist them in making a fully informed decision. This is the basis of informed consent. Yet nurses are advised to avoid showing pictures which explain the development of the unborn child because it may make them feel guilty, even though it is often our patients who later question us as to why we did not give them more information.”
BARBARA DOCHERTY, Practice nurse educator
New Zealand GP March 8, 2000
“If you can’t sell abortions over the phone, you will not last.”
Helen Pendley, former owner-director of an abortion clinic
Mary Meehan “The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit” Orthodoxy Today Can be found here.
Share on FacebookThe Reproductive Health Access Project gives “Pregnancy Options Counseling Points for the Ambivalent Patient.” Here are some of the points.
2. Normalize feelings of ambivalence.
3. Acknowledge common feelings such as shame, disappointment, guilt and regret.
4. Reframe the situation – she may be making the most responsible decision by NOT continuing the pregnancy.
5. Be conscious of time – you do not need to know everything about the patient to help her make a decision.
6. Refer to the pregnancy, not the baby.
7. Elucidate that the patient’s choice not to be a mother now does not mean she is choosing not to be a mother in the future.
Quoted by Life Dynamics.
“I have seen hundreds of patients in my office who have had abortions and were just lied to by the abortion counselor. Namely ‘This is less painful than having a tooth removed. It is not a baby.’ Afterwards, the woman sees Life Magazine and breaks down and goes into a major depression.”
Psychologist Vincent Rue
David Kuperlian and Jo Ann Gasper “Abortion, Inc.” New Dimensions Magazine October 1991, p 16
Share on Facebook“Abortion is a hard enough thing for any woman to decide without the torture of seeing the baby on an ultrasound screen.”
Dr. L. Lacroix, Planned Parenthood, Kelowna, B.C
Kelowna Daily August 24, 2000
Planned Parenthood opposes laws that would allow a woman to see her baby on the ultrasound screen. Even when the proposed law would not mandate that she must see her baby, but only that she be offered the opportunity to do so, Planned Parenthood opposes it.
Is it better for a woman to be in the dark about her aborted baby, and then find out afterwards that her baby was fully formed, or is it better for her to know the facts so that she can make an informed decision?
And who should make this decision for her? She or the clinic workers who get paid to convince her to abort?
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Abortion clinic counselor Sylvia Hampton discusses counseling sessions with abortion patients’ companions. She acknowledges the truth about fetal development if directly confronted, but tries to redirect
“Sometimes, they [the partners of those having abortions] would say ‘Have you ever seen the abortion afterward?’ and I would say, ‘Yes, I have.’ Then they would say, ‘Well, what does it look like?’ And I would say, ‘Well, it depends on the stage of the pregnancy. ”Does it have little feet and a heartbeat?’ And I would say, ‘Yes, at the early stages it does. But you have to have a magnifying glass to see it. And that’s beside the point. The point is that this is a developing embryo that is going to become a child, a teenager, an adult. Is this what this woman wants? Is this what this woman is ready for?….’ I would kind of put it back on them: Yeah, it is a developing human being, but why isn’t she carrying it to term? And then they would start to talk about that.”
Cynthia Gorney Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. (Simon & Shuster: New York) 1998. p 267
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