“I’d have a much easier time aborting a single baby or both twins than doing a reduction. When you reduce, the remaining twin will remain a persistent reminder of the unborn child. I think that, more than anything would make killing that fetus feel like killing another human, even though it wasn’t fully developed. It would feel that way because you would have a living copy of the person you killed.”’
Comment from pro-choice reader. She is well aware that abortion is killing an unborn baby. “The Complicated Ethics of Twin Reduction” Jezebel, Aug 12, 2011
Dr. Forrest C Stevenson, certified marriage counselor of Brighton, Michigan:
“As a marriage counselor, I have too often shared with a couple in this sorrow. They love each other, but as they look at each other, I see the hurt in their eyes. I’ve heard a woman say, “Seven years ago my husband said I could not have this baby. “I’m still in school, I’m going to get my education first.” I did what he said and I had an abortion. I wonder what that baby would’ve been like. Would he have had curly hair like his daddy? Would he have been a happy baby? Would it have been a girl? Would it have been a boy? What could’ve happened?”
Too many times I’ve heard a young man say, “I demanded that my wife get an abortion, but I wish that she had not done what I said.” These people may love each other, but the hurt of the guilt that they share together has grown like a wall between them. It is so serious they can hardly build an adequate life. Their marriage is a nightmare because of shared guilt.”
John R Rice The Murder of the Helpless Unborn… Abortion (Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1971) page 32
Dr. Roy S Heffernan of Tufts University said to the Congress of the American College of Surgeons:
“Anyone who performs a therapeutic abortion is either ignorant of modern methods of treating the complications of pregnancy or is unwilling to take the time to use them.”
A “therapeutic” abortion is one done due to threat to a mother’s health or life. Keep in mind that this quote is from 1971- medical advances since then make an abortion to save the mother’s life even more unnecessary.
“Recently at our Morristown center, I served a young, strong-willed woman, named Gina. She came with some supportive friends to receive options counseling before getting an abortion. While Gina waited with her friends, another client stopped by our office. The two were family acquaintances and immediately the current client began questioning Gina about why she was at First Choice. As soon as Gina mentioned she was pregnant and that she was terminating, the other client began telling her why she was making such a bad decision. At first, I thought this was great, because the other client was instructing Gina to keep the baby and not abort. However, as soon as I sat down with Gina she clearly stated, “No one can change my mind about getting an abortion! Not my friends in the waiting room and not that girl who just came in, and definitely not you.” I let Gina know that was not my intention to force her not to abort but rather to present her with her options so she could make the best, most well-informed decision.
I began mentally preparing to alleviate myself of this client’s decision to terminate her pregnancy because her decision was not my burden to carry. I knew this was her choice and she was clearly set on it. After all, if she remained steadfast in her decision despite the people in her life encouraging her not to abort, why would she respect the information I had to share with her?
Gina and I met for about an hour and it was such a pleasant time. I got to know her and her family dynamics, life objectives, and relationship with the father of her baby. I reviewed information on abortion with her and invited her to listen as I discussed the options of parenting and adoption so that she could truly make the best decision for herself. She welcomed the opportunity and afterwards thanked me for helping her to think about the pregnancy from other perspectives. But even after our time together, Gina was firm in decision to abort.
Then Gina had an ultrasound, and it was life changing! Immediately after looking at the monitor, Gina looked at our nurse and me and said, “Yo, that’s it! That’s my baby!” (This was the first time she identified “it” as a baby.) “I can do this!” It was such a turn of events…”
After giving a graphic description of how to check body parts to make sure everything is out after an abortion, Dr. Don Sloan, abortionist, says the following:
11 week legs
“Want to do abortions? Pay the price. There is an old saying in medicine: if you want to work in the kitchen, you may have to break an egg. The stove gets hot. Prepare to get burned.”
Don Sloan, M.D. with Paula Hartz, Abortion: a Doctor’s Perspective, a Woman’s Dilemma (New York: Donald I Fine, 1992) 239 – 240
A married woman who became pregnant at age 39 after she had already had all the children she wanted weighed abortion and decided she would probably keep the baby. But:
“Unfortunately, she says, her maternal instincts did not respond to reason: when a young friend placed her baby in her arms, she found herself looking with distaste into “a little scrunched face inspiring no tenderness, only intends tedium at the thought of tending him. What was I going to do with the baby I couldn’t return to his mother?” She arranged to have amniocentesis once they got to England, though she was not sure – despite her reservations – what it would cost her emotionally to have an abortion if something were wrong. When told she had as much chance of having a miscarriage from the amniocentesis as she did, at her age, of having a Down syndrome child, she hoped for the miscarriage: “That is until, lying on the table where the procedure was to take place, I saw the ultrasound scan on a television monitor above me reveal the perfectly shaped head of the child I carried. I wanted that baby!”
Faith Abbott “a Tale of Two Women” Human Life Review, Spring 1993 in Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 111 to 112
“I was just finishing my medical assisting courses and my internship was at a women’s health center. I was going to be taking vital signs, answering phones, checking patients in and drawing blood. I showed up to work and I was shocked to find out they did abortions there.
When I asked to be assigned to a different location, they told me there was nowhere else to go. In the weeks that followed, I was gradually introduced to the horrors of that place. The girls that came to the door were sometimes crying, they were sometimes quiet and sometimes they were laughing. But they all had sadness in their eyes. At the end of my internship, I was offered a job. As a single mother with bills to pay, I thought that I had no choice. From there, it only got worse. The girls who were unsure were lied to and coerced into killing their babies. They were told it was safe, they were not informed of their options, and they were never told about how they would feel afterwards. The girls that were only a month or two along would be given pills that would kill the baby and told they would have heavy bleeding. They were never told that they were going to be flushing their babies down the toilet. The girls who were farther along, they were given two medications, one so they wouldn’t feel anything, the other one so they wouldn’t remember. The medications did not always work. They were held down by the abortionist’s assistants, screaming in agony, as their babies were ripped apart and pulled out with a vacuum. If they were ever to change their minds, they were told that it was too late. When the medicine did work, the abortionist and his assistants would laugh, tell jokes, and even watch TV while they were killing the babies. Afterwards, the girls were ushered out the back door in varying conditions, some barely able to walk, vomiting, confused, high and their medications, and crying hysterically.
One after the other, they would get on the table, and kill their babies. I hated going to work. I would get in the car every morning with a knot in my stomach, and go home every night, and get sick. It was an awful place to be. Many of the girls who work there did drugs in order to deal with the pain that they were experiencing from working there.”
A young woman describes the indoctrination she received as a student in college:
“It shocked me to hear the racist things he [the professor] said: that the only reason white people opposed abortion, for example, was that we preferred letting black children grow up to rape white women so we could execute them. This painted neither whites nor blacks in a flattering light, and I was appalled to watch my darker-skinned classmates unquestioningly jotting down notes to the effect that their children were destined to be felons. I also had known my share of white folks opposed to abortion. None of us had such a low opinon of our fellows — we all figured that regardless of his or her skin color, every baby had as much chance of being a productive citizen as any other baby. But here was Dr. Z lying about people I knew — whites who opposed abortion — and about my black classmates who I thought would make fine parents of perfectly law-abiding children.”
One Holocaust scholar observed that, after poring through thousands of Nazi documents, he happened upon the word “killing” only once – in an edict concerning dogs.
Raul Hilberg, the Destruction of the European Jews (New York: Holmes & Meiers, 1985), volume 3, 1016
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Psychologist Robert Lifton, in his book about Nazi doctors at the camps
“The language used gave Nazi doctors a discourse in which killing is no longer killing; and need not be experienced, or even perceived as killing.”
Robert J Lifton, the Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: basic books, 1986) 445
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James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999)
“The antiabortion forces will again display horrible pictures of the technique, which they call partial-birth abortion. Although few in the abortion rights movement take this approach seriously, it has emotional resonance and arose public support for all abortion.”
Anne Roiphe, “Moment of Perception” New York Times, September 19, 1996
James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999)
