They said it.
“….Not only is there a loss, but you are also a failure [“to provide and protect your family”] And those [aborted] children are my family, and I failed. They’re dead and I’m not.”
Bill Hitchings
Linda Pierce “Hidden Tears” Easton Publishing Company 1991
Share on Facebook“She told me that people were coming up to her and asking her, “What happened to Burt? He’s changed.” Everyone knew that something profound had happened to me, and that I wasn’t talking about it.”
Burt Mueller
Linda Pierce “Hidden Tears” Easton Publishing Company 1991
Share on Facebook“My life has changed dramatically from this experience. I have had nightmares, dreams that I could see the doctor coming up to her and ripping the fetus out of her. I used to wake up at night sweating. I just cried and mourned. The nightmares always came. They still come.”
Bill Thomas
Linda Pierce “Hidden Tears” Easton Publishing Company 1991
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Share on Facebook“I’ll never forget what it was like walking down into that waiting room.
I had to leave because of the vibes I felt…I had first hand knowledge of what I felt in that place. I had been a soldier during the last of Vietnam (1970-1973) and worked on rescue squads after my separation from the army. What I felt in the abortion clinic was the air of death. The hopelessness and despair hung in the waiting room like fog. I couldn’t stand to be in there. I didn’t want my wife in there, either.”
“Can you imagine how it feels to know that your child is going to be killed at nine o’clock tomorrow, and there is not a thing you can do about it?”
Gary Bell, father of two aborted babies
Linda Pierce “Hidden Tears” Easton Publishing Company 1991
Share on FacebookNurse Brenda Shafer said:
“I took the assignment because I was at that time very pro-choice. I had even told my two teenage daughters that if one of them ever got pregnant at a young age, I would make them get an abortion.”
“It was one of these cases that especially haunts me. The woman was six months pregnant (26 1/2 weeks). The doctor told her that the baby had down syndrome, and she decided to get an abortion…
Dr. Haskell brought the ultrasound in and hooked it up so that he could see the baby (then 26 1/2 weeks into pregnancy.) On the ultrasound screen, I could see the heart beating. I asked Dr. Haskell and he told me that “Yes, that is the heartbeat.” As Dr. Haskell watched the baby on the ultrasound screen, he went in with forceps and grabbed the baby’s legs and brought them into the birth canal. Then he delivered the body and arms, all the way up to the neck.
At this point, only the baby’s head was still inside. The baby’s body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. All the while his little head was still stuck inside. Then Dr. Haskell took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby’s head. Then he stuck a high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby’s brains out. I almost threw up as I watched him do these things.
Next, Dr. Haskell delivered the baby’s head, cut the local court in delivered the placenta. He threw the baby in a pan, along with the placenta and the instruments he’d used. I saw the baby move in the pan. I asked another nurse and she said it was just “reflexes.”
The woman wanted to see her baby, so they cleaned up the baby and put it in a blanket and handed it to her. She cried the whole time, and she kept saying, “I’m sorry, please forgive me.” I was crying too. I couldn’t take it. In all my professional years I’d never experienced anything like this.
Another case I saw on that third day was a six-month-old (approximately 25 weeks) baby. The mother was over age 40. There was nothing wrong with this baby, she just didn’t want it. The doctor used the same procedure… This baby was also alive. I saw the heartbeat on the ultrasound. (Actually every baby that they still have a heartbeat at the time of the procedure.” The second baby was a little smaller than the first baby. I remember thinking how perfect this child was. The mother did not want to see it…
I also saw third case that day (I was only assisting in one operating room.) This was a 17-year-old girl. She was approximately 25 weeks. The same procedure was done on this baby.
The Down’s Syndrome baby was the only baby that had a defect. And that baby with Down Syndrome had the most perfect angelic face I have ever seen. I never realized how perfect these babies are at this point. When you hear the word “fetus,” I think a lot of people think is I did of just a blob of cells, or a mass of something. It was very revealing to me. I don’t think about abortion the same way anymore. I still have nightmares about what I saw.”
Brenda Shafer, “What the Nurse Saw,” National Right to Life News, July 18, 1995: 23
Share on FacebookAt the October 1989 annual conference of the National Abortion Rights Action League, pollster Harrison Hickman stated in a workshop entitled ‘Framing and Selling the Pro-Choice Message’ that:
“Nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer how to cure.”
Quoted in Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 30
Says one abortion provider:
“An abortionist is a despicable person. They assume you did it for the money, you didn’t have the qualifications to be real doctor… You were either a drug addict, an alcoholic, a ne’er-do-well, you couldn’t maintain a practice or you were owned by the Mafia… You weren’t a good person and probably weren’t a good doctor either. At the very least, you are an embarrassment to the medical community.”
David Bennett
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 153
Share on Facebook“Even my own colleagues there at University Hospital, I would be over there delivering a baby, and they would say, “What are you doing here? I didn’t think you delivered babies, I thought you just did abortions.”… Some of my colleagues don’t speak to me because I do abortions.”
Abortionist Eugene Fox, M.D
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 152
Share on FacebookEugene Fox, doctor who referred for abortion shortly after Roe V Wade:
“Some of these places were terrible. They were just back alley shops that open their doors…”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 138
Many people don’t realize that very few legal safeguards will put in place after Roe versus Wade to protect women from unscrupulous and negligent abortion providers. In many cases, “back alley” abortionists simply hung up their shingles and began performing legal abortions. To read more about illegal abortions before Roe V Wade, go here.
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