They said it.
“It’s not that obvious to some black women that abortion is the right decision. It’s only later on that poor or black women realize they don’t want more children tying them down. They need more pressure to abort.”
Abortion advocate Michael Bracken quoted in The Ambivalence of Abortion by Linda Bird Francke (New York: Laurel) 1982 p 70
Share on FacebookFrom abortion clinic owner Charlotte Taft
“For many women nowadays, they’re angry that they had a choice. It’s too bizarre, but it’s like “If you weren’t here, I wouldn’t have to have made this choice.” And so, instead of feeling gratitude toward the physician and a sense of, you know, “You’ve helped me so much” a lot of the time that woman [is] in her own pain or anger, or whatever, and the doctor may not get a lot of that [gratitude] these days…When a woman doesn’t want an abortion, but simply accepts it as her fate, she is unlikely to feel any gratitude toward the one who provided it. As one doctor said “No one ever says “Thank You” to an abortionist.”
Philadelphia Inquirer 7/18/93 quoted in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)p 175
Share on FacebookFrom the article “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” by Diane M. Gianelli, American Medical News, July 12, 1993:
“One thing that doesn’t change over time, however, is the kinds of questions patients ask. Questions that sometimes stump the staff. Like whether the fetus feels pain during the procedure.”This is a big concern” for both staff and patients, said a clinic employee from Massachusetts. After all, she said, “it is a dismembered body”
Patients also sometimes ask to view the fetal remains. A Toronto physician said she didn’t know
“how and whether we [should] protect the patient from the reality of the procedure.” She said she regularly hid the ultrasound screen.”
A British reporter visited an abortion clinic and quoted a staff member, identified as “Barb” describing her patients:
“Who comes here? Everybody. We’re dealing with the entire world here. We see lawyers, and women in chains from jail. All of them are very surprised to be here.”
Another clnic worker, “Sally” says:
“It’s a woman’s biggest secret. Whenever I tell someone where I work the stories come out of the closet.”
She goes on to say many women want to keep the whole thing a secret.
“They [women] get post-op instructions, and some will just tip it in the garbage.”
It is unknown how this reluctance to talk about or even think about their experience may effect their health after the abortion or impact their willingness to come forward if medical complicatons from their abortion procedures arise.
The author of the piece goes on to say that some women want to keep their abortions a secret even from their partners.
“If she needs to pretend she had a miscarriage, they tell her what to say.”
These quotes are from the article “A Woman’s Biggest Secret” by Margaret Wente in July 15, 2000 Globe and Mail
Share on Facebook“A medically necessary abortion is any abortion a woman asks for.”
Abortionist Jane Hodgeson, quoted in Human Life International Special Report Number 83, August 1991, pages 6 and 7.
Quoted by American Life League
Share on Facebook“The relationship between the gravid [pregnant] female and the feto-placental unit can be understood best as one of host and parasite.”
Abortionist Warren Hern. Abortion Practice. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1984, pages 14
“Each and every pregnancy threatens a woman’s life. From a strict medical viewpoint, every pregnancy should be aborted.”
Abortionist Lisa Fortier at the 1980 national convention of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), quoted in Andrew Scholberg. “The Abortionists and Planned Parenthood: Familiar Bedfellows.” International Review of Natural Family Planning, Winter 1980, page 308.
Quoted by American Life League
Share on FacebookAttorney: “What, the legal view set aside, would be your objection to killing a child a day after he or she was born?”
Crist: “I have none, and I have none to euthanasia.”
Abortionist Robert Dale Crist, testimony before the United States District Court for Eastern Louisiana on October 20, 1978 (CD 78-2765). Quoted in “Teenager Dies at Hands of Houston Abortionist.” The Wanderer, February 13, 1992, pages 1 and 11.
Quoted by American Life League
Share on FacebookQuestion: “So if they legalized killing four-year-old children, you would have no problem?”
Clinic Employee: “No, I would not have a problem … My conscience is very clear …”
Unidentified abortion clinic worker, testifying under oath.
Quoted in “Abortion Clinic Staff Worker Gives Her Excuses.” Life Advocate April 1992, page 21.
Quoted by American Life League:
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From a reporter who observed at an abortion clinic:
“On this day at the surgical unit of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, in central Philadelphia, 21 people will have abortions. Another two dozen pregnant women will come in to view a video and to “start the clock” on their state-mandated 24-hour waiting period. Most will come back for abortions. Some will never be heard from again… Sometimes, says clinic manager Paula Monastersky, a woman will just get up and leave. Occasionally, a woman will even be undressed and on the table, moments away from the doctor’s instruments, and she’ll change her mind.”
This seems to indicate that many women are ambivalent about their abortions even as they enter the clinic.
From Linda Feldman “Abortion: Uneasy Day at the Clinic” Christian Science Monitor January 22, 1998 Volume 90, Issue 39
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