Month: September 2012

Talking about abortions in her clinic, Dr. Susan Poppema (who had performed 20,000 abortions as of 1994) said:

“After her [the patient’s] counseling session, she’s taken into one of our operating areas; a simple ten foot square room where she reclines and places her feet in stirrups. The hard cold steel is softened and warmed by lamb’s wool padding. The lighting is muted except for the illumination I’ll need for the procedure. Music is an option. To the extent It doesn’t affect my ability to perform the procedure, ritual involving friends and symbols can even be part of the abortion. Some women set up small alter-like areas of cloth and crystals, other women play special music; many burn candles.”

Suzanne T. Poppema, M.D. and Mike Henderson. Why I am an Abortion Doctor New York: Prometheus Books. 1996. P 20

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Magda Denes, who were heard from earlier, describes an abortion she witnessed:

“[the doctor] pulls out something, which he slaps on the instrument table. “there,” he says, “A leg”….He points to the instrument table, where there is a perfectly formed, slightly bent leg, about three inches long…”There, I’ve got the head out now.”….There lies a head. It is the smallest human head I have ever seen, but it is unmistakeably part of a person.”

She is pro-choice, but is forced to admit that a “person” has died.

. Magda Denes, “Performing Abortions” Commentary Oct 26, 1976 p 35-37

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“On August 12 and August 22, a Charlotte Observer reporter saw a considerable amount of fetal tissue removed from the dumpster adjacent to the clinic. The remains, deposited in 10 to 15 large plastic trash bags, included readily identifiable body parts. Among them were a left forearm and hand, a left leg and foot, a right forearm and hand, part of a right foot, and a spinal column and rib cage. In several cases the remains had been dumped in trash bags along with ordinary garbage: coffee grounds, cigarette butts and remnants of chicken dinners.”

Sept 2, 1992 Charlotte Observor

to read of aborted babies thrown out in the trash, go here

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“I’m sure I’ve had a situation, with a 14- or 16-week pregnancy, when the fetus presented feet first, where I did something that a Federal prosecutor might take to court under this language.”

Dr. Louis Koplick, abortion doctor, New Mexico, commenting on how he believes D&E abortions may be effected by a Partial Birth Abortion Ban

New York Times “Wider Impact is Foreseen for Bill to Ban Type of Abortion” November 16, 1995

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Dr. Edward Martin, medical director, abortion clinic in South Miami called A Choice for Women:

“It’s very difficult for me to determine whether the fetus is still living when it comes through the vagina.”

The Associated Press State & Local Wire. “Clinic Operators Challenge New State Law in Court” August 13, 1997.

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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From Benjamin Graber, abortionist, Pompano Beach, Florida:

“Although the procedure [partial birth abortion] is viewed as distasteful, alternative procedures are equally distasteful. Whether a 16-week fetus is delivered by dilatation and extraction (by which the fetus is dismembered within the uterus) or whether the fetus is delivered intact by decompressing the cranium, or whether the mother’s womb is injected with a substance that kills the fetus in utero, the outcome is the same for the fetus. The resulting complications to the mother from each procedure should be the question.”

.Palm Beach Post, “Opinion: Benjamin Graber, The Partial Birth Abortion Bill Sets Terrible Precedent” May 13, 1997

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An abortion doctor describes his job:

“… As you get into the second trimester, if we remove the pregnancy using forceps, and if a heartbeat is the measure of being alive, that happens all the time.”

Dr. Dennis Christensen, Madison Abortion Clinic, Wisconsin. From The New York Times; May 15, 1998; page A14

Note: The fetal heart starts beating at 18 –21 days after conception

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Brief of Dr. Carhart et Al. in Stenberg vs Carhart:

After approximately 16 weeks gestation, the fetal head cannot typically be safely drawn through the woman’s cervix unless it is compressed. J.A. 296 (Stubblefield) …the physician either compresses the skull with forceps before pulling it into the vagina or removes the cranial contents.”

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The affidavit of “Employee B,” a certified surgical technician employed at Midtown Hospital for a month and a half before resigning, describes Midtown’s patient care:

On April 18, 1998, at approximately 7:00 a.m., I witnessed a patient deliver an intact fetus in the toilet of a bathroom in the waiting room area. After expelling the baby and the afterbirth, the patient walked to the operating room because there were no wheelchairs. I opened the fetal sac so that the fetus could be weighed. The weight was approximately 3029 grams [over 6 pounds, 10 ounces]. It was a very big fetus. My impression is that at Midtown Hospital a procedure will be done at any gestational age as long as the patient has the money.

22 to 24 weeks sonogram, legal to abort in every state

“Complete Disregard” National Review November 23, 1998 p40

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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