They said it.
Former abortion clinic worker Nina Whitten says:
“Every single transaction that we did was cash money. We wouldn’t take a check, or even a credit card. If you didn’t have the money, forget it. It was unusual at all for me to take 10,000 to 15,000 a day to the bank – in cash. It’s a lie when they tell you they’re doing it to help women because they’re not. They’re doing it for the money.”
“Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions, October 1990, 31
Read Nina Whitten’s story here.
Mandatory waiting periods before abortions reduce the suicide rate among women ages 25-64, according to a study.
In the study “Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortions and Female Mental Health”by Jonathan Klick, it was determined that the suicide rate of women between 25 – 64 dropped by 10% in states where waiting period and counseling (informed consent) legislation was passed. When adjusted for other factors, the number increased to 30%.
The study came to the following conclusion:
It would appear as though waiting periods (and the counseling that usually accompanies them) induce a more reasoned approach to the abortion decision, avoiding rash decisions on the part of the pregnant women. Better decision-making processes presumably lead to fewer regrets later on, lowering the incidence of depression and, ultimately, suicide. These results suggest mandatory waiting periods represent public policies that generate large welfare gains for women faced with unwanted pregnancies.
The study appeared in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, volume 16, P 183, 2006 FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper number 05 –27
Suicide rates are much higher among women who have aborted versus women who have not. For example, one study shows that the suicide rate for women who aborted 6 to 7 times greater than in women who have never had an abortion.
(Gissler, Hemminki & Lonnqvist, “Suicides after pregnancy in Finland, 1987-94: register linkage study,” British Journal of Medicine 313:1431-4, 1996; and M. Gissler, “Injury deaths, suicides and homicides associated with pregnancy, Finland 1987-2000,” European J. Public Health 15(5):459 63,2005.)
Another study shows that Up to 60% of aborting women have suicidal thoughts. 31% had thoughts of suicide after abortion. In another survey, approximately 60% of women with post-abortion problems reported suicidal thoughts, with 28% attempting suicide and half of those attempting suicide two or more times
D. Reardon, Aborted Women, Silent No More (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2002).
Teen girls are 10 times more likely to attempt suicide if they have had an abortion in the last six months than girls who have not had an abortion.
B. Garfinkel, et al., “Stress, Depression and Suicide: A Study of Adolescents in Minnesota,” Responding to High Risk Youth (University of Minnesota: Minnesota Extension Service, 1986); M. Gissler, et. al., “Suicides After Pregnancy in Finland: 1987-94: register linkage study,” British Medical Journal, 313: 1431-1434, 1996; and N. Campbell, et. al., “Abortion in Adolescence,” Adolescence, 23:813-823, 1988. See the “Teen Abortion Risks” Fact Sheet at www.unfairchoice.info/resources.htm for more information.
Planned Parenthood another pro-choice organizations vehemently oppose laws that would require a waiting period and counseling before abortions. For example:
One proposed law would require the abortion clinic or hospital to provide a woman with information on the probable age of her fetus and details of the abortion procedure and to offer her information about the pregnancy and other options available. Unless her life is at stake, the woman would then have to wait 24 hours before having the abortion. The information could be given by phone or in person.
According to pro-choice groups, these laws are unnecessary and burdensome to women.
“I just think it is patronizing and unfair to women and women’s health.”
Delegate Clifton A. “Chip” Woodrum, Roanoke Democrat
Stephen Dinan “24-Hour Abortion Wait Progresses in House” February 3, 2001 The Washington Times, 8
Share on FacebookKarla Dial wrote an article in Citizen Magazine about how ultrasounds of unborn babies affect parents, including those parents who are considering abortions.
According to Robert Wolfson, M.D., Ph.D., the Colorado Springs, Colo., perinatologist:
“It [ultrasound] creates a commitment to the pregnancy and the individual on board from both parents,” Wolfson told Citizen. “The mother can feel the baby, but the father needs a photograph to form a relationship with that child. Imagine putting that picture on your desk and looking at it every day.
“It’s all about the fact that you can fall in love with your child before birth. People know intuitively that there is power in that.”
Also from the article:
“This is a ‘Wow’ kind of machine,” agreed Medical Director Dr. Bill Cutrer. “The kinds of images we can get on the real early pregnancies at seven weeks, eight weeks, nine or 10, are just breathtaking. There’s no one that leaves with any doubt this is a baby.” ….
“They don’t want them to go to Planned Parenthood, where they’ll get their full range of options,” Alison Herwitt, NARAL Pro-Choice America’s director of government relations, told Newhouse News Service of the bill’s sponsors. “They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers’ expense.”
Is an ultrasound machine a weapon? Planned Parenthood routinely turns the ultrasound screen away from women and discourages or outright forbids them from looking at it when they come in for abortions. The organization fights laws that say a woman must be offered a chance to view it– they oppose allowing a woman to see an ultrasound even when it is her choice to do so. Is informing a woman about what’s going on in her body wrong? Or is it better to keep women in the dark? What about an ultrasound, which merely reveals the baby that is already there, makes it a weapon?
A woman who was considering abortion after a pregnancy resulting from rape agreed to a free ultrasound at a pregnancy center:
““She was blinking. She was just hanging out, looking around, sucking on her thumb,” Oliver told Citizen. “It was so realistic, so lifelike. It looks like you can just reach right in there and pick up the baby.
“I know they have a heartbeat at 4 to 6 weeks, but it still doesn’t feel as real to you until you see a human. It amazed me.”
She kept her baby.
“I never thought I could love or bond with a child [who] was conceived under such horrible circumstances, but that’s where we don’t give God enough credit,” Oliver said. “I look at her, and I don’t even see him. She’s beautiful and perfect.”
Karla Dial “Bringing Good Things to Life”Citizen June 2003
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Dr. Vincent J. Collins, Professor of Anesthesiology and author of “Principles of Anesthesiology: General and Regional Anesthesia”
“Fetal pain responses begin by 13 1/2 weeks gestation at the latest, and probably as early as eight weeks, based upon the development of the pre-born baby’s nervous system.”
Quoted by Brian Clowes in Marybeth T. Hagan “Abortion: a Mother’s Plea for Maternity and the Unborn” (Liguori, Missouri: Triumph, 2005) 175
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UK Gynecologist Dr Himansu Basu says the following:
“For many women abortion is not as straightforward as it might seem. It can cause infections and heavy bleeding and episodes of depression which can last several years.’ In the long term it can lead to infertility, miscarriages or a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy where the foetus develops outside the womb.”
“Women who have abortions again and again” Daily Mail, May 16, 2005
Read about the physical effects of abortion here.
Read about the emotional effects of abortion here.
Share on FacebookA clinic worker in Illinois testified ( Case # 92-L50928, 4627) that the managing director at the abortion clinic where she worked harassed her until she quit.
She states,
“… you always knew when he was mad at you. Verbally the language and the things, the names people were called, it was a constant thing there…calling a woman a whore was not beyond this man. He always talked about short skirts and the girls’ legs.”
She stated that he wanted to
“make them quit, so they wouldn’t have to pay them unemployment insurance.”
The case went before an employment referee, who ruled in the employee’s favor.
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Share on FacebookAn article in The Boston Globe said that one clinic employee (Howard J. Silverman, who owns Repro Associates abortion clinic in Brookline) prepared a woman for an abortion by saying:
“getting into the position that got you here.”
“Board OKs claims against doctor” Boston Globe August 2, 1989
for more examples of abortionists showing contempt for their patients, go here
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Merle Hoffman, founder of an abortion clinic, has no qualms about taking in millions of dollars from her abortion business. After describing how she carries a gun to shoot any violent anti-abortion protesters she might encounter, the author of the article about her says:
“….she doesn’t think material possessions are unfeminist, either. Impeccably coiffed – signaling more Upper East Side doyenne than die-hard boomer activist — she wears an enormous glittering ring she designed with the symbol of Choices, combining the caduceus and infinity symbols.
Hoffman herself then says:
“If there’s a 1 percent at this point, feminists should be part of that 1 percent until we get to 50-50, or 60-40,” Hoffman says. “Why not? I trust myself with power.”
Irin Carmen Abortion pioneer: Defend rights or lose them Salon MONDAY, JAN 2, 2012
Abortion is a very lucrative business for clinic owners and abortionists. Many abortionists make millions of dollars from their operations, flying from clinic to clinic or working in a chain of clinics.
No abortion clinic does abortions for free.
Elsewhere in the article, Hoffman admits that she knows that abortion is the taking of a life.
Read more about abortion and money here.
Share on Facebook“Ambivalence is not a dirty word… Everybody has mixed feelings.”
Terry Beresford, who trains abortion counselors for Planned Parenthood and other groups
Diane M Gianelli, “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” American Medical News, July 12, 1993
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) page 69
Share on FacebookAbortionist Dr. Don Sloan:
“I don’t think there is anyone doing abortions who hasn’t wished at some point that the situations creating the demand for them would just go away, including me. There have been plenty of times when I wanted to say, “Enough! This is more human tragedy than I want to deal with.”
“Abortion Should Not Be Restricted” by Don Sloan, abortionist Originally Published in “Basic Issues in the Abortion Debate” Political Affairs, July 1999
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