“… I think from a straight moral point of view I probably would object to abortion. Because I love kids. From that point of view every fetus is a potential child, and morally I just really don’t think that should be done. Socially there’s a great need for abortion, purely because there’s a large group of women who for various reasons will get pregnant and they don’t want a child.… Of course, there’s abortion that gets abused. Women who come back three, four, and five times. This is another one of the boundaries a place in my own personal feelings. I would just not do it, I would probably refuse to do the abortion after two.”
17 weeks
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 146
If abortion is simply the removal of some cells, the termination of a pregnancy, and is morally benign, why should having more than one disturb a doctor?
One abortion doctor discussed how the advent of technology showing the unborn baby led him to change his mind about doing abortions:
“As a result of all this technology – looking at this baby, examining it, investigating it, watching its metabolic functions, watching and urinate [and] swallow… I was a physician pledged to save my patients’ lives, not to destroy them.. So I changed my mind on the subject of abortion.”
David Kupelin and Mark Mastos “Pro-Choice 1991: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions: the Psychology behind the News (September/October 1991): 40
“There was one week when there were two live births in the same week. And just, you know, there’s this baby crying on the floor while all these women are in the process of trying to deal with their feelings about aborting their babies. One survived for a while.
[Interviewer] how did the mothers react who gave birth to the live babies?
Well. This one, she didn’t talk much. The mother delivered when there was no one there and there was some period when the mother was holding the baby. And it was grabbing onto her.… She was extremely upset by this whole thing.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 79
Dr. Susan Poppema, NAF president, discusses one problem with RU-486.
“Having a group of women doing a lot of bleeding and cramping in your office, when they would rather be home, doesn’t do much for the [patient] flow in your clinic.”
She argues that women should be sent home to abort alone – despite the risk to a woman’s health and the lack of medical attention should something go wrong. This is because she is concerned about “patient flow” efficiency in her clinic.
Wendy Wright “The Deceit behind RU-486: Who’s Really in Control?” Family Voice, November/December 2000
In an interview with pro-life author Rachel M MacNair, PhD, former clinic worker Joy Davis was asked about what her clinic did when women told them they did not want abortions.
“We sent into the pro-lifers, we knew they were going to take care of them.”
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 61
“This may sound like repression: however, it does work for me. When I find myself identifying with the fetus, and I think the larger it gets, that’s normal… then I think it’s okay to consciously decide to remind ourselves to identify with the woman. The external criteria of viability really isn’t what it’s about. It’s an unwanted pregnancy and that’s the bottom line.”
18 weeks
Diane M Gianelli, “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” American Medical News, July 12, 1993
“After Washington state began to provide public funding for abortions in 1970, the breast cancer rate among the poor rose by 53%, while the rate for rich women dropped by 1%.”
Mona Charen, Conservative Chronicle, November 2, 1994
Perhaps this rise in breast cancer correlating with the greater availability of abortion is more evidence that abortion raises the risk of this type of cancer.
Marge Brerer, in a presentation on “Feminist Perspectives and Reactions” contemplated the reasons a doctor might be in the abortion business. She wondered “whether it’s out of political commitment, or whether it’s for the money, or whether it’s a relatively sadistic way of punishing women.”
Anti-Progestin Drugs: Ethical, Legal, and Medical Issues, Arlington, Virginia, December 6 – 7, 1991
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 53
