Abortion clinic counselor Sylvia Hampton discusses counseling sessions with abortion patients’ companions. She acknowledges the truth about fetal development if directly confronted, but tries to redirect
“Sometimes, they [the partners of those having abortions] would say ‘Have you ever seen the abortion afterward?’ and I would say, ‘Yes, I have.’ Then they would say, ‘Well, what does it look like?’ And I would say, ‘Well, it depends on the stage of the pregnancy. ”Does it have little feet and a heartbeat?’ And I would say, ‘Yes, at the early stages it does. But you have to have a magnifying glass to see it. And that’s beside the point. The point is that this is a developing embryo that is going to become a child, a teenager, an adult. Is this what this woman wants? Is this what this woman is ready for?….’ I would kind of put it back on them: Yeah, it is a developing human being, but why isn’t she carrying it to term? And then they would start to talk about that.”
Cynthia Gorney Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. (Simon & Shuster: New York) 1998. p 267
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