Abortionist Dr. Jane Hodgson:
“I am personally not concerned as to whether life begins with the two cell, four cell, or eight cell division but I am extremely concerned with the quality of life that will result from the division. We should be more concerned with the welfare of living teenagers and women than with the future of a few embryonal cells.”
Jane E Hodgson, “Therapeutic Abortions in Medical Perspective,” Minnesota Medicine 53 (1970): 757
Quoted in Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 12
Abortions generally take place long after the “embryonal cell” stage. This picture of an abortion at seven weeks is more accurate as to what Dr. Hodgson does in her clinic:
