They said it.
From an author who observed women in an abortion clinic:
“Most women sit quietly, some keep up the pretense of conversation, most staring into space. One apparently blase young woman calmly paints her fingernails fire-engine red as she awaits her appointment.”
Marian Faux Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Carol Publishing Group) 1990 p 81
Share on FacebookOne pro-choice author said, after an interview of founder of Catholic’s for Free Choice Francis Kissling:
“She had daily hands-on contact with women who were in the process of making the painful and, for some, the traumatic decision to terminate a pregnancy. She listened to the reasons that women wanted abortions, and rarely found them to be frivolous. She also observed that the women who came to her clinic weren’t concerned about their reproductive “rights.” This was something they needed for emotional, physical or economic reasons. There was no political satisfaction in the decision.”
Marian Faux (author of Roe v. Wade) Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Carol Publishing Group) 1990 p 237
Share on Facebook“So many doctors scorn any other doctor who does abortion.”
Abortionist Jane Hodgson
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 24
Share on FacebookAbortionist who switched from performing the occasional abortion in his office to working in an abortion clinic said the following:
“I’d never worked in a clinic. I’d always had my own private practice and run my own show… I was accustomed to operating in a very serious room with caps and gowns and masks and scrubbing for every procedure and to suddenly go in and there’d be a patient up in stirrups with no drape… It was a shocker. And I thought, were bound to have some calamities, we’re going to have some accidents, it’s just bound to happen. And it was like just walking on egg shells.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 19
Share on Facebook“What would you describe what you see on your machine when you do a second trimester D&E abortion?
“Yes. While I’m doing the abortion my assistant has the abdomen and it gives a picture of the uterus and the placenta and fetal tissue at actual show my cannula coming to the cervix into the cavity of the uterus and as the tissue is sucked out and removed the uterus slowly clamps down by contraction until it’s finally empty and then we know that were complete. I think it might be a problem for anybody to look at that for the first few times very much like when we amputate a leg in surgery that’s a terrible thing to look at also, an amputated leg. It certainly isn’t pleasant to look at fetal parts but we’re taking care of the patient.”
“Death on Demand: An Abortionists Day American Portrait Films: “Generation Kill” part 2: Death on Demand
Share on Facebook“And Katherine Speckhard, PhD of the University of Minnesota reported that 81% of the women she surveyed said they felt victimized by the abortion process. These women felt either that they were coerced into the abortion or that important information about the pregnancy resolution and abortion procedure had been withheld.”
Journal of Social Issues 1997
Dorinda C Bordlee, ESQ “Abortion Alternative Legislation and the Law of the Gift” in Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) on page 136
Share on FacebookNews, WAFB, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 4, 1999; Executive Order MJF 995, Declaration of Public Health and Safety Emergency, dated February 5, 1999 (signed by Gov. Mike Foster)
“An undercover news team entered a Baton Rouge, Louisiana abortion clinic and videotaped rusty surgical instruments and blood splattered surgical tables and floors.”
Denise M Burke, ESQ “Abortion Clinic Regulations: Combating the True “Back Alley”
Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004)
Share on Facebook“Adverse Events Reports relied upon by the FDA to monitor mifepristone’s [RU-486’s] postmarking safety are grossly deficient due to extremely poor quality.”
Margaret M Gary, M.D., Donna J Harrison, M.D. “Analysis of Severe Adverse Reactions related to the use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient”, 40 (2) Annals of Pharmacology 191 (2006)
“[A] Majority of the AERs [adverse events reports] analyzed do not provide enough information to accurately code the severity of the adverse event in question. The deficiencies were so egregious in some instances as to preclude analysis.”
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“Adverse Event Reporting systems typically detect only a small proportion of events that actually occur.”
Michael F Mangono, Principal Deputy Inspector General Of the Department Of Health And Human Services, in testimony before the US Senate committee.
Hearing on consumer safety and weight loss supplements before the subcommittee on oversight of gov. Management, restructuring and the District of Columbia, S. Comm on Government Affairs 107th Cong. (2002) (statement, by Michael F Mangono, Principal Duty Inspector General, office of Inspector General,, US Department of Health & Human Services)
(Planned Parenthood continues to violate FDA protocol by offering pill abortions to two weeks later than the FDA approved use)
Share on FacebookFDA, report, dated April 30, 2011
14 women in the United States alone have died from using the mifepristone abortion drug and 2,207 women have been injured by it.
Of the women experiencing medical and physical problems resulting from the abortion drug, 612 women required hospitalizations, 339 experienced blood loss significant enough to require a transfusion, 256 experienced infections and 48 women experienced what the FDA labeled as “severe infections.”
“Severe infections generally involve death or hospitalization for at least 2-3 days, intravenous antibiotics for at least 24 hours, total antibiotic usage for at least 3 days, and any other physical or clinical findings, laboratory data or surgery that suggest a severe infection,” the FDA report states.
Women developing infections from usage of the RU 486 abortion drug experienced endometritis (involving the lining of the womb), pelvic inflammatory disease (involving the nearby reproductive organs such as the fallopian tubes or ovaries), and pelvic infections with sepsis (a serious systemic infection that has spread beyond the reproductive organs).
The FDA figures also reveal that abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood are still misusing the abortion drug.
Despite the FDA indicating, “Administration of mifepristone and misoprostol is contraindicated in patients with confirmed or suspected ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy outside the uterus,” the abortion drug was given to women in 58 cases where they had an ectopic pregnancy.
Report: http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF11G29.pdf
by Steven Ertelt “New FDA Report: Abortion Drug Kills 14 Women, Injures 2,200” LifeNews.com | 7/12/11 3:02 PM
Share on FacebookBernard Nathanson, MD, recounts:
“The Institute on Women and Technology is an organization dedicated to analyzing the effects of new and existing technologies on women, bringing a feminist perspective the public policy on specific technology and technology-based issues, and advocating technologies that empower women and sustain the natural world.”
They examined the safety of RU-486 before it was put on the market. From their conclusion:
“No procedure requiring strict medical supervision and involving a host of risks and complications will help provide sexual and reproductive self-determination for women.”
They were against the use of the pill.
Nathanson, Bernard N, M.D The Hand of God: a Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc, 1996) 98-99
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