Damon Stutes, an abortionist in Reno, Nevada, refuses to do abortions by pill:
“The complications associated with RU-486 far exceed the complications of surgical abortion,” (Stutes refuses to offer pill-based (RU-486) abortions and said he was uneasy about agreeing with abortion opponents on anything. “But the truth is the truth.”
“My husband gave me an ultimatum: go and get an abortion or he would leave. As the sole parents pension was an absolute pittance in those days I felt that I had no choice.… Inside myself I was thinking, “Oh please don’t let this happen; I want to keep this child; I think it will be a boy, a lovely little brother for my daughter.”
Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., FACS “the Abortion – Breast Cancer Link: the Studies and the Science”
After discussing at length the connection between abortion and breast cancer, the author said the following:
“Doctors fear the repercussions to their name and their career if they disclose what is already known about the ABC link.
In my own case, I have worried that I would lose referrals from OB/GYN’s who perform abortions when I have lectured on this topic. Even a family doctor who had referred numerous patients said to me, “you don’t tell my patients that, do you?” I worried about my practice. I can understand why a Harvard professor of risk assessment at a Boston Cancer Institute would tell me privately that she knew abortion was a risk factor for cancer but would not bring it up in her talks on risk (meanwhile encouraging me to speak out about it.) She might lose her job. I have a colleague who did lose an appointment at a medical school in New York because he was quoted as giving credence to a study supporting ABC link in the medical Journal of Lancet. One pro-choice epidemiologist who co-authored a study evincing a link between abortion and breast cancer told me she refused to speak on the topic anymore because she was tired of “having rocks thrown at her.”
I learned what that felt like firsthand when I presented a research project in a session at the San Antonio breast Cancer symposium in December 2001. Although the abstract had been accepted six months earlier and had the word “abortion” in the title, the program director accused me of using his meeting as a platform to hand out antiabortion literature. More troubling is that several years ago, the president of the American Society of Breast Surgeons told me that her board did not want to have a speaker on the subject at their meeting because they felt it was “too political.” I argued that it was actually medical, not political, but to no avail. The director of the Miami Breast Cancer conference also felt it was “too political.” He returned the check I had given him to pay for an exhibit table at the conference.”
Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) page 85
“Pro-Choice organizations often ignore, patronize and disparage the contributions of physicians who specialize in abortions, in contrast with their support for well-known physicians and conventional specialties who perform some abortions.”
Warren Hern, “Hunted by the Right, Forgotten by the Left” New York Times, March 13, 1993
Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
Author James D Slack describing “Michelle”, who owns two abortion clinics:
“By every definition, however, Michelle is the quintessential capitalist. She currently charges $500 for a medical (drug) abortion up to the seventh week; $425 for first trimester surgical abortion with a light anesthetic and $475 for one with a heavy anesthetic; and for a second trimester abortion, about an additional hundred dollars per week and maxing out at $1100. After hours (privacy) abortion start around $625, maxing out around $1300. All fees are paid in advance. With an estimated 3000 clients annually from just one of her clinics, some with second trimester abortions, it is likely that she grosses more than 1.5 million. Assuming this is the same at the “Western” clinic she probably grosses around $3 million yearly.”
James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) page 48
“Abortion – Not Even When the Pregnancy Is the Result of Rape?” Pamphlet by American life league, Inc., 1995
A woman who was raped and had a child wrote a letter to the editor:
“Consider my beautiful daughter, Jessica. She is eight months old, has no teeth but a full head of hair and seems to be developing a fondness for Apple juice. She is loved by me, her grandparents, her uncle and her two sisters more than words can say.
She is also a child conceived during a rape.
I was raped in 1992. I did my civic duty and reported the rape. I worked with the assistant district attorney to prosecute my assailant. He was eventually pronounced “not guilty” because date rape is difficult to prove.
When I discovered I was pregnant from the assault, I was horrified. I debated long and hard over what choice I should make.
Common sense would dictate that an abortion was the answer, right? Wrong. No matter how hideous my child’s conception had been (and rape is a degrading, demoralizing act that alters one’s whole life), I knew that there was a life growing inside me. I chose to accept this child is being my baby – not the rapist’s. My friends and family supported me 100%, but the choice was mine to make and I know I made the right one.
All children are gifts from God. It makes no difference how they are conceived.
I feared I would see my rapist’s face every time I looked at my child – but I don’t. I see a beautiful, happy, little girl who wasn’t planned and wasn’t the result of an act of love – but nonetheless is loved very, very much.”
Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 137-138
“Even though it kills a human life, abortion is, in fact, the moral choice to make when would-be mothers ascertain that their pregnant circumstances do not enable them to raise a would-be child responsibly. Contrary to popular accusation, it is not the decision to abort but the decision to have a child that is treated with insufficient gravity in our society.”
“I don’t actually think it is in the interests of feminism or the pro-choice movement to cling so rigidly to outdated notions of “life.” It no longer helps our cause to try to argue that the fetus is not “life.” The reason for this, as people have noted, is that technological advances, like sonograms, where you can see feet on a fetus in the first trimester, have made those claims clearly and patently hollow to even ardently pro-choice people who have seen the black and white staticky fuzziness take shape into human form. How can we possibly claim that the moving creature, with feet and toes that we can see, is not “life”?
Katie Roiphe “Preglimony and Pro-Choice Rhetoric” Slate July 10, 2012
Denise M Burke, ESQ “Abortion Clinic Regulations: Combating the True “Back Alley” on page 124 the author cites:
“In 1994, several women testified before the Gen. Assembly of the South Carolina legislature that when they walked into some of the states abortion clinics, they saw bloody, unwashed sheets, bloody cots in recovery rooms, and dirty bathrooms. Clinic workers testified that the remains of unborn children were not disposed of properly, but rather runs down sinks.”
Dial “Abortion: a Dirty Industry” Citizen Magazine, July 2001
