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Feminists don’t like discussing abortion grief, postabortion woman finds

A pro-choice author, who wrote a book on women’s experiences after an abortion, described how one woman felt grief after she aborted her baby. The young woman felt that pro-choice friends did not want to hear about her struggles after the abortion.

“… Karen cannot make sense of her grief. She says, “I hated being pregnant. I knew I did not want to have a baby. So why should I feel sad after the abortion?… I don’t understand the emotions, so I can’t very well explain them.” …

On either side of the abortion debate, people have invested so much energy in their beliefs that they may not want to hear anything that opposes those views. Karen has found this to be true on the pro-choice side. She says of her depression and confusion, “I wish it were okay to talk of such feelings in the feminist circles. It seems that for political reasons we cannot.” Some abortion advocates might interpret Karen’s feeling as a threat to the movement or as a sign of defection, when in reality, Karen’s support has not wavered at all.”

Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 236 – 237

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Abortion clinic nurse: abortion is violence

18 wks. Legal to abort in every US state

From an abortion clinic nurse:

“Abortion is the narrowest edge between kindness and cruelty. Done as well as it can be done, it is still violence…”

Sally Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here” Harpers Magazine October 7, 1987

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Medical student on what’s left behind after abortion

Yale Daily News covered the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale (RALY) and the Yale Medical Students for Choice commemoration of Roe v. Wade . The participants simulated doing abortions.

Here’s what one of the organizers—a medical student at Yale named Rasha Khoury—said in the article.

“It’s not as scary as it seems. It’s just blood and mucus,” Khoury said, referring to the fetus remains in the device. She added, “You’ll be able to see arms and stuff, but still just miniscule.” . . .

She also said of the women coming in to have abortions:

“Often times, women are crying and cursing and saying they’re going to hell,” Khoury said. “It may be a quick and easy medical procedure, but it definitely is a very involved social-medical procedure.”…

8 weeks

After pro-lifers started blogging about the quotes, the online version of the article was edited to remove them.

Also from the original article:

Evans and Khoury also explained the finer points of abortion-clinic etiquette, including some potentially sensitive terminology. Khoury said physicians performing abortions generally refer to the aborted fetus remains as “POC,” an acronym for “product of conception,” and refer to fetus’ hearts as “FH.”

“Papaya Abortions” Jill Stanek Jan.28, 2008

Ryan T Anderson “Yale Medical Abortion School” First Things January 28, 2008

John Connolly “Yale Daily News Deletes Article on Abortion-Teaching Presentation” LifeSiteNews Jan 25, 2008

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Student describes seeing baby “struggle against death” after being born alive during abortion

Testimony of a student in midwife school (22 years old, North of France):

“I am a midwife student in my last year, and saw, during an internship in a maternity department of the North of France, a child born alive from an abortion on medical grounds. He was 24 weeks of gestation and the midwife left the child struggling to breathe, by leaving the baby alone on the resuscitation table. He died within 10 minutes, greatly weakened by labor contractions (triggered). We did not check the heart sounds during labor, to “spare” the mother. The midwife told me that in these cases, “it is born dead if he is lucky, otherwise … well … we have no choice … for the parents…” I saw a baby struggle against death, in total indifference to his suffering … A chilling inhumanity … This leads to situations of horror … I saw this at 19, I’m 22, I’ll never forget … I have the desire to become a doctor in order to treat those who no longer have “the right” to be cared for…” I assisted from a distance, because midwives prefer to take care of only the patients in this case, in several abortions on medical grounds between 18 and 24 weeks of gestation, but most children would die as a result of contractions. Here, the term being 23 weeks + 5 days gestation, there was no feticide in accordance with the Protocol: the active gesture of fetal euthanasia, or stopping life with prenatal analgesia. So, I think that the patient had been informed of the likelihood that the child is born alive during the consultation before the abortion; but we have not shown the child to her, occupying her until the time the child dies (“a matter of minutes”). We showed her the baby once it had died. The midwife did not give me figures, but in her speech, it seemed to be recurring for those delicate terms between 18 and 24 weeks of gestation… Not having finished my studies, I still prefer to remain anonymous for a while…”

Grégor Puppinck PhD (Dir.), Claire de La Hougue PhD, Andreea Popescu, Christophe Foltzenlogel “Late Term Abortion & Neonatal Infanticide in Europe” Petition for the Rights of Newborns Surviving Their Abortion ECLJ (European Centre for Law and Justice) June 2015

Although this happened in France, statistics show that 362 children were born alive during abortions between 2001 and 2010 in the US.

(same source)

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Post abortion woman: “please don’t make the same mistake I did”

A post-abortion woman tells her story:

“Since I had already enlisted in the Air Force, I thought I had to have an abortion in order to make something out of my life. My best friend drove me to the abortion clinic. It was like an assembly line. When the ultrasound was being performed, I asked to see it, but this wasn’t allowed. So much for “an informed decision.” Then I asked how far along I was. I was told I was 9 ½ weeks pregnant. That hit me hard. I started doubting and wanted to talk to my friend, but I wasn’t allowed to do that either.

When it was my turn, the nurse told me I was going to feel some discomfort, like strong menstrual cramps. The truth is that the abortion was more pain than I’ve ever felt in my life. It felt like my insides were literally being sucked out of my body. Later, I went into shock.…

I wanted my baby back… I named my baby. Later I found out this is part of the grieving process.

2 ½ years later, I ended up in the hospital with bulimia. I felt that no one had punished me for what I had done, so I was punishing myself.… my life was in shambles! I was suffering from post abortion trauma…

There is a healing process that comes from getting involved in the pro-life movement. I talked to youth groups and students and share my testimony. To them, and to you, I plead, “please don’t make the same mistake I did.”

“I Was 18 and Pregnant” “You Can Stop Injustice” Human Life Alliance Advertising Supplement 2010 4

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Doctors had reservations about the safety of the abortion pill

Although Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the country offer the abortion pill, other abortion providers were not overly enthusiastic about the abortion pill when it first came out. Although Planned Parenthood has always maintained that abortion pills are safe (despite the death of Holly Patterson and others) the way that the abortion pill was rushed through FDA trials has led to some providers being concerned about its safety. Here, a Planned Parenthood official complains about how slow providers were in providing the abortion pill.

“It’s disappointing that the pill is not moving faster and gaining wider acceptance, but the mind-set of health care providers is that they still need to be convinced this is a viable, safe alternative to surgical abortion.”

Mark Adler. vice president for Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties

“A year later, abortion pill proves no panacea” Palm Beach Post, 9-9-2001

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Midwife who helped with late term abortions- sometimes they came out alive

Testimony of European midwife Mrs. Siv Bertilsson:

Hello. I have worked 36 years as a midwife in maternity and obstetric care. Now there is a reorganization at the women’s clinic, which means that the late term abortions after week 12 will be performed at the maternity ward. I have during my professional career worked with both gynecology and maternity care. Therefore, I have horrible memories from my time at the gynecology ward where I participated in late term abortions, most around week 16 where the fetus struggled and tried to breathe for 5-15 minutes. Because there are no rules or regulations on what one should do with a fetus that is struggling for life, you leave the fetus to die by itself in a round bowl or a basin. Horribly inhumane, I think. And this is not an unusual event. Approximately 25% in week 16-17 live for a certain time. Now I am reintroduces to this. I had decided to never ever concern myself with this chore. I am now forced to stop working as a midwife? How should I act? And if I’m forced to continue to bring myself to do this again, what do I do with the fetus when it is alive? I read in the Animal Welfare Act how to kill kittens, puppies or other small animals, and there are clear rules for how the killing should be done in a way that does not cause anxiety or pain to the animal…

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Pictures of abortion victims; a day’s work in an abortion clinic GRAPHIC

Pictures of abortion victims. This was a days’ work at an abortion facility..

Dismembered limbs after a suction abortion. This is how Planned Parenthood describes this type of abortion:

A tube is inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus.

Here are more examples of what’s taken from a “gently emptied uterus

From later abortions:

This baby above will never laugh, cry, or be held. He or she (it’s not clear from the picture) was killed and extracted from the womb

There are pictures of aborted babies taken in a clinic. To learn more about the people who took them, go here.

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Woman on her 5 abortions: “I love getting pregnant, but I’m not ready for kids”

In an article published today in The Daily Mail, women speak out about their lack of guilt for the abortions they had. These images appeared on Whisper, a “secret” app where women share their stories of being proud to have had abortions. The original article is here.

Here are some of the graphics, interspersed with pictures of what they don’t feel guilty for.

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Commentary on “Why I Decided against Late-Term Abortion” by Eve Cohen

Christina Dunigan writes about a 2009 article entitled Why I Decided Against a Late-Term Abortion, by Alice Eve Cohen. Unfortunately, the article does not appear to still be up.

However, I think Dunigan’s post is valuable and I’m going to reproduce it with her permission.

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Eve Cohen didn’t think she could get pregnant. Doctors had told her not to even try because they were sure that she’d not be able to carry past six months. So when she discovered, at six months, that she was pregnant, she freaked out, to the point of considering suicide.

Instead of sending her for psychiatric care, “an abortion specialist” made an appointment for her to get the unexpected baby snuffed at Tiller’s Wichita abortion mill as a “life of the mother” case.

The baby’s father didn’t think he could stay with her if he did that. When asked about the upcoming abortion, he said:

“Me? Oh, Jesus … a lot of different things,” Michael answered. “I’ve seen Alice in the throes of this terrible unhappiness, and I don’t recognize her.

I’ve been politically in favor of choice, but uncommitted on the personal side — it’s been an abstraction. But now that this is suddenly so real, all I can think is that there’s a baby. Our baby. My baby. And I can’t stand the thought of this baby being aborted.

So If Alice has an abortion, I won’t go to Wichita with her. And I might not be here when she gets back. I’ll have my own unbearable sorrow about losing this baby, about endorsing this decision. But I don’t want Alice to kill herself. So she should do what she needs to do.”

Cohen doesn’t really get it:

For the past ten years, this turning point moment in our relationship — Michael acknowledging my right to choose, but telling me he might leave me if I had the abortion — has remained a largely unspoken but crucial shared memory, equal parts rift and bridge between us.

Somehow it seems to diminish him in her eyes that it would have devastated him to have his child put to death. That he loved the child unconditionally is, in her eyes, a big problem. What redeemed him was that he “acknowledg[ed]” her “right to choose” whether the baby would live or die.

As if he had any way of stopping her.

When Cohen wrote a book about, among other things, contemplating abortion, she let her 9-year-old daughter read it. The daughter was okay with it, “Because I know how it turns out.” As if a child would say anything else! What’s she going to say?

It took the wisdom of our child, confident in her parents’ love, to clarify this truth — that exercising freedom of choice is nothing to be ashamed of.

Maybe she wasn’t so much confident of her parents’ love as she was aware of the fact that to even tacitly question mom’s “right to choose” would destroy whatever fragile, conditional love her mother had for her.

And note the author’s tone about the whole thing. No hint of a chill running up and down her spine over how close she came to killing this child. Just a smug satisfaction that in having the baby, rather than killing her, she “exercis[ed] freedom of choice”.

At least the child has one parent who values her inherently and unconditionally, and not merely as the product of a “choice”.

And the fact that the child’s value to her is only in having been “chosen”, and not in merely being, really is something Ms. Cohen should be ashamed of.

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