Sarah, Author at ClinicQuotes

Poor receive substandard abortion care, says clinic worker

Clinic worker Jenny Higgins says that wealthy women get better abortion care than poor women do. She says:

“… We almost never service wealthier women at the clinics where I worked. In the southeastern clinic, which was in an urban area, the majority of the clients were African-American….. [Wealthy women] are more likely to have access to higher quality, private abortion care, either due to their insurance plans or because they can afford to pay out-of-pocket for such services.”

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“Even though I prided myself on providing attentive and empathic care to the patients with whom I worked, the clinic infrastructure and patient overload prohibited the kind of service that members of the middle and upper classes have come to expect – or the kind of care I had received at relatively posh student health centers or private gynecologist offices.”

Jenny Higgins “Sex, Unintended Pregnancy, and Poverty: One Woman’s Evolution from “Choice” to “Reproductive Justice” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 37-38

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Abortionist: I’ve done 10,000 abortions, but won’t do a D&E

Dr. Jay Kelinson, who performed the abortion in the film the silent scream:

Interviewer: How many abortions do think you performed in your career?

Dr.: I’d say I probably performed 10,000 or more. I can remember days when I would do 30, 35 abortions.

Interviewer: would you do second trimester abortions, D&E’s even for medical reasons?

Dr: No, absolutely not. that is the most horrifying procedure I can think about. There is just absolutely no way I would ever do that.

This interview was shown in Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s video “Eclipse of Reason”, which recorded a D&E abortion, which is a late-term abortion where the baby is torn apart with forceps (see image below) You can see Eclipse of Reason here.

However, whether an abortion is done in the first trimester or the second trimester or even the third trimester, a beating heart is stilled and a baby’s body is torn apart. Compare the two diagrams below – one is of a suction abortion in the first trimester, a procedure that takes place thousands of times a day in the United States alone. The second is a D&E abortion, the most common method of abortion in the second trimester – roughly one in every 10 abortions are done after the first trimester, mostly by this method – meaning it is performed hundreds of times a day.

An eight-week-old baby – before and after a suction abortion

A 16-week-old baby, before and after an abortion by D&E

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Each picture shows a baby torn apart mercilessly by the abortion instruments.

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Abortionist talks about D&Es for miscarriage, abortion

From an interview with an abortionist, talking about the difference between doing a D&E to remove a dead baby during a miscarriage and performing an elective abortion:

“If it’s [a miscarriage], you’re like [with a pained voice], “Oh, here’s this little life!” And you know that it was meant to be because, that’s what happened. And if it’s an abortion, you just feel sad that the woman wasn’t able to raise the child.”

Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) 80 – 81 This is the procedure he is talking about.

Note that he used the term “baby.”

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Bodies of babies found in Missouri Basement

Below is a screenshot from a video that shows the bodies of two aborted babies who were found in a basement in Missouri. The house had been owned by an illegal abortionist who practiced fifty years ago. LifeSiteNews covered the story, and I will quote from them:

Contractors recently hired to renovate the old home discovered in the basement the remains of two tiny babies floating in a preservative solution inside two dusty jars with screw-on lids.

“I know they did medical procedures and stuff,” said the property’s owner William C. Neff to Connecttristates.com. “I was told that they helped a lot of ladies. That’s all I know.”

The contractors were examining the basement on Wednesday when they made the grisly discovery. The remains of the babies were found underneath an antiquated medical examining table in a ceramic container that was covered in rags.

If you look closely, you can see the arms and legs of the baby in the jar on the left. You can see the profile of a baby, (head down) his/her head, body, legs, etc. in the jar on the right. You can make out the shape of the face (side view) if you look closely at the bottom of the jar.

There is an interview at the end of the video done by Channel 7, a local news station, but they did not show the bodies of the babies- the jar was held out of sight. One reporter referred to the babies as “specimens.” There was little acknowledgement of their humanity.

The whole video is below:

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A little irony on a Sunday morning….

Pro-choice activist Malia Cohen on a law drafted to place burdensome regulations on the advertising of Crisis pregnancy centers:

“As a city, we have a responsibility to protect our most vulnerable residents.”

She accused the centers of pushing

“anti-abortion propaganda and mistruths on unsuspecting women.”

Jesse McKinley “Politicians Open Front on Abortion in Bay Area” New York Times August 2, 2011

This is the most ironic quote I have read in a long time. What about THIS victim:

And many former abortion providers and postabortion women can tell you that it is the abortion clinics that give out propaganda and lies.

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Abortion textbook on the “products of conception” in an abortion by pill

From a medical textbook on how to do abortions:

“Involuntary viewing of the products of conception is not an issue during surgical abortions, but the patient needs to know that during a medical[pill] abortion she may see the products. Some women are not affected by viewing the tissue or even find it reassuring; others prefer not to see the tissue at all…

If the pregnancy is eight weeks or beyond, she may indeed see a tiny embryo. The presence or absence of human shape and extremities may have an important impact. After providing a description, ask what, if any, affect the information has on her and then validate her reaction.”

Maureen Paul, E Steve Lichtenberg, Lynn Borgatta, David Grimes, Philip G Stubblefield A Clinician’s Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion (New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1999) 34

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Pro-choice author: tide is shifting in pro-lifers’ favor

Katha Pollitt joined Politics and Prose to promote her new pro-abortion book, PRO. She gave her reasons for writing it:

“I wrote this book because all you have to do is open up the newspaper and see the way things are going…Since, 2010 when the Republicans were so successful there have been 205 new abortion restrictions passed in the states, and, even more than the restrictions- the discourse. You can just feel it shifting. You can feel it shifting toward the anti-abortion side of language and the greater and greater defensiveness of the pro-choice side.”

See her say it here.

Carole Novielli “Pro-Abortion Author Criticizes Planned Parenthood, Says Tide Shifting in Pro-Life Direction” LifeNews 11/7/14

Appeared originally in Saynsumthn

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British abortionist complains about how few of her colleagues will do abortions

British abortionist Dr Kate Paterson expresses frustration at the shortage of abortion doctors in England:

“There are an awful lot of doctors already working helping women to get pregnant in the NHS and in the private IVF sector. There are a hell of a lot less who want to help women when they are pregnant and can’t cope. There is a desperate need for this kind of work and women can be in really extreme situations.”

More young doctors oppose abortions on ethical grounds London Evening Standard 16 April 2007

Seems like the shortage of abortionists is not just an American problem. Perhaps many doctors find ripping apart babies distasteful, despite the money there is to be made.

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Post abortion woman initially happy she got abortion, later regrets decision

Feminists for Life published Susan A Walders’ story of her abortion and its aftermath. Her story is tragically similar to so many other abortion stories, but one thing that stands out is that she was initially happy with her abortion and felt that it was the right choice. Later on, the regrets would come.

“I am one of those people who didn’t think abortion through in advance. Perhaps by sharing the story of the worst decision I have ever made, I can help other women to make that choice less frequently.…

[She became pregnant her sophomore year of college, and immediately decided on abortion]

I was irritated to find out I needed to schedule a preliminary appointment for counseling before I could arrange what they called the “procedure.” The “counselor,” and I use the term loosely, asked me if I was sure that I wanted an abortion and I said yes.

That was it. No information on pregnancy and birth, no list of possible choices, no discussion about motherhood. They took some blood, weighed me and got a brief medical history…

It rained the day of the “procedure.” It was surprisingly simple and relatively painless. Afterwards I felt immediately 100% better. The nausea ceased. There was strong cramping, but I could handle that.

If someone had asked me right then how I felt about what I had just done I would’ve said, “Wow, this is great! I have my health back, I have my life back!”

Go ahead, ask me now.

I am, at this moment, crying.

How callous I was. Just a kid, really. Self-centered and shallow. There were, and are now, so many other alternatives.…

To any woman who finds herself in the position I was in, please, talk to everyone who is important to you. Talk openly, honestly and consider other viewpoints besides your own.…

To abortion providers, I say give better information and counseling to young women. I can’t say for sure, but I might not have made the mistake I did if I had known that morning sickness goes away and there might have been someone who wanted my child.”

Susan A Walders “Mourning Life Lost to Hasty Decision “ The American Feminist vol. 5 # 1 spring 1998

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Live Video of an Abortion Procedure

This video shows an abortion and the bodies of aborted babies. It is extremely graphic and disturbing. There are millions of abortions done every day in the world, and over 3500 in the United States.

The first baby in this video appears to be in the second trimester. There are hundreds of abortions a day done at this stage in the US alone. An abortion clinic worker also appears in the video. Her speech on how abortion is a loving and sacred act is contrasted with the reality shown in the abortion video.

Here is the video:

In the abortion video, the baby you see aborted could be legally aborted in any state in the United States.

The baby shown in the end is different from the one being aborted. He is 24 weeks old. Abortions at this stage are legal throughout much of the US.

Even early abortions leave gruesome remains. See this picture of the arms of a child aborted at only 7 weeks.

To verify that these pictures are accurate go to the Endowment for Human Development, which has pictures from National Geographic. It is not a pro-life site but will show you how developed babies are in the womb.

A few questions for you after seeing this video:

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