They said it.
An American columnist said abortion is needed for the “at risk” population, “poor, black and Indian” whose children are “marked for failure.”
The quote appeared in Tony Bouza “A Mother’s Day Wish: Make Abortion Available to All Women,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 8, 1989
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 193
Share on FacebookLena, from Queensland, became pregnant at 25 by a man she loved:
“He encouraged me to wait until we were married, wait until we had spent more time with each other, wait until we had more money, wait until we did all the things we wanted to do together, and wait until the time was right. I desperately needed some support and agreed out of trust. After all, as some consolation, I had all these other things he wanted with me to look forward to.…
Shortly afterwards, the relationship failed. She says:
“I have just come to the end of this relationship and I can’t help but feel tricked somewhere along the line. We never got to that stage again and at the end of it all I am left alone without the love of either the father or the child… I feel I have lost something I can never regain.”
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 26
Too often, husbands or boyfriends pressure women to have abortions, then break up with them after the abortion. They often promised many things, and put a lot of pressure on the woman. One study shows that 64% of women are pressured into abortions by the men in their lives.
Share on FacebookMelinda Tankard Reist, who compiled a book full of testimonies from women who regretted their abortions, said:
“… In early 2006, a group of researchers in New Zealand published a paper in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, an international peer-reviewed journal, detailing the findings of an ongoing survey of some 500 women who had been tracked from birth to approximately 25 years of age. The data was drawn from one of the most long-running and valuable longitudinal studies in the world, and the research team had previously published other well-received papers about the findings from their survey.
This study from Australia’s next-door neighbor created an international stir. The researchers had found that the young women in the study who had undergone an abortion were significantly more likely than their peers to experience major depression (nearly double the rate of women who had never been pregnant and 35% higher than those who had carried to term), substance abuse, anxiety disorder, and suicidal behavior.”
The study was:
David M Ferguson, et.al., “Abortion in young women and subsequent mental health,” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47 (1): 16 – 24, 2006.
Professor David M Ferguson, leader of the research team:
“I remain pro-choice. I am not religious. I am an atheist and a rationalist. The findings did surprise me, but the results appear to be very robust because they persist across a series of disorders and a series of ages.
Abortion is a traumatic life event; that is, it involves loss, it involves grief, it involves difficulties. And the trauma may, in fact, predispose people to having mental illness.”
Nick Grimm, “Higher Risk of Mental Health Problems after Abortion Report,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 3, 2006
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Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) XI-XII
Share on Facebook“Women who have abortions are good women. Abortion, when desired by a woman, is a good procedure. Abortion itself holds no moral weigh except in the context of its usage. Therefore, in order to change to stories in our heads we must resist forces that tell us that abortion as a procedure is bad, shameful, or not to be supported…Each and every one of us needs to stop apologizing for abortion. ”
Katie Stack “Eliminating Abortion Stigma: Playing Offense Starts With You” RH Reality Check June 14, 2012
“I’m an abortionist. So what? I could be a cardiologist or a dermatologist. It’s another subspecialty of medicine.”
Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who performs abortions up through the third trimester.
SANDY BANISKY “CIRCUIT-RIDING DOCTORS FILL ABORTION NEEDS” Albany Times Union September 5, 1993
Carhart aborts babies like the one below. He kills babies at this age by poisoning them in utero. Other children, he tears apart with forceps.
Mary Ann Sorrentino, was was the director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island for ten years, admits that “the hard cases” of abortion- rape, incest, health risk to the mother or handicap in the child, are rare.
“I have never chosen to base my defense of abortion rights on that tragic group often referred to as “victims (or survivors) of rape and incest.” Of course I believe they should have access to abortions, but the number of patients coming forward for these reasons has always been such a small percentage of the total number of terminations performed, that its statistical and logistical significance is not so much influential, as tragic and dramatic.
Women whose health and lives are threatened by a pregnancy are also a small number, fortunately. …. It is important to reinforce the notion that a woman’s right to have or not have a child is important, personal, and valid, however the pregnancy came to be.…
The sperm donor is in most cases a boyfriend, fiancé, or husband. Less often, there are cases where a married woman has conceived outside her marriage, or where single women have been taken advantage of by rapists or pimps. Older men out for a good time may impregnate minors, and teen pregnancies sometimes result from incest and rape. But none of these groups, taken individually, are of statistical significance.
The facts always have been and still are, that most often, women seeking abortions come from a less dramatic and more average group and is often described by well-meaning advocates trying to make a case for legalized pregnancy terminations….
In some ways, the pro-choice movement has caved into the pressure from its opponents by basing its defense of all women’s reproductive rights on the backs of those few in the most dramatic circumstance.”
Mary Ann Sorrentino. The A Word: Abortion: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom (Great Barrington, MA: Gadd & Company Publishers, 2006) 4 – 6
The man involved is not a father. he is a “sperm donor.”
A postabortion woman named Cassie wrote:
“I often wonder what happened with my baby. Where did they put her? Sometimes I wish I could’ve seen her, although I know that it would have been not only painful but I think I would’ve got out of my mind! Still, most of the times I wish I knew what became of her; was she buried or just thrown away like some piece of rubbish. Sometimes I think of just ringing the clinic and ask them what they do with all the babies, but then, what am I expecting they’ll tell me!… All through the day I wonder how she would look, and how it would’ve been having her around with my two sons… Whenever I’m asked how many children I have, I refrain from saying three!”
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 40
Share on FacebookFrom author Melinda Tankard Reist, who interviewed many postabortion women:
“Women often spoke of being unable to get satisfactory help for their grief from clinics or organizations connected with abortion. Karleen said that when she sought help at a women’s counseling clinic in Sydney she was told it was wrong of her to speak badly of her abortion experience. Kara, from Queensland, told of posting her personal abortion story on an Internet discussion of abortion. She was told to “get lost” – her story wasn’t welcome….If a woman is depressed after an abortion, she is made to feel it’s her own inability to deal with sadness which is the problem. The onus is all on the woman.”
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 24 – 25
Share on FacebookAbby Johnson describes running into a woman at the grocery store who she had talked into an abortion years ago. She says:
“As soon as she started talking, I knew. She had sat across from me at my desk at Planned Parenthood. I had talked her into getting an abortion. I remembered her story vividly. She was crying. I was reassuring her, saying things like, “Just because a decision makes us cry, doesn’t mean it’s not the right decision.”
I remember that I was trying to get her out of my office. We had been talking for at least 45 minutes and that was way over my 15 minute maximum for “counseling.” I knew I must have a stack of charts waiting in my box outside. I finally pulled out the final card to hurry this thing along. I told her, “If you don’t have the abortion today, you won’t be able to come back to us for at least a week and it will be more expensive. You don’t want that, do you?”
Reluctantly she said that she was ready to go back for the abortion. Good. My job was done. Every line was signed and every box was checked.”
Abby Johnson “I talked her into getting an abortion. And then I ran into her at the store.” LifeSiteNews Fri Jul 18, 2014
You can read this powerful article in its entirety here
Share on FacebookMelaney Linton, who was chosen to oversee Planned Parenthood Gulf coast, on his “sacred duty” to promote abortion:
“I am honored and humbled to be entrusted with such a sacred duty…I pledge to do everything in my power to fight back against the ideological attacks on Planned Parenthood and women, so that no teen will ever say she didn’t know how she got pregnant, no one will ever be denied basic reproductive health care, and no woman will ever be forced to bear children she cannot adequately support.”
As of 2012, Linton managed 13 abortion and abortion-referring centers in Southeast Texas and Louisiana, as well as the largest abortion clinic in America, located in Houston, Texas.
LifeNews adds:
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast alone performed over 12,000 abortions in 2010 and banked over $17 million – 49 percent of which came from taxpayer dollars. Linton will succeed Peter Durkin, who earned over $200,000 in 2010 by performing this “sacred duty.
Sarah Crawford “New Head of Biggest Planned Parenthood Says Abortion Sacred” LifeNews 2/9/12
