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Pro-choice writer warns: negative abortion stories might have “political consequences”

Pro-choice writer Katie Stack encourages women to speak out about their abortions (and thus eliminate “stigma”) but they should only tell their stories if they are positive ones:

“On the one hand, I have urged women to remain true to their own feelings. On the other, I have understood that the tone of our narratives could hold political consequences. For so long the rhetoric of the pro-choice Democrat’s position has focused on “safe, legal and rare” – with the “rare” reinforcing the idea that abortion, though permissible, should be shameful and undesirable. Nobody wants to have an abortion, after all.”

Katie Stack “Eliminating Abortion Stigma: Playing Offense Starts With You” RH Reality Check June 14, 2012

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Abortionist tells patients he is going to suction the brains out of their children

Diagram of partial birth abortion, the abortion Dr. Weiss is describing

Dr. Gerson Weiss, abortionist, on what he tells women before he does an abortion:

THE COURT: Do you tell them that you are going to use a suction device and suck the brain out of the baby?

THE WITNESS: Yes.

THE COURT: You use simple words and tell them that?

THE WITNESS: Yes.

Dr. Gerson Weiss, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 7, 2004

Partial birth abortions are now illegal, but current methods of abortion, like the D&E method, are even more brutal.

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Dr. Warren Hern and abortion in the 9th month of pregnancy

“She was raped. I’m very sympathetic, but I can’t risk my medical license for someone who just didn’t get around to doing anything about it. I’ve done some cases over thirty-six weeks, but very few.”

JOHN H. RICHARDSON “The Last Abortion Doctor” EsquireAugust 5, 2009

Late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern, on how he refused to do an abortion on a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy

Note that his fear of losing his license is the main concern. He does not seem to have any moral qualms about doing an abortion in the days right before birth, and, in fact admits that he has done them.

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Wall Street Journal: female infanticide common in parts of India

An article in the Wall Street Journal describes how some Indian couples are committing infanticide of baby girls, actually killing them outside the womb, rather than screening their pregnancies and getting sex selection abortions.

“In poor and backward places such as Bihar, however, where sonograms are still a rarity, it’s cheaper to kill a newborn girl that to travel to a city and pay for a gender test and an abortion. And Bihar’s gender rate is among the most lopsided in the country. The 1991 census in Bihar showed 912 women for every thousand men, down from 1054 women in 1901. In the district where Dewa is located, the ratio in 1991 was 819 women to 1000 men.

In some pockets of Bihar and Rajasthan, another poor state, the female to male ratio is a meager 600 to 1000. Last August, one village in Rajasthan witnessed its first Hindu wedding procession to a bride’s home in 110 years, because no other girl had been allowed to survive. ”

Miriam Jordan “Brief Lives” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2000

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Pro-choice therapists call abortion “life-changing”

Although many proabortion leaders still maintain that abortion does not cause emotional harm to women, some pro-choicers have been forced to acknowledge that women sometimes do suffer after their abortions.

Pro-choice therapists Candace DePuy, PhD and Dana Dovitch, PhD, authors of The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion said:

“The idea for this book arose out of our clinical relationships with female clients whose lives have been touched by abortion. As mental health professionals, we were concerned to find how few had discussed the life-changing decision they had made. When they began to share their stories, nearly all were surprised by the depth of emotion they still felt.”

Quoted in Kerri-Ann Kiniorski “The Aftermath of Abortion” The American Feminist vol. 5 no. 1, Spring 1998 6 – 7

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Woman has abortion, husband didn’t want baby

From a woman named Beatrice, who had an abortion in an attempt to save her failing marriage:

“I was married, 38 years old, and my marriage was on the rocks – my husband had affairs… That broke my heart to begin with, then we went away and I fell pregnant. I had an 11-year-old son and I had not fallen pregnant in all those years. I thought it was a miracle and still do. My husband’s reaction was totally different. He made it clear he didn’t want any more children… I was in shock, confused… I don’t use the word “choice” because… when you are cornered there does not seem to be a choice. I look at my husband has been “judge” and myself the “executioner.”

Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 26 – 27

Sadly, coerced abortions are very common. In one study, 64% of women who had abortions said that they were having them because their male partner wanted them to. (I.L. Horton and D. Cheng, “Enhanced Surveillance for Pregnancy-Associated Mortality-Maryland, 1993-1998,” JAMA 285(11): 1455-1459 (2001); see also J. Mcfarlane et. al., “Abuse During Pregnancy and Femicide: Urgent Implications for Women’s Health,” Obstetrics & Gynecology 100: 27-36 (2002).)

Abortion is not always about a woman’s “choice.”

Planned Parenthood Gives Award to Clinic for Increasing Abortions

This photo went viral. it was taken by a former Planned Parenthood clinic worker who said that her Planned Parenthood clinic was given an award for increasing the number of abortions they performed.

Many pro-choice activists said that this was a fake. After all, abortion is only a small part of what Planned Parenthood does, right? They are not pro-abortion, right?

Planned Parenthood has confirmed that the award is real. they do, however, claim they do not have abortion quotas, which is not exactly the point made by the sign. Here, in PP’s words:

Political groups with an extreme agenda took to social media this week to claim they’ve found proof that Planned Parenthood has “quotas” for how many abortions the organization should provide. The entire basis of their claim was a photo of a certificate that Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains gave to a health center for increasing its abortion services – which these groups blasted as “sickening” and “appalling.”

… As a nonprofit health care provider, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care and education to as many people as possible. We aim to expand access to all of our services, and we commend our dedicated, passionate staff when they succeed in reaching more people who need care.

The organizations and individuals who have spent the last week trying to gin up a controversy about this have one agenda: To restrict women’s access to reproductive health care, including safe and legal abortion, birth control, and sex education. That’s their stated goal, so it’s no surprise that they’re “sickened and appalled” by the idea that more women are able to make their own decisions about pregnancy and have access to safe and legal abortion services.

Nobody does more than Planned Parenthood to prevent the need for abortion. We are proud to provide sex education and birth control to so many people. We are also proud to provide abortion services to women who have made the decision to end a pregnancy.

… So, no, we don’t have quotas. And, yes, we absolutely do celebrate our progress in ensuring that more people have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion. And we always will.

Of course, most pro-life groups do not oppose contraception or sex education, but since when has the truth mattered to Planned Parenthood? the certificate is real. PP does celebrate abortions. They are a glorified abortion mill.

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Father Frank Pavone shows babies aborted by Prostaglandin in the 2nd Trimester

Father Pavone from Priests for Life discusses an abortion method that is used in the second trimester where prostaglandin is injected into the mother’s body causing her to go through labor and have violent contractions. The babies may be born alive if they are not killed by having a needle injected into the heart before the process is started. In this video, you will see two of these abortion victims.

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Women having abortions after 16 weeks are wealthier, article says

An article in Salon magazine reveals that women seeking late term abortions are often wealthier than those who have early abortions.

“If they’re having abortions after 16 weeks, they tend to be slightly more affluent. This was a slightly surprising finding of the study – that “women with family incomes 200-plus-percent of poverty were more likely than poor women to be second trimester abortion patients obtaining abortions at 16-plus weeks.”

IRIN CARMON “Why women have second trimester abortions” Salon DEC 21, 2011

These are not necessarily poor, uneducated women who are getting late term abortions. Most late term abortions are on healthy women with healthy babies.

See a picture of what a 16 week old baby looks like after an abortion

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Abortion staff was callous

“I remember that the doctor who was to actually performed the D&C was an unpleasant person – he seemed to be eaten up with anger (no wonder, what a ghastly lot in life was his if that was his main occupation)… The staff involved seemed callous – callous people, callous in their approach – not that they were rough with me; they strongly impressed me with their indifference to a woman in pain… Inside I screamed protest at their treatment of me – the lack of attention when I awoke with severe pain; the looking through me as if I didn’t really exist; the fact that they weren’t interested in me, as a person, to hear my story or to help me make sense of it all. I remember that, after the pre-med had been administered and I was waiting on the cot outside the [operating room] doors for my turn, I actually managed to lift my heavy head from the pillow to look through the windows in the doors to try and see who and why the surgical staff were creating such a ruckus – there were hooting, and laughing, and regaling loud and apparently hilarious stories to each other while performing these abortions.”

Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 35 – 36

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