They said it.
From Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)
One clinic worker stated of the work that she does “many women would rather kill than wound.”
National abortion Federation conference, Cincinnati Ohio April 1994
This clinic worker knows that she is helping kill.
Share on Facebook“Back in the 80s, [we] started getting calls from all over the country where clinics were saying, “Help, my doctor hasn’t had a vacation in 3 years. He really wants to go somewhere but we can’t get a replacement for him. There’s no doc we can find anywhere who can come and take our abortion patients… We are getting the same story over and over and over again, and we were finding it harder and harder to find any kind of assistance for these clinics.”
Susan Wysoki, Director of the Access Project, National Abortion Federation
National Abortion Federation meeting Vancouver British Columbia, May 1998,
Mark Crutcher “Access: the Key to Pro-Life Victory” Life Dynamics Incorporated
The activism of pro-lifers is part of the reason why there is such a shortage of doctors – pro-lifers expose abortionists who injure or kill women and put pressure on hospitals and medical organizations to cut ties with abortion doctors.
But perhaps a bigger reason why so many people don’t want to perform abortions is because of medical stigma – there is a great deal of stigma against abortion providers in the medical community and the public at large. Another reason could be that many abortionists find the work distasteful – pulling out recognizable body parts is not a pleasant way to spend one’s day
Share on FacebookAfter one abortion clinic was closed permanently in June and serious health violations were found in several others, the Alabama Bureau of Health Provider Standards has proposed new regulations governing abortion clinics.
One clinic, New Woman All Women Health Care in Birmingham, agreed to go on probation in November after “inspectors found patients weren’t given preoperative medication on time, the clinic hadn’t verified whether pregnancy tests and ultrasound tests were conducted and, in the most serious violation, the clinic’s administrator had ordered and diverted narcotics such as hydrocodone for her own use,” according to the News.
Pro-Life News in Brief. National Right to Life News December 1, 2006
Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups vehemently oppose any regulation of clinics, claiming such regulations would drive abortion clinics out of business. Meanwhile, many abortion clinics are dangerous and have injured and even killed women.
Share on FacebookFrom one doctor, on the risks of abortion:
“[Abortions] used to scare the living daylights out of me because there were so many complications that could happen… I always felt like, “Oh God,” what if you [perforate the uterus]? I remember doing the D&Cs [to complete] the second trimester [inductions], and you could just feel the uterus was [soft and easy to perforate]…”
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Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) 73
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Share on FacebookJodi Jacobson Tweeted on February 24 2014 about the horrors of animal abuse. She was referring to a a picture and article that was tweeted claiming that puppies in Korea were boiled alive while being prepared to be eaten.
“What? What’s this? They were boiled alive? Seriously? This is horrific.”
And yet, in another post, she praised late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller.
“Dr. Tiller was one of the few doctors providing late-term abortions to people in need in part because he was a commited, ethical, moral medical professional who took seriously his oath to serve the best interests of his patients, and because he was dedicated to supporting women’s rights even at the risk of his own life and even under unimaginable daily pressure and threat.”
Jodi Jacobson “Late Abortions: Facts, Stories, and Ways to Help” RH Reality Check June 2, 2009
Dr. Tiller did abortions in the third trimester, sometimes weeks before the baby was supposed to be born. He poisoned the baby by injecting toxic digoxin into the baby’s heart. He then burned the dead babies in a full-size crematoriam. Earlier pregnancies, where the baby was in the second trimester, were done by dismemberment.
Apparently, killing puppies as heartsickening but killing babies is perfectly okay.
Former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson describes why abortion providers fight laws requiring women to be asked if they want to see an ultrasound of their baby before an abortion
“Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Abortion Federation both REQUIRE ultrasounds to be performed before an abortion takes place. During a first trimester procedure, a transvaginal ultrasound is required. An abdominal or transvaginal is allowed in the second and third trimesters.
There is one reason for this. They need to be able to see exactly how far along the woman is in her pregnancy so the abortion facility knows how much to charge for the abortion. There is one reason they don’t want women to see their ultrasound…it is too risky. Ultrasounds expose the lie of the abortion industry. They show that it is not just a “blob of tissue” or a “mass of cells.”
Ultrasounds show the humanity of the child. They don’t oppose ultrasounds because it is too time consuming. They are performing them anyway! They are required (by their own rules) to perform them. It is not traumatizing for the woman. They are about to perform an invasive and painful procedure on these women and they are seriously worried about how an ultrasound will feel? Of course not. They only oppose ultrasounds because of the risk…a woman may choose life and they may be out several hundred dollars. It is pretty plain and simple.”
Abby Johnson “Abby Johnson: Counselor for My Abortion Had 9 Abortions” LifeNews.com 4/23/12
“When you’re doing a dismemberment D&E, usually the last part to be removed is the skull itself and it’s floating free inside the uterine cavity…So it’s rather like a ping-pong ball floating around and the surgeon is using his forcep to reach up to try to grasp something that’s freely floating around and is quite large relative to the forcep we’re using.”
Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist. He describes legal activity
Read an abortionist’s more detailed description of this type of abortion
Share on FacebookFrom an article that profiled several abortion patients and had an interview with an abortion doctor, Dr. William Harrison, who had performed thousands of abortions at the time of the article:
Amanda hasn’t told her ex-boyfriend that she’s 15 weeks pregnant with his child. She hasn’t told her parents, either, though she lives with them.
“I figured it was my responsibility,” she says.
She regrets having to pay $750 for the abortion, but Amanda says she does not doubt her decision. “It’s not like it’s illegal. It’s not like I’m doing anything wrong,” she says.
“I’ve been praying a lot and that’s been a real source of strength for me. I really believe God has a plan for us all. I have a choice, and that’s part of my plan.”
Stephanie Simon “Offering Abortion, Rebirth” The Los Angeles Times 29 November 2005
Share on FacebookWarren Hern, late term abortionist, on the abortions he performs. He does abortions up to 32 weeks and sometimes beyond at his clinic in Boulder:
“The generally accepted point of level viability is around 24-26 weeks. But you can’t take a given point in fetal development and apply that 100 percent of the time. It just doesn’t happen that way. If you look at premature deliveries and survival percentages at different weeks of gestation, you’ll get 24-week fetuses with some survival rate. The fact that you get some survivors demonstrates the difficulty in defining a point. ….
I don’t know that there is a typical second-trimester abortion. But if you look at the spectrum of abortions (most women are between the ages of 19 and 29) they tend to be younger. Some are older. The typical thing that happens with older women is that they never realize they were pregnant because they were continuing to bleed during the pregnancy. The other thing we see with older women is fetal malformations or Down’s Syndrome. These are being diagnosed much earlier now than they used to be. We’re seeing a lot of genetic diagnoses with ultrasound and amniocentesis at 17-18 weeks instead of 22-24 weeks. With the teenagers, anybody who has ever worked with or had teenagers can appreciate how unpredictable they can be at times. They have adult bodies, but a lot of times they don’t have adult minds. So their reaction to problems tends to get much more emotional than an adult’s might be.
It’s a question of maturity. So even though they may have been educated about all kinds of issues in reproductive health, when a teenager becomes pregnant, depending up on her relationship with her family, the amount of peer support she has–every one is a highly-individual case–sometimes they delay until they can no longer contain their problem and it finally comes out. Sometimes it’s money: It takes them a while to get the money. Sometimes its just denial….”
Discharging the Committee on the Judiciary from Further Consideration Of the President’s Veto of HR 1833, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995 Can be found here.
So we see there are various reasons why late term abortions can be performed, and its interesting he did not cite a single case where abortion was needed to preserve a woman’s life or health. Does a baby with down syndrome really deserve to die?
This is what Dr. Hern does to babies at 23 weeks:
Below: ultrasound of baby between 22 and 24 weeks
Below: pieces of baby aborted at 20 weeks
One woman who became pregnant in difficult circumstances had her baby but describes how hard saying no to abortion can be:
“When I was 21 I became pregnant. I was unmarried, a university student and I supported myself by working at night… I fit your description of a woman who should qualify for an abortion exactly. Very busy and very poor. However, I did not want to have an abortion on moral and dare I say it… religious grounds. I believe abortion is murder… My belief is heartfelt and therefore when I became pregnant, although I was completely ambivalent about my condition. I could not seek abortion as an escape route.
The first doctor I went to assumed I wanted an abortion before I said anything to him, and I had to tell him very firmly that I did not need his “help.”
The Planned Parenthood worker who first diagnosed my condition was incredulous at my decision, and in a manner bordering on hostility said to me, “Didn’t you always secretly want to have a child so that you could have someone to love?” Sitting there, literally shaking with terror at the disastrous news, I was subjected to the amateur psychology of a proabortion advocate who simply could not believe that my reluctance to have an abortion was based on private scruples. And that was the beginning of a very long and painful trial by fire. I lost my friends because they could not “tolerate my stupidity.”…
At one point I was offered a large sum of money so I could go to New York and get it done “quietly”. I had pictures of the vacuum machine used for abortion shoved in my face, and a detailed account of the whole procedure outlined for me, until I cried. Every time I sat down in the student pub someone would start: “Why don’t you have an abortion?” And later, “Why did you?”… I caused anger, too, I believe, because my refusal to have an abortion was based on moral and religious grounds. My answer was not an excuse, it was a judgment, and it was probably seen as a judgment on all those who disagreed with me…”
Now older and married… I often sit and wonder about the future of women like me who say no. I think about the fact that I was 21, and telling everyone to go to hell was infinitely easier for me than it must be for a very young teenager, who, although she feels the truth of her unwanted fetus’s humanity in her soul before she ever feels the first life movement in her belly, must face outraged parents, social workers, with seen too many tragedies to care anymore, and terrified boyfriends. Authority figures can be overwhelming when you’re only 15. I wonder, and my heart reaches out with all compassion to every woman who has had an abortion against her wishes. True, nobody can legally drag you on the operating table, but they can certainly use social and financial cattle prods to get you there.”
“One Woman’s Story” Pro-Life News/Canada, April 1978, reprinted from a letter in the Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario) paper Argus, February 3, 1978
This is an old quote, but it shows that Planned Parenthood was ALWAYS giving biased and coercive pregnancy “counseling.” Read more stories of abortion clinics and/or Planned Parenthood putting pressure on women to abort here.
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