They said it.
David Reardon cited a European study that determined that only 11 to 16% of women denied legal abortions will pursue an illegal abortion.
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 290
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find the study he is referring to
Share on FacebookDr. William Rashbaum was a late-term abortionist who performed over 20,000 late-term abortions are taught over 100 doctors how to do these procedures. In an article about him, the author describes a woman who came into abort her pregnancy at 18 weeks. She was aborting because the baby was going to be handicapped. From the author:
“She’s not sure she wants to know the details. It’s difficult to relinquish her role of protecting a fetus that has grown inside her for four and a half months. Welling up with tears again, she asks if it will feel pain. She doesn’t want to hear much more. “I just want to make sure you get all of it out,” she pleads. “Don’t leave anything in there.”….
REBECCA PALEY “Cruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all” The Boston Phoenix Dec 2003
Dr. Raushbaum killed her baby by the D&E abortion method. Here is a chart that shows how that type of abortion is performed
From a D&E at 18 weeks:
Dr. Consuelo Sague, a former abortionist:
“Once a person becomes accustomed to inflicting pain, he becomes callous in other ways.
One of my teachers, a very clever professor, who performed many abortions, turned very cold in his attitude towards women. He didn’t care about them at all. He was unaffected by their physical and emotional pain. He had an academic detachment from women in their feelings. Yes, I think doctors who do abortions become dehumanized. They have to.”
Mary Arnold “Abortion Burnout” Catholic Twin Cir., August 1984 4
Share on FacebookThe Clergy Consultation Service is an organization of clergy members – priests, rabbis, reverends, and pastors – who help connect women with abortionists. These clergy members refer women in their parishes to local abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood utilizes many such clergy members. However, the clergy members do not do this for free:
In one year alone, the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clergy consultation service received $250,000 in kickbacks from clinics to which they referred women for abortions.
John and Barbara Willke Handbook on Abortion (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing Company, Inc., 1979) 98
Many Christians would believe that these clergy members are not acting the way Jesus would want them to.
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Dr. William Rashbaum, now deceased, was profiled in a 2003 article. At the time the article was written, he had performed over 21,000 late-term abortions. The article says of Raushbaum:
TRAINED IN an era when doctors were considered gods, Rashbaum is gruff, confrontational, and downright abrasive. He flaunts medical conventions at will, rankling nurses and orderlies, if it serves his needs. When the orderlies take too long preparing his operating room between procedures, he goes in and embarrasses them into efficiency by helping to clean up. He boasts, “They turn my room over much faster than any other room.” First- and second-year OB/GYN residents dread his cases. “It was always a fight about who had to do them,” says a former intern.
Cases such as his are certainly the most technically difficult of all abortions. As pregnancy moves closer to 24 weeks (the upper legal limit in most states, with rare exceptions made to preserve a woman’s life or health), the risk to the patient increases, even with the preferred method for second-trimester abortions — dilation and evacuation, or D&E for short. During the procedure, in which both vacuum and surgical instruments are used, the fetus is either removed in pieces or delivered more or less intact. In the operating room, Rashbaum readily yells at the top of his lungs at residents working with forceps inside a woman’s uterus, where he can’t see what they’re doing, to make sure they are as nervous as he is. “It’s not the best way to teach,” he admits. “Calm, cool, collected is better, but a tough screaming is not ineffective.”
The article also quotes Raushbaum as saying:
“As long as I can make a contribution, I enjoy what I do.”
The article also says:
He has trained close to 100 doctors to do D&Es, some of whom have gone on to train others
REBECCA PALEY “Cruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all” The Boston Phoenix Dec 2003
From a pro-choice publication on debating the abortion issue:
The [pro-life] opposition will hammer away at life and murder themes —matters of theology and faith, rather than fact and reason. Dispose of these as quickly as possible (avoid the “When does life begin?” discussion) …
Looseleaf workbook “Organizing for Action.” National Abortion Rights Action League, 1974, page 31. “Introduction to Debating.”
The evidence is overwhelming that life begins at conception, so it is not surprising that experienced pro-choice activists know they cannot win that debate.
An article tells the story of one woman, identified as ‘Nichole Anderson,’ who had a methotrexate abortion. Methotrexate is a drug that has legitimate medical uses – it is used to fight cancer and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. However, it can also cause an abortion when injected or taken in pill form. While not as commonly used as the abortion pill formally known as RU-486, methotrexate can also be used in some clinics.
At night, after Nichole Anderson found out she was pregnant, she would take her boyfriend’s hand and lay it across her stomach. “Can you feel our baby growing inside me?” she longed to say. But he would snatch his hand away. He wanted Anderson to get an abortion. Their wedding would be in September, nine months away. It was enough to prepare himself to become a husband, let alone a father.
She took the shot of methotrexate at the clinic and:
That evening the contractions started. At 11:30, lying on her bathroom floor, Anderson passed a blood clot the size of her fist. She flushed it down the toilet.
The following week, Anderson was in such physical pain that she could barely walk. For the rest of the month, she continued to bleed spottily. But worse was her depression. She tried to talk to her boyfriend, but he always changed the subject. A month after the procedure, he told Anderson they were through. She says she envies his ability to walk away from the situation. “If I could have stopped what I felt and walked away, I’d have done it, too.”
A few days after he left, Anderson began hemorrhaging. She drove herself to the hospital, where she was scolded by the doctor: “If you had let nature take its course, you wouldn’t be having these problems.” Even after the bleeding stopped, Anderson felt increasingly alone. In February, she slit her wrists but survived. A friend told her about a crisis pregnancy center in downtown Richmond, where she met other women who felt devastated by their abortions. Slowly, her psychological torment began to ease.
In September, Anderson finally put away the crib she had kept in her room for several months. She painted a watercolor that reminds her of the ultrasound of her fetus and hung it in her apartment. Around her neck is a gold charm in the shape of a baby, set with an August birthstone, the month her child would have been born. “I don’t want another woman to have to feel this,” she says, explaining her decision to discuss her abortion. “It’s time for women as a group to stand up and say ‘This hurts me.’
Elise Ackerman, Cheryl L. Reed, Ilan Greenberg, Natela Cutter and Jill Jordan Sieder “Who Gets Abortions and Why” US News and World Report Jul 7, 2011
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There is a shortage of abortion doctors in America today. For example, one Planned Parenthood worker explained how her clinic had a hard time finding medical staff:.
“Piercy said the All Women’s clinic has had some financial struggles. It has had to bring in a doctor from Portland to perform abortions and had trouble hiring a medical director, she said.”
Kitty Piercy, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwest Oregon, based in Eugene.
TIM CHRISTIE “Clinic’s shutdown leaves void” The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) July 18, 2002
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A woman who was about to have a late term abortion because the baby had spina bifida, and would be in a wheelchair, chose the D & E (dismemberment) technique because she did not want to go through labor:
When the doctor started dilating the cervix (probably by inserting laminaria) he said something very telling. In the words of the woman having the abortion:
“The process was to go in [To the clinic] the day before and have my cervix stimulated with…
It’s like a little cigarette kind of, and stimulated the cervix opening. I remember going in there and having the doctor say, “Now once we do this, it’s not reversible, so this is the time you sign this life away.”
Rita Townsend, Ann Perkins Bitter Fruit: Women’s Experiences of Unplanned Pregnancy, Abortion and Adoption (Alameda, California: Hunter House Inc., 1991) 212
This Doctor seems to know that he is killing a “life.”Read more abortion doctors and clinic workers talking about how they know abortion kills babies here.
Below: a diagram of a D&E abortion
See a picture of what a 16-week-old baby looks like after he or she has been aborted this way.
(Incidentally, it is possible to have laminaria removed after the cervix has already begun to dilate. It was not too late for her to change her mind, although the risk of miscarriage would have been high, it is quite possible that the baby could be saved in that situation)
Share on FacebookIreland, with laws restricting abortion, has a maternal mortality rate of one death per hundred thousand live births.
America, with abortion on demand, has 11 deaths per 100,000 live births.
This would seem to fly in the face of pro-choice claims that abortion is needed to save the lives of pregnant women.
World Economic Forum, 2009 “You Can Stop Injustice” Human Life Alliance Supplement, 2010
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