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“My body, my choice” is arrogant, says writer

A woman who had 2 miscarriages saw her third, living child on an ultrasound and said the following:

“I now find the slogan “my body, my choice” amazingly arrogant. If there is one lesson I have learned through this year, it is that I do not create life. Life passes through me….I do not create life, I only house it. I did nothing different with any of my four children, but two lived within my womb and two died there. Life-giving is beyond my power, beyond my body, beyond my choice.”

Lori Stanley Roeleveld “My Turn” (weekly column) Providence Journal Sun. June 27, 1993. E-3

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Dr. Michael R. Harrison on ultrasound and unborn babies

Physician Michael R. Harrison said of ultrasound:

“It was not until the last half of this century that the prying eye of the ultrasound (that is, ultrasound visualization) rendered the once opaque womb transparent, stripping the veil of mystery from the dark inner sanctum, and letting the light of scientific observation fall on the shy and secretive fetus…The sonographic voyeur, spying on the unwary fetus finds him or her a surprisingly active little creature, not at all the passive parasite we had imagined.”

Valerie Hartouni “Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse in the 1980s” Techonocluture, Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, eds. (Minneapolis: U of Minneapolis Press, 1991) 38

son_1sttri3 — 3-D ultrasound in the first trimester

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Abortionist upset by women who get second, third, or fourth abortions

The son of an abortionist describes how his father felt about women who came in for repeat abortions:

“Generally, though, he said seeing patients register sadness did not disturb him- what else could be expected from a decision as weighty and personal as this? What did bother him was seeing a patient (and there were some) for her second, third, or fourth abortion, even after she had been counseled to use contraception, and finding that she still acted blasé about it. “That upsets me,” he said.

Eyal Press “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America” (New York: Henry Holt & company, 2006) P 246-247

He is not the only abortionist or clinic worker to feel troubled about women who have repeat abortions. Here are some other quotes by clinic workers and doctors about the ambivalence and sometimes outright disgust they feel toward repeat aborters. This raises an interesting question – if abortion is simply a removal of cells, and end of her pregnancy, a simple procedure, why is it troubling to providers when women have multiple abortions? If abortion was not the killing of a baby, why would it matter if a woman had one or 5 or 10? Quotes like the show the clinic workers, who see the bodies of aborted babies daily, know that abortion is much more than simply removing some cells or “terminating a pregnancy.”

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It’s hard to get younger doctors to do abortions, says clinic worker

Allie Harper, abortion clinic operator:

“Many abortion providers are aging I don’t know who is going to replace them. It’s really hard getting younger doctors to do the procedure.”

The Baltimore Sun, Abortion gets wide protection in Md. law; Procedure likely to remain available if Roe is overturned: 1-15-2006

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Abortion Clinic Worker; Some Women are “Very Upset” by Abortion Decision

An abortion clinic worker posted on Reddit about her job and answered questions. You can read her post here.

Here is a quote of interest:

“Q: “Has anyone ever instantaneously regretted getting and [sic] abortion right after the procedure?

“A. There have been people who have been very upset by their decision. The importance of seeking post-procedure counseling is stressed to patients, because it is a very hard decision for a lot of people to make and sometimes it’s necessary.”

Studies show that regret after abortion tend to grow with time, and many women who initially felt only relief go on to experience sadness. But even this abortion clinic worker, dedicated to her job, has to admit that abortion is hard for women, and some women feel regret right away.

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Women were “shaken” and felt “loss” after abortions

From a writer whose father was an abortionist:

“Every day at the Erie Medical Center, women arrived pregnant, and, a few hours later, returned home having decided not to become mothers. As my father would come to appreciate, few did so without some internal conflict. Some cried afterward. Others were deeply shaken. Many years later, after spending a day in my father’s office on a day abortions were performed and coming home emotionally drained, I wondered whether this ever gave him pause. There were few smiles on the faces of the women I saw that day. There was, on the other hand, a palpable sense of loss and sadness. Did this ever make my father question whether perhaps the protestors had a point: that these women might be making a decision they would come to regret? …. When I worked up the nerve to ask him, he admitted that sometimes women did seem unsure afterward whether they’d made the right decision- and less then genial in their feelings toward the staff. On one occasion, he told me, a patient was so distraught after her abortion that she started screaming at him, “How can you do this?” He was unsettled. More often, though, he said what patients expressed was a sense of relief.”

Eyal Press “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America” (New York: Henry Holt & company, 2006 64

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Abortion breaks apart baby’s limbs

“If you have a limb that’s on the interior of the — on both sides of the uterus, and you pull on it, it will break off at that point.”

Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004.

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Healing takes time, says head of postabortion ministry

Carla McElhaney, director of Women Exploited by Abortion, talks about the women who come to her organization in search of healing after their abortions:

“If reality hits soon after the abortion a young woman is a bundle of raw emotions. But she often doesn’t want to hear that healing takes time. Abortion promised a quick solution to the problem of pregnancy. Now she’s looking for a quick solution to the pain of having had an abortion. But there isn’t one.”

Jim Auer “You Can Save a Life” Liguorian January 1994

Read women’s post abortion stories here.

Read about studies and statistics about mental health after abortion here

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Financial motives play a role, abortion clinics not “charitable organizations”

An author whose father was an abortion provider did research on abortion clinics and said the following:

“But the opponents’ claim that financial motives played a part in fueling the [abortion] clinics’ rise is not entirely unfounded. They were not, after all, charitable organizations. The founders of the Erie Medical Center, Moshe Hachamanovitch and Gerald Crossman, were out-of-town physicians from, respectively, New Rochelle, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut. “They believed in it, but their motivations were monetary,” says Marilyn Buckham, who began working at the Erie Medical Center in 1972 as a receptionist.”

He also quoted Ellen Alt, a nurse who worked at an abortion clinic:

“….my sense is that many of the doctors were doing this to make money while their practices were growing. This was a check they knew they were going to get.”

Eyal Press “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America” (New York: Henry Holt & company, 2006) 63

Abortion clinics are definitely not charitable organizations, they exist to make money, and the money that doctors and clinic owners make a substantial. Read more quotes about the financial motives of abortionists’ here.

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Researcher: even “determined” women have doubts and”eerie feelings” about their abortions

From a researcher on the emotional impact of abortion:

“It has been noted by some investigators that even the determined woman experiences nagging doubts and eerie feelings regarding abortion surgery….”

“Counseling Single Abortion Patients: A Research Overview and Practice Implications” by Paul Sachdev In Gail Grenier-Sweet, ed “Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices” (Lewiston, NY: Life Cycle Books, 1985) 237

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