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Dr. Warren Hern on why women have abortions

Late term abortionist Warren Hern on why his patients have abortions:

“At times, medical considerations enter into the picture, but decisions are usually made on the basis of such factors as desire or lack of desire for parenthood, stability of relationships, educational status, emotional status, or economic status, among others.”

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) 39

Even late term abortions are usually done for elective, not health reasons.

20 weeks. Dr. Hern does abortions at this age every day in his Boulder clinic.

See what babies this age look like after an abortion.

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Abortion doctor plays baby’s heartbeat, calls doomed child “sturdy fellow”

Magda Denes, a pro-choice woman who spent time observing doctors and clinic workers in an abortion facility, spoke about a doctor who attempted to kill a woman’s baby with a saline injection, and when the injection failed, took a fetal heart monitor and amplified the baby’s heartbeat, forcing the woman to listen to the heartbeat of the baby they were about to kill. From the author:

“That’s it,” he cries triumphantly, “that’s it – the induction didn’t work. Sturdy fellow you have in there, eh?” He gives a loud guffaw, and his broad obscene wink darkens the room.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 134

c006sm — Baby aborted by saline – a procedure (seldom used today) in which the woman’s uterus is injected with a caustic saline solution which poisons and burns the baby

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Abortionist “wants to beat the sh*t” out of one of his patients who had multiple abortions

From one abortion worker:

“I have one kid here, seventeen, who’s just had her 3^rd abortion… I want to beat the sh*t out of her. I want to put her through the damn wall. “What’s the matter with you?” I say to her. Every time she thinks a relationship is going on the rocks, she gets pregnant. Then she has an abortion and starts up a new relationship. She swears every time she has an abortion that she won’t screw again. I tell her screwing isn’t the problem, protection is.”

Linda bird Francke The Ambivalence of Abortion (New York: Random House, 1978) 182

If abortion is a procedure that just “removes some cells” or “terminates a pregnancy” then why would it bother them that their patient has had so many? If there is nothing wrong with abortion, why shouldn’t a woman have 2, or 3, or 12? The reality is, clinic workers and abortionists see the bodies of aborted babies daily – they know that abortion is not something to take lightly. Read more about repeat abortions and providers feelings about them

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The World Health Organization on abortion and psychiatric disease

Official statement from the World Health Organization on abortion:

“[Abortion] is a bad way of treating psychiatric disease… Investigation shows that there is less psychological trauma associated with normal birth, and there is with a legal abortion.”

Quoted in Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air Plus Enterprises, 1982) 134

Read about abortion’s emotional and psychological effects here

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Woman has abortion at 4 months

From a woman who had an abortion at 18:

“So, I called them [the clinic], and they told me what to do to prepare myself. I didn’t even know what abortion really was. So I went up there the next day – it all happened really fast – and the woman at the reception desk asked me the reason for terminating the baby. I said that “I would like to keep it, but I can’t.” She said, “Well then, you don’t want to, do you?” I said, “No, I want it; but I can’t keep it.” I had no support from anybody at that time. She wrote down anyway that I didn’t want the fetus. That hurt me really bad at the time, because I did want my baby.

She didn’t mention any alternatives whatsoever. In fact, everybody I talked to was very rude to me. It seemed like they were all angry. I went to this other room for counseling, or what they called counseling, but it wasn’t really. Their counseling was to tell us about what they were going to do. Then they showed us pictures of ways to prevent birth next time. They wanted me to get an IUD; they said that was the best thing to get. So they sold me an IUD, and they put it in me after the abortion.

The doctor told me I was almost 4 months along. I asked the doctor, “Is the baby alive?” He said “No.” I never had prior instruction in school as to the development of a baby, so I didn’t know any better. All I had to go on was what he told me; and that’s all he said.”

David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 147 – 148

See pictures of a 4 month baby after he or she has been aborted

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Summary of Mark K Zimmerman’s study on women and abortion

There was a 1977 study by sociologist Mark K Zimmerman, “Passage through Abortion: the Personal and Social Reality Women’s Experiences.”

The study was cited in David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987)

The study was done with cooperation from two abortion clinics, Zimmerman sent letters to women seeking abortions. 6 to 10 weeks after her abortion, Zimmerman interviewed the patients. The study excluded women who had a previous abortion, women who had a second or third trimester abortion, and the samples were handpicked by the clinic workers to avoid people who are already displaying signs of being upset, guilty, or extremely ambivalent.

Even so, the results showed that women had a hard time with their abortions.

95% of the time the male partner, played a central role in the abortion decision. 80% of the time, he supported abortion as the decision and only opposed it 20% of the time. 20% of the men insisted on an abortion even when the woman’s initial decision was to continue the pregnancy. (122)

Over two thirds of the women stated that they had “no choice” or had been “forced” to have an abortion (193)

30% told the interviewer that there had been a strong desire to keep the baby, but they felt that circumstances did not allow it.

50% of the time, the abortion was quickly followed by a disruption or termination of the relationship with the man.

70% of the women expressed disapproval of abortion, seeing it is deviant and immoral. However, they saw themselves as forced by others, by their circumstances, or by society at large and attempted to deny responsibility for what they believed was an immoral act – 70% of those aborted women felt forced to compromise their own values and ideals.

No specific questions were asked about the unborn baby, to keep from upsetting the sample. But 25% of the woman volunteered the aborted fetus was a life, person, or human being.

Only 15% maintain that the fetus was not a person or human life.

Six weeks after the abortion, 48% described themselves as “disturbed by the abortion.”

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Proabortion college student wants women to have more abortions

From one college student:

Pro-choice? I’m Pro abortion. There are too many people on this planet. We need to start convincing more women to have abortions.… I hate children. I think there should be much less of them.

Watch him say it

In fact, population is dropping throughout the world. In America particularly, we are facing a demographic crisis because not enough babies are being born to support the aging generations with their taxes. Many people feel that Social Security will be jeopardized when there are not enough taxpayers to pay into it.

8wkssonogram — 8-week-old baby in the womb

Even if there really were too many people in the world, would killing people to eliminate them really be moral?

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In one clinic 20% of women back out of having abortions

Are women sometimes ambivalent about getting abortions? One administrator of an abortion clinic in Canada said that 20% of women who make appointments for abortions back out and don’t show up.

Leonard Stern “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000

This represents 2 out of 10 babies (like the one below) being allowed to live whose mothers were considering abortions

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Two embryos, two attitudes

The pro-choice author of one book described observing an ultrasound training workshop:

“The workshop was for primary care clinicians who were beginning to offer medication abortion in their practices and were planning to use ultrasonography to date their patient’s pregnancies precisely. (Ultrasounds are not required as part of the medication abortion regimen, but are widely used for this purpose, and in abortion care more generally.) As is common in this kind of medical training situation, the host clinic had recruited two pregnant patients to serve as volunteers, so the trainees could practice using an ultrasound machine.…

The group was informed that the first room contained a woman who was planning to continue her pregnancy. In the second, one who was planning to terminate.…

When I entered the first room with a group of about six trainees and two trainers, I sensed the high energy level, and there was a lot of jovial banter between the clinicians and the volunteer, including thanks for her service. When the embryo (about five weeks gestation) was first located on the ultrasound, the trainer enthusiastically pointed this out to her. As different trainees took turns finding the tiny embryonic sac, others kept up a steady stream of small talk, asking how the pregnancy was going, how the patient was feeling, and so on. The group left with wishes for a successful pregnancy and birth.

7weeks-image-2-200x200 — 7 weeks old embryo

The mood changed immediately when we entered the second room. People became far more subdued. The patient was graciously thanked for her volunteer service, but there was none of the buoyancy that I had just witnessed, with the first patient. When the embryo was initially located on the screen, the trainers quietly pointed it out to the trainees and did not call it to the woman’s attention. I noted that she did not look at the screen at all for the 45 minutes the group was in the room.”

Carole Joffe Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: the Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2009) 123 – 124

This quote shows the strange kind of “schizophrenic” behavior of medical professionals as they switch gears between wanted and unwanted pregnancies.

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