Sarah, Author at ClinicQuotes

Abortion and Victims

A Dallas clinic administrator:

“For many women nowadays, they’re angry that they had a choice. It’s too bizarre, but it’s like, if you weren’t here, I wouldn’t have to make this choice…

We’re working really hard at this clinic to assist women in moving from a place of experiencing themselves as victim of their decision, or their boyfriend, to moving to a place where they see this differently. I think that the same needs to happen with the physician. If the physician is a victim of the antiabortion movement, or a victim of other antiabortion doctors or a victim of Operation Rescue – no change is going to come from that. Plus, victims are annoying, you know. They don’t invite your participation.”

From an interview with Rachel McNair on page 123 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)

Perhaps this baby and others like him are more the “victims” of abortion.

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Fewer Abortions in States Where Medicaid Doesn’t pay

From the Alan Guttmacher Institute:

“It was found that women in states with Medicaid funding for abortion have an abortion rate 3.9 times higher than women who aren’t covered…”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 140

This proves that in states where abortion is not covered by health insurance, there are fewer abortions. Perhaps the extra time that poor women need to get the money together for an abortion allows them to reflect on their situation and change their minds.

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Abortionist says banning partial birth abortions is “bizarre”

Dr. Richard Hausknecht, a New York City gynecologist who used to perform late abortions but no longer does so describes the partial birth abortion method:

partbrt4 — the type of abortion he describes

”You go in and fish out a foot and pull the fetus into a breech position. You turn it so that the backside is up, pull down on its hips and rotate. When you get to the shoulder blade, it’s easy to sweep the arms down. Then, most of the time you have to crush or fenestrate the skull so that it can come out.”

”This is not something I rely on, but I find it absolutely bizarre that Congress wants to ban it….In my view, it’s as if they were to forbid me to use a certain kind of suture.”

Deborah Sontag “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” The New York Times, March 21, 1997

Here is a picture of a 22-24 week old baby, of the age when most abortions of this type were done.

Now most abortions at this age are done by D & E

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Pro-choice author compares banning abortions to rape

Here is a quote from a pro-choice author who interviewed workers and observed at an abortion clinic where abortions were done up to 26 weeks.

“Denying women access to safe abortion (whether we have been raped or not) is itself a form of figurative, if not literal, violation …. Rape denies us bodily integrity; so does restricting abortion. Both are strategies designed to subjugate women.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)229

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Clinic workers and repeat abortions

From one clinic worker:

“Most of the counselors didn’t like dealing with women who had had several abortions, they saw them as irresponsible at best, or, at worst, stupid. But I liked “repeat aborters” because they already knew what to expect and weren’t afraid of the abortion. They offered less emotion for me to soak up; they were easy process in 10 minutes.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)page 7

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Clinic worker who is adopted talks about aborting babies

Abortion clinic worker “Toby” who was adopted talks about handling the bodies of aborted babies:

“… I think also just that the more you think about what it looks like… It looks like a baby. And you know that sometimes… We go farther than we intend to, then that’s really, really hard too because I was premature, and looking at this thing that could’ve been me, you know? And I try not to personalize it that much because it could’ve been me, and I would never know because I wouldn’t be here, but it’s still hard to do…I think I probably cope with it better than some other people who work here who talk about having nightmares and stuff…In the first couple of months [when] I started working here, I’d have images of, like, the face, you know , when it comes into sterile room. And I always turn it over. But I don’t dream about it. I dont’ know if that makes me more repressed or better able to cope. [Laughing].”

abortion at 20 weeks

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)84

The clinic this person works at does abortions up to 26 weeks.

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Clinic Worker: 14 year old girl should not have abortion alone

Groups like Planned Parenthood fight laws that would require a teenage girl to notify her parents about her abortion. But one clinic worker discusses how the abortion process is hard for a teenager and says that she should have support. She does not come out and say that parental notification bills are good, but at least conveys that young teenagers should not have to deal with their abortions alone:

“I don’t want a 14-year-old coming to my clinic alone for an abortion and walking out alone after she has it. What kind of provider am I if I permit this?”

Quoted in Marion Faux. Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Birch Lane, 1990) 262

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Belief in Christianity Has Radical Effect on Chinese Views on Abortion

A study was done where Chinese men and women were interviewed and asked their opinions on abortion. Chinese women are pressured to have abortions if they try to have more than one child. They are fined, and sometimes imprisoned and forced to abort.

Here are the statistics:

Percentage that considered abortion:

taking a life: 36%

killing an infant: 31%

killing a human being: 27%

among Protestants

taking a life: 64%

killing an infant: 60%

killing a human being: 57%

among Catholics

taking a life: 92%

killing an infant 96%

killing a human being 88%

“Abortion in itself has nothing to do with ethics or morality.”

71% agreed

77% of Catholics disagreed

56% of Protestants disagreed

“Under some situations, it is necessary to force a woman to have an abortion.”

75% agreed

25% of Catholics agreed

According to the author of the study:

“… conversion to Christianity (after having no particular religious commitment) signaled a radical change in attitudes toward the fetus and thus toward abortion.”

Table 4.2 Percentages of Respondents Who Agreed That Abortion Was Equivalent to Taking a Life, Killing an Infant, or Killing a Human Being

Nie Jing-Bao Beyond the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005) 110-112

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“The Logic of Abortion Is Merciless”

An article in The National Review discusses the horror of partial-birth abortions and late-term abortion in general:

“The campaign against partial birth abortion has revealed that the public’s moral sentiments, if not always its moral reasoning, remain healthy. It has revealed something, too, about the politicians, the writers, the judges, who support abortion on demand. They have watched a baby, partly out of the womb, have her skull punctured and her brains sucked out. They have been asked, “Must even this be tolerated?” and they have looked at this grisly scene and answered “yes. Even this.” The logic of abortion is merciless.”

“Ruling Without Mercy” The National Review 6/28/00

Diagram of a partial birth abortion. Now the partial-birth abortions are illegal, abortions in the second trimester are either done by injecting poison into the womb or by D&E. A D&E diagram is below.