Sarah, Author at ClinicQuotes

Clinic Offers Free Abortions for Rape Victims As a Gimmick

From former clinic worker and director Carol Everett:

“I put on my PR hat and got creative. In one of our weekly meetings, I said, “Many of the women come in alleging they were raped, but they have neither reported it to the police nor gone to the hospital. I think we can get a lot of publicity if we have a press conference announcing that we will do abortions free for rape victims if they report it to the authorities. The percentage of conceptions in actual rapes is very low, and with the conditions attached, I don’t think we’ll do many free abortions. But will get a ton of free publicity!”

Just as I had promised, we got prime time news coverage at 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Also, several newspapers and radio stations picked it up. I personally called on all the “do-gooder” organizations in town and let them know. We received a lot of good, free publicity!

We never did a single free abortion for rape victims.”

Carol Everett with Jack Shaw, Blood Money (Oregon: Multnomah Press Books, Questar Publishers, Inc., 1992) from Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)54

Resentment of “Casual Attitudes”

From a survey of abortion providers:

“One respondent expressed increasing resentment of the casual attitudes of some patients considering the emotional cost to those performing the service.”

Warren M Hern and Billie Corrigan “What about Us? Staff Reactions to the D&E Procedure” Boulder Abortion Clinic, Advances in Planned Parenthood 15 (1): 3 – 8, 1980

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 124

1sttri_ultra — first trimester ultrasound. abortion doctors see these babies daily

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Abortion Doctor Hides Her Face

“The surgical suite is very dark, the woman waiting for her abortion on the table. The doctor comes in, goes directly to the foot of the bed with no greeting to the patient. Staff told me the doctor does not want anyone to see her face.”

Susan Thayer, former abortion practitioner

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Catholic Theologian: What about “Just” Abortions

Catholic theologian David Maguire, Professor of Moral Theology

“How is it that in speaking of women we so easily reduce human life to physical life? What certitudes persuade theologians that there are only two marginal reasons [to save the life of the mother or to remove a dead or dying unborn baby] to justify abortion? Why is the Vatican comparably sure that while there may be just wars with incredible slaughter, there can be no just abortions?”

Catherine Whitney Whose Life? A Balanced, Comprehensive View of Abortion from Its Historical Context to the Current Debate (New York: Morrow, 1991) 170 – 171

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Carol Everett Describes Abortion Counseling

From former clinic worker and clinic director Carol Everett:

“It was always difficult to find and train telemarketers who could call themselves “counselors” while selling abortions.

“We’re helping women,” I had to remind them constantly. Those who didn’t buy my pitch quickly left.

I started to believe my own rhetoric. I had to be convincing in order to persuade my telephone counselors, but each time I met with Chuck, I was quickly snapped back to reality. We were in the business of making money, a lot of it.”

Carol Everett with Jack Shaw, Blood Money (Oregon: Multnomah Press Books, Questar Publishers, Inc., 1992) Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 54

See a picture of what this baby looks like after abortion.

Read Carol Everett’s full testimony here

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Providers And “Emotional Strain”

Dr. Warren Hern looking at emotional reactions of his own staff

“Six respondents denied any preoccupation… outside the clinic. Several others felt that the emotional strain affected interpersonal relationship significantly or resulted in other behavior such as an excessive need to talk about the experience.”

Warren M Hern and Billie Corrigan “What about Us? Staff Reactions to the D&E Procedure” Boulder Abortion Clinic. Advances in Planned Parenthood 15 (1): 3\ – 80, 1980 Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)11

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Study Shows That Clinic Workers Experience Troubling Symptoms

A study published in 1974:

noted that “obsessional thinking about abortion, depression, fatigue, anger, lowered self-esteem, and identity conflicts were prominent. The symptom complex was considered a “transient reactive disorder,” similar to “combat fatigue.”

Marianne Such–Baer, “Professional Staff Reaction to Abortion Work,” Social Casework, July 1974 Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 9

Although this study was old, it reveals how abortionists and clinic workers struggle to cope with seeing the dead bodies of aborted babies and performing abortions on a daily basis. There have been more recent studies that show this. Also, many former clinic workers and doctors discuss the emotional trauma of performing abortions. You can read some of their stories in the former abortionist and former clinic workers categories.

abort7w5 — from an aborted baby at seven weeks – abortionists and clinic workers see these babies daily

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Women Walked out of Clinic after Seeing the Ultrasound

From abortion clinic worker Joy Davis:

“If the patient ever saw the ultrasound, they could see a baby. It would be sucking its thumb, most of the time, or moving its hands, or whatever, and it was a very cute thing to see, on the ultrasound. And so, as a rule, Dr. Tucker would always tell us to keep that screen turned away from the patient and never let them see it. So I just took it on myself to start showing them the pictures, and most everyone I showed the picture got up and walked out, and changed her mind. I did that for a good while. But basically, Dr. Tucker never found out I did that. He started noticing that I was having a lot of people change their mind, and he questioned me, why are they changing their mind? I would tell him I didn’t know.”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)136

Joy Davis eventually left the abortion business and became a pro-life speaker. Read her full testimony here.

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Clinic Worker Supports Repeat Abortions, Abortions for Birth Control

Clinic worker supports multiple abortions as “birth control”:

Sometimes, just to feel people out, I ask, “How do you feel about repeat abortions?” Some people will answer, “One is OK, but more than that is just irresponsible,” which I may use as a teaching opportunity, or I might just walk away. It depends on my mood. But one person answered, “It’s an expensive type of birth control, but if that’s a woman’s preference, that’s fine with me.” That counted as a good answer.

This comes from the blog “The Abortioneers” found here

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American Medical Association’s Committee on Criminal Abortion

11weeks — 11 weeks – legal to abort in every state

The American Medical Association supports legalized abortion, but it didn’t always.

“Physicians have now arrived at the unanimous opinion that the fetus in utero is alive from the very moment of conception… The willful killing of a human being at any stage of its existence is murder.”

Dr. Horatio Storer, Head of the American Medical Association’s Committee on Criminal Abortion.

Horatio Storer and Franklin Heard, Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence and Its Law (out of print); cited in Stephen Krason, Abortion: Politics, Morality and the Constitution (Lanham, M.D.: University Press in America, 1984), 171.

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