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Clinic Owner Merle Hoffman Defends Her Wealth in Salon Magazine

Merle Hoffman, founder of an abortion clinic, has no qualms about taking in millions of dollars from her abortion business. After describing how she carries a gun to shoot any violent anti-abortion protesters she might encounter, the author of the article about her says:

“….she doesn’t think material possessions are unfeminist, either. Impeccably coiffed – signaling more Upper East Side doyenne than die-hard boomer activist — she wears an enormous glittering ring she designed with the symbol of Choices, combining the caduceus and infinity symbols.

Hoffman herself then says:

“If there’s a 1 percent at this point, feminists should be part of that 1 percent until we get to 50-50, or 60-40,” Hoffman says. “Why not? I trust myself with power.”

Irin Carmen Abortion pioneer: Defend rights or lose them Salon MONDAY, JAN 2, 2012

Abortion is a very lucrative business for clinic owners and abortionists. Many abortionists make millions of dollars from their operations, flying from clinic to clinic or working in a chain of clinics.

No abortion clinic does abortions for free.

8weekbluebackground — unborn baby at eight weeks

Elsewhere in the article, Hoffman admits that she knows that abortion is the taking of a life.

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Counselors Have “Mixed Feelings”

“Ambivalence is not a dirty word… Everybody has mixed feelings.”

Terry Beresford, who trains abortion counselors for Planned Parenthood and other groups

Diane M Gianelli, “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” American Medical News, July 12, 1993

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) page 69

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Doctor Calls Abortion a “Human Tragedy”

Abortionist Dr. Don Sloan:

“I don’t think there is anyone doing abortions who hasn’t wished at some point that the situations creating the demand for them would just go away, including me. There have been plenty of times when I wanted to say, “Enough! This is more human tragedy than I want to deal with.”

“Abortion Should Not Be Restricted” by Don Sloan, abortionist Originally Published in “Basic Issues in the Abortion Debate” Political Affairs, July 1999

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Man Whose Wife Had an Abortion Feels Grief and Guilt

One man whose wife had an abortion said:

“….the feeling of guilt gnawed away at me, until I had to do what I learned so well in the Army; I hardened my heart and buried my feelings. But I couldn’t keep the lid on them all the time. Just as the buried pain and resentment from my military duty would at times explode like a volcano, so it was with the bitterness about losing the child.”

He broke up with his wife.

“When my wife and I were facing this [decision regarding abortion] we were not getting the facts from the health clinic or the abortion clinic. No one told us that there were long-term effects from abortion. No one told us that many people involved with abortion suffer guilt, depression, and regret long after the abortion itself.”

“A Man’s Viewpoint on Abortion” Great Expectations, Fall 1988, Newsletter of the Rockville (M.D.) pregnancy center, P 1, 4

Read more stories of men’s struggles with abortions here.

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Philadelphia Abortionist Exhibits Bizarre Behavior

Performing abortions can be a very difficult thing for doctors to do. Besides the stigma that persists about abortion providers, many doctors are troubled by the procedures themselves. Sometimes these stresses lead to bizarre or disturbing behavior of abortions providers. For example, in an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a nurse said that an abortionist:

“walked out of the operating room after doing six abortions. She smeared her hand [which was covered with blood] on mine and said, “Go wash it off. That’s the hand that did it.”

Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 173

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Abortionist Jane Hodgson on Doing Abortions

Planned Parenthood 79^th annual conference where it bestowed its highest honor The Margaret Sanger award on Minnesota Abortionist Jane Hodgson.

At a staff meeting in 1990 Hodgson said:

“When I first started doing abortions, I took my boards in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and therefore I knew I was competent to do it. After I had done my first few hundred I realized how silly I had been. At this point, having done somewhere around 12,000 procedures, I’m beginning to think I am reasonably competent.”

“Who Will Provide Abortions” National Abortion Federation 1991

Quoted in Mark Crutcher Lime 5: Exploited by Choice (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 129-130

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Woman Tell Story of Being Forced into an Abortion

One woman’s boyfriend pressured her into having an abortion. He drove her to the clinic and

“I told them that I did not want to have an abortion. I had changed my mind. They stuck a needle in my arm immediately to knock me out… I screamed and cried, that’s all I can remember… The other women that were in there, they were staring at me. I told them again, I’m not gonna do this. The women looked very scared when I left. I guess they heard me screaming.”

James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 67

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Abortion: 17 Versus 24 Weeks

Abortion clinic owner “Michelle” only allows abortions to be performed at her clinic up to 17 weeks. Of abortions at 24 weeks (which are legal in every state), she says:

“I visited a clinic that did them routinely. I wanted to see what a 24 week abortion looked like… It looks like a baby. You know, you’re getting too close. And I thought, how tragic that some women would wait until they were 24 weeks to have an abortion. How sad that we live in a society where that happens.”

James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 49

abortedbaby37 — aborted baby at 24 weeks

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Eliminating “Defective” Babies

Rayna Rapp, who herself aborted it down syndrome baby, discusses abortions of disabled fetuses:

“New developments in reproductive technologies assist in the quest for the perfect baby not only by genetically creating “better” children but also by detecting and eliminating fetuses deemed abnormal and defective. In a world where babies are bred for desired characteristics, having a healthy, normal baby becomes nothing less than a duty. While it may appear that medicine simply offers procedure such as diagnostic ultrasound, fetal electrocardiography, and amniocentesis as options for those who desire them, the fear of producing a child that falls outside the boundary of “normal” compels many women to seek premonitory information regarding the status of the fetus. As one of [Rayna Rapp’s] interviewees explained regarding her tests, “if he was gonna be slow, if he wasn’t gonna have a shot at being President, that’s not the baby we wanted.”

unbornbaby16w-02 — 16 week-old unborn baby

Rayna Rapp “Moral Pioneers: Women, Men, and Fetuses on a Frontier Of Reproductive Technology,” and Hoffman et al., Embryos, Ethics and Women’s Rights, 110, from Kathy Rudy. Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1996) 11

Incidentally, abortions for fetal anomaly are almost always late-term abortions – the tests that detect problems such as down syndrome can only be performed in the second trimester.

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Few Ivy League College Women Carry Unplanned Pregnancies to Term

A large percentage of abortions are performed on college-age women. These women often feel forced to choose between their education and their baby. Groups like Feminists for Life have college outreach programs where they try to encourage colleges and universities to provide services to pregnant and parenting students. This pro-life group believes that no woman should be forced to sacrifice her baby in order to have an education.

The problem is real. Frederica Mathews-Green writes:

“A student at an Ivy League college told the author that the campus health center refers about 50 women a year for abortions; yet in the previous five years the number of students who continued their pregnancies totaled zero.”

Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 162

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