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Doctors Refused to Do Amniocentesis Unless Woman Agrees to Abort Imperfect Children

unbornbaby16w-02 (1) — 16 weeks – amniocentesis is done around this time, so babies aborted because of fetal anomaly are usually this age or older.

In his book on obstetrics and gynecology, author William Arney reveals the following:

“Some doctors refuse to do amniocentesis unless the woman is willing to commit herself, before the test is done, to an abortion in cases defective fetuses are found.”

William Arney, Power and the Profession of Obstetrics (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1982) 183 quoted in Kathy Rudy. Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1996) 13 (Rudy is pro-choice)

It is clear that many doctors put pressure on women to abort their disabled and imperfect babies. Read more quotes about the abortion of handicapped children here.

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Abortionist On the Reasons Women Have Abortions

Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern, in his textbook on abortion, discusses the reasons why women who come to see him have abortions:

“A study of motivations for abortion has found that the majority are sought for socioeconomic reasons. Women seeking abortion seldom give the real reason for doing so to investigators studying the issue. The impression from clinical practice is that all but a few women seek abortions for reasons that can broadly be defined as socioeconomic, and many cite strictly economic reasons… As a rule, women do not make decisions about pregnancy prevention or treatment on the basis of statistical evaluations and medical advice but rather on the basis of personal attitudes and necessities. At times medical considerations enter 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 (Boulder, Colorado: Alpenglo Graphics, 1990) 10, 39

Quoted in Scott Klusendorf. The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture. (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 2009) 30

In another post on this page, Dr. Warren Hern discusses a woman who had an abortion because she was pregnant with a boy and wanted a girl.

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Women Feels her Abortion “Ruined Her Life”

A woman named Annette who had an abortion says the following:

“Sometimes it’s prejudice behind it. My mom says, “I’m personally opposed, but it’s great for “some people.” My dad grumbles about “babies that got no business being born.” They both think my abortion was a good thing – that abortion liberates you, since you free to continue your life. “Having a baby could ruin your life.” But you know what? Not having my baby has ruined my life.”

Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) page 67

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79% Of Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Workers Would Work with Pro-Choicers

The abortion debate is very polarized and often very nasty. Pro-choice activists and insult pro-lifers and call them names, and, sadly, some pro-lifers reciprocate this bad treatment.

Yet in an interview with many pro-life crisis pregnancy center workers (these are people who minister to women who are pregnant and the postabortion women) the majority said that they would be willing to work with pro-choice activists to help women:

“79% said yes to the question “Would you be willing to work with pro-choice activists to alleviate [pregnant women’s] problems, if beliefs about abortion were not raised as an issue?”

Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994)16

This willingness to work with others on the opposing side is commendable. Perhaps if pro-life and pro-choice activists can put aside their differences, even if only for short time, things for pregnant women could be a lot easier.

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Simone de Beauvoir on abortion

Feminist Simone de Beauvoir on abortion:

“It is often the seducer himself who convinces the woman that she must rid herself of the child. Or he may have already abandoned her… Sometimes she declines to bear the infant not without regret… Men tend to take abortion lightly; they regard it as one of the numerous hazards imposed on women by malignant nature, but fail to realize fully the values involved. The woman who has recourse to abortion is disowning feminine values, her values… Her whole moral universe is being disrupted.”

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After abortion women “learn to believe no longer in what men say… The one thing they are sure of is this rifled and bleeding womb, these shreds of crimson life, this child that is not there. It is at her first abortion that a woman begins to “know.” For many women the world will never be the same.”

Simone de Beauvoir. The Second Sex. (New York: Bantam books, 1952) from

Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 18, 49

11weeks003 — 11 week unborn baby (ultrasound)

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Avoiding the Term “Abortion”

Glanville Williams, pro-choice activist in Britain:

“Many doctors attempt to avoid what they consider to be the unsavory connotations of the word “abortion” by speaking instead of the terms of “termination of pregnancy.”

Glanville Williams, the Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law, the 1956 James S Carpenter Lectures at Columbia Law School (New York: Knopf, 1957) 147

There are the euphemisms used by the pro-choice movement – products of conception, fetal tissue, uterine contents, developing pregnancy – all words to use to describe the unborn baby. If you go to website of an abortion clinic, you will very seldom see the word fetus and definitely won’t see the word baby.

Psychologist Robert Lifton, in his book about Nazi doctors at the camps

“The language used gave Nazi doctors a discourse in which killing is no longer killing; and need not be experienced, or even perceived as killing.”

Robert J Lifton, the Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: basic books, 1986) 445

James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999) 154

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Pearl Buck, Nobel prize-winning author, on Abortion

Pearl Buck, Nobel prize-winning author of The Good Earth, had a daughter who was severely mentally handicapped, yet indicated that she would not have aborted her child

“[I]n this world where cruelty prevails in so many aspects of our life I would not add the weight of choice to kill rather than to let live…..

“I fear the power of choice over life or death at human hands. I see no human being, whom I should ever trust with such power – not myself, not any other. Human wisdom, human integrity are not great enough. Since the fetus is a creature already alive and in the process of development, to kill it is to choose death over life. At what point should we allow this choice? For me the answer is – at no point, once life has begun. At no point, I repeat, either as life begins or as life ends, for we who are human beings cannot, for our own safety, be allowed to choose death…”

Pearl S Buck, foreword, the Terrible Choice by Robert E Cooke at al. (New York: Bantam, 1968), X I

7months — unborn baby at seven months, legal to kill in the United States

James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999) 28 – 29

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C Everett Koop Describes How He Became Pro-Life

Former Surgeon General C Everett Koop was a tireless opponent of abortion. In his book, he describes why he became involved in the abortion debate:

“It all crystallizes for me one Saturday in 1976. My residents and I had spent the day operating on three newborn babies with defects that were incompatible with life, but were nevertheless amenable to surgical correction. Surgery on the newborns is time-consuming, and although we started at 8:00 AM, we did not get the third youngster safely in his incubator with his immediate future assured until early evening… I said to my two colleagues: “You know, we have given over 200 years of life to three individuals who together barely weighed 10 pounds.”

One of my residents answered, “And while we were doing that, right next door in the University Hospital they were cutting up perfectly formed babies of the same size just because their mother didn’t want them.” I knew then that is a surgeon of the newborn, I had to do something about the slaughter of the unborn.”

Charles Everett Koop, Koop: the Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor (New York: Random House, 1991), 263

Quoted in:

James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999) 166

unbornbaby24w-01 (1) — 24 weeks – legal to abort in every state of the United States

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Abortion Clinic Workers Can Be Disturbed by Sonographic Images

An article in ObGyn News describes the difficulty of using an ultrasound machine in an abortion clinic:

After mentioning that women should not be shown the ultrasound because it may upset them,

“Staff members also may be affected by sonographic images and may need opportunities for venting their feelings and reconfirming their priorities…”

“Warns of Negative Psychological Impact of Sonography an Abortion” ObGyn News, February 15 – 28, 1986

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) page 59

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Abortions for “Sex Selection” Upset Abortion Providers

In an article in the American Medical News, the author discusses how certain abortions are hard on the abortion providers:

“One of the most vexing problems providers face is their feelings about procedures done for reasons that make them – or others – uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s “sex selection” – the patient wants a boy and is carrying a girl.”

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

Some women do abort when they are carrying a girl instead of a boy. When opposing a Bill that would address this, Planned Parenthood insisted that this does not happen, but many abortion providers have admitted that it does.

Sex selection abortions, are, by definition, late-term abortions – they cannot be performed until an ultrasound can identify whether the baby is a boy or girl, in the second trimester.

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