Abortion clinic founder and owner (now retired) Merle Hoffman:
“The abortion clinics have become the new Cathedrals of our age -its workers the grassroots clergy. Here, there is existential dread, anxiety, an initial taste of power…the crushing fundamental truth coming home that you are responsible for your own life and the life growing inside you.”
“Among the most memorable conversations I have had are with practicing abortionists. A number of them have admitted to me that they know they are killing a child, but they justify it by saying, “I don’t know when the child receives a soul.” I was stunned upon first hearing this and replied, “If you don’t know when the child receives a soul, then you don’t know whether the newborn has a soul. Does that and give you the right to kill the newborn?”
Rev. Frank Pavone Abolishing Abortion: How You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson Books, 2015) 19 – 20
From an interview with an abortionist, talking about the difference between doing a D&E to remove a dead baby during a miscarriage and performing an elective abortion:
“If it’s [a miscarriage], you’re like [with a pained voice], “Oh, here’s this little life!” And you know that it was meant to be because, that’s what happened. And if it’s an abortion, you just feel sad that the woman wasn’t able to raise the child.”
Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) 80 – 81 This is the procedure he is talking about.
“Of course we know it’s killing, but the state permits killing in certain circumstances.”
Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012) 183
Hand of 12 week old unborn baby
Another time, he said:
“We all know what abortion does, what it is. It’s terminating a pregnancy, with all its implications.” (Comments after he was asked if abortion was a form of killing.)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Abortion ruling marks 25 years Viewed as triumph or tragedy, Roe case is bedrock of long debate, 1-18-1998
Monica Migliorino Miller was in jail for blocking the door of an abortion clinic when she discovered a fellow prisoner was a former clinic worker. They had the following conversation, which Miller recounts in her book:
“I asked her how she felt about working there and she said, “It was the woman’s decision.” I said “your job involved you in taking innocent life.”
But she kept saying “I didn’t do anything, It was the woman’s decision.” She admitted that she did assist Tarver [the abortionist] in the abortions. I tried over and over again to help her realize her involvement with the process of killing. I asked her “do you think the unborn are human?”
And she agreed! She said, “Yes they are. They have a heart, a brain, and everything.”
I asked her “What if a woman were stabbing her born child – would you help her do that?” She said: “No” I asked her “Would it be okay for me to stab you just because it was “my decision?”
She said: “that would be your decision and it would be my decision to live or die. People got to die anyway.”
Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012) 266
“I have the utmost respect for life; I appreciate that life starts early in the womb, but also believe that I’m ending it for good reasons. Often I’m saving the woman, or I’m improving the lives of the other children in the family.
I also believe that women have a life they have to consider. If a woman is working full-time, has one child already, and is barely getting by, having another child that would financially push her to go on public assistance is going to lessen the quality of her life.
And it’s also an issue for the child, if it would not have had a good life. Life’s hard enough when you’re wanted and everything’s prepared for. So yes, I end life, but even when it’s hard, it’s for a good reason.”
These may be good reasons to put a baby up for adoption, or to use protection or abstain so the pregnancy doesn’t happen at all. But are these really good reasons to kill a baby?
From the introduction of a Sidewalk Counseling book by former clinic worker Judy Fetrow:
As a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Specialist, Judith worked as an abortion counselor and as a surgical assistant during abortion procedures. This brought her face to face with what abortion is, the killing of a child.
When Judith worked for Planned Parenthood, pro-life activists would often ask her when she thought life began. She would answer, “Life begins at conception and what I do is murder.”
One doctor describes why he finds it difficult to be an abortionist:
“Killing a baby is not the way I want to think about myself.”
From the book Second Trimester Abortion: Perspectives After a Decade of Experience (Berger, Brenner, Keith, eds, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981), in the chapter “Psychological Impact on Patients and Staff,” p. 246.
