They said it.
“[I’ve seen women] who have just had an abortion … lie in the recovery room and cry, ‘I’ve just killed my baby. I’ve just killed my baby.’ I don’t know what to say to these women. Part of me thinks, ‘Maybe they’re right.'”
Nurse who works an abortion clinic
Diane M Gianelli, “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” American Medical News, July 12, 1993
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“Even if you are pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus.”
Vilma Valdez, Education Director Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami
The Miami Herald, October 24, 1992
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“I went up to the lab one day and on the pathologist’s table was what I thought was a little rubber doll until I realized it was a fetus. I got really shook up and upset and I couldn’t believe it. It had all its fingers and toes, you know, hands and feet, and I didn’t know what a fetus was going to look like. I never thought it would look – so real. I didn’t like it…”
Clinic worker (Controller) Nancy Stein
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Hospital (Basic Books, Inc: New York) 1976. p 29
Share on Facebook“I don’t approve, but it doesn’t matter if I don’t approve. I’m doing my job, I’m doing what I am trained to do.”
Abortionist
Ellen Mark “The Abortionist” GQ Magazine February 1994
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“The face looks like what it is, the human fetus. You can talk yourself into putting whatever value you want on it.”
Abortionist Dr. Dennis Christensen
“Women Need Control Over Birth Choice, Physician Says” Wisconsin State Journal March 4, 2001. Quoted by Life Dynamics
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“There are many aspects of medicine that may not be particularly fun or enjoyable or pleasant, but I have an ethical obligation to do what’s best for my patients and not take my own personal convenience into consideration.”
Abortionist Dr. David Grimes
Miriam Clare, The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Basic Books: New York) 1995 p 121
Dr. Eugene Fox:
“I like obstetrics, I like delivering babies in talking to patients about their expectations… I really don’t like to do abortions. The act of abortion goes against my own personal feelings about obstetrics. I have spent an awful lot of time trying to save babies and prevent prematurity… So abortion doesn’t really fit my feelings…”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 177
Share on FacebookDr. Ken Gordon
“If I never had to do another abortion again, I wouldn’t miss it… [Performing abortions] gives me no pleasure.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 173
“Abortion in these cases were procured by injecting saline into the uterus causing causing labor and subsequent expulsion of the fetus twelve to twenty-four hours later. Nurses working with patients having this type of abortion found it most disturbing to ‘hold a well-formed aborted fetus with movement and with its eyes ‘still alive.’…Holding a fetus, feeling it move, hearing it try to ‘cry’, (something that happens only with older fetuses, those of around twenty weeks gestation or more) smelling its death, and the like, are not trivial experiences; nor are they pleasant ones.”
Megan-Jane Johnstone. Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective (Sydney, N.S.W. Harcourt Saunders) 1999 p 286
Abortions this late are seldom done by saline injection anymore, but usually by poison injected into the amniotic fluid, which kills the baby over the course of 24 to 48 hours. Then the baby is extracted piecemeal with forceps. Live birth is not a possibility in this method.
Share on FacebookVictor Black, operator of a free standing abortion clinic
“I’m sure there are some gynecologists in the area who would say, “That guy doesn’t do anything but abortions.” On the other hand, I have many gynecologists who refer to me – they’re very fine gynecologists – but they don’t want to do abortions themselves, largely because of their staff. Some nursing staffs don’t want to do abortions….They just don’t want to do it.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 158
This quote gives further indication that the reason there is such a shortage of abortion providers is not pro-life intimidation, but the fact that so many abortionists find the work distasteful.
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