Category: On Their Patients

On old textbook on abortion published in 1977 gives the following instructions to abortionists:

“Psychiatric problems are extremely important to uncover before the patient undergoes [a] clinic abortion…There are enough problems inherent in interrupting a pregnancy without adding the risk of hysterical reactions that can mimic serious medical conditions.”

Selig Neubardt Techniques of Abortion (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977) 25-26

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Former abortion worker Annette Lancaster says the following about abortionists in her clinic:

“Physicians often talked badly about patients while performing procedures on them. Sometimes physicians would not use the proper amount of sedation. They would tell the patient they were providing them with certain medications, but they were out, so the patient didn’t get it.”

Nicole Russell “Women Hurting After Working For Planned Parenthood Turn Here For Help” The Federalist JANUARY 30, 2018

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Darla Patterson, an abortion clinic worker, made these observations on the website Tales from the Clinic:

“People who are lost often call us on their crap reception cellular phones and shout frantically through the mouthpiece at us the names of the streets they’re passing. They don’t want to stop and ask for directions in case people figure out where they’re going or because they’re just so tweaked out about it all that they can’t behave rationally. The fact that a good number of women are cloak-and-dagger furtive about their abortions can be somewhat tirtesome (sic) in these sort of situations, even though it’s understandable. I imagine that if I could watch their cars from a spaceship hovering above they would look like drunken bees careening around and around the hive of our clinic. Or the anti-hive, more precisely.”

Issue #2 – June 27, 2003 Found here.

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An abortion worker, quoted by pro-choice author Magda Denes, said:

“I didn’t get rude or nasty with the girls, but it was a form of hostility that could be sensed. I would have an attitude.”

Magda Denes In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books, 1976) 19

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The New York Times ran an article about unlicensed abortion “mills” that injured women and operated under terrible conditions:

These are usually private doctors’ offices masquerading as clinics — that is, the doctors are licensed, but the clinics are not. Many of the mills, though not all, are situated in poorer neighborhoods, where immigrants, the uneducated and non-English-speaking residents form a core of clients.

The New York Times goes on to say:

Most mills, officials said, lack such proper equipment as sonogram or ultrasound machines that help determine the age, size, position and other vital data on a fetus. Sonograms are normally required after the 12th week of pregnancy.

…. officials say some abortion mills make no effort to determine the age of the fetus and illegally abort pregnancies in the third trimester. After the 24th week, a pregnancy may be ended only in a hospital and only if the mother’s life is in danger.

From one health official:

“We don’t know as much as we’d like to,” Mr. Slocum said. “They’re underground, unfortunately, and we learn about them only when someone files a complaint or ends up in an emergency room. All we can see is the surface, but that is troubling to us. We suspect there is a lot more we don’t see.”

ROBERT D. McFADDEN “Abortion Mills Thriving Behind Secrecy and Fear” New York Times November 24, 1991

Yet pro-abortion organizations fight against any laws regulating abortion facilities, that require them to meet basic safety standards.

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Norma Goldberger, who was planning on opening up her own abortion facility, requested to see an abortion procedure at a busy center. She recounts this conversation:

I heard the clinic director explains to the physician, “There’s this really smart woman here that wants to see an abortion.” The doctor paying half attention responded, “If she’s so smart then why is she here?”

I realized at that moment that he assumed I was there for an abortion and he felt birth control failure was the result of being a dumb woman.

Not all the doctors performing abortions are feminists.

Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition

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