Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

12 banks refuse loan to build abortion clinic, says abortionist

When Dr. Damon Stutes tried to get a loan to set up an abortion clinic, banks refused him:

“I went to 12 banks, and they wouldn’t finance me.`Abortion clinic,’ they’d say. They didn’t want anything to do with it. Well, there’ll be a banker’s relative in here someday. I’m sure there already has.”

The article says:

With a mortgage from The Money Store, he built the $1 million clinic in 150 days. Construction workers told local businessmen and residents it was a dental office. Not until it was running, in November, did Stutes call the news media and display his new building.

Brian McGrory “Some abortion doctors relying on arms and fortification” The Boston GlobeJanuary 16, 1995

This post shows the pro-lifers, even in the 1990s, when annual abortions were at their greatest number, were working to keep new clinics from being established.

 

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Judge says partial birth abortion is no worse than other kind

illustration of a partial birth abortion
illustration of a partial birth abortion

Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, in ruling against the Partial Birth Abortion ban, makes this point:

“From the standpoint of the fetus, and, I should think, of any rational person, it makes no difference whether, when the skull is crushed, the fetus is entirely within the uterus or its feet are outside the uterus. Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged…. [T]here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice. No reason of policy or morality that would allow the one would forbid the other.”

Richard John Neuhaus “So What’s the Big Deal about Partial-Birth Abortion” : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life June 2000. : 84.

Below is a diagram of a D&E abortion. This is the way most second trimester abortions are done today. Is it any more humane than a partial birth abortion?

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Planned Parenthood refuses to see woman who doesn’t want abortion

A woman named Ashley Rogers shared this story.

I called Planned Parenthood one day when I found out I was pregnant, I wanted to see if they could confirm that I was pregnant and to print a letter saying it was confirmed they said are you looking to have an abortion…. I said um no I just need to know if you guys could confirm if I am indeed pregnant or not… and they said we don’t do that here…

Planned Parenthood refused to help her unless she was seeking an abortion.

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I am the last of my friends to have an abortion. student says

An abortion clinic worker spoke of a woman named Anjie who she saw for an abortion:

“this woman, I will call Anjie, was clarity personified. She said, “There are women in the waiting room crying. Am I a monster because I am not?” There are some people who are guilty for not feeling guilty but I hadn’t really talked to one of them recently….

The other amazing thing is that she said, “I am the last in my crowd to have an abortion. Now it is 100%.” Many of you will see this as a sign of depravity among college students. But the remarkable thing is that all those friends had been open about their experience and were willing to share their experience to help out a friend. She felt taken care of, connected, and what I can only describe as NORMAL. This is amazing for how rare it is. But the truth is that abortion, like having a baby, losing a parent, having sex for the first time, getting married, etc. is a rite of passage. Not everyone will do all of those things, but it is one of the milestones in life that people go through so why not talk about it openly?”

Clarity abortionclinicdays May 09, 2006

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ACLU leader on abortion vs. welfare

ACLU leader Norman Dorsen:

“Financing abortions for the poor is far less expensive than the cost of childbirth and welfare support for unwanted children,” he wrote. “So the government is actually paying out your tax dollars to force poor women to become mothers.”

Brief for Appellees at 185, Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980); and Norman Dorsen, ACLU Campaign for Choice fund-raising letter to “Dear Friend,” n.d. [received by the writer on 29 Sept. 1979].

Mary Meehan  Human Life Review, Spring 2001, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p49, 25p

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Women can die of abortions, says late-term abortionist

“The context of abortion practice, while it may occur with a backdrop of social and political controversy, is eminently medical. It is medical because women can die from pregnancy, and it is medical because they can die from abortion.”

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990)2

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Children don’t understand the difference between “fetus” and “baby” says researcher

Giving the reason why the surviving siblings of an aborted baby may feel grief and guilt, particularly when the abortion is done after the third or fourth month:

“In the presence of prenatal life, young children do not separate the concept of “fetus” from the concept of “baby”. The conceptual difference between the two is a medical and social construct of adults and is not easily understood by children whose approach to the world is concrete.”

Furlong R M, Black R B. Pregnancy Termination for Genetic Indications: the Impact on Families. Social Work in Healthcare 1984, Fall; 10 (1): 17 – 34

Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles. Women’s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence Second Ed (Toronto, Canada: The deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 2003)  164

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Pro-choice lawyer who drafted Roe: “Abortion should eliminate the poor”

Ron Weddington, one of the attorneys who drafted the brief for abortion rights in Roe V Wade, wrote a private letter to President-elect Bill Clinton arguing for the state to use abortion as population control. This letter was written in 1992:

“[Y]ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. No, I’m not advocating some sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can’t afford to have babies. In 1989, 27% of all births were to unmarried mothers, a huge percentage of whom were teenagers. If current trends continue, soon a majority of the babies born will be born into poverty and one half of the country cannot support the other half, no matter how good our intentions. I am not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion. You and Hillary are a perfect example. Could either of you have gone to law school and achieved anything close to what you have if you had three or four more children before you were 20? No! You waited until you were established in your 30s to have one child. That is what sensible people do.… It’s time to officially recognize that people are going to have sex and what we need to do as a nation is prevent as much disease and as many poor babies as possible. Condoms alone won’t do it. Depo-Provera, Norplant and the new birth control injection being developed in India are not a complete answer… No, government is going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions… RU-486 and conventional abortions. Even if we make birth control as ubiquitous as sneakers and junk food, there will still be unplanned pregnancies. There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe V Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery… And then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario.”

Ron Weddington is the husband of Sarah Weddington, one of the two lawyers who argued for abortion in Roe Vs. Wade

Quoted in Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014)

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Alan Guttmacher: “coercion” may be needed to reduce population

Alan Guttmacher, once president of Planned Parenthood, in 1969:

“I would like to give our voluntary means of population control full opportunity in the next 10 to 12 years. Then, if these don’t succeed, we may have to go into some kind of coercion, not worldwide, but possibly in such places as India, Pakistan, Indonesia…”

Alan Guttmacher, The American Journal of Nursing (June, 1969).

Quoted in  Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014) 11-12

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Clinic churns out abortions, even when women are late

Peter Korn, who wrote about an abortion clinic called Lovejoy and how it functioned, said the following about the head nurse’s job:

“Lovejoy has gone through 5 head nurses in 4 years. The job is a difficult one, at least partly because of the nature of the 2nd floor operation. On certain days as many as 25 first trimester abortions might be scheduled in one operating room. Women coming in for abortions are often suffering great emotional stress; of those that appear, it is not unusual for half to be late for their appointments, some by as much as 2 or 3 hours. The head nurse must keep the surgical area running efficiently in the face of such unpredictability. At one moment pre-op, the operating room, and postop can be functioning smoothly and on time. Then 6, 7, or 8 women will arrive simultaneously for their abortions.”

Peter Korn Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic (New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996)  11

It’s easy to imagine that because of the volume of abortion patients and the emphasis on getting women in and out for their abortions, women may have been rushed through the procedures and may not have had their needs met needs met or received quality care.

In all, this clinic sounds like a factory, churning out abortions on an assembly line.

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