Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

One author who observed in an abortion clinic said the following:

“Following first trimester abortions, sterile room workers strain the contents of the aspirator jar and cannulae to isolate the fetal tissue,… After eight weeks gestation, weight should increase according to the doctor’s estimate of gestational length, and sterile room workers look for fetal parts. If they did not find evidence of the spine, skull, and upper and lower extremities, the client was called back into the examination room for a reaspiration.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) page 70

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During the partial-birth abortion ban trials, abortionist William Fitzhugh told the Nebraska court that his only worry was delivering a live baby:

“The one thing that … I don’t want the staff to have to deal with is to have a fetus that you remove and have some viability to it, some movement of limbs, because it’s always a difficult situation.”

Washington Times, Forum: Abortion trials and tribulations, 4-25-2004

To read the entire court transcript, go here.

To read about babies being born alive after unsuccessful abortions, go here

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Dr. Tommy Tucker was in abortionist who lost his license after being implicated in a number of botched abortions including one that led to the death of a woman he operated on. It was a situation of gross negligence; he left the bleeding woman in the hands of a clinic worker who had no medical training. You can read a first-hand account from the clinic worker here.

When Dr. Tucker was being investigated, he ordered his clinic workers to falsify and shred documents. This wasa according to Harriett Willis Truddle, former director of the clinic. According to an article that appeared in the Birmingham news:

“When he told us we had to cover up . . . if it means we have to throw that folder away and write another folder, we did it,” she testified when asked how far the Southhaven staff went to change records to make it appear the clinic had complied with Mississippi’s rule that requires a woman to wait 24 hours for an abortion.

When expecting a state abortion clinic inspection, “we have stayed at that office from 9 a.m. until 10 that night knowing what Dr. Tucker wanted – to falsify those records. He told us that if we didn’t get through, we didn’t have our jobs,” she testified.

“Murder talk upsets Tucker hearing licensing official ousted after remark about abortion” Birmingham News : April 22, 1994

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In her article, “Abortion, a love story” Gila Lyons (Salon AUG 24, 2012) discusses an abortion she had.

She seems aware from the beginning that that what she’s carrying in her womb is a baby. She says:

“Our baby was the size of a lentil, with a poppy-seed heart that beat 167 times per minute, twice the rate of mine. It had veins, brainwaves, arm and leg buds.”

Although she freely uses the word “baby,” and seems to know about how developed the baby is, she still goes ahead and has an abortion. As she is drifting off to sleep, the abortionist says this to her:

“It’s just a mass of tissue,” the doctor had said before she put me to sleep. “Not anything like a baby.”

“But it had a heart,” I thought, or said aloud.

This is just another example of abortion providers sugarcoating what they do and denying basic biology. In some cases, abortionists and clinic workers even give out blatantly false information about the unborn baby. See here.

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The website of one abortion clinic reveals how untrustworthy abortion clinics are as a rule. The North Florida Women’s Health Center has the following on their website.

“DON’T TRUST THE PHONE BOOK! Advertisements are often misleading. Just because the ad is large or nice does not mean the clinic will provide the care you seek. Some clinics insinuate that they are in a specific city, even providing a local phone number in their advertisement. When you call they may say “we’re near there” or “we’re not open there yet” – be careful…you may be in for a longer trip than you first thought. If a provider attempts to mislead you in their yellow page advertisements, IT IS A RED FLAG that they may not give you all the information you deserve. Ask questions and call the Better Business Bureau to complain if you feel you’re being lied to.”

One wonders why this clinic felt they had to give this warning. Is it merely a way of advertising and making their clinic look better? It would seem that such cautious words might scare away a prospective client. The clinic is tacitly admitting that many abortion clinics are deceptive in their advertising. This leads to the question, are they also deceptive in what they tell women about the abortion procedure?  Many times, they are. Go here to find out more.

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“As those of us in the pro-life movement know, abortion is the ‘treatment’ of a ‘problem.’ Women in crisis pregnancies often see abortion as the only solution. When I and others counsel women outside of abortion facilities or at a pregnancy resource centers, the responses we receive are usually the same. The young woman doesn’t want to choose abortion but feels there is no better solution. Applying real Social Justice means that those of us in the pro-life movement who reach out to these scared, pregnant women meet their material and emotional needs first. We need to fulfill our promise of providing her with everything she needs during her pregnancy and beyond, and, in the process, build a long-lasting relationship with her. This way, she doesn’t find herself in the same situation a year from now. This is real Social Justice. This is justice for both the woman and her preborn baby.”

Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America

This quote comes from the “The Why Pro-Life Report: The Pro-Life Toolbox”

See here for the story of a young mother who chose life for her baby after being helped by pro-lifers

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In the article “Abortion in America, Focus on the City; Center’s Moments of Pain, Conflict, Relief” Newsday (New York) 1989, the reporter makes the following observations at an abortion clinic called Margaret Sanger Center:

“It is 3:30 and Nancy Todd, a social worker at Sanger, is exhausted. Today she saw a 14-year-old girl who came in for an abortion but knew nothing about what the procedure entailed. There was a woman in her late 20s who came in for her ninth abortion, with whom Todd had a long discussion about birth control.

Read more about repeat abortions here.

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Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern quotes another abortionist named William Rashbaum:

“After I had done 1000 [abortions], I thought it was an expert, but by the time I had done 5000, a realized I was learning a lot. At this point, having done somewhere around 12,000 procedures, I’m beginning to think I’m reasonably competent.”

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) 103-104 quoted in Stephen Wagner, Common Ground Without Compromise: 25 Questions to Create Dialogue on Abortion. (Signal Hill, CA: Stand to Reason, 2008) P 76

It is not unusual for abortionist, throughout his career, to perform more than 20,000- 30,000 abortions.

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The following quote is based on a study that was done in the years before Roe when abortions had to be approved by committees. The study interviewed women who had been denied abortions and subsequently had their children. It analyzed their attitudes towards their born children. It came to the following conclusion:

“It is clear that mothers who initially believed their pregnancy to be “the worst thing that ever happened to them” came to feel about the same degree of affection for their children as the mothers who were initially “ecstatic” about the pregnancy.

Most women who were most regretful of the pregnancy now claim that they would have the child again if given the opportunity [whereas] one of every six mothers who were initially pleased with pregnancy would choose not to have the child again.

[They conclude]… Initial feelings about pregnancy are predictive of how a mother will eventually feel about her child only to a very limited degree.”

P. Cameron et.al., “How Much Do Mothers Love Their Children?” Rocky Mt. Psychological Association, May 12, 1972

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Dr. Forrest C Stevenson, certified marriage counselor of Brighton, Michigan:

“As a marriage counselor, I have too often shared with a couple in this sorrow. They love each other, but as they look at each other, I see the hurt in their eyes. I’ve heard a woman say, “Seven years ago my husband said I could not have this baby. “I’m still in school, I’m going to get my education first.” I did what he said and I had an abortion. I wonder what that baby would’ve been like. Would he have had curly hair like his daddy? Would he have been a happy baby? Would it have been a girl? Would it have been a boy? What could’ve happened?”

Too many times I’ve heard a young man say, “I demanded that my wife get an abortion, but I wish that she had not done what I said.” These people may love each other, but the hurt of the guilt that they share together has grown like a wall between them. It is so serious they can hardly build an adequate life. Their marriage is a nightmare because of shared guilt.”

John R Rice The Murder of the Helpless Unborn… Abortion (Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1971) page 32

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