Miscellaneous Quotes Archives - Page 7 of 27

Most doctors performing abortions are not OB/GYN’s

This quote reveals that the majority of abortion providers are not OB/GYN’s, which makes you wonder about their training and competence.

“Most abortions in the United States today are performed by general practitioners. Articles in medical journals have noted that fewer and fewer abortions are performed by obstetrical/gynecological personnel, in many instances because they are not trained or because they fear the violence in certain areas of the country that might result.”

Corinne J Naden Abortion (Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2008) 86

The reasons the book gives for few Ob/Gyns doing abortions (basically it’s written from a pro-choice standpoint) are that it’s violence and lack of training that causes them not to perform abortions – but if there is a lack of training for OB/GYN’s, who are going to inthe specialty, what training is there for doctors studying in a different fields? And we know that stigma and the distasteful aspect of the work also contribute to doctors not wanting to perform abortions.

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Nurse: if you got rubella, we’d HAVE to abort

A pro-life woman tells her story:

“A number of years ago as I sat at my doctor’s office awaiting an inoculation against rubella, a nurse told me, “You’re smart to have this vaccine now. You know, if you happen to be exposed to rubella while you’re pregnant, we’d have to perform an abortion.”

This casual remark from a medical professional captures the predominant attitudes toward our handicapped sons, daughters and patients in tidy summation.

To the problem of fetal abnormalities, abortion has become a quick and easy- even expected – remedy.”

Lori Van Winden The Case Against Abortion (Liguori, Missouri: Liguori Publications, 1988) 52-53

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Abortion is best choice even if you are sad, says clinic

Website of Allegheny Reproductive Health center, an abortion clinic:

“We recognize that your heart may be sad even though you know this is the best choice for you. You may even feel like crying. Some decisions women make are very difficult, and abortion can be one of them.”

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Kristen Luker on using abortion as birth control

Pro-Choice author Kristen Luker on abortion for reasons of birth control:

“… Contraception may not be… The least costly and most rational method of fertility control for all women at all times.… The reality of the situation is that the costs associated with contraception are often so high that abortion becomes de facto the only acceptable method of fertility control for many women.”

Kristen Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contraceptive (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975)

10 weeks. Should babies like this be aborted as a form of birth control?

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How the legal abortion limit in New York was decided

In 1970, New York State legalized abortion and placed the legal limit at 24 weeks. Abortions could be performed up to that point. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-life, tells how this upward limit was determined:

“I had the opportunity to ask Assemblywoman Constance Cook about how the architects of the bill had arrived at the 24 week limit. She told me, a little apologetically, that doctors regarded the 20^th week as the point at which the expulsion is no longer an abortion but a premature delivery, and the fetus is an “infant” if born alive, or a “stillbirth” if born dead. The older English Common Law figured viability, the point at which a prematurely delivered fetus had a reasonable chance to survive, at 28 weeks. At this point in her exegesis she paused a beat or two, then said: “We split the difference.” And that, children, is how the laws are written.”

Bernard Nathanson with Richard Ostling Aborting America (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1979) 69

Today, thanks to Roe Vs. Wade there is no longer any upper limit to abortion in NY or some other states. Unless a state has passed legislation banning late term abortions, it is legal to abort up until the day of birth.

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Woman has abortion, father doesn’t know

From an article by a reporter who visited an abortion clinic, the story of one patient:

In her counseling session, Keesha explains that she’s going back to school and it isn’t a good time in her life to have another baby. The man who got her pregnant is out on the streets, and she expects to see him again, but he doesn’t know she’s here today.

“He thinks he got me knocked up and I’ll have his baby,” she says. “But I ain’t worried about what he’ll do when he finds out.”

Linda Feldmann “Abortion: Uneasy Day at the Clinic” The Christian Science Monitor JANUARY 22, 1998

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Washington Post: Planned Parenthood’s “services” save taxpayers money

“The fight also isn’t about cutting spending. The services Planned Parenthood provides save the federal government a lot of money. It’s somewhat cold to put it in these terms, but taxpayers end up bearing a lot of the expense for unintended pregnancies among people without the means to care for their children.”

Editorial on one of the reasons Planned Parenthood should be supported and not defunded

Ezra Klein “Repost: What Planned Parenthood actually does, in one chart” The Washington Post February 2, 2012

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Father of four aborted babies- ‘it was taking a life’

In an article about an abortion clinic, the reporter talked to a couple, immigrants named Christina and Gabriel, who were there for her fourth abortion. Gabriel says:

“It was taking a life, and it’s selfish on our part to take it away. Maybe this child could have grown up to be somebody special.”

Linda Feldmann “Abortion: Uneasy Day at the Clinic” The Christian Science Monitor JANUARY 22, 1998

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Abortion clinics are businesses, don’t like protesters

From Lauren Bianchi, of the pro-choice group FURIE:

“I don’t know exactly when escorting started but it was a response to an awful wave of terrorism, when antiabortion protesters would chain themselves to the doors to keep people from getting in. Clinics are businesses. They don’t want people standing around outside. [Activists] thought they should be allowed to have clinic-defense protests. When I was an escort, I was told that patients can’t tell the difference [between protesting factions].”

Aimee Levitt “Chicago feminist group FURIE takes on antiabortion marchers this Sunday” Chicago Reader FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016

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