They said it.
An article in The Guardian describes an abortion clinic as:
A bright, airy place, walls dotted with photos of flowers and water lilies painted by [the abortionist].
Karen McVeigh “‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out” The Guardian 21 November 2014
The abortion clinic she is describing belongs to Curtis and Glenna Boyd. They do late-term abortions. Babies like the one below (and ones quite a bit older) are dismembered at this “bright and airy” clinic.
Virginia Griffin, nurse, midwife, fertility counsellor and natural family planning teacher:
I’m pro-choice – but I believe very strongly in women’s right to decide NOT to have an abortion.
I think society puts too much pressure on women to have abortions for the slightest of reasons. …
I also believe it is too easy for women to say they’ll have an abortion because they won’t be able to cope financially. Here again, this is society putting on the pressure.
But women can get support through social services, and from centres such as ours which offer immediate support and continue it after the baby’s birth.
We’re still helping people whose mothers came to us 25 years ago…
The long-term damage can be devastating.
I see women who are still suffering from a termination they had decades earlier.
Having to help them pick up the pieces just makes me more and more convinced that abortion is wrong – not only because of the loss of a potential life but also because of the destruction of the mother’s life.
AnnBarrowclough “ABORTION; THIS IS WHAT OUR NURSES REALLY THINK…” Sunday Mirror (London, England) Aug 18, 1996
Share on FacebookFrom a fetal surgeon who operates on babies in the womb:
“I’ll tell you a truly interesting ethical problem. We have ten surgeons in this lab whose only focus the majority of the time is the fetus as a patient. We’re all operating on fetuses, trying to do our best to protect them, yet when we’re done with the operation that fetus could be still be legally aborted.”
Monica J Casper The Making of the Unborn Patient: a Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998) 14
Share on FacebookLate term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern was interviewed for an article in Esquire. He told the following story:
“The patients can be upsetting too. They’re under terrible stress, of course, but sometimes they come in very angry. One had conjoined twins and would have died giving birth, but she exploded when he told her she couldn’t smoke in the office… One even said they should all be killed. Only fourteen, she came with her mother. What brings you here? he asked, I have to have an abortion. Why? I’m not old enough to have a baby. But you told the counselor we should all be killed? Yes, you should all be killed. Why? Because you do abortions. Me too? Yes, you should be killed too. Do you want me killed before or after I do your abortion? Before.
He told her to leave. Her mother was very upset. But he isn’t an abortion-dispensing machine. He’s a physician. He’s a person.”
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor” Esquire September 1, 2009
While what the teen said is horrible, one thing to take away is that she was no doubt being forced into the abortion by her mother. She must’ve known that if she said that to the doctor, he would not perform it – perhaps that’s why she said it. One wonders if Dr. Hern would’ve performed the abortion on this teen and sent her home if she had not insulted him. He could’ve done an abortion against her well and sent her home to suffer the emotional consequences if she had not spoken out in an alarming way.
See Dr. Hern’s website to see him advertise to abort babies as old as the one above (and older).
Share on FacebookFrom an editorial in the Washington Post about why Planned Parenthood should be supported and get federal funds:
“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.”
Ezra Klein “Repost: What Planned Parenthood actually does, in one chart” The Washington Post February 2, 2012
Babies like this one, who is 9 to 10 weeks old, are aborted every day Planned Parenthood clinic’s across the country.Is this worth it to save taxpayer money?
Go here to see with this baby would look like after being dismembered in an abortion
Share on FacebookMira Ptacin aborted her child when she found out that the baby would be unable to survive after birth (according to the doctor). Her words given idea of what a woman goes through when she finds out that something very, very serious is wrong with her child.
Convinced that her daughter would die, Ptacin was faced with 3 choices – stick out the pregnancy, induce labor early, or have an invasive abortion procedure done. She says:
“The D&E would take 3 days and would be quite painful. First step: dilate the cervix by inserting laminaria rods. Andrew told me that I’d be put under anesthesia. I wouldn’t be awake to see the process. He mentioned forceps, but when he started to explain the actual excavation process, I made him stop. I didn’t want to hear the specifics – what was the point? The details didn’t matter because the result was going to be the same. I just wanted to pick the path that was the least cruel, but I wasn’t sure for whom. Do I choose what is the most respectful for Lily and let her live out her life naturally? Or do I do what would be the least painful for me?”
To the baby, which was old enough to feel pain, the details probably mattered. Below is a picture of a D&E abortion
This was the death that Ptacin chose for her baby. At one point when she was wavering, the doctor said:
“Listen to me, Mira. “Partial-birth abortion” is an inaccurate term,” Dr. Stein told me, over the phone, when I’d finally accepted her phone call. “You must understand that.” She explained how the term I had used to describe the D&E was a political one. Incorrect. Inaccurate. Charged with meeting. That the phrase was coined by the National Right to Life Committee, and that it was not recognized as a medical term by the American Medical Association. Or the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The term “partial-birth abortion” was false. A generalization… The best decision, the healthiest choice, for me, in her opinion, as a health professional, as my doctor, was to terminate the pregnancy, immediately.”
Mira Ptacin “Un–bearing” Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition
Share on FacebookAn article describes why a pro-life group got in trouble at Aukland University:
Auckland University Student Association president Arena Williams has called for a special general meeting next month, which could see ProLife Auckland being barred from associating itself with the university.
“”Recently we’ve received complaints from students after [ProLife Auckland] handed out fliers at the campus.
On the fliers there was information which some felt was pressuring them into making different decisions than they normally would.”
AMY MAAS “Anti-abortion club faces university ban” Auckland Now 05/06/2012
Share on Facebook[In 1985], NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League [now NARAL Pro-Choice America], kicked off a new campaign with lots of media hype! It was titled “Silent No More” and they announced that 40,000 women that had abortions were going to give an account of their abortions and the circumstances.
I wonder why the media was so quiet about the fact that fewer than 70 letters were ever presented. (Only 39 of which were from persons who had abortions.)
From the book Dick Hafer I Know We’re a Throwaway Society… But This Is Ridiculous (Glenn Dale, Maryland: FreedomLight Publications, 1989) 96-97, citing as sources:
Dudley Clendinen “Abortion Choice Defended in Capital” The New York Times May 22, 1985 I 18
A.L.L. About Issues, September 1985, 43
Share on FacebookIn the 1970s, Illinois Citizens for the Medical Control of Abortion (ICMCA) and NARAL were trying to legalize abortion.
“The approach to fundraising taken by both ICMCA and NARAL in the early years also reflected the connections and resources of their leaders and members.… Bold organizations relied in the early 1970s on substantial contributions from wealthy supporters… ICMCA also used the social skills of the more affluent members to put on a number of fundraisers designed to attract wealthy donors at fashionable places like the Drake Hotel amd the Playboy mansion in Chicago….
Although many women’s movement organizations have refused to accept Playboy money, NARAL and its affiliates took from the start a pragmatic attitude towards accepting support from the Playboy Foundation.”
Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 33, 192
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on how the Roe V Wade decision used the phrase “a woman and her doctor”:
“Unfortunately, there is something of that in Roe. It’s the woman in consultation with her doctor. So the view you get is the tall Doctor and the little woman who needs him.”
Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014) 29
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