They said it.
“It’s true that abortion providers are perceived as not very good doctors — that they have no alternative so they do abortions, that they cannot earn a living any other way.”
Richard Hausknecht, Abortionist. The New York Times Magazine, January 18, 1998
Share on Facebook“… abortion is still a very fringe practice. There aren’t a lot of people who want to get into abortion provision … And the ones that we do have applying to us for training often have very dodgy histories and backgrounds. And if you dig deep enough, you’ll find a death or two or a malpractice suit somewhere along the line …”
David Grundmann, Australian Abortion Provider. National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar, Seattle, WA, September 1993
Share on Facebook“The abortion clinics never accept any responsibility for complications. They just say it was not their fault. The concern is not the patient at this time. The concern is with taking care of the doctor and keeping his reputation and the clinic’s [reputation] clean.”
Carol Everett, Former Clinic Director and Owner “Meet the Abortion Providers”
Carol Everett also said, in another interview (After revealing that complications happened frequently in her clinics:
“Q.: how did you keep these competitions in deaths from the public?
A.: the woman would be loaded into my car (an ambulance outside an abortion clinic is terrible advertising) and transported to a hospital…You have a built-in cover up with the patient’s family. They are dealing with their guilt and emotions over the situation and do not want to deal with the added pressure of exposing the truth through the media.”
“What I Saw in the Abortion Industry” Human Life Alliance Advertising Supplement
Share on Facebook“[Abortion is] the dirty work of our field. The sad truth is that the people who moonlight at the clinics are grade-B doctors. They’re not the cream of the crop. And it’s not because they’re committed- it’s because they can’t find steady work.”
Unidentified Pro-Choice OB/GYN The New York Times Magazine January 18, 1998
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Share on Facebook“Rarely a week went by when he didn’t treat a woman arriving at the hospital after an abortion. Pain, excessive bleeding, infections, perforated cervixes and bladders, ruptured uteruses, severed fallopian tubes. Some needed blood transfusions. Others – surgery. He couldn’t count how many times he’d removed retained fetal parts from women. He can’t forget the 16-year-old who arrived with almost 1m of bowel sitting between her legs. She required surgery; her bladder and bowel torn through, her uterus ruptured. “We found the torso, buttocks, a bit of a hand and the baby’s head still inside her,” the doctor said. “The baby had been literally ripped, drawn and quartered. The girl wasn’t dead but she was close.”
His account is from the bad old days of illegal abortion, surely. Well, no. This is but one story not from the backyard but the front yard of so-called safe, legal abortion. But no one wants to know about the women maimed by abortion today.”
From the article “So What if the Aborted Baby Cried?” by Melinda Tankard Reist, November 9, 2004
Share on Facebook“We try to use the physician for his technical skill and reduce the one-to-one relationship with the patient. We usually see the patient for the first time on the operation table and then not again. More contact is just not efficient.”
Abortionist Edward Allred, quoted in The San Diego Union, October 12, 1980. Also quoted in Anthony Perry. “Doctor’s Abortion Business Is Lucrative.” ALL About Issues December 1980, pages 10, 14, and 15
Share on Facebook“Oh no, I’ve done 13 year olds before. When they’re ten, maybe I’ll notice.”
Abortionist Alen J. Kline, on whether he noticed Dawn Ravenell’s age while performing the abortion that killed her
Legal Action for Women Press Release FAX 2/1/94
Also quoted in “The Doctor of Death” Voices for the Unborn March 1994 p 5
Share on FacebookFrom Citizen Magazine article “Bringing Good Things to Life” by Karla Dial, June 2003:
Share on Facebook“I thought the one reason the government made abortion legal was so women could be in a clean environment with medical doctors,” said Oliver, a licensed practical nurse [who went to a clinic considering abortion] “But there was an inch of dust on everything. The health department would have shut down my hospital in five minutes for any one of the violations I saw in that place.”
“I had complications, just like everybody else. I have perforated uteruses. I have had all kinds of problems –bleeding, infections– Lord knows how many of those women are sterile now. I remember getting called down to my chairman’s office because a young lady that I had done an abortion on showed up…and the abortion had been incomplete. I had not done my job right, and she passed an arm or a leg and she freaked out because she didn’t realize what happened.”
Dr. Anthony Levatino, Meet the Abortion Providers Conference
Share on FacebookIn her book Achieving Peace in the Abortion Wars (2009) author Rachel M. MacNair, PhD describes how the lack of doctors willing to perform abortions forces clinics to rely on only a few, allowing doctors with poor records and malpractice suits to continue to practice. If there is only a small pool of doctors to choose from, clinics are less likely to fire doctors who injure women. They know that getting a replacement doctor would be difficult or impossible. Here, MacNair says:
Share on Facebook“The New York Times even suggested in an editorial on October 13, 1994, that as abortion providers get more scarce, they also tend to be seedier. Young doctors see that doctors who do abortions get little respect. Nor is it terribly comforting to be one of only a very few people, as the numbers dwindle. The Times dealt with the subject of dwindling abortion doctors in a lead article of 13 pages on January 18, 1998; only 12% of OB-GYN programs routinely teach abortion and all indications are it is “trending down.”