“Good and moral women have abortions every day, but when patients come in and are very conflicted, I try to address it. I say there are good people who are serious about religion who understand the sacredness of a woman’s right to choose about whether or not to continue a pregnancy. You can respect that other people disagree with you, but you have to listen to your own heart, and there are people who understand.”
Only 1% of women with an unplanned pregnancy go forward with adoption in the US — very, very small. And I hear it from my patients for all different reasons: they never could do it, the interesting thing they say is that they don’t trust anybody else to raise their child. Will the child be loved? Will the child be well cared for? Again, it gets to the idea that they understand how important motherhood is …
“I get absolutely no joy whatsoever doing any abortion, but we have a duty to an individual. The Catholic physician is aborting the Hippocratic Oath more than I am in not giving a woman the choice.”
Jonathan B Imber Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986) 45
Late term abortionist Warren Hern’s wife worked in an abortion clinic as well.When Hern was working in Spain as an abortionist, he wrote her letters. Speaking in broken English, because she grew up in Cuba, Hern’s wife recalls the content of one of the letters:
“When I was aborting in Spain, I finished the abortion to a young woman, first trimester. When I finish this procedure, she sit on the table, see me to my face, say, Oh, doctor, you are really nice, you are such angel, how do you kill babies? I say, I’m sorry, I don’t kill any baby. I aspirate gestational sac. You kill your baby.“
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor” EsquireSeptember 1, 2009
“Ohio quickly passed a law designed to dissuade women from seeking abortions by giving them pictures of fetuses. We were requested to give each patient at least twenty-four hours before she had an abortion a colorful pamphlet of fetal development that looked exactly like RTL literature.
For patients who lived far away, we were allowed to mail the brochures to their house at their request… We also weren’t required to verify addresses. Sometimes I wondered who was receiving these pamphlets.”
Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition
Late 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.
7 month old baby, Dr, Hern aborts children at this age
See Dr. Hern’s website to see him advertise to abort babies as old as the one above (and older).
Dr. Warren Hern, who does abortions though all 9 moths, said the following about “partial birth abortion.”(The D&X abortion procedure)
It’s a barbaric and grotesque term for a procedure that was described at National Abortion Federation meetings in the early nineties by two doctors who didn’t take the deadliness of the psychological warfare seriously, and then the Republicans took it up and it became this obscene and basically pornographic antiabortion pornography with pictures that made it look like you were killing this beautiful Gerber baby–and when he tried to tell his colleagues, No, this is not the safest way to perform a delayed abortion, they accused him of working with the antiabortion people and basically rode him out on a rail.
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor” EsquireSeptember 1, 2009
He is referring to this diagram, which shows how these abortions were performed:
Baby at 22 to 24 weeks
The baby above is of the age that most partial birth abortions were done.
Now, is the term “partial-birth abortion”barbaric and grotesque, or is the procedure itself barbaric and grotesque?
Dr. Warren Hern, who does abortions up until birth, on pro-lifers. An interviewer is speaking to him.
“But O’Reilly says he’s just exercising his right to engage in vigorous debate, you point out.
He’s full of shit. This is not a debate, it’s a civil war. And the other people are using bullets and bombs. I think O’Reilly is a fascist, and he would fit right in in Nazi Germany as far as I’m concerned. “
and later:
“The antiabortion movement is the face of fascism, he says. It cannot be separated from the ruthless and cynical manipulation of antiabortion rhetoric by the Republican party.”
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor”Esquire September 1, 2009
