They said it.
Marcy L Bloom, abortion worker at Aradia Women’s Health Center:
“I know that every day abortion providers throughout the world are saving women’s lives and helping women regain their destinies.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) xiv
Abortions are almost never needed to save women’s lives and only a tiny percentage of abortions are done for health reasons in the mother.
Abortion worker Andrea Butcher got pregnant and had an abortion. She says being pregnant (before she aborted) was “exciting”:
“I must say that I did find being pregnant quite exciting, and it was nice to have friends with whom I could discuss that feeling who reassured me that it was okay to feel excited about being pregnant even though I was quite sure that I didn’t want to go through with it. It’s nice to have the space to feel that way.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 30
Share on FacebookProf. JG Schenker of Hadassah University Hospital in Israel, who does some abortions, writes:
“I try to do as few abortions as possible… Most of my research and that of my clinic is focused on how to solve the problem of infertile women. On the one hand, we spend so many hours trying to help couples create life and on the other we help women destroy it in five minutes.
For me, this creates a definite conflict. But there are two circumstances in which I am always prepared to carry out an abortion in spite of that conflict.
One is when the pregnancy endangers the health, both physical and mental, of the woman. The second is when the fetus is malformed. In those two circumstances, it is easy for me to perform an abortion.
What is difficult is when a woman comes who is ambivalent in her attitude to her love of her boyfriend and hence her pregnancy. It is very hard to accept any kind of casual attitude to abortion when you spend so much of your time trying to help couples achieve pregnancy.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 104
Share on FacebookAbortionist William J. Sweeney III wrote that saline abortions, which were done by injecting toxic saline solution into the uterus, then inducing labor, took longer than natural childbirth. The same likely applies to induction abortions done today before the third trimester.
“The woman must labor longer than a mother giving birth to a full-term baby because the cervix isn’t ripe and nothing in her body is ready for the delivery. If we put the saline in at 8 o’clock in the morning, it’s three or 4 o’clock the next morning when she finally aborts.”
William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 208
Share on FacebookFormer abortion worker Jewels Green was working in an abortion facility during the time when antiabortion activists murdered several abortion providers.
These murders didn’t deter her from working at an abortion facility, but instead made her more certain that what she was doing was right and more dedicated to the pro-choice cause.
She says:
“There were other well-known murders of doctors and staff who worked at abortion facilities. I signed sympathy cards that were sent to the families of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett just a little over a year after Dr. Gunn was shot. Then, on December 30, 1994, two women were killed at a clinic shooting in Boston.
I imagine that some people left their jobs at abortion clinics after that. I didn’t quit, but I did wear a bulletproof vest to work for a week after the Boston killings. During this scary time, I had more nightmares about being killed at work than I did about the killing going on in the procedure rooms.
These terrible events solidified my pro-choice ideology into a steadfast commitment to ensuring that abortion would remain a legal option for pregnant women.”
Patrick Madrid Surprised by Life (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2017) 55
Violence against abortion providers also sends the message to the public that pro-lifers are violent fanatics and makes them less likely to listen to pro-life opinions. This violence is wrong in and of itself, but also counterproductive to the pro-life cause.
Share on FacebookPro-lifer PJ Keeley was participating in 40 Days for Life in front of an abortion facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Two days in a row, the abortionist drove up in his car and told him to get off the front walk and stop blocking it. PJ maintains that he was not blocking it. Each time, he complied, saying only “Yes, we want to follow the law.” On the third day, he added:
“Especially the law that states all mankind are created equal.”
The abortionist replied:
“Supposedly created equal. Supposedly!”.
The author comments:
“Can a person who does not believe in the founding principle of the United States – that all mankind are created equal – be fair-minded when approached by a person in a crisis pregnancy situation?
Should a person who does not believe in the founding principle of the United States have any say in a matter in which he or she is paid if a life is taken?”
PJ Keeley The ArtPeace Project (Bloomington, Indiana: WestBow Press, 2017) 8–9
Share on FacebookAbortionist William J. Sweeney III writes:
“Consider five patients going up to the operating room for a dilation and curettage [for a non-abortion reason]: we put them to sleep and do the procedure: then they go to the recovery room and everything’s fine. But if we take five women upstairs to have abortions by suction curette, at least four of them will vomit as they’re waking up in the recovery room. Now although an abortion is a more delicate procedure technically, it’s practically the same operation as a D&C when you assess what has been done to the patient: same anesthesia, same operating room, same nurses, same doctors. Yet only an occasional D&C patient is nauseated whereas the vast majority of abortion patients will vomit. I think they throw up because of an underlying emotional feeling. Maybe they’re trying to get rid of the baby or their guilt. Or maybe they’re punishing themselves… Legal or not, an abortion is still a traumatic experience for most women.”
William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 209
Share on FacebookAnne Furedi runs a chain of abortion facilities in England. She says:
“Even those of us who believe that abortion is ‘a right’ understand that women do not exercise their right to abortion in the same way they exercise their right to vote. We can acknowledge that access to abortion is a social good while acknowledging that it’s a bad experience for an individual woman to have one.”
Anne Furedi “Abortion: some messages can’t be massaged” Spiked 20 November 2006
Share on FacebookDr Philip Goldstone, abortionist, medical director of Mary Stopes Australia:
“I see women who I think fall into three groups. The majority of women have found out that they have an unplanned pregnancy and they know that it is not the right time for them in their life and they know that they need to have a termination. Some women are very comfortable with that decision. Other women are very sure of that decision, but are upset about the decision that they are sure about. There is a smaller group of women who are unsure of the decision and they are the women who need further decision-making counselling. …. Most women we see, by the time they come to the clinic, are sure of their decision and they will have varying emotional responses to the decision that they have come to.”
PUBLIC HEARING—INQUIRY INTO THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL 2018, HEALTH, COMMUNITIES, DISABILITY SERVICES AND DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMITTE, TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS, 12 SEPTEMBER 2018, Brisbane, pg
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Michelle Oberman volunteered at a Planned Parenthood abortion center. She says:
“Women choose abortion for a multitude of reasons, and yet, a sense of desperation is almost always present among them.”
Michelle Oberman Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2018) 1
Desperation and empowerment don’t really go together. It’s almost like abortions are tragic choices.
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