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Abortion doctor responsible for hundreds of thousands of abortions

From the partial birth abortion ban trials, an abortionist is asked how many abortions he has done.

Q. How many abortions of first and second trimester have you done during the course of your career, if you can just estimate that?

A. I’m sure you’re talking about hundred thousands.

Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004

It is unthinkable to imagine one person responsible for so many deaths. And heartbreaking to realize if he ever regrets his “life’s work” and turns away from abortion, how much guilt he would feel. if he is ever capable of it.

Left over from an abortion at seven weeks, most abortions are done at this time or later

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Poor receive substandard abortion care, says clinic worker

Clinic worker Jenny Higgins says that wealthy women get better abortion care than poor women do. She says:

“… We almost never service wealthier women at the clinics where I worked. In the southeastern clinic, which was in an urban area, the majority of the clients were African-American….. [Wealthy women] are more likely to have access to higher quality, private abortion care, either due to their insurance plans or because they can afford to pay out-of-pocket for such services.”

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“Even though I prided myself on providing attentive and empathic care to the patients with whom I worked, the clinic infrastructure and patient overload prohibited the kind of service that members of the middle and upper classes have come to expect – or the kind of care I had received at relatively posh student health centers or private gynecologist offices.”

Jenny Higgins “Sex, Unintended Pregnancy, and Poverty: One Woman’s Evolution from “Choice” to “Reproductive Justice” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 37-38

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Abortionist: I’ve done 10,000 abortions, but won’t do a D&E

Dr. Jay Kelinson, who performed the abortion in the film the silent scream:

Interviewer: How many abortions do think you performed in your career?

Dr.: I’d say I probably performed 10,000 or more. I can remember days when I would do 30, 35 abortions.

Interviewer: would you do second trimester abortions, D&E’s even for medical reasons?

Dr: No, absolutely not. that is the most horrifying procedure I can think about. There is just absolutely no way I would ever do that.

This interview was shown in Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s video “Eclipse of Reason”, which recorded a D&E abortion, which is a late-term abortion where the baby is torn apart with forceps (see image below) You can see Eclipse of Reason here.

However, whether an abortion is done in the first trimester or the second trimester or even the third trimester, a beating heart is stilled and a baby’s body is torn apart. Compare the two diagrams below – one is of a suction abortion in the first trimester, a procedure that takes place thousands of times a day in the United States alone. The second is a D&E abortion, the most common method of abortion in the second trimester – roughly one in every 10 abortions are done after the first trimester, mostly by this method – meaning it is performed hundreds of times a day.

An eight-week-old baby – before and after a suction abortion

A 16-week-old baby, before and after an abortion by D&E

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Each picture shows a baby torn apart mercilessly by the abortion instruments.

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Abortion clinic owner describes seeing “blood and tissue”

From Merle Hoffman, the founder and owner of an abortion clinic, on witnessing her first few abortions:

“What I saw a running through those vacuum tubes when I first started my work was only blood and tissue, unformed and messy. It was easy to imagine the fetus as a bunch of cells that one could define as one wished. But even in the beginning I had an inkling that this mentality was the easy way out, that it didn’t go far enough to do justice to the experience of abortion.”

Merle Hoffman Intimate Wars: the Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room (New York: Feminist Press, 2012) 107

At just seven weeks, the baby has arms and legs, fingers and toes. (see aborted babies at 7 weeks here) At this stage the baby is delicate and may be torn apart completely in an abortion. Abortions done before the baby is formed are still killing a life.

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An unborn baby is a frog?

Pro-lifers spoke to abortionist Randall Whitney in his car. According to him, an aborted baby:

“Would not have been a full baby…It is not a being..It is not a baby. The baby is when its born, it is separate from its host…[when the pro-lifer mentioned God] I grew up in the church…It’s not a human being…

At this point the pro-lifer asked:

“what is it, a frog?”

Whitney laughed and said:

“it’s a frog…. I can kill a frog. “

See full conversation below:

Ok, quick lesson:

This is a frog:

This is a baby:

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Clinic worker comments on lack of pre-abortion counseling

An abortion clinic worker describes how some clinics don’t offer any pre-abortion counseling to pregnant women:

“I actually took the counseling portion of the program for granted until I learned that some very compassionate, professional clinics don’t offer counseling to their clients. It could be a trick to save time (clients always complain about how long the process takes) or minimize cost (we ARE in a recession), and it could simply be what has worked and continues to work for individual clinics.”

“What I hear you saying is…” The Abortioneers Dec 30, 2010 Found here

It is sad to think that some women go to a clinic and get no guidance to make such a weighty and important decision. The clinic worker doesn’t mention it, but another reason to save time is that if women are rushed through their abortions quickly, more women can be scheduled and the clinic can make more money.

Should women abort a child like this without being counseled on their options first?

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Abortionist: Some women are later grateful they were refused abortions

Dr. Alec Bourne, who had successfully challenged the abortion law in England by performing an abortion on a teenage rape victim. He later wrote:

“Those who plead for an extensive relaxation of the law [against abortion] have no idea of the very many cases where a woman who, during the first three months, makes a most impassioned appeal for her pregnancy to be ‘finished,’ later, when the baby is born, is thankful indeed that it was not killed while still an embryo. During my long years in practice I have had many a letter of the deepest gratitude for refusing to accede to an early appeal.”

A. Bourne, A Doctor’s Creed: The Memoirs of a Gynecologist, London, 1963

Not all babies who are initially unwanted stay unwanted.

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Clinic administrator: I had no conception that “life was sacred”

A "potential life" at eight weeks after conception — A “potential life” at eight weeks after conception

From clinic owner an administrator Merle Hoffman, on counseling women for their abortions:

“Choice” is sometimes not a choice at all. It is an outcome determined by the economic, physical, sociological, and political factors that surround women… At times this reality would move me profoundly as I sat opposite the women I counseled prior to their abortions, acutely aware of the potential lives growing inside them that would soon cease to exist. I began to think critically, to come to terms with what was going on. Each time I did that, I came out of that process more committed than before. I had no conception, either religious or philosophical, that “life was sacred.”

Merle Hoffman Intimate Wars: the Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room (New York: Feminist Press, 2012) 108 – 109

She uses the term “potential life” to describe the unborn babies, but readily admits that she has no belief that life is sacred. Perhaps deep down she realizes that what happens in her clinic dozens of times a day is the taking of actual, not potential, human life. However, by thinking “critically” she can come to terms with this fact, or at least repress it.

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Former abortion clinic worker explains why she and others worked in the abortion clinic

A former abortion clinic worker, who has no ties to the pro-life movement, wrote a book about her experiences. She talks about why she and other women worked at the abortion clinic:

“… I guess you can say that we were all in a desperate situation and got the job and ended up getting too comfortable with the job and stayed on. For one, the job did offer benefits and provided food for your lunch, meaning that you didn’t have to leave for lunch unless you wanted to, so that saved many of us gas money cause, for one, we wouldn’t have to drive anywhere to get lunch. And with that is going to work knowing that you don’t have to worry about lunch money or taking a lunch or even spending more money for gas to go and get your lunch. And on top of that, we even got scrub allowance, which was $100 every year on the day of your evaluation, and got a free business membership with Wholesale, and given good raises. Now you tell me what job does all that for their employees.”

Tonya P From behind Closed Doors: “Abortions” (Xlibris, 2013) 17

In contrast to the beliefs of many pro-lifers, this worker was not there because she was dedicated to abortion. Rather, she was just trying to make a living, and she characterizes the other workers the same way. Although there is a lot of money in abortion for the doctors and the clinic owners, clinic workers can be poor and desperate to have and keep any job. This is why ministries such as And Then There Were None, which helps clinic workers to quit their jobs and even supports them financially until they find a new job, have such a potential for success. Of course, many clinic workers are dedicated to abortion rights. But this quote gives an example of one who simply fell into the job because she needed the money.

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