Category: Other Quotes by Providers

“I frankly think the soul or personage comes in when the fetus is accepted by the mother.”

James McMahon, late term abortionist, now deceased

LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990

McMahon performed partial-birth abortions when they were legal. It’s interesting what he says here – one wonders what gives a woman so much power that she can create a soul just by her attitude and opinion. If the woman never accepts the baby, if she still continues to reject the baby after he or she is born, does the baby still not have a soul?

From Dr. Tommy Tucker, who performed over 60,000 abortions and had his licence revoked when he fatally botched an abortion on a woman, then caught a plane to another abortion clinic and left her to bleed to death cared for by a clinic worker with no medical training. He was also accused by former clinic workers of killing a baby that was born alive after a failed abortion. Read about this here. 

“Maybe we’re all going to rot in hell. But look at the population of the world. Where’s it going to end? It’s going to end with people fighting for food.

I don’t believe there is a heaven or hell. The only heaven we have is here on earth. I think when we die, we die.”

Jim Yardley “Abortion Doctor Says It’s the Cause, and the Cash, that Keep Him Driving” (Atlanta, Georgia) Journal May 16, 1993

A young woman living independently of her mother for the first time gets involved in an abortion clinic without knowing it:

“I enrolled at Miami-Dade College and answered a newspaper ad seeking a receptionist at a Women’s Clinic close by the house where I was staying. I was immediately hired and began my training on how to answer the phone behind the front desk. At the time, all I was looking for was a job and an opportunity. Being offered a position in a medical clinic was a great opportunity as it allowed me to stay in the medical field, where I hoped to continue to grow and develop.

I was not familiar with the services offered by this clinic at the time I accepted the job. I assumed with it being a women’s clinic, it implied annual gynecological exams and birth control. It wasn’t until I was hired that I discovered they also provided abortions. I was unfamiliar with the medical procedure itself as it related to abortions, but 3 years before, Roe V Wade had made abortions legal and to my impressionable young mind, legal meant that they were safe. As far as I was concerned that was really all that mattered.”

Jeanne M. Pernia, Cherisa Jerez Conquered: the Story of One Clinic’s Journey from Death to Life (2013) 15

One could think that because this happened a long time ago, women are now more aware that “women’s clinics” and “women’s centers” are likely to perform abortions. However, it doesn’t seem to strain credulity that some women end up working at abortion clinics without really knowing or thinking about it. This young woman certainly didn’t wrestle with the dilemma of whether abortion was right or wrong. She had no real understanding of what abortion actually was like. She had never seen one. She didn’t know the gruesome nature of many abortion procedures, the fact that after suctioning out the baby, doctors often have to sort through the fetal remains to find 2 arms, 2 legs, a head, etc., to make sure they got everything out. Even though just a room or two away, abortionists were taking apart children, she didn’t know the reality.

In one book that talked about the daily workings of an abortion clinic, the author describes how clinic workers didn’t want women to bring their children to the facility:

“Objections were also raised about clients who brought their young children with them into the recovery room: clinic workers were concerned not only about the ability of the recovery room staff to monitor the children but also about the distress their presence might cause…”

Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 100

Seeing living children my cause a woman to rethink her decision – and the clinic workers couldn’t have that.