They said it.
Abortionist and pro-choice advocate Dr. William Harrison:
“The real issue in the abortion debate today is not when life begins, but is it morally meaningful life.”
Mary Fischer, “A New Look at Life,” Reader’s Digest, October 2003, 95-103.
Of course, this doctor and most others in the medical field learned during their medical training that life begins at conception. Read some scientists and medical textbooks that say this here.
Share on FacebookOne clinic worker interviewed by a pro-choice author said the following about abortions at the clinic where she worked:
“At Gino’s, quality of a hamburg[er] depends on who’s working the grill that day. It’s the same with abortions. If Dr. Benjamin is on that day, I know there’ll be few complaints. If it’s Dr. Thomas, I know there will be a lot of pain.”
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 105
Share on FacebookMagda Denes wrote a book after spending time in an abortion clinic interviewing doctors and clinic workers. From one clinic worker:
“When we do D&C’s, it’s under general anesthesia, so the patient comes in and the doctor does the dirty work. And when she wakes up, and it’s his sin, and she is cured. But with a saline she’s participating in this sin, because she’s awake, she knows what’s going on, she feels it coming out.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 140
Here she writes about how when one goes in for an abortion, she is unconscious and does not see the baby being taken from her, piece by piece, but in a saline abortion (which was done by inducing labor after injecting poisonous saline solution to kill the baby). The woman would see the child and it would be more emotionally difficult for her. It is always easier to kill without seeing the victims – it is psychologically easier to drop a bomb on the city or program a drone then it is to kill people face-to-face.
Dr. Maureen Paul explains why she is an abortionist. She became pregnant accidentally when she was younger, before it was legal on demand, when women had to get permission from a hospital committee.
“I confided in a family friend and asked to borrow the $300. But he told my parents, who immediately pulled me out of school. They took me to a local hospital, where I went before a committee that had to decide whether there was a valid medical reason to give me an abortion. When my request was turned down, I had no other option but to carry the baby to term and put [it] up for adoption. It was the most painful experience of my life. Though I wanted to have children one day-and years later had a daughter as the result of an intended pregnancy–I bitterly resented being forced to have a baby against my will. I consider that an act of violence against women.”
Deborah Diclementi‘ I RISK MY LIFE TO PERFORM ABORTIONS’., Marie Claire, Nov 2001, Vol. 8, Issue 11
If having a baby when one does not want to is an act of violence, one can only wonder what this is:
British abortionist Dr. Tom Coffrey on a suction abortion:
“It’s a bit like having a five-minute cervical smear.”
Cara Acred The Abortion Debate (Independence Educational Publishers, 20
Below: remains of a suction abortion at 8 weeks
From one Abortionist:
“[You] have a hard time answering the questions that other people ask you about what you do… You come to not feel so good about what you’re doing even when you thought you were doing something wonderful.”
American Medical News, July 19, 1993
Quoted by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in Access: Key to Pro-Life Victory
Share on Facebook“I think it’s a form of cruel and unusual punishment to make a woman pregnant if she doesn’t want to be,”
Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who does abortions in the third trimester.
“Dr. Defiance“ People, , 12/25/2000 Vol. 54, Issue 27
Carhart injects the baby with poison, Or sometimes dismembers him/her.
Is pregnancy cruel and unusual punishment, or is abortion?
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An article on late-term abortionist Dr. William Rashbaum described how he dealt with men who came into the clinic and begged their partners not to abort their children. He says that when they came to him:
Husbands or boyfriends have been known to barge into his office and violently insist their baby not be aborted, to which Rashbaum replies with an equally violent, “Fuck you, Charlie, we can abort her.” He won’t talk to them directly because, he explains, “I don’t treat men.”
REBECCA PALEY “Cruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all” The Boston Phoenix Dec 2003
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“The fetus has a right to life. But only the mother can protect that right.”
Abortionist Peter Huntingford, once an evangelical Christian converted by Billy Graham, now a doctor who has said publicly that “he would perform an abortion on any woman at any point in the pregnancy and for any reason.”
Quoted by Mary Kenny in Abortion: Whose Right? Institute of ideas (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002) 65 – 66
In a sense, this statement is true – only the mother can really protect her child. But If the child has a right to life, how can that right be conditional to the whim or choice of another person? It seems that this abortionist is moving the responsibility completely onto the mother shoulders, without acknowledging that he is the one doing the killing. Also, by using the term “mother” he seems to be admitting that the fetus is in fact a baby – you can’t be the “mother” to an undifferentiated clump of cells, you are a “mother” to a person, a child.
One doctor who performed “a small number” of abortions said the following:
“Strange as it may seem, I routinely murmur “excuse me” before I swat a fly. I can’t butcher a chicken without apologizing first. I have grieved for the cat that died beneath the wheels of my car.
Yes, I hold life sacred. But I’m also a pragmatist. I believe that the necessity of making choices forces us to view the sacredness of life as relative. That’s why I performed a small number of abortions when I was in family practice. I never did them without exploring all available options – for both the patient and myself. I also referred a few patients elsewhere for abortions I couldn’t do in good conscience.
Yet I am not pro-abortion. Nor am I against it. Anyone who is convinced of the absolute rightness of either position doesn’t fully understand the situation.”
Ted Merrill “Abortion: Extreme Views Ignore Reality” Medical Economics, July 15, 1996
Below are some pictures of abortions. Is it the pro-lifers who do not understand the situation, when they say that abortion is wrong?
