Dr. Warren Hern, who has been providing abortions, including late term abortions, for years, instructs pro-choicers:
“Television interviews, in particular, should focus on the public issue involved (right to confidential medical care, freedom of choice, and so forth) and not on the specific details of the procedure.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) 323
“The thing I like about the procedure [abortion] is that… When you feel like you are indeed a talented abortionist, you can get through the difficult cases… It’s getting through a difficult canal; it’s dealing with a fibroid in the uterus; knowing what to do if you have an infection on the cervix, or if someone has put laminaria in there… When they really shouldn’t have because the cervix was friable, then knowing how to do this with such delicate precision that you don’t injure the cervix. Those kinds of things help me feel like I have really mastered something that I’m very proud of… In the past year, I’ve probably done close to 5000 procedures, which is more than many people do in 10 years of work.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 68
The clinic where this abortionist works does abortions up to 26 weeks.
healthy baby at 16 weeksFrom an aborted baby at 16 weeks
From former abortion clinic administrator Charlotte Taft:
“I was shocked by how many who seemed fine during the (abortion) procedure were now having thoughts and feelings that no one had anticipated.”
The biggest thing she noted was that women felt sadder than they had anticipated.
Taft went on to say “They wondered, How can I feel sad about something I chose?”
Jennifer Baumgardner “A new wave of abortion rights activism is spreading across the country–from zines to documentaries– that focuses on telling women’s stories rather than spouting stale feminist aphorisms” Fairfield County Weekly May 26, 2005
Taft later got in trouble with Planned Parenthood and was forced to resign for telling her patients that abortion was “killing.” see here.
In Carhart’s trash can is a printout from a Web site detailing a protest against him in late August by the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. “That’s where it belongs,” he says. “In the trash.”
“They’re fundamentalist religious terrorists.”
He also says:
“We do kill fetuses. It dies because we give an injection into the fetus that causes the heart to just slowdown.”
“Is there an honest way to be antiabortion?… To me, no, there’s not. It’s like, is there an honest way to be anti – Semitic? Is there an honest way to be racist? There’s not. And, to me, abortion is one of those fundamental things in the same league.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 111
Yvette works in the clinic that does abortions up to 26 weeks. Below is a picture of an abortion at 21 weeks:
Is opposing the death of babies like this equal to racism and anti-Semitism?
From an article that described questions and uncertainties abortion providers had about their jobs:
13 weeks
“Patients also sometimes ask to view the fetal remains. A Toronto physician said she didn’t know “how and whether we [should] protect the patient from the reality of the procedure.” She said she regularly hid the ultrasound screen and “whisked away” the “fetal products.” “She’s probably not prepared for what she is going to see,” she said of the patient.”
Diane M. Gianelli “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” American Medical News, 12 July 1999
see pictures of what the remains of abortions look like
“For many women nowadays, they’re angry that they had a choice. It’s too bizarre, but it’s like, if you weren’t here, I wouldn’t have to make this choice…
We’re working really hard at this clinic to assist women in moving from a place of experiencing themselves as victim of their decision, or their boyfriend, to moving to a place where they see this differently. I think that the same needs to happen with the physician. If the physician is a victim of the antiabortion movement, or a victim of other antiabortion doctors or a victim of Operation Rescue – no change is going to come from that. Plus, victims are annoying, you know. They don’t invite your participation.”
From an interview with Rachel McNair on page 123 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
9 weeks
Perhaps this baby and others like him are more the “victims” of abortion.
From former clinic worker and director Carol Everett:
“I put on my PR hat and got creative. In one of our weekly meetings, I said, “Many of the women come in alleging they were raped, but they have neither reported it to the police nor gone to the hospital. I think we can get a lot of publicity if we have a press conference announcing that we will do abortions free for rape victims if they report it to the authorities. The percentage of conceptions in actual rapes is very low, and with the conditions attached, I don’t think we’ll do many free abortions. But will get a ton of free publicity!”
Just as I had promised, we got prime time news coverage at 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM. Also, several newspapers and radio stations picked it up. I personally called on all the “do-gooder” organizations in town and let them know. We received a lot of good, free publicity!
We never did a single free abortion for rape victims.”
Carol Everett with Jack Shaw, Blood Money (Oregon: Multnomah Press Books, Questar Publishers, Inc., 1992) from Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)54
“The surgical suite is very dark, the woman waiting for her abortion on the table. The doctor comes in, goes directly to the foot of the bed with no greeting to the patient. Staff told me the doctor does not want anyone to see her face.”
