Category: Other Quotes by Providers

Although most abortion providers and pro-choice activists fight against laws requiring parents of teenagers to be notified about their children’s abortions, one abortionist admits:

“I don’t want a 14-year-old coming to my clinic alone for an abortion and walking out alone after she has it. What kind of provider am I if I permit this?”

Quoted in Marion Faux. Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Birch Lane, 1990) 262

Read a former clinic worker’s testimony supporting parental notification

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An abortionist bemoans the lack of commitment among pro-choicers:

“I feel many of the local pro-choice organizations and their members are more interested in discussing the issues at a wine and cheese party than getting out on the front lines.”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 110

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From one abortionist, who has dealt with thousands of abortion patients, a comment on the fact that many abortions take place because the male partner wants them:

“It’s never simple. But when it comes to a choice between the man and the pregnancy, many women yield. They do with the man wants.”

Don Sloan, M.D. with Paula Hartz, Abortion: a Doctor’s Perspective, a Woman’s Dilemma (New York: Donald I Fine Inc., 1992) 171

Read more about coerced abortions here.

 

 

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Pro-Choice author Magda Denes recounts her experiences joking around with abortion clinic workers:

“… Several of us sit in the cafeteria around a luncheon table, eating overdone, tasteless stew. “What do you think this is made of?” Someone asks. “Venison,” I say. “Pigeon,” says Betsy. “Don’t be silly,” says one of the counselors “there is a hell of a lot cheaper meat to be found around here.” All of us laugh, guffaw, splutter, and slap each other on the arms. It is the funniest thing we have heard in years… “Get a hold of yourself, ladies,” Rachel says. “This is unseemly.” She is right, of course, but all of us laugh again. “I think it’s a Greek dish,” says Teresa, laughing so hard that tears begin to roll down her face and we can barely understand her. “It’s fetustu.” There is no containing any of us now. “There is mincemeat pie for dessert,” someone shouts. “And that   isn’t tomato juice you’re drinking, ” adds somebody else. Most of us are doubled over. The air is filled with the shrieks, and gasps, and gurgles. My sides begin to ache.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 246

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James Tunstead Burtechaell quotes a Planned Parenthood worker:

“For women who have completed their ideal family size, the decision to abort can be excruciating. It’s a lifestyle choice, and we are not taught to think in such a self-centered way.”

James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982) 92 to 93

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Luhra Tivis who worked for the late George Tiller (late term abortionist) said the following:

“One of the ways he runs the clinic is, he’s got nursing staff that are nurse’s aides and LPNs who work in the exam rooms, where they do the sonograms, and they take blood for the bloodwork, and then he’s got the nurse practitioner, who goes down in the basement with him. And then he’s got an RN that stays at the motel overnight with them. He’s got people compartmentalized. And then there’s the office staff, who never have anything to do with the medical side. I was the only one on the office staff who regularly handled the medical records and typed them up. So he has people compartmentalized, so they don’t all have the facts of what’s going on. They just see their own little section. That way, he keeps them from getting too upset about what’s going on.”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)29

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According to one abortion doctor:

“Prior to the passing of the abortion law, I don’t think there was ever a patient came to my office in the last 10 years who wanted an abortion and couldn’t get one, if they could afford to pay for it. And a perfectly legal one. For $100 the patient went to the psychiatrist and he would say, “You’re going to kill yourself if you don’t have this abortion?” “Yes.” “Okay, goodbye.” Then he dictates a nice long letter she’s suicidal. Two psychiatrists, $200. It was a farce.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 226

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In an interview with pro-life author Rachel M MacNair, PhD, former clinic worker Joy Davis was asked about what her clinic did when women told them they did not want abortions.

“We sent into the pro-lifers, we knew they were going to take care of them.”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 61

Read the testimony of Joy Davis here. 

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“Maybe 50 percent of all women who have abortions decide not to return for follow-up after the procedure.”

Suzanne T. Poppema, M.D., “Why I Am An Abortion Doctor,” Prometheus Books, 1996, p. 134

How this lack of followup effects a women’s recovery is something the abortionist doesn’t comment on.

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A woman who used to work for Louisiana abortionist reports:

“At the time, I needed a job. I’m a single mom with three children… I was hired as a receptionist. And they so-called “promoted” me to doing the urine tests and the recovery room… What [the abortionist] does is he seeks out people that really need to make the money… Most of the women that do work there are single women with children.”

Interview with unnamed abortion worker, by Rachel McNair 3/10/92

Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 186

Sometimes abortion providers and clinic owners deliberately hire single mothers because they depend more on the income from the clinic and cannot as easily leave their jobs. There have been a number of former clinic workers who have discussed this practice.

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