Category: Other Quotes by Providers

In her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic, Wendy Simonds quotes some clinic workers talking about pro-lifers. One clinic worker says:

On page 119

“My gut feeling is: I hate them. I want them to die! But realistically, I mean, I’ve come to the point where if I can’t deal with it, it’s like I want to yell at them and hit them over the head with a f*cking Bible and go, “you’re stupid! You don’t know what you’re talking about!”

A different clinic worker, on page page 123

“The feeling of violation, of [their] violating my space, of them filthying my space… With their presence!… I mean, I realized that I could kill a human being. I realize that if I got my hands on them, I was gonna rip them apart… I knew I could strangle one of them I just knew it.”

And another one on page 113

“We thought they were clients, and we treated them as nicely as we treat anybody else. And we were all so angry… They were out picketing… Not too long later, and I thought, they know the truth, I mean, we show them how humane we are and that we’re not, you know “baby killers” – I mean that we were real people, and were nice people, and were decent, and were human. And I just wanted to shoot them. I was just disgusted.”

This clinic does abortions up to 26 weeks.

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)

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“Abortion is undeniably the taking of potential life. It is not pretty. It is not easy. And in a perfect world, it would not be necessary.”

Bart Slepian, quoted in Amanda Robb “Last Clinic Standing” Marie Claire, October 2006

Dr. Slepian uses the term “potential life” to soften the impact of what he is saying. However, some abortionists have come out saying that abortion takes a life without using the word “potential.”

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Doe versus Bolton was a Supreme Court case that said that abortion in the third trimester could not be banned unless there was an exception for “women’s health.” However, defining women’s health fell to the abortionist who wanted to perform the procedure. The Supreme Court case made it clear that “women’s health” included mental and emotional health.  Because of this, pro-choicers often push for legislation that bans abortions except for “women’s health.” It’s a way for them to sound reasonable while proposing laws that won’t prevent a single abortion. According to prominent abortionist Dr. Warren Hern:

“I will certify that any pregnancy is a threat to a woman’s life and could cause “grievious injury” to her “physical health.”

Frank Murray “Daschle Bill May Not Ban Anything” Washington Times, May 15, 1997  quoted in  Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 49

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From one abortionist:

“I’ve [aborted] tens and tens of thousands of women, and I know so little about so many of them- most of them…How could I? In a sense the doctor is only a tradesperson, a technician performing a task, like any other.”

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

So much for Roe versus Wade’s  declaration that abortion should be a matter “between a woman and her doctor.” Usually the woman does not even see the doctor until she is on the operating table – and then not again after the procedure.

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Dr. Schwartz, New York physician who has performed 15,000 abortions when he was quoted:

“God knows, I don’t wear a halo. God knows, there are more skilled practitioners. But I think in the mix, you could do a helluva lot worse than if you come to me for what I claim to know how to do.”

Quoted by Barbara Ross, “Abortion – I I,” New York Post February 14, 1979, 16

below: a few hours work at an abortion clinic

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The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-life:

“On Operating Room schedules, the pre-Blackmun term that was written down was “therapeutic abortion”; after Blackmun it became “elective abortion.” Now it is “termination of pregnancy,” the ultimate euphemism, almost Huxleyan in its finesse. To the gynecology residents, it remains “scraping it out.”

Bernard Nathanson, with Richard Ostling, Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979) 177

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One clinic administrator complained about a law that would allow women to sue clinics where they were injured (physically or emotionally) within 10 years of their abortions. The law, vigeously fought by pro-choicers, (who seem to care little for women who are injured in abortions) was defeated, then later passed. Hope Medical Group for Women (abortion clinic) manager Robin Rothrock said, in an article in Mother Jones:

“It was like a really scary movie, when you think the bad guy is dead, and suddenly he rises up and grabs you…There’s no way a physician can perform an abortion with this law on the books. It’s an insane level of exposure.”

Should women injured in abortion, or the families of women killed in abortions, be allowed to sue for damages? Is forbidding them from getting compensation for bad health care anti-woman? Somehow, Mother Jones manages to present idea of injured women seeking justice as a threat to women everywhere. The same article speaks out against abortion clinic regulations. In Louisiana, a news station exposed filthy conditions at Delta Women’s Clinic in Baton Rouge. In response, pro-lifers enacted legislation to require abortion clinics to be inspected and to meet minimum health standards. Mother Jones manages to make excuses for the clinic and advocates against the laws. It quotes a pro-abortion researcher claiming that:

“Having published on every hemorrhaged abortion death in the United States, I can assure you that not a single one was caused by a door width.”

No, but a death could be contributed to by the fact that stretchers can’t get through narrow doors, and lifesaving equipment cannot reach the injured woman.

They say that propaganda is the form of lying that deceives your friends without deceiving your enemies. In this case, Mother Jones serves up some excellent propaganda.

Barry Yeoman “The Quiet War on Abortion” Mother Jones Sept/ Oct 2001

Here are some cases of abortion malpractice.

Here are profiles of dangerous clinics and shoddy conditions.

Here is more information about clinic regulations and why they are needed

Here are the stories of some women who died from legal abortion. 

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A British abortion doctor described a method of late-term abortion this way:

“It’s difficult to pull apart a chicken when it is newly killed. You have to cook it first, and then it comes apart very easily. It’s the same here.”

British abortionist describing a new late-term abortion procedure. Quoted in HLI Reports, June 1986, and in “Just Another Piece of Meat?”ALL About Issues, August-September 1986, pages 51 and 52.

See pictures of late-term abortions

 

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