They said it.
Abortionist Dr. Don Sloan:
“I don’t think there is anyone doing abortions who hasn’t wished at some point that the situations creating the demand for them would just go away, including me. There have been plenty of times when I wanted to say, “Enough! This is more human tragedy than I want to deal with.”
“Abortion Should Not Be Restricted” by Don Sloan, abortionist Originally Published in “Basic Issues in the Abortion Debate” Political Affairs, July 1999
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Abortion clinic owner “Michelle” only allows abortions to be performed at her clinic up to 17 weeks. Of abortions at 24 weeks (which are legal in every state), she says:
“I visited a clinic that did them routinely. I wanted to see what a 24 week abortion looked like… It looks like a baby. You know, you’re getting too close. And I thought, how tragic that some women would wait until they were 24 weeks to have an abortion. How sad that we live in a society where that happens.”
James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 49
“Abortion is not a good solution. It would be better if we didn’t have it. But it would be even better if we didn’t need it.”
Dr. Richard Leigh, who performed almost 12,000 abortions in his career.
On another occasion:
“Never, never has anybody heard me say abortion is a good answer.“
This doctor died in 2011.
Chuck Haga “GF doctor who pioneered abortion services dies” Grand Folks Herald August 5, 2011
If even those who perform abortions, and are, at least allegedly, the biggest champions of legal abortion, admit that it’s a bad solution to a problem, perhaps it is time for for we, as a society, to work on ending abortion and establishing better options for women.
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The author of the pro-choice book Abortion: A Positive Decision quotes a 35-year-old abortion clinic supervisor:
“Women may say, oh, I don’t want to have a baby because I haven’t enough money, or my partner and I haven’t known one another very long. When I feel it’s good just to say, I don’t want a baby at the moment. I think that’s perfectly all right. There’s nothing stronger than that, when you think of what it takes to have a baby… If you’re forcing somebody to have a baby, making a lifetime decision against their will, then problems are going to turn up and they’re not going to be very happy about that. They’re probably going to be extremely depressed.”
Patricia Lunneborg Abortion: A Positive Decision (Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) quoted in Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 104
A woman can always put her baby up for adoption, and you have to ask the question – is a woman becoming depressed a good enough reason to kill a baby? Below is a picture of an aborted baby at nine weeks – 42% of all abortions happen after this point.
Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern, in his textbook on abortion, discusses the reasons why women who come to see him have abortions:
“A study of motivations for abortion has found that the majority are sought for socioeconomic reasons. Women seeking abortion seldom give the real reason for doing so to investigators studying the issue. The impression from clinical practice is that all but a few women seek abortions for reasons that can broadly be defined as socioeconomic, and many cite strictly economic reasons… As a rule, women do not make decisions about pregnancy prevention or treatment on the basis of statistical evaluations and medical advice but rather on the basis of personal attitudes and necessities. At times medical considerations enter the picture, but decisions are usually made on the basis of such factors as desire or lack of desire for parenthood, stability of relationships, educational status, emotional status, or economic status, among others.”
Warren Hern, Abortion Practice (Boulder, Colorado: Alpenglo Graphics, 1990) 10, 39
Quoted in Scott Klusendorf. The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture. (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 2009) 30
In another post on this page, Dr. Warren Hern discusses a woman who had an abortion because she was pregnant with a boy and wanted a girl.
Share on FacebookSome misguided antiabortion activists (they are not “pro-life”) have taken part in clinic bombings and violence against abortion providers. These actions are immoral, but also, they work in the abortion industry’s favor.
Abortionist Dr. Zachary Harris said the following when his clinic was firebombed:
“I think all that does is simply add to the public perception that the antiabortion people are crazy and will stop at nothing… They’re a bunch of lunatics and every time there’s something like that, it evokes a little more sympathy from the community toward what we’re doing. I think it’s totally counterproductive.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 163
Perhaps part of the reason why so many people look down on the pro-life movement and are unsympathetic to its claims is that misguided activists have engaged in violence. How can anyone take the pro-life movement seriously when individual pro-lifers are doing things that disrespect life? The lives of abortion patients and doctors are as important as the lives of the unborn babies.
Violence against abortion providers distracts from the very real baby that is the victim of violence in abortion.
Below are diagrams of the two most common abortion procedures – a suction abortion, performed in the first trimester, and a D&E abortion performed in the second and early third.
A clinic worker said the following in a blog from abortion providers:
“As we have talked about before, the vast majority of abortions occur before 12 weeks. I know it’s a little gross, but if you have a person look at the pregnancy tissue of a nine week old pregnancy and then a 5 year old, and then said, okay — the tissue or the child has to die — pick one, most people would pick the tissue. That is because the tissue is NOT the same thing as the child.”
The Abortioneers. The Mississippi Personhood Amendment October 29, 2011
http://abortioneers.blogspot.com/2011/10/mississippi-personhood-amendment.html
Here is some nine week old “pregnancy tissue”
click here to look at this “pregnancy tissue” after she has been aborted
The clinic worker in this case presents a hypothetical situation that would never occur in real life – there are no circumstances under which a person would have to choose between the life of an unborn child and the life of a young girl. Rather, both should be allowed to live. The clinic workers use of the term “pregnancy tissue” to describe an unborn baby that has arms, legs, fingers, toes, a beating heart, and a developing brain, reveals the deception that abortion clinic workers commonly use. A person reading this blog would have no idea of how developed a nine-week-old unborn baby actually is – the term “pregnancy tissue” gives the impression of an unformed collection of cells and “tissue.” The reality is much different.
Share on Facebook“The most tremendous thrill of my life has been bringing a healthy baby into the world…I would rather do a delivery than do an abortion.”
Dr. Robert Lucy, Abortionist, from Jamestown, North Dakota
“N. Dakota Doctor Retires: Abortions Available Only in Fargo” USA Today, January 31, 1990. Quoted at Deathroe
Share on Facebook“[I’ve seen women] who have just had an abortion … lie in the recovery room and cry, ‘I’ve just killed my baby. I’ve just killed my baby.’ I don’t know what to say to these women. Part of me thinks, ‘Maybe they’re right.'”
Nurse who works an abortion clinic
Diane M Gianelli, “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” American Medical News, July 12, 1993
Share on FacebookDoes aborting babies make abortionists poorer doctors in general? Does the lack of respect for life carry over into their other activities? One abortion provider seems to think so.
“A patient struggling for life or to preserve a pregnancy expects a doctor to try and go on trying beyond reason and he usually does. Will he try quite so hard if he has just come from destroying a fetus? He may think he can keep the two functions separate in his mind, but the unconscious mind is insidious… I confess to finding in myself a lessening of enthusiasm. Is there any point in struggling quite so hard to preserve an unborn fetus already at risk and which may well never flourish when one has just been called upon to terminate healthy pregnancy after healthy pregnancy? It is a temptation one tries to resist: but it would be dishonest to deny its existence.”
Dan Lyons/Billy James Hargis. Thou Shalt Not Kill…My Babies (Tulsa, OK: Christian Crusade Publications) 1977 pgs 44-45