From a reporter who observed at an abortion clinic:
“On this day at the surgical unit of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, in central Philadelphia, 21 people will have abortions. Another two dozen pregnant women will come in to view a video and to “start the clock” on their state-mandated 24-hour waiting period. Most will come back for abortions. Some will never be heard from again… Sometimes, says clinic manager Paula Monastersky, a woman will just get up and leave. Occasionally, a woman will even be undressed and on the table, moments away from the doctor’s instruments, and she’ll change her mind.”
This seems to indicate that many women are ambivalent about their abortions even as they enter the clinic.
From Linda Feldman “Abortion: Uneasy Day at the Clinic” Christian Science Monitor January 22, 1998 Volume 90, Issue 39
Wisconsin State Journal, Women need control over birth choice, physician says: 3-4-2001
In 2001, the Wisconsin State Journal estimated that abortionist Dennis Christensen aborted somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 fetuses during his career.
In a 2001 interview, Christensen told the paper
“When I meet my maker, I think she’s going to say, ‘Way to go!'”.
The paper said the remark was a jest after he brushed aside the question of whether he believes in an afterlife. His religious beliefs are private, he said.
The paper also states that Christensen makes a good living from abortion, and that, at his clinic in Wisconsin, he has ended the pregnancies of women ranging in age from 10 to 52
eight week-old unborn baby – typical age for an abortion
Prof Bill Ledger
abortionist-UK
The Daily Mail, Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF? 6-30-2006
“I have seen women whose boyfriends have left them, who are at college and have yet to finish their studies, women who can’t afford to bring up a child, women who were taking the Pill but didn’t realize that being sick reduced its effectiveness. These are women who want children, but not now because they believe the welfare of that child will be compromised. They do think very hard and there is a great sadness. The decision will affect every year they spend on this planet and most do not move on easily”
Peter Bours
abortionist
The New York Times, The abortion conflict; what it does to one doctor, By Dudley Clendinen; Dudley Clendinen is a New York Times correspondent based in Atlanta :8-11-1985
‘There’s a 6-year-old boy that I delivered that I say hello to, and after the last newspaper article came out, he wouldn’t look at me. That’s the hardest thing for me, because I’ve always prided myself on my relationship with kids. It hurts me.”
Mildred Hanson
abortion clinic owner
Voices of Choice: Doctor’s Stories
“I challenged myself: Is this right? Is this ethical? Is this Christian? Is this appropriate? Am I demeaning myself? Do I want to do abortions? There’s a lot of personal soul-searching. It’s not an easy decision that a physician makes to be an abortion provider.”
Hanson owns her own abortion clinic and was the former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and South Dakota.
Krishna Rajanna
abortionist
The Pitch 6-16-05 / State of Kansas Board of Healing Arts case # 05-HA-58 / Statement of Detective William Howard to the House Committee on Health and Human Services 3-15-2005
“We can not have a pregnant woman working at an abortion clinic.”
One employee of [an abortion clinic] told reporters that [the abortionist] threatened to fire her because she was pregnant.
Jane Hodgson
abortionist
ABC News Special, ABC News Forum Abortion: The New Civil War:11-1-1990
In an ABC News interview abortionist Jane Hodgson made the following statements:
“I have supervised and participated in or done approximately 30,000.” (abortions)
PETER JENNINGS asked: They call you a killer. Does that make sense to you?
HODGSON: “Well, I don’t feel that way. I think I have done a humane service for lots of women in this world. I don’t look upon it as killing, no, because I do not consider, in the first place, that any embryo or the fetus is a person. It is a potential person.”
She was asked by a caller, “Exactly what do you define in medical terms as a person?”
HODGSON replied: “I don’t believe there is a medical definition of person, but it means, it implies certainly a- we don’t deny that the fetus or the embryo is human, but personhood implies a great deal more. A person can- a fetus cannot be a person without a brain. Nothing can be a person that does not have a brain. And a fetus does not have a brain that is functional until at least 30 weeks.”