They said it.
Dennis Christensen
abortionist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin), Controversy makes private practice public for Madison doctor An abortion provider, unabashed: 4-11-1999
“As for abortion, it is what it is. The fetus is what it is. In my mind, the one who gets to decide that value is the woman who’s pregnant. It’s as simple as that.”
From Life Dynamics
David Paintin
abortionist
Pro-Choice Forum: Women’s experiences ‘My Foetus’, Summary and Review by David Paintin,4-24-2004 http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/ocrwomex5.asp (this is a review of a documentary that showed an abortion)
“There are reasons why a fetus should not be regarded as a person with full human rights at any time during pregnancy. The fetus is a parasite completely dependent on the woman for continued existence.”
Carol E. Ball
abortionist, Planned Parenthood of South Dakota
Report of the South Dakota Task Force to Study abortion: December 2005
“I would refuse to answer those questions (if asked by the patient if the unborn baby was “human life”), because it is a subjective matter for the woman to decide and an answer from her is nothing but her own subjective opinion.”
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Share on FacebookSherry Cage
abortion clinic counselor
“A chain of tears:’ a doctor and abortion”
In the article, abortion clinic counselor spoke of the reactions women have regarding their abortions. She asked, “Remember the one who wanted to take it home in a jar?”
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Share on FacebookRobert Crist
abortionist
“A chain of tears:’ a doctor and abortion”
Explaining what the girl’s ask abortionist Robert Crist he made these comments:
“Was it a boy or a girl?”… “Can I see it?”…”You must think I’m awful.”
Then there are the questions they ask before the abortion, which can seem the most disheartening part of all:
“How much does it cost to terminate the baby?”…. “Am I going to be tied down?”…”Is a doctor going to do it? Is he licensed? A real doctor?”
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Share on FacebookPeg Johnston
director of Southern Tier Women’s Services near Binghamton, New York.
Ms. Magazine, Abortion under attack, August-September, 2001
“Women who sit in my clinic don’t see it as a right, They’re scared.”
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Share on FacebookKaren Jones
abortion clinic administrator
St. Petersburg Times, “A chain of tears:’ a doctor and abortion:6-3-1990
“We’ve had a lot of those. They want to bury it [the aborted baby] themselves. We had one, her mother wanted to know the exact moment it happened so she could go into the bathroom and light candles and have a ceremony. I said, “Not in our bathroom.’ So she went into the parking lot.”
Quoted by Life Dynamics
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Charlotte Taft
abortion clinic owner
Fairfield County Weekly: Listening to Women About Abortion, 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, by Jennifer Baumgardner – May 26, 2005
“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?” ….
“I would go out there and scream at them. [the anti-abortion protesters] Then I would come back in and listen to a woman talk. Frequently the words were almost the same. The protesters would be saying, ‘You’re murdering your baby,’ and the women inside would be saying, ‘I feel like I’m killing my baby.’ I used to think, well, they’re just echoing what they are hearing. There was a time when I would correct them if they used those words.” “The word killing was hard. It was so difficult to see women that guilty or distressed….But eventually we got into conversations about the difference between murder and killing. Now our reaction is more: well, does it feel like killing to you and how are you going to make peace with that?”
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Share on FacebookJane Bovard
owner of the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, N.D.
NY Times, Scant drop in abortion rate if parents are told: 3-6-2006
“I see far more parents trying to pressure their daughters to have one (abortion). But I say to parents, ‘You force her to have this abortion, and I can tell you that within the next six months she’s going to be pregnant again.’
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Share on Facebook“…in my clinic, we wash off the tissue and examine it. It is treated respectfully and put with the woman’s first name into a container. We show it to patients if they ask to see it, and make sure they understand which part is the sac [later the placenta], which part the pregnancy if visible (after nine weeks) and which is part of the lining of the uterus. People have been known to pray over it, write notes for inclusion, “baptize” it, etc., etc. Some clinic staff have also been known to say a little prayer over it– thanking it for its sacrifice so that the woman could continue on the path she was on.”
Abortion clinic employee
blog Abortion Clinic Days, Blog 11-30-2005
