They said it.
Abortionist Dr. Michael S Burnhill referred to abortion as:
“A consistently high quality, humane service.”
Michael S Burnhill “Humane Abortion Services: A Revolution in Human Rights and the Delivery of a Medical Service” Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 42 (September/October 1975): 950
Pictures of aborted babies at 10 weeks. Was this humane?
Whitney, a doula at an abortion clinic, writes about how abortion workers casually chatted right before an abortion. The woman was asleep on the table, prepared for surgery:
“In the background, music is playing. The doctors talk quietly about their upcoming vacations and the weather.
The doulas almost all say that they expect a certain reverence to fill the OR during an abortion, an air that is hushed, respectful, sometimes somber, and maybe even celebratory…We are often surprised when we see that for some people, especially the doctors and the nurses who do surgeries and abortions all day, every day, sometimes it’s just a job.”
Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 93
Share on FacebookAn abortion doula, who comforts women as they kill their babies, says:
“I’ve been taught to follow the patient’s lead. If she calls it her baby, then I do too. But with the next patient, just as far along, it’s fetal tissue, it’s the products of conception. One stumbles over her words, says “all the stuff inside,” and that feels right, too. “
Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Is this a baby? Or “fetal tissue?”
Abortionist Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who performs late-term abortions into the third trimester, says:
“I totally believe in this cause every bit as much as I did believe every morning when I got up in the military that I was doing the right thing.”
CBS Evening News, Dec. 4, 2009
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Derzis, who owns Mississippi’s last abortion clinic and three others in the U.S. South, on being called the “Abortion Queen”
“It doesn’t in any way injure my self-confidence. I kind of like being the queen.”
Esmé E. Deprez “Abortion Queen’ in Last-Ditch Battle to Save Mississippi Clinic” Bloomberg July 12, 2012
One of her clinics was inspected, and they found 76 pages of health code violations.
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic worker Sallie Tisdale says of her work at the abortion facility:
In describing this work, I find it difficult to explain how much I enjoy it most of the time. We laugh a lot here…Certain clients waken in me every tender urge I have—others make we wince and bite my tongue. Both challenge me to find a balance. It is a sweet brutality we practice here, a stark and loving dispassion.”
Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Tale” Harper’s Magazine, October, 1987, 66-70.
Share on FacebookAbortion worker SA Davies:
“Ultimately I would then consider the possibility of suffering involved with the foetus. This again wasn’t an easy task, but I did eventually conclude that suffering before actual birth might be less on a scale of 1 to 10 In comparison with the suffering and distress I had seen on the geriatric ward where humans who presumably had earned their ticket for an existence on earth ended up in the “scrap heap” and received the same care and attention as scrap metal, often broken and discarded.
It was this that made me realize that life, unpredictable as it is, has no room for the already “unarmed and vulnerable…to me abortion is a matter of life and death and such comparisons of the unborn, defenseless, the innocent, seem to have the same unique similarities that the elderly and abandoned have….We should stand by our convictions if we believe that they are right.
However, in my basic nurse training, I witnessed once-conscientious colleagues and friends, soon begin to use the same old excuse: “I was only obeying orders” just as habitually they straightened pillows and checked fluid balance charts.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986)
Share on FacebookFrom a British nurse working in an abortion clinic:
“Late abortions – well, I wouldn’t want to be in theatre [where operations take place] all the time. But, frankly, I feel more anguish listening to the women’s stories.”
From The Guardian November 2, 1989
Quoted in Jenny Bryan Abortion (East Sussex, England: Wayland Publishers Limited, 1991) 41
6 month old baby, before and after abortion
British abortion clinic spokesman:
A fetus before viability is “so much garbage.”
Quoted in Dr. and Mrs. JC Willke Handbook on Abortion, rev. ed. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hayes Publishing Company, 1975) 131
In an article about an abortionist:
Doc puts his hand on her belly and says, “It’s about as big as a softball, a nice, soft softball.” He is smiling, somewhat rakishly; his voice is soft and furred, almost a caricature of an old doctor’s voice. With his thumb, he examines the woman’s cervix. “Tell me if you feel anything,” he says, but she just looks at the nurse with her wide eyes and nods her head, and says not a word. “Well,” Doc says, “then tell me if you faint or if you die.” Then he gives her a painkiller, “a paracervical block,” with a long needle, and she says “I can feel it; I just don’t want to look.”
“Why-because if you don’t look you won’t know how dreadful it is?” he asks, and, with the injection completed, he leaves the room…..
In truth, Doc scares them, the young women who come to the Ladies Center”
Tom Junod ““THE ABORTIONIST” GQ February 1994
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