“It is clear that physically dismembering and removing the fetus is emotionally distressing for the doctor. A doctor, therefore, has to overcome an element of revulsion in order to do a late term surgical termination of pregnancy… Dismemberment of a baby so violates a general human instinct that it is morally worse than destruction of the fetus by other means.”
Nicholas Johnson, Journal of Medical Ethics 1989, vol. 15, p 82
“[Abortionist] Dr. William B. Waddill said that saline produces “such a caustic and tremendously bad and hostile environment for the baby that it just creates an enormous destructive process.”
Quoted from The People of the State of California vs. William Baxter Waddill, Jr. Transcript of Preliminary Examination, in the Municipal Court of the West Orange County Judicial District, State of California, Case no. 77W2085 April 19, 1977
William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983)
Saline solution was injected into the amniotic sack to slowly poison the baby during abortion procedures. Today, the poison of choice is Digoxin. Witnesses say Dr. Waddill strangled a baby born alive after a botched saline abortion procedure.
Glenn Little, president of the Disabled Persons Association, in Victoria Australia, who has cerebral palsy:
“If I had been given the choice about whether I wanted to live with my brain damage or to be allowed to die, I would have chosen to live. I believe that I am serving a worthwhile purpose in my own way….
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard any disabled person say that they would prefer not to have been born. That’s after 20 odd years of mixing in and out of the disabled community. If another disabled person and I decided to have a child and we were told that the child would be born disabled, we would go ahead and have the child…
I think that if you find out during pregnancy that the baby is likely to have a disability you will find nine times out of 10 that they won’t know the severity…
The child might well grow up into someone like me or any of the other people you have met here at the Association today.
Should we have been aborted? It’s not just a question of what people need in the way of assistance – it’s also a question of what they can give.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 199
Dr. Bertran Wainer, abortion clinic founder and abortionist:
“Abortion is killing. Nobody can argue with that. When the fetus is inside the uterus it is alive and when the pregnancy terminated it is dead – that by any definition is killing. …
I think abortion is the destruction of something which is potentially irreplaceable, human and of great value, which is the tragedy of abortion. But it is not of greater value than the woman seeking the abortion.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 59
“I was performing as a singer in “Evita” in London in 1984 when I discovered that I was pregnant… By coincidence, a colleague with whom I shared a dressing room discovered that she was pregnant at around the same time. She and her husband were thrilled with their news, but she became distressed at the thought that I was going to have an abortion. In total sincerity, she asked me if I would consider having the baby and letting her adopt it. I was utterly distressed at the thought of possibly giving up a child of mine for adoption. I thanked my colleague for her offer and tried to explain to her that just as her maternal instinct prompted her to make such an offer, my maternal instinct could never let me accept it. While I do believe that adopting out a child can be an expression of maternal protectiveness and caring, it was not my choice…
sonogram of 8 week old preborn baby
My experience was a struggle because I had not anticipated the terrible sense of emptiness that followed the abortion. It is probably difficult for those who are against abortion or who have not had one to understand that one can have an abortion without regret and yet still feel a deep sense of loss.… Abortion produces many conflicting emotions that are not necessarily reconcilable or logical… It is virtually impossible to know how you are going to react physically and emotionally after the abortion.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 11-12
Pro-Choice author Miriam Claire says that the only reason a woman would want to carry a disabled baby to term is religious belief. She says:
In my view, asking the community to fund personal religious beliefs is a questionable way to approach parenthood.
If you knowingly bring a disabled child into the world, you should be able and willing to pay for all costs associated with caring for that child…. A surprise disability that emerges after birth is clearly a different matter.
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 202
She believes babies born to mothers who knew they’d be disabled should not get health care or any benefits from the government.
Dr. Etienne–Emile Baulieu, the French doctor who developed the abortion pill RU-486:
“Making a child is an affair of thinking, feeling, and love. Everybody has his or her own definition. It is up to each person to define whether there is, or is not, a person developing in the uterus. The definition of whether or not there is a person developing in the uterus may change for each pregnancy, depending on the circumstances of the people involved. Let people decide for themselves.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 70
When you choose to have an abortion, you are responsible for a decision to halt the development of a human life. That is the most significant difference between abortion and miscarriage. It is somehow easier to accept “fate” or “the will of nature” then it is to accept responsibility for our actions.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 1
This is what abortion doctor Suzanne Poppema says to a woman she is doing an abortion on:
“I’m going to be stretching your cervix just a little bit, so you’ll feel some pressure and some mild cramping. But it shouldn’t be anything that hurts a lot. So if it does, then please tell me because I can fix that easily.” She still seems relaxed. Seconds later I tell her that the stretching of the cervix is accomplished and “we’re more than half way done now.” Dawn reports that she feels all right and is continuing to concentrate on her breathing. I get no indication from her physical responses that she’s having any pain at all.
“Now you’ll hear a loud noise coming from the machine,” I warn her as I activate the suction device. “I’m inserting a plastic suction tube now and you’ll feel a little pulling and tugging as I empty your uterus…. Everything is going just fine,” I assure her, warning her about a dental-procedure like sucking noise that will be caused by a piece of tissue briefly blocking the suction tube. When the piece clears the tissue continues to flow through the translucent suction tube an into a large glass container. I can tell now that the procedure is typical of abortions at this term of pregnancy.
9-10 weeks. Legal to abort in every US state
“Now there will be a little more of the tugging and pulling,” I tell her, but Dawn doesn’t seem to notice it much. “Now your uterus is beginning to empty much more rapidly,” I report, “and you may feel more cramping. But that’s a very good sign. It means you’re not going to bleed very much and it means we’re almost finished. I’m going to stop just briefly to give your uterus a rest, so you’ll hear that really obnoxious sucking noise. I’m going to let you rest for about thirty seconds. Then I’m going to do one more check to see to it I’m not leaving any lining tissue inside that might cause you problems later on. This will take about one more minute and then we’ll be done. But you’ve pretty much felt as bad as you’re going to feel.”
Seven-week 3-D ultrasound
A minute later, I assure her that her uterus is clamping down just as it should be. Seconds later I pull the suction tube away and announce, “We’re all done.”
Suzanne T. Poppema, MD and Mike Henderson Why I am an Abortion Doctor (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1996) 21-22
