On the Indian custom of sex selection abortion:
“Better to snuff a life at birth than to suffer lifelong misery.”
Sakuntala Narasimban “The Unwanted Sex” New Internationalist February 1993, 240
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Mother of disabled children insulted by bystander
Often, women who reject the pressure to abort their disabled children after an amniocentesis shows problems with the baby are not accepted or understood by others in society.
A woman named Sarah D who had two disabled children was berated by a “shocked” and “open mouthed” bystander who said:
“Not one… Not one but two. Don’t you know that kind of thing is preventable now?”
Sam Tormey “Making Perfect Babies” Griffith Review, Winter 2004
Share on FacebookPro-choicers uncomfortable when reporter watches abortion
Pro-choice author Sarah Kliff , who often writes in support of late-term abortions, witnessed an early suction abortion. She saw the blood and tissue run down the tube, but did not look at the aborted remains closely, or she would’ve seen torn off arms and legs.
She describes the reactions of her pro-choice friends when she told them she had witnessed an abortion:
When I returned from Omaha, friends and colleagues wanted to know if I had “done it.” When I said I had, their reactions surprised me. Friends who supported legal abortion bristled slightly when I told them where I’d been and what I’d watched… my experience (among an admittedly small, largely pro-choice sample set) found a general discomfort when confronted with abortion as a physical reality, not a political idea. Americans may support abortion rights, but even 40 years after Roe, we don’t talk about it like other medical procedures.
Sarah Kliff “Watching My First Abortion” Newsweek 8/14/09
Share on FacebookLate term abortionist: Prolifers are fascists
From a reporter interviewing late-term abortionist Warren Hern
The antiabortion movement is the face of fascism, he says. It cannot be separated from the ruthless and cynical manipulation of antiabortion rhetoric by the Republican party.
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor”Esquire September 1, 2009
Abortionist Warren Hern performs abortions all the way up until birth. Some of the babies he kills are as developed as the one below.
Can you tell the difference between this “fetus” who may be legally killed and a “baby” who may not?
Share on FacebookD&E procedure causes abortionists “emotional strain”
On an abortion procedure called D&E:
“D&E often involves greater emotional strain on the clinicians and staff. It forces them to deal with the fetus in an intimate way that many find distasteful.”
W Cates “D&E After 12 Weeks: Safe or Hazardous?” Contemporary Ob/Gyn, Medical Economics Co. 13:23-29, January 1979
below is a diagram showing how a D&E is done
In this video, a former abortionist describes the D&E procedure.
Share on FacebookDoctor comments on abortions to save the mother’s life
From a doctor, writing in 1976:
“After many years working several large gynecological hospitals, I have never yet seen a woman’s life in danger, necessitating an abortion. I have seen 2 extremely sick women offered abortions because of serious heart–lung disease; both refused, and both delivered normal children, normally. When a doctor declares that the patient’s life is in danger because of a pregnancy and an associated disease, that is his clinical opinion. There is no absolute indication for a legal abortion in such circumstances.”
M Harry “A Critical Evaluation of Legal Abortion” World Med J 23(6):83-85, 1976
Share on FacebookAn ironic comment from a pro-abortion blogger
Maia has a blog that tells women how to self abort with herbs. She calls herself an “outlaw midwife” and makes the following ironic statement in an essay she wrote:
when people ask me why i am an outlaw midwife, i tell them, because revolutionaries are born everyday. if we let them be born.
“Overheard” JivinJehoshaphat August 03, 2010
Share on FacebookWoman working ‘one child policy’ horrified by late term abortions
From a Chinese woman who took part in the One Child Policy and both performed and witnessed abortions.
“Despite my new conviction – or was it just a rationalization? – that the one child program was necessary for China, I could not overcome my aversion for late-term abortions, whether performed by Doctor Yin or anyone else. I didn’t know which was worse – crushing a child’s skull with forceps or throwing a live baby away like so much rubbish.”
Stephen W Mosher A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight against China’s One Child Policy (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993) 256
Share on FacebookAuthor comments on pictures of unborn babies
Pro-choice author, on pictures of babies in the womb:
“Many women feel deprived by the fact that such images were not in circulation at the time when they aborted, others find that fact to be a source of relief.”
Eva Pattis Zoja Abortion: Loss and Renewal in the Search for Identity (London: Routledge, 1997) 72-73
Abortion clinic owner on “life growing inside”
Abortion clinic founder and owner (now retired) Merle Hoffman:
“The abortion clinics have become the new Cathedrals of our age -its workers the grassroots clergy. Here, there is existential dread, anxiety, an initial taste of power…the crushing fundamental truth coming home that you are responsible for your own life and the life growing inside you.”
Merle Hoffman “ABORTION – THE “ISSUE” On the Issues Volume 12, 1989
Note that Hoffman concedes that a pregnant woman has a “life growing inside”
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