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Clinic worker who aborted says she found her pregnancy “exciting”

Abortion worker Andrea Butcher got pregnant and had an abortion. She says being pregnant (before she aborted) was “exciting”:

“I must say that I did find being pregnant quite exciting, and it was nice to have friends with whom I could discuss that feeling who reassured me that it was okay to feel excited about being pregnant even though I was quite sure that I didn’t want to go through with it. It’s nice to have the space to feel that way.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 30

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Scientist describes conception, the beginning of life

Scientist Jerome Lejeune, discoverer of down syndrome:

“… Each of us has a unique beginning, the moment of conception… As soon as the 23 chromosomes carried by the sperm encounter the 23 chromosomes carried by the ovum, the whole information necessary and sufficient to spell out all the characteristics of the new being is gathered…

A new human being is defined which has never occurred before and will never occur again… [It] is not just simply a nondescript cell, or a “population” or loose “collection” of cells, but a very specialized individual…”

Jerome Lejeune A Symphony of the Preborn Child, part 2 (Hagerstown, Maryland, 1989)

Quoted in Rick DeMichele Abortion: Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together (Meridian, Idaho: DayStar Publishing, 2010) 15

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Pro-Choice author felt abortion was “settled” after Roe

In one of her books, pro-choice author Rickie Solinger wrote about how she thought abortion was “settled” after Roe was decided. She didn’t anticipate the rise of the pro-life movement:

“I was 26 when the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973, and like others of my generation assumed that it had settled the matter.

Perhaps because I was relatively young then, perhaps because the political culture was less divided and divisive, perhaps because the claims of the women’s rights movement seemed so persuasive, I didn’t doubt that Roe v. Wade had established a new order, one that would change women’s lives forever…

[M]any women’s rights activists and others did not foresee the long decades of backlash against women’s new sexual and reproductive freedoms that lay ahead.”

Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) xv–xvi

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Israeli OBGYN describes conflict between doing abortions and helping women have babies

Prof. JG Schenker of Hadassah University Hospital in Israel, who does some abortions, writes:

“I try to do as few abortions as possible… Most of my research and that of my clinic is focused on how to solve the problem of infertile women. On the one hand, we spend so many hours trying to help couples create life and on the other we help women destroy it in five minutes.

For me, this creates a definite conflict. But there are two circumstances in which I am always prepared to carry out an abortion in spite of that conflict.

One is when the pregnancy endangers the health, both physical and mental, of the woman. The second is when the fetus is malformed. In those two circumstances, it is easy for me to perform an abortion.

What is difficult is when a woman comes who is ambivalent in her attitude to her love of her boyfriend and hence her pregnancy. It is very hard to accept any kind of casual attitude to abortion when you spend so much of your time trying to help couples achieve pregnancy.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 104

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Politician was pro-abortion because he didn’t want more handicapped children born

A British pro-choice politician said in 1979:

“I believe very much in the sanctity of life. I think that is one of the central issues for all of us, whichever side we take on this Bill. I do not want to see a situation in which we have more physically and mentally handicapped children…more unwanted children, with all the social problems that will involve… That is my view of the sanctity of human life.”

Fran Amery Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020) 73

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Pro-Choice Activists Argue About Use of Fetal Tissue in Research

Author Leslie Cannold interviewed pro-choice activists. She recounts one conversation with them. All of the women quoted are pro-abortion:

“The following conversation, between myself, Lisa, Carey, and Lucy, began after I raised the question of medical science’s use of fetal tissue to treat those suffering from Parkinson’s disease:…

Carey: I’m not saying I’d say no, I’m just saying that you have to ask the woman if it’s okay to use the aborted tissue!

Lucy: But if it’s in the rubbish bin, if she’s just thinking it’s going in the bin…

Lisa: But you can’t take it home, can you?

Lucy: You can’t take it home, and they can use it… It has been created especially for science to use.

Carey: I think that is outrageous, absolutely outrageous… Not even asking permission.

Lucy: But still, it’s like they’re taking out your appendix and throwing it in the rubbish. You’re throwing it in the rubbish, you haven’t said you want it all prettied up and put in a nice grave and buried.

Lisa: No way, they can’t just take it.

Lucy: OK, but your actual appendix is diced out, and the fetus is diced out. It’s out of you, it’s not part of you. I mean it’s gone, you’ve chosen to murder. You’ve killed that child, it’s gone.

Lisa: If they’re doing stuff like that, I’m going to start taking my Tupperware container with me.

Carey: Oh, absolutely.

Lucy: So you think you have a right to the fetus, even if you’ve just “tossed it in the bin”?

Carey: The whole handling of the abortion issue is wrong. You don’t toss it in the garbage. I mean, I’ve had an abortion, it was an incredibly painful experience.

I didn’t toss it in the garbage. And I find it really distressing to hear it referred to that way. And that others think they have a right to use my fetus.

You’re saying toss it in the garbage. I didn’t toss it in the garbage.

Lucy: OK, what did you do?

Carey: It sounds very callous and my decision was not a callous one. It was not unthought about, it was not clear, and it certainly wasn’t indifferent.

Part of your abortion decision is that it’s not going to be used as fetal tissue [to treat disease] or anything else. The thing is that if somebody asked me can be used as fetal tissue, I’d probably say yes. But not to ask…”

Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) 34-35

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Abortion provider describes role of nurses in saline abortions

From an abortion provider’s speech at a conference on abortion:

“The procedure for mid-trimester termination was either a saline or prostaglandin injected [into the woman’s womb] to induce labor. The women actually delivered (or aborted) on the ward, either in bed or in a bedpan.

The nurse was left with all the difficult work – you could actually say all the “dirty” work…[T]he nurse had to weigh the fetus, the nurse had to place the fetus in a bag and transport it to a mortuary, the nurse had to clean bed, patients, and any remaining products.

The nurse had to answer patients’ questions, sometimes distressing, about the size, appearance, sex, disposal of the fetus, and whether it was still alive. The nurse had to deal with distressed patients and relatives…”

D. Krutli “Mid-trimester abortion service within a public hospital” Women and Surgery: Conference Proceedings (Melbourne: Healthsharing Women, 1990) 103

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Abortionist not sure if he would be replaced if he retired

Abortionist Jerry Edwards, who owned an abortion clinic with his wife and clinic director Ann F. Osborne:

“If we retired, I’m not sure anybody else would come to Arkansas and practice. We can’t get residents from the hospital to come over and see what an abortion is like.”

JOHN LELAND” Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly” New York Times SEPT. 18, 2005

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“Nonprofit” Abortion Clinic had Budget of $600,000 in 1983

In an article on profits made by abortion clinics, reporter Scott Kraft wrote in 1983:

“The number of nonprofit clinics has grown just as swiftly as that for clinics seeking a profit.

The New Hampshire Feminist Health Center… performed only a dozen abortions a week when it opened in 1973. Now it manages 50 a week and the waiting list sometimes stretches to two weeks. The annual budget has climbed above $600,000 and there is a second branch in Portsmouth.”

Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion – And its Big Business” Observer Reporter January 18, 1983

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Abortionist: Abortions by induction take longer than natural labor

Abortionist William J. Sweeney III wrote that saline abortions, which were done by injecting toxic saline solution into the uterus, then inducing labor, took longer than natural childbirth. The same likely applies to induction abortions done today before the third trimester.

“The woman must labor longer than a mother giving birth to a full-term baby because the cervix isn’t ripe and nothing in her body is ready for the delivery. If we put the saline in at 8 o’clock in the morning, it’s three or 4 o’clock the next morning when she finally aborts.”

William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 208

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