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My babies understood why I was aborting them, woman says

A woman talking about her 2nd abortion said:

“But I really feel good that I made the decision, not to have the baby. Again, I pretty much had made my decision, talked to myself, you know, constantly, talked to my sister, talked to the baby. ‘Cause I definitely believe that when you get pregnant, I don’t care if it is just a little … little form there… It feels, picks up on the vibes. I really do believe that. So it was important for me to let the baby know that. It just wasn’t a good idea to have another baby right now. Not this time in my life. That it was time for me to get on to other things that I have to do for me. Both times I felt that the baby understood that wasn’t the right time for it to come.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 89

Did her babies really “understand” and accept the fact that they was going to be torn limb from limb in an abortion? Below are graphs of the two most common abortion procedures in the United States (and also very common worldwide)

If the baby could think and perceive, do you really think he or she would understand and accept their fate?

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Teen has abortion against father’s will

7 week ultrasound. 3/4 of abortions happen at 8 weeks or later, this is under that — 7 week ultrasound. 2/3 of abortions happen at 8 weeks or later, this is under that

From a woman named Tracy, who had an abortion against her boyfriend’s wishes.

“He wanted me to keep it… He would beg me to keep it. “Don’t kill it; don’t kill it. That’s my baby,” you know?? This back and forth, back and forth…

Then I got pressure from my family. My aunt said, “Keep it. I’ll take care of it. I’ll keep it and you can go to school.” I’m not going to give you my child, you know? At the time I was staying with my aunt, and she’s a lesbian. So she won’t be having any more kids.… And she has a fairly large house. Financially she’s pretty much stable. And she wants a child, but I guess she would rather have mine. So her and her girlfriend, they want my child. That’s pressure from another end, right? “We could take this room here and we’re going to fix up the nursery.” So it’s like a tug-of-war…

I was 17 at the time and he [the father of her baby] was about 19 or 20. And he was like, “Keep it; I’ll do anything for the child.”…

In the back of my mind, my first reaction was, I am not going to keep this baby… I have all these dreams; my life is going to change. I can’t do the things I want to do. I don’t think I could lead a normal life of being a teenager. I would just miss a whole bunch of things.…

Then, after the abortion, I just didn’t want to see [the father of the baby] anymore. Isn’t that something?”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 168 – 170

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Dr. Curtis Boyd talks about abortion and his work

From late term abortionist Dr. Curtis Boyd:

“You are asking a woman, if she becomes pregnant, to give up the decisions in her life to the foetus. That’s disturbing to me.”

Karen McVeigh “‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out” The Guardian 21 November 2014

Boyd performs abortions up to six months in his clinic.

Six months. Babies this age are killed clinics like Boyd's — Six months. Babies this age are killed clinics like Boyd’s

Here is a video were Dr. Boyd admits that he is killing

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Abortion clinic is “bright and airy place” says reporter

An article in The Guardian describes an abortion clinic as:

A bright, airy place, walls dotted with photos of flowers and water lilies painted by [the abortionist].

Karen McVeigh “‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out” The Guardian 21 November 2014

The abortion clinic she is describing belongs to Curtis and Glenna Boyd. They do late-term abortions. Babies like the one below (and ones quite a bit older) are dismembered at this “bright and airy” clinic.

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Late term abortionist gives reasons why late term abortions are done

A late term abortionist talks about the reasons women get abortions late in pregnancy:

It’s a natural question: “why did she wait? Why wasn’t she there at six weeks rather than 18?” Maybe she had irregular periods, she didn’t have Mother Nature’s early warning system. All kinds of reasons. Maybe she was raped — there’s another level of denial that goes with that. There’s also the decision-making process. Women assess all their responsibilities and resources, and ask — do I have enough to be a good mom and have a baby? For some people they do that really fast, and for other people it takes longer.

18 weeks

Conversations about stress in a relationship, changes in employment status. Those decisions take longer. And then there’s the access to care — that gets into that issue of disparities. Poor women have to make the arrangements: time off work, time off school, childcare, travel. If you have a waiting period, you have to travel twice and it’s that much more expense. Those factors can all delay a woman.

Dr. Nancy Stanwood, abortionist

LOLA PELLEGRINO “Ask (Another) Abortion Provider: Roe vs. Wade, 39th Anniversary Commemorative Edition” The Hairpin JANUARY 23, 2012

Note that none of the reasons listed above have to do with a health problem in the mother or baby.

This is how the majority of abortions are performed in the mid to late second trimester

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Abortionist says this to ambivalent patients

“Good and moral women have abortions every day, but when patients come in and are very conflicted, I try to address it. I say there are good people who are serious about religion who understand the sacredness of a woman’s right to choose about whether or not to continue a pregnancy. You can respect that other people disagree with you, but you have to listen to your own heart, and there are people who understand.”

Late term abortionist Dr Willie Parker

Karen McVeigh “‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out” The Guardian 21 November 2014

Dismembered foot of baby, aborted at 16 weeks

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“Motherhood too important” to let baby live and choose adoption

From Dr. Nancy Stanwood, abortionist:

Only 1% of women with an unplanned pregnancy go forward with adoption in the US — very, very small. And I hear it from my patients for all different reasons: they never could do it, the interesting thing they say is that they don’t trust anybody else to raise their child. Will the child be loved? Will the child be well cared for? Again, it gets to the idea that they understand how important motherhood is …

LOLA PELLEGRINO “Ask (Another) Abortion Provider: Roe vs. Wade, 39th Anniversary Commemorative Edition” The Hairpin JANUARY 23, 2012

Is it better to kill this baby or give him up for adoption?

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2 Illinois doctors talk about partial birth abortions

During the partial birth abortion trials, there was a much discussion about late term abortions and how often they were done. The pro-choice side claimed that late term abortions by partial birth (see here) were extremely rare and only done for the most extreme of reasons.

Illinois physicians M. LeRoy Sprang and Mark G. Neerhoff :

“The vast majority [are] done not in response to extreme medical conditions but on healthy mothers and healthy fetuses.” They point out that 56 percent of partial-birth abortions are done as a result of “fetal flaws . . . some as minor as a cleft lip,” while 9 percent involve maternal health problems, “of which the most common [is] depression.”

Mary E. Williams. ed. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002) 13

Even though partial-birth abortions aren’t done anymore, the same is true for other late-term abortions done differently today

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Midwife: Society puts too much pressure on women to choose abortions

Virginia Griffin, nurse, midwife, fertility counsellor and natural family planning teacher:

I’m pro-choice – but I believe very strongly in women’s right to decide NOT to have an abortion.

I think society puts too much pressure on women to have abortions for the slightest of reasons. …

I also believe it is too easy for women to say they’ll have an abortion because they won’t be able to cope financially. Here again, this is society putting on the pressure.

But women can get support through social services, and from centres such as ours which offer immediate support and continue it after the baby’s birth.

We’re still helping people whose mothers came to us 25 years ago…

The long-term damage can be devastating.

I see women who are still suffering from a termination they had decades earlier.

Having to help them pick up the pieces just makes me more and more convinced that abortion is wrong – not only because of the loss of a potential life but also because of the destruction of the mother’s life.

AnnBarrowclough “ABORTION; THIS IS WHAT OUR NURSES REALLY THINK…” Sunday Mirror (London, England) Aug 18, 1996

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Girl has 4 abortions- its cheaper than contraception

From abortion clinic worker Marie Stafford:

I once had a young girl who’d had four abortions and she said it was cheaper for her to have abortions than use any form of contraception because her boyfriend paid for the abortions. She complained about our menu, saying it wasn’t as good as the last time.

AnnBarrowclough “ABORTION; THIS IS WHAT OUR NURSES REALLY THINK…” Sunday Mirror (London, England) Aug 18, 1996

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