They said it.
From one abortionist:
“I get absolutely no joy whatsoever doing any abortion, but we have a duty to an individual. The Catholic physician is aborting the Hippocratic Oath more than I am in not giving a woman the choice.”
Jonathan B Imber Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986) 45
See what babies look like after abortion.
Is it more supportive of the Hippocratic Oath to perform abortions or to refuse to perform them?
Share on FacebookA textbook on how to perform abortions, written by a late term abortionist who has been practicing for decades, talks about how important ultrasounds are in abortion care
“Sonographic examination is invaluable for a variety of reasons. Aside from more accurate assessment of fetal age than other methods, it provides information concerning fetal presentation, placental location, multiple gestations, and such unexpected conditions as hydatidiform mole, myomas, uterine structural abnormalities, and extrauterine lesions (e.g. ovarian cysts). Many of these data can affect clinical management in important ways.
While ultrasound is not perfect, it appears to be considerably more accurate for determining fetal age than are menstrual dates and even a careful examination by an experienced physician.”
Warren M Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: JB Lippincott Company, 1990) 70
Share on FacebookAn abortion clinic escort talks about how one of the women at the abortion clinic changed her mind after seeing an ultrasound of her baby. She says:
Lots of women aren’t sure about the decision when they go in to a clinic, and they ask to see the ultrasound, and they decide not to abort. That’s fine – it’s a choice. But when a woman comes in who is 100% sure of the decision, and has no interest whatsoever in looking at the ultrasound, why should she have to?… (here’s a news flash) when women are pregnant, they KNOW what’s in there! They don’t think it’s a fish, or a stapler. We don’t need an ultrasound to tell us.
I think people who ask to see the ultrasound should be allowed to, of course. For some women it’s the information they need to show themselves that they can’t go through with it. For others, it’s a piece of the grieving process.
“Surprise! No Staplers on THIS Ultrasound” Anti–choice Is Anti-Awesome April 29, 2008
Share on FacebookFrom one woman who had an abortion:
“Well, we all sat there and about half the people in the room – I can’t remember how many girls there were, maybe 6 or 7 – were on their 2nd or 3rd time and it didn’t seem to phase them at all…
This one girl – they were asking questions – the only question she had was she said she’d had a couple before and she said it smelled bad afterwards: Was there any way she could get rid of that because her boyfriend didn’t like the smell?”
Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 97
Share on FacebookA book on fetal development talks about how babies move in the womb
“Space permitting, fetuses might be rolling, back flipping, kicking, stretching, yawning, breathing, swallowing, somersaulting, turning their heads, flexing their feet, waving their arms, sucking their thumbs, holding their penises, rolling from side to side, hiccupping, jumping (startling) at loud noises from outside.
Only if they move a good deal will fetuses be doing enough muscle work for their joints, bones, and muscles to develop properly.… water, whether it is amniotic fluid surrounding a developing baby, or a pool in which children are free to fool around because of the freedom from gravity its buoyancy offers, is one of the best playgrounds ever created.”
Nikki Bradford The Miraculous World of Your Unborn Baby (London, UK: Salamander Books, 2004) 47
Share on FacebookLate term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern talks about the emotional impact of providing late term abortions:
In passing, the abortionist says you can never get used to this. Next time he gives you a minute, you ask him to elaborate.
You can’t, he says. I think we’re hardwired, biologically, to protect small, vulnerable creatures, especially babies. The fetuses may not be babies, but some of them are pretty close.
Since you’ve become wary of even saying the word baby around him, always using fetus instead, this surprises you. But he refuses to say any more. He suggests you read an essay called “What About Us? Staff Reactions to D&E.” The antiabortion people quote the shit out of it. It’s kind of antiabortion porn for them. But the pro-choice people don’t like it either. They don’t like it when you talk about how it really feels to do this work. His voice is somewhere between bitter and proud.
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor” Esquire September 1, 2009
Hern provides abortions all the way up until birth at his Boulder, Colorado clinic. You can see him advertising to do third trimester abortions on his website.
Late term abortionist Warren Hern’s wife worked in an abortion clinic as well.When Hern was working in Spain as an abortionist, he wrote her letters. Speaking in broken English, because she grew up in Cuba, Hern’s wife recalls the content of one of the letters:
“When I was aborting in Spain, I finished the abortion to a young woman, first trimester. When I finish this procedure, she sit on the table, see me to my face, say, Oh, doctor, you are really nice, you are such angel, how do you kill babies? I say, I’m sorry, I don’t kill any baby. I aspirate gestational sac. You kill your baby.“
John H. Richardson “The last abortion doctor” Esquire September 1, 2009
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From the owner of an abortion clinic:
“Ohio quickly passed a law designed to dissuade women from seeking abortions by giving them pictures of fetuses. We were requested to give each patient at least twenty-four hours before she had an abortion a colorful pamphlet of fetal development that looked exactly like RTL literature.
For patients who lived far away, we were allowed to mail the brochures to their house at their request… We also weren’t required to verify addresses. Sometimes I wondered who was receiving these pamphlets.”
Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition
Share on FacebookOn whether preborn babies feel pain.
“Data in the British Medical Journal, Lancet, gave solid confirmation of [fetal] pain. It is known that the fetal umbilical cord has no pain receptors such as the rest of the fetal body. Accordingly, they tested fetal hormone stress response comparing puncturing of the abdomen and of the cord. They observed:”
“The fetus reacts to intrahepatic (liver) needling with vigorous body and breathing movements, but not to cord needling. The levels of these hormones did not vary with fetal age.’
M. Fisk, et al., Fetal Plasma Cortisol and B-endorphin Response to Intrauterine Needling, Lancet, Vol. 344, July 9, 1994, Pg. 77
Share on FacebookMichael S Policar, then VP of Medical Affairs at Planned Parenthood, blurbed the book Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion by Sumi Hoshiko . He said:
“[Hoshiko] skillfully demonstrates… the demeaning message that is sent to women who choose abortion, implying that their actions are less loving than those women who carry their pregnancies to term.”
Blurb on Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993)
Is this really more loving than carrying to term?
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