They said it.
Late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern:
“As a society, I think we’ve been in denial about the risks of abortion, because of ideology, and because of economics.”
Tamar Lewin “A New Weapon in an Old War,” The New York Times April 9, 1995
Quoted in: Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014) 44
Dr. Hern has written and contributed to textbooks on how to do abortions.
Share on FacebookIn 1867, abortion was illegal. One prominent physician, Detroit doctor Morse Stewart, describes the prevailing attitude towards abortionists in a publication:
“What language can express the utter baseness of that man, whose education has been that of a physician, whose standing in society is that of a physician (a word, which should be held by every man in the profession as synonymous with honor, honesty, integrity, and an earnest, single hearted purpose to preserve human life) what shall we say of such a man, dishonoring his profession, making it a stench in the nostrils of society, debasing his own conscience, by becoming a murderer? Stimulated to murder by no hot and fiery passion, he breaks the 6th commandment for what? For greed! He sells his own soul; he demoralizes all with whom he comes in contact; he sells that boon which no wealth can buy, for 30 beggarly bits of silver. May the doom of the arch traitor fall upon him! “Let his days be few, and let another take his office, – let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.”
Morse Stewart, “Criminal Abortion,” Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy 2 January 1867 6. Quoted in Frederick N Dyer The Physicians’ Crusade against Abortion (Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts: science history publications, 2005)
This is one quote of many that shows that abortion was considered murder among the medical profession when it was illegal. Indeed, it was doctors who pushed to make abortion illegal to begin with. Some pro-abortion writings will claim that abortion was opposed by doctors because it was dangerous to women, but quotes like those above show that many doctors viewed it as murder.
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When Dr. Damon Stutes tried to get a loan to set up an abortion clinic, banks refused him:
“I went to 12 banks, and they wouldn’t finance me.`Abortion clinic,’ they’d say. They didn’t want anything to do with it. Well, there’ll be a banker’s relative in here someday. I’m sure there already has.”
The article says:
With a mortgage from The Money Store, he built the $1 million clinic in 150 days. Construction workers told local businessmen and residents it was a dental office. Not until it was running, in November, did Stutes call the news media and display his new building.
Brian McGrory “Some abortion doctors relying on arms and fortification” The Boston GlobeJanuary 16, 1995
This post shows the pro-lifers, even in the 1990s, when annual abortions were at their greatest number, were working to keep new clinics from being established.
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Late-term abortionist George Tiller, who did abortions through the 9th month, was quoted saying:
“The woman is the patient and the fetus is the problem”
The Tiller Report II, Operation Rescue 2004, 2006
below: a “problem” that Tiller could’ve aborted at 28 weeks
From a publication written in 2004 on late-term abortionist George Tiller, who was later assassinated:
“Tiller built the 18-room, 8,500 square-foot house in Wichita, once assessed at$732,000 but now worth over$1 million.”
The Tiller Report II, Operation Rescue 2004, 2006
Violence against abortion providers is despicable and not endorsed in any way by Clinic Quotes or any other mainstream pro-life group. However, this quote is included as another testimony to how lucrative abortion can be for doctors who perform them.
Share on FacebookRickie Solinger quoted another pro-choice feminist saying the following:
“I consider the right to elective abortion… the cornerstone of the women’s movement… Without that right, we’d have about as many rights as the cow in the pasture that’s taken to the bull once a year.”
Rickie Solinger Beggars and Choosers (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001) 4
below: pieces of aborted babies between 6 and 11 weeks
Christiane Northrup, former abortionist, on why life is too valuable to ban abortion:
“The bond between mother and child is the most intimate bond in human experience. In this most primary of human relationships, love, welcome, and receptivity should be present in abundance. Forcing a woman to bear and raise a child against her will is therefore an act of violence. It constricts and degrades the mother – child bond and sows the seeds of hatred rather than love. … Life is too valuable to inhibit its full blossoming and potential by forcing a woman to bear it against her will.”
Christiane Northrup, MD Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom (New York: Bantam books, 2002) 383
Is banning abortion an act of violence? Or is performing an abortion an act of violence? Below are 2 pictures of abortions at 10 weeks, still the first trimester, within the time when most abortions are performed. Would preventing these abortions be “violence”?
Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, in ruling against the Partial Birth Abortion ban, makes this point:
“From the standpoint of the fetus, and, I should think, of any rational person, it makes no difference whether, when the skull is crushed, the fetus is entirely within the uterus or its feet are outside the uterus. Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged…. [T]here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice. No reason of policy or morality that would allow the one would forbid the other.”
Richard John Neuhaus “So What’s the Big Deal about Partial-Birth Abortion” : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life June 2000. : 84.
Below is a diagram of a D&E abortion. This is the way most second trimester abortions are done today. Is it any more humane than a partial birth abortion?
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A woman named Ashley Rogers shared this story.
I called Planned Parenthood one day when I found out I was pregnant, I wanted to see if they could confirm that I was pregnant and to print a letter saying it was confirmed they said are you looking to have an abortion…. I said um no I just need to know if you guys could confirm if I am indeed pregnant or not… and they said we don’t do that here…
Planned Parenthood refused to help her unless she was seeking an abortion.
Share on Facebook“We were told that if anybody asks what happened to say that it didn’t really happen, it’s just a lie that the protesters made up.”
What clinic worker Theresa Jensen Clinic Worker says she was instructed to tell patients after the death of a woman at the clinic. (A-Z Women’s Center)
20/20 A woman’s right, a woman’s risk 3-8-1999
Quoted by Life Dynamics
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