They said it.
Found: Yet another medical book that claims life exists in the womb.
“Embryo: An organism in the earliest stage of development; in a man, from the time of conception to the end of the second month in the uterus.”
(Dox, Ida G. et al. The Harper Collins Illustrated Medical Dictionary. (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993) p. 146.
Go here for statements from medical textbooks on when life begins.
Ron Weddington, one of the attorneys who drafted the brief for abortion rights in Roe V Wade, wrote a private letter to President-elect Bill Clinton arguing for the state to use abortion as population control. This letter was written in 1992:
“[Y]ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. No, I’m not advocating some sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can’t afford to have babies. In 1989, 27% of all births were to unmarried mothers, a huge percentage of whom were teenagers. If current trends continue, soon a majority of the babies born will be born into poverty and one half of the country cannot support the other half, no matter how good our intentions. I am not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion. You and Hillary are a perfect example. Could either of you have gone to law school and achieved anything close to what you have if you had three or four more children before you were 20? No! You waited until you were established in your 30s to have one child. That is what sensible people do.… It’s time to officially recognize that people are going to have sex and what we need to do as a nation is prevent as much disease and as many poor babies as possible. Condoms alone won’t do it. Depo-Provera, Norplant and the new birth control injection being developed in India are not a complete answer… No, government is going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions… RU-486 and conventional abortions. Even if we make birth control as ubiquitous as sneakers and junk food, there will still be unplanned pregnancies. There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe V Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery… And then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario.”
Ron Weddington is the husband of Sarah Weddington, one of the two lawyers who argued for abortion in Roe Vs. Wade
Quoted in Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014)
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Carole Joffe interviewed abortion clinic workers for her book The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers. She says:
“… As the clinic director was fond of pointing out, counseling did not generate revenue for the clinic; being seen in the medical room did. Perhaps the greatest problem with slowdowns [counseling sessions that took longer than average] was the risk of annoying doctors.”
This meant that often women were not given adequate time to talk about their decision to have an abortion.
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 89
Share on FacebookAlan Guttmacher, once president of Planned Parenthood, in 1969:
“I would like to give our voluntary means of population control full opportunity in the next 10 to 12 years. Then, if these don’t succeed, we may have to go into some kind of coercion, not worldwide, but possibly in such places as India, Pakistan, Indonesia…”
Alan Guttmacher, The American Journal of Nursing (June, 1969).
Quoted in Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014) 11-12
Share on Facebook“…Every human embryologist in the world knows that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization. It is not belief. It is scientific fact.”
Ward Kischer, human embryologist, University of Arizona
“You Can Stop Injustice” Human Life Alliance Supplement, 2010
Read quotes from medical textbooks verifying this here.
Share on FacebookClinic worker Jenny Higgins says that wealthy women get better abortion care than poor women do. She says:
“… We almost never service wealthier women at the clinics where I worked. In the southeastern clinic, which was in an urban area, the majority of the clients were African-American….. [Wealthy women] are more likely to have access to higher quality, private abortion care, either due to their insurance plans or because they can afford to pay out-of-pocket for such services.”
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“Even though I prided myself on providing attentive and empathic care to the patients with whom I worked, the clinic infrastructure and patient overload prohibited the kind of service that members of the middle and upper classes have come to expect – or the kind of care I had received at relatively posh student health centers or private gynecologist offices.”
Jenny Higgins “Sex, Unintended Pregnancy, and Poverty: One Woman’s Evolution from “Choice” to “Reproductive Justice” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 37-38
Share on FacebookDr. Jay Kelinson, who performed the abortion in the film the silent scream:
Interviewer: How many abortions do think you performed in your career?
Dr.: I’d say I probably performed 10,000 or more. I can remember days when I would do 30, 35 abortions.
Interviewer: would you do second trimester abortions, D&E’s even for medical reasons?
Dr: No, absolutely not. that is the most horrifying procedure I can think about. There is just absolutely no way I would ever do that.
This interview was shown in Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s video “Eclipse of Reason”, which recorded a D&E abortion, which is a late-term abortion where the baby is torn apart with forceps (see image below) You can see Eclipse of Reason here.
However, whether an abortion is done in the first trimester or the second trimester or even the third trimester, a beating heart is stilled and a baby’s body is torn apart. Compare the two diagrams below – one is of a suction abortion in the first trimester, a procedure that takes place thousands of times a day in the United States alone. The second is a D&E abortion, the most common method of abortion in the second trimester – roughly one in every 10 abortions are done after the first trimester, mostly by this method – meaning it is performed hundreds of times a day.
An eight-week-old baby – before and after a suction abortion
A 16-week-old baby, before and after an abortion by D&E
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Each picture shows a baby torn apart mercilessly by the abortion instruments.
Share on FacebookFrom an interview with an abortionist, talking about the difference between doing a D&E to remove a dead baby during a miscarriage and performing an elective abortion:
“If it’s [a miscarriage], you’re like [with a pained voice], “Oh, here’s this little life!” And you know that it was meant to be because, that’s what happened. And if it’s an abortion, you just feel sad that the woman wasn’t able to raise the child.”
Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) 80 – 81 This is the procedure he is talking about.
Note that he used the term “baby.”
Share on FacebookPro-choice activist Malia Cohen on a law drafted to place burdensome regulations on the advertising of Crisis pregnancy centers:
“As a city, we have a responsibility to protect our most vulnerable residents.”
She accused the centers of pushing
“anti-abortion propaganda and mistruths on unsuspecting women.”
Jesse McKinley “Politicians Open Front on Abortion in Bay Area” New York Times August 2, 2011
This is the most ironic quote I have read in a long time. What about THIS victim:
And many former abortion providers and postabortion women can tell you that it is the abortion clinics that give out propaganda and lies.
Share on FacebookKatha Pollitt joined Politics and Prose to promote her new pro-abortion book, PRO. She gave her reasons for writing it:
“I wrote this book because all you have to do is open up the newspaper and see the way things are going…Since, 2010 when the Republicans were so successful there have been 205 new abortion restrictions passed in the states, and, even more than the restrictions- the discourse. You can just feel it shifting. You can feel it shifting toward the anti-abortion side of language and the greater and greater defensiveness of the pro-choice side.”
Carole Novielli “Pro-Abortion Author Criticizes Planned Parenthood, Says Tide Shifting in Pro-Life Direction” LifeNews 11/7/14
Appeared originally in Saynsumthn
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