“For 35 years I had a clinic where I saw women and took care of their reproductive needs, but mostly terminating pregnancies…Ninety-eight percent were Hispanics. I would go days where I wouldn’t speak English because they were all Spanish speakers — which is great.”
That 98% of the time Dr. Minto was killing the babies of Hispanic women? This quote smacks of racism, although the abortionist did go on to say:
Nearly half of Minto’s patients were teenagers, and he averaged more than 4,000 abortions each year.
“[Women who abort] all share something incredibly private and sacred.”
Jenny Higgins, Abortion clinic counselor
Jenny Higgins, “The Breeze in the Waiting Room” in ED Krista Jacob Our Choices Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion (ED Krista Jacob (Lincoln, NE: Writer’s Advantage, 2002)
Below: photo of a baby aborted at 9 weeks. Is this a sacred thing?
An article in The American Feminist talked about how difficult it is for pregnant college students to have their babies because they get so much pressure to abort, and because they are often made to feel they must choose between their babies and their education. The article says:
“Student parents on campuses across the country often find that practical resources and emotional support are missing.”
The article quotes student parent Amanda Sykes:
“I was told repeatedly that I would never be able to be both a mother and a student; I would have to choose….
Classmates, certain acquaintances, and even some perfect strangers told me that I would regret having my son because he would ruin my life. They were wrong. My son, and now my child due in February, have made me more motivated than ever to be a success in all things.”
Another student, identified only as Levesque, talked about the pressure she got from family to abort her child:
“They said I would end up as trailer trash and on welfare because I couldn’t possibly do it all. I wanted to get an abortion and my family wanted me to [get an abortion] too. I even had an appointment, but my boyfriend spent hours on the phone trying to talk me out of it. If he had encouraged me to get an abortion, too, I would have done it….
My family, immediate and extended, save for only a few individuals, heavily pushed abortion, telling me that I was a disappointment and I had so much potential that I was wasting. I graduated this past May at age 23 with a BA in sociology, magna cum laude, and the highest GPA in the department. I am now the first individual on that pro-abortion side of my family to graduate from college.”
Chaunie Brusie “Good News or Bad News? Pregnancy and Parenting Resources Make a Difference” The American Feminist Winter 2011/2012
These two stories show that, with support, college students can have their children and still graduate. They also highlight the immense pressure that college students can be under to abort their babies.
Abortionist Dr. Tommy Tucker defended himself to a reporter who revealed that he had been sued for malpractice over ten times.
“Litigation is part of our life. We have people who are outside with 1 800 UCANSUE cards. This is just part of the business.”
Jim Yardley “Abortion Doctor Says It’s the Cause, and the Cash, that Keep Him Driving” (Atlanta, Georgia) Journal May 16, 1993
Tucker would later lose his licence after he botched an abortion and left the woman bleeding and dying in the clinic while he left to catch a plane. The clinic worker who frantically tried (unsuccessfully) to save the patient’s life had no medical training and had been left alone with her. She called Tucker, but he refused to come in and help. It turned out Tucker had untrained personnel doing abortoins and athesthetizng women in his clinic.
He was also accused by other clinic workers of killing a baby born alive in an abortion, but never was prosecuted for it because investigators could not find the body of the infant.
Molly Yard, former president of NOW, said that the abortion pill was:
“…[Perhaps even] the most significant medical advance in human history and the symbol of a brighter future for women everywhere.”
New York Observer, May 16, 1991
Quoted in: George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 35
This quote shows how out of touch with reality some pro-choice leaders are. To think that the abortion pill, which kills babies (and sometimes women) is the greatest medical advance in human history is incredibly skewed thinking. The abortion pill is more valuable than the discovery of antibiotics, which has saved hundreds of millions of lives? Greater than cutting edge cancer treatments that prolong life and eradicate the disease in some people? Greater than the elimination of smallpox and other deadly diseases, greater than vaccines which protect children from all kinds of dangerous illnesses, greater than the advances in mental health care that has allowed mentally ill people to live normal lives rather than being institutionalized? Greater than advances which have allowed AIDS patients to live fuller, richer lives?
Her statement is amazing. Instead of all these advances, the greatest advance in human history is the ability to kill babies like the one below in a way that’s extremely painful and difficult for women (you can read horror stories from women who took the drug here)
7 weeks – some clinics prescribe the abortion pill up to 9 weeksShare on Facebook
Month 5 – 20 weeks. McMahon performed abortions at this stage
“I frankly think the soul or personage comes in when the fetus is accepted by the mother.”
James McMahon, late term abortionist, now deceased
LA Times, The Abortions of Last Resort, 1-7-1990
McMahon performed partial-birth abortions when they were legal. It’s interesting what he says here – one wonders what gives a woman so much power that she can create a soul just by her attitude and opinion. If the woman never accepts the baby, if she still continues to reject the baby after he or she is born, does the baby still not have a soul?
“… one of the greatest fears I have is that we will not have doctors to provide care; will not have places and that this procedure will become more and more isolated from women’s health.”
Peggy Romberg, director of Texas Family Planning Association
From a speech given to Texas Tech Medical Students for Choice, March 31, 2000
Quoted in Mark Crutcher “Access: the Key to Pro-Life Victory” Life Dynamics Incorporated,
With fewer places providing abortions, more babies like this one (at 10 weeks) will survive
Molly Yard, then president of the National Organization for Women, gave an interview with New Dimensions magazine about when a “fetus” becomes human being:
Q: When do you believe the fetus becomes a viable human being?
A: If you read the medical knowledge, 26 weeks is probably the earliest. As a matter of fact, I was just reading figures that indicate that a fetus born before 30 weeks has almost no chance of making it and, if it does, it is going to suffer all its life from all kinds of problems.
Q: Would you recommend 30 weeks is a cutoff point for allowing abortions?
A: I am not recommending anything. I am saying that Roe V Wade was very properly decided. It says that women have a constitutional right to control their reproductive lives, that they have the absolute right to choose it in the 1st and 2nd trimesters, and in the 3rd trimester the state has an interest
“Voices of the Abortion Debate” New Dimensions, 1990
First of all, does it really make sense to say that this baby below (28 weeks) is not a person …
But this baby (32 weeks) is a person?
Month 8
What’s the huge difference between the two? There’s not much difference on a developmental level, though one does have stronger lungs than the other. Both are capable of surviving outside a woman’s womb. Of course, Molly Yard’s statistics on when the baby can survive are outdated –In fact, they weren’t even true in 1990. Today, the survival rate of babies at 27 weeks is 90% or higher. babies as young as 21 weeks have survived being born prematurely.
Roe V Wade did allow restrictions on abortion in the thirdtrimester, but these restrictions could only go into effect if they had an exception for the “health” of the mother. Doe v. Bolton, a companion case to Roe V Wade that is lesser-known, defined health in very broad terms, including emotional health, meaning that such a law (banning third trimester abortions) is toothless and cannot truly be enforced– The woman could make the case that the abortion would be detrimental to her emotional well-being.
Note also that Molly Yard is not prepared to ban abortion, even after, in her opinion, the “fetus” becomes a human being
From a pregnant woman who was having her baby tested for Down Syndrome, with the intention of aborting if the child had it:
“I think it’s kind of like triage, or like euthanasia. There aren’t enough resources in the world. We’d have to move, to focus our whole family on getting a handicapped kid a better deal… Why spend $50,000 to save one child? And what sort of a life would it have? What sort of life would we have?”
Quoted in:
Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 146
According to one physician, writing in the BritishJournal ofVenereal Disease:
“Infection in the womb and tubes often does permanent damage. The fallopian tube is a fragile organ, a very tiny bore tube. If infection injures it, it often seals shut. The typical infection involving these organs is pelvic inflammatory disease, or PID. This condition affects nearly 15% of all those who submit to induced abortion.”
Quoted in George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) p 34
