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Pro-choice blogger: Eliminating people who “can’t thrive” is “God’s work”

Pro-choice blogger Valerie Tarico describes how abortionists who kill disabled children are doing “God’s work:”

“The human body fends off most infections and cancers, but not all. It spontaneously heals most broken bones and closes many wounds but not all. Similarly, it spontaneously aborts most problem pregnancies, but not all. Nature tends to abort pregnancies where there are problems with cell division or fetal development, where there is little chance for a fetus to become a healthy, thriving person. Through medical or surgical abortion, as through every other medical procedure, doctors and healers extend the work of nature—of God, if you will—to promote health and wellbeing. By ending pregnancies that don’t have a good chance to turn into thriving children and adults, they are—literally or metaphorically–doing God’s work.”

Valerie Tarico “Abortion as a Blessing, Grace, or Gift: Changing the Conversation on Reproductive Rights and Moral Values” RH Reality Check April 3, 2014

So what exactly is a “thriving’ child or adult? A child who isn’t dependent on others? A child who isn’t blind or physically handicapped? A child who is smart enough to make a great deal of money? Eliminating the “imperfect” and disabled is not “God’s work” to pro-lifers.

Thanks to LifeNews for this quote.

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Doctor who performed 60,000 abortions; I don’t believe in hell

From Dr. Tommy Tucker, who performed over 60,000 abortions and had his licence revoked when he fatally botched an abortion on a woman, then caught a plane to another abortion clinic and left her to bleed to death cared for by a clinic worker with no medical training. He was also accused by former clinic workers of killing a baby that was born alive after a failed abortion. Read about this here.

“Maybe we’re all going to rot in hell. But look at the population of the world. Where’s it going to end? It’s going to end with people fighting for food.

I don’t believe there is a heaven or hell. The only heaven we have is here on earth. I think when we die, we die.”

Jim Yardley “Abortion Doctor Says It’s the Cause, and the Cash, that Keep Him Driving” (Atlanta, Georgia) Journal May 16, 1993

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Social worker decries racism in abortion/birth control clinics

Albuquerque social worker Marla Cefuentes said in 1988:

“Every chance they get, the clinic personnel here remind poor and Hispanic women that they can’t raise a family, that to have children is irresponsible,… They are constantly pushing for sterilization, even for very young girls. It’s reprehensible to see that kind of racism go unchallenged.”

George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 102

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Surgical abortions are traumatic, says researcher

Etienne–Emile Baulieu, who was pivotal in discovering the abortion pill, RU-486, describes how surgical abortions can be difficult and dangerous for women:

“In theory, a woman could drop into a clinic at 8 o’clock and, after an hour’s rest following the procedure, go on her way without another thought to her pregnancy. But it doesn’t always work like that. She may begin hemorrhaging because of tissue left behind, or she may suffer the sharp pain of a perforation. Infection may set in, causing later distress and, in extreme cases, infertility. Even when the medical process is flawless, few women can simply shrug off the procedure. Any instrumental abortion is an intrusion. Physically, it is an operation and may leave a scar. Psychologically, it is an invasion of the most intimate reaches of a woman’s body.”

Etienne–Emile Baulieu The “Abortion Pill” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990) 15

Women would later discover that abortion by pill may be even more traumatic than abortion by surgery. Read some stories here.

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Abortion doctors and sexist remarks

From Merle Hoffman, who co-founded and ran an abortion clinic for many years, talks about sexist remarks from abortion doctors:

“… some doctors would make blatantly sexist remarks. “Come on, you knew how to spread your legs before you got here, you can spread them for the exam,” a doctor once chided. Another commanded a patient to keep still, saying, “Keep your backside on the table – you should know pretty well how to do that by now.”

Merle Hoffman Intimate Wars: the Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room (New York: Feminist Press, 2012) 76 – 77

This is a pro-choice book where Hoffman defends her career as an abortion provider.

You can see how these doctors are not exactly champions of women’s rights. Women who go in for abortions are often already feeling emotional and scared and being emotionally abused only leads to them having more traumatic experiences. It is clear that these doctors are not motivated by wanting to help women. Perhaps it is the money they can make doing abortions that motivates them.

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Abortionist doesn’t tell his patients he will be “sucking out the brains” of their babies during partial-birth abortions

In the partial-birth abortion ban trials, one abortionist was asked whether or not he tells his patients how he is going to kill their babies when they come in for abortions. The partial-birth abortion procedure is done by delivering an infant part of the way out of the womb and then injecting a pair of surgical scissors or syring into the back of the baby’s head and suctioning out the brain.Here, the abortionist is asked if he tells his patients he will be “sucking out the brain” of the unborn baby they plan to abort:

THE WITNESS: I’m … not exactly sure what using terminology like sucking the brains out would –

THE COURT: That’s what happens, doesn’t it?

THE WITNESS: Well, in some situations that might happen. There are different ways that an after-coming head could be dealt with but that is one way of describing it.

Testimony of abortionist Dr Timothy Johnson, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004.

It took years, but partial-birth abortions were finally banned in the United States. Pro-choice activists fought tooth and nail to prevent this from happening; the first time the ban was passed President Clinton vetoed it. Later, it went to the Supreme Court and was found unconstitutional. Finally, with a change of the Supreme Court justices and some revisions, it passed, and now this type of abortion is illegal. However, other abortion techniques just as gruesome are still allowed.

Read one nurse’s eyewitness account of a partial-birth abortion.

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Aborting a down syndrome baby because he can’t go to Cornell?

One father, a computer technologist, said the following about what he would think if the baby turned out to have Down’s:

“I’m sorry to say that I just couldn’t accept that. I mean, I’ve worked hard to get where I am, I worked hard at Cornell. And I want the same for my child. I want to teach my child, and have him learn. Maybe it’s unfortunate, maybe I should be more accepting. But I don’t want a child with retardation.”

Later, in the same book, he said:

“I’m sorry to say I couldn’t think about raising a child with Down’s. I’m something of a perfectionist. I want the best for my child. I’ve worked hard, I went to Cornell University, I’d want that for my child. I’d want to teach him things he couldn’t absorb. I’m sorry I can’t be more accepting, but I’m clear I wouldn’t want to continue the pregnancy.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 90, 133 – 134

He and his partner were having amniocentesis done with the plan to abort the baby if he or she had down syndrome.

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Young woman takes job at clinic, then finds out they do abortions

A young woman living independently of her mother for the first time gets involved in an abortion clinic without knowing it:

“I enrolled at Miami-Dade College and answered a newspaper ad seeking a receptionist at a Women’s Clinic close by the house where I was staying. I was immediately hired and began my training on how to answer the phone behind the front desk. At the time, all I was looking for was a job and an opportunity. Being offered a position in a medical clinic was a great opportunity as it allowed me to stay in the medical field, where I hoped to continue to grow and develop.

I was not familiar with the services offered by this clinic at the time I accepted the job. I assumed with it being a women’s clinic, it implied annual gynecological exams and birth control. It wasn’t until I was hired that I discovered they also provided abortions. I was unfamiliar with the medical procedure itself as it related to abortions, but 3 years before, Roe V Wade had made abortions legal and to my impressionable young mind, legal meant that they were safe. As far as I was concerned that was really all that mattered.”

Jeanne M. Pernia, Cherisa Jerez Conquered: the Story of One Clinic’s Journey from Death to Life (2013) 15

One could think that because this happened a long time ago, women are now more aware that “women’s clinics” and “women’s centers” are likely to perform abortions. However, it doesn’t seem to strain credulity that some women end up working at abortion clinics without really knowing or thinking about it. This young woman certainly didn’t wrestle with the dilemma of whether abortion was right or wrong. She had no real understanding of what abortion actually was like. She had never seen one. She didn’t know the gruesome nature of many abortion procedures, the fact that after suctioning out the baby, doctors often have to sort through the fetal remains to find 2 arms, 2 legs, a head, etc., to make sure they got everything out. Even though just a room or two away, abortionists were taking apart children, she didn’t know the reality.

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Cars, elevators, telephones, and the abortion pill

Longtime pro-abortion activist Lawrence Lader praises the abortion pill and talks about how it is one of the best inventions science has ever come up with:

“RU-486 [The abortion pill] presents a classic case of how scientific progress can revolutionize our lives. Within the last century, the railroad opened up Western America and became a major factor in turning the United States into an economic colossus. The elevator was essential to the development of the skyscraper, the vertical city, and the concentration of businesses and services in a unified geographic area. The automobile give us more than speed; it opened up the suburbs and the possibility of combining a rural or semi rural lifestyle with employment in the central city. The cathode ray tube made television possible. Antibiotics and other pioneering drugs extended our lifespan and improved the quality of these added years. But when it comes to making an impact on our personal relationships, the science of controlling human reproduction must be considered unique. No other development – not even the telephone, with its advantage of bringing families and friends together – as so drastically changed our lives….

With the development of RU-486, scientific progress has reached a whole new stage.”

Lawrence Lader, RU-486: The Pill That Could End The Abortion Wars And Why American Women Don’t Have It (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991) 19

So apparently, a pill that allows women to kill their unborn babies at home (which is an extremely painful and upsetting experience for them) is an invention on par with the telephone and the automobile. Perhaps a better comparison would be the guillotine and the electric chair.

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Patients need rescheduling? A good reason to commit murder

Carol Westfall, abortionist and executive director of the Akron Women’s Medical Group abortion clinic Ohio, said the following when a judge ruled that an informed consent law, which required a 24 hour waiting period for abortions, could go into effect. The law ruling meant that a days’ worth of abortion procedures would have to be rescheduled at Westfall’s clinic.

`This ruling came out at quarter to five on a Thursday night. It was impossible to get a hold of these patients,” Westfall said. “My opinion is, the judge should be lynched.’

“Lynch the Judge?” JivinJehoshaphat September 13, 2005

The quote appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal, but the original article now appears to be offline.

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