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Abortions by suction versus D&C

One abortionist, Charles deProsse, described how the older abortion technique of D&C (where the doctor scrapes the woman’s womb to remove the unborn baby) was more difficult for abortionists to deal with emotionally than the newer, now widely used suction abortion. In a suction abortion, a cannula attached to a tube is inserted and the baby is pulled apart by violent suction and removed from the womb. All the abortionist has to do is dilate the cervix and insert the cannula. He will see blood and tissue going through the tube, but usually no recognizable body parts unless the remains are carefully examined. Here is the quote:

“The technique was such that it put a bad taste in the mouth of a lot of doctors with respect to therapeutic abortions. The only thing we had at the time… was doing a routine D&C… And doing an abortion by routine D&C was a very bloody procedure, frighteningly so, sometimes… I don’t think that without the advent of suction abortion that abortion would ever have been is accepted by the medical practice as it was… A lot of older doctors, when it did become legal, just all they could think of was this horrendous therapeutic abortion regimen that they had gone through, and they just didn’t want to do it, didn’t want to get involved.”

Johanna Choen Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005) 185

Remains of the baby aborted at nine weeks by suction — Remains of a baby aborted at nine weeks by suction

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Embryology textbook defines zygote as beginning of life

“Zygote. This cell results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm during fertilization. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being(i.e., an embryo).” … “[The zygote] marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.”

Keith L. Moore and T.V.N. Persaud, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th ed., Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003, pp. 2,16

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“We Are the Executioners” Says Abortionist

Pro-choice author Magda Denes, PhD, interviewed abortion doctors and clinic workers for her book “In Necessity and Sorrow, Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospital” One doctor she quoted said the following:

“You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity of the fetal heart is not important – that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then in the next room you assure another woman on whom you just did a saline abortion, that it’s good that the heart is already irregular… She has nothing to worry about, she is not going to have a live baby… At the beginning we were doing abortions on smaller fetuses… And the kicking and heartbeat did not manifest itself as much. I think if I had started with 24 weekers right off the bat, I would’ve had a much greater conflict in my own mind if this was the same as murder or not. But since we started off slowly with 15 – 16 weekers, the fetus just never got consideration. Then gradually, the whole range of cases started to become larger. All of a sudden, one noticed that at the time of the saline infusion, there was a lot of activity in the uterus. It wasn’t fluid currents. It was obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the salt solution and kicking violently through the death trauma. You can either face it, or turn around and say it’s uterine contractions. That, however, would be repressing, since as a doctor you obviously know that it is not. Now whether you admit this to the patient is another matter. Her distress by unwanted pregnancy is to be the primary consideration, ahead of any possible consideration for the fetus. We just have to face it. Somebody has to do it. Unfortunately, we are the executioners in this instance.”

Dr. Magda Denes, “Performing Abortions” Commentary, October 1979, 35, 37 Quoted in Melanie Green “Children… Things We Throw Away?” Last Days Ministries 1983

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Some women do not have abortions due to protesters, says clinic administrator

Journalist Frank Main wrote an article about an abortion clinic and interviewed its administrator, Esther McGuire. He says:

“Women seeking abortions must walk past protesters with the protection of pro-choice clinic escorts. Some of the women become angry, while others burst into tears. Fewer women come back another day, while a handful decide to keep their babies, McGuire said.

“I’m not sure that’s so bad if they were that uncertain anyway,” she said.

Whether or not this abortion clinic administrator really is as accepting of women changing their minds as she seems, or whether she is merely trying to give that impression to an interviewer, this quote shows that women DO change their minds as a result of pro-life activity outside of abortion clinics. Sidewalk counseling DOES save lives.

Main goes on to say:

“McGuire said some women who have obtained abortions at the Delta women’s clinic went on to protest abortions at the clinic, underlying what she described as widespread hypocrisy about the issue.”

8 week old unborn baby – most abortions are done at this time or later. Even saving ONE baby like this one is a tremendous victory.

Or it could mean that these women were emotionally or maybe even physically hurt by their abortions, and that after they experienced the reality of how horrible abortion was, they wanted to spare other women the same trauma that they went through. Many postabortion women are now pro-life and are active in crisis pregnancy center work or sidewalk counseling. Many times, they are the most effective pro-lifers because they have been there. They are not hypocrites; rather, they know firsthand the destructive power that abortion has over women. They know what it’s like to face a crisis pregnancy, and they want to help others.

Even a “handful” of lives saved is a victory.

Frank Main “Clinic Administrator Believes Women Must Have an Option” (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) Morning Advocate July 5, 1992

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Genetic counselor tries to prevent women from seeing ultrasound

Genetic “counselors” are medical personnel that try to help women pregnant with babies that are disabled decide whether or not to abort them. If a person is at risk for having a baby with a disability, or when they already know that they are pregnant with one, these genetic counselors are supposed to be unbiased in guiding them whether or not to abort their disabled babies. From one genetic counselor:

“As a counselor, I consider it my job to accompany my patients to everything. The sonographer here at City is a right to lifer. When he knows someone has a positive diagnosis, that they are going to abort, he hands them a photo of the fetus. Imagine being forced to take it, to take that picture, when you know the pregnancy is Down’s, you know you’re going to abort!”

Genetic counselor Felicia Arcana

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 67

Abortion proponents and providers know the power of ultrasound, and many of them have the desire to shield women from seeing the truth about their unborn babies. Clearly, this activist doesn’t want the woman to be swayed against abortion. One might think that a woman would want (And a medical professional provide) every single bit of information she can get about her own body and her own pregnancy before she makes a life altering irrevocable decision that affects her health and future. But abortion proponents encourage women to make these decisions without seeing their babies on an ultrasound and knowing the development of their child.

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Abortionist: it doesn’t “cross his mind” whether babies feel pain

In one of the partial-birth abortion ban trials (New York) one abortionist was asked whether he ever considered whether or not aborted babies felt pain. Here’s the exchange:

THE COURT: Does it ever cross your mind when you are doing a dismemberment?

THE WITNESS: I guess whenever I —

THE COURT: Simple question, Doctor. Does it cross your mind?

THE WITNESS: Does the fetus having pain cross your mind?

THE COURT: Yes.

THE WITNESS: No.

THE COURT: Never crossed your mind.

THE WITNESS: No.

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

The type of abortion Johnson was being asked about was a D&E abortion, which is performed by dismembering a 2nd or 3rd trimester child with forceps in utero. You can read one former abortionist’s description of the D&E abortion here.

Below: killed by a dismemberment D&E abortion at 21 weeks

Dr. Johnson never wonders if babies killed like this one feel pain.

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Clinic worker “my heart breaks” because some women can’t kill their children

The Abortioneers is a blog written by abortion clinic workers. One clinic worker discusses what happens when women miss their abortion appointments because of natural disasters:

“When Hurricane Katrina hit I was working in the South at an abortion clinic. I remember hearing stories through our networks of women desperately trying to find an abortion clinic after they were evacuated because the hurricane caused them to miss their appointment. … At my clinic when there were a few times we were forced to close due to circumstances beyond our control, we would “freeze” the fee for women so that they did not have to pay the extra money it would cost them to wait a week. That is one thing clinics can do, but what about women who have reached the limit of what is legal in their state? What happens to them? My heart breaks for any woman who tried to get an abortion this past weekend and will now have to carry to term. I wonder if they see this Hurricane as a sign that they were not meant to abort?… I am exhausted and sad just thinking about it.”

“Hurricane Weather Report” The Abortioneers Aug 31, 2011

This clinic worker is “exhausted” and “sad” at the thought that some women might decide to keep their children instead of aborting them. Her heart breaks that babies like the one below might be allowed to live and grow up rather than being torn apart by abortion clinic instruments.

Thank you to Secular Pro-Life, and Eleanor S. who wrote an article on this quote.

Unborn baby at 9 weeks. Over 40% of all abortions are done after this point, in the 10th week or beyond. This is the age of the average aborted child.

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Pro-choice politicians in Virginia horrified by fetal models

Pro-choice politicians in Virginia were up in arms after Republican delegate Richard Black mailed models of unborn babies like the one below to them. A paper was included in the mailing that said “This is the size and shape of an actual first-trimester baby. Abortionists kill most babies at this stage of development.” According to the article in The Virginian – Pilot:

Senate Minority Leader Richard Saslaw of Fairfax County said [it] was one of the most inappropriate things he has seen in his 23 years in the Senate.

“Quite frankly, the people who saw this were pretty repulsed by it,” he said.

It’s not surprising that pro-choice politicians, whose decisions condemned thousands of unborn babies to a violent death every year, were “repulsed” at seeing a depiction of an unborn baby. Another lawmaker, Sen. Leslie Byrne, D-Fairfax County, said:

“It shocked me …It hurts the decorum of the General Assembly”

JUSTIN BERGMAN “Republican sends Senate members plastic fetus doll” Virginian-Pilot 2/5/2003

Actually, I was unable to determine which fetal model was distributed. It may have been the one above, or it may have been a slightly different one. But the article makes it clear that pro-choicers are horrified when confronted with the reality that they support killing babies. You can see more fetal models or purchase them here.

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“Except here, you are crushing the head of a baby”

From the partial birth abortion ban trials, one conversation that took place under oath.

THE WITNESS: “The instruments are thick enough and heavy enough that you can actually grasp and crush with those instruments as if you were picking up salad…”

THE COURT: “Except here you are crushing the head of a baby.”

THE WITNESS: “Correct.”

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.

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Abortionist: I end lives, but for good reasons

From one abortionist who practices in Boston:

“I have the utmost respect for life; I appreciate that life starts early in the womb, but also believe that I’m ending it for good reasons. Often I’m saving the woman, or I’m improving the lives of the other children in the family.

I also believe that women have a life they have to consider. If a woman is working full-time, has one child already, and is barely getting by, having another child that would financially push her to go on public assistance is going to lessen the quality of her life.

And it’s also an issue for the child, if it would not have had a good life. Life’s hard enough when you’re wanted and everything’s prepared for. So yes, I end life, but even when it’s hard, it’s for a good reason.”

Cheryl Alkon (as told to) “Confessions of an Abortion Doctor” Boston December 2004

These may be good reasons to put a baby up for adoption, or to use protection or abstain so the pregnancy doesn’t happen at all. But are these really good reasons to kill a baby?

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