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Pro-choice writer: there should be more abortions

14 weeks – legal to abort in every US state

“…if those 1.21 million abortions [performed every year] represent only the women who could access abortion financially, geographically or otherwise, then that number is too low. Yes, too low. If that’s the case, then what is an appropriate response? How do we best support women and their reproductive health? Do we dare admit that increasing the number of abortions might be not only good for women’s health, but also moral and just?…. We say we care about women and want them to have access to all the information, services and resources necessary to make the best decisions they can for themselves and their families. That is at the core of reproductive justice. Not reducing the number of abortions. Safe – yes. Legal– absolutely. Rare – not the point.”

Emphasis in the original

Aimée Thorne-Thomsen “Keep Abortion Safe and Legal? Yes. Make it Rare? Not the Point.” RH Reality Check April 26, 2010

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Statistics indicate that sex selection abortions happen in Canada and the United States

Concerned about sex selection abortions in Canada, Dr. Rajendra Kale, who the article described as “interim editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal” has proposed that doctors not tell pregnant women the gender of their babies until 30 weeks, when it is too late to abort.

“Kale pointed to research in Canada and the United States indicating that immigrants in certain ethnic groups, including people from China, Korea and India, selectively abort female fetuses: couples who have two daughters are more likely to have a son as their third child than would be excepted if left to chance.”

“Don’t Tell Baby’s Sex to Prevent ‘Sex Selection’ Abortions, Doctor Says” Live Science January 16, 2012

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Woman having 5th abortion: it’s a bummer, but no big stress

An article in The Los Angeles Times profiles an abortionist and describes several of his patients. from the article:

The last patient of the day, a 32-year-old college student named Stephanie, has had four abortions in the last 12 years. She keeps forgetting to take her birth control pills. Abortion “is a bummer,” she says, “but no big stress.”

Stephanie Simon “Offering Abortion, Rebirth” The Los Angeles Times 29 November 2005

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Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights publication comments on pictures of aborted babies

From a publication of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, on pictures of aborted babies:

You’ve probably seen the garish brochures that anti-choice organizations hand out. The pictures in those brochures are designed to shock you and they do! They are designed to keep you from thinking seriously about the real issue. Sadly, they often do. THE REAL ISSUE IS FREEDOM!

‘Religious’ Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR) brochure entitled “RCAR has no pictures in this brochure. You can’t take a picture of freedom.”

The pro-choice group is attempting to dodge the issue. Pictures of aborted babies, like the one below, show the humanity of the unborn child.

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“women would rather kill”

From Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)

One clinic worker stated of the work that she does “many women would rather kill than wound.”

National abortion Federation conference, Cincinnati Ohio April 1994

This clinic worker knows that she is helping kill.

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National Abortion Federation: it is “harder and harder” to find doctors to perform abortions

“Back in the 80s, [we] started getting calls from all over the country where clinics were saying, “Help, my doctor hasn’t had a vacation in 3 years. He really wants to go somewhere but we can’t get a replacement for him. There’s no doc we can find anywhere who can come and take our abortion patients… We are getting the same story over and over and over again, and we were finding it harder and harder to find any kind of assistance for these clinics.”

Susan Wysoki, Director of the Access Project, National Abortion Federation

National Abortion Federation meeting Vancouver British Columbia, May 1998,

Mark Crutcher “Access: the Key to Pro-Life Victory” Life Dynamics Incorporated

The activism of pro-lifers is part of the reason why there is such a shortage of doctors – pro-lifers expose abortionists who injure or kill women and put pressure on hospitals and medical organizations to cut ties with abortion doctors.

But perhaps a bigger reason why so many people don’t want to perform abortions is because of medical stigma – there is a great deal of stigma against abortion providers in the medical community and the public at large. Another reason could be that many abortionists find the work distasteful – pulling out recognizable body parts is not a pleasant way to spend one’s day

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Doctor: abortions “used to scare the daylights out of me” because of potential complications

From one doctor, on the risks of abortion:

“[Abortions] used to scare the living daylights out of me because there were so many complications that could happen… I always felt like, “Oh God,” what if you [perforate the uterus]? I remember doing the D&Cs [to complete] the second trimester [inductions], and you could just feel the uterus was [soft and easy to perforate]…”

(Brackets in original)

Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) 73

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Prochoicer decries animal abuse, praises late-term abortionist

Jodi Jacobson Tweeted on February 24 2014 about the horrors of animal abuse. She was referring to a a picture and article that was tweeted claiming that puppies in Korea were boiled alive while being prepared to be eaten.

“What? What’s this? They were boiled alive? Seriously? This is horrific.”

And yet, in another post, she praised late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller.

“Dr. Tiller was one of the few doctors providing late-term abortions to people in need in part because he was a commited, ethical, moral medical professional who took seriously his oath to serve the best interests of his patients, and because he was dedicated to supporting women’s rights even at the risk of his own life and even under unimaginable daily pressure and threat.”

Jodi Jacobson “Late Abortions: Facts, Stories, and Ways to Help” RH Reality Check June 2, 2009

Dr. Tiller did abortions in the third trimester, sometimes weeks before the baby was supposed to be born. He poisoned the baby by injecting toxic digoxin into the baby’s heart. He then burned the dead babies in a full-size crematoriam. Earlier pregnancies, where the baby was in the second trimester, were done by dismemberment.

Apparently, killing puppies as heartsickening but killing babies is perfectly okay.

Late-term abortion, similar to the ones done by Dr. Tiller

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Former clinic director on why abortion providers fight against ultrasound requirements

Former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson describes why abortion providers fight laws requiring women to be asked if they want to see an ultrasound of their baby before an abortion

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Abortion Federation both REQUIRE ultrasounds to be performed before an abortion takes place. During a first trimester procedure, a transvaginal ultrasound is required. An abdominal or transvaginal is allowed in the second and third trimesters.

There is one reason for this. They need to be able to see exactly how far along the woman is in her pregnancy so the abortion facility knows how much to charge for the abortion. There is one reason they don’t want women to see their ultrasound…it is too risky. Ultrasounds expose the lie of the abortion industry. They show that it is not just a “blob of tissue” or a “mass of cells.”

Ultrasounds show the humanity of the child. They don’t oppose ultrasounds because it is too time consuming. They are performing them anyway! They are required (by their own rules) to perform them. It is not traumatizing for the woman. They are about to perform an invasive and painful procedure on these women and they are seriously worried about how an ultrasound will feel? Of course not. They only oppose ultrasounds because of the risk…a woman may choose life and they may be out several hundred dollars. It is pretty plain and simple.”

Abby Johnson “Abby Johnson: Counselor for My Abortion Had 9 Abortions” LifeNews.com 4/23/12

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Doctor: grabbing the head of a decapitated baby is like grasping a ping-pong ball

22 weeks – D & E dismemberment abortions are often done at this time

“When you’re doing a dismemberment D&E, usually the last part to be removed is the skull itself and it’s floating free inside the uterine cavity…So it’s rather like a ping-pong ball floating around and the surgeon is using his forcep to reach up to try to grasp something that’s freely floating around and is quite large relative to the forcep we’re using.”

Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist. He describes legal activity

Read an abortionist’s more detailed description of this type of abortion

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