Category: Quotes

“you’re signing this life away”

16 weeks – most D&E abortions are done at this stage or later

A woman who was about to have a late term  abortion because the baby had spina bifida, and would be in a wheelchair, chose the D & E (dismemberment) technique because she did not want to go through labor:

When the doctor started dilating the cervix (probably by inserting laminaria) he said something very telling. In the words of the woman having the abortion:

“The process was to go in [To the clinic] the day before and have my cervix stimulated with…

It’s like a little cigarette kind of, and stimulated the cervix opening. I remember going in there and having the doctor say, “Now once we do this, it’s not reversible, so this is the time you sign this life away.”

Rita Townsend, Ann Perkins Bitter Fruit: Women’s Experiences of Unplanned Pregnancy, Abortion and Adoption (Alameda, California: Hunter House Inc., 1991) 212

This Doctor seems to know that he is killing a “life.”Read more abortion doctors and clinic workers talking about how they know abortion kills babies here.

Below: a diagram of a D&E abortion

See a picture of what a 16-week-old baby looks like after he or she has been aborted this way.

(Incidentally, it is possible to have laminaria removed after the cervix has already begun to dilate. It was not too late for her to change her mind, although the risk of miscarriage would have been high, it is quite possible that the baby could be saved in that situation)

Share on Facebook

Graphic shows baby in the third month of pregnancy

 

From a baby killed in the third month.

Thousands of abortions happen at this stage every week.

See more

Share on Facebook

Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota: These are “incredibly challenging” times

Linnea House, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota, speaking to about 60 pro-choice activists at an event:

“I’ll be blunt. These are going to be incredibly challenging times for us…And our opponents are organized, they’re funded and they are ready to go.”

ERIC ROPER Abortion foes begin new battle at Capitol; Efforts to restrict abortion gain strength across U.S Star Tribune January 23, 2011

Pro-life activists are passing laws that restrict abortions at record speed over the past three or four years. A recent poll showed that 58% of Americans are against abortion in all or most cases. The tide is turning.

Hand of baby at 3 months
Share on Facebook

Clinic worker: “I know there will be a lot of pain”

One clinic worker interviewed by a pro-choice author said the following about abortions at the clinic where she worked:

“At Gino’s, quality of a hamburg[er] depends on who’s working the grill that day. It’s the same with abortions. If Dr. Benjamin is on that day, I know there’ll be few complaints. If it’s Dr. Thomas, I know there will be a lot of pain.”

Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 105

Share on Facebook

American unborn babies learn “acoustic structure of English” while in the womb

“The Associated Press reported a study showing “babies start learning about their language-to-be before they are born.” Studies show that while in their mothers’ wombs, “fetuses heard, perceived, listened and learned something about the acoustic structure of American English.”

 Cited in Christian Action Council’s Action Line, March-April 1991 From 

Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)

Share on Facebook

Postabortion feminist: I wish my child had been “sacrificed” “with my own hands.”

Postabortion women and pro-choice activist Sue Nathanson regrets her abortion – but she does not seem to regret the death of her unborn baby, but rather the way her child was killed, or as she says it, “sacrificed.” She would rather have had her child killed at home than in a clinic – that is what she says it this truly bizarre quote, in which she seems to be saying that she wishes she could’ve killed the baby herself, with her “own hands”:

“I wish now that my fourth child could have been sacrificed with my love and tears, even with my own hands, in a circle of a family or community of women, in a circle of a compassionate and loving community of men and women who might be able to perceive my vulnerability as a mirror of their own, and not as it was, in a cold and lonely hospital room with instruments of steel.”

Sue Nathanson Soul Crisis (New York: New American Library, 1989) 217 – 218

Image of an unborn baby at 10 weeks – would it be “love” to kill him?
Typical remains from an abortion at this stage
Share on Facebook

Abortionist: “God gave me this mission in life.”

“In the small still hours of the night I am at peace with myself and with God, who gave me this mission in life.”

Dallas abortionist Mary Smith, MD

Physicians for Reproductive Health “Why I Provide Abortions”

This is what Smith’s “God given” mission is, according to her:

First trimester unborn baby (9 to 10 weeks)
Babies dismembered at 9 weeks by an abortion
Aborted baby at 10 weeks – 40% of abortions are done at this time or later
Baby aborted in the first trimester, around 7 weeks after conception
Share on Facebook

Planned Parenthood clinic worker: cleaning was done in haste after abortions, blood spatters often left

From former clinic worker Catherine Adair:

One of my jobs as a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood was to clean the room in between abortions. I clearly remember how quickly we were required to work so that the doctors didn’t have to wait for the next abortion. I was never trained on OSHA regulations -speed was more important than being thorough. Blood spatter was often in the wall, floor and table when the next woman came in for her abortion. It disgusted me and I always wondered what the woman coming in thought and if she noticed it. Abortion clinics are ONLY interested in money, they don’t care about the safety and well- being of women.

Read an extensive interview with this former clinic worker here.

Share on Facebook

Some pro-choice advocates refuse to debate pro-lifers unless they don’t show pictures

A pro-life educator said the following:

“Some abortion advocates refuse to participate in debates with pro-life representatives unless the pro-life side is prohibited from showing any pictures either of fetal development or the results of abortions.”

Camille S Williams “Feminism and Imaging the Unborn” in Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) 69

some pro-choice publications give these very instructions and so do others.  Read more about pro-choice responses to abortoin pictures here. 

Unborn baby at only 6 weeks
at 8 weeks
Unborn baby hand at 12 weeks

 

Share on Facebook

Physicist: it is more inhumane to kill a chimpanzee than a baby

In an article in Reason magazine physicist Winston L Duke said the following. This quote is from just before Roe versus Wade, when pro-choicers were first beginning to advocate legalizing abortion:

“It should be recognized that not all men are human… It would seem to be more inhumane to kill an adult chimpanzee than a newborn baby, since the chimpanzee has greater mental awareness.”

Winston L Duke, “The New Biology,” Reason, August 1972  Quoted in Paul B Fowler Abortion: Toward an Evangelical Consensus (Portland, Oregon: Multnomah Press, 1987)36

Is this unborn child less human than an ape?
Share on Facebook