They said it.
From Mark Crutcher’s book Lime 5, which has horrible stories of abortion malpractice.
In the fall risk management seminar, the National Abortion Federation again discussed malpractice suits. The malpractice consultant they brought in said “there are a lot of really bad abortion places out there….”
Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 115
Share on FacebookFrom a writer and researcher who spent time in a pediatric hospital, where they took care of disabled babies and did “genetic counseling,” where they sometimes advised women to abort their disabled children, this passage describes a family that chose not to treat their disabled baby and instead to allow him to die:
“She [the woman who counseled the parents] reported that the parents had decided not only that they did not want to repair the child’s oomphalecele, but they wanted the child to die, and they were willing to do what they could to hurry that event along. The parents had left orders that the child not be fed. She reported that Berger was very upset with this turn of events… Berger claimed that it was one thing for the physicians and the parents to handle this, and quite another for the nurses who had to deal with the infant every day and would be the ones to watch it starve.”
“Bill [a doctor] reported that the mother was discouraged because today the baby looks good. She was hoping that it would die soon, so seeing it looked healthy really discouraged her.”
Charles L Bosk All God’s Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992) 77, 80
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An article in the Medical World News from 1977 contains the following disturbing statement:
“About once a day, somewhere in the US, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby.”
The article also gives this statistic:
“45 of the 670 trimester abortions done in Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut between 1974 1976 resulted in live births.”
“Avoiding Tough Abortion Complications, a Live Birth” Medical World News, November 14, 1977
Why were live births after abortion so common then? It may have been because many abortions were done by saline injections, which were supposed to poison the baby, and then labor was induced – but sometimes the saline failed, and a live baby was born. Live births still happen today, generally when poison is injected into the baby’s amniotic sac, but fails to kill him or her. More often, however, babies in the second trimester are killed through D&E, where they are dismembered in utero and therefore there is no chance of them being born alive. Read more about babies born alive after abortions in this section
Share on FacebookFrom former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson:
“Most of the time, there is no communication between an abortionist and a woman having an abortion. None. Usually, the doctor comes in without introducing himself, mask on his face, sits on a stool, performs the procedure, and walks out without saying a word to the woman on the table. We never had any complaints. I guess women don’t expect the doctor who will take the life of their child to have wonderful bedside manner.”
Abby Johnson “Abortion Doc Told Patient “I Will Take Your Sin” LifeNews.com 7/26/11
So much for abortion being between “a woman and her doctor.”
Share on FacebookA while back, Live Action News posted an article about the “Bro- Choice” movement, I commented on an article that appeared in the pro-choice blog ”BurntOrangeReport” (Orange was the color that pro-choicers chose to wear when they arrived at the Texas Capitol building to protest a law banning late-term abortions, pro-lifers were dressed in blue) Ben Sherman in the blog entry the reasons why men should be pro-choice:
“Forcing women to adhere to the anti-choice attitudes of state legislators forces men to do the same, and will have serious consequences both on men’s lives and lifestyles.”
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“Your sex life is at stake. Can you think of anything that kills the vibe faster than a woman fearing a back-alley abortion? Making abortion essentially inaccessible in Texas will add an anxiety to sex that will drastically undercut its joys. And don’t be surprised if casual sex outside of relationships becomes far more difficult to come by.”
It is clear that Sherman wants women to be able to have abortions so that there will be no consequences when irresponsible men get them pregnant.
As he says, his ability to have “casual sex” is at stake. The sad thing is, it is women who are left to deal with the emotional impact of abortion. You can read here about some of the studies that have been done linking abortion to depression and suicide in women. Here you can read stories of women who have suffered after their abortions.
Jean A Wright, M.D, testifies before a Senate subcommittee about fetal pain:
“… Very preterm neonates [newborns] have the neuroanatomic substrate and functional physiologic and chemical processes in the brain responsible for mediating pain or noxious stimuli (known as nociception)…
Anatomic studies have shown that the density of cutaneous nociceptive nerve endings in the late fetus and newborn infant equal or exceed that of adult skin…
… [A] controlled study of intrauterine blood sampling and blood transfusions in fetuses between 20 and 34 weeks of gestation showed hormonal responses that were consistent with fetal perception of pain…
Preterm neonates born at 23 weeks gestation show highly specific and well coordinated physiologic and behavioral responses to pain, similar to those seen in full-term neonates, older infants, and small children…”
Statement of Jean A Wright, M.D., MBA, before The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights, Senate Judiciary Committee, on “The 25th Anniversary of Roe V Wade: Has It Stood the Test of Time?” January 21, 1998
Above: foot of an unborn baby at 20 weeks – did this child feel pain when his foot was ripped from his body?
Read more about the pain unborn babies might feel during abortions here
Share on FacebookDr. Maureen Paul explains why she is an abortionist. She became pregnant accidentally when she was younger, before it was legal on demand, when women had to get permission from a hospital committee.
“I confided in a family friend and asked to borrow the $300. But he told my parents, who immediately pulled me out of school. They took me to a local hospital, where I went before a committee that had to decide whether there was a valid medical reason to give me an abortion. When my request was turned down, I had no other option but to carry the baby to term and put [it] up for adoption. It was the most painful experience of my life. Though I wanted to have children one day-and years later had a daughter as the result of an intended pregnancy–I bitterly resented being forced to have a baby against my will. I consider that an act of violence against women.”
Deborah Diclementi‘ I RISK MY LIFE TO PERFORM ABORTIONS’., Marie Claire, Nov 2001, Vol. 8, Issue 11
If having a baby when one does not want to is an act of violence, one can only wonder what this is:
“It’s not an area of practice where many staff choose or are comfortable to work.”
Nurses have a particular difficulty with late-term abortions (usually described as abortions after 20 weeks or so)
“A lot of those nurses are quite happy to be involved in early abortions but with the increasing gestation they do find it difficult.”
Dr Sparrow said this was because of the greater development of the fetus, “rather than having a complete moral objection to abortion”.
Martin Johnson “More nurses opting out of abortion ops” NZ Herald Feb 4, 2009
Nurses in New Zealand have been refusing to participate in abortion procedures, particularly late term ones. Nurses participating in late-term abortions have to witness the extraction of fetal parts, including arms and legs, or tend to women who were delivering dead babies who have been injected with digoxin or another poison. It is not surprising that many of them are refusing to assist. Abortion has an emotional effect on providers as well as patients.
A 2007 article gives one possible reason why many doctors are not offering the abortion pill (medical abortions) when the pill was first being made available, pro-choicers rejoiced, thinking this would greatly expand the access to abortion, and while this is happened to a certain extent, many doctors, particularly general practitioners, have not been on board with offering the pill.
From one article:
“But Dr Fiona Cornish, a GP in Cambridge and vice president of the Medical Women’s Federation, said that even liberal, pro-choice GPs would not want to take on medical abortions because of time constraints.
“We’re already doing minor surgery, a lot of hospital follow-ups, coils, family planning clinics,” she said, adding: “No doubt there would be no extra funding.”
Abortions could be available from GPs. (2007, Dec 05). Aberdeen Evening Express.
“Typically there’s several misdirections, misattempts to grasp. Finally at some point either the instruments are managed to be place around the skull or a nip is made out of some area of the skull that allows it to start to decompress.”
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, describing second trimester abortions
