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Former clinic worker suffers emotionally 10 years later

From one former clinic worker:

“The other day I saw on abortion on TV and I had to run to the bathroom. The guilt of having assisted with abortions is so great 10 years later that I sometimes think I need therapy. The trouble is I don’t know any therapist I could talk to about this.”

Mary Arnold “Abortion Burnout” Catholic Twin Cir., August 1984 3 – 4

Abortion is emotionally harmful even to the providers. To read more about the emotional impact abortions have on those who perform them, go here.

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Abortion does not present simple solutions

From one abortion clinic worker on abortion patients:

“What they think are simple solutions are not as simple as they think. They can die, they can become sterile, and they can have many other complications. That unfortunately is the biggest evil abortions.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 232

Psychiatrist comments on $100 appointments for legal abortions

Before Roe Vs Wade, some states allowed abortion only if a psychiatrist verified that a woman needed one for her emotional well being. Most psychiatrists were willing to sign a paper saying a woman was suicidal after an $100 appointment, enabling her to abort legally. But according to Dr. Seymour Halleck, a psychiatrist from Wisconsin and supporter of legalizing abortion:

“No psychiatrist, if he is honest with himself… can… describe any scientific criteria that enable him to know which women should have her pregnancy terminated, and which should not. When he recommends an abortion, he usually lies. It is a kind lie, dishonesty intended to make the world a little better, but it is still a lie.”

David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 167

Studies have shown that women who have abortions are more likely to suffer emotional problems and even to commit suicide. Read about some of these studies here.

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Hundreds of patients experience distress

From one doctor:

“Since abortion was legalized, I have seen hundreds of patients who’ve had the operation. Approximately 10% expressed very little or no concern… Among the other 90% there were all shades of distress, anxiety, heartache, and remorse.”

Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air Plus Enterprises, 1982)140

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A conspiracy of silence

A British surgeon who opposed legal abortion said:

“There has been almost a conspiracy of silence and declaring its [abortion’s] risks. Unfortunately, because of emotional reactions to legal abortion, well-documented evidence from countries with vast experience of it receives little attention in either the medical or lay press. This is medically indefensible when patients suffer as a result… The termination of pregnancy is neither as simple nor safe as some of advocates of abortion on demand would have the public believe.”

John and Barbara Willke Handbook on Abortion (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing Company, Inc., 1979) 96 quoted from Doctor Thomas Hilger’s “the Medical Hazards of Legal Induced Abortion” in Abortion and Social Justice Editor’s Thomas W Hilger’s and Dennis J Horan (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1972)

Read about abortion malpractice

Read about women who died from legal abortions

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“Too many minorities already” says Social Worker

A woman who became pregnant after rape but wanted to give birth to her baby was told the following by her social worker and a doctor who were trying top convince her to abort:

“They said I was “just another minority bringing a child into the world. There are too many already.”

David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 277

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“Harpooning” a Baby

From one abortionist, on performing abortions where poison is injected into the womb to kill a unborn baby:

“On a number of occasions with the needle, I have harpooned the fetus. I can feel the fetus move at the end of the needle just like you have fish hooked on a line. This gives me an unpleasant, unhappy feeling because I know that the fetus is alive and responding to the needle stab… No one has ever mentioned this, but I’ve noticed it a number of times, you know, that there is something alive in there that you’re killing…”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976)141

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Clinic Worker: Abortion is a “Sad” Situation

From an abortion clinic counselor:

“You know, I mean, it’s gory, and it’s really a sad situation to see the abortions, and I have my own opinion about how I feel about abortion… [But to] me it’s a job, and it’s the closest I could get to what I really wanted to do… I want to be a nurse – midwife.”

James Tunstead Burtchaell Rachel Weeping (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1982) 136

9 to 10 — pieces of a nine week aborted babies

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The doctors race each other

From one former clinic worker:

“The doctors race each other. Especially on Saturdays, they compete to see who can get the most patients done.”

Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick “The Abortion Profiteers” Chicago Sun-Times November 12, 1978

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Abortion: The ending of a life

From a pro-choice editorial:

“No one shrinks from what abortion means: the irrevocable ending of… [a] unique human being. To be unequivocally, all-out for life, any life, is quite satisfying to the soul, but it’s an ethical indulgence I cannot afford. The bottom line is, someone’s rights are going to take precedence. I vote for the woman.”

Editorial by Dana Tueth Motley of The Abortion Rights Coalition, Daily Illini, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, February 9, 1982, 17

This activist knows that abortion takes a life but supports it anyway.

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