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Baby lost due to religious references in crisis pregnancy center

The founder of a crisis pregnancy center describes an occurrence at another center:

Carol was afraid. How could this happen to me? She looked in the Yellow Pages and found daybreak. Carol was a young professional woman and she was sure she wanted an abortion. She came in for a pregnancy test over lunch hour. She had questions about abortion procedures and their safety.

The counselor was able to connect with Carol closely enough to discuss risks, emotional scarring and the development of life inside her. Then she handed Carol a brochure full of great information that would further answer her questions. As Carol thumbed through the booklet, she seemed grateful for such accurate information… And then she turned to the last page. Across it was the name of the organization that printed the brochure. Among believers it was a reputable name. But because the word “Christian” stood out so clearly to Carol, she tossed the brochure into the garbage, and walked out. In that instant, our opportunity to reach her was gone.”

Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) 57 to 58

Perhaps religious rhetoric in the pro-life movement turns some women away who pro-lifers would otherwise be able to help.

See On Being a Pro-life Atheist

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Abortion clinic charged with racism

A feminist author describes the charges of racism against an abortion clinic she observed at:

“Like many feminist organizations founded by white women, the center faces charges of institutional racism leveled by women of color working in the organization. Black (and sometimes white) workers said that racism had always been a problem, that when black women entered into a white power structure from the bottom (as they did the center, as health workers or low-level administrative workers), clashes between black and white staff members were inevitable. In other words, white women tended to re-create covert power dynamics similar to those they profess to despise, treating black women in a manner comparable to the sexist treatment of women by men.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 170

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“I like that we go up to 26 weeks” says clinic worker

A clinic worker praises late-term abortions at 26 weeks (the beginning of the third trimester), said the following:

“I like that we go up to 26 weeks. For a while it kind of gave me some things to learn… Plus it gives a whole new dimension to working with those women who come in for later abortions. It’s, like, great because they almost can’t have an abortion. They’re almost about to have a baby, and they don’t want to. And they’re really appreciative.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 63

26weeksson — Sonogram of baby at 26 weeks

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Newspapers censor partial-birth abortion ads

When laws against partial-birth abortion were being debated, a Christian group tried to run an ad in Florida newspapers with a diagram of the procedure, a Scripture quote, and a quote from the dissenting opinion in the original court case.

partbrt4 — Drawing of partial-birth abortion

The Orlando Sentinel agreed to run the ad for $1242 but then changed the price to $5,000 dollars and said there could be no diagrams or text of dissenting opinion.

They said the ad was:

“too graphic and controversial.”

The Florida Keys Keynoter also refused the ad.

“Partial Birth Abortion Ad Censored by Florida Newspapers” Cybercast News Service, July 14, 2000

19 week unborn — 19 weeks – partial-birth abortions were usually done at this stage or later

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We don’t have those people on our Rolodex

From an article in The Human Life Review about how media outlets often only present the pro-choice viewpoint, and often disseminate false information:

“The reason that so many liberals are ready to believe and disseminate the lies of the abortion industry is not that abortion has any inherent connection to liberalism but because liberals and abortion advocates belong to the same ethnic group. One day, after hearing on the radio some pretty long excerpts from a speech by a NARAL official, I listened for an opposing view. Hearing none, I called the station manager and asked why he didn’t put on a differing opinion, one from the pro-life side. His reply was that “we don’t have these people on our Rolodex.”

“Why They Help Them Lie.”, By: McKenna, George, Human Life Review, 00979783, Spring2001, Vol. 27, Issue 2

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Clinic worker Sallie Tisdale on women who have abortions

From clinic worker Sallie Tisdale:

“A twenty-one-year-old woman, unemployed, uneducated, without family, in the fifth month of her fifth pregnancy. A forty-two-year-old mother of teenagers, shocked by her condition, refusing to tell her husband. A twenty-three-year-old mother of two having her seventh abortion, and many women in their thirties having their first. . . .Oh, the ignorance . . . .Some swear they have not had sex, many do not know what a uterus is, how sperm and egg meet, how sex makes babies. . . .They come so young, snapping gum, sockless and sneakered, and their shakily applied eyeliner smears when they cry. . . .I cannot imagine them as mothers.”

“We do abortions here” Harper’s Magazine. Quoted in Jason Deparle, “Beyond the Legal Right; Why Liberals and Feminists Don’t like to Talk about the Morality of Abortion,” Washington Monthly Apr. 1989

1sttri_ultra — 1st trimester. The majority of abortions are done at this time

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“Denial and Ambivalence” of late term abortions

From an article on late term abortions:

Even abortion-rights advocates are beginning to say that late abortions pose special problems. Compared with early abortions, post-20-week procedures are four times more costly, seven times more likely to lead to medical complications, and far more physically and emotionally traumatic to the woman. In recognition of these problems, more and more clinics are offering counseling before the abortion. “I don’t want laws to stop abortion at 20 weeks,” says Charlotte Taft, an abortion counselor and consultant in Santa Fe, N.M. “But I’d like us to consider how we, as a society, can take responsibility for the denial and ambivalence” that lead to late abortions.

When abortions come late in a pregnancy., By: Lavelle, Marianne, Glastris, Paul, Gerson, Michael J., Daniel, Missy, Meyer, Michele, U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 01/19/98, Vol. 124, Issue 2

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D & X versus D & E

The director of one late-term abortion clinic discussed the legal furor over partial-birth abortions (or D & X abortions), in which a baby is partially delivered before being killed. She mentioned that D&E abortions, which have never been criminalized, are just as gruesome:

“If people object to D&X, what will they say when they get to this? D&E is the next battleground.”

When abortions come late in a pregnancy., By: Lavelle, Marianne, Glastris, Paul, Gerson, Michael J., Daniel, Missy, Meyer, Michele, U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 01/19/98, Vol. 124, Issue 2