They said it.
“Abortions for teenagers that young are a tragedy. But abortion is a very safe medical procedure…safer than a delivery.”
Amy Coen, executive director of Planned Parenthood Chicago
Comments made after a 13-year-old girl died from her abortion in Chicago
“Officials probe cause of teen’s death at abortion clinic” United Press International, 9-7-1992. From Life Dynamics
Read about more legal abortion deaths here.
Share on FacebookPlanned Parenthood has reached a new low – in testimony against a bill that would make it mandatory for babies born alive during botched abortions to be given medical care and transport to a hospital, Planned Parenthood defended the practice of letting these infants die – saying that it should be between the doctor and the mother. Watch the video.
To read cases of babies born alive after abortions, go here
Share on FacebookA columnist for the London Spectator wrote about his daughter who had down syndrome and argued against the abortion of handicapped babies. His column prompted this letter to the Spectator’ s editor:
“I have severe spina bifida and am a full-time wheelchair user. I also run the handicapped division of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children – a group of disabled people. It is difficult for me to express my appreciation of your positive, loving attitude toward your daughter, since it means so much to me. I feel that your acceptance embraces all disabled people, and it represents such a radically different view to the one more commonly expressed. Every day I read in the press about “exciting breakthroughs,” which mean yet another way to kill people like me before birth…”
Paul Greenberg “Perfect Babies Via Abortion” Arizona Republic April 3, 1996
Most abortions of handicapped babies occur in the second or third trimester because problems are often not detected until then.
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A woman who used to work for Louisiana abortionist reports:
“At the time, I needed a job. I’m a single mom with three children… I was hired as a receptionist. And they so-called “promoted” me to doing the urine tests and the recovery room… What [the abortionist] does is he seeks out people that really need to make the money… Most of the women that do work there are single women with children.”
Interview with unnamed abortion worker, by Rachel McNair 3/10/92
Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 186
Sometimes abortion providers and clinic owners deliberately hire single mothers because they depend more on the income from the clinic and cannot as easily leave their jobs. There have been a number of former clinic workers who have discussed this practice.
Share on FacebookFrom a director of nursing at an abortion clinic:
Some of the late fetuses are “getting pretty big….it is very traumatic for the staff to pick this up and put it in a container and say “Ok, that’s going to the incinerator.”
Magda Denes “In Necessity and Sorrow” quoted in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)
The nurse’s clinic does abortions up to 24 weeks.
A letter sent out by Dr. J Cooper and the March of Dimes Arizona Tay-Sachs prevention committee encouraging parents and practitioners to do amniocentesis in order to detect disabilities in the baby (and abort if there are any). This letter was to prospective parents.
“Unfortunately, few hospitals will accept children for long-term care, and when they do the cost is generally prohibitive.”
Randy Engel, “the Rising Tide of Eugenic Abortion”, in Suzanne M Rini. Beyond Abortion: a Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation. (Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, 1988) 55
There are many pressures on the parents of disabled babies to abort. It is easier for society to get rid of the handicapped children than to care for them.
Share on FacebookA pro-life article told the following story:
“Some former abortion clinic workers have been won over to the pro-life side because of the love they experienced from people who demonstrated against their clinics. Norma McCorvey, former lead plaintiff as Jane Roe of Roe V Wade, is one. The case of another, Judith Fetrow, is striking because she initially experienced hostility from pro-life demonstrators at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic where she worked. On one occasion, she was so upset by her work that she decided to leave the clinic. But on her way out, demonstrators started shouting at her, “Murderer! The blood is on your hands!” Fetrow felt as though “someone had kicked me in the stomach,” so she went back to the clinic and “back to work.”
But a sidewalk counselor named Steve reached out to her, chatting with her in a friendly way. “It took some time,” Fetrow recalled, “it took enormous dedication, and it took the patience of a saint. But over several weeks we developed a friendship across the lines, based on trust.” Fetrow again left the clinic, but this time she did not return.”
Story recounted in Mary Meehan spring/summer 2000 The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit. Human Life Review 26 (2/3), 7 – 28, 8 and 21 in Rachel M MacNair and Stephen Zunes. Consistently Opposing Killing: from Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War (Bloomington: Author’s Choice press, 2011) 135
Share on FacebookIn her book Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic, Wendy Simonds quotes some clinic workers talking about pro-lifers. One clinic worker says:
On page 119
“My gut feeling is: I hate them. I want them to die! But realistically, I mean, I’ve come to the point where if I can’t deal with it, it’s like I want to yell at them and hit them over the head with a f*cking Bible and go, “you’re stupid! You don’t know what you’re talking about!”
A different clinic worker, on page page 123
“The feeling of violation, of [their] violating my space, of them filthying my space… With their presence!… I mean, I realized that I could kill a human being. I realize that if I got my hands on them, I was gonna rip them apart… I knew I could strangle one of them I just knew it.”
And another one on page 113
“We thought they were clients, and we treated them as nicely as we treat anybody else. And we were all so angry… They were out picketing… Not too long later, and I thought, they know the truth, I mean, we show them how humane we are and that we’re not, you know “baby killers” – I mean that we were real people, and were nice people, and were decent, and were human. And I just wanted to shoot them. I was just disgusted.”
This clinic does abortions up to 26 weeks.
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)
“Although I was an emotionally abused child, and a sexually abused teenager, I believe the worst abuse was inflicted by the judicial system. In retrospect, I was exploited by two self-interested attorneys. Worse, the courts, without looking into my true circumstances and taking the time to decide the real impact abortion would have upon women, I feel used me to justify legalization of terminating of the lives of over 35 million babies. Although on an intellectual level I know it was exploited, the responsibility I feel for this tragedy is overwhelming.”
Norma McCorvey A.k.a. Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade Affidavit, March 15, 2000
Share on FacebookKate Michelman opposed even the sensible abortion regulations during her time as president of NARAL. She championed partial birth abortion, fought against parental consent, and sought to prevent any restrictions on abortion including clinic regulations that would have made abortion safer. Yet in her book Protecting the Right to Choose, she refers to the baby she aborted as a “developing life.”
“When I did squarely confront abortion as a possibility, it was a very difficult decision. ….I had to weigh the responsibility I felt for the developing life within me against the moral, material, and practical responsibilities of my daughters’ well being…I have never, not once, questioned my choice to have that abortion.”
Kate Michelman Protecting the Right to Choose (New York: Plume, 2005) 4, 7
