Dr. George Tiller, handing a photo of a dead late-term fetus he had aborted to pro-choice legislator Ruby Gilbert during a tour of his late-term abortion clinic:
“This baby looks pretty good, I’m sorry that the baby had a lot of problems. But it did.”
“Tours provide insight into abortion”, The Wichita Eagle, October 7, 1997
Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the largest independent abortion provider in the UK, said this in a 2008 debate:
“We can accept that the embryo is a living thing in the fact that it has a beating heart, that it has its own genetic system within it. It’s clearly human in the sense that it’s not a gerbil, and we can recognize that it is human life… the point is not when does human life begin, but when does it really begin to matter?”
Ann Furedi, “Abortion: A Civilized Debate,” Battle of Ideas, (London, England, November 1, 2008).
Author Monica Migliorino Miller describing the affidavit of an employee at an abortion clinic called Imperial Health Center under abortionist Milton Tarver:
“In the affidavit she described Tarver’s assembly-line approach to abortion. He shouted at the staff when they fail to fill the appointment times. With a woman lying on a table in each of his four procedure rooms, he would dash from one to the next. “Always in a hurry,” Patrice described him. He did the abortion so fast that often there was not enough time for the anesthetic to take effect. In addition, Tarver did not give women their full dose of twilight sleep when they requested it, even though they were charged for the full dose. Because of his speedy surgical methods, fetal parts were often left in the woman, necessitating a re-suction later.”
Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012)
In a 1985 study, 2/3 of 295 geneticists surveyed would perform prenatal diagnosis (28%) or refer patients to another doctor to do it (34%) even if the parents had said they’d choose to abort if the baby was the “wrong” gender.
Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher “Fatal Knowledge? Prenatal Diagnosis and Sex Selection” Hastings Center Report (May/June 1989) p 21-27
Quoted in Francis J. Beckwith “Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights” (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1993)
“…the similarity of the fetus to a baby is very significant. A fetus one week before birth is so much like a newborn baby in our psychological space that we cannot allow any cavalier treatment of the former while expecting full sympathy and support for the latter… An early horror story from New York about nurses who were expected to alternate between caring for six-week premature infants and disposing of viable 24 week aborted fetuses is just that — a horror story.”
Jane English, “Abortion and the Concept of a Person” Biomedical Ethics Thomas A.Mappes and Jane S.Zembaty , editors (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981) 430
24-week-old unborn baby
Baby aborted at this age:
Abortions at this age are often performed by injecting poison into the heart of the baby (or sometimes just into the amniotic fluid, which causes a slow death)and inducing labor. In other cases, these babies are dismembered.
Tracy Marcianiak was five days away from giving birth to her son who she had named Zachariah on February 8, 1992 when her estranged husband came to the apartment and punched her in the stomach. She miscarried her baby and spent three weeks in the hospital herself. She lived in Milwaukee and Wisconsin law had no legislation saying that the killing of an unborn baby was a crime.
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act was legislation that would make killing a wanted unborn baby a felony. Pro-choice activists argued against this bill, which ended up passing.
According to Marcianiak:
“My son was five days from full term, and for them to tell me my son was nothing, it’s just wrong. Where were my child’s rights when he was ripped from my womb and killed, and I was told he was nothing?”
“Senate Passes Unborn Victims Bill” Fox news.com March 26, 2004, Debra Rosenberg, “The War over Fetal Rights” Newsweek, June 9, 2003
Marcianiak is pro-choice, but cannot understand pro-choice opposition to the bill. According to pro-abortion Sen. Barbara Boxer, who opposed the bill:
“They want to undermine Roe versus Wade and a woman’s right to choose. It shocks me. I’m at a loss for words, and that’s hard for me to be.”
Jack Torry “Killing Fetus Is Murder in Bill Sent to Bush” Columbus Dispatch, March 26, 2004 3A
Quoted in Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 39 – 40
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, cofounder of NARAL, explained how his organization helped make abortion legal:
“We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the US. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million. Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public…
baby at 12 weeks, still within the time most abortions are performed
In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control US and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1500% since legalization.”
Teresa Tomeo Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2013) 53
Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern said the following at the National Abortion Federation’s 18th annual meeting on April 24 of 26 1994:
“I do not conceal my views from these people[pro lifers] but I have to say this – there’s a lot of crummy medicine being practiced out there in providing abortion services, and I think that some of the stuff I see come across my desk is very upsetting. And I think that I have said for 20 years in this movement, we have to do it right or we shouldn’t do it… If we’re not practicing good medicine, we’re going to get nailed.”
He was referring to lawsuits against abortion providers.
Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)115
Said one woman whose partner pushed her into having an abortion:
“I told the doctor and nurse I couldn’t go through with it before the abortion started and the doctor told me I’d be okay. What a lie! I didn’t have the courage to get up and leave. I let that man vacuum out my baby in pieces. The actual abortion was so awful… Very painful, traumatic, and violence. I was further along than 12 weeks the doctor was really angry at me. I remember the “recovery room” – a dingy, depressing room full of nasty recliners. As I tried to pull myself together the lady next to me started chatting: this was her fourth abortion…. I had to get out of there that minute! Brian drove me home. We didn’t say much.
Not a day goes by that I don’t regret my choice! It’s been over 20 years, more than 10,000 days! What I would give to live that they over again and choose life for my baby. Abortion is forever and we don’t get do overs.”
Teresa Tomeo Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2013) 89 – 90
