They said it.
From a 1989 interview with Dr. Julius Fogel, psychiatrist and obstetrician who performs abortions:
“There is no question about the emotional grief and mourning following an abortion… many come in [to the office even years later] — some are just mute, some hostile. Some burst out crying… there is no question in my mind we are disturbing a life process.”
Interview with Coleman McCarthy “Does Abortion Harden Maternal Instinct?” National Catholic Reporter, February 24, 1989
Share on FacebookD James Kennedy says the following:
“So many decisions for abortion are based on the “out of sight, out of mind” reasoning, not fully understanding what is really taking place or ever visualizing the child that is maturing in the sanctuary of the mother’s womb. But, through the use of a highly sophisticated microscope called a fetoscope, we can see this little baby beginning his growing adventure in life… This little fellow is only weeks old… But just a few years ago, these fiber-optic images were impossible to produce.
Note the blood vessels running under the delicate skin, the hand and the fingers. This thick, blue coiled structure is the umbilical cord. This is the child’s lifeline to the mother. This is a little boy. The ear is readily unidentifiable. It has been shown that in the later months of pregnancy the child will react to sound. There is the nose… The mouth. This little fellow can even be seen swallowing water. The eyebrows. And the eyelids are still closed.
Tragically, what you are watching is dramatic footage of preparation images for an abortion by dismemberment which abruptly ended this child’s life. I simply cannot show you the rest of this gruesome film. The visual details of this less than 8 minute procedure are inappropriate for television viewing. These scenes are excerpts from the film Eclipse of Reason… A startling look at the reality of abortion. The conclusion of that abortion procedure produced a bloody pile of rubble, destroying this young boys life.
Abortion is clearly the taking of a human life. Many have tried to dismiss the obvious scientific evidence of life’s existence from the point of conception by using an approach which is the equivalent of a theory that the Earth is flat. Through the discoveries of today’s medical science and technology, the understanding of life at conception is more vivid than ever before.”
This was a television segment.
D James Kennedy, Abortion, A Reflection on Life (Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Coral Ridge Ministries, 1989) P 4
Share on FacebookA clinic worker told pro-life author Randy Alcorn the following story:
“One day the doctor was in a hurry to go play golf. The poor woman was crying because he was rushing the procedure to dilate her cervix. She was in a lot of pain and really afraid. He got angry and told her, “Spread your legs! You’ve obviously spread them for someone else, now spread them for me.”
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
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Share on FacebookIn 1992, when the average annual income for a physician in Portland, Oregon was just under $100,000, a local abortionist testified in court that in the previous year his income had been $345,000. One physician says:
“An abortionist, working only 20 or 30 hours a week, with no overhead, can earn from 3 to 10 times as much as an ethical surgeon.”
Cited by John C. Willke in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Share on FacebookRandy Alcorn told the following story, which he got from an email:
“Barb came to Cobb Pregnancy Services Tuesday wanting a verification of pregnancy so she could get an abortion. She was 16 weeks pregnant. Janet, her counselor, put in a video [The Eclipse of Reason] that showed the abortion procedure for a baby of this age. When Janet returned to the room, Barb was looking down and said “I can’t have no baby.”
Janet shared her regret concerning an abortion she’s lived with for more than 25 years. She then got permission to call me to do an ultrasound and show Barb her baby. The little girl was most cooperative to show even her mom’s untrained eye that she was alive, very active and doing well insider. She opened and closed her mouth, had hiccups, laid-back as if in a beach chair, stretching her little legs. She even held up hands so Barb could count her fingers
Barb was visibly touched. When the scan was over, I asked Barb what her plans were. She replied “I am going to have my baby.” I asked if the scan had made a difference, she said, “Big time. I just came in here to get a pregnancy verification so I could go have an abortion.”
Both pictures are sixteen weeks.
Audrey Stout, Marietta Georgia, e-mail to Randy Alcorn February 12, 2000
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 199
Share on FacebookIn Oregon, The House Judiciary Committee held an informational session on House Bill 3512, which would prohibit abortions once a pregnancy is in its 20th week, barring a medical emergency threatening the mother’s life. 
“Dr. Richard Thorne, a retired gynecologist and former president of Oregon Right to Life, testified that, under the federal Animal Welfare Act of 1966, animals enjoy more legal protection from pain than fetuses do under current federal abortion laws.
“Should animal rights trump human rights in regards to pain?” he asked the committee.”
Saul Hubbard “Panel airs anti-abortion bill” The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) April 7, 2011
Pro-Choicers vehemently fought this bill, and the bill was killed.
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From her former pro-life activist who now considers herself pro-choice:
“Pro-Lifers have the much stronger rhetorical position, both verbally and visually.… They compare abortion to the Holocaust – a metaphor no one for choice can rival. They have pictures of what they claim are aborted fetuses, fetuses that appear both human and violently damaged. Such pictures appeal to pathos in a way no logical pro-choice argument can hope to…. [There is] no image to rival the visual horror of the aborted fetus; instead there are only sterile, unemotional concepts in which to believe: privacy, choice, legalization. While feminists may feel the rightness of choice, that rightness can’t compare, on an emotional level, to the emotions associated with the implied opposite of pro-life (pro-death) or with the images of bloody fetuses.”
Elizabeth Wardle, PhD “The Rhetoric of Abortion: Reflections from a Former Pro-Life Activist” Quoted in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 90
This pro-choice activist admits that pro-lifers have a more persuasive case. Perhaps this is why so many young people are becoming pro-life. Read more about pro-choicers comments on abortion pictures here.
See some pictures of abortions here.
Share on FacebookAbortion related violence is always wrong, whether it’s a pro-choice activist doing it or pro-life activist doing it. The media has reported extensively on antiabortion activists who assaulted abortion doctors or clinic workers or bombed abortion clinics, but has been, for the most part, completely silent about pro-abortion violence against pro-lifers. Cars have been set on fire, picketers have been assaulted and hit by cars, and crisis pregnancy centers have been firebombed. People have been threatened and attacked. Yet the media is silent. This website document some of these cases of violence
One pro-choice activist justified violence against pro-lifers in the following quote, which was cited by Carolyn Gargaro:
“Don’t even suggest that there is ANY comparison between the violence wrought by pro-choice activists and the violence wrought by the anti-abortionists…. the fundamental drive of your violence is the aggressor. Our’s is not. Those of the pro-choice views commit violence because they feel that their human rights and freedoms are threatened by your cause. It’s much like a tigress or lioness becomes violent when her cubs are threatened.”
Apparently, according to this activist, violence against pro-lifers is justified.
Share on FacebookResearchers discussed the emotional impact of abortion on providers:
“in Hawaii, McDermott and Char reported that “the nurses themselves felt that they had replaced the illicit underground abortionists in other cities, and, like them, they were personally involved in the slicing and chopping up of “babies” (the word they used to describe expelled fetal parts and fetuses)
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Kibel reported nightmares in nurses who had participated in many abortions… he concluded that “regardless of one’s religious or philosophic orientation, the unconscious view of abortion remains the same… that unconsciously the act of abortion was experienced as an act of murder….
Physicians are no more immune. Many countries have reported increased depressive reactions and breakdowns among their guilt ridden doctors.”
Thomas W.Hilgers and Dennis J.Horan , Abortion and Social Justice (Thaxton Virginia: Sun Life, 1980) P. 77
The late Dr. Nathanson, former abortion provider and pro-choice advocate:
“I think the baby probably feels pain in all of them [abortion procedures] [although] the degree, the sophistication of the [pain] perception certainly varies with the length of gestation… [but] there is is really little question that pain is felt in some degree or other during an abortion.”
Initial transcript, The Ankerberg Theological Research Institute “Is Abortion Justifiable?” Televised program, January 1990
Here is a diagram of a first trimester suction abortion, the most common abortion procedure in the US
And here is a diagram of the most common second trimester abortion technique, the D & E:
In each, the baby is violently torn apart. Most likely, this dismemberment causes pain.
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