Category: Quotes

Dr. Warren Hern Describes Abortion Through the 24th Week

From abortion doctor Warren Hern:

“A frequent problem at the beginning of this series was difficulty in removing the fetal skull from the uterus.  The incidence of this declined with experience, with more aggressive use of laminaria in dilatation, and with acquisition of new and more satisfactory instruments for performance of this procedure. It still occurs occasionally, and it is managed by completing the procedure under direct ultrasound visualization or having the patient wait in the recovery room for one or two hours.  The part being sought invariably migrates to the lower uterine segment and is easily grasped and delivered.” (emphasis editor’s)

Outpatient second-trimester D&E abortion through 24 menstrual weeks’ gestation by Warren Hern Boulder Abortion Clinic

22 to 24 week-old unborn baby

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Like Brushing Your Teeth?

One pro-choice activist said the following:

“A set of blueprints is not a house; the DNA of a zygote is not a human being. There is no moral obligation to conserve DNA if there was, no man would be allowed to brush his teeth and gums, for in this brutal operation hundreds of sets of DNA are destroyed daily.”

Garrett Hardin, professor of biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Quoted in Redbook Magazine, May 1967. Also quoted on page 101 of Ruth Barnett.They Weep On My Doorstep. Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Publishers, 1969.

remains of an abortion at nine weeks

 

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Abortionist: Abortion is a Violent Act

“Abortion is, by almost any standards, a violent act. .. On the positive side, it gives women the means to decide their own fates and control their own reproductive lives.  But it also puts more of the weight on women’s shoulders, allowing men and society in general to literally scrape and vacuum away their responsibilities.”

Don Sloan, M.D., with Paula Hartz. Choice: A Doctor’s Experience with the Abortion Dilemma (New York: New York International Publishers 1992) 178 Sloan has performed over 20,000 abortions.

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hand of a 12 week old unborn baby
leg of baby aborted at 12 weeks
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Slate Article: Pro-Choicers View Pro-Lifers as Insincere

From one article about legislation that would have banned sex selection abortions (abortions done because the gender of the unborn baby is female but the parents prefer a male, or vice versa):

“A trio of writers at the Huffington Post condemn the gender bias that leads to sex-selective abortion but call the bill’s supporters “hypocrites … who don’t care about sex discrimination.”

While the author criticizes the pro-life movement for not doing enough to prevent abortion, he also says:

“…too many in the pro-choice movement refuse to believe that anyone who’s pro-life actually cares about the unborn. They can’t allow themselves to believe anything but that we hate women and are afraid of sex, because if they acknowledge that our concern is for the unborn, they might have to challenge their own beliefs.”

20 week-old unborn baby

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“It’s worth pointing out that sex-selective abortions are, by nature, late-term abortions. You can’t find out the gender of a fetus until 18 to 20 weeks, if then. Perfectly healthy children that are nearing viability are being aborted because of sexism. That’s the most important thing.”

Rachael Larimore, columnist for Slate, “How far apart we are on abortion” The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) June 2, 2012

 

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Woman Who Aborted Due to a Problem with the Baby Expresses Confusion and Regret

One woman who had an abortion after tests showed that her unborn baby would be badly handicapped and chose to abort said the following:

“We had only one isolated piece of information, not a whole crystal ball. How were we to know what would be best?…

A person reeling from shock, numbed by a sudden catastrophe, cannot think.”

“Brown, Judy” (pseudonym) The Choice. Journal of the American Medical Association 1989, 262:2735

Many times, couples with pregnancies where the baby is going to be handicapped or very ill are rushed into a decision by doctors once they find out that the baby is going to have problems, and before they fully absorbed the information or the weightiness of the choice that awaits them.

 

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President of NARAL Pro-Choice America Expresses Her Concerns

In the United States, the tide is turning against the pro-choice movement. Several polls have been done recently that show that there are more people who consider themselves pro-life than pro-choice. Some pro-choice leaders have talked about what this may mean.

“Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, told Newsweek of her anguish as she watched last year’s March on Washington. “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young,” she said. “There are so many of them, and they are so young.

Fred Barnes “Hidden Persuaders: The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement” The Weekly Standard NOV 7, 2011

first trimester sonogram
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Abortion Clinic Owner Badmouths Her Patients

Sometimes abortion providers seem to show contempt for the very women are supposed to be serving. A clinic owner and administrator of two clinics, said the following about her abortion patients:

“Most of them don’t think [they] can take care of a child or another child or not mentally able at this time to take care of a child. Some are not the brightest light bulb. They’re really kind of “blank.”

James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 73

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Parents of Disabled Children Often Rushed Into Abortions

One study that revealed parents of babies aborted due to disability of “fetal anomaly” suffer depression and loss said this:

“Despite the shock and grief they may experience upon hearing the news of a fetal anomaly, the pregnant woman and her partner are usually urged to make the decision to terminate quickly. Behind the urgency is the physician’s desire to avoid complications of “late” terminations of pregnancy. Because of the delays involved in amniocentesis, abortions may occur in the second and even third trimesters of pregnancy. In health care settings, the issue of such late abortions has raised ethical and legal questions. In one early study, most of the terminations occurred within 72 hours of the woman receiving the news of the abnormality. This hardly allows time for the couple to become informed about parenting children born with that anomaly and thus consider carrying through with the pregnancy.”

Donnai P, Charles N, Harris R. Attitudes of Patients after “Genetic” Termination of Pregnancy British Medical Journal 1981; 282: 621 – 622, P622 in Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles. Women’s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence Second Edition (Toronto, Canada: The deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 2003) 159

Read more about the abortion of disabled babies here. 

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Doctor Would Have Been “Bored Silly” Without Abortion

Abortionist Jane Hodgson:

“I think in many ways I’ve been lucky to have been a part of this. I mean life is dull if you can’t get involved in something worthwhile. If I hadn’t gotten involved, I would have gone through life probably being perfectly satisfied to go to the medical society parties and it would’ve been very, very dull. I would have been bored silly.”

Carole E. Joffe Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v Wade (Beacon Press 1996) 26

Thank you to Live Action for this quote.

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Abortionist: I Make an Awful Lot of Money

From the chief of gynecological and obstetrical services at an abortion clinic:

“I practice medicine not to make a living and yet I like to make money at it. We made a lot of money in abortions. I don’t really know why I did it. I sort of fell into it. I was the director of the service here, so when the abortion program came in I looked at it is sort of a challenge. We did set up a very good program. But then I could see from the point of view of management that they were less interested in the best program than in the best paying program. For the first two or three months I didn’t do any of the abortions… Then I suddenly realized I had all the headaches because whenever they ran into trouble I got involved. I took over gradually and work two days a week and I found that I work very hard, but it made an awful lot of money.”

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

aborted baby’s foot at 16 weeks
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