Category: Quotes

One author who observed in an abortion clinic said the following:

“Following first trimester abortions, sterile room workers strain the contents of the aspirator jar and cannulae to isolate the fetal tissue,… After eight weeks gestation, weight should increase according to the doctor’s estimate of gestational length, and sterile room workers look for fetal parts. If they did not find evidence of the spine, skull, and upper and lower extremities, the client was called back into the examination room for a reaspiration.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) page 70

During the partial-birth abortion ban trials, abortionist William Fitzhugh told the Nebraska court that his only worry was delivering a live baby:

“The one thing that … I don’t want the staff to have to deal with is to have a fetus that you remove and have some viability to it, some movement of limbs, because it’s always a difficult situation.”

Washington Times, Forum: Abortion trials and tribulations, 4-25-2004

To read the entire court transcript, go here.

To read about babies being born alive after unsuccessful abortions, go here

Dr. Tommy Tucker was in abortionist who lost his license after being implicated in a number of botched abortions including one that led to the death of a woman he operated on. It was a situation of gross negligence; he left the bleeding woman in the hands of a clinic worker who had no medical training. You can read a first-hand account from the clinic worker here.

When Dr. Tucker was being investigated, he ordered his clinic workers to falsify and shred documents. This wasa according to Harriett Willis Truddle, former director of the clinic. According to an article that appeared in the Birmingham news:

“When he told us we had to cover up . . . if it means we have to throw that folder away and write another folder, we did it,” she testified when asked how far the Southhaven staff went to change records to make it appear the clinic had complied with Mississippi’s rule that requires a woman to wait 24 hours for an abortion.

When expecting a state abortion clinic inspection, “we have stayed at that office from 9 a.m. until 10 that night knowing what Dr. Tucker wanted – to falsify those records. He told us that if we didn’t get through, we didn’t have our jobs,” she testified.

“Murder talk upsets Tucker hearing licensing official ousted after remark about abortion” Birmingham News : April 22, 1994

Quoted by Life Dynamics

In her article, “Abortion, a love story” Gila Lyons (Salon AUG 24, 2012) discusses an abortion she had.

She seems aware from the beginning that that what she’s carrying in her womb is a baby. She says:

“Our baby was the size of a lentil, with a poppy-seed heart that beat 167 times per minute, twice the rate of mine. It had veins, brainwaves, arm and leg buds.”

Although she freely uses the word “baby,” and seems to know about how developed the baby is, she still goes ahead and has an abortion. As she is drifting off to sleep, the abortionist says this to her:

“It’s just a mass of tissue,” the doctor had said before she put me to sleep. “Not anything like a baby.”

“But it had a heart,” I thought, or said aloud.

This is just another example of abortion providers sugarcoating what they do and denying basic biology. In some cases, abortionists and clinic workers even give out blatantly false information about the unborn baby. See here.