Category: Quotes

“I was totally uninformed of available alternatives to abortion. I never recommended adoption or keeping the child. Furthermore, I was completely unaware of the medical facts, including the development of the fetus. I received no training in factual matters- my job was just to keep women happy and make sure they went along with an abortion.”

Abortion Clinic Worker

Interview by Randy Alcorn Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments (Eternal Perspectives Ministries: Grand Rapids, Michigan 1992) p 100

However:

In many states, there are no laws governing what clinics must tell patients about abortion medical risks, leaving the clinics free to withhold this information from prospective patients. A bill was proposed to mandate that information about the physical and mental complications of abortion be given to women. Nearly all pro-choice organizations opposed this legislation, as did abortionists.

Here is a quote by Joyce Tarnow, owner of an abortion clinic in Florida:

”We have always had informed consent, that is that they understand what an abortion is: that it’s a termination of pregnancy, This (pamphlet mandating clinics tell patients the risks of abortion) is just an anti-abortion campaign that’s gone too far.”

“Pamphlet Throws Clinics for a Loop” Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel July 2, 1997

See mere quotes in this section about why informed consent laws are needed.

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Abortionist Dave Turok feels that women are too fragile and delicate to know the facts about whether the fetus feels pain. Obviously, women are too emotional to make an informed choice.

“Telling those women their fetuses feel pain is heaping torment upon torment. These women have real pain. They did not come to this decision easily. Creating another barrier for them to get the medical care they need is really unfair.”

“Fetal pain advice bill sent back for rewrite; Doctors’ orders: They object to giving painkillers to fetuses before abortion” The Salt Lake Tribune February 4, 2006

Is it more traumatic for a woman to know her baby feels pain before she chooses to undergo an abortion? Or is it better for her to find out this fact somewhere else after the abortion is done and it’s too late?

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In one article, abortionist William Harrison states:

“I am destroying life.”

This is all he tells the patient:

“You may feel some cramping while we suction everything out.”

“Offering Abortion” LA Times November 29, 2005

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Are women to emotional and fragile to be told the truth about an elective medical procedure? Or does a woman have the right to know exactly what is going on in her body?

“We were hiding” some pieces of the truth about abortion that were threatening. Abortion is a kind of killing and most women seeking abortion know that.”

“Abortion Rights Activist Resigns as Clinic Director: Taft Cites Differences with Route Street Clinic” February 2, 1995. Quoted in Achieving Peace in the Abortion War by Rachel McNair

Former Clinic Administrator Charlotte Taft

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A D & X or “Partial Birth Abortion” is a procedure in which a living unborn baby in the second or third trimester is delivered almost entirely from the woman’s body. The abortionist holds the head inside the mother and then punctures the baby’s skull with a syringe or pair of surgical scissors (depending on the age of the fetus) then drains of suctions out the brain contents. One abortionist who performs this procedure, was asked if she told her patients the details of what she was going to do to them and their baby. She replied:

“I do not usually tell patients specific details of the operative approach.”

Carolyn Westhoff, abortion doctor, quoted from the transcripts of National Abortion Federation vs. Ashcroft: US District Court, Southern District of NY, Honorable Richard Conway Casey Judge. See Court Transcripts:New York

In the same court case, abortionist Casey Hammod was asked whether he told patients the exact nature of the procedures he performs on them. He said yes, but then went on to say:

“Keep in mind a lot of my patients are emotionally quite fragile so we don’t have to bring up the terms – we don’t have to go into every gory detail about what we are doing…

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“Sometimes it’s `the pregnancy’, sometimes it’s `the baby’. The challenge is gaining people’s trust in a very short space of time.”

Abortion clinic counselor “Poppy”

“Society’s Best Kept Secret” Sunday Star-Times January 15, 2006

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A quote by an abortion worker at the blog “Abortion Clinic Days” under the heading “Sending her Home” (May 2006) is as follows:

“I have also seen many times a woman changing her mind a number of times.”

Yet as you read the quotes in this section, you will see that many abortion providers attempt to talk women into having abortions, and others provide little or no counseling.

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Are some women ambivalent when they come to an abortion clinic? In the experience of some abortion providers, the answer is yes

At Newsreview.com “Inside an Abortion Clinic” clinic counselor “Laura” says:

” Maybe 30 percent [of the women] are kind of talking through doubts, maybe 5 percent go away.”

Chrisanne Beckner  “Inside the abortion clinic” Newsreview.com  January 29, 2004

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Clinic worker Greta states:

“There are some women who are like “I don’t know what I want to do,” and the system is we assume women are totally clear in their decision the minute they walk in the door. If they’re not, we have to back up – And that’s challenging from a “workflow point of view.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37

 

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In one abortion clinic, a worker named Mira is quoted saying:

“We don’t counsel women- we assume if a woman says “I’m here to have an abortion” that she’s thought about that”

The interviewer herself then says:

“Several health workers pointed out that they occasionally dealt with ambivalent clients, even though Center methods were predicated on not probing women for doubts.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37

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