Category: Quotes

Abortionist who switched from performing the occasional abortion in his office to working in an abortion clinic said the following:

“I’d never worked in a clinic. I’d always had my own private practice and run my own show… I was accustomed to operating in a very serious room with caps and gowns and masks and scrubbing for every procedure and to suddenly go in and there’d be a patient up in stirrups with no drape… It was a shocker. And I thought, were bound to have some calamities, we’re going to have some accidents, it’s just bound to happen. And it was like just walking on egg shells.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 19

News, WAFB, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 4, 1999; Executive Order MJF 995, Declaration of Public Health and Safety Emergency, dated February 5, 1999 (signed by Gov. Mike Foster)

 “An undercover news team entered a Baton Rouge, Louisiana abortion clinic and videotaped rusty surgical instruments and blood splattered surgical tables and floors.”

Denise M Burke, ESQ “Abortion Clinic Regulations: Combating the True “Back Alley”

Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004)

Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., FACS “the Abortion – Breast Cancer Link: the Studies and the Science”

After discussing at length the connection between abortion and breast cancer, the author said the following:

“Doctors fear the repercussions to their name and their career if they disclose what is already known about the ABC link.

In my own case, I have worried that I would lose referrals from OB/GYN’s who perform abortions when I have lectured on this topic. Even a family doctor who had referred numerous patients said to me, “you don’t tell my patients that, do you?” I worried about my practice. I can understand why a Harvard professor of risk assessment at a Boston Cancer Institute would tell me privately that she knew abortion was a risk factor for cancer but would not bring it up in her talks on risk (meanwhile encouraging me to speak out about it.) She might lose her job. I have a colleague who did lose an appointment at a medical school in New York because he was quoted as giving credence to a study supporting ABC link in the medical Journal of Lancet. One pro-choice epidemiologist who co-authored a study evincing a link between abortion and breast cancer told me she refused to speak on the topic anymore because she was tired of “having rocks thrown at her.”

I learned what that felt like firsthand when I presented a research project in a session at the San Antonio breast Cancer symposium in December 2001. Although the abstract had been accepted six months earlier and had the word “abortion” in the title, the program director accused me of using his meeting as a platform to hand out antiabortion literature. More troubling is that several years ago, the president of the American Society of Breast Surgeons told me that her board did not want to have a speaker on the subject at their meeting because they felt it was “too political.” I argued that it was actually medical, not political, but to no avail. The director of the Miami Breast Cancer conference also felt it was “too political.” He returned the check I had given him to pay for an exhibit table at the conference.”

Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) page 85