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Planned Parenthood Counselor Pushes Abortion

When Jennifer Clifford went to Planned Parenthood and found out that she was pregnant, she did not want to have an abortion. In her article “UN-Planned Parenthood” (1998) she tells her story.

“Next, the nurse asked me how I felt about the possibility that I could be pregnant. I let her know that I was excited at the idea but unsure of my future. She honed in on that uncertainty and probed further- what would I do with the child? Could I support it? What would my parents think? These were issues that I had not yet allowed to enter into my mind; I was taking the whole thing one step at a time. Consequently, I could not answer her questions as quickly as she blurted them out. As I floundered for responses, a look of smug resolution came over her face, as if she had already decided what I was going to do. I was a textbook abortion customer to her- young and afraid, and not knowing where to turn. She thought that all she had to do was prey on my worries and shoot down my childish dreams of being a ‘mommy’, and she could add another abortion to the paperwork. I, however, had other plans.”

Clifford’s interpretation of the counselor’s motives might be a bit subjective, but she then goes on to relate what happened when the pregnancy test came back positive:

“I’m sorry Jennifer,” the nurse shook her had and tried to look sympathetic. I was confused by her apology. I remember the dismayed look on her face when I began to smile. She grasped again at my concern, desperately trying to save her sale. She reminded me of my age and of my state in life. I knew I could not support the child on my own, so I asked her for a number I could call for government assistance. She claimed she didn’t have one to give me. It struck me as odd that she couldn’t provide me with a point of contact. Surely other women had been in this same situation before me and had needed information on how they could get help to keep their children as well. Why did Planned Parenthood, then, not keep such an important number handy?

I asked the nurse to give me a list of doctors from which to choose, as I felt the next reasonable step would be to see an obstetrician. The nurse breathed a heavy sigh of disapproval and curled her lip, as if I wasn’t understanding her point. “We don’t deal with pregnant women.” Shocked, I wondered how this company could call itself “Planned Parenthood” when it was unable or unwilling to deal with expectant parents….She seemed to sense my uneasiness and pressed some more.

She mentioned my parents again, appealing to my utter terror in having to break the news to them. The nurse bombarded me with negativity, playing on my fears and concerns and continuing to offer me the “easy way out.”… When I disagreed, she thrust a package of pamphlets at me on abortion costs and procedures, adoption information, and a small except on prenatal care. She presented this to me and told me to come back when I had made up my mind… I knew I had been very clear that I wanted to keep the baby, and that this was not bad news to me. That concept seemed to escape her….She had absolutely no concern for me as an individual with needs and desires; she was interested only in making money for her company.”

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Planned Parenthood Deceived Me

“Planned Parenthood suggested only an abortion. No other options were ever discussed. They never said the word “baby” – only “fetus.” you can’t imagine my shock and horror when I saw my dismembered baby after my “nice and easy” abortion. They deceived me. I’ve suffered severe emotional problems.”

Karen Sullivan-Ables, Taylor, Az

From “What to know before you choose abortion as your option” by Dianne Monahan and Karen Sullivan-Ables, published by Heritage House.

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Defenders of Abortion Can’t Match Photographs

Pro-choice author Janet Hadley said the following in her book “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press) 1996:

“Defenders of abortion never have anything to match the visual image of the fetus, the most emotive weapon of all… no words are needed to accompany pictures of little mangled legs, hacked arms, crushed skulls…”

Hadley quotes Tony Kaye, who shot graphic footage of aborted babies for a film he was directing:

“When you see those fetuses, it is pretty much game set and match as far as I’m concerned.”

This was quoted on page 150

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Pro-Choice Author Laments Unborn Baby Pictures

From pro-choice author Melody Rose:

“The images and language most often wielded by pro-life advocates are vivid and emotional… recent developments in imaging technique certainly have facilitated a reliance on powerful pictures that humanize the fetus in a way not possible two decades ago. Because fetuses now can be seen in intricate detail, opponents of abortion have striking images to use in support of abortion restrictions, despite what these restrictions might mean to women’s health and freedom.”

Melody Rose “Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States” (Washington DC: CQ Press) 2007 p 10 to 11

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If Wombs Had Windows…

Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson, in his book Aborting America, acknowledged how seeing unborn babies has a powerful impact on people when he said:

“Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.”

Aborting America (Life Cycle Books (June 1979)

8wkssonogram — sonogram of 8-week-old baby in the womb

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Picture of Unborn Baby Upsets Pro-Choicers

From an article by pro-abortion activist Jason Deparle:

“In 1985 the North Carolina Independent, a biweekly alternative paper with a history of support for left liberal and feminist causes, put a fetus on the front page, labeled with the blandest caption: “Controversial, magnified images like this one… are credited with winning converts to the antiabortion camp.”

“The phone calls and letters poured in,” said Katherine Fulton, the paper’s editor. “It was perceived as antifeminist.” The graphic seemed like “the other side image. We didn’t coach it enough.”

8weekbluebackground — 8 week unborn baby – a picture similar to the one newspaper

From the same article:

In 1985 [The Progressive] ran an advertisement from a group called Feminists for Life [it] pictured an embryo at eight weeks. The Funding Exchange, a New York philanthropy that had supported the magazine, wrote to say that it was “greatly offended” was canceling its subscription, and would henceforth “find it difficult for our staff to lobby for funding for your publication.” Michael Ratner, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a civil liberties group, weighed in as well:

“Happily I am not a subscriber so I needn’t cancel my subscription,” he wrote, “I would surely do so after seeing this antiabortion ad.”

Jason Deparle “Beyond the Legal Right: Why Liberals and Feminists Don’t like to Talk about the Morality of Abortion” Washington Monthly, April 1989

Deparle goes on to say:

“It’s not surprising that the defenders of abortion don’t like pictures of fetuses; General Westmoreland didn’t like the cameras in Vietnam either. Fetuses aren’t babies, and the photos don’t end the discussion. But they make it a more sober one, as it should be.”

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Picture of Aborted Baby Helps Prosecutors Convict Abortionist

Another example of how effective these pictures are, when Kenneth Edelin killed a 23 week old baby who was born alive after an abortion he performed, the jury that convicted him said that the reason they found him guilty was the pictures the prosecution showed of the dead child:

From an article covering the trial:

“Several of the jurors who convicted Edlin of manslaughter said it was the photographic evidence that convinced them.

“It looked like a baby,” said juror Liberty Ann Conlin “I’m not speaking for the rest of the jurors, but it definitely had an effect on me.”

Another juror, Paul A. Hollan, “The picture helped people draw their own conclusions. Everybody in the room made up their minds but the fetus was a person.”

(St Lois Globe-Democrat feb 18 1975)

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Pro-choice author Maureen Faux said of the case:

“The case was lost in part because, over the defense’s strenuous objections, the prosecution was able to display a larger-than-life-size photograph of the fetus, which had been preserved as evidence.”

Marian Faux Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Carol Publishing Group) 1990 P 4

The verdict was later overturned.

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The Impact of Drawings on the Partial-Birth Abortion Debate

During the trials about the partial birth abortion ban, president of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers Ron Fitzsimmons said this of the pictures (drawings of how the baby is killed in this type of abortion) shown by supporters of the ban:

“They’d be talking, talking, talking, and every few minutes, they’d say, “Mr. Speaker, let me just once again describe this horrific procedure for you.” I swear, I thought the debate occurred every night between five and six p.m., when people were coming home. They did exactly what I would have done – they brought out those pictures. And I was just thinking: who’s going to go out there and defend this?”

Cynthia Gorney “Gambling with Abortion: Why Both Sides Think They Have Everything to Lose” Harper’s Magazine, Nov 2004

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Rev. Howard Moody and Abortion Pictures

Rev Howard Moody, head of a group of thousands of clergymen who referred women for abortions, both before and after it was legal, said that he lost many clergy because of the pictures.

(Don Sloan, M.D. and Paula Hartz. Choice: A Doctor’s Experience with the Abortion Dilemma. New York: International Publishers 2002)

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