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Abortionist has “personnel problem” with late term abortions

An abortionist describes a problem he has with doing second trimester D&E abortions:

“The only problem is a personnel problem. It’s an unattractive method because you have to morselate [that is, cut into small pieces] the fetus, and then remove it with forceps rather than a nice little suction catheter. The girls in the operating room don’t exactly draw straws to go in with you.”

Jonathan B Imber Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986) 86

Below: Diagram of a D&E

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Pro-Abortion feminist screams at pro-lifer

In a book by a pro-choice author, pro-life activist Fred Niles says:

“During a pro-life vigil outside Parliament House, I was attacked by hard–faced, pro–abortion feminists. One of these angry feminists even tried to scratch my face and screamed at me, “There is nothing in an abortion, I’ve had seven.”

Fred Niles “Every Life Is Precious” New Woman April 1996

Quoted in Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998)

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Pro-Choice writer reflects on reasons for abortions

Daniel Callahan, who supports legalized abortion:

“I have been morally repelled by the reasons that I have heard some women give for having an abortion, reasons they would never employ, say, to kill a pet animal.”

Daniel Callahan “The Abortion Debate: Is Progress Possible?” in Sydney Callahan and Daniel Callahan, eds. Abortion: Understanding Differences (London: Plenum Press, 1984) 314

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Abortionist: women keep “promise of Mother’s Day” by having abortions

Abortionist Nancy Stanwood:

“I am fortunate to have met many wonderful mothers. These women understand what it means to raise a child well. They make daily sacrifices to keep their children physically and emotionally healthy and happy. As a new mother myself, I find their commitment inspiring.

What I know about these mothers, though, won’t be celebrated on Mother’s Day. They came to me to have abortions….

In my experience, these mothers have abortions to meet their responsibilities for their children at home….

I became a mother seven months ago. By giving birth, I feel I made a solemn promise. I will be responsible for the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of this beautiful little creature for the next 18 years and beyond. I will put her needs first, I will always think about her welfare, I will make sacrifices for her.

This is the promise we celebrate on Mother’s Day. Many women keep this promise by having abortions.”

Nancy Stanwood “In the Shadow of Mother’s Day” Mother Jones MAY. 11, 2008

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Abortion worker comments on women who don’t use contraception

Jacinta, former abortion worker:

“I see people who repeatedly get pregnant because they don’t use contraception. I don’t think that they don’t use contraception deliberately, it’s just something in their makeup or mental attitude that is preventing them from using it at all, or using it properly. There are a lot of different reasons why people don’t use contraception properly, reasons not always recognized by the people themselves.”

Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) 91

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Woman who had abortion: “I thought about the baby”

Gillian, who had an abortion:

“I was thinking about the baby too. I never considered adoption, but I thought definitely for the baby. I didn’t want it. How much more can you think about the baby [than that] it was going to have a miserable life because I didn’t want it?”

Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) 87

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Medical researchers comment on aborted baby experiments

From two prominent medical researchers, William Gaylin and Marc Laape (president and associate for biological sciences at the Hastings Institute):

“Since we know we are going to destroy, dismember and discard the fetus in a procedure known as abortion, it seems a small indignity to expose it to rubella vaccine just prior to that termination. The medical ethic ‘do no harm’ would, of course, be violated but we have already violated that principle when we accepted the concept of abortion. The ultimate harm of destroying the fetus trivializes that which precedes it.”

“Fetal Politics: The Debate on Experimenting with the Unborn.” Atlantic Monthly, May 1975.

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Planned Parenthood president: I am a Catholic

Pamela Maraldo, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America:

“I go to church on Sunday but do not subscribe to many of the basic tenets of the Church. That does not mean I am any less a Catholic.”

Quoted in “More on Maraldo.” National STOPP News, January 20, 1993, p. 1

Below: part of a 7 week baby after abortion:

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Abortionist: All abortions are medically indicated

Sworn testimony of abortionist Jane Hodgson:

“In my medical judgment, every pregnancy that is not wanted by the patient, I feel there is a medical indication to abort a pregnancy where it is not wanted. In good faith, I would recommend on a medical basis, you understand, that, and it would be 100% … I think they are all medically necessary … Occasionally we will advise these women to carry their pregnancy to term, but most of these are medically necessary because I am considering the woman’s physical, mental, emotional and social and welfare and family and environment and all that … I am concerned with the quality of life, not physical existence.”

Abortionist Jane Hodgson, Transcript, August 3, 1977. at 99-101, McRae v. Califano, 491 F.Supp. 630 (E.D.N.Y. 1980), rev’d sub nom. Harris v. McRae. 100 S. Ct. 2671 (1980).

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Pro-Choice pamphlet acknowledges abortion is “taking a human life”

A pamphlet put out by Catholics for Free Choice entitled “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions” says:

“It is important to understand that while abortion does involve the taking of a human life because all life that is in and of a human being is human life in order to call it murder we would have to believe that prenatal life in the early stages of pregnancy is a human person and that there were absolutely no reasons that justified the taking of that life …

[However], you may feel you have reasons that justify abortion regardless of your beliefs about personhood.”

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire of Catholics for a Free Choice.

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire. “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions” Catholics for a Free Choice, September 1983

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