“I had an infertility patient, 31 years old, walk in pregnant one day. Married to a husband who had no sperm and who knew he was azospermic. It didn’t take much to figure that one out… But she wasn’t concerned over having an abortion. She was worried her husband would find out she had been pregnant and had gotten rid of the baby. She wanted the abortion and she didn’t want him to know… Some time ago this couple had put in for adoption, and after a long wait, had just gotten two little nonidentical twins.
Later, when this woman came back for her checkup, she told me the whole story. It turned out that the guy who had gotten her pregnant was a friend of her husband’s. He also was married. The two couples used to go away on weekends together… After the abortion, she put a halt to their relationship because she wanted to keep her own marriage intact for three more months. At the end of that time, she and her husband could legally adopt the twins. Having accomplished this, she was going to reconsider resuming her affair or getting a divorce.”
William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 210
From William J. Sweeney III, MD, an ObGyn who was practicing when Roe vs. Wade was decided:
“… The saline we inject normally kills the baby, so it’s born dead. But there’s already been one case involving a woman who was carrying twins: when her doctor injected saline into one sac, one baby came out dead and another baby came out alive. The doctor knew she had twins. Usually the substance from one amniotic sac passes into the other sac. But this time it didn’t. What must that woman have felt? The second baby finally died, but the question remains, what should a doctor do if its alive? Are you asking him – or me – to drop it in the bucket?”
William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 207-208
Abortion providers talk about the problems they have disposing of the bodies of aborted children. Undercover footage shot at National Abortion Federation conference recorded by David Daleiden. It was released on December 29, 2015:
Abortion Provider Rene Chelian:
“So in coalition, we started working with hospitals who didn’t want to be seen with us. We met them in like Denny’s restaurant, there’s not even many of those left…We talked about you know what are you guys going to do. They were terrified of a public relations nightmare. That hospital actually had big freezers with breasts and kneecaps and gallbladders and abortions or miscarriages. Um and they put all their jars together, at some point. and they go to Stericycle unless the hospital happens to have their incinerator which is rarer and rarer. The guy from Stericycle was quick to point that out to me.”
We were really tempted to give the fetus back. We thought we’ll give it to everybody in a gift bag, they can take it home, figure out what to do with it. It’s their pregnancy. Why is it our problem? And I’m saying that in all seriousness. Nobody wants to talk about dead bodies. Nobody but me. There was a point when Stericycle fired us that I had five months of fetal tissue in my freezers and we were renting freezers to put them in. So all I thought about, I am so consumed with fetal tissue, I was ready to drive to upper Michigan and have a bonfire. And I was just trying to figure out, you know how I wouldn’t get stopped or how far in the woods would I have to go to have this fire that nobody was going to see me. And the garbage disposal was an option, I mean, there was a point that I actually hired someone from another clinic to come in and take 20 bottles and put it into my garbage disposal.
When you look at incinerators for cremation the website descriptions are small cat, small dog, larger dog. So we were looking trying to compare our jars to various animals you might incinerate. We knew we wouldn’t need one big enough for a horse [laughter from abortionists in the crowd].… Were we going to have to go into inner-city Detroit and get a lot and put an incinerator there and then how do we transfer the waste? I mean fortunately, we have those really lax laws in Michigan, so I was going to get a license as a transporter [laughter], yet another fun thing, yup.… Got another fun thing, and there are a bunch of clinics buying an incinerator and then we can just go pick up for each other if we all got a license. I mean talk about moving on the competition.… I mean really, this is my backup plan. It’s going to have a name that is really, you know, nothing to do with anything in the universe and it’ll be really hard to find because it’s going to be in somebody else’s name, not mine.
Aborted child at 10 weeks
So I don’t know, that’s how awful this is. I feel like the Mafia.
We actually found some green technology that is like a dishwasher. And you plug it in like a dishwasher, like a portable dishwasher, and you add some kind of chemical – I mean, I’m using the word chemical really loose – it’s green, that’s all I know. And you’re just using it because they don’t have enough cemetery, they don’t have any space. And you run this cycle and then it goes in the sewer system, which sounds like a really great idea! Although I have to say I can’t remember if that was approved.”
aborted at 20 weeks
Abortion provider Karen:
“Even in our hospital in Canada, we contract out ultimately to Stericycle, and it’s going out to Portland. And Portland is a waste to energy facility. It’s a PR nightmare for us. It would end up being the front page of the paper “Fetuses Are Being Used for Energy.” I mean, I think it’s a great idea…”
13 weeks,
Abortion provider Rene Chelian:
“When we sent to another state, it became the whole issue of, do we tell FedEx what they’re picking up? How long will it take for the antis to figure it out? And if we don’t tell them, what if there’s a bad snowstorm, like there was this winter, and UPS gets delayed or FedEx get delayed, and their truck starts stinking – I mean every state law is different.
11 weeks
I know what I wanted to actually put the fetal tissue in my car and drive to the crematorium in Illinois [but] I was advised by my attorneys that I was breaking several state laws and that, that really wasn’t a good idea. Although, I have a good friend in another state who is currently driving across two states, once a month, with fetal tissue to go to a funeral home and and they have an arrangement to send out for cremation.
20 weeks
But everything is a secret, so it’s really scary. Because we are all one incinerator away or one incineration company away from being closed. Whatever your laws are in your state, if the antis know, this could shut us down.”
“Mary Lou Hendry, sanctity of human life director for the Florida Baptist Children’s Home, said every woman who has agreed to an ultrasound exam in its mobile unit and has viewed an image of her child has chosen life.
Cheri Martin said the success rate of ultrasound at the San Marcos, Texas, center is 95 percent.”
An article in the The Santa Fe Reporter tells of an abortionist named “Clara” who flies to different abortion clinics throughout the country every week to do abortions.
The article says:
“Known as “fly-ins” or “circuit providers,” doctors like Clara travel to work in clinics that can’t find local doctors willing to do the procedure. Though there are no official figures on fly-ins, or on the overall number of physicians who do abortions, Clara estimates that there are about 100 doctors in the US who, like her, are willing to work in places other doctors simply won’t.”
Abortionist Ted Russell explains why a clinic in New Mexico needs a circuit provider:
“There’s a reason they have to fly a physician in to provide abortion services and have not been able to find a doctor who lives there in the last 10 years. They’d find, personally and professionally, it would be impossible to work there, to live there and to be labeled an abortion doctor.”
He once worked in New Mexico before quitting.
The New Mexico clinic director says her former abortionist was opposed by the medical community. There is still great stigma towards abortion among some doctors and health care providers:
“In her years at the clinic, [the clinic manager] has seen many doctors come and go. The last doctor to both live and work in this city, Ted Russell, whose name has been changed so as not to reveal where Clara works, was hounded out of town a decade ago. Though abortion accounted for only 15 percent of his practice, when Russell tried to refer his other patients to hospitals for deliveries or even X-rays, the hospitals refused them. After 18 months of frustration with the local medical community—not to mention ongoing harassment from protesters—he left, and the clinic has used fly-ins since.”
Sharyn Jackson “Undercover” The Santa Fe Reporter October 5, 2011
“… When a young girl does find herself pregnant, she should be advised, indeed encouraged to have an abortion under conditions of medical safety and emotional support. To persuade her, force her, or shame her into completing her pregnancy, seems totally irresponsible. From all points of view it would be better for her to become a mother later in her life, when she is more mature, has a stable relationship, and is ready and able to care for a child.”
Henry Morgentaler Abortion and Contraception (New York: Beaufort Books, Inc., 1982) 33
“If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic or social status, they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. Of all the things which are done to women to fit them into a society dominated by men, abortion is the most violent invasion of their physical and psychic integrity. It is a deeper and more destructive assault than rape…”
Mary Meehan “The Left Has Betrayed the Sanctity of Life: Consistency Demands Concern for the Unborn” in Rachael McNair and Stephen Zunes, eds. Consistently Opposing Killing (Bloomington, Indiana: Author’s Choice Press, 2008, 2011) 23
In this newspaper editorial, a reporter praises Mario Cuomo for fighting against any limits on abortion and opposing the death penalty:
“If the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Missouri’s restrictions on abortion signals an all-out attack on a woman’s right to have an abortion, at least Governor Mario Cuomo has his priorities straight.
The state will not go down the same slippery slope that the court has, Cuomo said this week, promising that he would reject any legislation that limited abortion the way the Missouri statute did. “Nothing in [the decision on the Missouri law] changes my opinion about the right to abortion or the right of poor people to receive funding.”…
This is Cuomo at his best. Under enormous political pressure, he has refused to cave in to the proponents of the death penalty. Now he has pledged himself to stand by the liberal abortion law enacted by the legislature in 1970…”
Newsday, July 8, 1989 Quoted in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 20
“I’ve been called a hero before. I didn’t know exactly quite what to do with it at first. They would say “girl, you so strong. Girl you just do everything, you know everything. And I feel that being a hero is a responsibility and I go into it just thinking I’m just trying to do my best. What makes [heroes] distinct from other people is they are so quick to get up and just keep on fighting.”
At an event commemorating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a social worker, Gianna, read a letter from the mother of a young girl who had an abortion. The woman wrote:
“It hurts me to see her hurt the turmoil she must have gone through before even telling me. She was further along than 15 wks. So that is why we are here….At any age this decision to terminate is difficult and at 15- she is still a child- cartoons all day. I was with her during the procedure and it was difficult for me. To see my child having this done and saying goodbye to a tiny soul.”
