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Illegal abortionist did 100,000 abortions

Dr. Spencer was an illegal abortionist who did as many as 100,000 abortions in the year before Roe Vs. Wade.

Author Vincent J Genovese says that people in Spencer’s town knew he was doing illegal abortions:

“Everyone knew what went on inside [his illegal abortion clinic] but chose to ignore it… Most of the business enjoyed by the drugstore, the restaurant, and the hotel was directly attributable to Dr. Spencer’s clinic. The proprietors of these establishments were very critical of Spencer’s abortion practice, still, none of them ever turned away a customer. All of them became reasonably wealthy…”

Vincent J Genovese The Angel of Ashland: Practicing Compassion and Tempting Fate (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2000) 46

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An abortionist talks about her religion

Talia, an abortionist, says:

“Religion is very organized. There are rules, things you’re supposed to do, things you’re not supposed to do. And abortion is apparently one of those things [you’re not supposed to do]. Whatever the situation I recognize that there’s a higher power. There’s God who made this creature here. I also feel very deeply in some way that this is the path I’m supposed to be on, and this is given to me. This is the road set before me by my higher power. So how can it be wrong?…

In my heart of hearts I still feel like this is what I want and need to do. Do I feel guilty that I’m breaking some sort of law? Maybe….

When I’m at church services, I think about work. I offer up prayers for the families, the patients, the work, we do. I ask God to forgive everything that I did that was wrong. And if providing is wrong, well, I do it to help other people. I think God will understand. It’s something I’ll struggle with forever, but it’s not a bad struggle.”

Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 236-237

7 week old baby after an abortion

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Woman decides to have her baby after seeing baby on ultrasound screen

A reporter wrote about a woman who came to New Life Pregnancy Center intending to have an abortion. The article quotes Debbie Gillmore, director of the center:

“The woman declined the center’s gift of a baby hat, saying, “No. I’m not so sure I want to go through with this,” Gillmore recalled.”

The pregnant woman later came back for an appointment to see her baby on the ultrasound. The article says:

“The ultrasound technician displayed on the monitor her unborn child, arms and legs moving. When the beating heart appeared on the monitor, the woman blurted out, “There it is,” Gillmore reported in a written account. The technician gave the pregnant woman a model of an unborn baby about the developmental age of hers that she had just observed.

Holding the fetal model, the woman looked at the face and paused before telling the technician, “Well, I guess I’d better start thinking about a name.”

Tom Strode, “Gift of ultrasounds reaps life-saving benefits” Baptist Press , December 19, 2014

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Parents call children with down syndrome “gifts from God”

The parents of a child with down syndrome wrote a newspaper editorial about how valuable children with down syndrome are. Here is an excerpt:

“There are no more giving, joyful, happy or precious children then Downs children. They are a genuine gift from God. Our son teaches us the meaning of patience and love and faith – just by his very existence. He has touched the lives of so many of our relatives and friends, adding dimensions they had not known existed. And he has helped us grow as a couple and as parents.”

Randall J Hekman Justice for the Unborn (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1984) 55

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Philosopher promotes “post-natal abortion”

Philosopher and ethicsist Joseph Fletcher says:

“It is reasonable to describe infanticide as post-natal abortion … Infanticide is actually a very humane thing when you are dealing with misbegotten infants. We might have to encourage it under certain conditionalities of excess population, especially when you’re dealing with defective children.”

Joseph Fletcher. “Infanticide and the Ethics of Loving Concern” Infanticide and the Value of Life. (Prometheus Books, 1978)

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Abortion clinic owner: Abortion is an act of love and sacrifice

Merle Hoffman, who owned an abortion facility, writes:

“Abortion is a mother’s act. It is an act of sacrifice, love, power and necessity…

It does stop a beating heart, but it also keeps another one going: the heart and the life of each woman who chooses it. It does that too.”

Merle Hoffman, On the Issues, Winter 1996

Quoted in Tamara A. Roleff Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997) 55

Act of love at 8 weeks

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Abortionist: I think I am ending life

A British abortionist says:

“I can now say openly that I do think I am ending a life every time I do an abortion, but I do it as someone who has certain skill which is put at the disposal of a woman who does not want her pregnancy to continue.

I do not regret all the agonizing – it has helped me to understand the problems that each woman faces when deciding about her abortion.”

Anonymous “Personal View” British Medical Journal 1984, 289: 1377

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Abortionist: Why turn yourself in when a baby is born alive?

On reporting Live births from abortion:

“It’s like turning yourself in to the IRS for an audit. What is there to gain?”

Abortionist

Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds “Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 2, 1981

This abortionist says there is “nothing to gain” by revealing that a baby was born alive after a botched abortion in his clinic.

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Abortionist: I worry that I have no respect for life

One abortionist said:

“I have been doing abortion for years and have no physical or emotional reaction. I worry this means that I don’t have any respect for human life.”

Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 175

Below: Preborn child at 9 weeks. Before and after abortion

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Consultant gynecologist finds D&E abortions “nauseating”

One ObGyn says:

“I find the process of midtrimester abortion of a normal fetus very disagreeable (and if done by D&E) nauseating.”

He practices in England, where women must get signatures from two doctors to have an abortion.

Despite his abhorrence for the procedures, he approves women’s abortions.

Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 167

Below: Diagram of a D&E

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