They said it.
Pro-choice author Karen Kissane:
“Any woman who has felt a baby stir inside her [and] any man who has seen the tiny heart pulsing on an ultrasound screen, knows that abortion is about ending a life.”
Karen Kissane “Abortion Doubts Redefine Debate” The Age October 25, 1995, P 19
Share on FacebookA police officer at an abortion demonstration in Canada said to the author of a book about pro-lifers:
“It’s always the same with these papist bastards. They want to take over the fucking country. Do these pricks think they can run my life?”
Michael W Cuneo Catholics Against the Church: Antiabortion Protests in Toronto, 1969 – 1985 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989) 65
Share on FacebookDr. William J. Sweeney III describes a saline abortion. In his description, he freely uses the word “baby”:
“The [saline] solution is lethal. It kills the baby in the womb. Then the woman whose fetus is too large to abort by suction curette must go through labor and finally, 24 or 36 hours later, exhausted, she delivers a dead baby.”
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
The abortionist knows that it is a “baby” being aborted.
Share on FacebookAn abortion worker, quoted by pro-choice author Magda Denes, said:
“I didn’t get rude or nasty with the girls, but it was a form of hostility that could be sensed. I would have an attitude.”
Magda Denes In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books, 1976) 19
Share on FacebookPro-Choice feminist Kathleen McDonnell wrote in her book on abortion:
“… Developments in medical technology are radically changing the nature of the abortion debate. Our expanding knowledge of fetal physiology and psychology makes it more and more difficult to simply dismiss the fetus in the abortion discussion.
The fetus is literally becoming a “patient” while still in the womb, the recipient of surgery and other therapeutic techniques at gestational ages well before the cut off point for abortion.”
Kathleen McDonnell Not an Easy Choice: Re-Examining Abortion (Canada: Second Story Press, 2003) 24
Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, an organization dedicated to fighting laws against abortion:
“Technology has clearly helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being.”
Sarah Kliff “Remember Roe!” Newsweek April 16, 2010
Share on FacebookIn an article in the Lancet, a doctor explains that a D&E procedure (where the baby is dismembered in utero) is easier for a woman to undergo than an induction abortion, where the woman has to go through labor.
He says:
“The well-being of the woman who has made the painful decision to have her 20 week pregnancy terminated must be at the center of the debate. The procedure must be the physically safest and least distressing possible.…
Dilation and evacuation is distressing for the surgeon and the theater nurses but is much less distressing than medical abortion or ward staff and for other women who are patients in the ward. The distress felt in the theater is acceptable if those involved are convinced that the abortion is necessary for the woman.”
DB Paintin, Lancet, 1989, Vol. 2, P 563
In Jenny Bryan Abortion (East Sussex, England: Wayland Publishers Limited, 1991) 43
Here is a diagram of a D&E procedure.
Anonymous mother of a handicapped child, on why she would not abort a subsequent pregnancy:
“If I hadn’t already had one it would be an easier decision but I’ve had W and she is classed as handicapped. But she’s lovely, she seems as normal as can be, so I couldn’t have an abortion after W, but if I hadn’t had her, my idea of being handicapped would be different.”
Journal of Medical Ethics 1983, vol. 9, P152
Quoted in Jenny Bryan Abortion (East Sussex, England: Wayland Publishers Limited, 1991) 33
Share on FacebookAuthors Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds wrote of one incident that occurred in a hospital that did abortions:
“In Grand Rapids the revolt against physician authority began as nurses left a tiny corpse “lying in its mother’s bed for an hour and a half, despite angry calls from the attending physician, who finally went in and removed it himself.”
Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds “Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” Today Aug 2, 1981
Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984) 93
Share on FacebookOne abortion facility worker said:
“I find [providing abortions] draining and exhausting, I become tired to the point where I do not want to relate to anyone, especially my family who may be in need of emotional support. I feel I sometimes suffer from burnout.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 169
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