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Woman goes in for abortion, refuses to see ultrasound screen

One woman who went for an abortion says:

The clinic buzzed us in. We were the first ones in that morning. Dave and Kiddo sat in the waiting area as a nice woman brought me to an exam room and had me fill out some paperwork. I was still shaky. A little while later, they did another pregnancy test to confirm my results.

Then, the doctor did an ultrasound. She asked if I wanted to see the screen and I said no. I knew I needed an abortion and I didn’t need to see anything. She estimated I was about six weeks along.

Ann Kingsleigh “How My Abortion Enabled Me To Be A Better Mother” Mommyish Sep 13 2011

6 week preborn baby

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Planned Parenthood only offered abortion financial aid to Black women

Rhyan worked at Planned Parenthood for 4 months. She was featured in an article in The American Feminist. Her job was scheduling abortions. She was told to offer financial aid only to Black women. Here is an excerpt from The American Feminist:

[Rhyan] soon observed that she was supposed to screen and offer [financial] assistance to callers “who sounded “hood” or “ghetto” – but not to ask callers who sounded “white or preppy” if they might need financial assistance. This was never explicitly stated, Rhyan said, but, “I’m human. I can figure out the pattern.” Her supervisor would listen to calls; anytime she offered financial screening to a client who sounded white or “Valley girl,” her boss would say, Why did you ask her that? “I realized it was a certain type of person they were asking me to screen,” Rhyan said. They were expecting to schedule about 40 abortions daily, so if the client sounded black, Rhyan, who is black, would hurry up and screen her to keep calls moving.

She says:

“I woke up one day and realized I was no different than a slave trader.”

Planned Parenthood offered financial aid to African Americans for abortion, but not for any other service.

Rhyan also called Planned Parenthood “Plantation Parenthood” in the article.

Ellen J Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016

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Former abortion worker: We maimed 1 out of 500 women

Carol Everett, former owner of 2 abortion clinics and director of 4, now pro-life:

“The last 18 months I was involved in the abortion industry we maimed to the point of major surgery one woman out of every five hundred. Let me define maimed. Hysterectomy, colostomy because her uterus had been perforated (punctured), and her bowel closest hospital. We never called an ambulance. An ambulance is a terrible advertisement in front of an abortion clinic.”

Carol N. Everett, <Women’s Lobby> program on KFIA Radio (California) January 1990.

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Abortion worker “enjoys” her job, calls it “sweet brutality”

Abortion clinic worker Sallie Tisdale says of her work at the abortion facility:

In describing this work, I find it difficult to explain how much I enjoy it most of the time. We laugh a lot here…Certain clients waken in me every tender urge I have—others make we wince and bite my tongue. Both challenge me to find a balance. It is a sweet brutality we practice here, a stark and loving dispassion.”

Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Tale” Harper’s Magazine, October, 1987, 66-70.

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Abortion nurse justifies abortion because the elderly suffer too

Abortion worker SA Davies:

“Ultimately I would then consider the possibility of suffering involved with the foetus. This again wasn’t an easy task, but I did eventually conclude that suffering before actual birth might be less on a scale of 1 to 10 In comparison with the suffering and distress I had seen on the geriatric ward where humans who presumably had earned their ticket for an existence on earth ended up in the “scrap heap” and received the same care and attention as scrap metal, often broken and discarded.

It was this that made me realize that life, unpredictable as it is, has no room for the already “unarmed and vulnerable…to me abortion is a matter of life and death and such comparisons of the unborn, defenseless, the innocent, seem to have the same unique similarities that the elderly and abandoned have….We should stand by our convictions if we believe that they are right.

However, in my basic nurse training, I witnessed once-conscientious colleagues and friends, soon begin to use the same old excuse: “I was only obeying orders” just as habitually they straightened pillows and checked fluid balance charts.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986)

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On burying aborted children

Pro-life author William Brennan comments on the burial of aborted babies that were found in a storage container:

“A… debate raged over what to do with more than 16,000 aborted babies discovered in a huge metal storage container outside of Los Angeles in 1982. Pro-life groups were in favor of at least according the victims the dignity of a Christian burial. The American Civil Liberties Union, a staunch proponent of burning the bodies, conjured up that all too predictable concoction- violation of the separation of church and state….

Burial, especially Christian burial, is doubly threatening: Not only does it bestow upon the victims a transcendent value intolerable to civil libertarians, it also draws attention to the disturbing truth which abortionists would prefer to keep hidden from public view- the existence of actual human bodies.”

William Brennan “What the Holocaust and Abortion Have in Common” New Oxford Review November 1995

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Nurse on late-term abortions

From a British nurse working in an abortion clinic:

“Late abortions – well, I wouldn’t want to be in theatre [where operations take place] all the time. But, frankly, I feel more anguish listening to the women’s stories.”

From The Guardian November 2, 1989

Quoted in Jenny Bryan Abortion (East Sussex, England: Wayland Publishers Limited, 1991) 41

6 month old baby, before and after abortion

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Woman’s view of her baby changes with ultrasound

A woman who had an unexpected pregnancy and had tentatively decided to carry to term, but still was unsure, had her whole mindset changed by seeing her baby on the ultrasound.

“Unfortunately, she says, her maternal instincts did not respond to reason: when a young friend placed her baby in her arms, she found herself looking with distaste into “a little scrunched face inspiring no tenderness, only intense tedium at the thought of tending him. What was I going to do with a baby I couldn’t return to his mother?”

She arranged to have an amniocentesis… though she was not sure – despite her reservations – what it would cost her emotionally to have an abortion if something went wrong.

When told she had as much chance of having a miscarriage from the amniocentesis as she did, at her age, of having a Down syndrome child, she hoped for the miscarriage: “That is until, lying on the table where the procedure was to take place, I saw the ultrasound scan on a television monitor above me reveal the perfectly shaped head of the child I carried. I wanted that baby!”

Faith Abbott “A Tale of Two Women” Human Life Review Spring 1993

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No one loved the baby I aborted more then I did

From a woman who decided to have an abortion. She describes how she came to the decision:

“I take my plight directly to God through prayer. I receive the answer that, having borne 3 children already, I know the gift of a baby. But I can give back the gift if the burden is too great, and it will be taken back into the universe. The greatest punishment I will receive is that which I am already suffering – the knowledge that I will never know this child.

This child, already built to outlast me, will never see the light of day, never be loved by its sister’s and brother, will never learn or marry or have children, never grow old…

My choice was not simple: it was not made out of disregard for life but because of the desire to protect my family. No one loved that incipient child more than I did.”

Madelein Gray “Giving up the Gift” Commonweal February 25, 1994

She loved her baby so much, she killed her.

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Couple gives reasons for aborting baby with down syndrome

A couple gave their reasons for aborting their child with down syndrome, a boy. The mother, Natalie said:

“A seriously handicapped child takes a lot from your life that you wouldn’t otherwise have to give. I think life is difficult enough as it is. It didn’t make sense to us to start [a baby] out with severe problems, to go into it knowing.”

The father, Richard, said:

“Both of us are in jobs that are a lot more than jobs. They’re things that we do because we believe in the work. All those things would have been affected by a life of caring for a Down’s child.”

At the time of the interview, Natalie was pregnant again:

“When we spoke to her she was pregnant again. “Our chances are much higher now that we’ve had a Down fetus…for some reason they don’t understand, once you have a Down baby, the recurrence rate goes to one in a hundred- bingo- for all ages.”

If her next baby had down’s, she was going to abort again.

“Natalie asserted that her and her husband’s decision to abort their Down syndrome fetus was the right one and they would do the same thing again….”My best guess is that if the CVS were not available…I don’t think I would have tried to get pregnant again.”….She said she would still abort her current pregnancy.”

Fortunately, her baby was found to be a healthy girl, and they allowed her to live.

Kate Maloy and Maggie Jones Patterson Birth or Abortion? Private Struggles in a Political World (New York: Plenum Press, 1992)

Both parents chose abortion not out of concern for the well-being of the child, but because they did not want to make the sacrifices needed to raise the baby. In fact, there is a waiting list to adopt Down Syndrome children, so they could have given birth without raising the child at all.

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