An abortion worker explains how the abortionist she works with helps her deal with the graphic reality of late term abortions.
24 weeks
Nobody likes doing abortions. The later abortions can be especially distressing. I was brought up as a Christian, and of course it’s upsetting to me. But in medicine you learn to do what is necessary in the best way, and Mr. Paintin [the abortionist] is wonderful and has explained to us that we are doing the best in difficult circumstances.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 154
A former abortion clinic worker says the following:
11 weeks
I would counsel the women during the sedation process before their abortions. […] One woman was there for her eleventh abortion. Eleventh! That disgusted me. One thirty-seven-year-old patient was having her seventh abortion on the same day that her daughter was having her first grandbaby. Her festive mood and celebratory attitude concerning her granddaughter’s birth seemed morbid and out of place in an abortion clinic.
Abby Johnson The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2016) 95
One abortionist describes how nurses need pep talks to keep them in the abortion business:
Nurses who work in abortion clinics often don’t have a high sense of professional self-esteem. It’s not the sort of thing you brag about. “What do you do?” “Oh, I work at an abortion clinic.” Sometimes I have to give them a little pep talk. You’ll often find that after doing, say, 20 abortions, nurses can feel quite dejected. You have to help them along, tell them that they have made 20 women very happy that day.
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 166
It’s not hard to understand why many abortion workers feel “dejected” after helping a doctor perform abortions. They have to see and dismember babies like the one below all day, every day.
Former abortionist Robert Siudmack explains how there is no doctor–patient relationship in abortion clinics:
“I would like to believe all doctors share a genuine concern for the health and well-being of their patients. The doctor-patient relationship is [a] unique one that is started on the first visit and develops over the course of time. In an abortion clinic, there is no doctor – patient relationship. The doctor enters the room, there’s a brief introduction. The patient is already on the table ready to have the procedure done. There is no sort of opportunity for any sort of meaningful relationship to develop.”
“The Truth about Abortion” Coral Springs Ministries Video, uploaded on January 15, 2009
Juanita Cuevas. who works as a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood’s South Sacramento clinic, wants her 14 year-old daughter to be able to have an abortion without her knowledge or permission.
The article says:
A Sacramento girl whose mother works at a Planned Parenthood clinic, has never had to seek out an abortion clinic. But if she were to get pregnant, she said, she’d want a safe place to turn for counseling and, perhaps, surgery—beyond the reach of her mother’s radar…..
The daughter, Priscilla Chavez, says:
“I don’t know,” she said. “Even though she’s a Planned Parenthood lady, I don’t think I would, because I would be afraid of her thinking badly of me.”….
Her mother is fine with this:
Cuevas said she is comfortable with that and wants only to ensure that her daughter and other girls continue to have a safe place to turn.
9 weeks
“This is a woman’s right,” she said. “And I understand that a 14-year-old isn’t yet a woman, but it’s her right.”
Bernard J Ficarra, M.D, who wrote the book Abortion Analyzed, writes about how life begins at conception:
“A composite, unified, sacrosanct, unanimity of thought as to when life begins can be determined by studying embryologic physiology. Scientifically acknowledged pronouncements should be more acceptable in determining the onset of human life than legal opinion.”
Bernard J Ficarra, M.D. Abortion Analyzed (Laurel, MD: Health Educator Publications, Inc., 1989) 9
A woman on facebook shared this story on 5/21/2017
When my mom was pregnant, the doctors told her that the baby was going to be born with down syndrome, this devastated her. Her and my dad have been trying for years, the doctors suggested an abortion if my mother didn’t want to bring a child with a disability into this world. At first she agreed but later changed her mind bc she she was too attached. 3 weeks later my mom got a call saying the test results were wrong, they accidentally mixed up someone else’s test results with hers.
I was happy, sad and mad. I was happy for my mom but sad for the other family because of this huge mixup and extremely mad at the clinic for screwing up. If my mom would have aborted the baby and received this information afterwards, her whole world would have crumpled down.
Although even disabled babies have a right to live, there are many times where the tests are wrong or, like in this case, a mistake has been made.
A woman in a study on abortion said she had an abortion because she wanted to enjoy life with her boyfriend and go sailing. Gail, age 26, said:
“It was really easy to make the decision, just because I didn’t want to be pregnant. I don’t like to stay home and cook and take care of a child; they make me nervous. My boyfriend is a student, and he doesn’t work. We have all these plans about traveling, and different things – going sailing, building a sailboat, and stuff. Maybe in a few years, but not right now, anyway. So, when I did find out that I was pregnant, there was really no decision to be made, you know, it had already been thought out.”
The author said:
“Gail had stated earlier in her interview that the fetus does not become an equal human life until it resembles human form.”
Judith G. Smetana Concepts of Self and Morality: Women’s Reasoning about Abortion (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1982) 74 In reality, a preborn baby looks human as early as 7 weeks after conception. Below you can see a preborn baby at 7 weeks, before and after an abortion:
Writer Mary Kenny wrote about a woman whose partner pressured her into an abortion. She says:
“When I said I was pregnant,” wrote one young woman, “It just didn’t seem to register with my lover. “Well, you can get rid of it, can’t you?” He said. I had felt so romantic towards him, so much in love that I thought our love would be forever. With the pregnancy, he turned quite cold towards me. I had the abortion, because that was what he wanted, but now our love has turned to dust and I feel very, very sad.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 69
