Quotes Archives - Page 93 of 350

Abortionist on why women have 2nd trimester abortions

Late Term abortionist Dr. Richard Hausknecht describes the reasons women get late-term abortions:

“There are a large number of second trimester terminations in this country and they are of two versions. There are the women who have seriously abnormal pregnancies, and then the larger group, who are usually young or indigent.”

The author of the article says:

“Among these women [who have late term abortions], doctors say, are teen-agers who deny their pregnancies, drug users and women who are menopausal or irregular in their periods.”

DEBORAH SONTAG “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” New York Times MARCH 21, 1997

16 weeks – most babies aborted at this age are healthy and not abnormal

Share on Facebook

“Who are you trying to convince?”

Some authors have suggested that women who are troubled by their abortions often help convince other women to abort, reaffirming their decision through the other woman’s choice. This may be why an estimated 70% of those who work at abortion clinics have had a previous abortion.

One woman who had an abortion recounted that her friends tried to convince her that abortion was the best choice. She says:

“My girlfriends tried to guide me by sharing their stories of abortion. I didn’t say it out loud, but I thought to myself, “Who are you trying to convince that abortion is okay, me or you?”

Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 38

Share on Facebook

Mother of Baby with Hydrocephalus is told to abort by 3 different doctors

Hydrocephalus is a disease where fluid collects in the brain of an unborn baby. the prognosis varies, but many children with hydrocephalus go on to live normal lives. The mother of a child with hydrocephalus describes the pressure that was put on her to abort him.

Jennifer Mckinstry was pregnant with her third child, Colton, when he was diagnosed with hydrocephalus.

“We were told that we should terminate our pregnancy with Colton seven times,” explains Mckinstry, “and by three different doctors. The first time they told us to terminate the pregnancy was the hardest because it was all such a shock to us.

The doctor was trying to tell me about his brain disorder and I couldn’t even hear him, everything was blurry and I felt so light headed. About a week later, we went to another doctor…and he told us that it would be best to terminate the pregnancy and that Colton wouldn’t make it.

If he did make it, he would be a ‘vegetable’ who would never laugh or smile. After the second time that they told us to terminate we came back home and were so unsure of what to do.

I never thought I would even think about terminating a pregnancy at all, but with everything the doctors were telling us, I wondered if it would be best.

For three days, my husband and I thought back and forth if we should terminate or not. It was the most stressful and depressing days of my life. We decided that the best thing we could do was put it in God’s hands and pray, and whatever happened was meant to be. …

The next month we were told a few more times to terminate the pregnancy because it would be best for Colton, and that it was selfish of us to keep him because he would be in so much pain if he even did make it.

Well I am proud to say that Colton did make it through the pregnancy and when he was born was breathing on his own.

He did need surgery to help drain extra fluid in his brain, but he is five months old now and is smiling, laughing, nursing, and meeting close to ever milestone for his age!

The doctors are shocked and keeping telling us that he is doing amazingly well and way better than even the best case scenario they ever thought!”

Nancy Flanders “Clinic Tells Patients: “Wrong” Not to Abort Disabled Child” LifeNews 1/13/12

Share on Facebook

Nurse describes how she disposed of fetal remains

Former abortion nurse describes how she disposed of “fetal remains” i.e. aborted children:

I used a simple kitchen strainer, over a sink, and sifted through the contents of the collection jar after an abortion. I had to make certain all the body parts of the baby were accounted for. The garbage disposal was available and used for the placenta and any other tissue that had fallen into the sink. At that time, I was instructed to place the babies into a simple plastic container and packaged to be sent to a lab for disposal. The clinic reportedly hired a company which would send a truck to pick up the babies. Maybe this is a way the state could tell the abortionist how to dispose of the bodies.

Nurse Misty Coburn. who worked at Fort Wayne Women’s Health Organization, an abortion facility

“Fetal Remains Bill Clears Senate Hearing” Indiana Right to Life February 18, 2015

Quoted in Sarah Terzo “Abortion facility workers explain how they disposed of aborted babies” Live Action News March 15, 2017

The "fetal remains" came from babies like this one. — The “fetal remains” came from babies like this one.

They were tiny arms, legs, finger and toes.

See pictures of what fetal remains (aborted babies) look like here

8 weeks fetal remains — 8 week fetal remains

The “fetal remains’ above are the legs of an 8 week old aborted child. This is around the time when most abortions are performed. So this was what Nurse Coburn was sifting through.

Abortions are legal at 20 weeks in many states. At this stage, fetal remains are very developed. Nevertheless, they are treated the same way.

preborn baby at 20 weeks. See what the fetal remains of this child look like below — preborn baby at 20 weeks.

The arm and hand of a 20 week old aborted baby. These fetal remains would be handled in an abortion clinic like any other fetal remains. — The arm and hand of a 20 week old aborted baby. These would be handled in an abortion clinic like any other fetal remains.

Share on Facebook

Aborted babies as biological waste

A Swedish author writes:

“Until 1990 all aborted fetuses [in Sweden] were considered to be biological waste, and were handled as risk waste and placed in special waste bags that were sent for incineration. The need for new routines led to recommendations for more dignified disposal of the fetus, especially in cases of late abortions. According to the new recommendations, fetuses from late abortions (spontaneous or induced) from the beginning of week 13 up to and including week 28 should be sent from the maternity clinic to the pathology department. Later the fetus is taken to a crematorium to be cremated, and the ashes are buried or spread anonymously.”

Vivian Wahlberg Memories After Abortion (Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007) 20

In America, aborted babies are often flushed down toilets or thrown out with the trash.

14 weeks. After a baby this age was brutally murdered, he would be given cremated — 14 weeks. After a baby this age was brutally murdered, he would be cremated

Share on Facebook

Abortionist: we terminate some babies, fight to save others

One abortionist talked about fighting to save the lives of wanted premature babies while aborting a baby of the same age (or nearly the same age) in another part of the hospital:

”It makes us all schizophrenic. Nowadays we are asked to terminate a pregnancy that in two weeks doctors on the same floor are fighting to save.”

Dr. Richard Hausknecht, an associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital who specializes in high risk pregnancies.

Dena Kleiman “When Abortion Becomes Birth: A Dilemma of Medical Ethics Shaken by New Advances” New York Times Feb. 15, 1984

24 weeks. Abortions are legal at this age in many states, and babies at this age have been born alive and survived

Share on Facebook

Former Planned Parenthood president : use “coercion” to reduce population

Alan Guttmacher, who became president of Planned Parenthood in 1962 was also the Vice President of the American Eugenics Society until 1963, He said:

“I would like to give our voluntary means of population control full opportunity in the next 10 to 12 years. Then, if these don’t succeed, we may have to go into some kind of coercion, not worldwide, but possibly in such places as India, Pakistan, and in Indonesia, where pressures are the greatest… There is no question that birth rates can be reduced all over the world if legal abortion is introduced.”

Alan Guttmacher “Family Planning: The Needs and the Methods” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 69, no. 6 (June, 1969)

Doctor: ultrasound revealed baby in womb to be “active little creature”

Dr. Michael R Harrison on ultrasound:

“The fetus could not be taken seriously as long as he remained a medical recluse in an opaque womb; and it was not until the last half of this century that the prying eye of the ultrasound rendered the once opaque womb transparent, stripping the veil of mystery from the dark inner sanctum, and letting the light of scientific observation fall on the shy and secretive fetus….

Sonography can accurately delineate normal and abnormal fetal anatomy with astounding detail. It can produce not only static images of the intact fetus, but real time “live” moving pictures…

The sonographic voyeur, spying on the unwary fetus finds him or her a surprisingly active creature, and not at all the passive parasite we had imagined.”

Michael R Harrison “Unborn: Historical Perspectives of the Fetus As Patient” Pharos (Winter 1982): 19 – 24

Share on Facebook

Black women are “uninvited guests” in pro-choice movement, says writer

From an African American writer on the pro-abortion movement:

“Black women are treated as invited guests in the reproductive rights movement – outsiders to someone else’s event… It all just makes us want to leave and never come back.”

Toni Bond “Barriers between Black Women and the Reproductive Rights Movement” Political Environments 8 (Winter/Spring 2001): 3

Share on Facebook

Abortion is good for women “yet unborn” says pro-abortion reverend

Rev. Yvonne Delk, director of the Office of Church and Society of the United Church of Christ, said the following during her speech at the March for Women’s Lives, a pro-abortion demonstration:

“What we say and do today has long reaching implications, not only for the women of color in this nation and for women of color throughout the globe, but it is our legacy to the generations of women who are yet unborn.”

Yvonne Delk “The Time Has Come to Stand Up” Common Ground, Different Planes (Washington DC: Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, August 1989) 5

{Emphasis mine}

The legacy of abortion is good for unborn women? I don’t think she thought that speech through.

Share on Facebook