Category: Repeat Abortions

In an article about repeat abortions, pro-choice author Jennifer Baumgardner says the following:

“In the clinic world, repeat visitors are called, not unkindly, “frequent fliers.” The reason that casual term is not an insult is simply due to how common multiple abortions are.”

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“Virtually everyone I’ve spoken to was working the clinic has a story of one patient who had not two or three abortions, but 20 or more despite contraceptive counseling with each clinic visit.”

Jennifer Baumgardner “Twice is a Spanking” from the pro-choice book by Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 222

 

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Margaret Briggs, bookkeeper at an abortion clinic:

“I’m not completely and wholly for it. We’ve had several patients in here who came three times in two years… Abortion is not to be used for a birth control method. It’s ridiculous.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 25

One wonders why, if abortion is merely the removal of a collection of cells, the “termination of a pregnancy,” it should not be used as birth control. If abortion is in fact benign, as pro-choicers say, why should it matter how many abortions a woman has?

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An abortion clinic worker recently posted on Reddit about her job and answered questions. You can read her post here.

One question that was asked:

Q.“Have you seen women get several abortions? Or use this as a method of birth control?

A. Unfortunately yes. Their contraceptive choices are always stressed at these appointments but some women simply do not wish to use birth control.”

Often, clinic workers get frustrated that women who have many abortions. In this section, providers quotes on repeat abortions you can read more about women who use abortion as birth control, and the frustration that these patients cause.

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From an unnamed former clinic worker:

“When I first started out nursing in the late 70’s I was working for the Ob/Gyn physicians in this hospital. My duties were not only to care for those that were in for abortions, I also cared for the older folks having hysterectomies and so forth. I didn’t have a personal opinion on abortion until I saw how many were done and for the multitude of ridiculous reasons. Not to mention the actual procedure itself and the “aftermath”. It wasn’t until a few years afterwards that I started to feel this wasn’t right. That is when I transferred to a different department and hospital completely. . . Plus you must understand, I worked for a hospital smack dab in the middle of NYC, I got to know some of the girls getting these abortions on a first name basis, since they had them so often. That really got under my skin, seeing these girls using it as a birth control measure. And why shouldn’t they? The state paid for it anyway! Just not right!”

Quoted by Sarah Terzo

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Medical school professor Dr. Russell L McIntyre:

“Once conception has occurred…. very few physicians afford the product of that conception “zero” value. It may be less valuable than other concerns surrounding the woman’s life, but it is never totally valueless. The conflict is thus between “reasonable” justification for abortion and the woman’s apparent lack of any regard for fetal life that has been begun in her. Physicians facing these “repeaters” in abortion clinics often develop the very uncomfortable feeling that their own value system has been co-opted by a valueless system.”

Russell L McIntyre “Abortion: Perceptions of the Clinical Perspective,” Dialog 17, no. 2 (Spring 1978): 106 quoted in James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982)

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An abortion counselor says that clinic workers

“go to great lengths to help a youngster through an abortion. Despite the emotional stress of the work, they are, as they say “there for her”…But if the same 15 year old becomes a repeater and returns at 16 and 17, and if she develops a cool attitude toward the counseling experience, the reaction is different. The counselor loses her own professional distance.”

Thelma McCormick and Gary Crum “of Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life” , University Press, 1992 104

Pro-lifers may point out that if it is wrong to abort a child (the second one) why is it ok to abort another child (the first one?) The sequence may be different, but the fetuses in the womb are the same. They are either both life, or both not life.

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An abortionist is quoted saying:

“I do dislike a certain type of modern young woman who indulges promiscuously, uses contraceptives rather reluctantly, preferring repeat abortions, which she regards as lightly as tossing down a cocktail or a glass of whisky.”

British Abortionist William Robinson

The Critic and the Guide. P 24 Quoted in “The Abortion Encyclopedia” by American Life League Chapter 45 http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC045.HTM

If abortion is only an operation that makes a woman no longer pregnant, that removes a ball of cells and  “terminates a pregnancy” why would an abortionist be angry at women who take it “lightly?”  Abortion doctors see the bodies of aborted babies daily. Therefore, they sometimes feel frustrated when women do not treat their abortions with enough gravity, because the doctors know that abortion is nothing to take lightly.

There are many similar quotes in this section.

 

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The following quotes are from Planned Parenthood records which were discovered by pro-lifers after being discarded. They are a clinic worker’s notes on individual abortion cases. The attitudes shown in towards the women is, in my opinion, questionable.

On one woman:

“Very apathetic. Not concerned at all about birth control or repeat abortions. Made wisecracks in VPT [Voluntary Pregnancy Termination] room and laughed at inappropriate moments. Unaffected by entire procedure.”

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On another:

“Attitude too casual about VPTs. May be a typical repeater.”

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And on another:

“Acted twelve years old. Not very responsible for a seventeen year old. May be a repeater with a birth control attitude. Attitude towards birth control HORRIBLE. Says she’ll probably quit them but doesn’t want any other method. Very immature.”

Robert H. Ruff “Aborting Planned Parenthood: Documented Proof of Planned Parenthood’s Systematic Exploitation of Teenagers and Taxpayers” (New York: Life Cycle Books 1988) p 29-33

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Abortionist William Harrison:

“I’ve had lots of patients who come in for second, third, fourth, fifth, even one who had nine abortions.”

Harrison, however, had no problem with repeat abortions. When asked:

“Is that really appropriate?”

He replied:

“If she needs nine abortions, yeah….Basically, abortion is a method of birth control. You know, it’s not the best method of birth control. But all it does is stop the birth of a baby that a woman doesn’t want at a time she doesn’t want it.”

William Harrison, Interview on Nightline Nov 11, 2006

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