One woman who interviewed postabortion women for her book said:
“I have come across women who had a feeling that the baby was going to be abnormal, and so chose abortion. They had no evidence – it was too early to carry out any tests – it was just a feeling.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 59
These women sacrificed their childrens’ lives to a hunch.
Operation Rescue published stories by sidewalk counselors about women who went into the late Dr. Tiller’s clinic to have late–term abortions. One pregnant woman had an abortion because she wanted a tummy tuck:
“One such story was about a healthy woman, with whom sidewalk counselors had spoken, who came to Tiller’s to abort a healthy baby so as not to ruin her “tummy tuck.” That woman went through with her abortion in Wichita despite having no risk of suffering a “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function” [which was the given criteria for a late term abortion in Kansas]. Women were getting late-term abortions of viable babies on a regular basis for appallingly frivolous reasons. Tiller and his staff were thumbing their noses at Kansas law.”
Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger Abortion Free (New York: WND Books, 2014) 97
Abortion clinic owner Norma Goldberger describes why some women at her clinic had abortions:
“Some of our patients were professional classical dancers. They could not have continued dancing on stage while being pregnant. Some occupations are not supportive of pregnancy.”
Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition
Below is an except from the blog The Left Hand of Feminism where a woman describes the two abortions she had followed by a pregnancy she kept.
She first got pregnant as a teenager:
“Of course I was going to have an abortion. My parents were certainly not going to let me have a baby, and I knew I wasn’t ready. I had taken care of my sister since she was born and had a very good grasp of how much work, money, and commitment was involved, and I knew I wasn’t old enough to take it on by myself. Being pregnant felt a lot like being infected with a horrible disease. I was sick and wanted the source of the nausea out, fast. I didn’t think I had a “baby” inside of me. I knew very well that, at about six weeks, what was growing was a mass of cells about 1/6 of an inch long and presently much more like an insect or a worm than a human being.
6 weeks
My parents were Seventh-Day Adventists from a medical family who themselves had come from pragmatic farm folk. An abortion of a human fetus in the first trimester was not a lot different from the abortion of an unwanted litter of kittens: regrettable and sad, but necessary. Unfortunate, not tragic. My parents made me and my boyfriend pay for the procedure to teach us to be more careful in the future.
Not a kitten
I was, for the most part. But I was also extremely fertile, I guess, because I got pregnant again, at college,… I did not choose lightly or cavalierly, but also did not think that I had been immoral or that it terminating it was anything like murder. I had been thinking a lot about infanticide, ironically, since I was currently reading all of Euripides and had become especially enthralled with Medea. I toyed romantically and self-destructively with the idea of myself as a Medea but never really believed my own hype….
It would have been far worse to give birth to a child and release him or her into the uncertain fate of adoption, or try to take care of a kid that I resented and wasn’t mature or economically steady enough to support in a positive and wholesome environment.
I’m really lucky. No one shamed me. No monsters stood outside the clinic and screamed names at me. No judge forced me to develop a fertilized egg that I didn’t want in my body. No one wrote nasty letters or emails to me. No one denounced me. No one made me feel bad about myself for taking what I knew was the most responsible and ethical decision for me at the time….
The next time I got pregnant I meant to. … I did not enjoy being pregnant. I felt invaded by an alien life form. I had been invaded by an alien life form, albeit one who shared some of my genes. But I choose to bring it to term, and I was very lucky that he turned out to be healthy and beautiful and himself.”
An article in the Los Angeles times profiles abortionist Dr. William Harrison, and describe some of his patients. One young woman coming in for an abortion is described this way:
feet of unborn baby at just 7 weeks after conception. Most abortion are done at this time or later
His first patient of the day, Sarah, 23, says it never occurred to her to use birth control, though she has been sexually active for six years. When she became pregnant this fall, Sarah, who works in real estate, was in the midst of planning her wedding. “I don’t think my dress would have fit with a baby in there,” she says.
“The British gynecologist P. Greenhalgh writes of a rich mother of three who came to her for an abortion. She wanted a fourth child but not just yet, since the family had already reserved a ski vacation months down the line. Many OB/GYN specialists have stories like this, and, when one hears them, it’s easy to see why women feel so guilty about owning up to the pedestrian nature of their reasons [for having an abortion.]”
Christopher Caldwell “Pro–Lifestyle” The New Republic April 5, 1999
