They said it.
“So many doctors scorn any other doctor who does abortion.”
Abortionist Jane Hodgson
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 24
Share on FacebookDr. Warren Hern:
“Pro-Choice organizations often ignore, patronize and disparage the contributions of physicians who specialize in abortions, in contrast with their support for well-known physicians and conventional specialties who perform some abortions.”
Warren Hern, “Hunted by the Right, Forgotten by the Left” New York Times, March 13, 1993
Quoted in Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
Share on FacebookAbortion doctor Tommy Tucker told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in a May 16, 1993 interview:
“We’re perceived as being dirty, underhanded, the lowest echelon of the medical practice.”
Quote provided by Life Dynamics.
Dr. Tucker was later punished by the medical board for botching abortions and causing the death of at least one woman. Read the heartbreaking first hand account of the woman’s death (from one of the clinic workers in the office) here.
“It’s true that abortion providers are perceived as not very good doctors — that they have no alternative so they do abortions, that they cannot earn a living any other way.”
Richard Hausknecht, Abortionist. The New York Times Magazine, January 18, 1998
Share on Facebook“Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can’t do anything else.”
Warren Hern, Abortionist American Medical News, September 5, 1994
Share on FacebookDr. Warren Hern, who is a well known late term abortion provider, and who has written a book on abortion practice and trained other physicians, has encouraged the press to stop calling him an “abortionist.”
When the Rocky Mountain News ran a story about him under the title of “Abortionist Threatened in Letters” he said the following (as quoted by The Rocky Mountain News in a subsequent article.)
“‘For me it’s like a racial epithet – your editors wouldn’t consider running a headline that said “N-gger hit by car.” It’s offensive.
(As for the word abortion) of course that’s not offensive. I’m proud of what I do. It’s a straightforward description of an operation, OK? ‘Abortionist’ is like many terms in history laden with meanings – like ‘final solution,’ which will never be separated from the hideous death camps of World War II.” Hern continued, “One of the reasons ‘abortionist’ has become offensive is that it’s used as a propaganda term . . . part of the anti-abortion people’s Orwellian approach to language…..”
Abortionist: A Thorn in a Thicket of Issues” Rocky Mountain News, Oct 9, 1994. Quoted by Life Dynamics
Is being called a doctor whose practice consists of doing abortions an abortionist equal to calling an African American a N-gger? Doesn’t the term “abortionist” simply state what the doctor does? How is such a simple, descriptive term so offensive when it directly applies to a person’s actions?
Incidentally, 90% of abortions in America are done not in hospitals or doctor’s offices but in outpatient clinics. Many of the doctors employed by these clinics do nothing but abortions. In fact, in America, only 2% of ob/gyns do half of all abortions.(*) Many of these doctors do thousands of abortions a year, moonlighting at several different abortion clinics. According to one owner of an abortion clinic chain:
* Dolores P. “Ask an Abortion Provider” The Hairpin. March 3, 2011 (can be found here
Share on FacebookDr. Don Sloan has been providing abortions for years. In one essay defending legal abortion he says the following:
“The term “abortionist” still carries with it a heavy weight. We’ve made it [abortion] legal, but we haven’t made it respectable – not quite.”
Don Sloan “Abortion Should Not Be Restricted,” Originally Published in “Basic Issues in the Abortion Debate” Political Affairs, July 1999. Reprinted in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)
Share on FacebookIn an interview with 20/20 abortionist Dr. Jane Hodgson said:
“I used to have to steel myself to use the word (abortionist), and it was sort of my goal, I’ve got to make abortion respectable. So I’d startle people at parties sometimes, I think.
By saying that I was an abortionist. And they’d kind of- their jaws would drop, you know, back then.”
20/20 May 24, 1991 (Cited by Life Dynamics ROEBOTS)
Share on FacebookIn his book “Abortion Practice” Warren Hern says the following:
“Abortion has been stigmatized in the medical profession. Until recently the public and large segments of the medical profession considered abortion to be an unethical medical act regardless of its legal status…Communities do not like to be reminded that abortions are occurring within their boundaries…Candor invites both criticism and harassment; very few abortion clinics or physicians providing abortion services include the word abortion in the title identifying the activity.”
Many abortion clinics, even today, are identified by euphanisms such “Women’s Clinic” “Surgery Center” “Women’s Hospital” rather than “Abortion Clinic.”
Warren Hern, M.D. “Abortion Practice” (J.B. Lippenott Company 1984) p 317
Share on FacebookIn the LA Times September 22, 1991, it was reported that Dr. Stuart Sitzman, a gynecologist who has performed abortions for his private patients before, told them he’d be happy to be quoted by name.
He told them, however:
“Just don’t call me an abortionist.”
Cited by Life Dynamics ROEBOTS
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