Category: Abortion Counseling

Former abortion worker: “We lied to them”

Margo, who spent five years working at both Planned Parenthood and a private clinic:

“We would lie to them! We lied to patients all the time!… People asked, “What’s going to happen to my baby?” We were told to tell them whatever made sense, that it’s like if someone is in a bad car accident and lost a leg. It’s medical waste and it goes into an incinerator… We didn’t use biohazard bags back then.”

Instead, they ground up the remains and sent them down the sewer.

Ellen J Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016

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Planned Parenthood manager: we never had an adoption

Former Planned Parenthood manager Sue Thayer:

“Well, in my affiliate an adoption referral was if a woman picked up that envelope, that bag and it had a pamphlet in it about adoption. That counted as an adoption referral. In all my years there, never in the 17 centers across Iowa, did we have an adoption. Not once.”

“Exposing the Industry” by And Then There Were None

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Late term abortionist: sometimes patients change their minds

Late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern says that some women who are about to undergo abortions change their minds at the last minute. In an interview:

Q. Do your patients ever reconsider?

Hern: Between our two centers, that happens maybe once a week. There’s a patient who changes her mind or becomes truly ambivalent and goes home to reconsider, then might come back a week or two later.

Capital Words, A Project of the Sunlight Foundation, volume 142, number 130, September 9, 1996

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Woman gets counseling for tubal ligation, not abortion

A woman who had an abortion remarked on the lack of counseling in the clinic:

“So, we confirmed the pregnancy. There was no interview about the decision at that time. I just said ‘No, I don’t want to continue the pregnancy.’ At that time, they weren’t even concerned about consulting with my husband. But I said, ‘He agrees.’ The doctor said, ‘So, when do you want to do it?’ Which I thought, years later, was interesting, because when I wanted my tubal ligation, after my second child was born, they counseled me every month for almost nine months. ‘Is that still your decision? Are you sure you don’t want your husband to come in?’ So, there was a great deal more counseling approximately five or six years later. Obviously, [there] should have been a little more concern [about the abortion]. They were very off-handed about the postpartum events after the pregnancy’s termination and things like that.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 63

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Postabortion women say there was no counseling

From a study where numerous postabortion women were interviewed:

“Most women report that there was no counseling available to them before or after their abortions.”

Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)

One possible reason why counseling is not done in many abortion clinics is that it does not bring in revenue. (also here) 

In many cases where there was counseling,it was merely a sales pitch. 

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Pregnant teen asks Planned Parenthood “is it a baby?”

When Carolyn Kasdorf became pregnant as a teenager, she was afraid to let anyone at her Christian school or church know. Also, her parents had always warned her not to come home pregnant. So she turned to Planned Parenthood for help.  She tells her story:

“Feeling I had nowhere to go, I turned to Planned Parenthood and ultimately chose abortion. At first, I struggled with the morality of the decision.

“Is it a baby?” I asked.

The counselor gave me all the answers. “No, it’s not a baby; it’s just cartilage like your ear. It’s a blob of tissue.”

Wendy Williams, Ann Caldwell Empty Arms: More Than 60 Life-Giving Stories of Hope from the Devastation of Abortion (Chattanooga, Tennessee: Living Ink Books, 2005) 98 – 100

Later, she had a second abortion. It was not until many years later that she came to regret her abortions.

7-wk-dia

The baby above is not cartilage.

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Clinic worker said “It’s just tissue” to woman 20 weeks pregnant

Linda Keener Thomas remembers what she was told by the abortion clinic she called. She was pregnant and in college:

“Abortion seemed to be my only choice. It would solve everything. So I called a clinic for information and asked the lady, “Is it a baby?”

“No, honey, it’s just tissue. After all, you want to finish school, don’t you?”

I clung to that statement like a drowning person clutching a life preserver, repeating it over and over until I almost believed it. But deep in my heart I knew the truth that it was a baby, my baby.

Wendy Williams, Ann Caldwell Empty Arms: More Than 60 Life-Giving Stories of Hope from the Devastation of Abortion (Chattanooga, Tennessee: Living Ink Books, 2005) 143

Her baby was 20 weeks along and looked like this.

unbornbaby20w-01-1

Hardly “just tissue.”

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Doctor pressures woman with German Measles to abort

From an author who observed abortions and did research on abortion:

“It can happen that it is the doctor who is arguing for an abortion and the patient who is trying to make a case against it. “I don’t really want an abortion,” said a 30 year-old patient who had contracted German measles in early pregnancy to the registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital. “It is your duty to the state to have an abortion,” he replied. Doctors tend to be directional, yes…They may also be very pro-abortion.

Indeed, since abortion has been legalized, they may be more likely to be pro-abortion, since it is the legal and easy way out of a pregnancy problem. If a woman has a child with the support of her doctor, and the child turns out to have a problem – say, a physical or mental handicap – the doctor may afterwards be blamed…Whereas if the woman has an abortion, the doctor has no further responsibility whatsoever. Therefore, it can be in the interest of the doctor to lean towards abortion.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 264

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Former abortion worker on abortion options

From one former abortion worker:

11 week feet
11 week feet

“In my facilities, I always gave options counseling. Of course you make the abortion the most appealing. I told them about adoption and about foster care and about (when there was welfare) assistance. The typical way it would go is, “Well, you know you can place your baby out for adoption” but then, in the same breath, you would say, “That’s an option available to you, but you also have to realize that there’s going to be a baby of yours out here somewhere in the world you will never see again. At least with abortion you know what’s happened. You can go on with your life.”…

The longer I was in it, the less I cared, so I really didn’t care what my conscience said. My conscience was totally numb anyway. But what it did do was public relations wise. You were able, when a reporter or TV crew came, to pull out a packet of information for the patients to read and they received it. So what can anybody say? Publicly it looked good – in reality it was another tool that was used to force a woman into an abortion. It’s typical – I would give them an option and then shoot it down. The only option you didn’t shoot down, obviously, was abortion.

Richard and Rhonda White Confronting Abortion Distortions (Xulon Press, 2013) 61

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Abortionist; the baby isn’t developed yet

Dr. Roslyn Stephens, abortionist, said the following to a patient identified as Leslie:

“This one, you know you’re only six weeks, you know the foetus is only tiny- it’s not developed yet.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 172

At 6 weeks after conception, the embryo has a heartbeat and brainwaves. Here is a picture of a preborn baby at a little over 6 weeks

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