Category: Abortion Counseling

Former Planned Parenthood worker Catherine Anthony Adair :

“In fact, clinic workers would purposefully avoid providing information on fetal development, what the child looked like, the child’s anatomical development and the pain he or she could feel. I was continuously reminded that when referring to the baby, the appropriate terminology was “clump of cells” or “contents of the uterus.”

Planned Parenthood’s mission is to pressure as many women into having an abortion as it can. Those in charge know that can’t be accomplished if they refer to the child as a “baby.”

Then women would know what was really growing inside them: a little person with a beating heart, functioning nervous system, tiny hands and feet. The child is entirely disregarded. There is no counseling, no care, no waiting and no discussion. Once a pregnancy is confirmed, it is off to termination.”

Catherine Anthony Adair “Planned Parenthood lies about itself” Washington Examiner, 11/22/11. Quoted in Abortion Industry’s “Mission Is To Pressure Women”, Afterabortion.org, Elliot Institute, January 12, 2012.

Read more at the Washington Examiner

but:

In their factsheet “THE TRUTH ABOUT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS” NARAL Pro-Choice America makes the following ironic statement:

Unfortunately, reports indicate that CPCs frequently misinform, mislead, and coerce women with unintended or crisis pregnancies. Staff and volunteers at CPCs often use anti-abortion propaganda to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose…”

It goes on to say:

“Women are entitled to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased medical information with which they can make their own decisions.”

One book documents two conversations between abortion clinic staff and reluctant abortion patients. Here is one:

“Peggy’s (the patient’s) mind is off on a different track. “Is it true that at six weeks it has a heartbeat?” Carye (the counselor) says nobody is sure exactly when the heart begins beating, and tries to deflect that concern. “This pregnancy and you are the same thing,” she adds, explaining to Peggy that prior to twenty-four weeks the fetus cannot survive outside her womb.”

In this second passage, a young woman in her fourteenth week of pregnancy named Tiffany does not want to abort.

This is the clinic counselor speaking:

“I’m not here to change your mind. I’m not here to force your opinion. But I’m sitting here seeing this beautiful young woman with her whole life ahead of her, and you have so many other things you can do right now. Why don’t you go ahead with your dreams and have kids later?” Tiffany had no answer so Anneke continued, “We’re always here for you.”….Before ending the session Anneke left Tiffany with some figures that she recently had learned from Carye: One in ten high school girls who become pregnant finish high school, and one in ten thousand girls who have babies during high school finish college. And a third statistic: Over 80 percent of the men in this country don’t pay their child support. “The statistics are stacked against you,” Anneke said.”

Tiffany did, reluctantly, agree to an abortion. Here is a picture of a 14 week old unborn baby, similar to the one Tiffany aborted.

Peter Korn. Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press) 1996 p 25

NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-abortion group, opposes crisis pregnancy centers, which are centers that help pregnant women. Their fact sheet says the following:

“Unfortunately, reports indicate that CPCs frequently misinform, mislead, and coerce women with unintended or crisis pregnancies. Staff and volunteers at CPCs often use anti‐abortion propaganda to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose….Women are entitled to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased medical information with which they can make their own decisions.”

THE TRUTH ABOUT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS, NARAL PRO‐CHOICE AMERICA,  January 6, 2006

Former Clinic Worker Deborah Henry:

“Many women could not afford to have babies, so we would use examples- like the price of babies’ shoes, the price of clothing, how much it cost to raise a baby. If they weren’t finished with their education, the hindrance it would have on their education, how would they find a baby sitter, who was going to take care of that baby for them? We would find their weakness and work on them…All they were told about the procedure itself was that they would experience slight cramping similar to menstrual cramps, and that was it. They were not told about the development of the baby. They were not told about the pain the baby would be experiencing or the physical effects or the emotional effects it would have on them. They had no idea who was going to be there to help them when they fell apart afterward…Some of the women were a little apprehensive about it. We were told that in explaining to them we could never use the word “babies.” It was always tissues, tissues of cells, or clusters of cells or products of conception.”

“The women were never given any type of alternatives to the abortion. It was just automatically assumed that they knew what they wanted. They were never told about adoption agencies. They were never told about people out there who were willing to help them–to give them homes to live in, to provide them with care and even financial support. The euphemisms that are used — clusters of cells, products of conception, or just plain tissue — are all lies.”

Personal Testimony “Meet the Abortion Providers” Convention

in 2005, in Georgia, a law was proposed that would’ve allowed women coming in for abortions to see information about their unborn babies. The woman would not be forced to look at this information, but she would have the option to if she chose to. Planned Parenthood vehemently oppose the law. According to Kay Scott, who is executive director of Planned Parenthood :

“Supporters of the Woman’s Right to Know bill say it would allow time for reflection, but this bill is really about deception. …women already receive full informed consent before having an abortion…..”

Kay Scott “ABORTION: 24-HOUR-WAIT SUPPORTERS TRY TO DECEIVE” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA), Jan 21, 2005 pA15

“The information provided [by abortion providers] is often unreliable or exaggerated. Consider this text from a “frequently asked questions” Web site – “Making Your Decision” – published by Early Options, a Brooklyn physician’s office:

“It might help you to know that if you are in the early stages of pregnancy, you are not yet carrying a fetus or baby. In fact, if it has been less than 7 weeks since your last period, your pregnancy consists of nothing visible to the eye except a tiny, empty sac in your uterus. By 8 to 9 weeks, your pregnancy is the size of a pea.”

In the article that cited the above, abortionist William Harrison comments

“there is actually a very visible embryo in that sac as early as four weeks.”

Holly Auer “Rhetoric from Both Sides Muddles Decision Process” Buffalo News November 24, 2002

A law in Georgia was approved that said abortion clinics must provide materials on abortion risks, the development of the baby, and alternatives to abortion to women and allow them to view them if they chose. Then there was a waiting period is women were allowed to consider this information. NARAL Pro-Choice America, pro-abortion group, opposed this law:

“It’s a ruse to say that clinics do not already have informed consent,” said Becky Rafter, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia. During public hearings on the bill, some abortion clinics provided documentation to legislators showing they already inform women of the medical risks of abortion.”

Carlos Campos “Abortion waiting period approved; Aim to let women change their minds, advocates ” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA), March 5, 2005 pA1

In the article “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts” in American Medical News, a Toronto physician said she didn’t know “how and whether we [should] protect the patient from the reality of the procedure.”

She said she regularly hid the ultrasound screen.

Diane M. Gianelli, “Abortion Providers Share Inner Conflicts,” American Medical News, July 12, 1993. Quoted by Rachel MacNair “Achieving Peace in the Abortion War