Category: Abortion Counseling

A D & X or “Partial Birth Abortion” is a procedure in which a living unborn baby in the second or third trimester is delivered almost entirely from the woman’s body. The abortionist holds the head inside the mother and then punctures the baby’s skull with a syringe or pair of surgical scissors (depending on the age of the fetus) then drains of suctions out the brain contents. One abortionist who performs this procedure, was asked if she told her patients the details of what she was going to do to them and their baby. She replied:

“I do not usually tell patients specific details of the operative approach.”

Carolyn Westhoff, abortion doctor, quoted from the transcripts of National Abortion Federation vs. Ashcroft: US District Court, Southern District of NY, Honorable Richard Conway Casey Judge. See Court Transcripts:New York

In the same court case, abortionist Casey Hammod was asked whether he told patients the exact nature of the procedures he performs on them. He said yes, but then went on to say:

“Keep in mind a lot of my patients are emotionally quite fragile so we don’t have to bring up the terms – we don’t have to go into every gory detail about what we are doing…

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“Sometimes it’s `the pregnancy’, sometimes it’s `the baby’. The challenge is gaining people’s trust in a very short space of time.”

Abortion clinic counselor “Poppy”

“Society’s Best Kept Secret” Sunday Star-Times January 15, 2006

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A quote by an abortion worker at the blog “Abortion Clinic Days” under the heading “Sending her Home” (May 2006) is as follows:

“I have also seen many times a woman changing her mind a number of times.”

Yet as you read the quotes in this section, you will see that many abortion providers attempt to talk women into having abortions, and others provide little or no counseling.

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Are some women ambivalent when they come to an abortion clinic? In the experience of some abortion providers, the answer is yes

At Newsreview.com “Inside an Abortion Clinic” clinic counselor “Laura” says:

” Maybe 30 percent [of the women] are kind of talking through doubts, maybe 5 percent go away.”

Chrisanne Beckner  “Inside the abortion clinic” Newsreview.com  January 29, 2004

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Clinic worker Greta states:

“There are some women who are like “I don’t know what I want to do,” and the system is we assume women are totally clear in their decision the minute they walk in the door. If they’re not, we have to back up – And that’s challenging from a “workflow point of view.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37

 

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In one abortion clinic, a worker named Mira is quoted saying:

“We don’t counsel women- we assume if a woman says “I’m here to have an abortion” that she’s thought about that”

The interviewer herself then says:

“Several health workers pointed out that they occasionally dealt with ambivalent clients, even though Center methods were predicated on not probing women for doubts.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ) 1996 p 37

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“Professionally, we are obliged to give accurate, current and factual information to our patients to assist them in making a fully informed decision. This is the basis of informed consent. Yet nurses are advised to avoid showing pictures which explain the development of the unborn child because it may make them feel guilty, even though it is often our patients who later question us as to why we did not give them more information.”

BARBARA DOCHERTY, Practice nurse educator

New Zealand GP March 8, 2000

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“If you can’t sell abortions over the phone, you will not last.”

Helen Pendley, former owner-director of an abortion clinic

Mary Meehan “The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit” Orthodoxy Today Can be found here.

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The Reproductive Health Access Project gives “Pregnancy Options Counseling Points for the Ambivalent Patient.” Here are some of the points.

2. Normalize feelings of ambivalence.

3. Acknowledge common feelings such as shame, disappointment, guilt and regret.

4. Reframe the situation – she may be making the most responsible decision by NOT continuing the pregnancy.

5. Be conscious of time – you do not need to know everything about the patient to help her make a decision.

6. Refer to the pregnancy, not the baby.

7. Elucidate that the patient’s choice not to be a mother now does not mean she is choosing not to be a mother in the future.

Quoted by Life Dynamics.

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“I have seen hundreds of patients in my office who have had abortions and were just lied to by the abortion counselor. Namely ‘This is less painful than having a tooth removed. It is not a baby.’ Afterwards, the woman sees Life Magazine and breaks down and goes into a major depression.”

Psychologist Vincent Rue

David Kuperlian and Jo Ann Gasper “Abortion, Inc.” New Dimensions Magazine October 1991, p 16

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