They said it.
An abortion doula, who comforts women as they kill their babies, says:
“I’ve been taught to follow the patient’s lead. If she calls it her baby, then I do too. But with the next patient, just as far along, it’s fetal tissue, it’s the products of conception. One stumbles over her words, says “all the stuff inside,” and that feels right, too. “
Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Is this a baby? Or “fetal tissue?”
Pro-Life author William Brennan points out:
“Obstetrics and Gynecology published an article in which the products of a suction abortion were described as “debris from the conceptus’” which “passes visibly into the glass container, either whole or piecemeal.” The authors included a chart estimating the “amount of debris withdrawn” according to length of pregnancy.
He quotes from Dorothea Kerslake and Donn Casey “Abortion Induced by Means of Uterine Aspirator” Obstetrics and Gynecology 30 (July 1967): 37, 41
William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983)
Preborn baby at 12 weeks
What a 12 week baby looks like after abortion:
A dead baby to them is only debris.
Share on FacebookPro-choice author and president of Catholics for Choice Frances Kissling admits that another pro-choicer made claims that could not be verified. Kissling makes reference to this statement in a pro-abortion article:
“The most frequent circumstances that lead to late abortion–which account for less than one percent of all abortions in the country–include fetal anomalies, in which a pregnancy is desired, but complications develop that endanger the mother or the potential life of the fetus. Fetuses are sometimes given devastating diagnoses, such as a one-year life expectancy in excruciating pain, creating an emotional and financial strain on the parents and other children in the family.
Young women and girls who are victims of sexual abuse sometimes don’t recognize their own pregnancy–or may feel too ashamed to tell others–before the second or third trimester. For other women the process of finding a provider, securing travel, getting time off work, and accumulating the necessary funds can take several months, by which time the pregnancy is in its later stages.”
This paragraph, in an article about late-term abortion written by Catherine Epstein has no evidence to back it up. As Frances Kissling says:
“Some of it is the desire of an advocate to put the best foot forward but in my opinion strays from a rigorous approach to the “facts.” We do not know if there are more late abortions due to severe fetal abnormality or to denial and fear. We have no idea if denial by young women is the result of sexual abuse, none whatsoever. Claiming that lack of funding for a first trimester abortion is resolved with finding six times more money later in the pregnancy is highly speculative.
Because I am prochoice I give Catherine Epstein some latitude. Some of what she speculates is reasonable. Some of it is the desire of an advocate to put the best foot forward but in my opinion strays from a rigorous approach to the “facts.” We do not know if there are more late abortions due to severe fetal abnormality or to denial and fear. We have no idea if denial by young women is the result of sexual abuse, none whatsoever. Claiming that lack of funding for a first trimester abortion is resolved with finding six times more money later in the pregnancy is highly speculative. The average cost of first trimester abortion is just under $500. On the website of one provider of second trimester abortions, a 24 week abortion is $3000. Abortions after that time are higher in price. Do we really think women who do not have the money for a first trimester abortion find the larger amount needed for a later procedure in any significant numbers?”
Frances Kissling “Is Dialogue on Abortion Useful? Response to Marcotte” Rewire Dec 1, 2010
Share on FacebookThe book Thank You for Saving My Life tells the tragic story of a pregnant young woman named Maddie, who was on her way to a crisis pregnancy center when her mother called:
“When she reached the parking lot, her cell phone rang. She saw it was her mother, so she answered it.
“You’ll make a terrible mother! You’ll ruin the life of the child, so you might just as well terminate the life now!” Her mother yelled into the phone…
Confused and now even more scared, she didn’t know what to do. She put her car in reverse and headed toward the Planned Parenthood office…
[S]he filled out the papers for the WebCam doctor to review. …The questionnaire asked if she was sure about her decision and Maddie answered, “I don’t know.” But that day the doctor did inquire about her “I don’t know” answer. He just told her to go ahead and push the button to receive the two pills needed to terminate the pregnancy. Maddie took the first pill and drove home.”
After the abortion:
“Six months later, Maddie called the center crying hysterically. No one could even understand her on the phone, she was crying so hard. We encouraged her to come in to the center.
Maggie sat in my office and cried for an hour. The only thing I was able to get out of her was that she had had an abortion. She never looked up. She just cried a heart wrenching cry…
The next two appointments were much like the first time we met. Maddie hung her head and cried the whole hour.”
She eventually found healing through counseling at the crisis pregnancy center
Mike G Williams Thank You for Saving My Life (2016) 68 – 70
Share on FacebookAuth0r William Brennan cites an article that showed that, prior to legalization, most abortions were being done by doctors. In 1936:
“…Washington University obstetrics professor Dr. Frederick J. Taussig characterized anti-abortion statutes as the most universally disregarded laws in history, and medical doctors “the official “bootleggers” of abortion.” (This latter phrase was intended to evoke the days of prohibition when many people were breaking the laws against sale of alcoholic beverages.)”
William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983) 14
The article cited was: Frederick J Taussig Abortion: Spontaneous and Induced: Medical and Social Aspects (St. Louis: CV Mosby, 1936) 394
Share on FacebookAnna Runkle, a former Planned Parenthood abortion counselor, wrote a guidebook for teens who are pregnant. The book was intended to help teens decide whether to carry their children to term or abort. In the book, she says:
“When looking for pregnancy counseling, watch out for anti-abortion clinics that advertise free pregnancy counseling. These groups will pressure you not to have an abortion.… A number of antiabortion organizations use advertising designed to trick you into calling them for abortion services. Once they get you in the door, they will try to pressure you to have a baby. They will give you lectures, show you films of aborted fetuses and stillborn babies, and even lie to you to stop you from having an abortion. Of course, they won’t help you find an abortion provider…
Some will tell you upfront that they are against abortion and wish to support you in carrying the pregnancy to term. But unless you want this type of service, it is best to use facilities that will support you whatever you decide. Remember that abortion providers are pro-choice – they are there to help you choose the option that is best for you, whether it’s abortion, adoption, or raising the baby yourself.”
Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 64, 105 – 106
Share on FacebookA handbook given out to pregnant teens that was meant to provide resources in the community included Planned Parenthood, but not a local crisis pregnancy center:
“… Let’s look more closely at programs in one midsize southwestern city. The Teenage Parent Council of Austin, Texas, publishes a “Green Book” resource directory for “teens, pregnant teens, and teenage parents.” The book, touted as a directory of services available in Austin and Travis County, includes agencies that provide counseling, medical services, birth control, abortion, adoption, maternity homes, health and education programs, social services, legal aid, shelter, transportation and other miscellaneous helps – but it excludes the Austin Crisis Pregnancy Center because it is pro-life and attempts to promote sexual abstinence among the unmarried.”
The Teenage Parent Council hands out a listing of birth control purveyors and abortionists who “are committed to helping teens feel comfortable when they come for services or for information. All of these clinics provide confidential services. That means that no one, not even parents, is informed about your birth control visit.”
Susan Olasky, Marvin Olasky More than Kindness: A Compassionate Approach to Crisis Childbearing (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway books, 1990) 41
The text from the Teenage Parent Council comes from Garfinkel, Sara S McLanahan Single Mothers and Their Children (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 1986) 82
Share on FacebookA woman who had an abortion and wished that she had been warned about its aftereffects said:
“I think there’s a little anger there, too, at the doctors that didn’t counsel, or that did it so off-handedly, and said, ‘No, this won’t bother you; it’s no big deal. This is what you want to do; it’s okay.’ You know, not having a concern for anything more than the physical body. Because that, I think, is what still makes me angry.”
Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 65
Share on FacebookIn his book about abortion, Troy Clark claims:
“Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” in Roe V Wade, admitted after she became a born-again pro-life Christian in 1995 that on many occasions while working at abortion mills, she and her fellow workers would call the police and fabricate stories about how “abortion protesters” trespass on their property. These stories were totally untrue but it would get pro-lifers off the streets and into jail.”
Troy Clark, Ph.D. Abortion Every 90 Seconds: The Whole Story (Kindle, 2015)
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic worker Sallie Tisdale on what she says to women considering abortion:
“…..I describe the procedure to come, using care with my language. I don’t say “pain” any more than I would say “baby.”
Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Tale” Harper’s Magazine, October, 1987, 66-70.
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