They said it.
“We tried to avoid the women seeing them [the fetuses] They always wanted to know the sex, but we lied and said it was too early to tell. It’s better for the women to think of the fetus as an ‘it.’
–Abortion clinic worker Norma Eidelman
James Tunstead Burtchaell, editor Rachel Weeping and Other Essays About Abortion (New York: Universal Press 1982) 34
Share on Facebook“If a woman we were counseling expressed doubts about having an abortion, we would say whatever was necessary to persuade her to abort immediately.”
–Judy W., former office manager of the second largest abortion clinic in El Paso, Texas
.Quoted by Last Days Ministries
Share on Facebook“They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heart beat, they wouldn’t want to have an abortion.”
former abortionist Dr. Joseph Randall
“Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions October 1990
Share on Facebook“I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone. He took every one of our receptionists, nurses, and anyone else who would deal with people over the phone through an extensive training period. The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so that she wouldn’t get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money.”
–Nina Whitten, chief secretary at a Dallas abortion clinic under Dr. Curtis Boyd
Personal Testimony at “Meet the Abortion Providers” conference
Share on Facebook“Sonography in connection with induced abortion may have psychological hazards. Seeing a blown-up, moving image of the embryo she is carrying can be distressing to a woman who is about to undergo an abortion, Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman noted. She stressed that the screen should be turned away from the patient.”
Editorial on Abortion
Obstetrics and Gynecology News February 15, 1986 p 28
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“It is when I am holding a plastic uterus in one hand, a suction tube in the other, moving them together in imitation of the scrubbing to come, that woman ask the most secret question. I am speaking in a matter-of-fact voice about ‘the tissue’ and ‘the contents’ when the woman suddenly catches my eye and says ‘How big is the baby now?’
These words suggest a quiet need for definition of the boundaries being drawn. It isn’t so odd, after all, that she feels relief when I describe the growing buds bulbous shape, its miniature nature. Again, I gauge, and sometimes lie a little, weaseling around its infantile features until its clinging power slackens.”
–abortion worker Sallie Tisdale
Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here” Harpers Magazine Oct 1987 p 68
Share on FacebookFrom an article on the psychological effects of abortion by a researcher who conducted a study:
“Several empirical studies in the U.S. have indicated the deficiencies of current abortion counseling practices with the majority of respondents reporting insufficient information provided by the abortion counselor; insensitive, unhelpful abortion clinic personnel, with respect to providing assistance in decision-making, and the provision of misinformation, thereby contributing to increased anxiety, confusion and levels of post-abortion depression and hostility.”
Barnard, C. (1990), The Long Term Psychological Effects of Abortion, Portsmouth, NH: Institute for Pregnancy Loss; and Vaughan, H. (1990), Canonical Variates of Post-Abortion Syndrome, Portsmouth, NH: Institute for Pregnancy Loss.
However:
In Georgia, legislators put forth an informed consent law which stated that a woman must receive accurate information about her pregnancy and the abortion procedure, and then wait 24 hours before her abortion. Planned Parenthood adamantly opposed this law. From Kay Scott, the executive director of Planned Parenthood of Georgia:
“Supporters of the Woman’s Right to Know bill say it would allow time for reflection, but this bill is really about deception. Under Georgia law, women already receive full informed consent before having an abortion….”
Editorial by Kay Scott “ABORTION: 24-HOUR-WAIT SUPPORTERS TRY TO DECEIVE” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA), Jan 21, 2005 pA15)
Share on FacebookIn her book Why I Am an Abortion Doctor, abortionist Susan Poppema describes what she says to women who are ambivalent about having an abortion:
“We tell them that we honor them for making their decision and that we regard it as a moral, responsible decision made in the best interests the patient perceives for herself and her family. Often I’ll add that it’s too bad making a good decision isn’t always easy and that even the fact that it may not seem right at the time doesn’t invalidate the decision over the longer haul.”
Suzanne P. Poppema, Mike Henderson “Why I Am an Abortion Doctor” (Prometheus Books, 1996) p 125
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic counselor Betty Orr explained what she said to ambivalent women in a book by pro-choice author Linda Bird Francke.
“I ask them who is going to take care of the baby while they’re in school. Where are they going to get money for clothes?”
Linda bird Francke “The Ambivalence of Abortion” (New York: Random House, 1978) 179
Share on FacebookPro-Choice author Melody Rose discusses how abortion providers view and talk about unborn babies when she says:
“Where pro-life activists refer to “unborn babies” and pro-choice advocates refer to “fetuses,” physicians [abortion providers] speak of the “products of conception.” For doctors, abortion is neither “murder” nor an abstract “right” but is instead a simple medical process of “emptying the uterus.”
Melody Rose “Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States” (Washington DC: CQ Press, 2007) 188
