The website “Abortion Clinics Online” encourages abortion clinics to pay to be listed in their system. They say:
“From an advertising perspective, with the Web your clinic has the unique ability to use pictures, full color graphics and/or any other form of information at a cost so low that conventional advertising cannot meet. Consider the WWW as another way of reaching out to new and existing patients.”
Quoted by Life Dynamics
Abortion clinics advertise like any other business that has to make a profit. Except that the business they’re selling is abortion.
The underground abortion network called Jane sent women to abortionists and, eventually, the members of Jane performed abortions themselves, even though they had no medical training. In this quote, they describe how abortions before Roe were not as dangerous as people claimed:
“Everything they were learning about abortion and women’s bodies was fascinating to the members of Jane. Not only with the information essential for them to do their work, but they realize that all women needed it to take control of their lives. In researching abortion, service members had discovered that they could rely on a medical profession that stigmatized all abortion practitioners as quacks and butchers, no matter how competent they were. While some doctors performed abortions themselves and others worked closely with the illegal practitioners they trusted, the profession’s public position was that abortions were complex and dangerous.”
Laura Kaplan The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (New York: Pantheon Books, 1995) 137
Identified as Nick, the Chicago abortionist (who was not a doctor) that the feminist group Jane sent most of their abortion patients to was running an S&M publishing business with his wife. (102)
In an article in The Daily News, the author describes how pro-lifers set up a center near an abortion clinic. The center would offer women help and support to carry their children to term, and would allow them to see ultrasound images of their unborn babies. They would provide the women with facts on abortion’s risks and information on alternatives.
According to Peter Ryan, executive director of New Brunswick Right to Life Association:
“The Mother and Child Welcome House will offer mothers another choice besides abortion. Most women who have abortions say they have no choice. They feel so overwhelmed. Trough the support we provide, we will offer these mothers the chance to be free from the dictates of fear and pressure.”
Dr. Morgentaler, the abortionist at the clinic, said the following:
“I hope many women will not be swayed into going there and receiving false information which would make them feel worse. A woman coming for an abortion already has the burden of making a decision which is often very difficult.”
“Morgentaler Getting New Neighbors, Anti-Abortionists Buy Home” The Daily News (Nanaimo) Fri Jun 2000
Crisis pregnancy centers like The Mother and Child Welcome House often provide facts and information at clinics don’t. Read quotes from former clinic workers (and some current ones) that describe how abortion clinics routinely hide information from and sometimes even lie to women.
In the article “Candor and the Court: The Supreme Court will confront as never before the violent nature of mid-and late-term abortion”by Richard Smith, Smith quotes a judge who opposes the partial-birth abortion ban. In this quote, the judge is explaining how abortions by D & E (where the unborn baby’s dismembered in the womb) might be banned by the laws forbidding D & X (partial birth) abortions. He describes the procedure for a D&E abortion. What he is describing is a legal abortion technique that he supports keeping legal:
“In a D&E procedure, the physician inserts forceps into the uterus, grasps a part of the fetus, commonly an arm or a leg, and draws that part out of the uterus into the vagina. Using the traction created between the mouth of the cervix and the pull of the forceps, the physician dismembers the fetal part which has been brought into the vagina, and removes it from the woman’s body. The rest of the fetus remains in the uterus while dismemberment occurs, and is often still living…”
This judge is knows that the common D&E procedure dismembers babies. While he describes tearing the arms and legs off these babies, he uses the term “fetuses” to dehumanize them. The fact that he can describe such a horrific procedure so calmly while advocating to keep it legal is disturbing.
Richard Smith “Candor and the Court: The Supreme Court will confront as never before the violent nature of mid-and late-term abortion” America April 1, 2000
A study in the American Journal of Orthopsychiarty on the characteristics of children who were unplanned by their parents discovered the following:
“one doctor found no relationship between unplanned pregnancies and newborn deviant behavior. In fact, there were more deviant babies of mothers who planned their pregnancies than those who had not.”
AJ Ferriera “The Pregnant Woman’s Emotional Attitude and Its Reflection in the Newborn” American Journal of Orthopsychiarty volume 30, 1960, PP 553
Just because a baby is unplanned does not mean he or she she will not be loved and will not have a happy life.
According to a recent survey, almost 50% of medical students would object to performing an abortion after 24 weeks.
In England, abortion after 24 weeks is legal if the developing baby is going to be handicapped. Last year, there were roughly 18,000 such abortions, some of which were for minor disabilities. However, it looks like in the future, there will be fewer doctors willing to perform these procedures. According to a recent survey, nearly half of students currently in medical school would object to performing an abortion after 24 weeks regardless of the reason. 29% went beyond that – they said that they would not do it under any circumstances.
24 week-old unborn baby
In the survey, students were asked their opinions and treating patients in eleven different scenarios. The scenarios included being asked to perform abortions at different stages. 23% of students surveyed said they would not perform an abortion because of failed contraception. In Great Britain, as in America, relatively few abortions take place for rape or incest or because of the health of the mother or child. This means that most abortions done because of contraceptive failure or because the woman and her partner did not use contraception at all. This means that 23% of all medical students would perform little or no abortion in their practices after graduating.
Objection to abortion procedures was highest among Muslims, with 60% saying they would refuse to perform them. Islam generally opposes abortion, believing that life begins in the womb.
According to Dr Sophie Strickland, of King George Hospital in Essex, who carried out the research, fewer and fewer doctors are performing abortions. She had knowledge is that the results of the survey could indicate that there may be problems replacing the doctors were retiring. If fewer medical students are willing to become abortionists, the burden of performing abortions could shift to a smaller number of doctors. This might make it difficult for women to find a provider, especially if she wants to abort after 24 weeks.
“A ten-week foetus is not pink jelly, but only the woman who loses her baby spontaneously is likely to know how human the tiny creature was and to grieve for it for the rest of her life. Women presenting for [legal] abortion… are shielded from grief… and from guilt.”
