Category: Women’s Health

Abortion clinic owner won’t offer abortion pill

Roneal Martin, abortion clinic owner, decided that he would not prescribe the abortion pill because the chances were too high that the woman would need a surgical abortion or other medical intervention if the pill failed. In addition, if the abortion pill was prescribed by another doctor, women might have to go to his clinic to have their abortions completed by suction. He decided not to backup any other doctors or provide the pill himself.

He says:

”It comes down to taking over someone’s complications,” she said. ”Does that mean I’m putting my doctor on call in the middle of the night. We might say, ‘Go to the emergency room.’ ‘

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

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Researcher: pain of abortion is enhanced by secrecy

An writer who interviewed various postabortion women said:

“Almost always, women who experience abortion choose secrecy expressed as silence, choose not to speak about it except with a small, select group of intimate family members or friends. Many never tell even the father of the aborted fetus. In addition to the stress of deciding whether to have an abortion, their angst is compounded by emotional isolation and the burden of secrecy which contributes to alienation.”

Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)

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Woman compares her abortion to incest

In a book by a Planned Parenthood worker, a woman named Lisa comments on how painful her abortion was and how it brought on negative emotions:

“My abortion was physically painful. My body doesn’t react well to being invaded – it’s incest stuff. I really think it was emotional pain being put on the physical level because I didn’t know where else to put it.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 34

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Co-Founder of Silent No More on helping women

Georgette Forney describes how she began talking to women who were suffering due to their abortions after she spoke out about her own abortion:

“After my daughter learned of my abortion, I started sharing my story publicly—and took the job as Executive Director of NOEL (now Anglicans for Life), a life-affirming ministry in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Early in my tenure, I was asked to do peer-to-peer on-line counseling with women who had had abortions. I began getting emails from women and girls who had had abortions – some that day, some 10 years prior. Each email expressed pain and regret. Over the course of three years, I received over a thousand emails. I’ll never forget the first email I received from a girl who was 16. She had had the abortion on Saturday and Sunday night she emailed saying, “I can’t go to school tomorrow and pretend everything is fine, I feel like dying.” Others wrote things like: “I just saw a diaper commercial and I can’t stop crying.” I got emails from women worldwide who shared their abortion pain and how their lives were a mess. They wanted help; they wanted to know they weren’t the only ones hurting. They always expressed relief to know help was available and they weren’t alone in their pain.”

She describes the reaction of a pro-abortion professor soon after the co-founded Silent No More:

“In 2002, when we started the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a pro-abortion professor from a California college wrote an article about the campaign. She cited research that disproves any claim that women suffer emotionally after abortion and suggested that: “Ms. Forney was probably unstable before her abortion.” As I read the article—I was amazed that this professor would write such a thing—she didn’t even know me. But it was my daughter’s response that put the issue back into perspective for me. She said, “Mom, while they are talking about research that says women aren’t hurting, you’re working seven days a week helping the women they say don’t exist.”

The Reality of Abortion: Reflections on my Journey here. Visited 9/10/2017

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25% of women taking abortion pills from Women on Web have complications

From a pro-lifer who infiltrated a conference of abortion providers, on Women on Web, an organization that mails abortion pills to women in countries where abortion is not available.

“Dutch abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, whose infamous “abortion ship” performs abortions in international waters off the coast of countries where it is illegal, presented a new strategy. She is encouraging women in countries where abortion is illegal to self-abort at home using drugs obtained with fraudulent prescriptions or imported illegally by her organization womenonweb.com.. …. Gomperts own research, for instance, showed that more than a quarter of women she helped to self-abort suffered complications that took them to the hospital, and about 15% required follow-up surgery.”

“Undercover Reporter Infiltrates World Abortion Biz Conference” LifeNews OCT 29, 2012

A remarkable one quarter of women suffered complications. how is this good for women?

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Abortion pill needs intravaginal ultrasound to be “safe”

Dr. William West, who runs an abortion clinic in Dallas, says that the abortion pill should not be used in foreign countries to provide abortions (as many pro-choicers suggested) because there is a need for an intravaginal ultrasound to be done before and after. Without this, the abortion pill would be dangerous.

”Few of these doctors in every hamlet, village and town who are supposed to make medical abortions so widely available have ultrasound equipment or the expertise to use it. ”They are not going to acquire such expensive equipment to enable them to do a few medical abortions that won’t come close to paying for it.’

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

The way to check on an early pregnancy is with intravaginal ultrasound.

Even with intravaginal ultrasound, the abortion pill has killed women. 

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Abortionist on abortion pill vs. surgical abortion

William Ramos, who runs an abortion clinic in Las Vegas:

”There’s a very common misconception in the lay public, and even way too common among physicians, that this is a nice, easy way to get rid of a pregnancy…

We’re telling them straight up front that if any of us needed an abortion, we’d go for the surgical procedure.”

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

The abortion pill is not an easy way to end a pregnancy but causes a great deal of pain and bleeding. Read first hand accounts of abortion pill takers.

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Abortionist not happy about abortion pill

In the New York Times Dr. West, the operator of the Dallas abortion clinic, says that the abortions by pill are not as easy as women tend to believe:

”They think that no matter how far along you are in a pregnancy, you just swallow a pill and that’s it.”

The article then says:

Dr. West said that he would offer mifepristone [the abortion pill], but that he was not happy about it because he thought surgery was much better. ”I’ll be forced by market pressures to offer it,” he said.

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

Read the stories of women who had abortions by pill here.

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Abortionist calls abortion by pill “prolonged and messy”

Abortionist Dr. Charles Livengood is glad that the abortion pill is available, but has reservations about it:

”I think it’s good to have mifepristone available. ‘But I do think that an abortion with mifepristone tends to be a prolonged and messy affair as opposed to a quick procedure that I do in the clinic.”

Gina Kolata “Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

Read women’s stories of using the abortion pill

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After abortion, women are 85% more likely to have miscarriage

A study found women who had abortions had a higher rate of miscarriage, labor complications, and premature birth:

“Those who had one or more abortions were 85 percent more likely to have a miscarriage in a future pregnancy; were 32 percent more likely to give birth to an infant with low birthweight; were 67 percent more likely to have a premature birth; were 47 percent more likely to have labor complications; and were 83 percent more likely to experience complications in delivery.”

“A Prospective Study of the Effects of Induced Abortion on Subsequent Reproductive Function,” research contract No. N01-HD-6-2802, sponsored by the National Child Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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