They said it.
Dr. EG Daniels, Baptist minister:
“Abortion is not less than murder. Furthermore, people deep down realize this, for I have had women who were grandmothers come to me emotional wrecks because of the haunting memories of abortions committed earlier in life.”
John Grady Abortion: Yes or No? (TAN Books, 1993) Kindle edition
Share on FacebookRuth Lesnewski, abortion provider, on the abortion pill:
“There are probably going to be some people who play it exactly by the book and other people who do different, quirky things with it,” she says. “In the end, it will probably be just like everything else in American medicine. Everyone will do exactly what he wants to do.”
SHARON LERNER “Abortion’s New Choice” The Village Voice OCTOBER 3, 2000
Is “exactly what he wants to do” always good for the women?
Share on FacebookFrom a book on the psychological aftermath of abortion:
“It can be easily demonstrated that postpartum patients do better than post-abortion patients in psychotherapy. Abortion puts women at greater risk mentally, and to conclude otherwise is to go beyond available data. . . .”
David Mall and Dr. Walter F. Watts, eds., The Psychological Aspects of Abortion (University Publications of America, 1979).
More recent studies still show that abortion can have negative emotional consequences for women.
Share on FacebookVicki Breitbart, director of the Clinician Training Initiative, a division of Planned Parenthood of New York City that trains hundreds of private and clinic-based abortion providers, on why women should not have to come back to the office to take the abortion pill:
“For the providers, having a woman in the office to take some pills—and sometimes abort there—could be inconvenient. “If a patient has to come back to the clinic, that means that she’ll need to stay in the office for several hours.”
SHARON LERNER “Abortion’s New Choice” The Village Voice OCTOBER 3, 2000
Is the convenience of the doctors the reason Planned Parenthood sends women whom to take the second pill and abort their babies despite health risks?
Share on FacebookShortly after abortions legalization, a prominent OB/GYN admitted that the death rate from legal abortion was high:
“The surprising number of maternal deaths and near deaths following legal abortion complications should alert all who do these operations that they are not to be undertaken without the same degree of preoperative evaluation and postoperative care rendered to other gynecologic procedures.”
Deaths and Near Deaths with Legal Abortions, MJ Bulfin, presented at the ACOG Convention, October 28, 1975
Share on FacebookPro-choice people often claim that legalizing abortion made it safer. But:
“In an attempt to learn how pervasive the problem of serious abortion complications is, an American obstetrician surveyed 486 of his colleagues regarding their experience with abortion patients. 87% revealed they had hospitalized women with complications following legal abortions; 91% had treated patients for complications. 29 of the doctors reported patients of theirs dying from legally induced abortions.”
Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air – Plus Enterprises, 1983) 52
The information was presented at the ACOG Convention, Oct 28, 1975 by MJ Bulfin “Deaths and Near Deaths with Legal Abortions”
Share on FacebookKaren T, age 23, tells her abortion story:
“They told me the local would be less dangerous and that general anesthetics would give me cramps and make me throw up and have to stay there for hours recovering from it. The local, they said, was just a shot in the cervix which has no nerve endings, and that I’d be out in 45 minutes. And like an ass I believed them… Instead of shaving my crotch, they spray-painted it with some orange disinfectant. It was like graffiti. Then I saw a long syringe and nearly died. But it didn’t hurt, just like they said. The doctor said he’d have to dilate me three times with rods to open me up enough. So when he starts to work, the nurse start asking me dumb questions like what religion I am and who the father was. God, the pain. I was screaming and the doctor was getting worried. “Hang on,” he kept saying, “It’ll be over in just a minute.” I kept screaming back, “You said there’d be no pain and you lied!” Then they made me sit up and I didn’t know if I was going to faint or throw up. The nurse gave me some smelling salts and led me over to a cot… The cramping got so bad I had had to stay there five hours.”
Linda Bird Francke The Ambivalence of Abortion (Random House, 1978) quoted in Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air – Plus Enterprises, 1983)
Share on FacebookOn the abortion pill:
“I’m not sure I want to be in a shared insurance group policy with people doing medical procedures because you share that risk.”
Dr. Peter Bours, abortionist
GARDINER HARRIS “Scientists Will Gather to Discuss Safety of Abortion Pill” New York Times May 11, 2006
Because the abortion pill has a high risk of complications, this abortionist is worried about insurance coverage for botched abortions.
Share on FacebookIn his book on Planned Parenthood, George Grant interviewed two young women who had abortions there:
“Melinda Davies, and Cheryl Cook were best friends all through high school. During the summer following graduation, both girls became pregnant. “We decided to go into Planned Parenthood together. We didn’t want our parents to find out,” said Cheryl.”
Both girls had a D&E abortion at Planned Parenthood, but Melinda had problems afterwards,
“I had bladder infections, vaginal infections, and cervical infections, and my doctor couldn’t understand why. Finally, I had to tell him what I’d done. Thank goodness he was then able to treat the cause.” And what was the cause? “Well,” Melinda said, “apparently the doctor at Planned Parenthood did the procedure with unsterile instruments. The bacteria just wreaked havoc on my body.”
“Nobody told us that something like this could happen,” said Cheryl. “I feel like we were deceived.”
“We were,” agreed Melinda. “We really were. Abortion is a lousy gamble.”
George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 74
Share on FacebookKim C Flodin, pro-choice freelance writer, who had 2 abortions:
“I say, despite the blood and the grief, I’d do it all over again – even though it makes me immeasurably sad and I still choke a little when I remember the dream boy on the beach [her second “son,” as she imagined him.]
But I still cannot find the guts to march for choice. My friends, even those privy to my past, think it’s circumstantial – the marches always seem to be poorly scheduled for my busy life. But I know that in the end I can barely stomach the politics of this debate. Though I understand its necessity, I hate sloganeering. I hate it because I cannot reduce my complicated set of emotions to the boldface type of the placard.”
Kim C Flodin “Why I Don’t March” Newsweek, February 12, 1990 P8
Quoted in F LaGard Smith When Choice Becomes God (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1990) 68 – 69
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