They said it.
When asked about mistakes in their clinic, such as nonpregnant women judged to be pregnant and given abortions, one abortion clinic worker said:
“We’re just too busy to think of everything.”
Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick “The Abortion Profiteers” Chicago Sun-Times November 12, 1978
Legalizing abortion did not eliminate the back alley.
Share on FacebookDr. Julius Fogel, who is a psychiatrist and has performed hundreds of abortions:
“Every woman – whatever her age, background, or sexuality – has a trauma at destroying a pregnancy. A level of humanness is touched. This is a part of her own life. She destroys a pregnancy, she is destroying herself. There is no way it can be innocuous. One is dealing with the life force. It is totally beside the point whether or not you think a life is there. You cannot deny that something is being created and that this creation is physically happening… Often the trauma may sink into the unconscious, and never surface in the woman’s lifetime. But it is not as harmless and casual an event as many in the pro-abortion crowd insist. A psychological price is paid. It may be alienation; it may be a pushing away from human warmth, perhaps a hardening of the maternal instinct. Something happens on the deeper levels of a woman’s consciousness when she destroys a pregnancy. I know this is a psychiatrist.””
Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air Plus Enterprises, 1982)154
Share on FacebookA pro-lifer in Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) (page 8) cited:
“A Los Angeles doctor who operates two abortion clinics is called “an unselfish and committed provider” by a judge who sentenced him to one year probation for the deaths of two women to whom he was administering abortions. Later, following a review by the Medical Board of California, the doctor, who has performed approximately 100,000 abortions, had his medical license revoked.”
“Abortion Deaths Cost Doctor License” Los Angeles Times May 25, 1995
Share on FacebookProfessor David Fergusson found a link between depression and prior abortion(s). According to Prof Fergusson:
“’I’m pro-choice but I’ve produced results which, if anything, favour a pro-life viewpoint.’”
“’It’s obvious I’m not acting out of any agenda except to do reasonable science about a difficult problem.’”
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“The researchers expected to find no evidence of harmful effects of abortion. But they found the opposite.”
The results of the study were:
“Researchers found that at age 25, 42 per cent of women in the study group who had had an abortion also experienced major depression at some stage during the past four years.”
“This was nearly double the rate of those who had never been pregnant and 35 per cent higher than those who had chosen to continue a pregnancy.”
Fergusson said that some medical journals refused to publish his findings:
“Professor Fergusson, who leads the project, said the paper was declined by a number of journals, he suspects because of the ‘controversial’ nature of the topic.”
“’We went to four journals, which is very unusual for us – we normally get accepted the first time.’”
He also said:
“’It verges on scandalous that a surgical procedure that is performed on over one in 10 women has been so poorly researched and evaluated, given the debates about the psychological consequences of abortion.’”
The study was published in the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology.
Ruth Hill, “Abortion Researcher Confounded by Study,” The New Zealand Herald, January 05, 2006
Share on FacebookThere is evidence that pro-choice organizations know that abortion can cause serious emotional problems in women, even though they deny this publicly. In the article “Post-Abortion Trauma: Learning the Truth, Telling the Truth” Women exploited by abortion/Elliot Institute 1992 it says a document was leaked by Planned Parenthood worker. The document said the following::
” A number of anti-choice studies and surveys (including the Reardon study and the Grant survey) have shown that the incidence of post-procedural trauma for abortion clients may be as high as 91% of all cases. Recent unpublished reports from the Alan Guttmacher Institute [Planned Parenthood’s research group] indicate that the scope of the problem may have been accurately tabulated in these studies. “
The report was originally published in New Dimensions magazine.
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An abortion clinic worker posted on Reddit about her job and answered questions. You can read her post here.
Here is a quote of interest:
“Q: “Has anyone ever instantaneously regretted getting and [sic] abortion right after the procedure?
“A. There have been people who have been very upset by their decision. The importance of seeking post-procedure counseling is stressed to patients, because it is a very hard decision for a lot of people to make and sometimes it’s necessary.”
Studies show that regret after abortion tend to grow with time, and many women who initially felt only relief go on to experience sadness. But even this abortion clinic worker, dedicated to her job, has to admit that abortion is hard for women, and some women feel regret right away.
Share on FacebookCarla McElhaney, director of Women Exploited by Abortion, talks about the women who come to her organization in search of healing after their abortions:
“If reality hits soon after the abortion a young woman is a bundle of raw emotions. But she often doesn’t want to hear that healing takes time. Abortion promised a quick solution to the problem of pregnancy. Now she’s looking for a quick solution to the pain of having had an abortion. But there isn’t one.”
Jim Auer “You Can Save a Life” Liguorian January 1994
Read women’s post abortion stories here.
Read about studies and statistics about mental health after abortion here
Share on FacebookFrom a researcher on the emotional impact of abortion:
“It has been noted by some investigators that even the determined woman experiences nagging doubts and eerie feelings regarding abortion surgery….”
“Counseling Single Abortion Patients: A Research Overview and Practice Implications” by Paul Sachdev In Gail Grenier-Sweet, ed “Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices” (Lewiston, NY: Life Cycle Books, 1985) 237
Share on FacebookFrom the article “Counseling Single Abortion Patients: A Research Overview and Practice Implications” by Paul Sachdev:
“Young single women are particularly vulnerable to intense emotional trauma upon unwanted pregnancy as they generally lack the needed emotional support and participation from the male partner involved in the pregnancy. Frequently, the pair-relationship terminates following pregnancy and abortion.”
Gail Grenier-Sweet, ed “Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices” (Lewiston, NY: Life Cycle Books, 1985) 236
Read studies about abortion’s emotional effects here.
Read stories and testimonies from post-abortion women here.
Share on FacebookMeta Uchtman, regional director of Suiciders Anonymous, spoke at the Cincinnati City Council Sept 1, 1981 in support of the Parental Notification ordinance for abortion :
“The Cincinnati group has seen 5,620 members in 35 months. Over 4,000 were women of whom 1,800 or more had had abortions. The highest suicide rate is in the 15 to 24 age group. There is a direct link….it is an act of cruelty to remove parental duties and rights during an abortion crisis….Any experience that forces an individual to feel that sense of lonely isolation and complete abandonment is a crisis and when you exclude someone (parents) who can reach a hand out to you, someone who cares- the crisis is worsened. Without the strength and health from a family, you are actually giving birth to a suicide.”
From Right to Life Committee of Greater Cincinnati Inc. Newsletter (September 1981) p 102-103 of Gail Grenier-Sweet, ed “Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices” (Lewiston, NY: Life Cycle Books 1985)
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