Survey: most post-abortion women wouldn’t want to abort again

The post-abortion organization, Open Arms, has been gathering information from abortive women since 1986. These items from their ongoing survey reflect data released in the spring of 1997:

Reason for Abortion

Social: 82%

Economic: 9%

Health: 5%

Life: 1%

Rape: 1%

Incest: 0.5%

Would you have liked pro-life information then?

Yes: 57%

No: 23%

Not sure: 9%

Did the relationship with the father of the baby end soon after the abortion?

Yes: 55%

No: 43%

Would you have this abortion again?

Yes: 15%

No: 74%

Not sure: 4%

From Frederica Mathewes-Green Real Choices: Listening to Women, Looking for Alternatives to Abortion (Felicity Press; 3 edition, April 16, 2013) Kindle version

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Abortionist wants colleague to sleep with health official to get favoritism

Norma Goldberger was setting up an abortion clinic and hired an abortionist who she identifies as Dr. Parker. She went to a meeting about the new abortion clinic with a public health official, and the abortionist wanted her to sleep with him to curry favor for their clinic. She says:

“Dr. Peters agreed to be our medical director for an extra fee. He requested that I drive up to Akron to meet with a representative of the Medical Board of Akron. We met for cocktails and the representative seemed to take a personal interest in me. I announced I had to return that night to my husband.

Dr. Peters asked me what I thought about the meeting and when I told him I was offended at the flirtation, he told me I should’ve stayed the night with the Board’s representative to cement “good relations” between him and the clinic. He did not appear to be joking. I was annoyed.”

Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (November 23, 2014) Kindle Editio

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Abortionist compares people to cancer

Late term abortionist Warren Hern writes:

“Aerial and satellite views of urban centers taken over a period of years bore a striking similarity to images of cancerous tissue (particularly melanoma) invading the healthy surrounding tissue. … In many parts of the world the increase in human numbers is rapid and uncontrolled, that it invades and destroys habitats, and that by killing off many species it reduces the differentiation of nature. All of these features are characteristics of cancerous tumors.”

Warren Hern, speaking at the November 1998 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Philadelphia he organized, in answer to the question “Is the human species a cancer on the planet?” “Anthropologist Symposium Calls Human Beings a Cancer Infecting Planet Earth.” Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) Friday FAX, January 1, 1999.

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Women realize they are carrying babies when they see ultrasound

Crisis pregnancy center worker Barbara Chishko says the following of women who come to her center:

“They have a developing baby within them. They have been told it is just a blob of tissue, but when they see the ultrasound, they are able to see arms and legs. Women understand what is really happening after an ultrasound.”

Jennifer Mock “New law targets abortion in state” The Oklahoman July 3, 2006

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Post-abortion woman to Planned Parenthood: you didn’t help me

One post-abortion woman tells her story:

“After the procedure was over I rested in the bed at the clinic. A poster in bold stark letters taped to the ceiling read. “If it weren’t for Planned Parenthood where would you be today?” That poster nauseated me more than the abortion. Filled with anger and frustration I began to weep. “You didn’t help me, “I thought. “You had the resources but you didn’t protect me or my baby.”

Julie Woodley “The Story of Two (Three) Doors” Saynsumthn’s Blog March 29, 2016

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Counselor comments on “spiritual agony” of abortion

Theresa Burke, who has worked with hundreds of postabortion women:

“The psychological and spiritual agony of abortion is silenced by society, ignored by the media, rebuffed by mental health professionals, and scorned by the women’s movement. Postabortion trauma is a serious and devastating illness which has no celebrity spokeswoman, no made–for– television movie, and no platform for the talk show confessional.”

“Abortion and Depression Part One” Interview with Theresa Burke of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries, A Zensit Daily Dispatch, March 4, 2006

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Woman reveals terrible experience with abortion pill

A woman shared her story about taking the abortion pill. She describes what happened after she realized she was pregnant:

“I announce the news to the dad who tells me right away: “abortion”. I break down and cry, I try to get him to change his mind but to no avail. He is scared and me too, I have to admit. So out of love, I decide to abort. At the hospital, I tell them that it is against my better judgement that I’m asking this abortion, that I do it “out of love for my man”.

Then I take the two first pills, everything goes OK. I go back home. The next day, I’m having horrible pains and enormous blood loss, it was a nightmare and I thought that the worst had passed. I collapse from exhaustion and the next day, I wake up surprised to not see anything happening.

At night, I find myself alone. At 7pm, first pains. The more time goes by, the more I’m in pain. Around 11pm, I begin to feel dizzy and faint. I call the  [paramedics]  who tell me that it’s normal.

I spend two hours on the toilet, emptying myself of my blood. I’m still in a lot of pain, I cry, I scream and I totally regret my choice. Having no strength left, I decide to go to bed. I fall asleep for 20 minutes and I wake up bathed in blood.

My man sees in what condition I am and he calls the [paramedics] again, who want nothing to do with it. A couple of minutes later, I have an urge to push just like for childbirth and here I find myself with my “baby” in my hand. A never ending nightmare!

At 7 am, I get up, exhausted and I go to the hospital where I explain what happened and that I lost the baby. The midwife calls the gynecologist who comes right away, does an ultrasound and confirms that I lost the baby and that I had a brush with death because of the hemorrhage.

Today, I sincerely regret my choice when I see how much I’ve suffered while being abandoned; that they let me suffer alone.

I’m telling myself that the life of my baby was more important that “that love” for a man. I suffer from insomnia and nightmares; I’m feeling exhausted, angry and destroyed.

I don’t know what to do, I need advice to help me overcome this ordeal. It’s been 2 months and I can’t forget, I feel disgust for my man. Thank you for your help.”

Posted to Facebook, translated from French, March 24, 2016

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Pro-choice Reverend says baby “has a right not to be born”

Rev. Owens, who is pro-choice, gives his views about abortion:

“There is a spiritual force within a woman when she’s pregnant and people of great spiritual sensitivity have to deal with the reality of that potential life, and a lot of people don’t think there is this kind of subtlety, and when they do, I’m very supportive of them.

Yes, there’s a spiritual issue involved. I take the idea of ending the life of the fetus very, very gravely.

I’m troubled by that, but this doesn’t in any way diminish my conviction that a woman has the right to do that, but I become distressed when people regard pregnancy lightly and ignore the spiritual significance of a pregnancy…

I remember giving a talk, that I thought that one of my roles was to be an advocate for the fetus, and for the fetus’s right not to be born…

In this sense, that I think if I had my druthers I would probably pursue a course which would, as I do advocate verbally, the need for licensing pregnancies, which seems to contradict what I’ve just said, but I don’t think it really does.”

Kristin Luker “Abortion and the Meaning of Life” in Sidney Callahan and Daniel Callahan, eds. Abortion: Understanding Differences (London: Plenum Press, 1984) 41, 43

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Abortion clinic counselor: women experience grief after abortion

Antonia Clissa, abortion counselor:

“If they choose to terminate the pregnancy, there is the loss of parenting the potential life… Some women may not have any associated grief at the time and may experience it many years later or not at all, but the women I see all seem to share some element of grief.”

Antonia Clissa “Unplanned Pregnancy” On the Level 4 no. 2 (1996): 32

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Researcher: “medical hazards of abortion are significant”

Thomas Hilgers, MD studied various sources to determine the safety of abortion. Pro-life writer John Ankerberg writes:

After examining “the vast body of the world’s medical literature on the subject” he concluded that “the medical hazards of legally induced abortion are very significant and should be conscientiously weighed.”

W Hilgers, Dennis J Horan Abortion and Social Justice (Thaxton, Virginia: Sun Life, 1980) 58, 77

John Ankerberg The Facts on Abortion (Smashwords Edition 2011)

This is an older quote, but it shows that shortly after abortion’s legalization, the procedure was not as safe as pro-choice activists had claimed it would be.

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