They said it.
One abortion facility worker said:
“I find [providing abortions] draining and exhausting, I become tired to the point where I do not want to relate to anyone, especially my family who may be in need of emotional support. I feel I sometimes suffer from burnout.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 169
Share on FacebookPatricia Lunneborg, author of Abortion: A Positive Decision, compiled the following statistics about why women have abortions:
she also says:
“Women, in the main, do not have abortions because of rape, incest, deformed fetuses, or because their physical life is in danger…
The pathetic thing, in terms of public opinion, is that “I don’t want to have a baby at the moment” isn’t considered the most valid reason at all.”
Patricia Lunneborg Abortion: A Positive Decision (Westport, Connecticut: Bergen & Garvey, 1992)
Share on FacebookIn his book, abortionist Dr. Don Sloan writes the following:
“One fascinating dilemma in the abortion debate is the right to abortion in cases of rape and incest. If an embryo is a person and abortion is murder and no one has the constitutional right to kill another person, how can it be OK to kill only at certain times – as in rape or incest? Isn’t killing always wrong? If, indeed, it is a killing? Is it murder sometimes and not murder at others? It seems that people who say they’re against abortion except in cases of rape or incest are basing their judgement on something other than whether or not abortion is killing. Clearly, their feelings about abortion have to do not with the “innocent life” of the embryo or fetus, but with the mother…When pressed, they’ll say that they’re against abortion for “birth control” but not in cases of rape or incest because the woman didn’t “intend” to get pregnant- she was an “innocent victim.”
Presumably then, at other times, the woman isn’t “innocent.”…She’s been irresponsible. Now let’s see that she pays for it. A lot of the arguments about abortion are really about controlling women’s sexuality or just controlling women, period.”
Don Sloan, MD, Paula Hartz Abortion: A Doctor’s Perspective, A Woman’s Dilemma (Dutton Adult, 1992)
Sloan’s argument is false but logically consistent. Pro-lifers claim that abortion is wrong because the baby is a human being with a right to life, and killing her is a violation of that right. A rape exception protects some preborn babies, but allows others to be aborted based on how they were conceived.
A rape exception indicates that babies conceived by consensual sex are human beings with rights and babies conceived by rape are not – an obvious contradiction – which leaves pro-choicers like Sloan an opening to claim that being pro-life is not about saving babies after all. If there is a rape exception, the question of whether abortion is right or wrong hinges on whether a woman had sex deliberately. If women who conceived through consensual means are not allowed abortions but rape victims are, pro-choicers can claim that fighting abortion is not really about the rights of the baby, but the behavior of the mother.
Share on FacebookFrom a post-abortive woman named Bernadette:
“I became pregnant in my late teens, and 10 weeks into the pregnancy I had an abortion. A trusted doctor assured me that the procedure would be simple, effective, with no after effects. I was never told that abortion would lead to deep depression, that every time I heard a baby cry it was like a knife turning in my heart. Abortion is supposed to be a quick fix for an unwanted pregnancy, but there is no quick fix for regret, grief and the pain of loss. The most powerful witnesses for the humanity of the unborn are not scientists, but mothers who mourn. We women are not crying over products of conception. We are crying over the deaths of our children.”
“I had an abortion at ten weeks.” Love Them Both
Visisted February 1, 2019
Share on FacebookPro-Abortion author Judith Orr says that fewer British doctors want to be trained to do abortions:
“There is worrying evidence that a growing number of younger doctors are refusing to take part in abortions. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists stated almost 10 years ago that it was aware of a “slow but growing problem of trainees opting out of training in the termination of pregnancy and is therefore concerned about the abortion service of the future.” This may be caused by the stigma that still surrounds abortion, meaning it is not a prestigious specialty. It may also be a result, as abortion care provider Dr. Tracey Masters indicates, of the separation and “exceptionalising” of abortion from other aspects of women’s healthcare. But it may also reflect that abortion is not as appreciated as a vital life-saving health provision….”
Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 35 – 36
Quote from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists is from: Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (RCOG) (2007)
Share on FacebookRachel Burkey, 21, who was with Created Equal at the Women’s March, says:
“At one point a middle-aged woman walked up to one of our female volunteers, and while reaching towards her groin, aggressively and repeatedly said, ‘Can I grab your p***y?’”
The group was displaying pictures of aborted babies to try and show the marchers how violent and brutal abortion is.
Dorothy Cummings McLean “A ‘male feminist called me a piece of s***’: pro-life youth share horror stories from Women’s March” LifeSiteNews Jan 30, 2018
Share on FacebookThis is one of the comments on Priests for Life’s website. The poster is responding to pictures of aborted babies.
“The pictures of abortions made me sick!! I was pro choice. I now see no other option then life..thank you so much for the graphic nature, it really hits home. If I can share this with just one other person and change their minds as well, maybe one life can be saved.. – JT”
Pro-choice to Pro-life: Comments From Our Visitors Regarding the Graphic Photos of Abortion on our Website Priests for Life
Visited 2/10/2018
Share on FacebookThe Medical Abortion Training Guide, which instructs would-be abortion providers on how to give the abortion pill, gives the following hypothetical example to students:
“A 24-year-old woman has three children. She wants to get the “abortion pill.” She plans to tell her family that she is having a miscarriage, and does not want to tell her husband or anyone else that she is having an abortion. She had her period about nine weeks ago. ….
You perform a bimanual exam and the uterus feels about nine-week sized.”
Question asked student:
“Do you feel confident she is within the eligible range for MA? [Medical Abortion, i.e. Abortion by Pill]”
Answer:
“The woman is a candidate for MA…. The woman should be reassured that it is impossible to tell the difference between a spontaneous miscarriage and a medical abortion, but that entails hiding the misoprostol and ensuring that no one tells the husband that the woman was seen in the clinic where abortion services are provided.”
K.L. Turner, ed. Medical Abortion Training Guide (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Ipas, 2013)
The abortion facility sees nothing wrong with deceiving the woman’s husband and family about the abortion.
Share on FacebookNicole went to her pastor for advice after being raped. She says that her pastor encouraged her to have an abortion with the words:
‘Let me put your mind at ease. Any decision prayerfully considered is OK in the eyes of the church. And in your case I think you should have an abortion.’
Looking back on her abortion, Nicole says:
“For me, having an abortion was like being raped again, only worse – because this time I had consented to the assault.”
“Nicole Cooley: Raped and Pregnant” CBN
Visited 11/19/2017
Share on FacebookThe Rescue movement took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Large crowds of people would block abortion clinic entrances and try to prevent women from going in. Pro-abortion rhetoric at the time claimed that pro-lifers were men threatened by women who wanted to deny women their rights. However:
“Significant numbers of women participated in mass demonstrations… In Operation Rescue’s “Siege on Atlanta” campaign during the 1988 National Democratic Convention, women comprised 40.7% of the pro-life activists who were arrested, which was typical during the 1980s and 1990s.”
Karissa Haugeberg Women against Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press, 2017) 70
Today, most pro-lifers use less confrontational tactics.
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