Late-term abortionist lives “affluent lifestyle”

Reporter Dave Daley comments on the wealth of a late-term abortionist:

“[Late term abortionist Martin Haskell ] drives a Jaguar, lives about a mile down the road from former baseball superstar Pete Rose in Cincinnati’s Indian Hills suburb, and enjoys an affluent lifestyle from his two abortion clinics. Haskell, 43, wouldn’t say how much he earns from his two clinics, but said he employs up to 40 people and has a separate accounting office.”

From Dave Daley in Dayton Daily News 1989

Quoted in David Andrusko “SHOCKED SPEECHLESS: The Death of Conscience” National Right to Life News, February 23, 1993

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Abortionist offers to show woman her dead baby

A woman who had an abortion tells her story:

“The doctor took me into his office after the examination to give me the results of my pregnancy test. Actually I think I knew the results were positive and I was real shaky.

He explained the results were positive. Then he told me that from the examination I was ten to twelve weeks pregnant and asked what I wanted to do. I told him that I was afraid and didn’t want anyone to know about it. “You can come in and have an abortion tomorrow morning then,” he said.

The next morning, my boyfriend drove me down. The doctor was late because he was out delivering a baby. Up to that point I thought he was being helpful and really nice. When he came into the office, he started going on and on about the delivery, how wonderful it was, how big the baby was and everything. All the blood drained from my head.

I had to sign a release form that if anything happened to me, he was not responsible. When I signed it, he said to me, “I have to tell you what your options are. To have the baby and keep it or put it up for adoption. Or to have an abortion.” That was the extent of the counseling.

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Then he went into the examining room and a nurse prepared me for my abortion. The whole thing felt like a dream. He performed the abortion and then when it was over, he lifted the sack in front of my face and asked if I wanted to see it. He said it was kind of hard to tell, but he thought it had been a boy. I started throwing up.”

Testimony from Christian Action Council

Quoted in: Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984) 60-61

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Abortion doula: “women scream and cry”

An abortion doula, who volunteers at an abortion clinic and comforts women while they’re having abortions, says:

“Some of the first-trimester patients scream and cry and shake”

Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

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Author explains her unexamined pro-choice views

A pro-choice author, Cara J. Marianna, who interviewed dozens of postabortion women for a book she was writing, explains why she was pro-choice before she began the writing project.

She says that because of her feminism and basic political persuasion, she assumed that she should be in support of legalized abortion.

Her self-identified feminism and the other opinions she held were what prompted her to be pro-choice, not an honest examination of the abortion issue. She never claims to have been converted to the pro-life side, but clearly has some ambivalence by the end of the book.

She gives the insight that she was pro-choice even though she didn’t know that much about abortion, just because it seemed like she was supposed to be.

“As I moved further into the writing process, as I continually referred to women’s stories—read and reread their personal narratives—I became ever more aware of my own assumptions about the issue.

I came to see my own position as a set of beliefs built upon certain cultural scripts that I happen, probably for a great variety of reasons, to identify with.

According to those generally feminist and politically liberal narratives, there are certain things I am supposed to think about abortion: Abortion is a political, rather than religious or moral issue, and is a matter of human liberty, in general, and women’s equality, in particular.

Legal abortion is fundamental to reproductive freedom and women’s health and well-being. Like a religious person who opposes abortion, I take my beliefs to be articles of faith.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) Xiv

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Article in medical journal: abortion triggers obsessive-compulsive disorder

Author Curt Young summarizes a case profiled in  the American Journal of Psychotherapy about a woman whose mental illness was greatly exacerbated by her abortion:

“[The article] recounted the story of a 19-year old woman whose abortion was recommended by a psychiatrist as a mental health safeguard. At the time of her abortion no medical personnel were present with her, so she had the opportunity to study the dead infant. She was especially affected at seeing the tiny but well-formed toes and fingers.

In a strange sort of self-retaliation, she concluded that her hands and feet were dirty and hurt other people. She began washing her hands thirty to forty times each day and refused to wear shoes or socks.  Soon she was continually washing all her possessions. She could no longer function normally. Fifteen months after her abortion, this young woman was admitted to a psychiatric unit.”

The study was:  Steven Lipper and W. Morton Feigenbaum “Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis After Viewing the Fetus During a Therapeutic Abortion” American Journal of Psychotherapy 30 1976, 666-74

The book that cited it:  Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984) 62-63

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Woman brings gifts for her abortionist

One woman who had an abortion developed a strange obsession with the doctor who performed it. Even though she was not his patient and had never seen him before, she began to take him lunch and buy him gifts.  Her actions seem driven by guilt.

“I transferred my medical records to the doctor who had done the abortion, sent him a huge waiting room plant, a tree, and began to bring him bag lunches and sit with him to eat. At the time I remember thinking I was ‘returning to the scene of the crime,’ though I am not sure whose crime it was; now I think I was reassuring myself that this person accepted me despite what I had made him an accomplice to.”

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 lied to by abortion clinic, told the truth by pro-lifers

A pro-life author tells the following story:

“In conducting interviews for this book, I was introduced to one young woman from the Southwest whose experience underscored the disinformation that comes from abortion clinics. As a single college student, Annie was shocked to learn that she was pregnant. After telling her boyfriend the news, he urged her to get an abortion.

Annie made the appointment. The clinic personnel told her to call “anytime you want to talk.” Feeling lonely and confused, she confided in her sister. Anne was in for a jolt. Having written a paper on pregnancy, her sister knew something about the development of the unborn and the experience of pain in the fetus. She pointed these things out to Annie, who didn’t know what to believe.

“I had to call the abortion clinic to find out for sure. When I reached them, I told the counselor who I was and asked “Will the baby feel it, and what will it look like?” The counselor said, “It won’t look like anything more than a little ball of cotton, and it won’t be able to feel anything.”

Unconvinced, she went to a crisis pregnancy center, which told her the truth and let her see an ultrasound. She kept her baby.

Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984) 59

In 1984, abortions were almost never done before seven weeks because the suction cannula used to perform abortions at the time often missed babies that were too small, leading to complications or a continuing pregnancy. Usually if a woman was not yet 7 – 8 weeks into her pregnancy, they sent her home to wait. So if the clinic workers were already trying to get her to come in, this woman’s baby must have been at least seven weeks old. A picture of a seven week old baby is below:

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Woman feels grief 20 years after her abortion

A pro-choice author who interviewed numerous postabortion women for a book she was writing describes one woman’s situation:

“Mary was quite emotional when she recounted her story and, at times, had tears in her eyes. Even with the passage of more than twenty years, the experience remains raw and she continues to feel grief about the abortion—an event that she likened to “losing a family member.”

Mary was married, and the mother of one child, when she had her abortion. She and her husband made the decision that they could not afford a second child. They were just beginning to attain financial independence when she became pregnant, and another baby would have set them back.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 62

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After Roe V Wade, Supreme Court Justice denies the law creates “abortion on demand”

Supreme Court Justice Warren Berger voted in favor of legalizing abortion in Roe V Wade. On the day of the ruling, the dissenting Justices claimed that striking down restrictions on abortion would lead to women having abortions in abortion clinics across the nation from an abortion industry that would spring up. Women, they said, would decide to have abortions on their own, without discussing the matter with their doctors, and then go get them. The dissenting Justices called this “abortion on demand” – meaning a woman could have an abortion on request simply because she wanted it done.  Abortions, the dissenters thought, would be common.  Berger, in contrast, believed after Roe abortions would be extremely rare and would only be done for serious health reasons, when doctors thought they were needed.

On the day of the Roe V Wade decision, Berger wrote:

“I do not read the Court’s holding today as having the sweeping consequences  attributed to them by the dissenting Justices; the dissenting views discount the reality that the vast majority of physicians observe the standards of their profession, and act only on the basis of carefully deliberated medical judgments relating to life and health. Plainly the Court today rejects any claim that the Constitution requires abortion on demand.”

Doe vs. Bolton, 410 US 179 at 208

Quoted in: Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984)

Obviously, Berger turned out to be wrong – over a million abortions were soon taking place every year as women chose to have them for any reason they wanted. Doctors set up abortion facilities across the country, doing any abortion a woman requested as long as they were paid.  Berger later admitted he had been wrong in his prediction.

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Woman who aborted disabled child: “we used euphemisms”

A woman whose baby had severe health issues and was scheduled for an abortion, writes about the euphemisms she and the medical professionals were using. These euphemisms hid reality. A few days before her scheduled abortion, a friend asked her a question that made her confront what she was doing:

“So when do you go for the abortion?” My friend asked, her voice sympathetic. “Wednesday,” I replied, and then hurriedly got off the phone. I called Mike, my boyfriend, in tears, complaining about how inconsiderate people are, how no one thinks before they speak. The truth was, and until I heard the word “abortion,” it hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually having one.

I was, of course. But we’d been using euphemisms for days, ever since my doctor called to say my amniocentesis results “weren’t good.” We’d say “when we go to the hospital” or “the appointment” or “after the procedure, we can try again.”

Maria Eftimiades “One Woman’s Choice” The Washington Post, November 15, 2003

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