Doctors were doing abortions for years before they were legalized

Of a survey taken right after abortion was legalized in North Carolina:

“A large majority of 180 obstetricians surveyed regarding their attitudes toward North Carolina’s permissive abortion act of 1967 acknowledged that the new law had little effect other than “to have simply legalized something that we had been doing for many years.”

Direct quote from: William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983) 15

Citing the study: William B Walker and J.F. Hulka “Attitudes and Practices of North Carolina Obstetricians: The Impact of the North Carolina Abortion Act of 1967” Southern Medical Journal 64 (April 1971): 441-445

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Abortion pills cause “septic fatalities”

Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for medical affairs at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, comparing surgical abortion to abortion by pills:

“The two kinds of abortion “have comparable risks with the exception of what we have recently seen as it relates to septic fatalities.”

Gardiner Harris “Some doctors voice worry over abortion pills’ safety”. New York Times April 1, 2006

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Doctor on high number of complications at Planned Parenthood

Dr. E. Hakim-Elahi, Elmhurst, New York, on the high number of Planned Parenthood’s reported complications in 2003, in a letter to Ob.Gyn News:

“If I were to receive such a report from a surgical abortion clinic, I would recommend to health authorities that the clinic be immediately shut down…. Medical abortion with the present drug regimen is unsafe….The patient will bleed for the next 4 weeks or more, and may transmit HIV (if positive) to others; become anemic; require blood transfusions or surgical abortion; or get sepsis and die. This makes no sense. . . We are allowing women to get maimed and to die. . .”

E. Hakim-Elahi “Letter to the editor”. Ob Gyn News (Feb. 15, 2005):6.

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Records of complications of abortions are poorly collected

In an article comparing the safety of the abortion pill vs. the safety of surgical abortion:

“Dr. Cynthia Summers, a spokeswoman for Mifeprex’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, said a comparison of the risks of medical and surgical abortion was unfair because, she said, reports of problems with surgical procedures were poorly collected.”

Gardiner Harris “Some doctors voice worry over abortion pills’ safety” New York Times April 1, 2006

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Textbook on abortion acknowledges women’s regret

A textbook meant to train abortion providers says:

“Some [women] will feel numb afterwards and only begin to question their decision or feel unhappy when they reach a significant milestone, e.g. anniversary of the abortion, or the due date had the pregnancy continued.

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Some women recognize the need for postabortion counseling prior to the abortion. Others may feel that they do not deserve any support, as they have been responsible for “taking” a life and may not return for postabortion follow-up of any sort.”

Sam Rowlands editor Abortion Care Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014) 49

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Survey: Abortion doctors experience disrespect

From a survey of abortion doctors:

– 69% of abortionists say they are not respected in the medical community.
– 65% feel ostracized.
– 87% have been harassed.
– 50% have problems retaining staff.
– 20% have been denied hospital privileges because they do abortions.
-64% say that the non-abortion part of their practice has suffered because they do abortions.

Mark Crutcher, Project Choice, Feb. 1993

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“No one told us what would happen”

Cindy Hendrickson described her abortion:

The doctor at the clinic “barely spoke to me. The nurses never spoke to us any more than necessary, either. No one told us what would happen.”

Joy Juedes “Abortion Providers Failure to Communicate Abortion Risks” California Right to Life

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Some doctors admit abortion/breast cancer link

Dr. Angela Lafranchi, a medical school professor, on the medical community’s silence regarding the abortion-breast cancer link:

“(s)ome (doctors) have been straightforward and said they know it is a risk factor but felt it was ‘too political’ to speak about. Others have been evasive…. Some have been openly hostile…. Some initially hostile doctors… debated it with me and have changed their minds…. “(t)here is overwhelming and convincing evidence that abortion and breast cancer are linked, along with a well-described biologic mechanism. Twenty-eight out of 37 studies have shown this and women still don’t know. Not only embarrassment and denial, but also fear of malpractice litigation causes doctors to continue to ignore these data. How can an abortionist not be held liable for increasing a woman’s risk of breast cancer and not telling her?”

Malec, Karen. “The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent.” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 8(2), Summer 2003, pp. 41-45.

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Abortion doctor doesn’t speak to woman

A woman who had an abortion said:

“I remember looking at the doctor, and I couldn’t see his face, and he was quiet the whole time. He didn’t say one word. So that was the only thing that was kind of creepy, because I wanted him to, like, speak to me, to tell me this is okay. But he was quiet, and I think he was wearing, you know, how surgeons wear those masks. He was wearing one of those, and I couldn’t see his face at all.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 26-27

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Abortion clinic owner falsified records

Carol Everett, a former abortion clinic owner, says that while in the abortion business,

“I would not hesitate to help cover up severely mishandled medical procedures- even to the point of falsifying medical records… I would continue to sell abortions, despite the potential consequences for the women involved…”

Joy Juedes “Abortion Providers Failure to Communicate Abortion Risks” California Right to Life

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