Planned Parenthood counselor: Only white babies are adopted

In her book for women considering abortion, former Planned Parenthood abortion counselor Anna Runkle says:

“Adoption is far more common among white people than among people of color. Healthy white babies are usually easily adopted, but nonwhite and disabled babies can end up spending months or even years in foster care. For African-American babies especially, adoptive families are not always available.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 131

This is absolutely false. There is a waiting list for disabled infants, and African American babies are routinely adopted. There are over 2 million couples in the US waiting or infants, whether African American or White.

Runkle’s book is biased towards abortion, even though she says:

“This book is pro-choice, which means it supports you no matter what you decide.”

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She warns women away from crisis  pregnancy centers, and discourages teens from having their babies. 

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John Bayard Britton and his “seedy” abortion clinics

An article in GQ is about an abortionist from Florida.  The abortionist, John Bayard Britton, was later killed by an anti-abortion extremist.

“His clothes are shabby and his offices, in Jacksonville and Fernandina, are seedy… At the clinic in Pensacola, the protesters congregate behind a tall wooden fence, and Doc Britton sometimes speaks, with a smile, of taking target practice through the knotholes. He believes, deeply, in the prerogative of capital punishment. If he were God, or king, he says, he would have executed [abortionist David] Gunn’s murderer two weeks after the arrest. If, by chance, he executed the wrong man, his remorse would have been tempered by the simple fact that we are all frail, we are all sinners, and the accused, in the course of his life, had probably done something worthy of death….. All his life, he has gotten into scrapes -with hospitals, with other doctors, with medical boards- until he has become, in some quarters, an outcast who can walk only where no one else will.”

He started doing abortions after he could no longer practice legitimate medicine. He was disciplined for over-prescribing narcotics to a drug addict:

“… [T]he state medical board charged him, in 1981, with prescribing 1,900 Percodan and Percocet tablets to a drug addict. He disputed the charges, but accepted-“on the advice of an expensive lawyer”-two years of probation, and that, he says, was the end of him: “I was a pariah as far as any salaried job was concerned.”

He gives the reason he did abortions:

“I made a living doing abortions,” Doc says. “I did them because I thought they should have been done..But I will say I had no money to feed my family…”

Tom Junod ““THE ABORTIONIST” GQ February 1994

Clinic Quotes condemns all violence against abortion doctors.

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Planned Parenthood counselor discourages teens from having babies

Anna Runkle is a former Planned Parenthood abortion counselor who wrote a book giving advice to women considering abortion. She says:

“When I counsel pregnant teenagers who are leaning toward parenting, I often find they have unrealistic ideas about babies, their future, and their male partner. “I know my boyfriend is going to be there for me,” these girls will typically assure me. “I’m pretty sure we’ll get married and have a nice house.” The short time period during which girls must decide about their pregnancies is no time for denial and vagueness… 80% of teens who have their babies drop out of high school… If you’re thinking about becoming a mom, ask yourself honestly if you have the family support and self-discipline to devote almost all your waking hours to classes, studies, and caring for a baby.

No matter what your boyfriend says, you should know that relationships between mothers and their male partners almost never last, no matter how good the relationship is now. Girls should never count on support from their male partner. Precious few even participate financially in the child’s life, even though they are required to by law.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 128

This one-sided advice encourages teens to choose abortion. By telling young girls their boyfriends will leave them and they will drop out of school, Runkle is encouraging them to choose abortion for their babies.

Legs of a baby aborted at just 8 weeks. This is around the time when most abortions take place
Legs of a baby aborted at just 8 weeks. This is around the time when most abortions take place
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Women in abortion clinics pay first

A pro-life activist who spoke to hundreds of post-abortion women said that:

“In American abortion clinics, it is almost universal that customers are required to pay for their abortions in cash at the time they sign in at the front desk. This can be a coercive factor in the woman’s decision whether to have the abortion. We have interviewed many post-abortive women who told us that – before the procedure began – they had changed their minds but went through with it only because, “I’d already paid my money and I didn’t think they’d give it back to me.” In fact, some women have told us when they told the clinic staff that they were unsure about whether to proceed, they were actually told that they would not get their money back or would only receive a partial refund.

Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 138 – 139

Women are, therefore, discouraged from changing their minds.

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Pro-Choice author discourages adoption

Miriam Claire, a pro-choice author who wrote a book on adoption, says:

“Unfortunately, a woman who has a baby and elects to adopt it out as opposed to having an abortion has a picture to remember. Too frequently, she will be haunted by doubts about whether she did the right thing adopting her child out. I think it’s better for the woman to terminate the pregnancy early, before there’s anything she can relate to, and get on with her life.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 220

Adoption is an option both mother and baby can live with.

Even early abortion at only 7 weeks is brutal and violent for the baby

From the remains of a 7 week aborted baby
From the remains of a 7 week aborted baby
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Study cut hearts out of living preborn children

A study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology consisted of cutting out the hearts of preborn children who were being aborted:

“The hearts were dissected from the fetuses and were mounted in a thermostatically controlled bath….The hearts survived for many hours without any significant change in their spontaneous contraction rate…Electrograms were displayed on a polygraph and served as a basis for determination of the spontaneous heart rate.”

Bela A Resch et al. “Comparison of Spontaneous Contraction Rates of In Situ and Isolated Fetal Hearts in Early Pregnancy” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 118 (January 1, 1974): 73-74

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

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Couple tries to connect with “spirit” of baby they want to abort

From Lauren, who had an abortion:

“He and I did a lot of meditation together, trying to connect with the spirit of the child. We told it we really loved it, but soon we were going to ask it to leave.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 60

The baby was not asked to leave, he or she was violently dislodged from the womb and sucked out in pieces.

First trimester abortion procedure
First trimester abortion procedure
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Laminaria can be removed safely if a woman changes her mind

Pro-Lifer Mark Crutcher writes about women who changed their minds after starting the first stage of late term abortions, the insertion of laminaria. Laminaria are small sticks that are put in the night before a late term abortion. They absorb fluid and slowly dilate the cervix. They can be removed safely by a doctor, but many abortionists dont’ tell women this. Crutcher says:

“We have dealt with many women who have told us they changed their minds about the abortion during this time [after having the laminaria inserted] and contacted the clinic about having the laminaria sticks removed. Without exception, these women have told us they were informed it was too late and some were even told the laminaria insertion kills the baby. Both of these statements are lies. Laminaria can be removed and, in most of the cases where we have seen this done, the pregnancy was not affected and the baby was not harmed.”

Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 137

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Planned Parenthood worker: Don’t talk to protesters

A former Planned Parenthood abortion worker named Anna Runkle counseled women at Planned Parenthood.  In her book, a guide for women choosing abortion, she tells women considering abortion to ignore sidewalk counselors outside abortion clinics.

Many sidewalk counselors hand out leaflets that inform women about fetal development and abortion’s risks. This is information they probably won’t get in the abortion clinic. Sidewalk counselors are often connected with crisis pregnancy centers which can help a woman with all kinds of things – free or low cost medical care, housing, counseling, maternity clothes and baby items, all free of charge.

Runkle says the following in her guidebook for women having abortions:

“Picketers can scream, yell, show you ugly pictures, and make you very uncomfortable…. Many will shout at women entering clinics – some begging women not to have an abortion, some asking them to come over and talk, a few offering support for alternatives to abortion. But there are usually one or more troublemakers who delight in humiliating women and making a big, embarrassing scene. By all means, if you feel bad about your decision and these antiabortion messages are something you want to hear, it’s okay to talk to the picketers. Keep in mind, though, that their goal is to stop you from having an abortion, so if you talk to them and then go ahead with your appointment, they may increase their shouting, begging, and humiliating behavior.

If you do not feel that you will benefit from talking with the picketers, ignore them. Don’t get into a conversation with them, even to yell back at them.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 109

Very few people outside abortion clinics actually yell at women. Runkle tries to intimidate her readers into not talking to sidewalk counselors, claiming they will shout, beg, and humiliate women if they give them an opening to talk.

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Abortionist operated with make-shift tools

Abortionist John Bayard Britton set up shop doing abortions as soon as they were legalized. He improvised his own tools.

As soon as the Supreme Court wrote Roe v. Wade into law, he applied some heat to the shaft of a ballpoint pen, fashioned it into a cannula (the stiff tube that’s inserted through the cervix during an abortion), attached the cannula to a hose and the hose to a small vacuum and went into business. In the Ladies Center, although the cannula is a long plastic tube, rather than the body of a ballpoint pen, and the vacuum is a large beige box fitted with hoses and gauges, rather than a small gray cylinder, there is still something ramshackle about Doc, something improvisatory and unsettled.

Tom Junod ““THE ABORTIONIST” GQ February 1994

This slapped together abortion machine was not sterile and likely put women at risk. The abortionist couldn’t wait for proper tools before cashing in on legalized abortion.

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