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Abortion was like going to the dentist

From a woman who had an abortion:

“It was so easy to arrange. It was so quick and efficient that it was very easy to turn off from the fact that you were having an abortion. It was probably less painful and less anxiety making than a trip to the dentist. And in a way, almost because of the ease and the quickness, and the fact that it was accepted as right and proper and your own personal choice – you could kind of go on automatic pilot about it. It was only later that I got to thinking about how I had taken this decision.”

She recalls what she did when she found out she was pregnant:

“So I thought I’d phone up several of these abortion clinics which advertise in the Village Voice and elsewhere. You really get a choice in New York. If you ask around. If you ask someone about such and such a one they’ll say, “Oh, this one, Midtown, on the east side, very plush, 6 inch pile carpets, fresh cut flowers and everything” and I thought, oh God, I can’t be doing with that. So I went to this place on 13^th St. and Park.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 174-175

Pieces left behind after an abortion at 10 weeks

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You get no thanks for performing abortions

Kate Guthrie, a spokesperson on family planning for the RCOG (Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) talks about the stigma abortionists face:

“You get no thanks for performing abortions; you get spat on. Who admits to friends at a dinner party that they are an abortionist? It is not a sexy area; it is a bog standard area of women’s care. The problem is that the more who exit the area, the more those that remain are dumped on [with extra work].

There is an increasing number of young doctors who are not participating in the training. The college and the Department of Health are really worried.”

Jeremy Lauranc “ABORTION CRISIS AS DOCTORS REFUSE TO PERFORM SURGERY” The Independent, 16 April 2007

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Abortionist gives reasons for late-term abortions

Abortionist Lisa H. Harris gives the reasons why second trimester abortions (up to 24 weeks) are done:

“In the US, the known risk factors associated with presenting for second trimester abortion include: adolescence, drug and alcohol addiction, poverty, difficulty obtaining funding for the abortion, and African-American race. Delays in obtaining second trimester abortion come when a woman does not realise she is pregnant (perhaps a surrogate for poor health or lack of education), has logistical delays, experiences denial about the pregnancy, is uncertain about the decision to have an abortion, or has a change in life circumstances or relationships that makes a previously desired pregnancy undesired.”

Lisa H. Harris “Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence and Changing the Discourse” Reproductive Health Matters Volume 16, Issue 31, Supplement, May 2008, Pages 74–81

She does not even mention health problems in the woman or baby.

Lisa Harris is talking about aborting babies like this one.

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Three fourths of Dr. George Tiller’s late-term abortion patients were healthy teens with healthy babies

Most media outlets claimed that Dr. George Tiller, late-term abortionist, only aborted babies who were horribly disabled or had mothers who were endangered by the pregnancy. But according to Peggy Jarman, spokeswoman for Dr. George Tiller:

“About three-fourths of Tiller’s late-term patients, Jarman said, are teen-agers who have denied to themselves or their families they were pregnant until it was too late to hide it.”

Kansas City Star, quoted in Douglas Johnson “Partial-Birth Abortions: A Closer Look” National Right to Life September 11, 1996

These teenagers were healthy with healthy babies. They just did not want to be pregnant. Dr. George Tiller did third trimester abortions.

Seven month unborn baby, at an age that Tiller performed abortions

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Planned Parenthood’s advice to grieving postabortion teen: get a kitten

Jolinda Lynch had an abortion when she was 13 years old. She recalls:

“My mother’s reaction confirmed my fears. What would people think? What about school?… We decided abortion was the answer. And we saw a counselor who assured me I was making a responsible decision; she referred me to Planned Parenthood.

Because I was in the second trimester, I had to go to a clinic out of town. The staff members were very supportive and even made the whole ordeal sound like fun.

“Go into the city, and shop while you are there,” one said.

The abortion took a long time. I still remember the horrid sound of the aspirator as they sucked life from my womb. I screamed the entire time. The doctor yelled at the nurse to give me another shot.

“Do you want to go home pregnant?” He asked me. “Grow up!”…

In the months that followed, I spent all my spare time alone in my room. My mom became concerned and took me back to Planned Parenthood. They counseled me to get a kitten, and then refused to see me after that. I felt so empty and wished I could go back and change things. For years I lived with inner turmoil and hated myself for what I had done…

I still deeply regret the choice I made almost 12 years ago.”

Wendy Williams, Ann Caldwell Empty Arms: More Than 60 Life-Giving Stories of Hope from the Devastation of Abortion (Chattanooga, Tennessee: Living Ink Books, 2005) 149 – 151

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Competition with Planned Parenthood, not pro-lifers, hurts abortion clinic’s profits

Abortion clinic operator Amy Hagstrom-Miller said:

“This is not the Planned Parenthood we all grew up with . . . they now have more of a business approach, much more aggressive.”

The article says:

“Ms. Hagstrom-Miller competes with Planned Parenthood for abortion patients—and finds it deeply frustrating. She does not receive the government grants or tax-deductible contributions that bolster Planned Parenthood, and says she can’t match the nonprofit’s budget for advertising or clinic upgrades.” Hagstrom-Miller explains that “[t]hey’re not unlike other big national chains. . . .They put local independent businesses in a tough situation.”

Stephanie Simon, “Planned Parenthood Hits Suburbia” WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE June 23, 2008

Planned Parenthood is like any other business run for profit.

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Mother of down syndrome baby chooses life

A mother whose amniocentesis showed that her child had down syndrome describes the “horrible experience” she then went through. She says:

“I got the amnio at 18 weeks, then the genetics counselor showed a video. I remember it like yesterday. I could tell it was poorly done.

It started by showing a child with Down syndrome and the narrator said, ‘There is an X percent chance your child will die in utero, there is a Y percent chance your child will die before age one, there is a Z percent chance your child will die before three. If your child lives, he or she will be susceptible to a number of medical conditions.’”

From the LifeNews article:

The video proceeded to list the possible medical conditions for what Whitten said seemed like an “eternity.”

After the amateurish video finished, the genetics counselor returned and told her, “80 to 90 percent of parents abort children with Down syndrome, and you can too.”

Whitten recognized the counselor’s voice as the video narrator.

Despite the counselor’s subtle pressure to get her to choose abortion, this mother had her child. She says of her daughter:

“It’s been such a gift, she’s opened my eyes to the beauty of brilliance. I’m not very religious, but I consider her a blessing.”

CORTNEY O’BRIEN “Head of Down Syndrome Group: I Chose Life Despite Counselor Pressuring Me to Abort” LifeNews SEP 16, 2013

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Former abortion clinic worker talks about the people she helped kill

Margo, who spent five years working at both Planned Parenthood and a private abortion clinic, said:

“It literally took my breath away… I helped murder almost a football stadium of people.”

She says she has assisted in “tens of thousands” of abortions.

Ellen J Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016

The burden former clinic workers carry is indeed a heavy one.

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Fewer doctors are doing “difficult and upsetting” abortions

Richard Warren, honorary secretary of the RCOG (Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) talks about the shortage of abortion doctors in Great Britain:

“In the past, abortion was an accepted part of the workload. People did not like it but they accepted that it was in the best interests of the woman concerned. Now people are given the option of opting out of the bits of the job they don’t like doing and if two or three say ‘No thanks’, it makes it easier for others to follow. There is an ethos that people go into medicine to save lives and look after people. Usually, a decision for termination is taken reluctantly even though it is recognised that it is in the best interests of the woman. It is difficult and upsetting work and it is done with obvious reticence. We are seeing more doctors who are reluctant to be involved in the process and this is happening in the context of growing demand.”

Jeremy Lauranc “ABORTION CRISIS AS DOCTORS REFUSE TO PERFORM SURGERY” The Independent, 16 April 2007

Doctors find aborting and dismembering a child like the one below is “difficult and upsetting” and they do not want to do it.

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Two abortions lead to hysterectomies

A book about abortion doulas tells of two women who had to have hysterectomies after their abortions. Is it responsible for a doctor to perform a procedure that will end with a hysterectomy for a woman? Is an abortion recommended in the circumstances? These women do not seem to be getting good care.

“During [Talia, the abortionist’s] first month of the fellowship; there is a slew of especially harrowing scenarios: two people have a condition called “placenta accrete” where the blood vessels of the placenta grow into and embed in the tissue of the uterus…Talia sees patient after patient who might be at risk for an accrete. But the two patients she sees within the first few weeks of her fellowship have accretas that are especially severe, and she knows their procedures are going to result in hysterectomies. It’s bad enough to have to break the bad news to one patient, let alone two. Never mind how nerve-wracking it can be to do such a complicated procedure. She doesn’t think she will ever really get used to it.”

Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 233

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