They said it.
An abortionist said the following in an interview on Think Atheist:
Second trimester abortions…[are] much more difficult and riskier for the mom, hence the limited number of us who actually do them. They are also unpleasant, because the procedure (dilation and evacuation, D&E) involves pulling out the baby in pieces.
Quoted in Sarah Terzo “Abortionist Explains: Abortion includes “Pulling out the baby in pieces” Live Action News July 16, 2017
One abortion clinic worker says:
I am not an RN, I am a nurse. I am an LPN, and I was doing RN level work. I was administering push medications, conscious sedations for the women who were having the two-step late-term abortion procedures. And I think that’s something that has come out very clearly recently is that people who are not really adequately trained to do the tasks that they’re doing. And that endangers women to such a degree, because when something goes wrong you don’t know what to do.
And we almost lost patients due to complications. And even though the doctor appeared to be very compassionate we did everything we could not to call an ambulance, because we just didn’t want that, the optics of an ambulance outside of the abortion clinic. And we never told the women how close they came to almost dying.
Webcast entitled “Exposed: Clinic Worker Stories” on Monday, December 21, 2016, quoted in Sarah Terzo “Abortion Worker: We Endangered Patients and Never Called Ambulances” Live Action News July 20, 2017
Share on FacebookBritish author Mary Kenny describes an abortion by induction:
“Prostaglandin abortion is also a more distressful experience for the woman. The procedure takes between twelve and thirty-six hours to complete. The woman endures the contractions and pains of labor, and delivers at the end of it, what she may perceive (if she actually sees it, which she may do) as a dead baby….. From a laboratory viewpoint, the delivery of a foetus intact is more useful than a dismembered foetus. Better research can be done on a foetus which is in one piece and if it happens to be abnormal, more can be learned from it when it is delivered whole.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 180
Kenny witnessed several prostaglandin abortions that day.
Patrick B Keefe wrote a book about the abortion he encouraged his wife to have over 20 years ago. He grieves for his child and wants others to know how painful abortion is for fathers. He says:
“Get an abortion, I convinced her when she told me we were pregnant again. She trusted me. Little did I know the effect this would have on our lives… And how it would affect me for the next 20 years…
Out of fear I terminated my son’s life through abortion. In the midst of the situation it seemed like our only option, but it led us down a path of great pain and sorrow. Yes, on the outside I was able to hide it from everyone. I looked happy. But on the inside, I thought of him every day of my life. In fact, only now, through the strength God has given me, am I able to write this work. If I can touch even just a handful of men, my son’s life will not have been in vain… I pray that through my son, Luke, many will live.”
Patrick B Keefe A Father Silent Cry: A Journey of Healing (2017)
Share on FacebookEllen Reich, who interviewed numerous abortion clinic workers for her article, found the following out when interviewing one worker named Julie:
In her private clinic, the products of conception were drawn into a bottle “covered with a cute calico cover” so the woman wouldn’t inadvertently catch a glimpse of a foot or an arm.
Ellen Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016
An article in the American Feminist told the story of Annette, a former Planned Parenthood worker. The article says:
On many occasions, [Annette] saw women expressing doubts [about abortion], but observed the staff response as uniformly encouraging…. Once, Annette observed the clinic director meeting with a client. To Annette, the woman was asking endless questions and seemed anything but certain about her decision. The patient kept repeating, “I’m really not sure.”
When Annette and the director left the interview room, the director told the staff that the patient was “just fine” and ready to proceed. Annette spoke up and said she didn’t see it that way. … Annette got such heat for speaking up she did not do it again.
The article goes on:
While Annette didn’t again challenge another staff member’s assessment of a client’s readiness to proceed, she did routinely tell clients to reschedule if they were uncertain about going ahead. “I got reprimanded for that because I wasn’t scheduling enough abortion procedures.” She was supposed to schedule 40 abortions a day.
“We were always told that it’s all up to the woman,” Annette said, yet the behaviors at Planned Parenthood were designed to encourage women to choose abortions. “The emotional manipulation of others is what got to me the most.”
Later, at a meeting, Annette spoke up:
“Do I have an abortion quota?” she asked. “Because that’s really what it feels like.”
Her employers first denied there was a “quota.” But as she argued, they admitted that workers were expected to sell 40 abortions a day.
Ellen J. Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry,” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016.
Share on FacebookRuth Brandon, who had an abortion after an amniocentesis showed her baby had downs syndrome, wrote the following in The Observer:
“What I cannot tolerate is the thought that there are people who would have wished to prevent me acting as I did. When I look at the normal, healthy baby whom I had 16 months later, and think that instead of her, these people would, if they could, have condemned me to have an avoidably handicapped child, my blood runs cold.”
The author of the book that quoted this passage says:
“The article elicited letters from parents of down syndrome children who pointed out that their handicapped child was a joy to them.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 235-236
This quote shows the ablest attitude that condemns so many preborn disabled children to death.
Share on FacebookAn internal memo by Barbara Radford, then the executive director of the National Abortion Federation, a “trade association” for abortion clinics says:
There are many reasons why women have late abortions: life endangerment, fetal indications, lack of money or health insurance, social-psychological crises, lack of knowledge about human reproduction, etc.”
Douglas Johnson “Partial-Birth Abortions: A Closer Look” NRLC September 11, 1996
Not all late term abortions are done on disabled or dying babies, or on women with health risks.
Share on FacebookPatricia Beninato, who once ran a site called Imnotsorry.net where women shared positive abortion stories, says that abortion is birth control:
One of the peeves I have is that there seems to be a mindset even within the pro-choice community that having to get one abortion is OK, but anything after that and you’re a dumb slut who doesn’t know how to use birth control. I often hear younger women say things like, “Well, yeah, the condom can break or whatever, but I don’t believe in people using abortion as birth control.” Um . . . abortion is birth control, just a more expensive and intrusive version of it.
Lynn Vincent “Victims of their own choice” World Magazine April 09, 2005
The father of an aborted baby speaks out:
“I once fathered a baby by a woman I truly loved in what was the most beautiful experience I have ever had, and of which until that moment I did not think I was capable. I was in fact a soldier at the time and the experience occurred in another country….[she got pregnant]
In the circumstances then prevailing I could not marry the lady but begged for her to have the child, promising to see that it was provided for. She could not see it this way, and had a quick and easy legal abortion. I considered myself a pretty hard tough man after seven years wartime military service, but to my own astonishment the abortion broke me up, or broke my heart, whichever way you care to look at it, besides filling me with an appalling sense of futility and waste and denial of God’s loving kindness and mercy. This feeling festered in me for many years…”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 78
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