Pro-Choicer: women love our aborted children

An article in the publication of Feminists for Life says:

“Kris Bercov, a Florida therapist who states that abortions are “sacrifices we make for our own selves,” nevertheless admits that abortion hurts women. In her self–published book “The Good Mother,” she proposes a farewell ceremony for the aborted child that includes coming to grief with the pain caused by the abortion and giving the child a name. Says Bercov, “women are good, we love our children – even sometimes the ones we abort.”

“Prochoicer Admits Abortion Hurts Women” The American Feminist Vol 1 No 1, Summer 1994

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Former abortion worker on abortion options

From one former abortion worker:

11 week feet
11 week feet

“In my facilities, I always gave options counseling. Of course you make the abortion the most appealing. I told them about adoption and about foster care and about (when there was welfare) assistance. The typical way it would go is, “Well, you know you can place your baby out for adoption” but then, in the same breath, you would say, “That’s an option available to you, but you also have to realize that there’s going to be a baby of yours out here somewhere in the world you will never see again. At least with abortion you know what’s happened. You can go on with your life.”…

The longer I was in it, the less I cared, so I really didn’t care what my conscience said. My conscience was totally numb anyway. But what it did do was public relations wise. You were able, when a reporter or TV crew came, to pull out a packet of information for the patients to read and they received it. So what can anybody say? Publicly it looked good – in reality it was another tool that was used to force a woman into an abortion. It’s typical – I would give them an option and then shoot it down. The only option you didn’t shoot down, obviously, was abortion.

Richard and Rhonda White Confronting Abortion Distortions (Xulon Press, 2013) 61

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Abortionist; the baby isn’t developed yet

Dr. Roslyn Stephens, abortionist, said the following to a patient identified as Leslie:

“This one, you know you’re only six weeks, you know the foetus is only tiny- it’s not developed yet.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 172

At 6 weeks after conception, the embryo has a heartbeat and brainwaves. Here is a picture of a preborn baby at a little over 6 weeks

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Woman’s abortion stirs unexpected feelings

Author Mary Kenny tells the following story:

“I have a friend who is extraordinarily tough… doesn’t give a damn, you know. She became pregnant – she is also very ambitious and has a very good job. There was no question whatsoever of continuing the pregnancy. It was an immediate abortion. And she went to this abortion clinic in Brighton.

She told me she took the train to Brighton, thinking, “Oh, jolly day down at Brighton, go to the beach, get a silly hat and a stick of rock, have an abortion”… she got down there and she went, and suddenly, it started to dawn on her that it wasn’t really very funny. Ridiculous, she thought, babies, who wants them? That’s for other silly women – not for me. And afterwards, she was completely shattered. Walk on the pier? – No. She took a taxi to the station, cried all the way back to London. It just tapped something inside her she hardly knew was there. Actually, it broke her heart. She never suspected she would take it that way. She only told me about it recently. Otherwise, nobody would ever know.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 287 – 288

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Postabortion woman “A black cloud hung over me”

Postabortion woman Athlynn Reeves shares her story. She got pregnant when she was in college.

“The month between pregnancy and abortion was a time of extreme crisis. My goals! My dreams! No money! I sought counsel from a nursing student, who said, “It’s just a blob of tissue.” I sought counsel from clergy at my church, and she said, “Whatever you decide, God will understand.” Society, a family member, and all but one friend said abortion was the way. One friend said, “If you choose abortion, God won’t like it.” I hung up on her. My heart was like stone…

That day in January turned my life to death. The day I killed my child, I died, too… A black cloud hung over me. I never knew abortion would do that.”

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) 166

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Abortion advertiser acknowledges some clinics aren’t “up to standards”

Ana Rose, founder of Abortion Clinics Online, a site advertising abortion facilitiess, acknowledges that there are abortion clinics that are dangerous and substandard:

” We know that there are some clinics that aren’t up to the standards the pro-choice community would like. How do you think the pro-choice community should deal with this?”

[Rose] responded, “That’s a really tough issue. I would like to see a national entity like the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Hospitals that would oversee the nation’s clinics.”

“Ann Rose — Not Afraid of the “A” Word By, Interview by Anne Bower The Body Politic, Vol. 7, No. 3 – March 1997, Page 15

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10% of 1.3 million women experience psychological problems with abortion

Pro-life author Maria Gallagher quotes researcher Priscilla Coleman:

A researcher at Bowling Green State University, Priscilla Coleman, told the Toledo Blade that approximately 10 percent of women who undergo abortions experience psychological problems as a result.

Coleman says:

“It’s that 10 percent with a common procedure that just keeps nudging at me. I think that’s a group we really need to look at more closely. Ten percent of 1.3 million women. [the number of women who abort every year] How could we ignore that? If it was any other medical procedure it would get more attention.”

From the author:

Coleman has co-authored a study which compares psychiatric hospitalizations of women who abort versus women who give birth. The data for the study, which was published in Canada’s most well-respected medical journal, came from California’s Medicaid program, MediCal.

The study showed that women who had had abortions were much more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric illness during the four years after pregnancy

Maria Gallagher “Abortion Advocates Discount Emotional Problems After Abortion” LifeNews.com January 27, 2004

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Abortion supporter calls abortion “self-enhancing”

Abortion supporter B. R. Arnowitz:

“The self-nurturant woman may even view the procedure “as a growth-promoting experience”; and “the circumstances surrounding the abortion may even be a self-enhancing occasion for the woman.”

“The Psychodynamics of Abortion” in Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of A Woman, edited by Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg. Quoted in Camille S. Williams “Abortion and the Actualized Self” First Things November 1991

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“I wish I had my baby”

From one postabortion woman:

“I cried during the abortion. The nurse thought I was in pain, but it wasn’t physical pain. That night when the sedative wore off, I wanted to die. After that, at parks or children’s events I mourned the baby I had aborted and couldn’t fully appreciate the children I had. Not a day goes by that I do not wish I had my baby.”

Her doctor had told her it was too risky to have another child.

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) 160

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Doctor: Pressure women to abort for the “social good”

Dr. Harry Harris in Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion:

“In traditional societies, the doctors should only be concerned with the welfare of their patients. But in these changing social times, some may take a wider view of their responsibilities.

They may, for example, consider the family, even if they are not inclined to the idea, should be pressed to take advantage of the opportunity [to have an abortion] for the social good….it is socially desirable to minimize as far as possible the amount of ill health in the community.”

He argues that to give birth to a handicapped child imposes a “burden on society.”

Harry Harris Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion (Nufflied Provincial Hospital Trust, 1974)

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