Pro-choice author complains that not enough doctors are trained to be abortionists

Pro-choice author Rickie Solinger writes:

“97% of family practice residents and 36% of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residents have no experience in first-trimester abortion procedures. Indeed, a recent study found that abortion education is limited in medical schools in the United States…

Based on the data available, the authors found that a minority of medical education programs offered abortion education at any level of medical training. Even when clinical experience was offered as part of third-year rotations (45% reported the availability of this experience), participation was low, suggesting to the authors that medical faculty did not encourage student proficiency in this area, and possibly suggesting that students avoided abortion training as a stigmatized, dangerous, or possibly constrained field.”

Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 79

cites:

Eve Espey, Tony Ogburn, Alice Chavez, Clifford Qualls, and Mario Leyba “Abortion Education in Medical Schools: A National Survey” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192 (2005) 640 – 643

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Pregnancy Resource Center Set on Fire by Arsonist

In May of this year, an arsonist set a pregnancy resource center on fire. Live Action News covered the story:

“In the early morning hours of May 3, the Women’s Care Center of Peoria, Illinois, part of a national chain of pregnancy care centers based out of South Bend, Indiana, was targeted by an arsonist who set fire to the locked building…

The Women’s Care Center provides free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds to over 500 women in the local community each year, with 13 women served per day, 1,000 ultrasounds performed annually, and 596 babies saved in the last year, according to the center’s website…

While the fire was contained largely to one main room, heat and smoke damage throughout the building rendered the property a total loss, estimated at $250,000.”

The article referred to director of client care Connie McClure:

“McClure told the Post that counselors were already on the phone Monday morning speaking to some of the center’s 500 current clients expecting babies in the coming days and months, promising that their care would continue. “It may look a little different, but we’ve made a promise we will be there to support them.”

Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN “Illinois pregnancy center set ablaze by arsonist, but knows ‘good will come’” Live Action News May 6, 2021

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Husband pressures wife to abort twins

A woman who regrets her abortions tells her story. She had had two abortions with the same man and got pregnant again:

“… My husband and I were having problems… This time I wanted to have my baby. He told me no, it was better to abort. We scheduled an appointment and I still was trying to convince him to let me keep the baby. He told me it would be better not to have it.

I entered the room so they could prepare my cervix to contract. I would go home and come back the next day. They did an ultrasound and discovered I had twins. I asked for a moment to speak to my husband. I found him outside. I sat down beside him and begged him to let me keep the babies. He convinced me we could not afford them. I went back inside and killed my twins.

Less than a year later, I was divorced and my ex-husband and his girlfriend were expecting a baby…

I have paid the price dearly and even though God has forgiven me I still struggle with a life sentence of guilt… Please know that the simple and quick solution is usually not always the right one. This quick fix will haunt you till you die….I murdered four of my babies!”

Martha Jensen Abortion: Information and One’s Own Journey (2020)

 

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Father calls pregnancy center in tears, but can’t stop girlfriend’s abortion

Two women who worked in pregnancy centers told the following story:

“Legally, a husband can’t prevent his wife from having an abortion if she chooses to have one. I still remember one heartrending telephone call from a man who actually lived in another state. He found our center’s number on the Internet. He pleaded with me, at times during the conversation, even breaking down sobbing, wanting to know what he could do to stop his girlfriend from having an abortion.

Sadly, I had to inform him that there were no legal methods he could take, but I encouraged him to patiently talk with her and try to understand why she wanted an abortion. I provided him with numbers of pregnancy resource centers located near where he lived that maybe they could go to for help. I prayed with him that God would work in their lives to help them be able to choose life for their baby. I never knew the outcome…”

Mary Ann Gustin and Peggy R Hembree Let the Miracles Begin (2016) 54

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Pro-Choice author: Question of whether abortion is murder is “risky”

Pro-choice author Miriam Claire wrote:

“Somehow, the key issue is not being addressed [by the pro-choice movement] and is “off the page,” because the question of whether abortion is murder is risky and unanswerable in an absolute sense.”

A few pages later, though, she answers the question. She wrote:

“When you choose to have an abortion, you are responsible for a decision to halt the development of a human life. That is the most significant difference between abortion and miscarriage. It is somehow easier to accept “fate” or “the will of nature,” than it is to accept responsibility for our actions.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) viii, 1

Perhaps “halt the development” is an easier thing to say than “kill.”

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Parents of surgeon born with club foot are horrified late-term abortions are done for that reason

The parent of a child who was born with a club foot and is now a surgeon wrote a letter to the editor to express their shock at laws in England allowing abortion up to birth for the condition:

“We were surprised to see that club foot (talipes) was mentioned in connection with late abortions…

Our son was born with severe talipes in 1979. He was described as handicapped and mixed race when we adopted him as a baby…

His legs are still thin, but his mobility has been only slightly limited. His two children do not have the condition.

We suspect that because of his childhood experience he was determined to be a surgeon, an ambition that he has achieved: he is now a very successful senior consultant surgeon in Australia. Thank goodness his birth mother did not opt for a termination.”

Dr and Mrs C Mackay “Late abortion could have claimed our brilliant boy” The Times July 11 2021

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Pro-choicer: unwillingness to “humanize” the fetus turns people off to the pro-choice position

Pro-choice author Bertha Alvarez Manninen wrote:

“I focus on the concerns of women who either have obtained abortions or support women’s ability to choose to do so, and yet regard fetuses as deserving of respect.

This sentiment is increasingly prevalent among the younger pro-choice generation, and it is vital that the pro-choice community defend abortion in a manner that will resonate with them. Contrary to the worry that doing so will adversely affect abortion rights, the unwillingness to humanize the fetus is turning people away from the pro-choice community.”

Bertha Alvarez Manninen Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Shared Values in the Abortion Debate (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) 6

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Coroner describes prevalence of illegal abortion in Australia

In Australia, as in the United States, illegal abortions took place before abortion was legalized. In 1890, coroner Dr. Richard Youl wrote:

“There are several institutions devoted entirely to procuring abortions. It is a demoralizing thing. Murder is a fine art, and persons who get used to it do not stop.”

Gideon Haigh The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia (Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2008) 17

The Racket is a book that documents illegal abortions in Melbourne, Australia, and comments on the reasons abortion was legalized in Australia.

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Pro-choicer: ultrasound laws allow people to discriminate against “low income and minority women and people with disabilities.”

Pro-choice author Lisa M Mitchell writes:

“Some American lawmakers have attempted to legislate mandatory viewing of ultrasound fetal images as a means of dissuading pregnant women from having an abortion…

A growing number of feminist perspectives on this issue assert “a woman’s right to choose,” yet also reveal how the very existence of technologies such as ultrasound tend to structure “choice” in ways that “have increased the potential for others to exercise an even greater control over women’s lives” and to discriminate in particular against low income and minority women and people with disabilities.”

Lisa M Mitchell Baby’s First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects (Toronto: University of Toronto Press Inc., 2001) 6-7

The quote within the quote is from:

Michelle Stanworth Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987) 4

Mitchell never reveals how the use of ultrasound allows pro-lifers to discriminate against people. In reality, ultrasound screening allows doctors to abort disabled babies in the womb – but this is not what Mitchell is talking about, of course.

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Post-abortive men twice as likely to suffer depression, abuse substances

An article in the Daily Telegraph cited a study about post-abortive men:

“In 2011, an Australian researcher, Dr Kaeleen Dingle from the University of Queensland, presented a study at the World Congress of Asian Psychiatry in Melbourne showing the connection between young men and depression.

She found young men whose partners aborted were twice as likely to use substances and suffer depression compared with men who had not had that experience.”

CORRINE BARRACLOUGH “Corrine Barraclough: Piecing together the pain of loss for men after abortion” The Daily Telegraph June 3, 2017

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