They said it.
From a woman after her abortion:
“I wished for a peaceful and stable relationship, which I don’t believe I will find with my present partner. It feels like something between us has died.”
Vivian Wahlberg Memories After Abortion (Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007) 37
Researcher David Reardon has found that 50% of relationships break up soon after an abortion. Other studies put the number at 70%.
Share on FacebookA Swedish author writes:
“Until 1990 all aborted fetuses [in Sweden] were considered to be biological waste, and were handled as risk waste and placed in special waste bags that were sent for incineration. The need for new routines led to recommendations for more dignified disposal of the fetus, especially in cases of late abortions. According to the new recommendations, fetuses from late abortions (spontaneous or induced) from the beginning of week 13 up to and including week 28 should be sent from the maternity clinic to the pathology department. Later the fetus is taken to a crematorium to be cremated, and the ashes are buried or spread anonymously.”
Vivian Wahlberg Memories After Abortion (Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007) 20
In America, aborted babies are often flushed down toilets or thrown out with the trash.
One abortionist talked about fighting to save the lives of wanted premature babies while aborting a baby of the same age (or nearly the same age) in another part of the hospital:
”It makes us all schizophrenic. Nowadays we are asked to terminate a pregnancy that in two weeks doctors on the same floor are fighting to save.”
Dr. Richard Hausknecht, an associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital who specializes in high risk pregnancies.
Dena Kleiman “When Abortion Becomes Birth: A Dilemma of Medical Ethics Shaken by New Advances” New York Times Feb. 15, 1984
On the question of whether women will seek illegal abortions, two studies showed the following:
In Denmark and Sweden, surveys were taken of women who were turned down their applications for abortion – only 11 to 16% obtained illegal abortions
Robert Hall Commentary, in David T Smith, Ed., Abortion and the Law (Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press, 1967) 232 – 233
Read more about what illegal abortions were really like here.
Share on FacebookFrom a woman who had an abortion by pill (i.e. medical abortion)
“[I] wouldn’t wish that my worst enemy should go through a medical abortion. The pain plus the uncertainty as to whether the abortion had really taken place was awful.”
Vivian Wahlberg Memories After Abortion (Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007) 32
Read more women’s accounts of taking the abortion pill
Read about the health risks of the abortion pill here.
From one woman who had an abortion:
“We got inside to a waiting room. I couldn’t stop crying. I realize now I was looking for help. I was looking for someone to say, “You can have this baby, and it will be okay.”
When they called my name I went into a back room. I was shocked at how many girls were there! Some were very young, and each one looked sad and frightened. I still couldn’t stop crying, and I had difficulty breathing.
A nurse took me out of the room and sat me in an office across the desk from a rather stern looking woman in a nurse’s uniform. She looked over her glasses at me and said, “You don’t seem like you really want to do this. Are you sure about this?”
I told her, “My mom will kill me if she finds out, and I’m afraid because I started doing some drugs.”
She just said, “Okay,” and instructed me to go back into the holding room.…
In one room I was put on the table with stirrups before the doctor breezed in. When he tried to examine me, I couldn’t keep still on the table. He rose to his feet, glared at me over my knees, and yelled at me. “If you don’t spread your legs, you won’t get this abortion.” I started to cry again. His treatment was so shocking and devastating; I knew I had to leave. But I didn’t.”
Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 54
Share on FacebookAlan Guttmacher, who became president of Planned Parenthood in 1962 was also the Vice President of the American Eugenics Society until 1963, He said:
“I would like to give our voluntary means of population control full opportunity in the next 10 to 12 years. Then, if these don’t succeed, we may have to go into some kind of coercion, not worldwide, but possibly in such places as India, Pakistan, and in Indonesia, where pressures are the greatest… There is no question that birth rates can be reduced all over the world if legal abortion is introduced.”
Alan Guttmacher “Family Planning: The Needs and the Methods” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 69, no. 6 (June, 1969)
Read more from Alan Guttmacher
Dr. Michael R Harrison on ultrasound:
“The fetus could not be taken seriously as long as he remained a medical recluse in an opaque womb; and it was not until the last half of this century that the prying eye of the ultrasound rendered the once opaque womb transparent, stripping the veil of mystery from the dark inner sanctum, and letting the light of scientific observation fall on the shy and secretive fetus….
Sonography can accurately delineate normal and abnormal fetal anatomy with astounding detail. It can produce not only static images of the intact fetus, but real time “live” moving pictures…
The sonographic voyeur, spying on the unwary fetus finds him or her a surprisingly active creature, and not at all the passive parasite we had imagined.”
Michael R Harrison “Unborn: Historical Perspectives of the Fetus As Patient” Pharos (Winter 1982): 19 – 24
Share on FacebookFrom an African American writer on the pro-abortion movement:
“Black women are treated as invited guests in the reproductive rights movement – outsiders to someone else’s event… It all just makes us want to leave and never come back.”
Toni Bond “Barriers between Black Women and the Reproductive Rights Movement” Political Environments 8 (Winter/Spring 2001): 3
Share on FacebookRev. Yvonne Delk, director of the Office of Church and Society of the United Church of Christ, said the following during her speech at the March for Women’s Lives, a pro-abortion demonstration:
“What we say and do today has long reaching implications, not only for the women of color in this nation and for women of color throughout the globe, but it is our legacy to the generations of women who are yet unborn.”
Yvonne Delk “The Time Has Come to Stand Up” Common Ground, Different Planes (Washington DC: Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, August 1989) 5
{Emphasis mine}
The legacy of abortion is good for unborn women? I don’t think she thought that speech through.
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