They said it.
Professor Peter Huntingford, pro-abortion gynecologist
“No woman knows whether she wants an abortion until she has had one.”
Peter Huntingford Birth Right: The Parents’ Choice (BBC Publications, 1985) Quoted in Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 10
One wonders how this gynecologist counsels women who come to him for abortions.
Cynthia Isabell worked in a hospital that did some abortions. She describes the first abortion she was exposed to:
I watched the baby through the ultrasound as the doctor injected saline solution into the uterus. Immediately the baby recoiled in pain as the saline started burning its skin. I started crying and had to leave the room. Later, when the doctor reprimanded me for my reaction, I told her that the abortion was barbaric and that I would never help with one again.
Isabell describes witnessing children delivered alive during abortions:
I continued to care for the women who were having medical, “therapeutic” abortions. With these abortions, the labor is induced and the woman delivers an intact baby which will then slowly die by suffocation. We wrap the baby in a blanket and the parents often want to hold the baby they are killing and bond with it while it slowly suffocates, believing the lie they were told that the baby is not suffering. There was one that was performed for what were dubious reasons, but the patient and her family were adamant that it needed to be done. I arrived to work after the baby had already been born and had died. I was supposed to take the baby to wrap it to go to the morgue, but I took the baby to another room and held it while I cried. I never helped with another abortion after that.
Participating in the murder of children took an emotional toll on Isabell:
When I tell my students this story, it is always with great difficulty and they can tell that it still upsets me to this day. I can still see that sweet little face of the dead baby. I am crying while I am writing this, because I helped kill babies.
Isabell, like other people who have witnessed abortions, is haunted by her memories. Now she speaks out against abortion.
Cynthia Isabell “How a Formerly Pro-Choice Nursing Instructor Discusses Abortion with her Students” The Torch August 12, 2016
Share on FacebookDr. Collins is Professor of Anesthesiology and Northwestern University and the University of Illinois and the author of Principles of Anesthesiology, at the time one of the leading medical texts on the control of pain. He says:
“D&E abortions are performed after the twelfth week of pregnancy and are performed up to and including the period of viability, when fetal bones are too large and brittle and the size of the fetus is too great for standard first trimester abortion techniques. D&E involves the progressive dismemberment of the fetus prior to extraction in order to facilitate removal of the fetal parts from the uterus. The slicing and crushing involved in dismemberment of the fetus in D&E abortions would obviously excite pain receptors and stimulate neural pathways, thereby invoking an aversive response in the fetus whose central nervous system is functioning. It must be concluded, therefore, that the fetus suffers pain as a result of the D&E abortion.”
Vincent J Collins, M.D., Steven R Zielinski, M.D., and Thomas J Marzen, Esq. Fetal Pain and Abortion: The Medical Evidence, Chicago: Americans United for life, Inc. Studies in Law and Medicine, no. 18, 8
Quoted in Stephen Schwarz The Moral Question of Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Loyola University Press, 1990)
Share on FacebookThis is from a statement titled “The Unborn Person Is Also a Patient” presented by a group of more than 200 doctors, many of whom were members of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It was part of a Friend of the Court Brief filed before the United States Supreme Court:
“Every child shows a distinct individuality in his behavior by the end of the third month [in the womb]. This is because the actual structure of the muscles varies from baby to baby. The alignment of the muscles of the face, for example, following an inherited pattern.”
“Motion and Brief Amicus Curiae of Certain Physicians, Professionals and Fellows of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Support of Appellees”, submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1971, no. 70 – 18, Roe vs. Wade, and no. 70 – 40, Doe vs. Bolton. Prepared by Dennis J Horan, at al
Share on FacebookA post-abortion woman wrote the following letter to the Guardian:
“The mental backlash has been enormous, and in all my consultations, not one person ever warned me of this. Even with the support of a firm marriage and a loving family, I came as close to a mental breakdown as I am ever likely to come, thus threatening the well-being of the family I was so concerned to protect.”
Letter to the Guardian women’s page, 19 July 1979
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 9
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic worker Jackie explains why boyfriends and husbands were not allowed to be with their partners while they are having abortions:
“Patients did not bring their boyfriends, husbands, fathers, whoever were there to support, they could not bring that person into the back with them. So a lot of women were back there alone…..[Y]ou’re taking them back there to remove life from their body, you know, the nicest way to put it, you’ve taken away their support system and our office did that because [I remember] our office manager telling me very specifically it’s because these women want to have a big emotional moment with their partner in the procedure room after they had their abortion, and that takes up too much time. So they need to come out, go to recovery, and then they can have their big moment outside of the clinic or in the lobby out of the way.”
Sarah Terzo “Former abortion clinic workers: The “darkest” room is the recovery room” Live Action News October 5, 2016
Share on FacebookA woman who was considering abortion was encouraged by her friends to have one. She says:
“My girlfriends tried to guide me by sharing their stories of abortion. I didn’t say it out loud, but I thought to myself, “Who are you trying to convince that abortion is okay, me or you?”
Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 38
She had the abortion, and later regretted it deeply.
Share on FacebookFrom midwife M.B.:
A midwife for almost 9 years, I can testify that babies born from late abortions (case of abortion on medical grounds) without feticide, usually between 20 and 24 weeks gestation, may be born alive. The medical team is then often uncomfortable and either puts the baby in a tray in a separate room until he stops showing signs of life, or asks a gynecologist, anesthetist or pediatrician for a morphine injection in the cord that some accept … or not. For my part, I have already proposed to concerned couples that if the baby was alive at birth, to lay him on the woman’s stomach for him to die with dignity. Two couples agreed.
I recently decided not to participate in abortions on demand or abortions on medical grounds and to apply my conscience clause, which I can do because I am incumbent. I will probably leave the relevant services, including the delivery room. Those contractual employees who would apply their conscience clause are threatened with not having their contracts renewed.
In my experience, I’ve come to the conclusion that in order to protect the right to abortion, an embryo or fetus is considered to be a person by medical practitioners under two conditions:
1. The child must be wanted by the parents and
2. The child must be “normal” and not “disabled” (with all the risks that such a subjective term permits).
As soon as the fetus fails to meet these conditions, it is just considered to be waste… It’s terrible to say, but that is the truth.
Grégor Puppinck PhD (Dir.), Claire de La Hougue PhD, Andreea Popescu, Christophe Foltzenlogel. “Late Term Abortion & Neonatal Infanticide in Europe: Petition for the Rights of Newborns Surviving Their Abortion” European Centre for Law and Justice” 2015
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From an abortion clinic worker:
I feel abortion is part of life… I could just as easily work in a fertility clinic as an abortion clinic, or in an adoption agency, because it is all part of the rich texture of people’s lives.”
Patricia Lunneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (Westport, Connecticut: Bergen & Garvey, 1992)
She completely misses the point that abortion kills a baby.
Kent Kelly wrote the following back in 1981:
“NOW- The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist group in America supporting abortion on demand. Each year, the number of women killed in their mother’s womb is over five times the number of women in this organization.”
He also gives the following statistics:
“The equivalent to 10 large hospitals full of children is killed every day.
The equivalent of 540 school bus loads of children is killed each week.
The equivalent of all the Jews in Israel is killed each 18 months.”
Kent Kelly Abortion: The American Holocaust (Southern Pines, North Carolina: Calvary Press, 1981) 8, 9
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