They said it.
Abortion clinic receptionist Irasema Mendoza testified in a case where a woman died in an abortion clinic:
“I told her to call the paramedics. I took the phone to call the paramedics but Alicia [the abortion clinic owner] grabbed it away from me and hung up.She told me not to call them because I was going to get her into problems.”
“Clinic owner prevented 911 call, aide says;” Orange County Register 8-24-1993 Quoted by Life Dynamics
Share on FacebookOne abortion patient describes her experience in an abortion clinic:
“I was scared for my life, I was at a loss for words. It was crazy. I don’t think they should be allowed to reopen. That’s dealing with someone’s life. If they can’t do it right, they don’t need to even be open.”
“Clinic’s closing renews debate, Summit patients dismayed by care received” The Birmingham News :5-21-2006
This abortion clinic was shut down due to horrible conditions
Share on FacebookNancy Russo of Arizona State University, abortion researcher:
“As far as I’m concerned, whether or not an abortion creates psychological difficulties is not relevant…it means you give proper informed consent and you deal with it.”
Maria Gallagher “Abortion Advocates Discount Emotional Problems After Abortion” LifeNews January 27, 2004
She shows a cavalier attitude towards the psychological damage abortion does women. (for example, 6-7 times higher suicide rate for adult post-abortion women and 10x higher suicide rate in teens. (see here)
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Mary Ann Warren, ethicist and textbook writer
“It remains true that, on my view, neither abortion nor the killing of newborns is obviously a form of murder.”
Mary Ann Warren “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” from Biomedical Ethics, 4th ed., T.A. Mappes and D DeGrazia, eds (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1996)
Share on FacebookFrom one abortion clinic worker:
“I think I must switch off my emotions, I have become hardened.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 169
From a British nurse who helped with abortions:
“I was a staff nurse on a gynecological ward for a year and came into contact with many girls and women undergoing abortions. It was always a painful experience emotionally for both the staff and patients, particularly if the abortion was of a wanted baby that was unfortunately abnormal.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 269-270
In England, some abortions take place in hospitals rather than freestanding clinics, so nurses who assist with other operations sometimes are called upon to help with abortions.
Share on FacebookKaren K. writes about her abortion:
“The doctor at the campus clinic asked me if I wanted to be pregnant.
“No,” I responded.
“Ten minutes, and you won’t have to think about it for the rest of your life,” was his retort.
He was wrong.
Fourteen years later at my worksite, a single coworker became pregnant. I had to interact with her on a daily basis. My defenses and denial crashed. I realized that I could have been the one carrying a baby to term. After work I’d go home, lay down, and cry. Dealing with the grief and loss of what really happened on the abortion table was critical. It was my baby, the child I never had.”
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) 93
Share on FacebookA student midwife identified as MK tells the following story:
It happened in 2015, in the hospital delivery room. One patient was present, she was 22 weeks +3 days amenorrheic [without a period] and was there for a late miscarriage. The child was born alive, and to prevent it from crying, the doctor quickly covered his face. He was then taken into a side room (baby resuscitation room) where I could join him. I was able to find that there was no apparent defect, he struggled to breathe and he had some slight gestures.
He was fully formed, had eyelashes, hair, nails … (He had even slightly long nails!) He weighed 565g and was about 27cm. The doctor came in and asked me if he was still breathing, or else we would make an injection for that “to be resolved.”
Five minutes later he came back and grabbed a syringe KCl (lethal injection for this premature baby). Somewhat bewildered, I asked him if we cannot do something “more natural”, but he answers my question by sweeping [sic] he prefers not to let the child suffer. He then pierced the baby in the heart, and injected the product. The child, during the injection, moved all its members. I do not know what that meant, but perhaps he suffered.
The little boy lived just a quarter of an hour. The medical team told the parents of the child that he was stillborn. This is why we did not want him to cry at birth: it would be too traumatic for them.
What shocked me personally, is the cold-blooded doctor (head of department) that had injected the child in the heart. The fact that the child was alive was a problem that needed to be addressed: it has never been contemplated to tell the parents what really happened.
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
Share on FacebookDr. John Franklin, Medical director of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, supports late term abortion being legal but doesn’t perform them himself. He say:
“I find them pretty heavy weather both for myself and for my patients.”
“Abortion” by Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds, Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 2, 1982
Below: Diagram of a D&E procedure, the most commonly used late term abortion method.
From a woman who had an abortion:
“A year ago I had an abortion: I was eight weeks pregnant. It was the biggest mistake of my life. No matter what suffering the pregnancy would have involved, it couldn’t have been worse than the suffering I have had since. I am now desperate to become pregnant again.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 20
