They said it.
Pro-abortion activist Bill Baird:
“So far no one has firebombed a Right to Life headquarters, no one has firebombed a Birthright headquarters, no one has firebombed a Roman Catholic headquarters, but that does not mean that persons are not contemplating the possibility.”
“Catholic Church Spurs Violence, Pro – abortionist Says” Cleveland Plain – Dealer, February 20, 1981, 1
Share on FacebookIn an article by a counselor:
“People may be relieved after abortion, and utterly convinced of the rightness of the action they’ve taken, but no one rejoices. Abortion is a difficult experience for everyone concerned. That includes men. A man may escape the physical trauma, but it’s unlikely they’ll come through unscathed.”
Bruce Rappaport, a counselor in San Francisco
Carol Lynn Mithers “Abortion: Are Men There Would Women Need Them Most?” Mademoiselle, April 1981, P230
Share on FacebookFrom a man whose partner had an abortion:
“It’s such a serious, emotional situation that a minor change in emotion or atmosphere can precipitate a break by one or the other person. She said, “Just give me the money!,” And I said “Fine!”… I could afford to eliminate the evidence of my mistake. Other people can’t.”
Arthur B Shostak, Gary McLouth, Lynn Seng Men and Abortion: Lessons, Losses, and Love (New York, NY: Praeger, 1984) 36
Share on FacebookFrom Dr. Warren Hern, late-term abortionist:
“[Abortion] counselors also have difficulty coping with their own feelings about women who have late second trimester abortions for no apparent reason.”
Warren M Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: JB Lippincott Company, 1990) 89
Abortion clinic workers see the violence of 2nd trimester abortions, and the torn off arms and legs of the babies. When they see women having 2nd trimester abortions without good reason, it upsets them– At least some of the time
This is the most common abortion method in the late 2nd trimester:
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published an article on an experiment done at Stanford University Hospital by Dr. Robert C Goodlin where the chests of aborted babies were cut open while they were alive to observe their beating hearts. The babies were kept in incubators.
“The thorax [chest] was opened and the heart was observed directly. When the heart was beating, the fetus was returned to the chamber and the experiment was resumed.”
The longest any of the babies survived was 11 hours.
Robert C. Goodlin “Cutaneous Respiration in a Fetal Incubator” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 86 (July 1, 1963): 574
Such experimentation on living aborted children was made illegal in the US, though it may still go on in other countries.
Share on FacebookGloria Steinem said on TV in 1981 that women should have a right to abortion just as she has a right to remove “any parasitic growth” from her body.
The Freeman Report, Cable News Network, Washington DC, September 9, 1981
Is this a “parasitic growth” or a person?
Most abortions happen around the seventh week.
Share on FacebookUniversity of California obgyn Sadra Goldsmith:
“The gynecologist is aware of being the active agent in a D&E procedure [because he/she] is the one who is crushing and dismembering the fetus.”
“MD Shun 16th Week D&E as Reminder of Destroyed Fetus” Medical Tribune January 25, 1978, p 9
This is a diagram of the procedure she is talking about:
A World Health Organization technical report acknowledged that women with a previous history of mental illness were more likely to suffer negative emotional aftereffects of abortion :
“There is no doubt that the termination of pregnancy may precipitate a serious psycho neurotic or even psychotic reaction in a susceptible individual.
Studies concerned with women who have had legal abortions in hospitals, mainly for psychiatric reasons, show that serious mental disorders arise more often in women with previous emotional problems. These, the very women for whom legal abortion is considered to be justified on psychiatric grounds, are the ones that have the highest risk postabortion psychiatric disorders.”
World Health Organization, Technical Report Series, “Scientific Group on Spontaneous and Induced Abortion” Geneva, 1970, 41 – 42
Share on FacebookFrom Teresa L. Fangman, who had an abortion:
“When I was 16 I was shuffled through an assembly-line abortion. I was number 13 of 17 who went through the morning session at one abortion clinic. Physically, I had no problems with my abortion, but emotionally, I created a living Hell that continues on a daily basis. I’m not sure the tears will ever stop. I’ve been waiting almost eleven years now and they never cease.”
Lynn K. Murphy “Abortion Hurts Women” EWTN
Share on FacebookA midwife gives the following testimony:
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” ECLJ (European Centre for Law and Justice) June 2015
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