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Creator of abortion pill on unborn baby’s personhood

Dr. Etienne–Emile Baulieu, the French doctor who developed the abortion pill RU-486:

“Making a child is an affair of thinking, feeling, and love. Everybody has his or her own definition. It is up to each person to define whether there is, or is not, a person developing in the uterus. The definition of whether or not there is a person developing in the uterus may change for each pregnancy, depending on the circumstances of the people involved. Let people decide for themselves.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 70

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Pro-Choice author knows fetus is “human life”

Pro-Choice author Miriam Claire:

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” then it is to accept responsibility for our actions.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 1

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Post-abortion woman told “it wasn’t a baby yet”

Sue Liljenberg, who was a teenager when she obtained a “safe, legal” abortion:

. . . I’m a victim of abortion and, even if it takes until my last breath, I must be heard.

When I was 17 I found myself in a crisis pregnancy . . . . When I went to the local family planning clinic, I sought guidance and wanted to know what I could do about my situation. I wanted a helping hand. When I walked into the clinic, I trusted the nurses and doctors, and thought they were concerned about my health enough to help me make a decision, not make my decision for me.

Only one solution was strongly recommended that day. When I questioned the development of my baby, I was told it wasn’t a baby yet, and that it looked like a tadpole. Since that day I have learned differently . . . .

I was told that abortion was simple and safe and that I could go and live the rest of my life and have children when I was in a position to provide for them. I heard no scientific facts that day, only biased opinions. I was not told what abortion itself could do to me in the years to come, only that it was “safe and simple.”

I was not told that I would abuse myself with alcohol, try to kill myself, develop an eating disorder, and have terrible dreams. Worst of all, I was not told that I might never have another child. It has been 14 years since my “safe and simple” abortion and I have never been able to have another child.

Letter from Sue Liljenberg to Sen. Gordon Humphrey, dated June 6, 1986

Amicus Brief in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services” by Christine Torre, et al.

BRIEF FOR FEMINISTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA,
WOMEN EXPLOITED BY ABORTION OF GREATER
KANSAS CITY, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
PRO-LIFE NURSES, LET ME LIVE, AND ELLIOT
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH,
AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF APPELLANTS

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Rape victim who gave birth speaks out on abortion

From a woman who gave birth to a child who was conceived in rape:

“It really upsets me to hear people talking about a woman keeping a ‘rapist’s baby,’ To me, she’s not the rapists baby; she’s my baby. He doesn’t deserve any credit. [The thought of abortion] is based on temporary feelings that the baby is the rapist’s baby. But it’s her baby. In all my research, the majority of women who get pregnant through rape don’t want to have an abortion. This is the outside telling these women that they should have an abortion because their loved ones don’t want to deal with [the rape] or think about it. But that woman is not going to forget it, and abortion is not going to solve that problem. And I think that that misconception needs to be cleared. It’s not the woman herself who wants the abortion. It’s usually her family or her friends.”

Nancy Flanders “Raped and Homeless: She Chose Life for Her Baby Not Abortion” LifeNews APR 10, 2013

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Abortionist describes abortion to patient

This is what abortion doctor Suzanne Poppema says to a woman she is doing an abortion on:

“I’m going to be stretching your cervix just a little bit, so you’ll feel some pressure and some mild cramping. But it shouldn’t be anything that hurts a lot. So if it does, then please tell me because I can fix that easily.” She still seems relaxed. Seconds later I tell her that the stretching of the cervix is accomplished and “we’re more than half way done now.” Dawn reports that she feels all right and is continuing to concentrate on her breathing. I get no indication from her physical responses that she’s having any pain at all.

“Now you’ll hear a loud noise coming from the machine,” I warn her as I activate the suction device. “I’m inserting a plastic suction tube now and you’ll feel a little pulling and tugging as I empty your uterus…. Everything is going just fine,” I assure her, warning her about a dental-procedure like sucking noise that will be caused by a piece of tissue briefly blocking the suction tube. When the piece clears the tissue continues to flow through the translucent suction tube an into a large glass container. I can tell now that the procedure is typical of abortions at this term of pregnancy.

9-10 weeks. Legal to abort in every US state

“Now there will be a little more of the tugging and pulling,” I tell her, but Dawn doesn’t seem to notice it much. “Now your uterus is beginning to empty much more rapidly,” I report, “and you may feel more cramping. But that’s a very good sign. It means you’re not going to bleed very much and it means we’re almost finished. I’m going to stop just briefly to give your uterus a rest, so you’ll hear that really obnoxious sucking noise. I’m going to let you rest for about thirty seconds. Then I’m going to do one more check to see to it I’m not leaving any lining tissue inside that might cause you problems later on. This will take about one more minute and then we’ll be done. But you’ve pretty much felt as bad as you’re going to feel.”

A minute later, I assure her that her uterus is clamping down just as it should be. Seconds later I pull the suction tube away and announce, “We’re all done.”

Suzanne T. Poppema, MD and Mike Henderson Why I am an Abortion Doctor (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1996) 21-22

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Abortion textbook describes how to “extract fetal parts”

From a book on how to do abortions:

“The use of special instruments such as the Bierer or Sopher forceps, which improve the ability to crush and extract fetal parts, are recommended by some operators… The basic technique involves extracting large fetal parts and pieces of placenta with the forceps and using the suction cannula to remove fluid and smaller portions of tissue…

The obtained products must be carefully inspected at the end of the procedure because retained tissue can have greater consequences at these later stages of gestation.”

Ronald T Burkman, M.D. Handbook of Contraception and Abortion (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1989) 136

4 months. The quote is describing abortions done around this time or later

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Clinic worker haunted by “bloody body parts”

From a clinic worker quoted in Abby Johnson’s book The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories:

“I also worked in the POC (Products of Conception) lab, which saddened and sickened me so deeply that I am still haunted by the images of bloody body parts – the things I can’t unsee.”

Abby Johnson The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2016) 129

The POC lab is where the bodies of aborted babies are taken and examined to make sure no body parts are left behind in the woman. Any part of the baby or placenta left behind can cause a serious infection.

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Woman apologizes to aborted baby

From a woman who had an abortion:

The waiting room was “filled with a true cross-section of the community. No one looked happy. No one was chatting with anyone but their partners. This was not a day to make friends.”

The woman says:

“I tried to concentrate on the physical feelings, not on what was happening. It was over in minutes, and I was overcome with sadness. “I’m so sorry I didn’t want you,” I told the fetus. “I’m so sorry.”

Faith Abbott “A Tale of Two Women” Human Life Review Spring 1993

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Post-Abortion woman: “My sorrow was immeasurable”

From a woman who had an abortion:

“My sorrow was immeasurable, penetrating every fiber of my being. I was wracked with sobs, heaving aching sobs, for an hour… After that day I spent 3 months plunged in total emotional darkness – the depths of anguish, anger, and despair. I cried by day and by night for my lost baby. I wanted my child so desperately and could hardly come to terms with the fact that I had been directly responsible for my own child’s death.”

Anonymous

Daily Mail, December 7, 1989

Quoted in Jenny Bryan Abortion (East Sussex, England: Wayland Publishers Limited, 1991) 44

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Pro-Choice activist on why young people don’t join the movement

Serena Cruz, a pro-abortion activist in Boca Raton, FL, explains why she thinks most young people don’t join the pro-choice movement or fight for legal abortion:

“People of my generation are very consumed with self-interest. [Many people in their 20s] don’t read the newspaper or watch decent news on TV. They don’t know who represents them. They’re really materialistic and into consumerism. It’s not a conscious thing, but it’s out there.”

Victor Green “NOW Aims to Revitalize Energize Movement in S. Florida” Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service April 5, 2002

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