Clinic shows woman supposed abortion remains, deceives her

A woman who had an abortion recalls that clinic workers offered to show her the remains of her aborted baby. She was 10 weeks along. However, the clinic showed her a lump of tissue, not consistent with the remains of a 10 week abortion. The clinic deceived her.

“One of the younger nurses came in and she was real nice, and she said, “Would you like to see what we extracted?” And I said, “yeah.” I had never heard of them doing this before. But she came in carrying this little silver pan and she said, “This is it.” It was just a little blob, it didn’t look like anything. I thought, “No big deal.” I’m so glad I saw that. Because you hear that at 10 weeks it’s fully formed, and on and on. And it probably is, but it was covered up, it didn’t look like anything. Like chicken fat. Bloody mess or something.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 82

Here are the legs of a 10 week old preborn baby. At this stage, the child is fully formed.

10 weeks

You can see the delicate veins running under the skin. Below is a picture of an aborted baby at 10 weeks.

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Obviously, the clinic deceived her.

 

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Abortion clinics are businesses, don’t like protesters

From Lauren Bianchi, of the pro-choice group FURIE:

“I don’t know exactly when escorting started but it was a response to an awful wave of terrorism, when antiabortion protesters would chain themselves to the doors to keep people from getting in. Clinics are businesses. They don’t want people standing around outside. [Activists] thought they should be allowed to have clinic-defense protests. When I was an escort, I was told that patients can’t tell the difference [between protesting factions].”

Aimee Levitt  “Chicago feminist group FURIE takes on antiabortion marchers this Sunday” Chicago Reader FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016

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Abortionist under oath describes “small coffins” for aborted babies

From a summary of testimony partial-birth abortion ban:17-wks

No sentiment is detected in Dr. Westoff’s description about the baby’s “tiny face and a relatively large head” and how stabbing the head with scissors or her own finger causes it to look “a little wrinkly and collapsed, but the facial structures are not disturbed at all by that procedure.” Even the “small coffins” and “little hats” available to “cover the back of the head where the incision had been made” [if the woman wants to see the baby after the abortion] are discussed with a insouciant air.

Emotions appear only when the question arises of fetal pain. Even then, the emotion is anger that the question was asked.

CATHY CLEAVER RUSE “Forum: Abortion trials and tribulations” The Washington Times April 24, 2004

You can read testimony from the partial-birth abortion ban trials here.

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Abortionist: we hire people based on political commitment

Susan Poppema, abortionist:

“We choose people to work [at the clinic] based on their political commitment as well as their medical capabilities. We can teach people what they need to know medically, but we cannot teach them political commitment; we can encourage it, but we can’t teach that as well.”

Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 189

it does not inspire confidence to know that clinic workers had to be taught how to perform medical tasks.

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Abortion clinic workers instructed on words to use – avoid “baby”

From a woman who interviewed abortion clinic workers at several clinics described her observation:

“… A good deal of time was devoted to “word sensitization” – the need to choose one’s words with extraordinary care when discussing the abortion procedure with clients.… The most interesting problem was how to refer to the product of the abortion. Although it was acknowledged that many clients would refer to this as the “baby,” or the “pregnancy,” new counselors were, not surprisingly, urged not to use these charged terms, but instead to use the more neutral, though admittedly more awkward, “product of conception” or “tissue.”

Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 94

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Woman who had two abortions: I need to mature and grow

A woman who had 2 abortions said:

Ultrasound of baby at 7 weeks. This baby would've been torn apart and dismembered in an abortion at this stage.
Ultrasound of baby at 7 weeks. This baby would’ve been torn apart and dismembered in an abortion at this stage.

“This is not right for my soul’s growth at this time. You can basically say to the child, I’m not equipped to help you grow up right yet. I’m not grown up myself. I choose not to let you into my life for your benefit. I need to mature, I need to grow.”

Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 94

 

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6 weeks after abortion, woman cries all night

From a book that told the stories of postabortion women:

“20-year-old Rickie, who is a Black Muslim, opposes abortion and has been mad at herself since she had an abortion 6 weeks ago. She had the hardest time the night after the abortion. She recalls, “I woke up in the middle of the night and I felt so bad. I was crying all night. I felt really low, like I was the stupidest person on earth.”

Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 53

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Woman who had 3 abortions: getting teeth pulled was a bigger deal

From a book that told the stories of postabortion women:

“… One forty-four-year-old who had 3 abortion since her 20s notes, “it was like getting 4 molars pulled. I consider that a bigger deal, because you can’t eat for like 4 weeks.”

Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: a Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 28

10 weeks
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I need to be more “rational” and have an abortion, says woman

From a woman who was being told by everyone to have an abortion, but had doubts:

“I thought, maybe I’m crazy because I’m the only one who can’t see that this is the logical thing to do. Maybe I’m being too emotional. Maybe I should be more rational.”

Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 18

She ended up having the abortion and regretting it.

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Van equipped with ultrasound saves unborn lives

“We average two or three turnarounds per day. We average about 800 saves a year just at the mobile facility.”

Pro-Lifer Chris Slattery, president of EMC Frontline.

EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers has a van equipped with ultrasound machines. Volunteers park in front of abortion clinics and attempt to reach abortion minded women.

Jaboy Rivera is one such success story. She said that she owes her child’s life to Slattery’s mobile-ultrasound unit. Scheduled for an abortion, she had a pregnancy test and ultrasound on the bus and learned that she was 15 weeks pregnant. Her boyfriend wanted her to have an abortion.

“If I wouldn’t have seen the sonogram and my baby moving, I would have done it.  I thank those with the bus for not letting me do it. I give thanks that I didn’t do it.”

Tim Drake “Ultrasound Hits the Road” National Catholic Register August 28-September 10, 2011

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