They said it.
A study found that:
At 21 weeks, abortion is 91 times more dangerous to the mother than carrying the child to term.
Bartlett, Linda A., et al. “Risk Factors for Legal Induced Abortion-Related Mortality in the United States.” Obstetrics & Gynecology, vol. 103, no. 4, Apr. 2004, pp. 729–737
Cited in: Catherine Glenn Foster, Steven H. Aden, ed. UNSAFE: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women (Americans United for Life, 2021)
Share on FacebookFrom the pro-choice book
“The practice of conscience-based refusal (conscientious objection) arises when health professionals refuse to provide certain services based on religious, moral, or philosophical objections. Refusal to provide services…is an increasing barrier to women’s access to timely abortion services across Europe where effective regulation of the practice is scant…
The number of objecting providers appears to be increasing in some countries without effective responses to ensure access to lawful abortion services. For instance, in Italy, where there is a law requiring providers to register their refusal to provide abortions, the Ministry of Health has reported that between 2003 and 2007, the number of gynaecologists invoking conscience in their refusal to perform an abortion rose from 58.7% to 69.2%.”
Christina Zampas “Legal and Political Discourses on Women’s Right to Abortion” in Sylvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal and Lorena Anton, eds. A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe (New York: Berghahn, 2017)
Source for statistic: Italy, Ministry of Health “Report on the Ministry of Health on the Performance of the Law Containing Rules for the Social Care Of Maternity and Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy: 2006 – 07” (Rome, 2008)
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Share on FacebookAuthor and post-abortive woman Teresa LeGault tells her story. She was in college when she got pregnant. It was 1974, a year after Roe vs. Wade:
“I knew nothing about terminating an unwanted pregnancy or about the development of a life within. I might have been a university student, but I was quite dumb and gullible…
I was afraid and alone. There were no alternate places to turn for help and advice. My parents were in the Middle East, consulting a counselor or church was a foreign idea at the time, nor were crisis pregnancy centers yet in existence…
I also hadn’t picked up on the devastating change that took place in my dorm roommate after a quiet, but alternating, decision between her and her boyfriend.
That’s probably because I had not yet reached the point where I could recognize what self-devaluation, emotional breakdown and the posture from bad decisions look like.
Blithely, I drove in the direction of Corpus Christi, Texas. There I went without much thought about what I was doing or what was going to happen; all I knew was that it was going to cost $45 to get the abortion. Amazingly, it took less than one year to make abortion a mindless practice for women with a pregnancy…
I was lying on the table with the doctor and nurse working on the other side of the sheet, discussing a local high school athlete, when suddenly the doctor announced, “Oh! There’s another one.” What? Two? Everything inside me cried out “No!” but not a sound or movement came from my horrified body and soul.
Not until that very moment, did I realize I was killing life, my child, actually two children, and my mind was racing. How can I stop this? But I just allowed one to be removed and now they were removing the second.
There was consternation afterwards… Soon after, I saw my old boyfriend at the restaurant where I worked, sitting with a girl who looked a lot like me, and I instantly ran to the restroom and spontaneously threw up. I didn’t throw up because I was “hurt.” No, all feelings were gone; I threw up because I saw the whole picture and knew the error of my ways.
Next, I proceeded to quit my job, quit school and aimlessly drove to California, living a truly “stupid” life for a while, because basically what was the point of anything, anymore, after abortion?…
The full truth about a pregnancy is intentionally withheld from girls and women who are having abortions, as of hiding the realities makes it okay.
We don’t talk about it because to do so now is against the accustomed practice, the mainstream and those voices of certain women we are supposed to herald. But harm was done to me then, and it continues for other girls now.”
Teresa LeGault 2020 Sentiments of an American Woman: The History and Future of Women and Abortion (100X Publishing, 2020) 14 – 16
Share on FacebookJulie Cook, national director of Abortion Grief Australia, who works with post-abortive men and women, told the following story of a case of suicide after abortion:
“A woman called recently crying hysterically. It would have been her wedding day, she was inconsolable. Her fiance had taken his life a few weeks before. She had been pregnant and thought it was too soon to add a baby to their relationship, so went for an abortion and didn’t say a word.
When he found out he was overcome with grief and took his life. It’s not uncommon. This is something we must recognise and discuss more openly as a society.”
CORRINE BARRACLOUGH “Corrine Barraclough: Piecing together the pain of loss for men after abortion” The Daily Telegraph June 3, 2017
Share on FacebookResearcher Kevin Sherlock documented this case of a woman who died after having a brain aneurysm at an abortion facility:
“Maria Soto, a 32-year-old married Hispanic woman, was set to undergo an abortion at Her Medical Clinic on September 9, 1985, when the events that cost her life took place.
A staffer prepared Maria for the abortion, gave her a mixture of lidocaine (an anesthetic), epinephrine (adrenaline), atropine (a pre-anesthetic) and Librium (a tranquilizer) as a paracervical block, and then left her unattended. Maria suffered a seizure, fell off the table she was lying on, hyperventilated, then slipped into a coma.
Maria was transferred to a California hospital, where she died that night…
The autopsy report said a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a brain aneurysm killed Maria. The examiner ruled that the fall Maria took while unattended played no part in her death, because he couldn’t find any evidence of blunt force trauma. He also downplayed the effects that the preabortion drugs Maria received might have played in her death…
Maria might have been unlucky. But the fact that she was left unattended and was allowed to fall from a table after receiving the kinds of drugs she did doesn’t speak well of the care she received at Her.”
Source: Los Angeles County Coroner Case No. 85 – 11579
Maria’s situation is different from other women in this category because her death was not officially caused by her abortion. Still, she seems to have received poor care at the abortion facility. It is unknown whether she would’ve survived her brain hemorrhage if it had occurred somewhere else – her death may or may not have been preventable.
Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 42
Share on FacebookPro-choice activist Noah Millman argued that pro-life legislation banning sex-selective abortions wasn’t needed because they weren’t happening, then contradicted himself by saying:
The problem with [the] proposal is that it’s not entirely clear there is a problem. Sex-selection abortion is a huge tragedy in parts of Asia, but to the extent it’s happening in this country, it’s mostly among Asian immigrants.
Noah Millman WHEN IS A PROBLEM NOT A PROBLEM? States News Service June 1, 2012
One wonders why Millman does not seem to think that Asian immigrants are very important.
Share on FacebookWhen pro-lifers tried to pass PRENDA, the law that would have banned the abortion of babies on the sole basis of their sex, pro-choice activists managed to kill the bill. Pro-life legislators highlighted no fewer than six studies that showed that sex-selection abortions are taking place in the U.S.
This was documented in Cheryl Wetzstein “Bill to ban abortions for sex selection defeated; 246-168 vote far short of passage” The Washington Times June 1, 2012
Share on FacebookA pro-abortion activist admits that abortions happen because the baby is a girl and the couple wants a boy:
As a movement, we need to have a social debate about the merits of abortion for sex selection in a world that not only privileges but “chooses” male babies … [T]he preference for male children is clearly alive and well domestically and abroad …
research suggests that there is indeed a cross-cultural preference for boys. It is irresponsible to promote sex selection without acknowledging the misogyny still rampant throughout our world and with no thought for what that could mean to future generations.
Pandora L. Leong “I’m Not Sorry” Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006)
Share on FacebookFrom abortion worker Judith Fetrow, who worked for Planned Parenthood:
“When I started at Planned Parenthood, I saw two types of women working at the clinic. One group were women who had found some way to deal with the emotional and spiritual toll of working with abortion. The second group were women who had closed themselves off emotionally. They were the walking wounded. You could look in their eyes, and see that they were emotionally dead. Unavailable for themselves, or for anyone else.”
“Is Abortion Good for Women” Rachel MacNair, Angela Kennedy. Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the Issue of Abortion (Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 1997) 82
Share on FacebookWendy Simonds is a pro-choice author who observed abortions and interviewed abortion workers for her book Abortion at Work. She included a chapter on how abortion workers fought against pro-lifers, who she calls “anti-choice.”
She quotes one abortion worker saying:
“It’s just- I mean it looks like a baby. It looks like a baby. And especially if you get one that comes out, that’s not piecemeal. And you know, I saw this one, and it had its fingers in its mouth…it makes me really sad that that had to happen, you know, but it doesn’t change my mind. It’s just hard. And it makes me just sort of stop and feel sad about it, the whole necessity of it. And also….it’s very warm when it comes into the sterile room because it’s been in the mother’s stomach. It feels like flesh, you know…”
“Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic” by Wendy Simonds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996
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