They said it.
“We were told that if anybody asks what happened to say that it didn’t really happen, it’s just a lie that the protesters made up.”
What clinic worker Theresa Jensen Clinic Worker says she was instructed to tell patients after the death of a woman at the clinic. (A-Z Women’s Center)
20/20 A woman’s right, a woman’s risk 3-8-1999
Quoted by Life Dynamics
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A woman who had an abortion at 36 weeks after a doctor told her the baby would not survive wrote about why she wanted them to do a partial birth abortion. A partial birth abortion is done by pulling the baby out of the mother’s body except for the head. Scissors are them jammed into the back of the baby’s skull and the brain suctioned out. Then the dead baby is removed. It is very similar to the way Kermit Gosnell killed his babies but is done with the head inside a woman’s body. These abortions are now illegal.
“It was important to us to have Abigail come out whole, for two reasons. We could hold her. Jon and Katie could say goodbye to their sister. I know in my heart that we have healed in a healthy way because we were able to see Abigail, cuddle her, kiss her. We took photos of her. Swaddled, she looks perfect, like my father, and Jon when he was born. Those pictures are some of my most cherished possessions. …
Almost six years have passed since we lost [killed- my addition] Abigail, and not a day passes that I don’t think of her. In my heart I know I did the right thing for me and my family. Isn’t that what this is all about?”[maybe it’s also about the baby?]
Viki Wilson” Partial healing” Salon June 29,2000
Share on FacebookPro-Abortion author Katie Roiphe admits that abortion kills a life, and people know it:
“The idea that “life begins at birth” is useful politically, but as many have pointed out, in the age of sonograms, of cloudy little hands and feet coming into focus at nine weeks, how many people actually believe it?
Our language betrays our desire. A cluster of cells that is wanted is a “baby,” and one that is unwanted is a “fetus.” One never hears excited parents-to-be referring to the “fetus”; the leap of imagination from fetus to baby is so ordinary, so automatic, so universal that we cannot pretend, even in the realm of political expediency, that it is not so. We can’t try to argue that some clusters of cells are not “life” if we are, say, busy calling our own cluster of cells a baby….
Let’s imagine a scenario in which we admit that abortions may involve an obliteration of something that could legitimately be called life but that they are done to protect something that could also be called life. Planned Parenthood is, after all, in the business of protecting women’s lives, their futures, their ability to pursue education, to establish security, to have homes filled with future children, and their freedom to decide how best to use their short time on earth.”
Katie Roiphe “Good Riddance, “Pro-Choice” Slate JAN. 16 2013
Share on FacebookAuthor Gita Aravamudan writes about one reason why women in India are resorting to infanticide of girl babies:
“A woman who gave birth to girls had no value in her own home. If she produced too many she could be thrown out of her marital home. Her birth family too would reject her. Killing her own daughters, therefore, was an act of self-preservation. If she defied society and kept them alive, she would probably end up alone with the additional burden of bringing up her daughters all by herself.”
Gita Aravamudan Disappearing Daughters: the Tragedy of Female Foeticide (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2007) 35
Share on FacebookIn the 1800s abortion was illegal and medical societies thought abortionists who practiced illegally were the lowest of the low. here is one quote from 1893:
“The medical profession looks upon this crime as one of the most heinous, and as closely allied to infanticide. He who is believed guilty of such a crime could never be received into membership in this or any other medical society; or if a member should so far forget his high calling to be guilty of this crime, his expulsion would quickly follow upon the presentation of adequate evidence of his guilt.”
William Henry Parish “Criminal Abortion,” MSR 68 April 29, 1893 644 – 649
MSR Stands for Medical and Surgical Reporter
Frederick N Dyer The Physicians’ Crusade against Abortion (Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts: science history publications, 2005) 233
Share on FacebookIn an older study (1992) posted her for readers to consider
61% of parents knew about their unmarried teenage daughter’s abortion – 45% were told by the girl, 15% found out some other way
half of teens 15 years old and younger told their mothers while only 2/5 of older teens told their mothers
reasons for not telling their parents:
73% did not want to disappoint them
55% thought they would be angry
32% didn’t want the parents to know they had sex
78% the minor’s boyfriend was involved with the decision, he was 3 times more likely than the minor’s father to be involved. 54% reported that someone had tried to convince them to get an abortion, 40% reported that someone had tried to convince them to see the pregnancy to term
Stanley Henshaw and Kathryn Kost “Parental Involvement in Minor’s Abortion Decisions” Family Planning Perspectives volume 24 number 5 September/October 1992
Quoted in Mei Ling Rein. Abortion: an Eternal Social and Moral Issue (Wylie, Texas: Information Plus Reference Series, 2000)
Share on Facebook“I prefer to look at the problem [of abortion] through the eyes of Darwin and evolution. Why not permit abortion in the first trimester, when the embryo is still a salt water creature …?”
George Crile, Jr., M.D., retired abortionist
“When Does Human Life Begin?” Guest editorial in the Medical Tribune, March 6, 1985.
Below: 9 to 10 week (first trimester) unborn baby- a saltwater creature?
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“Monkey fetuses were more precious, as there were fewer of them available than human fetuses.”
Australian genetics researcher, answering a question as to why he used human fetuses in his experiments rather than monkey fetuses.
Quoted in Mark Kahabka. “Eugenics Revisited.” Fidelity Magazine, July/ August 1988, page 13
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Rickie Solinger talks about how feminist groups stop talking about abortion as a “right” and instead framed it as an issue of “choice” in order to appeal to the public:
“… Until Roe, most activists claimed that “the right to control whether you’re pregnant or not [was] indivisible from the right to self-determination.”
The rights language, however, did not last very long… In a country weary of rights claims, choice became the way liberal and mainstream feminists could talk about abortion without mentioning the “A Word.” Many people believed that “choice” – a term that evoked women shoppers selecting among options in the marketplace – would be an easier sell; it offered “rights lite,” a package less threatening or disturbing and unadulterated rights.”
Rickie Solinger Beggars and Choosers (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001) 5
Share on FacebookThis is very old information, but it’s still interesting to know. According to the Supreme Court, states can pass parental consent or notification laws, but they must provide a judicial bypass. A judicial bypass allows a teenager to go to a judge and plead her case that she does not want to have her parents notified of her abortion. If the judge finds in her favor, she can go ahead and have the abortion without notifying her parents. The point of escape clause was to protect young girls who were victims of abuse and who feared that their parents would beat them or kick them out of the house. However, according to an article in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, August 11, 1988:
From 1981 to 1986, Minnesota judges granted all but 15 of the 3573 petitions for abortions without parental notification.
The judges were rubberstamping the petitions. In granting all but a tiny fraction of petitions, they were allowing teenagers, and, ultimately, the abortion providers who exploited them, to flout the law.
Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993)
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