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Women in the pro-life movement outnumber men; centers helping women outnumber political ones

When commenting on the misconception that most prolife advocates were males and that the pro-life movement was anti-women, Dr. and Mrs. John C. Willke said (in their book):

“We heard the same argument again and again. We did not care about women. But look what was out there! We would soon have 4000 pregnancy help centers in the United States compared to 3000 Right to Life groups. So we had more offices dedicated to helping women than to stopping abortion.

And who staffed them? Well the typical pregnancy help center was 98% female. Yes they might have a male treasurer, and even now and then they would let a man do something else. But it was a woman’s world. Or look at a Right to Life group. Of our 25 members on the board of Cincinnati Right to Life, three fourths were women. Jack represented Ohio on the board of National Right to Life, where three fourths of the delegates were women. Anywhere in the country you went it was the same. If you looked at the pregnancy centers and Right to Life offices combined, you saw that 80% of the activists of the pro-life movement were female. And a majority of the hours expended went toward helping women.”

Dr. and Mrs. John C. Willke Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement: An Inside View (West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2014) 44

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Former Clinic Worker: Charjuana Hogan

Charjuana Hogan worked at Planned Parenthood for 4 years. When she started her job, she was not working with abortions. Her title was reproductive health assistant, and she took care of patients who came in for birth control. The Planned Parenthood branch in Riverside, California, was divided into 2 sections – the surgical side, and the reproductive health side, where everything else was done.

She says:

“I was offered a pay that I have never been offered before, and I looked forward to going to work every day.”

Hogan says that she was never taught the health risks of abortion or even details of the abortion procedure.

According to the article at Live Action, the reality of abortion processes was shielded from most staffers, and only little information was provided when inquired.

“They want you to look like you are helping women out. When they send you for training, they give you justification into why women get abortions.”

The Live Action article said that abortion was always presented to the workers in the most positive terms. Workers were continuously told that they were helping women.

Hogan watched staffers pieced together the bodies of aborted babies, from 5 to 19 weeks, and saw hands and feet, fingers and toes.

“The parts were brought to the lab that the reproductive health and abortion side shared, and the remains were placed into a red biohazard trash bag like it was nothing. It kind of made me sad a little bit when I saw it.

I would just go out of the room, and it would be on my mind at some time and I would shake it off. Since I was still working there, I wanted to be blind….

We had training often on different types of things. I was disturbed after watching a Planned Parenthood training video of women coming in for an abortion. The video said they felt relaxed, and that Planned Parenthood made [the patient] feel comfortable and happy. It was a perception of deception – like some happy product in a store, it popped right out at me.”

Hogan was upset by the number of young girls (14 to 15 years old) who would come for secret abortions during school hours:

“Most patients were young and they didn’t want their parents to know. A lot of the girls that came in there were very uneducated in a lot of things. Working in the front desk, I would think, ‘Why aren’t these young girls at school? If they can’t even fill out this paperwork, what are they doing having sex?’”

She was also troubled by women who came for abortions again and again, essentially using them for birth control. And of course, late-term abortions:

“Women come in at 24 weeks, and I would see them come in that far along. Even if you are deceived about when it becomes a life, you for sure know it’s a life – your stomach is poking way out there.”

A pro-life protester talked to Hogan about religion, and she ended up believing in Jesus and making a new start in life, which led to her quitting the abortion business. She says:

“My message and my dream would be for women to be educated – what is being done to them – and that would make a change. If they know what’s being done to them and when life begins, then there would be a change.”

To find out more about the reason she left the clinic, read the original article

Becky Yeh “Woman quits Planned Parenthood, shares abortion horrors” Live Action MAR 18, 2015

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Counselor talks about postabortion women

“Each post-abortive woman is unique, … but most women no matter the degree of acknowledgement live with the deep secret that she has had an abortion. She will judge herself, feeling guilty, ashamed, measure how people treat her by her view of herself, hating what she did and believing she doesn’t deserve a future or there will be a payback time for the decision she made.”

Margaret Cuthill, a post-abortion counselor

Hilary White, “Abortion can kick-start ‘vicious cycle’ of repeat pregnancies, abortions: UK expert,” 6/4/12

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On converting from pro-choice to pro-life

Abortion activist Kristen Walker Hatten, who converted from pro-choice to pro-life:

“I am pro-life because of information. I was pro-choice because of lack of information.”

Kristen Walker Hatten, “Why I Will Never Go Back to Being Pro-Choice on Abortion,” LifeNews 11/16/12.

You can find a lot of information on this webpage.

Information about abortion’s risks (physical and psychological)

Pictures of aborted babies

Quotes from abortionists

Medical textbooks saying that life begins at conception

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Pro-choice hate mail attacks rape victims

The following disgusting piece of hate mail was received by Carolyn Gargaro, who has a pro-life webpage. The writer of the letter says terrible things about rape victims who carry their babies to term. It’s attitudes like this that push rape victims into abortions they may not really want. Judgemental “pro-choice” people condemning rape victims for having their babies devalues all women, not just rape victims.Warning: Very offensive language

Any women who would choose to have a kid from rape is a dirty stinky slut. Some women out their love that rough sex. No nice girl would choose to have a child from such immoral sickness. My men friends and women friends, when ever we hear of a girl who claims oh she was raped and she thinks she is so innocent and she wants to give birth from the so called rape, we laugh and say what a stinky slut. Your promoting immorality this is not what God want’s. Your wrong about pro choice movement not wanting women to give life. What we are saying is if you want to have children have them. Some people need an abortion because of rape and such. You don’t want to be a stinky slut and choose to have a kid from what you claim is so horrible as rape. If it is so horrible than how could you choose to give birth. My boyfrien says these girls who do this should be put in jail for raping the guy. I know you won’t want to read this because you preach things backwards. You don’t know about the true moral way. Moral values are any thing you want them to be.

This lovely piece of correspondence can be found here.

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Clinic worker describes the hiring process, questions she was asked

A former clinic worker, Tonya P, who never identifies as pro-life in her book, describes how she got a job at the abortion clinic.

“I was beginning to give up hope, and I was starting to think that I had gone to school for nothing, for something that I couldn’t even get a job in, and I was still paying on a student loan. Anyway, I was so glad to hear that it wouldn’t be a problem, ‘cause I’ve been working in the warehouse for two long years and I was tired of working at that warehouse. It was hard work with no good pay…

Their main concern was how I did feel about abortion [sic] and I said that I was pro-choice, and that was all they wanted to hear, and that was the end of the interview.…

Finally, I could work in the field as a medical assistant.”

Tonya P From behind Closed Doors: “Abortions” (Xlibris, 2013) 10 – 11

It is interesting that the clinic didn’t seem to care about Tonya’s lack of medical experience, nor did they question her on her medical skills. All they wanted to hear was that she was pro-choice. That was enough to hire her. Because commitment to the cause, to doing abortions, was more important then anything else. Because it’s hard to find people to work in abortion clinics, mainly because they see things like this on a daily basis.

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Abortion doctor is sued for lying to abortion patient who changed her mind

A lawsuit against abortionist Martin Ruddock has been filed by a woman identified only as SS. This is what the lawsuit says:

In her suit filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Please, S.S maintained that on the first day of what was to be a three-day abortion procedure at Ruddock’s Center for Women’s Health, she was told to sign six informed consent forms before she ever saw Ruddock. This was in direct violation of Ohio law that mandates that a physician must meet with a patient at least 24 hours prior to an abortion in order to provide the patient with certain disclosures about the abortion procedure.

She was then told that on the first and second days of the procedure, Ruddock would insert dilators, known as laminaria, into her cervix and that the abortion would be completed on the third day.

However, instead of waiting 24 hours after consent was given, as required by law, Ruddock began the abortion that same day by inserting three laminaria sticks into the patient’s cervix.

S.S. found this process extremely painful and caused her to have second thoughts about the abortion. She asked Ruddock to stop the abortion.

However, Ruddock refused. He wrongly told her that it was too late for him to stop. He indicated that it not possible for her to withdraw her consent once the procedure began. He also told her that her water had already broken and that if she stopped the abortion, her baby would be born mentally retarded.

Because of this, S.S allowed him to continue inserting the laminaria, a process described in legal papers as “painful and frightening.”

What S.S. did next literally saved her child’s life.

Instead of returning to Ruddock the next day, she went to another doctor who successfully removed the laminaria.

Imagine her surprise when the legitimate doctor informed her that her water indeed had not broken! What Ruddock told her to coerce her into continuing the procedure was simply not true.

The case has gone through 3 Different Court rulings, several of them reversing the ones before. To find out more about the suit, go here.

Also, the abortionist in this case has botched a number of abortions on women. To find out more, go here.

Cheryl Sullenger “Woman having 2nd term abortion changes her mind, what the abortionist does next is shocking” LifeNews 3/17/2015

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Abortionist describes what he does as “simple kindness”

From one anonymous abortionist:

“The woman seeking an abortion receives little in the way of support, smiles, compassion and even pain medication.

I guess this is why I provide abortions. In no other area of modern medicine will simple human kindness produce such dramatic results.”

Morris Wortman “I Won’t Let Fear Stop Me” Newsweek 12/14/1998, Vol. 132 Issue 24, p22. 1p.

Although this abortionist is talking about the women, there are also babies involved in abortion. Here is the result of some “simple human kindness” at 8 weeks

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Former clinic worker alleges that late term abortionist took drugs

From a former clinic worker who worked with the late Dr. George Tiller:

“Tiller often told me that he had been an IV drug abuser, and that he had been through drug/alcohol rehab treatment twice. Tiller kept cases and cases of samples of a potent pain killer prescription drug, in all the closets and storage areas of the clinic. I frequently saw Tiller ingesting these pills, which he told me were for chronic back pain. No record was kept of the receipt of dispensing of these drugs.”

Luhra Tivis swore this in court under penalty of perjury.

The Tiller Report II, Operation Rescue 2004, 2006

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Pro-choice and atheist, woman nevertheless felt remorse over her abortion

One woman shared her abortion story in the journal America:

“A terrible, raw guilt had festered in me for many years. Ever since the day I had walked into a trendy women’s health clinic and filled out the paperwork for what I believed was a simple medical procedure. At the time I was an ardent feminist as well as an atheist. I had studied ethics in graduate school and was fully versed in all the philosophical arguments for and against this particular procedure. I firmly believed that abortion was morally acceptable if performed in the early stages of a pregnancy. I firmly believed that a woman’s rights took precedence over the rights of the fetus.

None of the philosophical articles I had read ever suggested that the “procedure” might be any more life-changing than, say, a tooth extraction. Instead, the articles had led me to believe that some “tissue” would be removed. That would be the end of the story–or so I thought. The articles also failed to mention that I might experience searing pain, so intense that I nearly ripped the hand off the woman who stood by my side, her eyes shining with compassion.

Even though I didn’t believe that what I had done was morally wrong, some instinct told me not to tell people afterwards. So I lived under a crushing weight of secrecy. As the years wore on, I found it puzzling that I never encountered a woman who spoke openly of having an abortion. There seemed to be an invisible veil of shame covering the issue, even among women who apparently saw no moral problems with it.

Gradually I discovered that my heart pulsed to a different beat than my intellect. Every time I saw an infant, my immediate reactions were always the same. “How old would my child be now?” I would agonize. And “What would my child have looked like?”

These questions hounded me for years.”

She returned to her Catholic faith, and one day picked up a book about Mother Theresa:

It didn’t take many pages to convince me that she was an extraordinarily holy woman, but I was perplexed by her vehement rejection of abortion. She’s a virtuous woman, I told myself, but very old-fashioned and seriously out of touch with the realities faced by contemporary women like myself.

One day at Mass the priest read Mother Teresa’s favorite scriptural passage: “Whatever you do to the least of these my little ones, you do unto me.” A claw of grief clutched my heart. Only with great effort did I manage to stem the tide of tears rising within me. In an agonizing moment of guilt, I finally realized why Mother Teresa was so protective of the unborn, the elderly and the dying. She knew who Christ was referring to when he mentioned the “least of these.”

I began having flashbacks in which I relived the experience over and over. Each time, I saw myself walking into the clinic. I saw myself climbing up on the table. I felt the crushing pain. I saw the woman standing beside me holding my hand. Wracked with guilt and selfloathing, I wept. How could I have ended my child’s life?

She went to confession and learned that god had forgiven her, but her pain continued.

Finally, she went through a counseling program and started to find peace.

Murray, L. V. (2001, The least of these. America, 184, 23-24

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