“When an article I wrote about women’s negative experiences of abortion appeared in The Canberra Times in 1997, a family planning figure hastily wrote in to dismiss postabortion trauma. Similar reactions surfaced in a feminist email discussion about my book that lasted several days. The project was treated with contempt by all but two participants. Someone suggested a quick online collection of “stories of women not hurt by abortion” to be compiled. This reaction unnecessarily pits women’s differing stories against each other and, once again, suggests there is only one authentic experiential reality when it comes to abortion.”
Melinda Tankard Reist, quoted in her book Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 20
From Nightline. Reporter Martin Bashir of ABC news interviews Dr. William Harrison, an abortionist.
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) My conscience calls me to do abortions because I consider the mother’s life much, much more important than that tiny little blob of tissue.
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It’s interesting you say it’s a blob of tissue, but as you know after just 21 days, the heart is pumping blood. At 42 days, the child has recordable brain waves. And you are, every day, relentlessly terminating that life, and you’re happy with that?
feet of unborn baby at just seven weeks
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) Am I happy with it? No, but I’m not distressed about it. I would be a lot more distressed if I could not terminate that life for the patient that that life is going to be a disaster for.
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON I’ve had lots of patients who come in for second, third, fourth, fifth, even one who had nine abortions.
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Is that really appropriate?
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) If she needs nine abortions, yeah.
18 year old patient
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Did you see a photograph of the fetus yesterday?
PATIENT (FEMALE) Yes, I did.
12 weeks
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) What effect did that have?
PATIENT (FEMALE) It made it a little more difficult. I think it made me a little more nervous about it.
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Did you consider the possibility of perhaps adoption?
PATIENT (FEMALE) I thought about it. But I really thought that that might be even harder going through the whole pregnancy stage and seeing the child and then having to give it away, I just think would really, really tear me up inside.
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) The most important decision that a woman ever makes is to have a baby. Whether you have an abortion or not is relatively minor. Basically, abortion is a method of birth control. You know, it’s not the best method of birth control. But all it does is stop the birth of a baby that a woman doesn’t want at a time she doesn’t want it.
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DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) I’ve had one of the most emotionally satisfying careers that I can imagine anyone having. I can’t tell you how satisfying it is, when two weeks after a young woman has come in distraught and thinking that her life is ruined, and she comes back two – two weeks after the abortion and she is a new woman. She’s been given her life back.
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And for her to be born again, you’ve had to kill the fetus.
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) Uh-huh. That’s right.
MARTIN BASHIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And that’s a fair exchange?
DOCTOR WILLIAM HARRISON (PHYSICIAN) That’s a fair exchange.
MARTIN BASHIR “THE ABORTIONIST” Nightline (ABC), 1/11/2006
Former counselor who worked at an abortion clinic shortly after abortion was legalized:
“It blows my mind, thinking about it now, about how much power we [the counselors] had… If one of the doctors they hired was causing too much pain or saying disgusting things to patients, we’d run into the director’s office and get him fired. Unfortunately, the honeymoon period didn’t last too long though.”
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 36
Nowadays, due to the shortage of abortionists, clinics are having to tolerate more and more from abortionists. Clinics can no longer afford to fire abortion doctors unless there is a TRULY egregious reason.
Read about abortion doctors in the disrespectful way they have treated women here, here, and here.
In an AP article, David Crary described how some volunteer operated crisis pregnancy centers were offering abortion minded women ultrasounds so that they could see their unborn babies before making a decision whether or not to have an abortion.
From the article:
“Convinced that a look inside the womb will dissuade many pregnant women from abortion, anti-abortion activists hope to provide ultrasound equipment to hundreds of pregnancy centers that promote alternatives like adoption.”
1st trimester 3d ultrasound
Gloria Feldt, then president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
“They’re using medical technology as political propaganda.”
Feldt also, says, of the centers that show women ultrasounds:
“They don’t provide true medical care. What they do is malpractice, by not giving women unbiased information on all their options.”
Kate Michelman, then president of the national pro-choice group NARAL, now NARAL Pro-Choice America, commented:
“It never fails to amaze me how little respect they have for women’s capacity to understand what goes on in our bodies. I faced a crisis pregnancy after having three children, and I didn’t need anyone to show me a sonogram to inform me that my pregnancy would result in giving birth to a person.”
Michelman says that these centers:
“have one purpose in mind – to intimidate women out of choosing abortion, and using government money to do that. That is wrong.”
In contrast to pro-life pregnancy centers, abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood clinics, which are funded by tax money, often lie and mislead women about the development of the unborn baby. They are nearly always turn the ultrasound screen away, and often refuse to let a woman see the picture, even if she asks to see it.
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, “Is It Possible to Be Pro-Life and Pro-Choice?” Parade, April 22, 1990, 4
Carl Sagan may be a scientist, but he is obviously not a geneticist or embryologist. Science teaches that life begins at conception – when the DNA from the mother and the father combined to form a unique, genetically distinct organism, which is a human being in an early stage of development.
Also, abortion kills an embryo or fetus, not a sperm or egg cell. By just 21 days after conception, the developing baby has a heartbeat. Very few abortions are done before this time.
Seven-week-old unborn baby – most abortions are done at this time or laterPicture of a seven-week-old baby after she as been abortedShare on Facebook
Eight weeks old – most abortions are done around this time or later
From late-term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern:
“At times, medical considerations enter into the picture, but decisions are usually made on the basis of such factors as desire or lack of desire for parenthood, stability of relationships, educational status, emotional status, or economic status, among others.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) 39
Keep in mind too that this is a late-term abortionist. He performs abortions up to 24 weeks and beyond at his clinic in Boulder. What he is saying is that even in the case of late-term abortion, most of them are not done for medical reasons. Read more about late-term abortion here
Unborn baby killed a 24 weeks – this child was probably poisoned in utero
Women’s Medical Services in Muskegon, Michigan was closed in December of 2012 when fire marshals found horrible conditions there. The report, which can be read here. found 11 violations including “unsterilised medical equipment”, “combustible materials stored near ignition sources” and “hazardous materials not stored in cabinets.”
Here are some pictures of the clinic:
Remember, this clinic was doing SURGERY. Women were exposed to these filthy conditions.
Still think clinics don’t need to be licensed, regulated, or inspected? Still think there is no need for laws saying that they must meet the minimum requirements for other surgical facilities?
See more about bad conditions in this clinic and others at Operation Rescue.
Abortionist Bruce Ferguson quit doing abortions. When an undercover pro-lifer asked why he was decided to stop doing abortions. he said:
“[I’m] just leaving the practice, retiring. Stemming to my health, my family and my sanity… The past several years, each year has been a little slower than the year before as far as numbers of patients, so… It’s just time to let someone else carry on the burden.”
It is understandable that ripping unborn babies (like the one below) from the womb and examining their dismembered bodies is emotionally taxing after a while. I hope this abortionist finds help, perhaps through And Then There Were None, Abby Johnson’s ministry to former clinic workers and abortionists.
8 week old unborn baby – most abortions are done at this time or laterFrom a baby aborted at eight weeksShare on Facebook
A Christian pro-choice activist said the following:
This is a picture of a foot left behind after an abortion at nine weeks
“More than anything else, being able to choose and being affirmed in that choice gives a woman peace. Knowing that God is with her in the abortion decision and that the church upholds her moral authority to make the decision brings a woman into deeper communion with the One from whom all life springs. It becomes a part of that list of things that cannot separate us from the love of God.”
Bunnie Riebel, Founding Director, Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, Southern California
Anne Eggebroten, ed Abortion: My Choice, God’s Grace (Pasadena, California: New Paradigm Books, 1994) X I I
The Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights is active in supporting legalized abortion. It is an organization made up of religious leaders and lay people who oppose pro-lifers trying to protect unborn babies.
Ryan Marquiss is a little boy who doctors said would not survive. His mother was pressured to abort because Ryan’s heart was developing outside his body. Many, many women would have aborted in this situation, but Ryan’s parents decided to fight for their son. From an article in the Trib:
“From his high chair in their Franklin Park home, Ryan Marquiss watched his mother make breakfast and help his sister, Natalie, 7, get ready for school. He finished eating his toast and lifted his hands triumphantly.
His sister, Ainsley, 5, rushed over to kiss his cheek, making him giggle. He pulled his T-shirt over his head, exposing his chest. His heart, formed outside his chest cavity and covered only by a thin layer of skin, beat visibly.
Ainsley cupped her hand over the pulsating heart, and Ryan, 2, squealed with delight as she tried to push it into his chest.”
Leighann and Henry Marquiss are his parents. Leighann describes how doctors initially pressured her to have an abortion:
“Over and over, they told us that my baby would not live past 20 weeks, that I should just terminate now. … Maybe now they’ll stop saying that to other mothers.”
The defect was discovered when Ryan was only 12 weeks old – a stage when abortion is legal and common.
From his mother:
“He’s just a normal boy,” Leighann said, watching the morning scene in her kitchen nearly three years later. “He falls down and scrapes his knees. He says, ‘Mommy, mommy, mommy.’ He plays with his sisters.”
