“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. ….
aboted at 15 weeks
No matter how flexible you make my work schedule, my entire life would be overturned by a baby. I like my life how it is, with my ability to do what I want when I want without having to arrange for a babysitter. I like being able to watch True Detective right now and not wait until baby is in bed. I like sex in any room of the house I please. I don’t want a baby. I’ve heard your pro-baby arguments. Glad those work for you, but they are unconvincing to me. Nothing will make me want a baby.”
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aborted at 10 weeks
“Adoption? Fuck you, seriously. I am not turning my body over for nine months of gaining weight and puking and being tired and suffering and not being able to sleep on my side and going to the hospital for a bout of misery and pain so that some couple I don’t know and probably don’t even like can have a baby. I don’t owe that couple a free couch to sleep on while they come to my city to check out the local orphans, so I sure as shit don’t own them my body. I like drinking alcohol and eating soft cheese. I like not having a giant growth protruding out of my stomach. I hate hospitals and like not having stretch marks.”
aborted at 11 weeks
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This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion. Given the choice between living my life how I please and having my body within my control and the fate of a lentil-sized, brainless embryo that has half a chance of dying on its own anyway, I choose me.
Abortion activist Laurence Lader on the abortion pill:
“Two of the pill’s important attributes are its effectiveness and safety… It works by producing a heavy menstrual flow, virtually equivalent to a woman’s normal period. There is no sign of an actual person, nothing resembling a possible finger or toe.… An objective observer could scarcely claim that anything had been “killed.”
Laurence Lader. A Private Matter: RU-486 And the Abortion Crisis (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1995)
Also from that book, the comments of Dr. Elizabeth Aubeny:
Dr. William Rashbaum was a late-term abortionist who performed over 20,000 late-term abortions are taught over 100 doctors how to do these procedures. In an article about him, the author describes a woman who came into abort her pregnancy at 18 weeks. She was aborting because the baby was going to be handicapped. From the author:
18 weeks
“She’s not sure she wants to know the details. It’s difficult to relinquish her role of protecting a fetus that has grown inside her for four and a half months. Welling up with tears again, she asks if it will feel pain. She doesn’t want to hear much more. “I just want to make sure you get all of it out,” she pleads. “Don’t leave anything in there.”….
“Once a person becomes accustomed to inflicting pain, he becomes callous in other ways.
One of my teachers, a very clever professor, who performed many abortions, turned very cold in his attitude towards women. He didn’t care about them at all. He was unaffected by their physical and emotional pain. He had an academic detachment from women in their feelings. Yes, I think doctors who do abortions become dehumanized. They have to.”
Mary Arnold “Abortion Burnout” Catholic Twin Cir., August 1984 4
The Clergy Consultation Service is an organization of clergy members – priests, rabbis, reverends, and pastors – who help connect women with abortionists. These clergy members refer women in their parishes to local abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood utilizes many such clergy members. However, the clergy members do not do this for free:
In one year alone, the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clergy consultation service received $250,000 in kickbacks from clinics to which they referred women for abortions.
John and Barbara Willke Handbook on Abortion (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing Company, Inc., 1979) 98
Remains from an abortion at just 7 weeks – most abortions are done at this stage or later
Many Christians would believe that these clergy members are not acting the way Jesus would want them to.
Dr. William Rashbaum, now deceased, was profiled in a 2003 article. At the time the article was written, he had performed over 21,000 late-term abortions. The article says of Raushbaum:
24 weeks – this baby would be dismembered in the type of abortion that Doctor Raushbaum performed
TRAINED IN an era when doctors were considered gods, Rashbaum is gruff, confrontational, and downright abrasive. He flaunts medical conventions at will, rankling nurses and orderlies, if it serves his needs. When the orderlies take too long preparing his operating room between procedures, he goes in and embarrasses them into efficiency by helping to clean up. He boasts, “They turn my room over much faster than any other room.” First- and second-year OB/GYN residents dread his cases. “It was always a fight about who had to do them,” says a former intern.
From a D&E abortion at 21 weeks
Cases such as his are certainly the most technically difficult of all abortions. As pregnancy moves closer to 24 weeks (the upper legal limit in most states, with rare exceptions made to preserve a woman’s life or health), the risk to the patient increases, even with the preferred method for second-trimester abortions — dilation and evacuation, or D&E for short. During the procedure, in which both vacuum and surgical instruments are used, the fetus is either removed in pieces or delivered more or less intact. In the operating room, Rashbaum readily yells at the top of his lungs at residents working with forceps inside a woman’s uterus, where he can’t see what they’re doing, to make sure they are as nervous as he is. “It’s not the best way to teach,” he admits. “Calm, cool, collected is better, but a tough screaming is not ineffective.”
The article also quotes Raushbaum as saying:
“As long as I can make a contribution, I enjoy what I do.”
The article also says:
He has trained close to 100 doctors to do D&Es, some of whom have gone on to train others
REBECCA PALEY “Cruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all” The Boston Phoenix Dec 2003
From a pro-choice publication on debating the abortion issue:
The [pro-life] opposition will hammer away at life and murder themes —matters of theology and faith, rather than fact and reason. Dispose of these as quickly as possible (avoid the “When does life begin?” discussion) …
Looseleaf workbook “Organizing for Action.” National Abortion Rights Action League, 1974, page 31. “Introduction to Debating.”
An article tells the story of one woman, identified as ‘Nichole Anderson,’ who had a methotrexate abortion. Methotrexate is a drug that has legitimate medical uses – it is used to fight cancer and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. However, it can also cause an abortion when injected or taken in pill form. While not as commonly used as the abortion pill formally known as RU-486, methotrexate can also be used in some clinics.
At night, after Nichole Anderson found out she was pregnant, she would take her boyfriend’s hand and lay it across her stomach. “Can you feel our baby growing inside me?” she longed to say. But he would snatch his hand away. He wanted Anderson to get an abortion. Their wedding would be in September, nine months away. It was enough to prepare himself to become a husband, let alone a father.
She took the shot of methotrexate at the clinic and:
That evening the contractions started. At 11:30, lying on her bathroom floor, Anderson passed a blood clot the size of her fist. She flushed it down the toilet.
The following week, Anderson was in such physical pain that she could barely walk. For the rest of the month, she continued to bleed spottily. But worse was her depression. She tried to talk to her boyfriend, but he always changed the subject. A month after the procedure, he told Anderson they were through. She says she envies his ability to walk away from the situation. “If I could have stopped what I felt and walked away, I’d have done it, too.”
A few days after he left, Anderson began hemorrhaging. She drove herself to the hospital, where she was scolded by the doctor: “If you had let nature take its course, you wouldn’t be having these problems.” Even after the bleeding stopped, Anderson felt increasingly alone. In February, she slit her wrists but survived. A friend told her about a crisis pregnancy center in downtown Richmond, where she met other women who felt devastated by their abortions. Slowly, her psychological torment began to ease.
In September, Anderson finally put away the crib she had kept in her room for several months. She painted a watercolor that reminds her of the ultrasound of her fetus and hung it in her apartment. Around her neck is a gold charm in the shape of a baby, set with an August birthstone, the month her child would have been born. “I don’t want another woman to have to feel this,” she says, explaining her decision to discuss her abortion. “It’s time for women as a group to stand up and say ‘This hurts me.’
Elise Ackerman, Cheryl L. Reed, Ilan Greenberg, Natela Cutter and Jill Jordan Sieder “Who Gets Abortions and Why” US News and World Report Jul 7, 2011
There is a shortage of abortion doctors in America today. For example, one Planned Parenthood worker explained how her clinic had a hard time finding medical staff:.
“Piercy said the All Women’s clinic has had some financial struggles. It has had to bring in a doctor from Portland to perform abortions and had trouble hiring a medical director, she said.”
Kitty Piercy, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwest Oregon, based in Eugene.
TIM CHRISTIE “Clinic’s shutdown leaves void” The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) July 18, 2002
