They said it.
“Abortion has always been viewed as a kind of subterranean thing. Children don’t go around saying, “my father is an abortionist.”
Gary Romalis, abortionist
Vancouver Sun, October 20, 1997 Quoted by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in Access: The Key to Pro-Life Victory
Share on FacebookFrom an interview with pro-life activist Joe Scheidler:
Q: When you debate leaders on the proabortion side, and you show them these pictures of what are clearly dead, and mutilated corpses of unborn children, how do they respond?
A: They say, “You have broken the rules. We’re not supposed to show pictures.” They say that we paint these pictures, or that it was really a baby that was killed and some other way. They’ll try anything when confronted with it to try to divert attention from it. If you get on a television talk show, they will not let you use the pictures, but I always have them lying there are in a folder nearby to keep them nervous.”
David Kuperlian and Mark Masters “Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions, 1990
An unborn baby at 8 weeks:
A photo of a baby aborted at this age:
From one Abortionist:
“[You] have a hard time answering the questions that other people ask you about what you do… You come to not feel so good about what you’re doing even when you thought you were doing something wonderful.”
American Medical News, July 19, 1993
Quoted by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in Access: Key to Pro-Life Victory
Share on FacebookFrom a proabortion clergy member:
“Clearly, giving a woman the right to abortion is a compassionate stand, and anytime compassion rules over judgment, we see the kingdom of God.
I can’t get any of these Bible thumping, antiabortion people to show me any place at all scripture where Jesus ever says, “You made your bed, now lie in it. Too bad…”
I see Jesus as being outrageously gracious, outrageously forgiving. If Jesus were right here today, I think he would say, “I’m sad that anyone has to have an abortion. I’m sad that has to be a choice. But you’ve been created as human beings… You’re going to make mistakes. Yes, I do value life, I do value babies, but I don’t use babies for punishment.”
The Rev. Christine Gimbol
Quoted in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991)87
Share on FacebookPlanned Parenthood of Golden Gate was closed a while back, but a number of women posted negative reviews on Yelp. Here’s one example:
Share on FacebookI have never before had a bad experience with planned parenthood – the long waits are usually worth it for the discounted services and my depleted wallet rejoices at such things.
However, I was diagnosed flat out with HPV after an extremely cursory exam. Some sort of acid was applied to me without the doctor even asking permission – she just simply explained as she was applying it so I couldn’t even interject. There was no helpful consultation and one page flier was thrust into my hands as I began to ask questions.
After completely freaking out and spending the next 24 hours straight calling exes, researching online, and having a mental breakdown – I went to a more experienced (albeit far more expensive) gyno who assured me he saw absolutely no trace of HPV and thoroughly tested me for everything under the sun.
What if I hadn’t gotten a second opinion? The doctor was irresponsible – I don’t care how busy it was that day. I was glad to learn a scary lesson without the consequence, but that is ridiculous. To this day I think about whether or not I should have pursued the issue with PP, but I don’t think anything would come of it and I was just so relieved at my clean bill of health.
PLEASE! If PP diagnoses you with something, do NOT hesitate to get a second opinion.
Gita Aravamudan wrote a book about the gender imbalance in China, India, and a number of other countries, brought about by the infanticide and abortion of girl babies. She describes the coming crisis as more and more men are unable to find partners, and chronicles how population control activists helped fuel the crisis. From her book:
One Indian woman, Lakshmi who had a living 4-year-old daughter and whose 2nd daughter died under mysterious circumstances (suspected infanticide) was 7 months pregnant and considered “high risk”was interviewed by the author. One of the men standing around her said:
“Look at her. If she has one more girl what will she do? Think of all the expenses. Think of all the clothes she will have to buy, the jewelry she will have to make. Think of the coming of age ceremony she will have to perform, the varadatchinai and seer varisai she will have to give. Where do you think the money will come from? One girl is bad enough…”
From Lakshmi herself:
“It is all very well for you town people to speak. You can afford to have yourself tested by machines and kill the girl child even when it is in the womb. In what way is that less of a crime? Is that not also killing? Has any town woman been arrested for that?”
Gita Aravamudan Disappearing Daughters: the Tragedy of Female Foeticide (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2007) 10-11
Lakshmi has a point. Is it so different to kill a baby right before birth or to kill her right after? Abortions for sex selection are by definition late-term abortions because the sex of the baby cannot be determined until 18 – 20 weeks.
A number of former clinic workers have reported that most of the women who worked at abortion clinics had had abortions themselves. David Reardon describes the reasons why aborted women might be drawn to working in clinics and what this means for women who go in for abortions.
“Aborted women who work as counselors are almost invariably victims of a disturbing abortion experience themselves. On one level, they choose to work in clinics in the hope of preventing other women from experiencing the traumas which they had faced and may still be facing. But on a deeper level, they returned to the abortion clinic in the hope of easing the gilts and traumas which they themselves are still experiencing.
For many women who have been deeply disturbed by their own abortion experiences, working as an abortion counselors away of hardening themselves to the wrong unforgettable experiences. By “returning to the scene of the crime,” some women seek to reenact their own abortion decisions through the decisions of others. In this sense, the aborted counselor has a high stake in the final decision of her clients. By watching others choose abortion for the same reasons that she did, she is able to reaffirm the “rightness” of her own decision. In contrast, however, when an aborted counselor witnesses a client suddenly choose against abortion and boldly accept the challenges of an unplanned pregnancy, the counselor may become cynical, ashamed, and envious.
In fact, one abortionist wrote about how the women who worked as abortion counselors in this clinic HAD TO have had abortions. All the better to sell them! Could this explain why some clinic workers pressure women into having abortions? Reardon goes on to say:
Two WEBA women who had worked in counseling or hospital situations that brought them into contact with women seeking abortions have described how immersion in abortion can be soothing to troubled conscience. According to one, “I found that in talking to other women about abortion, their decisions to abort satisfied something in me. It made me feel better about what I had done… [It] strengthened my own decisions to abort.”
Another woman found comfort in being surrounded by people costly repeating pro-abortion rhetoric as justification for their work: “there’s safety in numbers. I didn’t really feel awful about my abortion as long as everyone where I worked was patting me on the back.”
He also says:
“The importance of denying the reality of abortion sheds additional light on why abortion clinics consistently oppose informed consent requirements, especially requirements for discussing the relevant stage of fetal development. In refusing to provide informed consent, abortion providers are obstensibly “protecting” the woman seeking abortion from disturbing and “confusing” facts. But it may also be true that abortion personnel are seeking to protect themselves from the same disturbing facts. The requirement to tell women the facts about fetal development, day after day, would destroy the wall of denial, which holds clinics together. By focusing attention on the unborn, informed consent requirements were not only compel women to consider the moral consequences of their acts, they would also force abortion counselors to face their own moral doubts about abortion.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 256-257
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From a pro-lifer
“One abortion activist I’ve had the pleasure of associating with in public spectacles was insistent before an audience that most abortions occur so early in fetal development that all you’re dealing with is a “tiny, tiny, tiny little spot of blood.”
Camille S. Williams “Feminism and Imaging the Unborn” in Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) 69
Pro-life author Randy Alcorn talks about how pictures show the humanity of the unborn child, and how pro-choicers don’t like to face their reality:
“Still, denial remains surprisingly strong. When I showed an intrauterine photograph of an eight-week unborn child to a pro-choice advocate—an intelligent college graduate—she asked me, “Do you really think you’re going to fool anyone with this trick photography?”
I told her she could go to Harvard University Medical School textbooks, Life magazine or Nilsson’s A Child Is Born and find exactly the same pictures. She didn’t want to hear it. Why? Because she was really saying, “That’s obviously a child in this photograph, and because I don’t want to believe abortion kills a child, I refuse to believe that’s a real photograph.”
Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)
This photo from The Endowment for Human Development, a site affiliated with the Department of Health, which is not a pro-life or religious site. It is pictures like these that abortion proponents claim are false. See more pictures like this one as well as videos of unborn babies at the Ehd site.
Share on Facebook“I am mindful of what was brought out by our psychologists… That in almost every case, abortion, whether legal or illegal, is a traumatic experience that may have severe consequences later on.”
Dr. Mary Calderone, medical director of Planned Parenthood
Mary Calderone, “Illegal Abortion Is a Public Health Problem” American Journal of Pub. health 50 (July 1960): 948
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