They said it.
“I do know that when we do, for instance an amniocentesis and put a needle through the abdomen into the amniotic cavity that the fetus withdraws so I certainly know based on my experience that the fetus will withdraw in response it a painful stimulus.”
Sworn testimony of Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, abortionist, in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 2, 2004. ExposeAbortion.com
Share on Facebook“The vultures in the Amazon are much more moral and pleasing creatures than the vultures on my sidewalk…They’re here to inflict pain, fear and death.”
Late-term abortionist Warren Hern.
He also said:
“I love my work.”
Gary Massaro “ABORTION DOCTOR TURNS TO NATURE FOR SOLACE, RENEWAL WARREN HERN, ALWAYS UNDER BARRAGE, FIGHTS BACK IN HIS OWN Way” Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) February 25, 1996
Aborted baby at 20 weeks – Doctor Hern does abortions at this age every day
Magda Denes spent time in an abortion clinic interviewing patients and witnessing abortion procedures. She talks about the dishonesty that she saw among the women having abortions and the people performing them. She says that they lied about not knowing the baby was human. She claimed that all of them, deep down, knew that babies were being killed:
“Oh yes, these people lie, they kid themselves, testify falsely, confess in bad faith, shirk responsibility, only pretend to honor, bracket the past, and invent their lives. And who among us does differently? Especially in times of crisis. Especially in times of irreversible choice.… Reality is a matter of courtesy. A matter of agreement not to rock the tempest torn boat.”
Magda Denes In Necessity and Sorrow (New York: Basic Books, 1976) 122, 6
There are many other quotes by Magda Denes on this site. Do a search for her name and you will find some of them
Share on Facebook“Between 30 and 60% of women having abortions initially had a positive desire to carry the pregnancy to term and keep their babies.”
Mary K Zimmerman, Passage through Abortion: the Personal and Social Reality of Women’s Experience (New York: Praeger publishers, 1977) 110 – 111
This is an old reference, but newer studies have shown similar results. Often, it is the response of the father of the child that determines the baby’s fate
Share on FacebookRobert H Blank explains why the pro-choice movement has a harder time convincing the public that abortion is okay:
“Until the recent decades the fetus in utero could not take on the social recognition of a human except conceptually… One of the most critical elements of recognition is visualization. Only in the last 10 years has it been possible to visualize the fetus in utero through sophisticated electronic equipment. As ultrasound technology has advanced to produce more explicit real-time images of the fetal limbs and movement, it is reasonable to expect the tendency to perceive the fetus as a small baby instead of an unseen organism residing in the womb.”
Robert H Blank Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women’s Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn (New York: Columbia University press, 1993) 8 – 9
Share on FacebookAnd Then There Were None, a ministry that helps former clinic workers, told the following story in one of their emails:
“Ellen” recalled her time working at Planned Parenthood. Like many others, she felt uncomfortable with her job there, but it paid the bills and offered the benefits she needed. She was hired on as a patient educator and was reprimanded for quietly giving patients information on adoption services and resource centers in the counseling rooms, because she was not pushing the sale of abortion onto women who weren’t sure what they were going to do. “It took a huge physical toll,” Ellen said. “I would always come home from work and cry.”
A nurse named Jane Beville told the following story:
“I have been a nurse for 33 years, 18 of those years working in labor and delivery and high risk obstetrics. I have NEVER seen not one instance where an abortion would be necessary to save a mother’s life. I was pro choice back when I didn’t know better.”
Share on Facebook“In 1983 I held a little miscarried 14 week baby in my hand. It wasn’t a blob of tissue, or a clot, or an alien looking grub. It was a little baby boy, who was kicking his legs and waving his arms and trying very, very hard to breathe. That little baby wanted so badly to live. It broke my heart.
I became pro-life in that moment of truth.”
“The July 5, 1993 edition of The American Medical News writes that he [Dr. James MacMahon] does abortions “through all 40 weeks of pregnancy.” In 1995, he informed the House Judiciary Committee in writing that he performed such abortions during the third trimester on babies who had no “flaw” at all for reasons such as the mother’s youth or for “psychiatric” problems. McMahon further admitted that one-fourth of the babies he aborted well into the seventh month had no flaws whatsoever. McMahon said that of the approximately 2000 partial birth abortions he performed, only 9% were performed for “maternal [health] indications” and then the most common reason was “depression.”
Raymond Dennehy “Anti-Abortionist at Large: How to Argue Intelligently About Abortion and Live to Tell About It” (St. Victoria, B.C., Canada: Trafford, 2002) p 149
Dr. MacMahon is now deceased.
Read an eyewitness’s description of partial birth abortion
Share on FacebookGirl who was a victim of incest and forced to have an abortion:
“Throughout the years I have been depressed, suicidal, furious, outraged, lonely, and I felt a sense of loss.… Even if my daughter had been put up for adoption, instead of killed, some of the pain would not be present. Often, I cry. Cry because I could not stop the attacks. Cry because my daughter is dead. And I cry because it still hurts. They say time heals all wounds. This is true. But it doesn’t heal the memories, at least not for me.… As you can see, the abortion, which was to be “in my best interest” just has not been. As far as I can tell, it only “saved their reputations,” “solved their problems,” and “allowed their lives to go merrily on.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 217
Abortion does not resolve the trauma of incest- often, it is used to cover up the crime. Abortion clinics have done abortions on young women and sent them back to their abusers.
Share on FacebookFrom a 38-year-old woman who had 3 abortions:
“Abortions aren’t anti-life. Abortions are pro-life, my life.”
Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 58
