They said it.
A woman who became pregnant after rape but wanted to give birth to her baby was told the following by her social worker and a doctor who were trying top convince her to abort:
“They said I was “just another minority bringing a child into the world. There are too many already.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 277
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From one abortionist, on performing abortions where poison is injected into the womb to kill a unborn baby:
“On a number of occasions with the needle, I have harpooned the fetus. I can feel the fetus move at the end of the needle just like you have fish hooked on a line. This gives me an unpleasant, unhappy feeling because I know that the fetus is alive and responding to the needle stab… No one has ever mentioned this, but I’ve noticed it a number of times, you know, that there is something alive in there that you’re killing…”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976)141
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From an abortion clinic counselor:
“You know, I mean, it’s gory, and it’s really a sad situation to see the abortions, and I have my own opinion about how I feel about abortion… [But to] me it’s a job, and it’s the closest I could get to what I really wanted to do… I want to be a nurse – midwife.”
James Tunstead Burtchaell Rachel Weeping (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1982) 136
When a woman in an abortion clinic voiced her concern that abortion might be killing, her counselor said
“Don’t think of it is killing. Think of it is taking blood out of your uterus to get your periods going again.”
Dr. Monte Harris Liebman and Jolie Siebold Zimmer “The Psychological Sequelae Of Abortion: Facts and Fallacy” in David Mall and Dr. Walter Watts, editors The Psychological Aspects of Abortion (Washington DC: University Publications of America, 1979) 133
From a woman who had two abortions, one after rape:
“Had I been told the truth about the risks that I was taking with my body and about the developing persons inside of me, I know that I would not have made the decision to destroy life. There are those people who can deliberately take the life of another person, but that is not my nature. Yet I must live with the truth, because that is what I have done.
I still feel that I probably couldn’t have loved that child conceived of rape, but there are so many people who would have loved that baby dearly. The man who raped me took a few moments of my life, but I took that innocent baby’s entire life. That is not justice, as I see it.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 212
From one former clinic worker:
“The doctors race each other. Especially on Saturdays, they compete to see who can get the most patients done.”
Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick “The Abortion Profiteers” Chicago Sun-Times November 12, 1978
Share on FacebookFrom a pro-choice editorial:
“No one shrinks from what abortion means: the irrevocable ending of… [a] unique human being. To be unequivocally, all-out for life, any life, is quite satisfying to the soul, but it’s an ethical indulgence I cannot afford. The bottom line is, someone’s rights are going to take precedence. I vote for the woman.”
Editorial by Dana Tueth Motley of The Abortion Rights Coalition, Daily Illini, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, February 9, 1982, 17
This activist knows that abortion takes a life but supports it anyway.
Molly Graham [pseudonym] had several abortions and then worked as an anesthesiologist for an abortion provider. She describes an incident where a baby was born alive:
“The last time I gave anesthesia for an abortion, it was to be a hysterotomy [a C-section abortion, where the baby is removed and set aside to die, seldom performed today,] because the woman was about 6 ½ to 7 months pregnant.
I put her to sleep as usual, the incision was made in the abdomen, then into the uterus, and a baby was pulled out – I mean a fully developed, moving, breathing baby. It hit me like a ton of bricks – the baby was put into a bucket of water and drowned.
I was shaken; I knew at that moment I’d stood silently by and condoned murder, not only this time, but many times before. I told my boss I would no longer give anesthesia for abortions and was removed from those duties.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 308
She later worked counseling women in a crisis pregnancy center.
Share on FacebookOne study showed that 70% of relationships broke up after the woman’s abortion. If the woman was in a relationship at the time of the abortion, it fell apart shortly after the abortion 70% of the time.
Vincent M. Rue “Abortion in Relationship Context” International Review of Natural Family Planning Summer 1985 p 105
Share on FacebookNRTL tells of an incident in Pine Bluff, Arkansas when an abortion resulted in a live baby:
“In the examining room after the abortion, the doctor wrapped the baby in a towel and laid it aside while he finished caring for Marie. The infant continued to squirm and cry.
Soon afterward, Marie left the doctor’s office for a friend’s house nearby. The physician then placed the child in a sack and gave it to one of the two friends who had accompanied Marie…
In a few minutes, the woman with the sack arrived at the house where Marie was waiting. She said the doctor had told her to “take it along with you and pretty soon it will stop moving.”
After Marie fell asleep, the friends kept their death watch over the aborted infant until they decided to seek help.”
The baby survived.
Mike Masterson, “Baby Survives Abortion in Arkansas.” The National Right to Life News, August 4, 1983, 6
