They said it.
Sandra Caskie OB/GYN on abortion:
“Any in-office procedure can have complications from time to time. Even in the best of hands, things can go wrong.”
Richmond Times Dispatch, Senate panel rejects measure on abortion clinics, 2-24-2006
Quoted by Life Dynamics.
Injuries and deaths from abortions still occur. Read about legal abortion deaths here
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Cyny Recker for the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League. She responded to the claims of several women that they were misled in abortion clinics she said that the clinics do give information. The author described the pamphlet she handed him, which was called
“Pre-natal development” and was produced by Childbirth by Choice, a national abortion rights organization.
“The pamphlet showed only the very early stages of fetal development. The drawings actually seemed to be of human embryos, not fetuses. [under 8 weeks] What’s more, the pamphlet also contains drawings of guinea pigs and monkey embryos placed strategically alongside the human ones. Sure enough, they all look alike at the early stages. Insofar as it dehumanizes the fetus, the document is top notch propaganda and assuredly brings great relief to women harboring doubts about their abortion.”
Leonard Stern “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000
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“My job was to tell the doctor where the parts were, the head being of special significance because it is the most difficult to remove. The head must be deflated, usually by using the suction machine to remove the brain, then crushing the head with large forceps.”
Former clinic worker Carol Everett . Read her story here.
David Kupelian and Mark Masters “Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions 1990
The type of abortion described in this quote is a D&E, performed on unborn babies that are beyond 14 weeks. Here is a more detailed description of a D&E by a former abortionist
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Charlotte Taft, former clinic administrator:
“In most clinics, the doctor is pretty much the technician. We do the counseling, we do the blood testing we do the sonogram, and then the doctor sees the patient for the abortion. And for many reasons that’s cost effective, and you need to do that in order to keep the cost low. It does mean that the doctor’s interaction with the patient is very limited. So they don’t get a lot of the goodies that you get when you’re in a relationship. They get to go inflict pain on someone for five minutes. That’s a tricky piece.”
Interview with Charlotte Taft by Jane Reynolds of Project Choice quoted in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 185
Share on FacebookAn article tells the story of “Nichole Anderson” who had an abortion:
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 a short of methotrexate to induce a miscarriage.
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
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In the article “Induced abortion: An ethical conundrum for counselors” the writers discuss how many counselors do not acknowledge how painful abortion can be for their patients. they cite two studies:
“….[One study] discovered that counselors sometimes are not sensitive to grief issues surrounding abortion and encourage clients “to move on.” The development of grief that is socially negated (i.e., denied or suppressed by oneself and others) can complicate issues for counselors as well as clients. Grief, when not recognized, accepted, and resolved, can result in masked maladaptive behaviors, such as lack of appropriate affect and damaged interpersonal relationships.”
Millner, Vaughn S; Hanks, Robert “Induced abortion: An ethical conundrum for counselors” Journal of Counseling and Development January 1, 2002
Share on FacebookPro-choice advocates said the following:
“At the present time, the fetus is sent down the sewer, without any form of farewell, and the operation obeys the rituals of medicine. In many cases, abortions are serial operations, and it may happen that not one word is addressed to the women, except to verify that she has fasted and filled out 4 copies of the bureaucratic forms. Perhaps she does not even see the doctor’s face, for she has already been given sedatives. She is stretched out on her back with her legs apart when the doctor, passing from one table to another, proceeds with the next abortion. He opens the neck of the uterus, often provoking a flood of emotion to which no one pays any attention… What happens to all the fear, the guilt, the pain, the solitude and the suffering? The guilt, and sometimes revolt, may be crushing and unjust, in so far as the woman bears alone a burden that belongs to all of us.”
Ginette Paris “Pagan Meditations” (Dallas: Spring publications, 1986)
Quoted in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)
This quote is an example of pro-choicers acknowledging what a difficult experience abortion is for most women. When pro-lifers work to provide women with other options and help them choose life, we are often saving them from heartache. Read about abortion’s psychological effects here. Read women’s stories here.
Share on FacebookAbby Johnson runs a pro-life outreach to abortion clinic workers. And Then There Were None provides emotional and sometimes financial support to clinic workers who want to leave their jobs. Anyone following ATTWN’s updates has seen how many of the clinic workers who leave are single mothers. Former clinic worker Joy Davis describes how abortion clinic owners make an effort to hire single mothers who they can more easily control:
“If the doctor had somebody come and apply for job whose husband was a big hot shot that made a lot of money, then he didn’t want her working for him. But if they were single, and had children, that’s the one he wanted. He could control them. And he controlled me probably most of all. I had two children, I had a son that had severe problems… And he preyed on that. Because when I started getting into such financial problems with my son’s medical care, that’s when he started making all the demands on me. That’s when he really started pushing on me hard, to change records and to treat patients, and to be a doctor and not get paid a doctors wage. And it wasn’t just me, he did that to a lot of people… I can refer to [the abortionist] like I can an abused woman, and I’ve seen this with a lot of abused women, where their husbands abuse them and they make them think it’s their fault, and they won’t leave their husband even though he beats them… I find that to be true with [the abortionist]. He will abuse his employees, mentally, just put them through the ringer, then turn around and do something very wonderful for them, to make them think he really cares about them… He was always doing things for me that made me feel obligated to him.”
Clinic worker Joy Davis in an interview cited in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)
Read Joy Davis’ testimony here.
Share on FacebookPro-Choice columnist Linda Gorov of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote about the public display of aborted babies that had been found in the trash:
“All the antiabortion pickets in the world cannot convey the loss you feel when you look at it 10 week old fetus in the bright sun light. You can be for abortion or against abortion. It doesn’t matter. You look and you look away and you feel lousy for a long time afterward.”
Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012) 135
From author Teresa Tomeo:
“…. there are psychological effects on siblings of aborted children. Dr. Philip Ney, a Canadian psychologist, has studied these effects for decades. He tells a story of a woman who came to him for counseling for her six-year-old child who was having nightmares, wetting the bed, and suffering from separation anxiety. Dr. Ney, in his interview with the mother, asked her about any pregnancy losses. She told him about two abortions that she had prior to giving birth to this child. Then in a separate interview with the child, Dr. Ney asked the child to draw a picture of her family. She was an only child, and yet she drew a picture with her mom, dad, brother, sister, and herself. She had a sense of the missing siblings.”
Teresa Tomeo Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2013) 65 – 66
Read the testimony of a young woman whose brother was aborted.
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