They said it.
“Although some of the men stuck by the women… About 75% of the men fled after paying part or all of the costs of the abortion. Some of them just fled – paying nothing…”
Ervin P. Women Exploited: the Other Victims of Abortion (Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, 1985) 140
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From a pro-choice writer who did not understand a man’s guilt after his partner had an abortion:
“He knew rationally that it hadn’t been a baby at all but in embryo too tiny to see with the naked eye – so why was he so sad?”
Torre-Bueno A. Peace after Abortion (San Diego, California: Pimpernel Press, 1997) Page 126
Read more about men and abortion here
Share on Facebook“Abortion can produce a deep, subtle (and often permanent) fracture of the trusting relationship that once existed between a child and a parent.”
Garton, J. The Cultural Impact of Abortion and Its Implications for a Future Society. In: Mannion M, editor. Post-abortion Aftermath (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1994: 88 – 99; P91
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An abortionist said
“We use urea to be certain that we affect fetal death. It is unsettling to all personnel to deliver these fetuses when they are not stillborn.”
Ferguson JE, Burkett BJ, Pinkerton JV, Thiagarajah S, Flather MM, Martel MM, at al. Intraamniotic 15 (s) – 15 methyl prostaglandin, F2 Alpha and Termination of Middle and Late Second Trimester Pregnancy for Genetic Indications; a Contemporary Approach. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993 August; 169 ((2 PT 1)) 332 – 9; discussion 339 – 40, P340
Share on FacebookA woman from China who was allowed asylum in the United States had been forced to abort two children. She describes one of her abortions where the baby was born alive:
“I thought she [the baby] was alive. After it was aborted, [the nurse] threw it in the corner on the floor….I told them “It is alive baby, let me have it, raise it.” They said “no, because of the injection, it’s going to die soon….I saw her die and it was very painful. My heart got broken then.”
Chad Skelton “Woman Gets Refugee Status Despite No Fear of Persecution” The Vancouver Sun June 2, 2000
Read about babies born alive after abortions in the United States.
Share on FacebookAccording to a 1995 survey, done by The Joint Center for Bioethics at the University of Toronto, among women considering an abortion, 17% would be more likely to abort if fetal tissue could be donated.
The Pro-Life Infonet, May 2000 “Fetal Tissue Research Raises Disturbing Questions” Paul Ranalli
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“Our biggest group is 10-to-18-year-olds in total denial,” says an official at one Southern clinic, making a common observation. Another category consists of women who find out late that they are pregnant: very young teens with irregular menstrual periods and women in their late 40s who mistakenly thought they had entered menopause. In interviews with 1,000 abortion patients, University of Alabama sociologist Michele Wilson found that compared with women who had abortions in the first trimester, those getting later abortions were more likely to be young, to live with their parents, and to have conferred with them on this decision. She concluded that some of the abortions were performed later because the women had to take more time to build family consensus for the choice.
Lavelle, Marianne, Glastris, Paul, Gerson, Michael J., Daniel, Missy, Meyer, Michele, When abortions come late in a pregnancy U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 01/19/98, Vol. 124, Issue 2
this article shows that late-term abortions are usually done on healthy women with healthy pregnancies
An African-American U.S. woman has about a 10% risk of contracting breast cancer during her lifetime. In December 1993 the Journal of the National Medical Association reported (pp. 931-939):
Black women of age 50 and above who had at least one induced abortion have an increased risk of breast cancer of 370% (95% CI=2.6,8.4). (I.E. they have a 47% lifetime risk of contracting breast cancer.) JNMA is a publication of African-American medical professionals concerned with African-American health problems and has published for over 100 years.
Breast Cancer Risk Factors In African-American Women: The Howard University Registry Experience, JNation Medical Association, A E Laing et al., 1993, 85:931-939
read more about the physical risks of abortion here.
Share on FacebookOne study that relied on questionnaires showed that the total pain scores (given by women having abortions):
“found that the average abortion pain ranked higher than that experienced by people suffering from fractures, sprains, neuralgia, arthritis, and was equal to that reported by amputees experiencing phantom limb pain and patients with cancer.”
Belanger E., Melzack R, Lauzon P. Pain of the First Trimester Abortion: a Study of Psychosocial and Medical Predictors. Pain 1989 March; 36 (3): 339 – 50
This study seems to indicate that many women find abortion extremely painful.
And they are often quite painful for the baby:
Wendy Botwin, who works in an abortion clinic as a head counselor:
“We see patients anywhere from eleven years old to fifty… The majority of the clinic’s clientele are teenagers and people in their 20s. People have histories now. It’s amazing the number of pregnancies an 18-year-old can walk in with it already. They’re 18-year-old who had two kids, have had two abortions, and it had a miscarriage. This is not unusual. We see it a lot.”
Felicia Lowenstein. The Abortion Battle: Looking at Both Sides (Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, 1996) 96 to 98
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