They said it.
THE COURT: “If you are doing an intact D&E…that entailed a partial delivery, and then the procedure you described of inserting the scissors into the base of the skull and using a suction device to remove the brain.”
THE WITNESS: “Yes”
Testimony of abortionist Dr Amos Grunebaum, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 30, 2004.
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Family Planning Associates Medical Group, abortion clinic, tells this to prospective clients.
Instructions: “Please do not bring children to the clinic.”
quoted by life dynamics
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Dr. Warren Hern, late term abortionist:
“While I was in family practice, I got a part time job in the Women’s Center. Over the course of several months, I recognized things there could be run a lot better, with a much more professional level of service…The typical abortion patient spends less than ten minutes with the physician who performs the surgery. Yet, that patient might be in the facility for three hours. When I talked to other physicians whose patients were referred here, I saw problems that could be easily corrected.”
Discharging the Committee on the Judiciary from Further Consideration Of the President’s Veto of HR 1833, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995, September 9, 1996 Capital Words, A Project of the Sunlight Foundation volume 142 , number 130. Can be found here.
Read about legislative efforts to improve care at abortion clinics and pro-choice opposition here.
Share on FacebookTina David worked at Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Witchita, Kansas. She claimed to have seen an abortionist employed by Tiller, Shelley Sella, kill a baby that was born alive. According to David:
“Well, my job, like I said, my job was to hold the leg and count the parts, if it was in pieces. And this was…maybe 35 weeks. That’s pretty big….It was a big baby….[the] baby came out, and it was moving. I don’t know if it was alive or if it was nerves, I have no clue. But Dr. Sella looked up right away at me and took a utensil and stabbed it, right here, and twisted. And then it didn’t move anymore.”
You can listen to her complete testimony here.
The earlier the pregnancy the more fragile the fetus. So, grasping a fetus early on is more likely to tear it and less likely to allow you to bring it out whole.
Dr. Gerson Weiss, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 7, 2004
A woman who bombed an abortion clinic called the police. She gives her reasons for what she did:
Before I got married, I got pregnant. Everyone told me that a fetus was just a little shapeless blob anyway, so I got an abortion.
Then, after it was too late, a friend gave me some literature one day showing how the baby developed at different stages. I never realized at that stage, a fetus is so much a baby that some of them have been born at that point and LIVED!
Well, you cannot imagine what that did to me, knowing I had not just had an “unwanted intra-uterine growth “removed” but had KILLED my baby! It just about ruined my life. Even today, several years later, I lay awake at night sometimes crying about it.
So maybe you can understand my reasons for doing what I did.”
Leonard Stern“Abortion Wars”The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000
Nothing justifies violence, but how many anti-abortion extremists were damaged by abortion?
Share on Facebook“Bless this building and those who work here…who provide safe, legal, caring and loving reproductive services, including abortion…they are doing God’s work.”
Rev. David Selzer, Concerned Clergy for Choice – Text for a blessing for abortion clinics, Prayerfully Pro-Choice, p. 101
is this God’s work?
Jenny Higgins was pro-choice when she wrote the following in the book Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice. To my knowledge, she still holds a pro-choice position. However, her remarks highlight the flaws of abortion clinics
“The underfunded structure of services at the clinics meant that I rarely had the time or resources to give women the clinical or psychological care they needed or deserved. Counseling sessions were strictly time constrained, sometimes allowing only 5 minutes per patient. I had to rush women out of the procedure room within minutes – sometimes seconds – of their termination so that we could quickly prepped the room for the next patient. This hustle meant another missed chance to provide follow-up counseling, or assistance to help these women avoid future unintended pregnancies.
Also, I was disillusioned by the general dilapidation of the clinic, the dated medical equipment, the revolving door of staff, and other indications of a clinical setting with inadequate resources. Instead of serving as a reproductive rights midwife of sorts, helping women realize their own self-efficacy, I felt like I was forced to provide rushed and inadequate care, which, by way of shoddy counseling, may have been contributing directly to women’s for contraceptive adherence in the future.
In a second challenge to my previously held beliefs, clinic worker forced me to face the reality of abortion as a real human calamity. It was hard to ignore abortion’s underbelly of loss when so many patients exhibited deep and, at times, almost bottomless sadness, distress, or anxiety. Even though these women were trying to make the best decision for themselves, such certainty of choice couldn’t entirely remove the psychological injury.”
Jenny Higgins “Sex, Unintended Pregnancy, and Poverty: One Woman’s Evolution from “Choice” to “Reproductive Justice” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 34 to 35
Share on Facebook“The friction causes the fetus to tear apart. For example, a leg might be ripped off the fetus as it is pulled through the cervix.”
US Supreme Court, Gonzales vs. Carhart, April 18, 2007, describing the D&E procedure, which is legal
Learn more about about a D&E procedure here
“Have you ever seen one? . . I don’t care what anyone say, it is not a tonsillectomy, not just any old medical procedure. It’s terminating a potential human life.” –
David Zbaraz, abortionist, quoted from “Abortionist: Doctor Joins Suit for Right to Do Operation He Hates”, Washington Post, March 3, 1980.
Below; an abortion performed at seven weeks
