They said it.
Bureeda B. who had two abortions:
“Regardless of what pro-choice people say… if the spontaneous impulse of abortion had not been an available option, I would have learned to live with and love the idea of the baby of my own. “
Pamphlet: “Abortion: where have all the babies gone?” American tract Society, 1985.
From a forum at BabyCenter
“A few months ago, my wife miscarried twins she was carrying. One, a boy, was lost at 14 weeks. The second, a girl, was lost at 16 weeks. The boy was lost at home.
My question is an honest one- have any of you who believe that abortion is okay actually seen a fetus at fourteen weeks? From everything I had was ever told by the press, etc, I was totally unprepared for what I saw….Imagine a baby, born after nine months, but with no hair and only about 8 inches long…fingers, toes, arms, legs, nose, mouth, everything. All this at only 14 weeks.”
14 weeks, early in the second trimester, is still a time when many abortions take place. It is legal to abort at 14 weeks in every state in the US.
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A Dallas clinic administrator:
“For many women nowadays, they’re angry that they had a choice. It’s too bizarre, but it’s like, if you weren’t here, I wouldn’t have to make this choice…
We’re working really hard at this clinic to assist women in moving from a place of experiencing themselves as victim of their decision, or their boyfriend, to moving to a place where they see this differently. I think that the same needs to happen with the physician. If the physician is a victim of the antiabortion movement, or a victim of other antiabortion doctors or a victim of Operation Rescue – no change is going to come from that. Plus, victims are annoying, you know. They don’t invite your participation.”
From an interview with Rachel McNair on page 123 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
Perhaps this baby and others like him are more the “victims” of abortion.
Share on FacebookFrom the Alan Guttmacher Institute:
“It was found that women in states with Medicaid funding for abortion have an abortion rate 3.9 times higher than women who aren’t covered…”
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 140
This proves that in states where abortion is not covered by health insurance, there are fewer abortions. Perhaps the extra time that poor women need to get the money together for an abortion allows them to reflect on their situation and change their minds.
Dr. Richard Hausknecht, a New York City gynecologist who used to perform late abortions but no longer does so describes the partial birth abortion method:
”You go in and fish out a foot and pull the fetus into a breech position. You turn it so that the backside is up, pull down on its hips and rotate. When you get to the shoulder blade, it’s easy to sweep the arms down. Then, most of the time you have to crush or fenestrate the skull so that it can come out.”
”This is not something I rely on, but I find it absolutely bizarre that Congress wants to ban it….In my view, it’s as if they were to forbid me to use a certain kind of suture.”
Deborah Sontag “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” The New York Times, March 21, 1997
Here is a picture of a 22-24 week old baby, of the age when most abortions of this type were done.
Now most abortions at this age are done by D & E
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Here is a quote from a pro-choice author who interviewed workers and observed at an abortion clinic where abortions were done up to 26 weeks.
“Denying women access to safe abortion (whether we have been raped or not) is itself a form of figurative, if not literal, violation …. Rape denies us bodily integrity; so does restricting abortion. Both are strategies designed to subjugate women.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)229
From one clinic worker:
“Most of the counselors didn’t like dealing with women who had had several abortions, they saw them as irresponsible at best, or, at worst, stupid. But I liked “repeat aborters” because they already knew what to expect and weren’t afraid of the abortion. They offered less emotion for me to soak up; they were easy process in 10 minutes.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)page 7
Read more clinic workers complaining about repeat abortions here.
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic worker “Toby” who was adopted talks about handling the bodies of aborted babies:
“… I think also just that the more you think about what it looks like… It looks like a baby. And you know that sometimes… We go farther than we intend to, then that’s really, really hard too because I was premature, and looking at this thing that could’ve been me, you know? And I try not to personalize it that much because it could’ve been me, and I would never know because I wouldn’t be here, but it’s still hard to do…I think I probably cope with it better than some other people who work here who talk about having nightmares and stuff…In the first couple of months [when] I started working here, I’d have images of, like, the face, you know , when it comes into sterile room. And I always turn it over. But I don’t dream about it. I dont’ know if that makes me more repressed or better able to cope. [Laughing].”
- abortion at 20 weeks
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)84
The clinic this person works at does abortions up to 26 weeks.
Share on FacebookGroups like Planned Parenthood fight laws that would require a teenage girl to notify her parents about her abortion. But one clinic worker discusses how the abortion process is hard for a teenager and says that she should have support. She does not come out and say that parental notification bills are good, but at least conveys that young teenagers should not have to deal with their abortions alone:
“I don’t want a 14-year-old coming to my clinic alone for an abortion and walking out alone after she has it. What kind of provider am I if I permit this?”
Quoted in Marion Faux. Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front (New York: Birch Lane, 1990) 262
A study was done where Chinese men and women were interviewed and asked their opinions on abortion. Chinese women are pressured to have abortions if they try to have more than one child. They are fined, and sometimes imprisoned and forced to abort.
Here are the statistics:
Percentage that considered abortion:
taking a life: 36%
killing an infant: 31%
killing a human being: 27%
among Protestants
taking a life: 64%
killing an infant: 60%
killing a human being: 57%
among Catholics
taking a life: 92%
killing an infant 96%
killing a human being 88%
“Abortion in itself has nothing to do with ethics or morality.”
71% agreed
77% of Catholics disagreed
56% of Protestants disagreed
“Under some situations, it is necessary to force a woman to have an abortion.”
75% agreed
25% of Catholics agreed
According to the author of the study:
“… conversion to Christianity (after having no particular religious commitment) signaled a radical change in attitudes toward the fetus and thus toward abortion.”
Table 4.2 Percentages of Respondents Who Agreed That Abortion Was Equivalent to Taking a Life, Killing an Infant, or Killing a Human Being
Nie Jing-Bao Beyond the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005) 110-112
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