ClinicQuotes

Clinic Worker Supports Repeat Abortions, Abortions for Birth Control

Clinic worker supports multiple abortions as “birth control”:

Sometimes, just to feel people out, I ask, “How do you feel about repeat abortions?” Some people will answer, “One is OK, but more than that is just irresponsible,” which I may use as a teaching opportunity, or I might just walk away. It depends on my mood. But one person answered, “It’s an expensive type of birth control, but if that’s a woman’s preference, that’s fine with me.” That counted as a good answer.

This comes from the blog “The Abortioneers” found here

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American Medical Association’s Committee on Criminal Abortion

11weeks — 11 weeks – legal to abort in every state

The American Medical Association supports legalized abortion, but it didn’t always.

“Physicians have now arrived at the unanimous opinion that the fetus in utero is alive from the very moment of conception… The willful killing of a human being at any stage of its existence is murder.”

Dr. Horatio Storer, Head of the American Medical Association’s Committee on Criminal Abortion.

Horatio Storer and Franklin Heard, Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence and Its Law (out of print); cited in Stephen Krason, Abortion: Politics, Morality and the Constitution (Lanham, M.D.: University Press in America, 1984), 171.

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Abortionist: 14-year-old Abortion Patient Should Have Support

Although most abortion providers and pro-choice activists fight against laws requiring parents of teenagers to be notified about their children’s abortions, one abortionist admits:

“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

Read a former clinic worker’s testimony supporting parental notification

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Lancet Study Shows Abortion Problems

A study in the Lancet of 1182 legal abortions found that 9.5% of their patients require blood transfusions, 4.2% with cervical lacerations and in 1.2% the uterus was perforated. one researcher commented:

“The incidence of the complications described and the severity of some of them are disquieting. Some may claim that termination of pregnancy is much safer in their hands. If so, they are to be congratulated. The present figures represent the combined experience of five consultants and a series of experienced lecturers, senior registrars, and registrars. It is perhaps significant that some of the more serious complications occurred with the most senior and experienced operators. This emphasizes that termination of pregnancy is neither as simple nor as safe as some advocates of abortion on demand would have the public believe… It is disquieting that post-abortive infection, which is one of the most common causes of death after criminal abortion, should have occurred in 27% of this series. Septicemia, peritonitis, and paralytic ileus are potentially fatal complications and the risk of death increases if they occur after the patient is discharged from the hospital and there was a delay in diagnosis.… The fact remains that none of these situations may be the result of negligence. They are complications which, though well known to, and well-documented by, those with wide experience of an operation which is neither simple nor safe, are seldom mentioned by those who claim that abortion is safe and merely an extension of contraceptive techniques.”

Thomas W Hilgers “the Medical Hazards of Legally Induced Abortion” from Abortion and Social Justice edited by Thomas W Hilgers and Dennis J Horan (Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward, 1972)

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On Watching Handicapped Babies Die

Dr. Anthony Shaw, who allows disappointed parents of handicapped newborn children the right to have them deprived of medical care and thus eliminated, reports:

“As a surgeon whose natural inclination is to use the scalpel to fight off death, standing by and watching a salvageable baby die is the most emotionally exhausting experience I know. It is easy at a conference, in theoretical discussion, to decide that such infants should be allowed to die. It is altogether different to stand by in the nursery and watch as dehydration and infection whither a tiny being over hours and days. This is a terrible ordeal for me and the hospital staff – much more so than for the parents who never set foot in the nursery.… It seems to me that a society which does not provide for its defectives is less than humane.”

Anthony Shaw, “Doctor, Do We Have a Choice?” New York Times Magazine January 30, 1972 P 54

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Women With Chlamydia who have Abortions At Greater Risk for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Untreated women with chlamydia infection at the time of abortion had a cumulative risk of 72% of developing early and/or late PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) if observed for 24 months. The risk was reduced to 8% of the infection was treated at the time of the abortion.

Sorensen, JL, Thranov I, Hoff G, Dirach J, Dansgaard MT A Double-Blind Randomized Study Of the Effect of erythromycin In Preventing Pelvic Inflammatory Disease after First Trimester Abortion British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1992 May; 99 (5) 434 – 8, P436

Yet most abortion clinics do not screened for STDs in the patients they abort.

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Clinic Worker on Ultrasound

From a woman who works in an abortion clinic.

“A lot of it is the politics around ultrasound, I think. That, I mean, maybe that’s why some of the abortion stuff is changed, that now you can see that it’s a fetus and it looks like a baby, and it sucks his thumb, and it, you know kicks around, just like newborns do… And so it’s like we can personify the fetus as opposed to, like, relating to this woman.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 79

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Anesthesiologist At Clinic Comments on Money

Anesthesiologist at an abortion clinic:

“When I came here, in 150 hours I made $11,000. I never saw so much money in my whole life, and at that time he didn’t have to do many cases to make that money, so didn’t wear you out.”

Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 231

This quote was from 1976. Abortion today is even more lucrative.

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“Wine and Cheese Parties”

An abortionist bemoans the lack of commitment among pro-choicers:

“I feel many of the local pro-choice organizations and their members are more interested in discussing the issues at a wine and cheese party than getting out on the front lines.”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 110

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Abortion Death Swept under the Rug, Clinic Administrator Astonished

Abortion clinic director Carol Everett thought that her clinics would be shut down after a woman died at one of them due to a clear case of malpractice. On finding out that there would be no problem:

“I couldn’t believe my ears! He said what I wanted – with all my heart – to hear. Was it possible that we could kill a woman, then go on as if nothing ever happened? Was the industry that unregulated? Could HJ get other doctors to cover for him even in the case of a woman’s death? Maybe my life wasn’t over.”

Carol Everett with Jack Shaw, Blood Money (Oregon: Multnomah Press Books, Questar Publishers, Inc., 1992)

Quoted in

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 83