A pregnant woman tells the following story, which is very revealing of the way Planned Parenthood counselors feel about those who carry their babies to term.
Performing Abortion is “Refined Skill”
From an abortion provider:
“I think actually performing an abortion is a very refined technical skill; it’s a very delicate skill – particularly the very early procedures. A lot of people will say, you know, “Oh those early procedures are a real piece of cake.” They’re not always a real piece of cake! I think you have to have an enormous amount of respect for the uterus when you begin to do this because every woman is different. They’ll be days or weeks when, you know, everything just goes picture perfectly; you know, you just dilate the cervix and sweep the cannula in and turn on the machine and whoo, you know, it’s over in about 10 seconds. But sometimes it takes a lot of patience. It takes knowing when to stop inserting instruments, knowing how far to push the cannula and no farther.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 68
Even first trimester abortions take skill to perform. Some pro-choicer activists seek to make it legal for people who are not doctors to perform them. Many medical professionals believe this is a bad idea.
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“[Society’s] mistake was in… deciding that the fault lay with the woman, that she should be the one to change. We focused on her swelling belly, not the pressures that made her so desperate.”
Frederica Mathewes – Green
Stephen Currie. Opposing Viewpoints Digests: Abortion (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2000) 54
Another quote from an abortion advocate, in the same book, says:
“For a woman to give birth… can be a severe handicap in the workplace..… Few women who take maternity leaves are paid full wages for the time they missed; many find their jobs are not held open for them, or discover that they have been shunted to a less demanding and lower status “mommy track.”
Men, of course, are rarely treated this way. Men who start families may worry about how to feed and clothe their children, but their employers do not fire them simply for daring to bring babies into the world. Neither did they force male workers to take unwanted or unneeded time off nor demote them to jobs deemed suitable for employees more interested in raising their children than in taking on interesting and exciting projects at work.
Thus, the right to an abortion is basic. A woman who does not want to fall victim to discrimination and patronizing assumptions about her wishes and desires must have the ability to enter pregnancy.”
Rather than coming to the conclusion that women must kill their babies to be free of society’s injustices, why don’t we work to right the injustices so that women do not have to kill their babies?
Abortionists Quoted in “Women & Health” Delese Wear
Two abortionists quoted by Delese Wear “From Pragmatism the Politics: a Qualitative Study of Abortion Providers” Women & Health, volume 36 (4), 2002
“I don’t get to talk shop with my peers… No intelligent conversations with real smart colleagues the way most doctors get to… I don’t feel like I’m part of the medical community. I’m on my own, floating on an iceberg. I miss feeling connected.”
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“Who would want my life? Very few would be willing to put up with the bullshit I do. It’s low prestige, medically isolated… I have no doctor friends and have very little support from the medical community.”
It is hard to be an abortion provider due to the emotional impact of the job ,. the stigma that many of them face in the medical community, and pro-life activities.
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Luhra Tivis who worked for the late George Tiller (late term abortionist) said the following:
“One of the ways he runs the clinic is, he’s got nursing staff that are nurse’s aides and LPNs who work in the exam rooms, where they do the sonograms, and they take blood for the bloodwork, and then he’s got the nurse practitioner, who goes down in the basement with him. And then he’s got an RN that stays at the motel overnight with them. He’s got people compartmentalized. And then there’s the office staff, who never have anything to do with the medical side. I was the only one on the office staff who regularly handled the medical records and typed them up. So he has people compartmentalized, so they don’t all have the facts of what’s going on. They just see their own little section. That way, he keeps them from getting too upset about what’s going on.”
Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)29
Share on FacebookClinic Worker Describes Strange Behavior of Abortionist
Former employee of an abortion doctor in Louisiana:
“The word I got was that this particular doctor had a drug problem…The man definitely had some type of problem, because he would come to work and you could tell that he was either drunk or high on drugs or something. One day I recall telling him “Look, you don’t have any shoes on your feet. Why don’t you put your shoes on before you see patients?”
Interview w former employee by Rachel McNair, 3/10/92
Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 221
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According to one abortion doctor:
“Prior to the passing of the abortion law, I don’t think there was ever a patient came to my office in the last 10 years who wanted an abortion and couldn’t get one, if they could afford to pay for it. And a perfectly legal one. For $100 the patient went to the psychiatrist and he would say, “You’re going to kill yourself if you don’t have this abortion?” “Yes.” “Okay, goodbye.” Then he dictates a nice long letter she’s suicidal. Two psychiatrists, $200. It was a farce.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 226
Share on FacebookPostabortion Woman: “It Finally Hit Me”
A pro-life blog quoted this abortion story:
“I was anxious, tired and starting to feel the symptoms of my pregnancy. I started having second thoughts, but I fought them off. I worked late to get things off of my mind, but I was 95% sure that I wanted to go through with this. To me this felt like a ball and chain weighing me down. I finally told my sister (the one with twins) and she cried on the phone and begged me not to go through with it. My ex-boyfriend brought the money over for the abortion. We talked some more about what the procedure was and how I would probably feel afterwards. He looked really sad and stated that if he was stable; he would help me with the baby, that is, if I really wanted it.”
“It’s finally a reality that I killed my child, my flesh and blood. I tell my close co-worker (who had an abortion as well) and she told me that I made the decision and I should just pray. To make a long story short, I cried every time I thought about it and especially when I talked to my mom about my nieces and nephew’s Christmas gift. This is a niece or nephew that my siblings will never see, a grandchild that my parents will never know and a child that I will never see grow up.”
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“I do know that if I ever get pregnant again, I will not have another abortion. It’s just too painful.”
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50% of Teenage Girls’ Babies Fathered by Adult Men
Up to 50% of babies born to teenage girls were fathered by adult men, not by other teenagers.
Julie Poulter “Women and Children First: Developing a Common Ground Agenda to Make Abortion Rare” Sojourners May – June 1995
Share on FacebookClinics Should Be Called Places of “Healing and Care” Says Worker
“In an op-ed piece that appeared in the New York Times shortly after a gunman killed some employees and wounded others at two Brookline, Massachusetts, abortion clinics, a counselor at one of the clinics complained that the media kept referring to her workplace as an abortion clinic. “I hate that term,” she declared. At the end of the piece she suggested that her abortion clinic ought to be called “a place of healing and care.”
George McKenna “On Abortion: a Lincolnian Position” the Atlantic Monthly, September 1995
The results of the procedure done at one of these places of “healing and care” at nine weeks
