Teenager Coerced into Two Abortions

Christina Dunigan tells the story of a young woman who became pro-life after experiencing her own unplanned pregnancy and seeing her friend forced into abortions.

The author recounts the story of her friend Sherry:

“She had been fifteen years old and living with her mother when she’d gotten pregnant for the first time. She had been helping her mother run a day care center, and she figured if she was caring for all these strangers’ children, she could take care of her own baby, too. Sherri’s mother told her, “I have made an appointment for you at Planned Parenthood. I have $160 to pay for it. You’re getting in the car with me, and I can either take you to Planned Parenthood, or I’ll take you to the bus station and you can buy a one-way ticket to any place that $160 will take you.” Sherri got in the car and went to Planned Parenthood.

….within a few months Sherri was pregnant again. She begged her mother not to take her back to Planned Parenthood. So her mother made an appointment with a private OB/GYN. Sherri had her second unwanted abortion. She bided her time until she was 18, married her boyfriend, and moved out and got pregnant with a baby she could keep.”

So many times abortion is not truly the mother’s “choice.” Rather, they are coerced by their parents, partners, or situation to abort a baby they would rather have.

For more information about coerced abortions, go here. 

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Abortion is Profitable

Associate Editor Meredith Oakley’s column entitled: Abortion business is profitable states,

“Abortion, you see, is something of a cash cow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the facility against which abortion opponents filed a lawsuit in 1991 on the ground that UAMS was violating the amended Arkansas Constitution by performing abortions for reasons other than to save mothers’ lives. According to testimony by Dr. Harry Ward, the UAMS chancellor, the abortion program is self-supporting. Indeed, thanks to the exorbitant rates imposed on the paying customers, the UAMS abortion program generates enough profit to cover the debts of the non-paying customers. Consider last week’s (State Court opinion, on funding of abortion with tax dollars) : “It appears that the charges billed by UAMS far exceed costs, since full-pay patients cover the costs of those patients who do not pay.” The opinion noted that UAMS charged $ 2,500 for an abortion through June 1, 1992, but later raised the charge to $ 4,000. Not only is the state still in the abortion business, it’s doing very, very well.”

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ,Abortion business is profitable: 5-11-1997

For more quotes about how abortion is profitable, go here.

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Former Abortionist: Stigma Against Abortion Providers is Stronger than Ever

Retired New Jersey abortion provider Robert Livingston was a champion for abortion rights in the ’60s and ’70s — once, in 1972, he even held a press conference outing himself as an illegal abortion doctor. But now, almost half a century later, Livingston avoids talking about reproductive rights because he believes the issue has become more “emotionally charged” than it was back in the day.

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Livingston said he thought the stigma of being an abortion doctor is greater now than it was in the 1960s and that public opposition is stronger than he’s ever seen “

Katie J.M. Baker “Retired Doctor Says It’s Harder to Be an Abortion Provider Now Than Before Roe V. Wade” Jezebel September 3, 2012
http://jezebel.com/5940087/retired-doctor-says-its-harder-to-be-an-abortion-provider-now-than-before-roe-v-wade?post=52384729

Note: Dr.  Livingston has no medical license – it was suspended in 2007 after he neglected to attend a treatment program after abusing prescription painkillers. Unsurprisingly, the Jezebel  article did not mention this fact

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Ultrasound Laws and Abortion

An article about a law proposing that women view an ultrasound before having an abortion gave the following information:

 “A poll by Focus on the Family, a group opposed to abortion, found that when women who were undecided about whether to end a pregnancy were shown an ultrasound of the fetus, 78% did not have the abortion.

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A Gallup poll in July found that 50% of those surveyed supported laws requiring women to be shown ultrasound images of their fetuses, while 46% were opposed.”

Also from the article:

But critics of these [ultrasound] bills scored an important win in August, when a federal judge struck down parts of a new Texas law requiring women seeking an abortion in most cases to view a sonogram and listen to the fetal heart beat. Judge Sam Sparks ruled that the Texas law — which Gov. Rick Perry helped to push through the legislature — violated the First Amendment. “The act compels physicians to advance an ideological agenda with which they may not agree,” he said. The issue could end up in the Supreme Court.

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2011/10/17/the-next-abortion-battleground-fetal-heartbeats/#ixzz24giCIFrC

Adam Cohen“The Next Abortion Battleground: Fetal Heartbeats” Time Ideas October 17, 2011

It is hard to imagine how showing a real time image of the child inside a woman, allowing her to make an informed choice and making sure she is not deceived by the clinic workers selling abortions violates women’s rights. Shouldn’t a woman have full access to all the information about what is going on in her own body? So many post-abortion women have claimed that abortion clinic workers lied about fetal development and/or turned the ultrasound away from them. They had an abortion thinking their children were merely tissue or a collection of cells. Then, sometime later they saw an actual photograph or sonogram of an unborn baby and break down, realizing once it is too late that they have been deceived. Are women really so fragile that they need to be protected from the truth?

3D sonogram at 8 weeks

 

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Pro-Choice Writer Comments on the Silent Scream

A pro-choice author comments on The Silent Scream, an antiabortion movie that shows an unborn baby being aborted on ultrasound. Planned Parenthood pulled all the stops out to discredit this movie, because it swayed many people towards the pro-life cause.

While these facts may, as Planned Parenthood says, speak loudly, it’s unlikely that they say what the prochoice groups hope, since they put the fetus, even a televised facsimile, on center stage, precisely where prochoice groups don’t want it. Assume the film is wrong and the Planned Parenthood brochure is right. Assume that was a fetal yawn and not a scream. None of the experts contested that it was a fetal mouth, and that it was pan of a fetal head, attached to a fetal spine, and that it had arms andlegs, fingers and eyes.  ….

In fact, we need neither The Silent Scream nor a degree in fetal physiology to tell us what we already know: that abortion is the eradication of human life and should be avoided whenever possible. Should it be legal? Yes, since the alternatives are worse. Is it moral? Perhaps, depending on what’s at stake.

Jason Deparle, “Beyond the Legal Right; Why Liberals and Feminists Don’t like to Talk about the Morality of Abortion,” Washington Monthly Apr. 1989

3-D ultrasound in the first trimester
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Allegations Against Dr. George Tiller, Former Employee Sued Him

The late Dr. George Tiller performed abortions up through the third trimester. His death was tragic, and he has been hailed a hero by many pro-choicers. However, he was implicated in the death of at least one woman.

In 1993, an employee of his, Tracy Jones, sued him. She is quoted here:

“There were no ‘training manuals’ for new employees, and there was no time (or instructions from Dr. Tiller) to develop them. Basically it was a ‘sink or swim’ situation for new front office employees. We did have a cursory telephone answering procedure sheet to follow, but generally a new employee received on-the-job training by all of the front office employees. Further, front office employees wre routinely called back to the medical area to assist medical employees with direct patient care without receiving any training in this area.” Included “washing surgical instruments and wrapping them for autoclave, operating the sonogram during surgery, explaining aftercare instructions to patients, and preparing specimins”

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“Dr. Tiller paid ‘kick-backs’ to certain individuals who referred patients to him: [I.S.] in New York; [C.F.] in Tulsa, Oklahoma and [C.K.] in Atlanta, Georgia… Dr. Tiller required me to account for these payments (other than [I.S.], who he paid in cash) as ‘Other Advertising’ on the books.”

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“Dr. Tiller instructed me to routinely overbill Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas. For example, we billed BC/BS $786 for a first trimester procedure, while patients actually paid only $225 or $330. Dr. Tiller advised me that he ‘pioneered’ this billing procedure, and that other clinics across the country were doing it as well. The way it worked was that $786 was booked as the actual procedure fee, the patient paid either $225 or $330, and the remainder ($561 or $456) was written off in the ‘adjustments’ column. When patients questioned this, we advised that $786 was the actual cost of our service, but that in order to remain competitive we took a loss, or a write-off, to keep our prices low.”

Sorce:

Source: US District Court of Kansas Case No. 94-1138-MLB

provided by Christina Dunigan

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Abortion Nurses Bothered by Ultrasounds

ultrasound at 10 weeks

“When we started, we lost two nurses. They couldn’t take looking at it. Some other staff was lost.”

Former abortionist Dr. Joseph Randall, on what happened when the clinic where he worked started doing ultrasounds during abortions.

Read Dr. Randall’s full testimony here. 

 

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Pro-Choice Activist on Abortion and Rape

One pro-choice author said the following:

“To defend abortion with confidence, we must first recognize that institutional opposition to the right is part of a broader campaign to undermine women’s autonomy and equality… Abortion is only one piece of the puzzle.  When this puzzle is assembled, the image that emerges is of a women subjected, not a fetus saved.  For example, it is illuminating that “right to life” leaders generally tolerate abortion in cases of rape or incest.  The fetus conceived by rape is biologically and morally indistinguishable from the fetus conceived by voluntary intercourse.  But in the view of our opponents, the rape victim is innocent while the woman who chooses to have sex is tainted.  For them, it is the woman’s innocence or guilt that determines whether she should be allowed to have an abortion or forced to bear a child.”

“Caitlin Borgmann and Catherine Weiss “Beyond Apocalypse and Apology: A Moral Defense of Abortion” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health volume 35, January/February 2003

Webmaster’s Comment: I thought this was interesting because it shows a pro-choice interpretation of why so many pro-lifers support abortion when it’s a case of rape or incest.  They pick up on the inconsistency of that stand.  What she says is true that the baby is still a baby whether or not it was conceived through voluntary sex or through rape.

It is also true that many women who get pregnant from rape don’t want to have abortions, and many who have regret it. To read some of their stories, go here. 

12 week old unborn baby. can you tell how he was conceived?
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Vast Majority of Abortions are Not for Medical Reasons

from 1980 to 2000 – 99.31% of abortions annually were for non-therapeutic reasons

5460 were for health of mother — that is .36%

3640 were for fetal defects — that is .24%

1,506,770 are for social cases- that is 99.31%

Brian W. Clowes “The Facts of Life: an Authoritative Guide to Life and Family Issues”

Marybeth T. Hagan  “Abortion: a Mother’s Plea for Maternity and the Unborn” (Liguori, Missouri: Triumph) 2005

9 weeks- typical age for an aborted baby
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NARAL Calls Use of Ultrasounds “Intimidation”

Abortion clinics sell abortions. To expect an abortion clinic to be objective in describing abortion is like expecting a car dealership to be objective about buying a car. Clinics make money off of abortions. They don’t make money off of women having their babies.

For some quotes from abortion clinic counselors revealing their bias, go here. 

For obvious reasons, abortion proponents oppose laws allowing women to see their ultrasounds before abortions. Even laws that do not require a woman to see her baby on the screen, but merely require her to be offered a chance are vigorously opposed by abortion rights organizations. They also fight crisis pregnancy centers, which often show women a sonogram of her baby in an attempt to allow her to make an informed choice.

Bill S.  340 Informed Choice Act Would have given grants to crisis pregnancy centers to buy ultrasound equipment

Kate Michelman president of NARAL pro-choice America said CPC would use ultrasound images to “intimidate” women  also said “it never fails to amaze me how little respect they have for women’s capacity to understand what goes on in our bodies.”

David Crary “Abortion Foes Hope to Sway Pregnant Women with Ultrasound Images” Associated Press State and Local Wire February 1, 2001

1st trimester ultrasound

For examples of women whose hearts and minds were changed by seeing ultrasounds, go here.

 

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