Doctor Feels “Reasonably Competent” After Doing 12,000 Abortions

Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern quotes another abortionist named William Rashbaum:

“After I had done 1000 [abortions], I thought it was an expert, but by the time I had done 5000, a realized I was learning a lot. At this point, having done somewhere around 12,000 procedures, I’m beginning to think I’m reasonably competent.”

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) 103-104 quoted in Stephen Wagner, Common Ground Without Compromise: 25 Questions to Create Dialogue on Abortion. (Signal Hill, CA: Stand to Reason, 2008) P 76

It is not unusual for abortionist, throughout his career, to perform more than 20,000- 30,000 abortions.

unborn baby at nine weeks, typical age for an abortion
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Many Women Who Initially Wanted To Abort End up Loving Their Children

The following quote is based on a study that was done in the years before Roe when abortions had to be approved by committees. The study interviewed women who had been denied abortions and subsequently had their children. It analyzed their attitudes towards their born children. It came to the following conclusion:

“It is clear that mothers who initially believed their pregnancy to be “the worst thing that ever happened to them” came to feel about the same degree of affection for their children as the mothers who were initially “ecstatic” about the pregnancy.

Most women who were most regretful of the pregnancy now claim that they would have the child again if given the opportunity [whereas] one of every six mothers who were initially pleased with pregnancy would choose not to have the child again.

[They conclude]… Initial feelings about pregnancy are predictive of how a mother will eventually feel about her child only to a very limited degree.”

P. Cameron et.al., “How Much Do Mothers Love Their Children?” Rocky Mt. Psychological Association, May 12, 1972

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Dr. Bernard Nathanson Records an Ultrasound Video of a Baby Being Aborted

The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson performed thousands of abortions before becoming pro-life. He claims that the reason he stopped doing abortions was because he began to have doubts about the humanity of the unborn baby due to advances in technology, including the availability of ultrasounds. He made the famous film “The Silent Scream” which had a major impact on the abortion debate in the 1980s when it was produced. He says this of the taping of the famous video:

“By 1984, however, I had begun to ask myself more questions about abortion: what actually goes on in an abortion? I had done many, but abortion is a blind procedure. The doctor does not see what he’s doing. He puts an instrument into a uterus and he turns on a motor, and the suction machine goes on and something is vacuumed out; it ends up as a little pile of meat in a gauze bag. I wanted to know what happened, so in 1984 I said to a friend of mine, who was doing 15 or maybe 20 abortions a day, “Look, do me a favor, Jay. Next Saturday, when you are doing all these abortions, put an ultrasound device on the mother and tape it for me.”

He did, and when he looked at the tapes with me in an editing studio, he was so affected that he never did another abortion. I, though I had not done an abortion in five years, was shaken to the very roots of my soul by what I saw.”

Dr. Bernard Nathanson is not the only abortion provider to be affected by an ultrasound guided abortion. Abby Johnson, the former manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic, became pro-life on the spot after witnessing an ultrasound abortion of a 13-week-old unborn baby. She watch the baby torn apart on the screen and, in that instant, realized how wrong she had been in supporting and promoting abortion. Joan Appleton, another abortion clinic worker, had a similar conversion when she saw an ultrasound guided abortion, and so the baby struggling to get away from the instruments.

Nathanson, Bernard N, M.D The Hand of God: a Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc, 1996) 140 – 141

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Dr. Bernard Nathanson on Why He Stopped Doing Abortions

 “I ran the largest abortion clinic in the world for 2 years. I had no conflicts whatsoever at the time I was doing the abortions. I changed my mind because the new scientific data which we were getting from advanced technology persuaded me that we could not indiscriminately continue to slaughter what was demonstrably a human being.”

Interview with Bernard Nathanson, M.D., 1986.

To read some scientific facts about unborn babies and fetal development, go here.

The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue by Miriam Claire – Insight Books: New York. 1995. P: 127

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Abortionist Says Abortion Doesn’t “Enhance the Patient’s Dignity As a Person”

Roe versus Wade mandated that abortion must be legal, a matter Between “a woman and her doctor”. In reality, most women barely see the doctor who performs their abortion. Often they see him for 5 min. as he suctions out their uterus, and not at all before or after. The doctor does not get to know the woman. All he sees of her is her draped body and her sexual parts exposed for him to operate on. As one abortionist says. Perhaps this explains why so many abortionists seem to show contempt for their patients, and why so many abortionists botch these procedures – they don’t care about the women the way other doctors do, doctors who get to know the woman as a whole person.

“In many clinic settings, the patient does not meet the physician until she is undressed except for an examining gown. Some physicians even require, or clinics arrange, that the patient be in a lithotomy position when the physician enters the room. This procedure does not enhance the patient’s dignity as a person, and it does not encourage recognition of the patient as a person by the physician.”

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Boulder, CO: Alpengo Graphics, INC, 1990) 91

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Abortionist: Lacerated Uteruses are “No Big Deal”

Journalist, Mark Feldstein reported on abortionist Milan Vuitch in his reports, See No Evil, for WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg, FL: March, 1981); and Investigation of Dr. Milan Vuitch, WDVM-TV (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 1984).

In Feldstein’s, Kissing Cousins: Journalism and Oral History, he describes a the interview and a comment by Vuitch:

“During my own work as a journalist, I often found that despite the television interviewer’s customary antipathy to dead airtime, silence can elicit the most damning admissions of all. “I don’t charge extra for rats, they come free when I rent the property,” one slumlord eventually told me on-camera. Similarly, a negligent gynecologist (Milan Vuitch) responded to my silence by stating, “Oh, I’ve lacerated many women’s [sic] uteruses, this is no big deal.”

This abortion provider killed at least one woman. You can read about her death here.

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Rape Victim has Traumatic Abortion

One patient, Ellen Hamilton, who had an abortion because she was raped, said she was more traumatized by the abortion. According to Danielle Capelli with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on a NPR All Things Considered segment April 3, 1992,  Abortions without Anesthesia at Canadian Hospital.

“She was sent over to Yellowknife, and she had–she was told that no anesthesia would be used because it wasn’t necessary; that general anesthesia was dangerous–that it would cause bleeding–and that local anesthesia wasn’t needed because it would only cause minor discomfort and the procedure would be over in a couple of minutes. In fact, she found it excruciatingly painful. She said she was strapped down to the table, held down by a number of nurses, including one male member of the staff at the hospital who had to come in and help hold her down. She said she was screaming and writhing in pain; she was begging the doctor to stop. The doctor was yelling at her, saying, ‘You’re only making it worse, stop moving,’ and refused to stop; he just kept going. “


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Former Planned Parenthood Worker Describes Counseling at Her Clinic

Former Planned Parenthood worker Catherine Anthony Adair :

“In fact, clinic workers would purposefully avoid providing information on fetal development, what the child looked like, the child’s anatomical development and the pain he or she could feel. I was continuously reminded that when referring to the baby, the appropriate terminology was “clump of cells” or “contents of the uterus.”

Planned Parenthood’s mission is to pressure as many women into having an abortion as it can. Those in charge know that can’t be accomplished if they refer to the child as a “baby.”

Then women would know what was really growing inside them: a little person with a beating heart, functioning nervous system, tiny hands and feet. The child is entirely disregarded. There is no counseling, no care, no waiting and no discussion. Once a pregnancy is confirmed, it is off to termination.”

Catherine Anthony Adair “Planned Parenthood lies about itself” Washington Examiner, 11/22/11. Quoted in Abortion Industry’s “Mission Is To Pressure Women”, Afterabortion.org, Elliot Institute, January 12, 2012.

Read more at the Washington Examiner

but:

In their factsheet “THE TRUTH ABOUT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS” NARAL Pro-Choice America makes the following ironic statement:

Unfortunately, reports indicate that CPCs frequently misinform, mislead, and coerce women with unintended or crisis pregnancies. Staff and volunteers at CPCs often use anti-abortion propaganda to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose…”

It goes on to say:

“Women are entitled to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased medical information with which they can make their own decisions.”

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Planned Parenthood Worker: It Was Disturbing to See Body Parts

“It was disturbing for me to see recognizable body parts in the removed tissue, usually an arm or a leg.”

Medical student working at Planned Parenthood

unborn baby’s foot at 12 weeks

“Abortion Action Guide” Medical Students for Choice, National Abortion Federation, September 1993.

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Planned Parenthood Abortionist: “This Can Burn You out Very Quickly”

feet of an unborn baby at eight weeks

“This can burn you out very, very quickly…not so much by the physical labor as the emotional part of what’s going on. When you do an ultrasound, particularly if you have children, and you see a fetus there, kicking, moving, living, doing things that your own child does, bringing it’s thumb to its mouth, and things like that- it’s difficult. Then, after the procedure, sometimes we have to actually look at the specimen, and you see arms and legs and things like that torn off…It does take an emotional toll.”

Abortionist Dr. Ed Jones, who had worked at a Planned Parenthood Clinic for 4 years at the time of the interview

Nancy Dey. Abortion: Debating the Issue (New York: Enslow Publishing 1995)

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