ClinicQuotes

“When a girl called to make her appointment, we’d work her in as soon as possible. If she called on Tuesday, we’d have her in no later than Friday. We wanted to avoid a long waiting period where she’d have time to think about it.

First she would fill out her forms, and then talk with a counselor. . . The counselors were trained in what areas to cover and which to avoid. They’d say, “I know this is a terrible situation you’re in. What can we do to help make this better for you? Yeah, it doesn’t sound like you’re ready for a pregnancy right now.” Their task was to keep the machinery moving – to get the woman into the procedure room as quickly as possible.”

Anonymous Clinic Worker

“Abortion Clinics: An Inside Look” Last Days Ministries

Note: Pro-Choice organization such as Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation vehemently oppose 24-hour waiting periods for women scheduled for an abortion

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“When discussing the sonogram, you are supposed to tell the client that it is a measurement as far as the pregnancy is concerned, but not a measure of the fetal head or anything like that.”

–Rosemary Petruso, on her training to be an abortion counselor

Paula Ervin, Women Exploited: The Other Victims of Abortion (Our Sunday Visitor: Huntington) 1985. Quoted from the St. Louis Review

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“We tried to avoid the women seeing them [the fetuses] They always wanted to know the sex, but we lied and said it was too early to tell. It’s better for the women to think of the fetus as an ‘it.’

–Abortion clinic worker Norma Eidelman

James Tunstead Burtchaell, editor Rachel Weeping and Other Essays About Abortion (New York: Universal Press 1982) 34

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“If a woman we were counseling expressed doubts about having an abortion, we would say whatever was necessary to persuade her to abort immediately.”

–Judy W., former office manager of the second largest abortion clinic in El Paso, Texas

.Quoted by Last Days Ministries

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“They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heart beat, they wouldn’t want to have an abortion.”

former abortionist Dr. Joseph Randall

“Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions October 1990

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“I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone. He took every one of our receptionists, nurses, and anyone else who would deal with people over the phone through an extensive training period. The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so that she wouldn’t get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money.”

–Nina Whitten, chief secretary at a Dallas abortion clinic under Dr. Curtis Boyd

Personal Testimony at “Meet the Abortion Providers” conference

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“Sonography in connection with induced abortion may have psychological hazards. Seeing a blown-up, moving image of the embryo she is carrying can be distressing to a woman who is about to undergo an abortion, Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman noted. She stressed that the screen should be turned away from the patient.”

Editorial on Abortion

Obstetrics and Gynecology News February 15, 1986 p 28

 

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“It is when I am holding a plastic uterus in one hand, a suction tube in the other, moving them together in imitation of the scrubbing to come, that woman ask the most secret question. I am speaking in a matter-of-fact voice about ‘the tissue’ and ‘the contents’ when the woman suddenly catches my eye and says ‘How big is the baby now?’

These words suggest a quiet need for definition of the boundaries being drawn. It isn’t so odd, after all, that she feels relief when I describe the growing buds bulbous shape, its miniature nature. Again, I gauge, and sometimes lie a little, weaseling around its infantile features until its clinging power slackens.”

–abortion worker Sallie Tisdale

Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here” Harpers Magazine Oct 1987 p 68

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From an article on the psychological effects of abortion by a researcher who conducted a study:

“Several empirical studies in the U.S. have indicated the deficiencies of current abortion counseling practices with the majority of respondents reporting insufficient information provided by the abortion counselor; insensitive, unhelpful abortion clinic personnel, with respect to providing assistance in decision-making, and the provision of misinformation, thereby contributing to increased anxiety, confusion and levels of post-abortion depression and hostility.”

Barnard, C. (1990), The Long Term Psychological Effects of Abortion, Portsmouth, NH: Institute for Pregnancy Loss; and Vaughan, H. (1990), Canonical Variates of Post-Abortion Syndrome, Portsmouth, NH: Institute for Pregnancy Loss.

However:

In Georgia, legislators put forth an informed consent law which stated that a woman must receive accurate information about her pregnancy and the abortion procedure, and then wait 24 hours before her abortion. Planned Parenthood adamantly opposed this law. From Kay Scott, the executive director of Planned Parenthood of Georgia:

“Supporters of the Woman’s Right to Know bill say it would allow time for reflection, but this bill is really about deception. Under Georgia law, women already receive full informed consent before having an abortion….”

Editorial by Kay Scott “ABORTION: 24-HOUR-WAIT SUPPORTERS TRY TO DECEIVE” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA), Jan 21, 2005 pA15)

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In her book Why I Am an Abortion Doctor, abortionist Susan Poppema describes what she says to women who are ambivalent about having an abortion:

“We tell them that we honor them for making their decision and that we regard it as a moral, responsible decision made in the best interests the patient perceives for herself and her family. Often I’ll add that it’s too bad making a good decision isn’t always easy and that even the fact that it may not seem right at the time doesn’t invalidate the decision over the longer haul.”

Suzanne P. Poppema, Mike Henderson “Why I Am an Abortion Doctor” (Prometheus Books, 1996)  p 125

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