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Ultrasound Changes Pregnant Woman’s Outlook

A married woman who became pregnant at age 39 after she had already had all the children she wanted weighed abortion and decided she would probably keep the baby. But:

“Unfortunately, she says, her maternal instincts did not respond to reason: when a young friend placed her baby in her arms, she found herself looking with distaste into “a little scrunched face inspiring no tenderness, only intends tedium at the thought of tending him. What was I going to do with the baby I couldn’t return to his mother?” She arranged to have amniocentesis once they got to England, though she was not sure – despite her reservations – what it would cost her emotionally to have an abortion if something were wrong. When told she had as much chance of having a miscarriage from the amniocentesis as she did, at her age, of having a Down syndrome child, she hoped for the miscarriage: “That is until, lying on the table where the procedure was to take place, I saw the ultrasound scan on a television monitor above me reveal the perfectly shaped head of the child I carried. I wanted that baby!”

Faith Abbott “a Tale of Two Women” Human Life Review, Spring 1993 in Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 111 to 112

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Former Clinic Worker: Clarissa

Testimony of Clarissa, January 22, 2012

“I was just finishing my medical assisting courses and my internship was at a women’s health center. I was going to be taking vital signs, answering phones, checking patients in and drawing blood. I showed up to work and I was shocked to find out they did abortions there.

When I asked to be assigned to a different location, they told me there was nowhere else to go. In the weeks that followed, I was gradually introduced to the horrors of that place. The girls that came to the door were sometimes crying, they were sometimes quiet and sometimes they were laughing. But they all had sadness in their eyes. At the end of my internship, I was offered a job. As a single mother with bills to pay, I thought that I had no choice. From there, it only got worse. The girls who were unsure were lied to and coerced into killing their babies. They were told it was safe, they were not informed of their options, and they were never told about how they would feel afterwards. The girls that were only a month or two along would be given pills that would kill the baby and told they would have heavy bleeding. They were never told that they were going to be flushing their babies down the toilet. The girls who were farther along, they were given two medications, one so they wouldn’t feel anything, the other one so they wouldn’t remember. The medications did not always work. They were held down by the abortionist’s assistants, screaming in agony, as their babies were ripped apart and pulled out with a vacuum. If they were ever to change their minds, they were told that it was too late. When the medicine did work, the abortionist and his assistants would laugh, tell jokes, and even watch TV while they were killing the babies. Afterwards, the girls were ushered out the back door in varying conditions, some barely able to walk, vomiting, confused, high and their medications, and crying hysterically.

One after the other, they would get on the table, and kill their babies. I hated going to work. I would get in the car every morning with a knot in my stomach, and go home every night, and get sick. It was an awful place to be. Many of the girls who work there did drugs in order to deal with the pain that they were experiencing from working there.”

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College Professor Uses Racism As Argument for Abortion

A young woman describes the indoctrination she received as a student in college:

“It shocked me to hear the racist things he [the professor] said: that the only reason white people opposed abortion, for example, was that we preferred letting black children grow up to rape white women so we could execute them. This painted neither whites nor blacks in a flattering light, and I was appalled to watch my darker-skinned classmates unquestioningly jotting down notes to the effect that their children were destined to be felons. I also had known my share of white folks opposed to abortion. None of us had such a low opinon of our fellows — we all figured that regardless of his or her skin color, every baby had as much chance of being a productive citizen as any other baby. But here was Dr. Z lying about people I knew — whites who opposed abortion — and about my black classmates who I thought would make fine parents of perfectly law-abiding children.”

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Abortion and Killing

Planned Parenthood:

Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus.

“What Happens During an Abortion” Planned Parenthood website

One Holocaust scholar observed that, after poring through thousands of Nazi documents, he happened upon the word “killing” only once – in an edict concerning dogs.

Raul Hilberg, the Destruction of the European Jews (New York: Holmes & Meiers, 1985), volume 3, 1016

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Psychologist Robert Lifton, in his book about Nazi doctors at the camps

“The language used gave Nazi doctors a discourse in which killing is no longer killing; and need not be experienced, or even perceived as killing.”

Robert J Lifton, the Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: basic books, 1986) 445

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James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999)

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Abortion Rights Columnist Anne Roiphe Comments on the Effectiveness of Pictures

Abortion rights columnist Anne Roiphe:

“The antiabortion forces will again display horrible pictures of the technique, which they call partial-birth abortion. Although few in the abortion rights movement take this approach seriously, it has emotional resonance and arose public support for all abortion.”

Anne Roiphe, “Moment of Perception” New York Times, September 19, 1996

James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999)

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Former Abortionist: Dr. George Flesh

Dr. George Flesh decided to stop performing abortions. He said the following:

“Extracting a fetus, piece by piece, was bad for my sleep. Depression clouded my office day when I had an abortion scheduled. My pulse raced after giving the local anesthetic. Although I still felt sorry for the unmarried 20-year-old college junior, I felt increasing anger toward the married couples who requested abortions because a law firm partnership was imminent, or house remodeling was incomplete, or even because summer travel tickets were paid for.

Anxiety attacks, complete with nausea, palpitations and dizziness, began to strike me in some social situations. In public, I felt I was on trial, or perhaps should have been. I no longer was proud to be a physician. Arriving home from work to the embrace of my kids, I felt undeserving that God had blessed me with their smiling faces. The morning shave became an ordeal, as I stared at the sad face in the mirror and wondered how all those awards and diplomas had produced an Angel of death.”

“Tearing a developed fetus apart, limb by limb, is an act of depravity that society should not permit. We cannot afford such a devaluation of human life, nor the desensitization of medical personnel it requires. This is not based on what the fetus might feel but on what we should feel in watching an exquisite, partly formed human being being dismembered.”

Dr. Flesh talked about the experience he had that led to him quitting abortion practice:

“… a married couple came to me and requested an abortion. Because the patient’s cervix was rigid, I was unable to dilate it and perform the procedure. I asked her to return in a week, when the cervix would be softer.

The couple returned and told me that they had changed their minds and wanted to “keep the baby.” I delivered the baby seven months later. Years later, I played with little Jeffrey in the pool at the tennis club where his parents and I were members. He was happy and beautiful. I was horrified to think that only a technical obstacle had prevented me from terminating Jeffrey’s potential life. The connection between the six-week-old human embryo and a laughing child stopped being an abstraction for me. While hugging my sons each morning, I started to think of the vacuum aspirator that I would use two hours later.”

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“[After saying that abortion should not be illegal] but I am revolted when I see how casually some couples choose an abortion – for the convenience of having a baby in June instead of February, for example. I do not believe that a civilized society should encourage this.”

“Since I stopped doing abortions, my life has blossomed. I love my practice. Years of struggling guilt have ended. A certain calm and inner peace have returned. I feel closer to God.”

George Flesh “the Spiritual Cost of Abortion” Originally an Editorial in the Los Angeles Times, 1994 in Gary E McCuen Abortion Violence & Extremism (Hudson, Wisconsin: GEM Publications, 1997) 76-79

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Postabortion Woman: “It Was like a Cattle Call”

Rochelle describes her abortion:

“Well, for me it was like a cattle call… They had all of us women there in a group for our abortions. We went around the room wondered a time, and they made everyone give the reason she was having the abortion. And no matter what we said, they went, “Oh, we understand.” Then they said, “Now it’s time to go in.” They gave us no information about fetal development or other options.”

Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 64

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Former Clinic Worker: Sue Thayer

Sue Thayer, former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic, who later became pro-life:

“Every employee, who was in management in the health services part of Planned Parenthood, was required to observe a full day of abortions. The baby is extracted and put into a small little clear dish, and they look at that under a light to try to determine if they have all of the body parts, because—of course—during the abortion the baby is ripped apart and so there are little tiny arms and little legs.”

Peter Baklin “Planned Parenthood manager gets fired, then leads 40 Days campaign at former facility” Nov. 17, 2011

Father Regrets Loss of Child through Abortion

“There’s no point here and now to reflect on those moments up until the abortion of our baby. Jad is not here, and that’s all that matters. I will never hold him. I will never see what he looked like. I will never tickle his feet. I will never hear his laugh. I will never be able to love him…”

A postabortion father, “Reclaiming Fatherhood” http://www.menandabortion.info/l1-testimony2.html

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Allentown Medical Services, PA

An abortion clinic at 2200 Hamilton St. in Allentown has failed a health inspection.

According to the Health Department, operators “failed to maintain a safe and sanitary environment.”

They found the following problems:

in two “procedure rooms,” an employee showed inspectors dozens of metal devices used in abortions that had been sterilized, but not wrapped to maintain sterility
packages of surgical instruments “had an accumulation of brown debris in the hinge areas and brown staining on the inside of the packages.” An employee, who was unnamed, “confirmed that these surgical instruments were considered sterile and ready for patient use.”
found instruments in sterile packages that were past the expiration dates listed on the packages. Two disposable uterine catheters had expiration dates of March 15, 2003 and September 2005. Clonidine tablets were also out-of-date.
Other instruments were stored in dirty containers
A freezer for infectious waste in a scrub room was splattered and smeared with blood and the bottom of the freezer was coated with a “thick layer” of frozen blood.,
inspectors found violations in the recovery area, where patient care items such as pillows, blankets and heating pad covers were taken home and laundered by staffers “every once in a while.”

This clinic was operating legally, and will continue to see patients. Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups oppose laws that would require clinics to be inspected and to meet certain health standards. Planned Parenthood vigorously opposes any law that requires clinics to be licensed and inspected.

Tim Darragh “State inspectors cite Allentown abortion clinic for violations” The Morning Call July 09, 2011

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