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Abortionist Wants Fewer Abortions

Daniel Fieldstone, abortionist:

“If this were a rational society, we have fewer unintended pregnancies and far fewer abortions…”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 182

If abortion is simply the removal of a few cells, the simple “termination of pregnancy” then why should there be fewer abortions? This abortionist seems to long for a world where abortions are rare. But if abortion is not killing a baby, and is not harmful to women, why should it be rare? The truth is that abortion providers see the bodies of aborted babies daily and they know abortion is not a matter to take lightly.

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Rachel MacNair Reports Abortionist’s Odd Behavior

Rachel M. MacNair wrote a book on the stress individuals deal with when they regularly commit violent acts. Her book discusses the experience of soldiers during wartime, and it also has a chapter on abortion. She recounts hearing about one abortionist’s bizarre behavior, which she attributes to work-related stress.

In a telephone conversation, a woman who worked for a doctor in Louisiana for a few months recounted an incident:

“The one thing that sticks out in my mind the most, that really upset me the most, was that he had done an abortion, he had a fetus wrapped inside of a blue paper. He stuck it inside of a surgical glove and put another glove over it. He was standing in the hall, speaking with myself and two of his assistants. He was tossing the fetus up in the air and catching it. Like it was a rubber ball. I just looked at him and it’s like doctor, please. And he laughed. He says, “Nobody knows what this is.”

Rachel M. Macnair, Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002)

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Ultrasound Scans Change Abortionist’s Mind

Dr. Stuart Campbell, former abortionist, referring to advances in ultrasound imaging:

“Even a fetus lying there dead doesn’t convey the horror that one experiences seeing a baby moving its arms and legs, opening its mouth, sucking its thumb, and then thinking, gosh, somebody wants to, you know… It looks so vital. It has changed my view. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.”

(Campbell is a pioneer of pregnancy scans, he regularly performed abortions, until he left the NHS practice.)

Stuart Campbell “The Hidden Wonders of New Life” The Tablet October 7 2004 Quoted in Deathroe

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Abortion Clinic Worker at Peace After Leaving

Joy Davis left the abortion business and testified before a medical board against Dr. Tucker, the abortionist she once worked with after he killed a woman. She says she was labeled an “axe grinding opportunist.” But she says:

“I was making $115,000 salary at the clinics. Now I don’t earn a fraction of that. But you know what? I don’t care. I like who I am now. I can live with my conscience.”

Celeste McGovern Alberta Report/Newsmagazine “Why Doctors are Fleeing the Carnage” November 21 1994 Vol. 21, Issue 49

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Nurse Upset By Seeing Her First Late Term Abortion, But Adjusted

unbornbaby14w — 14 weeks. Abortions in America can be done until birth in some states, and all through the second trimester in every state

“The first time I attended a late termination it was upsetting. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t sometimes question what I was doing. But above all I believe that the woman must come first. In fact, I feel so strongly about this that when I was 20 weeks pregnant, I assisted in a [late] termination when all my colleagues refused on moral and religious grounds….

I don’t look at it as the taking away a life because embryos cannot sustain life outside the womb. If women could not have abortions, what would happen to the thousands of unwanted babies? “

Clinic Worker Pippa Jenkins

Ann Barrowclough “Abortion: This is What Our Nurses Really Think” Sunday Mirror August 18, 1996 p 16

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Catholic Abortion Clinic Worker Defends Abortion

“I was brought up a Roman Catholic to believe that life was sacred, but I have no qualms about abortion… However, there are times when the reality of it all hits you. When you are at the operation, particularly with the later terminations, it can be difficult. You might think: “Oh God, that’s a potential life.” But you learn to distinguish between the procedure itself and the need to support the woman’s right to choose…You see a lot of trauma and tragedy. It’s awful when girls come to you when they have gone over the 24-week limit.”

19 week unborn — 19 week old unborn baby

Marie Stafford, Nurse who works in an abortion clinic

Ann Barrowclough “Abortion: This is What Our Nurses Really Think” Sunday Mirror August 18, 1996 p 16

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It’s Hard To Handle the Body of a 26 Week Old Baby, Says Abortion Clinic Worker

“There’s lots of days when it’s really, really hard…I don’t know what makes it so much harder at twenty-six weeks than at thirteen weeks. I don’t know what makes handling the tissue so much harder….To know that she’s not going to have that baby. For me, there’s a lot of probably some hidden guilt that I’m not willing to look at about my adoption. That could have been me. You know, had my natural mother had access to abortion, this easily could have been me. And when you’re, you know, putting a fetus’s feet in over its head in a baggie, there’s just that brief moment of “this could have been me,” which I fundamentally believe is okay. She should have had a right to choose that, and I, being a religious person, believe that things happen for a reason. And that I would have found, you know, this soul would have found another body to come too… But there’s some gut level reaction when you are handling 26 week tissue …It’s much more difficult when you see a 26th week face.”

26weeksson — 26 weeks sonogram of an unborn baby

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick) 1996, p
p 84

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Abortion Clinic Worker: We Don’t Say the Word “Baby”

“I feel some sadness [about second trimester abortions]…And I think part of the problem is that we don’t talk about that…Do you see what I’m saying- that somehow your pro-choice stand is compromised by saying the word “baby.”…We don’t allow ourselves to say or think that word…

When a woman says, you know, “Does the baby go through there?”, we just, you know, alarm bells go off and, “Oh God, is she ambivalent?” … And… it’s like “Yes!” Celia’s [another clinic worker] saying, you answer the woman, “Yes, the baby goes through that tube.” We’ve been trained to say, “Yes, the tissue goes -” … It’s using this language that’s in complete denial of the fact that to this woman “baby” doesn’t have to mean that she’s ambivalent. It can mean that’s the word she knows. … We’ve lost that. It’s something that we’ve had to give up because the antis [pro-lifers] have claimed that word.”

Clinic worker Mira

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick) 1996, p 79

The clinic where Mira works does abortions up to 26 weeks.

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Abortion Clinic Worker On Handling The Bodies of Aborted Babies

16 weeks

“Seeing the fetal tissue and seeing the blood and cleaning up can be kind of unsettling, especially seeing larger fetal tissue. At nine weeks…you start seeing fetal parts. And by the second trimester, it’s, you know, it’s a baby, and by the eighteenth week it’s definitely a baby. And by, like, you know, twenty-two weeks you go in and you watch someone do a sonogram, and you’re like, “Oh my.” There it is just moving, moving around. And it’s really, really hard because I always thought of abortion in terms of just the woman, just her body… And I never even allowed myself to think, you know, isn’t it a shame that there’s something alive inside her that’s not going to be alive anymore if she has an abortion.”