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Woman saw part of her 16 week aborted baby

The following case of abortion malpractice was found in Lime 5:

“25-year-old “Patricia” underwent an abortion by Dr. X on March 2, 1985 at Abortion Clinic X. After she returned home, she began hemorrhaging and passed the upper part of her fetus. She said, “I freaked out. I didn’t know what to do. I could see the eyes, and the arms and legs.” She placed the tissue in a plastic bag, and returned to the clinic, where she was told by the clinic’s owner/director that the tissue was just a blood clot. Not convinced, Patricia took the tissue to a hospital where she was informed that it was in fact the head and body parts of a 16 week old fetus. She had a second procedure in the hospital to remove additional tissue.”

Source: Miami Herald 3/20/85, 9/17/89

Mark Crutcher Lime 5: Exploited by Choice (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics, Inc., 1996) 41

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Father of aborted baby “never thought about the baby”

The boyfriend of a woman having an abortion says that after dropping her off at the abortion clinic:

“I went home and drank a couple of beers. I assumed everything was fine, so I didn’t worry. I never thought about the baby at all … little babies don’t do anything for me anyway. I never felt we were dong anything inhumane. It only made me feel guilty knowing she cared and I didn’t.”

James Tunstead Burtchaell Rachel Weeping: And Other Essays about Abortion (Kansas City, Kansas: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1982) 27

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Women have abortions due to “good nurturance” says pro-choicer

Pro-choice activist Ruth Cowan

“… Once left free to decide, most women decide to abort for reasons that have to do with their sense of good nurturance: for example, when they feel either that this is not a time when they can nurture a child properly or this is not the fetus that will grow into a child whom they can nurture properly.”

Ruth Schwartz Cowan “Genetic Technology and Reproductive Choice: an Ethics for Autonomy” in Daniel J Kevles, and Leroy Hood, eds. Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992) 262

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Abortion doctors were called “lowlifes”, “bums”, “murderers”,

A doctor who received medical training before Roe V Wade:

“I was taught that abortion was not only illegal but immoral, and that no self-respecting doctor who considered herself part of the medical community would perform an abortion… Abortionists were “bums”,”murderers”, real “lowlifes”, and very inept physicians who could not make a living any other way. They were objects of contempt and scorn.”

Rickie Solinger Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001) 49

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Former abortionist weighs in on why doctors perform abortions

The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist turned pro-life, said:

“Why, you may well ask, do some American doctors who are privy to the findings of fetology, discredit themselves by carrying out abortions? Simple arithmetic at $300 a time. 1.55 million abortions means an industry generating $500,000,000 annually, of which most goes into the pocket of the physician doing the abortion.”

“An Ex-Abortionist Speaks” a review of “Confessions of an Ex–Abortionist” in The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (1997) Quoted in Gail Koop Broken Land: God’s Message in a Bottle (Olive Press, 2016)

At the time of the quote, a first trimester abortion was about $300 in most clinics. Today, abortions in the first trimester cost $450-$500 and late-term abortions are much more expensive. There is even more money to be made.

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Pro-Abortion activist: Abortion is “cornerstone” of feminism

One pro-choice feminist:

“So I consider the right to elective abortion… the cornerstone of the women’s movement… Without that right, we have about as many rights as a cow in the pasture that’s taken to the bull once a year.”

Quoted in Kristin Luker Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1984) 97

Is the right to kill a baby like the one below really more important than the right to vote, or the right to work outside the home for the same salary as men?

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As a student, New York Times reporter urged classmates to assault pro-lifers

A pro-life student group at SUNY-Buffalo set up a “cemetery of the innocents” — 4,000 wooden crosses symbolizing the number of unborn children aborted in one day.

Pro-choicers stormed the exhibit and kicked the crosses down.

Michelle Goldberg, then a writer for a campus paper, urged readers to “do your part and spit at [the pro-lifers]. Kick them in the head.”

Goldberg now writes for the New York Times.

Rod Dreher “RIGHT-THINKER’S WRONG TO TAKE PAGE FROM THE LEFT” New York Post December 19, 1999

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Post-Abortive woman still regrets abortion 38 years later

Ramona Blount, who had an abortion at 17, writes about not being informed:

“I am outraged that at 17 I could go into a clinic, and without any counseling or information, kill my unborn child. I don’t remember all the details of that day so long ago, but I remember that they were worried I might be too far along to do the abortion. I think I had to come back on another day after they confirmed the pregnancy. To be honest, I don’t even remember if they did an ultrasound, but guaranteed I was not offered to see the baby, nor was I given any information about the gestational age, what my baby looked like, or anything that might have persuaded me to change my mind. I got dropped off by my boyfriend’s sister and endured that horrible procedure alone. After it was over, I had no one that I could talk to about it, but I knew what I had done….

It’s been at least 38 years and I still wish I could undo that choice that I made on that horrible day when I killed my baby….oh, how I wish someone had told me, “It’s a life! This is your baby! Give that child a chance to live!…I have regretted that decision ever since the day that I made it.”

Ramona Blount “I had an abortion, but I wish someone would have given me options” Live Action News March 8, 2017

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17 year old tells of forced abortion at Planned Parenthood

A woman who had an abortion at Planned Parenthood at age 17 recalls:

“The door opened. It was my turn. I went into an office where I gave them some information. Then they led me into a room where they performed a sonogram, with the screen turned so that I could not see it. From there, I went in to yet another room to watch a video that was supposed to tell me about the procedure.

I say “supposed to” because I couldn’t concentrate and could not tell you one thing that was said. I was taken to a curtained off area and was told to remove all of my clothes and put on a gown. Everyone was so cold and unfriendly.

I opened the curtain once I was dressed and then was led to a room with a table and equipment. I laid down and began to cry. They asked me what was wrong and I told them that I did not want to do this. I had changed my mind. I wanted up.

The doctor began to tell me that I didn’t need a baby and that I had my whole life ahead of me.

I began to cry harder and they strapped me down. I asked them to please unstrap me and let me leave. The anesthesia was administered and I fell asleep to the sound of their laughter. When I woke up, I was hurting physically as well as emotionally. All around me were the sounds of other women sobbing.”

Years later, she got married. But she suffered :

“I had anger, bitterness, and resentment living inside of me. It touched every part of my life from my marriage to how I parented my children. I yelled a lot and cried a great deal. I would often cry myself to sleep and not even realize why I was crying.”

Eventually, she found healing through a post-abortion support group.

“I Was Strapped Down and Forced to Have an Abortion at Planned Parenthood” Save the Storks December 1, 2017

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Resident talks about abortion stigma

In a Glamour magazine article, an OB/GYN resident says that she sees the abortion stigma in school administrators, faculty, and their peers who give the impression that:

“abortion is a sleazy and offensive procedure… A doctor who does abortions – even if they are only a small part of her practice – is known as an abortionist. This label is supposed to be the kiss of death for any professional hopes she might have.”

Anonymous “Why I Am an Abortionist” Glamour October 1993

Quoted in Mark Crutcher Lime 5: Exploited by Choice (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics, Inc., 1996) 178

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