They said it.
Uta Landy ,then director of the National Abortion Federation:
“Making money is not a bad thing. What is bad is if the patient is being exploited, and I think abortion providers have proven they are dedicated people, concerned with delivering a safe and convenient service.”
Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion – And its Big Business” Observer Reporter January 18, 1983
Share on FacebookA questionnaire given out by a pro-life researcher asked post-abortive women whether they felt certain emotions after their abortions. Following are the percentages of women in the survey that said yes to the following emotions. The question was “Circle any that apply to your abortion.”
| guilt: 89% |
| worry: 80% |
| shame: 87% |
| panic: 60% |
| emptiness: 61% |
| sorrow: 71% |
| isolation: 62% |
| anxiety: 73% |
| anger: 77% |
| fear: 85% |
| insecurity: 81% |
| weeping: 69% |
| depression: 81% |
| regret: 82% |
| eating disorders: 55% |
| sexual problems: 62% |
| emotionally numb: 59% |
| suicidal thoughts: 67% |
| chemical dependency: 73% |
| separated from God: 53% |
| hopelessness: 79%
Jennifer O’Neill Healing through God’s Grace after Abortion (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Faith Communications, 2005) |
A nurse who assisted in abortions still has nightmares 20 years later:
“I have never had an abortion, but I am an RN who feels as if I have had one… emotionally. I assisted with them for 10 years. After 10 years of emotional “rape,” I finally grew strong enough to stop assisting them in all ways. My depression has gone, and I have adopted a child. I have not assisted with an abortion in 20 years. I prayed for forgiveness and I know I am forgiven, but the nightmares continue.”
Jennifer O’Neill Healing through God’s Grace after Abortion (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Faith Communications, 2005) 46
Share on FacebookTracy had an abortion by pill. She says:
“It took five hours. The pain was terrible; I’d never been through pain like that before. I tried to hold it in, but tears just kept falling all the time. I was vomiting, but nothing was coming up, because I’d had nothing to eat.”
Melanie Symonds, Phyllis Bowman And Still They Weep: Personal Stories of Abortion (The SPUC Educational Research Trust, 1996) 128
Share on FacebookFormer Planned Parenthood manager Abby Johnson says:
I’ve found sometimes that charts — when I would audit charts — I would find charts sometimes where the client, when they filled out a medical history, if they were a minor, it would ask, you know, ‘when was the first time you had sex?’ And they would write on there 13 or 12 or something, and in Texas that’s automatically reportable. And so then the counselor, just like you’re saying, the patient educator would sit down with them and go, “Ok, are you sure it was thirteen because if it’s thirteen, now, that’s reportable in the state of Texas. Are you sure it wasn’t fourteen?” And then the client would say, “Oh yeah, I think it was fourteen.”
And then I would look at the history and the educator would have scratched out 13 and would have written, “Patient was not correct. She first actually had sex at age fourteen.” I don’t know if it’s just laziness, that they don’t want to make the report, I don’t know, sometimes it could be that the patient is saying, “please don’t report.” But you know, we’re not there to make sure the patient leaves happy we didn’t report, we’re there to protect these minor girls.
Sarah Terzo “Former abortion workers say they ‘lied about ages’ to avoid reporting sexual abuse” Live Action News October 9, 2018
Share on FacebookAbortion Clinic Days is a blog where abortion workers write about their experiences working in abortion facilities.
Under the heading “respect for life,” the blog says:
many years ago i remember a patient telling me that she chose our clinic because she could tell that we respected her and knew that we would therefore respect the life within her. it was very important to her that she have trust in the clinic she chose because she felt that, given her life circumstances, returning her baby to god was the kindest, most maternal thing she could do for it.
i assured her that her feeling was correct, that we in fact do all we can to honor the life that women are unable to continue and we encourage them to find their own way to make peace with the pregnancy (whether it be a baby or a “pre-baby” to them), figure out how to forgive themselves and also to continue working through any religious or spiritual issues if they have them….
The blog goes on to say:
our clinic is the kind of place where women can ask, as one did today, if we would bless and baptize her baby. i was able to do that for her. honoring her pregnancy as she herself chooses is part of what we hope to do for each woman. using water (she had planned to bring holy water with her but had at the last minute forgotten it) and saying the words i know from my catholic upbringing, i did as she asked. she had a name in mind for the baby, one that could work for either gender and i gave it that name.
we want to be a clinic that respects life, that honors women’s choices. the two are compatible. believe me!
here is a picture of a baby whose life was “respected” in an abortion clinic
Michele Harmon wrote about her child with Down syndrome in her essay, “The Most Beautiful Face on Earth.”
Ciarra attends a regular preschool program, she was potty trained before she was three, and is a very independent little kid. She is funny and spirited, stubborn and witty. She whistles little songs all day long. She idolizes her big brother. She loves to draw and can put all the details into a drawing of a face.
At five years old, this child they told me would be so unworthy of life, such a burden, has defied all predictions. She is in a mainstream kindergarten class where she holds her own nicely and is doing most things like any other child her age. Letters and words seem to be her strength.
She has so many friends that sometimes we get tired of dragging her to play dates and parties… All those worries I had about kids shying away from her have turned out to be the exact opposite. She is like a magnet.… Her teachers have fallen in love with her. Many of them were afraid of Down syndrome before… now they are like me, grateful for the opportunity to know her. She continues to touch people with her sweetness and surprise them with her ability. Ciarra is a little girl who has been the best teacher that I can ever imagine having. She is a joy like no other….
She seems to have a way with people that I have never seen before. I wonder if it is her cheerfulness or her simple joy in everything.…
Maybe someday it won’t be so scary to have a child with Down syndrome.Maybe someday 95% of her peers will not be eliminated.… I am blessed beyond words by this little girl. That blessing seems to know no end, it grows and grows and fills my heart daily. People may ask if it’s hard to have a kid like her. I wish they could know the truth. Sure, there are days I get tired. She asks a lot of questions, and she is in perpetual motion. But I wouldn’t trade her for the world…
She is the closest thing to an angel I will ever see.
Melinda Tankard Reist Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 2006) 283 – 285
Share on FacebookA former abortion worker from a facility in Texas said:
During the times that my training, I shadowed a few minor encounters, and there were times when the minor reported that her partner was more than four years older than her and upon hearing it the first time my trainer would then ask other questions, and eventually the minor would see where it was heading, you know, toward a report, and the minor would backtrack, and think, “oh no, I don’t know, maybe he was only three years older than me,” or you know – my trainer would kind of give hints that, you know, four years is leading toward a report, so you need to fix it, not directly, like with the tone of her voice. And the minor would backtrack and say, “maybe I’m mistaken.”
And we would take the lower age just so that we wouldn’t have to report it. This is what my trainer used to do, you know, kind of coerce them into saying something that wouldn’t lead to report.
Sarah Terzo “Former abortion workers say they ‘lied about ages’ to avoid reporting sexual abuse” Live Action News October 9, 2018
Share on FacebookFormer abortion worker Brenda Pratt-Shafer wrote:
“The abortionist knows that if the mother knew there was a heartbeat or saw the fetus (baby) on the ultrasound, she would probably change her mind about the abortion. When an ultrasound was performed at the abortion clinic, the screen was turned away from the mother and the sound was turned off so the mother could not hear or see it.”
Brenda Pratt-Shafer, David Shafer What the Nurse Saw: Eyewitness to Abortion (Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing & Enterprise, LLC, 2016) 29
Share on FacebookFrom a 1988 book on abortion:
“In one study, researchers found that one fourth of the women who had abortions felt that it was morally wrong; 8% of them did not believe that any woman who wants an abortion should be able to obtain it legally.”
Susan Neiburg Terkel Abortion: Facing the Issues (New York: Franklin Watts, 1988) 86
This seems to indicate that a sizable number of women who have abortions later come to believe they did something wrong.
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