They said it.
From an article in the Baptist Press:
“Mary Lou Hendry, sanctity of human life director for the Florida Baptist Children’s Home, said every woman who has agreed to an ultrasound exam in its mobile unit and has viewed an image of her child has chosen life.
Cheri Martin said the success rate of ultrasound at the San Marcos, Texas, center is 95 percent.”
Tom Strode, “Gift of ultrasounds reaps life-saving benefits” Baptist Press December 19, 2014
Share on FacebookAn article in the The Santa Fe Reporter tells of an abortionist named “Clara” who flies to different abortion clinics throughout the country every week to do abortions.
The article says:
“Known as “fly-ins” or “circuit providers,” doctors like Clara travel to work in clinics that can’t find local doctors willing to do the procedure. Though there are no official figures on fly-ins, or on the overall number of physicians who do abortions, Clara estimates that there are about 100 doctors in the US who, like her, are willing to work in places other doctors simply won’t.”
Abortionist Ted Russell explains why a clinic in New Mexico needs a circuit provider:
“There’s a reason they have to fly a physician in to provide abortion services and have not been able to find a doctor who lives there in the last 10 years. They’d find, personally and professionally, it would be impossible to work there, to live there and to be labeled an abortion doctor.”
He once worked in New Mexico before quitting.
The New Mexico clinic director says her former abortionist was opposed by the medical community. There is still great stigma towards abortion among some doctors and health care providers:
“In her years at the clinic, [the clinic manager] has seen many doctors come and go. The last doctor to both live and work in this city, Ted Russell, whose name has been changed so as not to reveal where Clara works, was hounded out of town a decade ago. Though abortion accounted for only 15 percent of his practice, when Russell tried to refer his other patients to hospitals for deliveries or even X-rays, the hospitals refused them. After 18 months of frustration with the local medical community—not to mention ongoing harassment from protesters—he left, and the clinic has used fly-ins since.”
Sharyn Jackson “Undercover” The Santa Fe Reporter October 5, 2011
Share on FacebookAsked if the abortion facility told her about the emotional and physical risks of abortion, a post-abortion woman named Stella said:
“No. [They] did not explain the emotional trauma post abortion. Small counseling afterward but did not explain damage done to my body or soul. I also had two miscarriages because of scar tissue.”
AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF 3,348 WOMEN INJURED BY ABORTION AND THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS FOR AFFIRMANCE
WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH, et al., Petitioners, v. JOHN HELLERSTEDT, M.D., COMMISSIONER, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, et al., Respondents.
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Kevin Sherlock writes about a member of the Nazi SS, Dr. Vilis Kruze, who later became an abortionist:
“Kruze was a member of the Nazi SS during World War II. He emigrated to Ohio after the war. He was convicted in connection with botching an abortion performed on a 19-year-old Cleveland go-go dancer. The teen hemorrhaged and passed the baby away from his office, then she committed suicide a few days later. Ohio authorities sent Kruze to prison, and then made him receive psychiatric treatment at a hospital for the criminally insane. Later, Ohio authorities made Kruze receive treatment in a mental hospital for reportedly locking his secretaries in closets and for forcing them to urinate in bottles at their desks.…
Later, Kruze moved to Hawaii, got a contract as a fill-in doctor for Kaiser, and reportedly treated a child so negligently that the child suffered permanent brain damage. The child’s parents brought suit, and eventually, Kruze’s evil past was revealed. But by now Kruze himself was dead. The brother of a teenage girl who overdosed on drugs Kruze gave her in exchange for giving him sex tracked Kruze down and stabbed the Nazi abortionist to death to punish him for exploiting and nearly killing his sister…
Kruze’s conviction for criminal abortion was overturned after the Roe V Wade decision made abortion legal throughout America in 1973.”
Source: Transcript of a 60 Minutes broadcast on November 4, 1990 Quoted in: Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio: Brennyman Books, 1997 pgs 5 – 6
Share on FacebookCanadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler says:
“… When a young girl does find herself pregnant, she should be advised, indeed encouraged to have an abortion under conditions of medical safety and emotional support. To persuade her, force her, or shame her into completing her pregnancy, seems totally irresponsible. From all points of view it would be better for her to become a mother later in her life, when she is more mature, has a stable relationship, and is ready and able to care for a child.”
Henry Morgentaler Abortion and Contraception (New York: Beaufort Books, Inc., 1982) 33
Share on FacebookFeminist Daphne de Jong wrote:
“If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic or social status, they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. Of all the things which are done to women to fit them into a society dominated by men, abortion is the most violent invasion of their physical and psychic integrity. It is a deeper and more destructive assault than rape…”
Mary Meehan “The Left Has Betrayed the Sanctity of Life: Consistency Demands Concern for the Unborn” in Rachael McNair and Stephen Zunes, eds. Consistently Opposing Killing (Bloomington, Indiana: Author’s Choice Press, 2008, 2011) 23
Share on FacebookPro-Life author William M Connolly gives a perspective on the risk of death during pregnancy:
“The risk of death hovers around one in 100,000 pregnancies. In contrast, there is an approximate one in 10,000 risk of death if a woman drives her automobile during the next nine months… There is an even higher statistical risk of death or serious injury if a woman goes skiing this winter or scuba diving this summer. There are inherent risks in many things we do in life.”
William M Connolly One Life: How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 69
Share on FacebookKathryn Bretz tells the story of her abortion:
“I specifically asked if this was a baby and was told ‘No, it’s a formless blob of tissue.’ No one told me that this was a tiny baby who would be ripped apart. I was not informed of potential negative physical, psychological and spiritual consequences. The brochure stated that many women experience relief, without any consequences and it also stated ‘there may be a BRIEF period of sadness’. . . . The abortion has impacted my life negatively the day it happened and every day since for almost 30 years with unmanageable and powerful emotions of guilt, sorrow and raw pain. I developed a migraine disorder that has consumed my life, destroyed my career and finances. My inconsolable crying over the loss of my child, and knowing I was complicit in his death has caused deep, traumatic and overwhelming pain that can trigger a migraine. I’ve ended up at the ER with runaway migraine pain, with no painkilling drug that exists in medical science to assuage my misery. For a month after, my body was wracked in pain and it seemed like continuous labor. I expelled large chunks of endometrium and what looked like fetal tissue.”
AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF 3,348 WOMEN INJURED BY ABORTION AND THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS FOR AFFIRMANCE
WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH, et al., Petitioners, v. JOHN HELLERSTEDT, M.D., COMMISSIONER, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, et al., Respondents.
Share on FacebookA woman who had an abortion wrote:
“When I was 18 years old… I had an abortion…and the last two years of my life have been a nightmare… Sometimes I just lie in bed all day long, too depressed to get up. I buy baby clothes and toys. In fact, I have a room full of baby accessories. I see children everywhere I go… I don’t feel any less guilty today (two years later) than the day I had the abortion. My memories haven’t faded… I’ve tried alcohol, drugs and relationships. Nothing will ever take away my loss or the memories, not even for a little while.”
“Memories of My Abortion” Life Issues, Inc. Advertising Supplement, January 1989, 9
Quoted in Richard Exley Abortion: Pro-Life by Conviction, Pro-Choice by Default (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Honor Books, 1989)
Share on FacebookIn this newspaper editorial, a reporter praises Mario Cuomo for fighting against any limits on abortion and opposing the death penalty:
“If the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Missouri’s restrictions on abortion signals an all-out attack on a woman’s right to have an abortion, at least Governor Mario Cuomo has his priorities straight.
The state will not go down the same slippery slope that the court has, Cuomo said this week, promising that he would reject any legislation that limited abortion the way the Missouri statute did. “Nothing in [the decision on the Missouri law] changes my opinion about the right to abortion or the right of poor people to receive funding.”…
This is Cuomo at his best. Under enormous political pressure, he has refused to cave in to the proponents of the death penalty. Now he has pledged himself to stand by the liberal abortion law enacted by the legislature in 1970…”
Newsday, July 8, 1989 Quoted in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 20
Below; death penalty as inflicted on preborn baby
