Magda Denes wrote a book after spending time in an abortion clinic interviewing doctors and clinic workers. From one clinic worker:
“When we do D&C’s, it’s under general anesthesia, so the patient comes in and the doctor does the dirty work. And when she wakes up, and it’s his sin, and she is cured. But with a saline she’s participating in this sin, because she’s awake, she knows what’s going on, she feels it coming out.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 140
Here she writes about how when one goes in for an abortion, she is unconscious and does not see the baby being taken from her, piece by piece, but in a saline abortion (which was done by inducing labor after injecting poisonous saline solution to kill the baby). The woman would see the child and it would be more emotionally difficult for her. It is always easier to kill without seeing the victims – it is psychologically easier to drop a bomb on the city or program a drone then it is to kill people face-to-face.
