By Sarah Terzo Author Mary Kenny describes going to an abortion clinic and witnessing a late term abortion. In the OR [operating room] , the doctors were casually starting their day. The atmosphere in the operating theatre was clean, busy and professional. Several young male doctors, gowned for the [operating room], were standing around when …
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By Sarah Terzo Author Mary Kenny describes going to an abortion clinic and witnessing a late term abortion. In the OR [operating room] , the doctors were casually starting their day. The atmosphere in the operating theatre was clean, busy and professional. Several young male doctors, gowned for the [operating room], were standing around when …
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By Sarah Terzo Jeannie Smith, a postabortion woman who is now pro-life, describes her abortion: “Internally I was screaming STOP! But I knew it was too late. As I listened to the sound of the procedure, I slowly rolled my head to the left only to feel a tear of pain trickle down my face… …
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By Sarah Terzo A pro-choice author (who herself had an abortion) interviewed post-abortion women for a book she wrote. She says: Hormones cannot explain how, long after the procedure, feelings about one’s abortion can reappear with the slightest stimulation. Many women are distressed to find themselves bursting into tears when some event reminds them of …
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By Sarah Terzo Many women have described being pressured into abortions. One study found that up to 64% of women having abortions were coerced. According to another researcher, 45% of men interviewed at an abortion facility admitted to having urged their partners to have an abortion and justified being the primary decision maker. A Norway study …
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By Sarah Terzo The pro-life group Heartbeats conducted a survey of post-abortive women. They asked the women what they experienced after their abortion(s). 92% experience an emotional deadening, either feeling less in touch with their emotions or feeling a “need to stifle their emotions.” 86% have an increased tendency toward anger or rage (48% reported …
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By Sarah Terzo Judith Arcana, Pro-Choice Author and Educator: “Sometimes a woman has to decide to kill her baby. That is what abortion is.” Rosalind Cummings, “In Print: rights of the accused,” Chicago Weekly Reader, Friday, February 17, 1995. Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission. Sarah Terzo is offering a …
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By Sarah Terzo Mira Dana, a psychotherapist at the Women’s Therapy Centre in London, who has spent 20 years working with post-abortive women, says: “There are three general reactions women display after an abortion and on coming home from the hospital. (1) Euphoria…an expression of the feeling of relief and freedom at having solved a …
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By Sarah Terzo The pro-life group Heartbeats conducted a survey of post-abortive women. They asked the women what they experienced after their abortion(s). 92% experience an emotional deadening, either feeling less in touch with their emotions or feeling a “need to stifle their emotions.” 86% have an increased tendency toward anger or rage (48% reported …
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By Sarah Terzo Lurlene McDaniel recalled the following story, told to her by a post-abortive woman: “My son’s kitten died and we had a funeral for it in the backyard. I watched his tear-stained face as he lowered the box that held his pet into the ground and felt a huge lump inside my throat. …
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By Sarah Terzo When I was 18 my mother told me about her abortion… I was aghast, and said something cruel to her like, “how could you do something so terrible?” We let it drop and I forgot about it. But I had not really forgotten. I didn’t think about it consciously for years… Suddenly …
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By Sarah Terzo “… [The] status of [abortionists] is somewhere well below the average garage mechanic… Patients do not value what we do.” Warren Hern, late term abortionist, at a National Abortion Federation seminar, St. Louis, MO, September 1977 The stigma against abortionists has not changed a great deal since this statement was made. Dr. …
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