Abortion Quote of the Day 5/31/2012

"I had complications, just like everybody else. I have perforated uteruses. I have had all kinds of problems --bleeding, infections-- Lord knows how many of those women are sterile now. I remember getting called down to my chairman's office because a young lady that I had done an abortion on showed up...and the abortion had been incomplete. I had not done my job right, and she passed an arm or a leg and she freaked out because she didn't realize what happened."

Dr. Anthony Levantino, Speech at the Meet the Abortion Providers Conference posted by The Pro-Life Action League

Abortion Quote of the Day 5/28/2012

"This can burn you out very, very quickly...not so much by the physical labor as the emotional part of what's going on. When you do an ultrasound, particularly if you have children, and you see a fetus there, kicking, moving, living, doing things that your own child does, bringing it's thumb to its mouth, and things like that- it's difficult. Then, after the procedure, sometimes we have to actually look at the specimen, and you see arms and legs and things like that torn off...It does take an emotional toll." 

Abortionist Dr. Ed Jones (pseudonym), who had worked at a Planned Parenthood Clinic for 4 years at the time of the interview

Nancy Day. Abortion: Debating the Issue (Enslow Publishing: New York) 1995

Abortion Quote of the Day 5/24/2012

"... a married couple came to me and requested an abortion. Because the patient's cervix was rigid, I was unable to dilate it and perform the procedure. I asked her to return in a week, when the cervix would be softer. 

The couple returned and told me that they had changed their minds and wanted to "keep the baby." I delivered the baby seven months later. Years later, I played with little Jeffrey in the pool at the tennis club where his parents and I were members. He was happy and beautiful. I was horrified to think that only a technical obstacle had prevented me from terminating Jeffrey's potential life. 

The connection between the six-week-old human embryo and a laughing child stopped being an abstraction for me. While hugging my sons each morning, I started to think of the vacuum aspirator that I would use two hours later. This was an emotional tension I could not tolerate." 


Source: George Flesh, M.D. "Why I No Longer Do Abortions," Los Angeles Times, 9/12/91 Op.ed section

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