“Population control is too important to be stopped by some right wing pro-life types. Take the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide; I'd set up a clinic in Mexico for free if I could ... When a sullen black woman of 17 or 18 can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us, it's time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles, having babies for welfare is the only industry these people have.”

Abortionist Edward Allred (quoted in The San Diego Union October 12, 1980)  Dr. Allred has become a millionaire 12 times over from the abortion industry

"It's not that obvious to some black women that abortion is the right decision. It's only later on that poor or black women realize they don't want more children tying them down. They need more pressure to abort."

Abortion advocate Michael Bracken quoted in The Ambivalence of Abortion by Linda Bird Francke (New York: Laurel)  1982 p 70

The 54% of Black children born to unwed mothers are not productive members of society.  Teenagers never make good mothers....single mothers have bad children."

Nancy White, speaking on behalf of NARAL, quoted in The American Feminist Summer 1994 p 14

From Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic  by Wendy Simonds, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ., 1996 p 42-43:

"Before coming to work at the Center, Risa lost a job at Pavillion [another abortion clinic] She said, "I know it was because I was very vocal about how I felt about the way they treated the women...They were real quick to make people feel stupid, and real quick to talk down to them, and just really disrespectful. Just like, "I got something you need, therefore you have to kiss my butt to get it."

On page 42, Anne, a supervisor in the abortion clinic, tells about her abortions somewhere else:

"[The] people [at the clinic] really didn't care about your emotional setting.  They didn't care what happened a week after that.  You know, you read the forms, you have your abortion, you leave.  And I mean, there was no personal - there was no one there to listen to me... There was no support before, during, or after the procedure. I thought I was having a possible complication about three days later; there was no one to call. The office was closed.  You know, and then me trying to keep it away from certain family members, and then not being able to do that because I thought I was having a medical emergency.  I mean, there was no one to tell me, "This is nothing to worry about.  This is normal. This is what you need to do." . . It's an alone feeling.  Being a woman, and having to make that decision at that particular point in my life, it was already making me feel alone.  And then to get to this place where I needed support or where I could possibly talk about it - because you can't talk about it too many places and be accepted - the place that I went to, there was nothing.  You couldn't talk about it there either."

Sarina, an abortionist at the clinic, describes her experiences working at Planned Parenthood on page 58:

"Sarina's first job as an abortionist was with Planned Parenthood.  She had not learned how to perform abortions in medical school, so she learned how to do first-trimester abortions on the job.  The environment at the Planned Parenthood clinic was not much better than her prior experiences.  "It was a rude awakening for me to go into a job where I was the only female physician...and to basically be discriminated against....I got disillusioned very quickly with the place."

Planned Parenthood, whose mantra is safe, legal abortion, hires a doctor who does not know how to do abortions?  She had to learn "on the job?" I would hate to be one of the women she learned on!

A worker at the "Abortion at Work" clinic was quoted saying:

“They [the administrators] have this pin that says… “The Woman’s Care Center: Working for the Lives of Women,” or something.  They do, but not for the lives of the women that work there.  They exploit women who work there, and they abuse them…It’s just like working for someone who’s sexist.  You have to be ‘in’ to be treated fairly…which I think is not right.”

This was said by clinic worker Ilene on page 146.

It is also interesting how clinic administrators treated pregnant staff.   Clinic worker Janice discusses the treatment of pregnant workers (page 152):

"Audrey hasn't been getting the support she needed after she got pregnant, and she felt like people didn't want her to be pregnant by this guy because she was a lesbian before, and that she was totally confused, and just all that kind of stuff....and then Glenda, before she got her job as supervisor, apparently they asked her if she was planning to get pregnant or not, because she was going to have to take leave, and it was going to totally mess up the supervisors...It's just like, please, if somebody wants to have a baby, then we need to be supportive and work around that, you know, but not let it interfere with their career tracks."

On the same page the author states:

"Though the center directors took pride in their acceptance of 'choice' as a central tenant of feminist health care practice, the Center had no policies that demonstrated support for employees who decided to procreate...when it became [an impediment to work] administrators disapproved. Women typically took two or three months of unpaid leave after their babies were born...some women complained that the managers were not willing to accommodate...their responsibilities to their children."

"If someone came in for a second abortion, the nurse would give her a prostaglandin so that the woman "wouldn't do it again." The nurses felt it was up to them to "teach the woman a lesson." That was a common practice.  They would hold women back from having the abortion until they were twelve weeks pregnant and give them a prostaglandin.  [a prostaglandin abortion is more difficult and painful because a woman must go through labor] This occurred up until as late as 1984. Their attitude was that the woman has been told about contraception, they'd had an abortion, so they should know better than to get pregnant again by mistake.  There was this feeling that there was something wrong with a woman who got pregnant twice or more by mistake."

Andrea Butcher, abortion counselor

Quoted by Miriam Claire in The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue. (Insight Books: New York) 1995 p 125

"The first time, I felt like a murderer, but I did it again and again and again, and now, 20 years later, I am facing what happened to me as a doctor and as a human being. Sure, I got hard. Sure, the money was important. And oh, it was an easy thing, once I had taken the step, to see the women as animals and the babies as just tissue."

Abortionist, quoted by John Rice (see Abortion Providers Discuss Their Feelings About Abortion reference 12)

"I'm sure there have been doctors involved in performing abortions who have hated women....If you felt at all sadistic about women, this was an area where you had them completely in your power."

Quoted by Miriam Claire in The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue. p 128-130

"Latino women are some of the best patients [for abortions.] They come in and they don't complain. Sometimes they are given abortions when they're not even pregnant."

Alfred Brown, M.D. of Los Angeles quoted in April 1998 Los Angeles Times report on abortion "chop shops" that exloit minority women. Quoted in Paul Likoudis "California Political Races Reflect "Catholic Diversity" The Wanderer October 15, 1998

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