Some abortion providers discuss why they perform abortions.

"I think it's a form of cruel and unusual punishment to make a woman pregnant if she doesn't want to be."(1)

Late term abortionist Dr. Leroy Carhart who went to court to protect the right to partial birth abortion

Abortion provider Dr. Maureen Paul is bitter about being denied an abortion at 18 by a committee in the illegal abortion era- she had to put the baby up for adoption, and regrets having the child.

“I never once considered quitting. I have long believed that abortion is a basic right women must have. I didn't come to this position lightly. I had lived through a traumatic experience in my own life, an experience that made me feel I would take whatever risks necessary to protect this right for all women.” (2)

“When women ask me how I can perform abortions every day, I tell them I don’t consider the work to be a chore or an imposition.  On the contrary, I’m honored to be part of their decision-making process.  It seems obvious that many women aren’t able to imagine how rewarding it is for me to watch a female patient take steps on her path through life- steps that will empower her and make her able to be responsible for herself and her family.”(3)

Abortion Provider Dr. Susan Poppema

"When you end what the woman considers a disastrous pregnancy, she has been literally given her life back."(4)

Abortion Provider quoted by Stephanie Simon

"My conscience tells me to do abortions because I consider the mother's life much, much, more important than that tiny, little blob of tissue. When fertilization occurs, that is a new life. And that's why I say that I kill life, that I kill something that's potentially a person. It's not a person.” (5)

Abortionist William Harrison

"I've helped them out of a predicament that they were not happy to be in, and if I wasn't here to do it, you know, maybe no one else would do it." (6)

Miriam McCreary, abortionist

And

"I want every child that's born, to be born into a family that wants a child. I don't want children to be born into a family where they are not wanted and can't be cared for carefully. That's the tragedy." (7)

A medical student who observed abortions quoted a doctor who has performed over 200,000:

"I asked the doctor about why he does what he does and he said, "I have a great job - no one else can have a patient walk in the door with a huge problem and completely fix that for them in five minutes." (8)

All of these reasons sound very noble on the surface. But what are the doctors actually doing? They are killing a child.  See the aftermath of abortions to realize exactly what is being done.

Footnotes

1. "Dr. Defiance" People Dec 2001 Vol. 54 Issue 27

2. Deborah Diclementi "I Risk my Life to Provide Abortion" Miriam Claire Nov 2001 Vol. 8 Issue 11

3. Suzanne T. Poppema and Mike Henderson, Why I am an Abortion Doctor (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books) 1996 p 122

4. Stephanie Simon "Offering Abortion, Rebirth" Los Angeles Times Nov. 29 2005

5. William Harrison, Interview on Nightline, Nov. 11, 2006/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Dr. William Floyd Nathanial "Harrison Practicing Under Fire" Feb 5 2006

6. CNN.com, "Doctor flies into South Dakota to perform abortions" By Drew Griffin and Kira Kay: 4-5-2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/31/griffin.abortion/

7. Ibid.

8. From the blog "Pudu Overload" (now offline) Quoted in Dawn Eden's blog The Dawn Patrol October 19, 2008 "I saw some things I can't get out of my head: Med student 'incredibly freaked out' after day at Planned Parenthood

    

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