Abortion Quotes

At the time I worked there, they only did first trimester abortions; they didn't have the facilities to do second trimester abortions. But oftentimes, second trimester abortions were performed and these babies we would not put in the little jar with the label to send off to the pathology lab. We would put them down a flushing toilet. They had a toilet that was mounted to the wall, and it was a continually flushing toilet; it didn't have a lid or a handle. That's where we would put those babies. They knew they couldn't turn them in or they were going to be found out that they were doing abortions which were too late term...The ones that were small enough, which would be 12-13 weeks or less, we would put in a jar, label them, and put them in a big box to go off to the pathology lab.

Former clinic worker Kathy Sparks

"It's never a baby. They [the clinic workers] can't admit it themselves when they go in the back and have little 6-week fetuses, babies that they put down disposals, and that's how we did it in our clinic. The clinics in Dallas use disposals so none of those crazy Pro-Lifers will come and get them out of the trash anymore and bury them the way they did."

Carol Everett

"We would take it out of the little sac [the mesh bag that collects fetal remains in a suction abortion] and lay it in the pan. The doctor would then come in and examine it. If he felt that it was adequate enough tissue, we would take the baby, put it into a jar and send it to the lab if the mother had insurance. If she had no insurance, the baby was simply put down the garbage disposal."

Former clinic worker Deborah Henry

Abortion clinic nurse Nan Patton Harrison discussed how she would be asked to baptize the aborted fetuses for women having abortions.

"Perhaps it was because of my empathy that they always asked me to do the baptism. It is difficult to do."

She then goes on to relate the difficulty of finding a small aborted baby among the remains of uterine lining and placenta in an abortion's aftermath. She describes one 'baptism:'

"After I baptized the fetus, I flushed it down the hopper."

From Catherine Whitney Whose Life: A Balanced, Comprehensive View of Abortion from it's Historical Content to the Current Debate (New York: William Morrow & Company) 1991 p 205