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Pregnant by rape at age 13, a young woman had her baby. Serrin Foster recalls: After my lecture at a Midwestern university, a student pulled me aside. She told me that she was raped by her third cousin as a mere 13-year-old and had become pregnant. Her parents had helped her have the privacy she wanted during her pregnancy, and then she placed her son with two loving parents.I asked her, why she did she make the decision to have the child – when she was just a girl who would live through what was arguably the worst of circumstances? She said she would never pass on the violence that was perpetrated against her to her own unborn child. Now that is the strength of a woman. That s a feminist response. Serrin M Forster Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions The American Feminist 2012, p 6Share on Facebook Audrey [pseudonym] tells a story from the late 1980s: I was 15 when I found out I was pregnant. I remember my parents being devastated…not by the fact that I was pregnant, exactly. They were ashamed of what people would think. The morning after I told them, my mom woke me early and told me to get ready. She didn t say a single word to me in the car or the waiting room of the clinic. In the doctor s office she demanded I get an abortion – to the doctor, to me, to the nurse, to anyone who would listen. I was mortified. I didn t know what I was going to do, but I knew I didn t want an abortion. I got up, walked out of the clinic and all the way home. Two days later I was on a bus to an unwed mother s home in another state. The experience didn t make me change the decision I made, but it forever changed my relationship with my mother. Sally A Winn Shaming Young Mothers The American Feminist Spring/Summer 2014, p 8Share on Facebook One woman told her post-abortion story: I expected to feel relieved when the abortion was over. I thought it would erase the pregnancy. I thought I could move on with my life.  I was wrong.Although I didn t feel this way before the procedure, it was now clear to me that the abortion ended the life of my child. I felt guilty and desired punishment. I deserved to suffer.Afterword, the mere presence of my boyfriend caused deep hurt and pain.I found it difficult to work. In between student lessons, I d retreat to the staff room and cry.I soon found myself in a cycle of self-destructive behavior that included an eating disorder…About two years after the abortion, I was living in Southern California when I began experiencing periods of intense anger followed by periods of profound sadness.For weeks and sometimes months at a time, I was too fatigued to do more than eat a meal and shower during the day… This downward spiral continued until suicidal thoughts began to scare me. A Mother Regrets Her Abortion She s a Child, Not a Choice 30th anniversary ed., Human Life Alliance (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2019) p. 3Share on Facebook Early American abortion law was based on British law. Abortion was illegal in England before the time of the colonies. Here is the abortion law 1290s England: He, too, in strictness is a homicide who has pressed upon a pregnant woman or has given her poison or has struck her in order to procure an abortion… if the foetus was already formed and quickened… A woman also commits homicide if, by a potion or the like, she destroys a quickened child in her womb. Fleta (c. 1290) vol. 2, Book 1, Ch. 23 Publications of the Selden Society (London: 1955 ed. and transl. HG Richardson and GO Sayles) vol. 72, 60At this time, scientists didn t know that life began at conception. They had not yet identified the reality of the sperm and egg, or known how they combine to create life. Therefore, both the scientific community and the public believed that life began when the baby started to move- quickening, when the woman felt the baby s movements. We now know that preborn babies move long before the woman can feel them moving.This laws is significant though, because it shows that British law  protected preborn babies as soon as it was believed they had independent life. Now that we know more about the beginning of life at conception, to follow the spirit of the law, abortion would be illegal.Share on Facebook The Human Life Alliance reported the following statistic, from the Alan Guttmacher Institute: At least 6392 abortions are executed around the globe every hour – an average of 106 children a minute – enough to empty five kindergarten classrooms in just sixty seconds. Most of these abortions are done by surgery.Alan Guttmacher Institute Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide March 2018 Around the World Alarms Sound Endangered, a World in Peril Human Life Alliance, 1614 93rd Ln. NE., Minneapolis, MN, 55449, pg. 29 weeksShare on Facebook A woman named Nadine said:“I was so naïve. I had no idea what an abortion actually was. They made it all sounds so safe, so easy, so simple. They promised an abortion would take care of my problem and I’d be back to my old self and I could continue with whatever I wanted in my life. The counselor even said, “If you were my daughter, I’d tell you the same thing. It’s the right thing to do.”Everyone assured me not to worry, that there was nothing to be afraid of. The counseling I received was like, yes, you can do this; yes, it’s safe; and don’t worry, you won’t have any problems.I have been emotionally tortured by this experience for the past 24 years. It’s made my life a pit of depression and anxiety.”Teresa Burke, David C Reardon Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2002) 37Share on Facebook Dr. Don Sloan wrote Choice: A Doctor’s Experience with the Abortion Dilemma in 1992, when it was titled Abortion: A Doctor’s Perspective, a Woman’s Dilemma. The book was re-released in 2002 with the new title. By 2002, Dr. Don Sloan had been a doctor for forty years. For most of that time, he had been performing abortions.Dr. Sloan first tells of how he became involved with abortion. He discusses his experiences as a resident in Philadelphia in the 1960s, when abortion was illegal in all but the most extreme cases. He tells stories of women who came into the emergency room injured from attempted self-abortions as well as poorly done illegal ones (the back-alley’ abortions) Sloan’s stories are very hard to take; he uses graphic descriptions of medical procedures and pulls no punches in describing the terrible condition of many of his patients. His depictions are extremely graphic and upsetting. Sloan describes how he was disturbed by the condition of many of the women he treated and how he came to believe that abortion should be available to all women. Women are still injured form abortion, even when it is legal. However, pro-lifers should remember that when abortion is illegal, it is still important to help women carry their pregnancies to term and have their babies. Pro-life crisis pregnancy centers will be needed more than ever.Sloan met a doctor named Dr. Douglas Spencer. Dr. Spencer was a small town doctor who was an illegal abortionist of some skill. Unlike the back-alley practitioners that Sloan often ran into in Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer had few complications. Sloan depicts Dr. Spencer as a selfless saint, a kindly mentor and a champion of women. No doubt, his portrait is an exaggeration- no human being can really be as kind and selfless as Dr. Spencer is described to be.He also discusses how Dr. Spencer had few complications. However, there is no way to really know this. Since women traveled from all over to have their abortions and then went home almost immediately afterward, Spencer would most likely not see any complications that were not readily apparent on the abortion table. For example, there is no way to know how many of those women ended up with life threatening infections. Only their local doctors would know.Dr. Sloan goes on to discuss how he became an illegal abortionist. Then he describes how he and other doctors worked to make abortion legal in the United States. He talks about how Roe Vs. Wade, the Supreme Court case which struck down all anti-abortion laws and created abortion as a legal right for women, was in his opinion a great victory. After Roe Vs. Wade, Dr. Sloan worked with other pro-choice professionals to set up one of the country’s first abortion clinics. His clinic was a high volume clinic, seeing many clients every day. Sloan describes how patients and their partners lounged on the floor of the waiting room and lined up outside. He discribes making a great deal of money. Despite the obvious lucrative nature of his work, he continues to depict his motives as being purely altruistic.Sloan also discusses some of the other people he met while in the abortion business, including future pro-life activist Dr. Nathanson, who, at the time, was the co-founder of NARAL, a group dedicated to keeping abortion legal. Sloan also describes some of the women in his clinic, touching on their situations.Dr. Sloan paints things as being entirely black or white. Abortion is good. Laws against it are bad. Pro-Choice doctors are good; Anti-Choice’ activists are bad. To him, abortion is a morally benign procedure, a gift to women in crisis. Nowhere in the book does he show the slightest ambivalence about providing abortions. Abortion, in Sloan’s world, is unquestionably good. And the doctors who provide abortions, or at least the doctors he depicts, are heroes who do abortions out of compassion and respect for women.Sloan never deals with the moral complexities of abortion, or delves into the reasons behind women’s abortions. He never discusses the fetus/unborn baby. In his rhetoric, the potential baby is completely omitted, and he never seems to address the central question in the abortion debate- is abortion killing a person? Sloan acts as though this question does not exist; in his world there are only pregnancies to be ended and women to set on a path to freedom and health. When discussing women’s reasons for having abortions, he only skims the surface. For example, he talks about how many inner city women came in to have abortions, but never discusses greater issues that may be driving them, such as poverty, lack of birth control, lack of role models or self-esteem issues that might make them more vulnerable to having unplanned pregnancies. Abortion, in his mind, seems to be a cure-all; deeper issues never really enter into the picture.He also puts abortion providers on a pedestal. His depiction of Dr. Spencer is romanticized. He even makes excuses for an abortionist he worked with who turned out not to be a doctor at all. This man was non-medical professional illegally performing abortions on unsuspecting women, yet Dr. Sloan makes excuses for him.Overall, Choice was very much worth reading. It gave me insight into the mind of someone who spent over thirty years doing abortions, and added to my understanding of the issue. I did not agree with most of the points Dr. Sloan made or accept all of his conclusions as being correct, but I still feel that I learned a lot from reading the book.Anyone interested in the abortion issue should read Choice, because it helps the reader understand the view of a provider. However, it is hardly a balanced or definitive work, in that it never addresses many of the deeper issues surrounding abortion or its moral ambiguity. Despite Dr. Sloan’s rose-tinted perspective on the issue, I appreciated learning about his motivations and opinions. I feel that I can better understand what drives a person to dedicate his or her life to something that so many people find offensive and wrong; why someone would open him/herself up to so much criticism and risk the disapproval of so many people.Quotes from the bookWith the D E, as with any suction procedure, the materials passing through the suction tip are easy to see, and at that stage, the clear polyethylene tubing and the translucent plastic cannula are of a large enough bore to allow you to identify what you are seeing. In fact, it’s medically required that you do so, to confirm that the abortion is total and the uterus empty. Out pass the limbs, the intestines and the various internal organs. Most important, it is imperative for the operator to be convinced that the skull tissue has passed, this being the largest part of the fetus formed at that stage of pregnancy.”(p 187)…..“So we have these centers where patients are counseled, but don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s a thorough job. The counseling is less than might be desirable at times…For someone performing abortions, the volume can be so great it’s overwhelming. I’ve sent out tens and tens of thousands of women, and I know so little about so many of them- most of them. How could I? In a sense, the doctor is only a tradesperson, a technician performing a task, like any other…There are many times- frequently, in fact, and I do to this very day- when I will get a referral to do an abortion on a woman I’ve never seen, will see only for those fleeting minutes of the termination, and then never seen again. That scenario isn’t peculiar to me- it goes with the territory.”(p 103)…..“If a woman with a serious illness- heart disease, say, or diabetes- gets pregnant, the abortion procedure may be as dangerous for her as going through pregnancy … with diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, even breast cancer, the chance that pregnancy will make the disease worse is no greater that the chance that the disease will either stay the same or improve. And medical technology has advanced to a point where even women with diabetes and kidney disease can be seen through a pregnancy safely by a doctor who knows what he’s doing. We’ve come a long way since my mother’s time….The idea of abortion to save the mothers’ life is something that people cling to because it sounds noble and pure- but medically speaking, it probably doesn’t exist. It’s a real stretch of our thinking.”(P 45-46)]Share on Facebook From Christina Dunigan at RealChoice:A suit filed by the survivors of Ingar Lee Whittington Weber alleged that she underwent an abortion by Richardson P. Glidden and/or Thomas Booker on January 20, 1990, at Delta Women s Clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ingar s family said that neither Glidden nor his staff at Delta diagnosed Ingar s kidney problems or the deterioration of her physical condition before, during, or after the abortion. Ingar was hospitalized several days after her abortion for acute kidney failure. She died on January 26, 1990.Share on Facebook On legal abortion deaths: In 1972 there were 20 and in 1973, 22 deaths that were believed to be associated with legal abortion in the United States. US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 24, January 24, 1975Cited in Sarah Spaght Brown National Academy Of Sciences Report in Warren Hern and Bonnie Andrikopoulos, eds. Abortion in the 70s: Proceedings of the Western Regional Conference on Abortion, Denver, Colorado, February 27 – 29, 1976 (New York: National Abortion Federation, 1977)Share on Facebook Abortionist Jane Hodgson wrote about the instrument used to perform early abortions: The Karmann cannula is a soft, flexible cannula… However, it is not totally innocuous. I have known of perforations to occur with its use. Another disadvantage is the fact that with a small flexible cannula like this, it is very easy to slip over the implantation site. Continuing pregnancy may result. This is a most embarrassing complication. Also, there is a higher instance of retained tissue. Abortionist J Hodgson, MD First Trimester Abortion in Warren Hern and Bonnie Andrikopoulos, eds. Abortion in the 70s: Proceedings of the Western Regional Conference on Abortion, Denver, Colorado, February 27 – 29, 1976 (New York: National Abortion Federation, 1977) 21Share on Facebook Considering abortion? Want to talk to someone right away? free confidential help:1800 550 4900. When I told them I was pro-life, they made a point to tell me they were "not political" They will not try to sway your decision. Recent Posts 13-year-old chooses life after rape

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