Quote for January 1
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"This type of abortion was then done by hypertonic saline injection. In laymen's terms this meant injecting a very caustic salt solution into the amniotic sac which the baby swallows, causing his death. Labor begins 12 - 36 hours later."
Testimony of former abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD.
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Quote for January 2
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"It was my job to go to the ward and pick up the dead baby from the labor bed and make sure the placenta had all come out. This was my least favorite duty as a resident."
Testimony of former abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD.
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Quote for January 3
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"I remember … a patient … who really was crazy. I'll never forget {aborting} her nearly two pound baby, and hearing her screams, "My baby's alive, my baby's alive." It lived several days."
Testimony of former abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD.
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Quote for January 4
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"I was taught by my chief resident that if I was delivering a defective baby, such as an anencephalic, I should place it in the bucket of water at my side and declare it a stillborn. I never did that, but I'll always remember it."
Testimony of former abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD.
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Quote for January 5
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"Initially, the abortion proceeded normally. The water broke, but then nothing more would come out. When I withdrew the curette, I saw that it was plugged up with the leg of the baby which had been torn off."
Testimony of former abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD.
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Quote for January 6
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I … used ring forceps to dismember the 13 or 14 week size baby. Inside the remains of the rib cage I found a tiny, beating heart.
Testimony of former abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD.
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Quote for January 7
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"These women basically had no idea what they were getting themselves into. They were taken into the room then, and, there was no counseling done. They had no idea who was going to be there to help them when they fell apart afterwards."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 8
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"We would take the baby, put it into a jar and send it to the lab. If she had no insurance, the baby was simply put down the garbage disposal."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 9
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"There was one incident where a white piece came out and I asked the doctor later on what it was, and it was the baby's skull."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 10
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"I can still, to this very day, hear the crushing noise of that baby's skull being crushed".
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 11
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"It is not until after the procedure that they realize what is happening to their baby or to themselves. Ninety percent of these women start crying afterwards and it is not because of the pain."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 12
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"The saline is injected into the woman's sac, and the baby swallows the saline. It is a salt solution. The baby starts dying a slow, violent death. The mother feels everything."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 13
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"I have seen these totally formed babies as early as 10 weeks, a couple of inches long with a leg missing, or with their head off."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 14
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"In another incident, the hose popped off of the machine, and we had blood splattered all over us. This poor woman just lay there and cried. It was too late for any of us to do anything about it. That baby was dead."
Testimony of Deborah Henry, former Abortion Provider
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Quote for January 15
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"That is a metal device with huge pointed teeth that go into a woman's cervix to pull it down and open. When that clamped on, I yelled, "STOP! I can't do this!" That is when the doctor told me, "Don't scream, you’ll scare the other patients."
Testimony of Crystal Schrecker about her abortion.
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Quote for January 16
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"Being thirteen weeks pregnant, they did a D & C on me without any anesthesia! It felt like they were cutting and scraping my insides out."
Testimony of Crystal Schrecker about her abortion.
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Quote for January 17
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I stopped eating, drank all night every night to numb the pain and fill that empty void. Abortion took my soul, and now I didn’t deserve happiness. I felt unlovable. I hated myself.
Testimony of Crystal Schrecker about her abortion.
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Quote for January 18
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I have lost years of my life, and I’m still paying for it to this day. Another lifelong effect of abortion I’m still struggling with is children. I avoid babies, pregnant women, and families every chance I get.
Testimony of Crystal Schrecker about her abortion.
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Quote for January 19
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"I took "the tablet" and … still had to have a further three attempts to pass the fetus... it was full length, with a head the size of an alien, fully formed fingers and toes. Very painful!"
Testimony of Natalie about her abortion.
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Quote for January 20
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"I was prepped, drugged with valium and then felt a very long and horribly painful cramp as I heard a vacuum cleaner sound. I remember sobbing as I dozed off. Because of the physical damage done to my uterus from the abortion, I had to have a hysterectomy three months later."
Testimony of Peggy English about her abortion.
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Quote for January 21
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"The doctor didn't even talk to me or look at me. I was crying violently during the procedure as I felt my child being ripped out. I was told to be quiet."
Testimony of Mary about her abortion.
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Quote for January 22
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"A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus..."
(From the medical textbook Abortion Practice - Dr. Warren Hern, p.154, describing legal activity).
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Quote for January 23
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"Question: Can the heart of a fetus or embryo still be beating during a suction curettage abortion as the fetus or embryo comes down the cannula? Answer: For a few seconds to a minute, yes."
(Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Harlan Raymond Giles, an abortionist. He describes legal activity.)
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Quote for January 24
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"The Supreme Court's decisions…allowed abortion on demand throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy".
(Paul B. Linton, Enforcement of State Abortion Statutes after Roe: A State-by-State Analysis, University of Detroit Law Review, Vol. 67, Issue 2, Winter 1990).
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Quote for January 25
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"The fetus passes through the catheter and either dies in transit as it's passing through the catheter or dies in the suction bottle after it's actually all the way out."
(Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist. He describes legal activity.)
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Quote for January 26
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"I have taken the lives of innocent babies and I have ripped them from their mother's wombs with a powerful suction machine."
- abortionist McArthur Hill, MD.
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Quote for January 27
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"I was finally able to remove the head and look squarely into the face of a human being…a human I had just killed."
- abortionist Paul Jarrett, MD
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Quote for January 28
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"You can see a miniature person… as a physician… I am destroying life."
- abortionist Benjamin Kalish, MD
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Quote for January 29
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"And typically when the abortion procedure is started we typically know that the fetus is still alive because either we can feel it move as we're making our initial grasps or if we're using some ultrasound visualization when we actually see a heartbeat as we're starting the procedure."
This account of D&E is part of sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist.
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Quote for January 30
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It [abortion] goes against all things which are natural. It's a termination of a life, however you look at it.
(Robert Harris, abortionist, From author Magda Denes, PhD. "In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Hospital".)
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Quote for January 31
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The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current
abortionist Warren Hern
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