Quote: In an LA Times article entitled: Offering Abortion, Rebirth an abortion clinic nurse, who asked not to be identified for fear protesters would target her, said this astonishing statement,

"If they truly feel they're killing a baby, we're not going to do an abortion for them."

The article reveals that the 17-year-old in for a consultation this morning assures the nurse that she does not consider the embryo inside her a baby. The patient asks, "Not until it's developed.That would be about three months?"

In response the abortion clinic nurse tells her, "It's completely formed about nine weeks. Yours is more like a chicken yolk."

The Times reporter observed that the girl, who was five weeks pregnant, looked relieved. And concluded, "Then no, it's not a baby."

Quote: "I have also seen many times a woman changing her mind a number of times."

Quote: Valeska Littlefield of Tulsa found out she was pregnant at 18. She said her family encouraged her to seek an abortion, and at the time she wasn’t interested in hearing the details about the procedure.

“I asked someone what I had inside me. They told me it was pretty much like a tumor, and honestly that is what I wanted to hear,” she said. She had the abortion, and years later at college she saw some of her friends’ ultrasound pictures.

“I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, that isn’t a tumor,’ ” she said. She isn’t sure if she would have taken the option to have an ultrasound or would have wanted to hear that her fetus may have felt pain. But having that information, whether she wanted it or not, would have made her more aware of what she was doing and might have led to a decision to not abort, she said.

“I did not want to have an abortion. I would have welcomed information to convince me out of it. But they told me what I wanted to hear,” she said. “I would have liked the respect of sitting me down and giving me accurate information, and then making my decision.”

Quote: In an article entitled: Committee approves abortion ban, one abortion patient claimed described her abortion this way,

"When I woke up, I had had an abortion. Before I left there, a nurse asked me if there was anything she could get for me, and I said, `Is it done?,' and she told me, `Yes,' and I said, `Well, yes ma'am. You can get a gun for me because I can't bear to walk out of here. "

Quote: "I first did an ultrasound, which they wouldn't let me see. They said I was exactly 8 weeks along. I asked, "What does it look like," picturing a little thing with arms and legs. They said very curtly, "It looks like a tiny fetus," and shut off the machine."

Quote: "They rushed me back so quick and started giving me medication, and I didn't have time to think about it. I didn't feel like I had time to think about nothing. When I got there, they had me start filling out papers. They said, `We want you to do it today, because we have a doctor here.'"

Quote: ``Some of the young women were screaming blood-curdling screams for (the doctor) to stop. The moment would be burned in my mind forever.... The emotional numbness lasts for over two decades'' she said.

Quote: "There was no "counseling", just sign your name here, give us your money and we will take care of "your problem" in just a matter of minutes. I was never told that the problem was "my baby". I almost died by bleeding to death weeks after and was never helped by that clinic, only told NOT to call my doctor."

Quote: “ I do not usually tell patients specific details of the operative approach.”

Quote: Abortion doctor Casey Hammond was asked in court if he tells his patients the exact details of the abortion procedures her performs on them. He answered that he did with this exception, “Keep in mind a lot of my patients are emotionally quite fragile so we don’t have to bring up the terms –we don’t have to go into every gory detail about what we are doing... “

Quote: “ We were hiding…some pieces of the truth about abortion that were threatening. Abortion is a kind of killing and most women seeking abortion know that.”

Quote: "In most clinics, the doctor is pretty much the technician. We do the counseling, we do the blood testing, we do the sonogram, and then the doctor sees the patient for the abortion. And for many reasons, that's cost effective, and you need to do that in order to keep the cost low. It does mean that the doctor's interaction with the patient is very limited. So they don't get a lot of the goodies that you get when you're in a relationship. They get to go inflict pain on someone for five minutes. That's a tricky piece."

Quote: "Telling those women their fetuses feel pain is heaping torment upon torment. These women have real pain. They did not come to this decision easily. Creating another barrier for them to get the medical care they need is really unfair."

Quote: “I don't believe that a single one of us does not believe that a fetus is a living fetus; that we are not suggesting that it is some inanimate object. The question is that, when you have a woman's life and her needs and her health on the one side, and the developing fetus on the other, a choice has to be made, and that choice should be left to the individual. That's why it's so controversial.”

Quote: "I see far more parents trying to pressure their daughters to have one (abortion). But I say to parents, 'You force her to have this abortion, and I can tell you that within the next six months she's going to be pregnant again.' "

Quote: "Deception and lies don't help women make informed choices, too often women are given incomplete or even inaccurate information that leaves them misinformed, confused, and afraid. I applaud these lawmakers for introducing federal legislation that would guarantee critical health care information is given to women so they can make informed decisions about their health." (Note: this comment was referring to Crisis Pregnancy Centers who offer women free help, and cut into the profits of Planned Parenthood everytime a woman changes her mind about abortion).

Quote: ''We have always had informed consent, that is that they understand what an abortion is: that it's a termination of pregnancy, This (pamphlet mandating clinics tell patients the risks about abortion) is just an anti-abortion campaign that's gone too far.''

Quote: "I felt helpless as I was subjected to their heavy-handed, high-pressured sales pitch. No matter what soul-searching question I asked, terminating my pregnancy was always their consistent answer. I was given a package deal, and they convinced me that the abortion deal for the low, low cost of $300 cash was the answer to all my problems. I soon realized that they sold it as a package that was prettily wrapped with a great big bow on top, but it was a package that was full to the brim of lies, exploitation, and death."

Quote: " Maybe 30 percent are kind of talking through doubts, maybe 5 percent go away."

Quote: The LA Times reported that Lader grappled with the abortion issue privately for years. Largely because of Planned Parenthood Founder: Margaret Sanger's belief in "inviolable personhood," he ultimately concluded that a woman's body belonged to her alone and that she "controlled the fetus she was nurturing."

Lader is remembered as a pioneer for the abortion movement and the article states that Lader risked arrest by referring 2,000 women to illegal abortions. Although frequently questioned by authorities, he was never prosecuted for his actions.

Quote: "If I had known that there was an existing living human being whose life would be terminated, I would have factored that into my considerations, and I surely would not have submitted to the procedure, and I would not have consented to it.”

Quote: Judge Richard Casey in New York asked Dr. Marilynn Fredriksen what she tells her patients: "Do you tell them whether or not it hurts?" he asked.

She stuttered, "Who am I — what am I ... ."

"The patient," Judge Casey continued. "The woman, the mother."

"It doesn't hurt her, no," said Dr. Fredricksen.

Judge Casey pressed on, "Do you tell whether or not it will hurt the fetus?"

Her response, "The intent [is] that the fetus will die during the process of uterine evacuation."

"Ma'am, I didn't ask you that," Judge Casey persisted. "You will deliver the baby partially and then insert a pair of scissors in the base of the fetus' skull. ... Do you tell them whether or not that hurts the fetus?"

In response, Dr. Fredricksen snapped, "I have never talked to a fetus about whether or not they experience pain."

Quote: “The typical abortion patient spends less then 10 minutes with the physician who performs the surgery. Yet the patient might be at the facility for three hours.”

Quote: “As if women did not know and understand that an eight-week fetus has a heart beat, as if they never see the sonogram pictures... and still decide to abort... As if the right to choose means that it is a good or a positive choice for each woman. As if having the right to choose gives you the inalienable right to make the right choice. As if after an abortion you will never feel guilty or strange or sad or ambivalent or confused or gratified or relieved or enraged or all of the above and more... As if women did not have the right to sometimes make the wrong choices."

Quote: "We always worry about people who are ambivalent and they're not sure they want to do this,and sometimes I'll say, 'don't do this. You don't want to do this today. Please go home and think about this and come back if you want.'"

Quote: In a Newsweek article on Roe and abortion, they claim that abortion clinic administrator Peg Johnston told them that the pro-life movement has done an effective job of showing that a fetus is not just a "blob of tissue.”

The article reveals that Johnston's patients now talk about " 'babies' " and " 'killing'"

Johnston told them that, "At first I thought they were picking up the language from [anti-abortion protesters] outside. But then I started really tuning in to my patients, and I realized, 'She really feels that way'."

Quote: According to an article in Fairfield Weekly,

Many of the clinicians do indeed offer to show fetal tissue to patients, and viewing it is often a relief to the patient. For her part, abortion clinic director Peg Johnston began developing the all-options element of counseling, saying to patients,

"OK, you have a complex decision to make and there are only three options. I focused on pregnancy, not abortion."

The article states that she eventually created the Pregnancy Options Workbook (which is available online at www.pregnancyoptions.info) that is used at hundreds of abortion clinics for counseling.

Quote: This comment was made by the attorney of the family that sued Planned Parenthood for the abortion of their 14-year-old daughter, "The conduct of (Planned Parenthood and its employees) in providing safe harbor for (the man) for his sexual crimes against a minor child and for aiding and abetting his goal of pressuring (the girl) into aborting her child, was extreme and outrageous conduct that goes beyond the bounds of decency and is utterly intolerable in a civilized community," Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, attorney Thomas W. Condit.

Quote: "Sometimes it's `the pregnancy', sometimes it's `the baby'. The challenge is gaining people's trust in a very short space of time."

Quote: “Do we go public with it and hurt the whole movement or do we keep quiet and deny women the chance to make an informed choice about who does their abortion?” (Commenting about how the abortion industry did not expose an abortionist who was accused of sexually assaulting a patient)

Quote: The Reproductive Health Access Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to expand abortion care in family medicine could greatly improve the abortion provider shortage. They offer help and advice to abortion providers and give this instruction for counseling "Ambivalent Patients" about their abortions.

Counseling Model for Ambivalent Patients/Pregnancy Options Counseling Points for the Ambivalent Patient, states:

1. Be conscious of time – you do not need to know everything about the patient to help her make a decision.

2. Refer to the pregnancy, not the baby.

3. Elucidate that the patient’s choice not to be a mother now does not mean she is choosing not to be a mother in the future.

Quote: Said this as her reason for opposing the Michigan Coercive Abortion Prevention Act, "We think it's equally important to protect those who are forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. The bill doesn't do anything to protect women from domestic violence and doesn't do anything to reduce abortions." (NOTE: the issue was forced abortion, yet Planned Parenthood opposed the legislation-why?)

Quote: "When asked about the viability of the fetus, Summit's medical director responded, `I guess we don't technically discuss it; none are viable,'" according to a detailed report on Summit with a state investigator .

Quote: William Harrison opened an obstetrics and gynecology practice, but after the Supreme Court established abortion as a constitutional right in 1973, he decided to take on an additional specialty. Now 70, Harrison estimates he's terminated at least 20,000 pregnancies.

He calls himself an "abortionist" and says, "I am destroying life." But he also feels he's giving life: He calls his patients "born again." "When you end what the woman considers a disastrous pregnancy, she has literally been given her life back," he says.

Harrison draws his own moral line at the end of the second trimester, or 26 weeks since the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. Until that point, he will abort for any reason.

"It's not a baby to me until the mother tells me it's a baby," he says.

But Harrison refuses to end third-trimester pregnancies, even if the fetus is severely disabled. Some premature infants born at that stage, or even a few weeks earlier, can survive. Harrison believes they may be developed enough to feel pain in utero. Just a handful of doctors around the nation will abort a fetus at this stage. "I just don't think it should be done," says Harrison, who calls the practice infanticide.