{"id":50234,"date":"2014-06-01T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=50234"},"modified":"2014-06-01T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T13:35:01","slug":"abortionist-we-are-the-executioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-we-are-the-executioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist: &#8220;we are the executioners&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pro-Choice author Magda Denes, PhD, interviewed clinic workers and observed abortions in a busy abortion clinic shortly after Roe versus Wade. Her book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/In-Necessity-Sorrow-Abortion-Hospital\/dp\/0140046798\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401540520&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=In+Necessity+and+Sorrow%3A+Life+and+Death+inside+an+Abortion+Hospital\" target=\"_blank\">In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospita<\/a>l\u00a0 is still valuable reading, even after all these years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the doctors that Magda Denes interviewed describes his reaction to being called upon to save\u00a0some unborn\u00a0babies while aborting others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity of the fetal heart is not important \u2013 that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then in the next room you assure another woman on whom you just did a saline abortion, that it\u2019s good that the heart is already irregular\u2026 She has nothing to worry about, she is <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> going to have a live baby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A saline abortion was performed by injecting caustic saline solution into the amniotic fluid around the baby. This salt solution would poison the baby, often burning the baby\u2019s skin and damaging the child\u2019s lungs as he breathed in the toxic fluid. The woman would then go through labor and deliver her dead child. This technique was abandoned for two reasons. For one, it was dangerous to the mother. For another, it often resulted in live births. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/clinicquotes.com\/gianna-jessen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gianna Jessen <\/a>was aborted by saline, survived, and found a loving adoptive family. \u00a0Most babies who survived being aborted by saline, however, <a href=\"\/\/clinicquotes.com\/the-philadelphia-inquirer-on-babies-born-alive-after-abortions\" target=\"_blank\">were not as lucky<\/a>. Today, the poison of choice is digoxin. <a href=\"http:\/\/clinicquotes.com\/former-clinic-worker-christine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Babies are still sometimes born alive.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The abortionist goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 At the beginning we were doing abortions on smaller fetuses\u2026 And the kicking and heartbeat did not manifest itself as much. I think if I had started with 24 weekers right off the bat, I would\u2019ve had a much greater conflict in my own mind if this was the same as murder or not. But since we started off slowly with 15 \u2013 16 weekers, the fetus just never got consideration. Then gradually, the whole range of cases started to become larger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/former-abortionist-describes-how-he-became-callous-to-the-horror-of-performing-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Other abortion doctors have described similar processes of desensitization.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The abortionist then says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of a sudden, one noticed that at the time of the saline infusion, there was a lot of activity in the uterus. It wasn\u2019t fluid currents. It was obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the salt solution and kicking violently through the death trauma. You can either face it, or turn around and say it\u2019s uterine contractions. That, however, would be repressing, since as a doctor you obviously know that it is not. Now whether you admit this to the patient is another matter. Her distress by unwanted pregnancy is to be the primary consideration, ahead of any possible consideration for the fetus. We just have to face it. Somebody has to do it. Unfortunately, we are the executioners in this instance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This doctor does not admit to his patient that her baby is suffering pain. I would be surprised if he told her, before her abortion, that her baby would die violently and painfully.\u00a0 In his own words, he is the \u201cexecutioner\u201d of the baby.<\/p>\n<p>There is much to take away from this quote. There is the fact that since abortion was legalized, women have had the ultimate power of life or death over their children. In one case, doctors will aggressively fight to save the life of an unborn \u00a0baby; \u00a0in another, they will go to great lengths kill the child. The irony of doctors fighting one day to save a child\u2019s life and then, later, to kill another child of the same age, is striking.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing to take away is that babies suffer violently in abortions. The methods of performing an abortion today are no more humane than those of the past. Today, babies are poisoned with digoxin or, more often, dismembered in utero in a procedure called a or D&amp;E. (You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/resources\/medical\/de.jpg\">an illustration of how these abortions are performed here )<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, abortion doctors know exactly what they\u2019re doing when they abort children \u2013 they kill babies. You could read other quotes from <a href=\"\/news\/abortionists-agree-abortion-is-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\">abortionists admitting this fact here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These disturbing revelations should encourage pro-lifers to continue to speak out against abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Magda Denes, \u201cPerforming Abortions\u201d Commentary, October 1979, 35, 37<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Choice author Magda Denes, PhD, interviewed clinic workers and observed abortions in a busy abortion clinic shortly after Roe versus Wade. Her book, In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospital\u00a0 is still valuable reading, even after all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":44842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abortionist: &quot;we are the executioners&quot; - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-we-are-the-executioners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abortionist: &quot;we are the executioners&quot; - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pro-Choice author Magda Denes, PhD, interviewed clinic workers and observed abortions in a busy abortion clinic shortly after Roe versus Wade. 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