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In the late 1990s, I was reading a book called M.D.: Doctors Talk about Themselves<\/em> by John Pekkanen when I stumbled across the testimony of an unnamed abortionist.\u00a0 This doctor had performed \u201cseveral thousand\u201d abortions, but decided to stop doing them. He says:<\/p>\n

Nobody wants to perform abortions after 10 weeks because by then you see the features of the baby, hands, feet. It\u2019s really barbaric.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An unborn baby\u2019s fingers and toes start to develop at six weeks after conception. In this video of a baby at seven weeks and three days old, you can see perfectly formed hands.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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This doctor may be calculating length of pregnancy by counting from a woman\u2019s last menstrual period, as is sometimes done in clinics. A woman usually conceives two weeks after her period, when she ovulates. By this measure, a woman who is 10 weeks pregnant is carrying an eight-week-old unborn baby.<\/p>\n

Or it is possible that the violent suction from the machine this doctor was using to perform abortions at his clinic completely obliterated the delicate body of the aborted child at earlier stages.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason for the 10 week remark, the abortionist was clearly troubled by what he was doing. He goes on to say:<\/p>\n

Abortions are very draining, exhausting, and heartrending. There are a lot of tears. Some patients turn on you. They say, \u201cLet\u2019s get out of here,\u201d after the abortion, as if you\u2019re some dirty person. It\u2019s vicious. Then you get these teenyboppers in the office who laugh their way through it. It doesn\u2019t mean a thing to them. That bothers me. Then you\u2019ve got the right to lifers calling you on the phone, coming in the office, preaching, threatening to picket your office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn\u2019t abortion just a procedure that removes \u201cpregnancy tissue,\u201d as Planned Parenthood says? <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0If so, why be upset that some women \u201claugh their way through it?\u201d If it\u2019s simply the removal of unwanted tissue, what\u2019s the problem?<\/p>\n

Well, he says:<\/p>\n

I do them because I take the attitude that women are going to terminate babies and deserve the same kind of treatment as women who carry babies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There it is. This abortionist knows that abortion \u201cterminates babies.\u201d He sees the bodies of those babies daily. He has no illusions as to what abortion really is.<\/p>\n

So why did he decide to do them? He says:<\/p>\n

So I started doing abortions on an altruistic basis. I\u2019ve done a couple thousand, and it turned into a significant financial boon, but I also feel I\u2019ve provided an important service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He claims to have started performing abortions for \u201caltruistic\u201d reasons, wanting to help women. Whether this is true or whether it is a rationalization, he admits that abortion is very profitable. He then says:<\/p>\n

The only way I can do an abortion is to consider only the woman as my patient and block out the baby. I\u2019ve delivered enough babies, seen enough divorces, and seen enough abused kids to do abortions with a clear conscience. This may be some kind of mental gymnastics on my part\u2026 I don\u2019t feel I\u2019m violating my trust as a doctor by doing abortions, but I don\u2019t want to do them anymore because you can do them to a certain point, and then you get overloaded. I\u2019m at that point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eventually, it seems, a doctor can get burned out just performing abortions. This may be one reason why there is such a shortage of abortionists. \u00a0<\/a> The truth is, looking at the body parts of dead children eventually takes an emotional toll on a person.<\/p>\n

Source: John Pekkanen M.D.: Doctors Talk about Themselves (New York, New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1988) 93-94<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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