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When legislation came before Congress that would’ve banned abortions done because the baby was\u00a0the \u201cwrong\u201d gender, pro-choicers fell all \u00a0over themselves to say that this never happens. However, a number of abortionists and clinic workers have documented incidents where it has.<\/p>\n

Sallie Tisdale, a pro-choice clinic worker, said the following in her article in Harpers magazine:<\/p>\n

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Always couples would abort a girl and keep a boy\u2026 An 18-year-old woman with three daughters brought her husband to the interview. He glared first at me, then at his wife, as he sank lower and lower in the chair, picking his teeth with a toothpick. He interrupted the conversation with his wife to ask if I could tell whether the baby would be a boy or girl. I told him I could not. \u201cGood,\u201d he replied in a slow and strangely malevolent voice, \u201cbecause if it was a boy I\u2019d wring her neck.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sallie Tisdale \u201cWe Do Abortions Here\u201d Harpers, October 1987<\/p>\n

Quoted in\u00a0Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)\u00a055<\/p>\n

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