Note: Links contained in this post are disturbing (except for the last one). If you have been hurt by abortion, this post is not aimed at you, but the ones who do the hurting. Here is a safe link for you.

This sounds more like it was written as a piece of propaganda than a confession, but I want to respond to it anyway.

In Confessions of an Abortion Doctor, Cheryl Alkon retells the story of an abortionist who fears for her life as she considers the attacks on two abortion clinics ten years ago in December by John Salvi. I’m only going to respond to brief sections of the propaganda, though the entire story itself isn’t very long and ought to be read for context.

Today, though, there are so few providers who will perform terminations that the people who do agree to provide them end up taking the bulk of procedures. It can be hard.

It can be hard? Murder is a tough living to make, I guess.

Doing them over and over and over again can be really taxing.

Yes it can.

All of us who provide abortions believe in what we’re doing and think it’s a good thing and a right that needs to be available.

Good?

But when you’re in the clinic and in that group of people doing it, it can be tough, and you can get really tired. I don’t think it’ll ever make me stop doing terminations, but it can move people to tears.

It can be tough? You can get really tired? Tearing children limb from limb, crushing their skulls and sucking them into sinks can really wear a girl out, I guess. It can move me to tears, too, but for very different reasons.

It’s upsetting that some friends don’t fight harder to provide it.

It’s upsetting your friends don’t fight harder to kill children? That’s not upsetting. This is upsetting, this is upsetting and this is upsetting.

Note the choice of words… “provide,” and “terminate.” That’s not what she means. This is what she means.

I have the utmost respect for life;

Is this respect?

I appreciate that life starts early in the womb, but also believe that I’m ending it for good reasons.

Is this appreciation? What could possibly be a good reason for this?

Often I’m saving the woman, or I’m improving the lives of the other children in the family.

Fewer children = better life? Usually children are excited about babies, not fearful of the family’s economic welfare. If the other children in the family knew the truth, would their lives be so improved?

I also believe that women have a life they have to consider.

Not the life in the womb, though? “My lifestyle is more important than whether or not my child lives or dies.” That is selfish.

If a woman is working full-time, has one child already, and is barely getting by, having another child that would financially push her to go on public assistance is going to lessen the quality of her life.

Does this mean I can kill people because they may affect the quality of my life?

And it’s also an issue for the child, if it would not have had a good life.

Which med school classes qualify you to become a certified fortune teller? How is this better than rising above the hardships of a difficult life?

Life’s hard enough when you’re wanted and everything’s prepared for. So yes, I end life, but even when it’s hard, it’s for a good reason.

So can just anyone come up with “good reasons” to end life? Oh, wait, I guess not - let’s read further…

I wasn’t in Boston 10 years ago, during the Salvi shootings, but I recently talked with someone who had been around at that time, and she told me the incident essentially put her whole career on hold. That scares me.

So when other people come up with their own “good reasons” to kill, it scares you? I’ll bite the moral relativism hook for a moment: Your reasons for ending life are all about convenience. Salvi’s reasons were to protect children from being killed. How’s that for moral relativism?

What happens if something like that occurs again? Would I still be able to show up for work?

Oh no! You might have to give up your job murdering people? How unjust! So you don’t like being targeted by people who don’t value your life…I don’t blame you. You should consider the children you kill might feel the same way.

There are providers who have been shot at, who have been shot and still show up for work and still do their job, which is amazing.

Though I am comparing the murders of the children to the murders of the people who kill the children…I’m not ok with either. It does have to make one wonder, however, how a doctor could be so blind as to not see the obvious similarities.

Maybe I live in an idealistic world, but I believe in people being good and in trying to understand their opinion. I don’t think I’m going to be easily swayed. Obviously, the threat of violence is something that’s always in the back of my mind, that it could happen, but I feel like I’m doing something so right. How could people think it’s wrong?

Do you see why this smacks of propaganda? How could people think it’s wrong? Really? Did the doctor really say that? Because they have finally been told the truth, doctor, that’s how they could think it is wrong. Though the lie of “pregnancy tissue” still permeates the abortion industry, more and more people - women - are learning the truth of who, not what, is in the womb.

Update: Read a far more realistic confession of someone who works in an abortion clinic here. There is some graphic detail. (HT: AfterAbortion) Something that deeply saddens me is how this woman feels, “a great need to do something good to start compensating God for everything we have done in this job.” When Christ’s blood washes us clean, not a spot is left. We can’t earn our forgiveness.

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