Dateline: 0/20/01
The prochoice paradigm of doctors who do abortions is a cross between Marcus Welby and Albert Schweitzer -- the kindly, compassionate physician moved by the plight of unwillingly pregnant women.
I'll grant that in some cases, abortionists are well-meaning physicians who kill fetuses not out of greed or elitism, but because they honestly think they're helping women.
But when the woman is on the abortion table, who is really likely to be walking into the room, masked and gloved, ready to put sharp instruments into her body? It ain't Marcus Welby.
Abortionist Robert Crist (who has a less than savory track record himself) lamented that when a Nebraska clinic hired a new abortionist, "Out of his first six months of work, there are nine malpractice suits." Crist continued, "After it was apparent the guy was a klutz, they kept using him, and trying to cover for him, because they couldn't find another provider. It's a bad picture." (St. Petersburg Times June 3, 1990)
The New York Times Magazine quoted an unidentified prochoice ob/gyn in their January 18, 1998 issue: "The sad truth is that the people who moonlight at the [abortion] clinics are grade-B doctors. They're not the cream of the crop. And it's not because they're committed. It's because they can't find steady work."
At the National Abortion Federation Seminar held in Seattle, Washington in September of 1993, abortionist David Grundmann lamented that "abortion is still a very fringe-type practice." He said that there were few doctors willing to do abortions, adding that "the ones that we do have applying to us for training often have very dodgy histories and backgrounds. And if you dig deep enough, you'll find a death or two or a malpractice suit or a de-registration somewhere along the line."
Some striking examples of abortion attracting doctors with checkered pasts include Steve Brigham and Tommy Swate (the only doctor to ever have a methadone clinic closed down for killing patients).
Given these insights from those who work in the abortion business, we'd do well to heed the words of prochoice researcher Magda Denes: �Reknown is no guarantee of skill. Skill is no safeguard aginst cruelty. Patients are utterly vulnerable to the mental health of their helpers. The helpers should, therefore, be watched like potential enemies.� And if this observation is true of the abortionists Denes observed in her research, it's doubly true of the medical outcasts now being recruited. ("In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital," Viking, 1977)
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