Pro-death Views & Witnesses: In Their Own Words

"I was told to antagonize the pro-lifers and I made the girls throw out any pro-life literature before entering the clinic. ... We would tell them, `Those people out there are terrorists, it's safer in here. They're crazy.' I even told one group, `That woman out there was just released from Meadowview Mental Hospital. Don't talk to her; she killed her family'. ... As soon as I got here last August, I joined the "Freedom of Choice Action League." They're big at Pine and Market. Some of them practice witchcraft and sometimes they chalk pentagrams [a Satanic symbol] on the sidewalks. ... I had written about how they openly practice witchcraft and how the clinic director tells us, every time we beat up the pro-lifers, to cover their cameras. ... I wrote [in an editorial to the Wichita Eagle] that pro-abortionists displayed sex toys in front of children and how they dumped semen and urine on people at national rescues. I personally defaced churches, LIFE, Inc., and HopeNet. I apologize for that. ... They hate God, they're anti-Christian ... "Pro-abortionists are the terrorists, not the pro-lifers. They're the ones throwing bricks through people's windows and doing obscene things. I was shocked when I went to the Crypt to pray and they were screaming and yelling, shouting obscenities, while all the pro-lifers were praying silently."

~Reformed pro-abortion activist Raymond Rivera, quoted in "The Facts of Life, Inc." newsletter, December 1992, page 1 and June 1993, pages 4 and 5.

"NBC News does not use the term `prolife,' which it regards as loaded, but if someone wanted to use `pro-choice,' I'd say that was fine."

~ NBC News Editor Gilbert Millstein. Quoted in Burke Balch. "The Enormous Power of Language." National Right to Life News, December 22, 1980, page 5.

"[Abortion is] the dirty work of our field. The sad truth is that the people who moonlight at the clinics are grade B doctors. They're not the cream of the crop."

~Unidentified Pro-Abortion OB/GYN
The New York Times Magazine, January 18, 1998

"There is certainly a stigma attached to it now. In many communities this is not an accepted thing to do, and there have been pressures that encourage [residency] programs to drop abortion training."

~ Trent McKay, Abortionist
The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 1993

"Abortion is a difficult field from an emotional aspect. Some of us, and all of us, I suspect, to some degree or another, have emotional isolation and separation and distance from some of our social friends, from the community, and from our professional colleagues."

~ George Tiller, Abortionist
National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar
St. Louis, MO, September, 1997

"All providers are on the battle lines, on the front lines... and we are feeling so isolated, and so alone, and so vulnerable. And I lock the door and walk out at night and think maybe I just won't go out tomorrow. It's just not worth it. Maybe I just won't go back."

~ Unidentified Abortion Clinic Director
The Fragile Promise of Choice (video), 1996
Concentric Media, Menlow Park, CA