I love nothing more than when an abortionist (or anyone dealing with abortion) talks about their experiences. Because it's not the uplifting, liberating experience that feminist ideology depicts. It's an ugly, destructive, cold-hearted "procedure".
Pro-Abortion Med Student Shrinks away from Practice after "Disturbingly Brutal" Procedure
By Kathleen Gilbert
BALTIMORE, November 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Though she had practiced the procedure as a student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine by scraping out a piece of fruit with razor-sharp abortion instruments, Lesley Wojcik learned that her training could never have prepared her for a real abortion.
What caught her off-guard, says the second-year med student, was the brutality of a procedure that subjects women to extreme pain.
In a Washington Post article detailing her journey to become an abortionist, Wojcik describes how during her first witnessed abortion, she recoiled in horror as the mother began letting out blood-curdling screams. The woman, who was "in obvious pain," had been only partially sedated, and the ordeal was so disturbing that Wojcik says she nearly vomited.
She later discussed with her mother how the brutality of the abortion procedure affected her, noting particularly the stretching of the vagina.
"It's a lot more invasive than I thought," she said, recalling her earlier abortion "practice" involving the removal of the insides of a papaya. "A papaya doesn't bleed and scream."
Wojcik's advocacy of the "right" to abortion was what had driven her to attempt specializing in the procedure, as she was concerned about a growing shortage of abortionists. At first, she had been confident she would have no trouble carrying out the procedures. "It's walk the walk, instead of talk the talk. I want my actions to be consistent with my words," she had said.
After witnessing abortions herself, however, Lesley concluded that it would take a "unique" person to commit abortions on a daily basis. Despite turning down the abortion trade, Wojcik remains an abortion advocate.
Georgette Forney of Silent No More, a campaign dedicated to revealing the sufferings of post-abortive women, said that Wojcik described the reality usually silenced by the media.
"We can't talk about the gruesome procedure, but we can talk about how she has a right to that gruesome procedure," she said.
Forney, who herself had an abortion at 16, said that abortion is usually very painful, and women are often not sedated. In either case, she noted, "it's a traumatic thing to have your legs up in stirrups and have basically a vacuum cleaner inserted between your legs. There's no preparation for it, and it feels like you've been violated internally, like someone has vacuumed out your soul."
The Post article also chronicles Wojcik's encounter with another abortion, where she watched the abortionist count the dismembered parts of an aborted fetus to ensure complete removal. She said that part didn't faze her, as to her the limbs appeared "doll-like."
"It was definitely gruesome," she said. "You could make out what a fetus could look like, tiny feet, lungs, but it didn't look like a person."
Wojcik also described the "surreal" realization that she had fought to save premature babies who were just as mature as one nearly aborted.
Forney described Wojcik's reaction as that of someone forced to "to go into her own form of logic."
"Everybody likes to talk theory, everybody likes to talk politics and politicians, but abortion doesn't happen to the politician, it doesn't happen in the Supreme Court - it happens in a clinic to a woman, and that woman's voice is the one we need to hear from," Forney said.
More from the Washington post article:
The kind of doctor Lesley Wojick aspired to be stood at a lectern at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, issuing tough challenges to the young medical students who had gathered to hear her on a cold Saturday.
You think you are pro-choice, Carole Meyers was saying. But, really, "how pro-choice are you? What does it mean for you? What's your limit? Will you do an abortion on a woman who is 12 weeks pregnant? Twenty-four weeks pregnant?"
What's your limit with birth defects? she asked. "Would you do an abortion at 28 weeks if the baby had a club foot? How about hemophilia?"
Meyers, a 51-year-old obstetrician and genetics expert, has performed hundreds of abortions over the course of her career and, until earlier this year, served as the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Maryland. She loves her work -- it's very rewarding, she said, and women always thank her -- but she doesn't shrink from examining abortion's ethical dilemmas or from setting her own limits. The truth, she told Lesley and the other medical students, is that abortion is not a black-and-white issue, not for patients and not for doctors.
Not black and white? Impossible. Her body, her choice say the feminists, whether the abortion is done at 5 weeks or 35 weeks, and anyone who doesn't believe that is a misogynist.
So, if you truly believing in providing choice for women, then you should be able to do an abortion at 35 weeks, if need be.
No questions asked. Just do it. It's the woman's decision.
Like Meyers, she had never been afraid to reveal doubts. She wanted to think about complicated questions,
Complicated?
Now why on earth would abortion be complicated? It's the woman's body. That's it. That's what the feminists have been saying for years. Is someone actually challenging feminist dogma?
What complicated questions? Oh, you mean like questions of life and death, and of the humanity of the unborn child? THOSE complicated questions, that we are supposed to ignore because they are irrelevant, and pose a conflict of rights between the woman and the unborn child?
Those complicated questions?
In her e-mail, Christina had hoped to attract participants by suggesting that they'd have fun learning the procedure: "You'll get the opportunity to be shown how to use manual vacuum aspirators using papaya models (apparently papayas bear a striking resemblance to a uterus. Who knew?)" But some of the students who received the invitation didn't see it that way. "This is a serious matter," one told Christina. Those offended by her tone demanded to be dropped from any future Medical Students for Choice e-mails. After consulting a dean, the women didn't remove any names from their list, but they decided to word future missives more carefully.
Learning to kill unborn children-- so much fun!!!
Lesley's eyes were drooping as she, Christina and Regina set out tortillas and taco fixings in a second-floor classroom and assembled papayas and abortion instruments at stations in a lab next door.
Nothing builds up hunger like learning how to kill.
"This is so cool," said Lesley, who believed she was doing something important to address the shortage of abortion doctors. After years of defending abortion rights, she would finally learn how the procedure is done.
(...)
Now it was the students' turn to try the procedure in the lab next door. Imagining herself working on a real woman, Lesley looked tentative as she pushed up her sleeves and reached for the razor-sharp tenaculum.
"This just seems so awful," she exclaimed as she tried to grab the papaya with it. "Do [patients] feel this?"
Her look turned to fright when the nurse practitioner at her station answered that they do.
A real barrel of laughs.
There was silence as she passed around photos of a dish with a light under it from a real abortion. It contained something that looked like a cotton ball, a yolk sac, and some blood and tissue. It was hard to make out any parts of a fetus under 3 months old, which, she said, is when more than 90 percent of all abortions are performed.
Do you get the feeling they're being gypt in their education? They have to identify little fetal parts. Sure it looks pretty gelatinous when the provider takes it out of the cannister (I've seen it on television) but once you open up the amniotic sac and start digging, you can see full well there was a baby in there.
