Abortion is on the way out not only because American hearts are changing on abortion-55 percent hold a pro-life view, but also because fewer and fewer young doctors can be found to perform abortions and replace the aging fleet of abortion providers-2/3rds of whom are past 65. There are probably half as many abortion providers as there were 15 years ago.
Why are promising young physicians refusing to do abortion? Because they are promising. They are brilliant and full of ambition. Aspiring physicians go to medical school to do great things and save lives. No one dreams of being an abortionist and harming fetuses/unborn children. What's fulfilling about that? It's a dull, boring repetitive procedure. The women don't want to be there and they tend to despise, not appreciate the abortionist.
And then there's THE BODY PARTS. Ask abortion personnel if they like to count, process or dispose of or even look at them. You get the picture.
Then there's the emotional-psychological-spiritual dimension. Abortionists have their apologists to say this is a fine career and it has no adverse affects. But read the book in the side bar from Mark Cruther, LIME 5, Exploited by Choice and you'll see why many people say that the PUNISHMENT for doing an abortion is being an abortionist.
The inability to resupply the depleting corps of abortionists explains why abortion advocates are in overdrive full combat mode to make abortion training COMPULSORY for medical students and why they are trying to FORCE hospitals, and insurers to participate in and pay for abortion. So much for choice. If you don't choose their choice you have no choice.
Abortion is on the way out not only because of the political pressure being applied by the culture of life, but also by the lack of young abortion providers to replenish the depleting ranks. Not convinced, read these quotes from an article The Bite of “Choice” by our friend Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director Of Priests For Life.
..... Abortionist Morris Wortman ... "There is tremendous support in the medical community for a woman's right to choose, as long as she doesn't "choose me" to perform her abortion" (Medical Tribune, March 6, 1997).
"When I look back on the [Roe v. Wade] decision, I thought these words had been written in granite. But I've learned it was not granite. It was more like sandstone. The immediate problem is, where will the doctors come from?" (Sarah Weddington, pro-abortion attorney who successfully argued Roe vs. Wade before the Supreme Court; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 15, 1998).
"That's how the anti's are going to win...by attrition, because fewer and fewer doctors will perform abortions" (Abortionist Herbert Hodes, Glamour, September 1991).
"Abortion opponents will achieve their goal without ever having to overturn Roe vs. Wade" (Kate Michelman, (former) Director, National Abortion Rights Action League, Dallas Morning News, October 4, 1997, commenting on the shortage of abortionists).
"We've seen a turn-off of physicians coming into this field" (Abortionist Ed Boaz, ABC World News Tonight, January 16, 1998).
"Having the right to abortion doesn't mean a [expletive] thing if you can't access it" (Barbara Ellis, abortion advocate, National Abortion Federation Annual meeting, San Francisco, March/April 1996).
Fr. Pavone concludes: "So many pro-life activists have looked for visible results of their legislative and educational activity, and often don't find as much as they would like. Yet these quotes prove that the abortion industry feels the weight of our success.
"By educating the public, especially medical students, about how ugly life as an abortionist is, we continue to rob them of what they need to keep abortion going."
This column can be found online at
www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2006/06-06-02biteofchoice.htm.
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