Exposing Deceptive Abortion Practices
A New Collaborative Pro-Life Project

The Post-Abortion Review
Vol. 7, No. 3, Aug-Sept. 1999
David C. Reardon, Ph.D.
Elliot Institute
Reproduced with Permission

My own journey to understanding the abortion experience was first prompted in 1982 when I read an article about Nancy Jo Mann, the founder of Women Exploited by Abortion (WEBA). Pro-abortion critics of WEBA complained that the name was misleading. "Women aren't exploited by abortion," they insisted. "It's something they freely choose. Besides, abortion is a procedure, not a person. Only people can exploit others."

Grammatically, the critics were right. A better name would have been Women Exploited by Abortionists.

Of course, abortionists aren't the only ones who manipulate women into choosing abortion. There are the unwanting boyfriends, unsupportive parents, and selfish husbands. There are the genetics counselors, the racists, and the population controllers at family planning clinics, high schools, and social service agencies who steer women toward abortion as a means of social engineering.

But the bottom line is that physicians have a legal and moral duty to protect their patients. They have a duty to recommend only those medical procedures which are most likely to help their patients. They also have a duty to discourage and even to refuse treatments that are more likely to hurt their patients than help them.

Abortionists aren't doing this. Instead, they offer abortion on request. They let patients (or their partners, parents, or other ignorant advisors) prescribe their own course of "treatment."

At the risk of repeating myself for the hundredth time, this is analogous to a woman coming to a doctor complaining of a lump in her breast, declaring she has breast cancer and demanding a radical mastectomy. If the doctor responds, "Jump up on the table and we'll do it right now," that's not medicine. It's malpractice. It's the prostitution of medical skills for non-medical reasons.

Business Before Medicine

The truth goes one step beyond even that horror. At least the doctor in the above example didn't have an ad in the yellow pages offering quick, low-cost mastectomies on request.

But abortionists do just that. They use professional advertising campaigns and PR budgets to promote their medical bordellos. They use modern marketing techniques like offering "free pregnancy tests" as a "loss-leader" to attract potential abortion clients. Even before the pregnancy test results are back, a trained salesperson (who is often described as a "counselor" even though she seldom is licensed or has any formal training as a counselor) will begin to orient the customer toward abortion.


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