Abortionists speak: Yes, we are killing ‘babies’

“Nobody wants to perform abortions after ten weeks because by then you see the features of the baby, hands, feet. It’s really barbaric.”

Although clinic workers and abortionists generally avoid using the term “baby” in public, some of them do use the word in private to refer to aborted children. When speaking to abortion patients or talking candidly to a friendly audience, they let it slip that they are talking about babies.

When the word “baby” is said, it shows that abortionists have no illusions about what they do for a living— they know they are killing preborn children.

In an undercover video shot by the Center for Medical Progress at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, abortionist Savita Ginde refers to a dead aborted child as a “baby.”

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In another undercover video, this one shot by Live Action, an undercover investigator questions an abortion center worker about late term abortion. The worker refers to the woman’s child as a baby. The conversation, which you can hear in the video below, is as follows:

Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry - New Mexico

Although the abortion worker hesitates slightly, she admits that abortion will cause “a dead baby.”

A baby killed by abortion, of course, is not “stillborn,” but has been murdered by artificial means; in this case, most likely digoxin, a heart drug that is misused to cause the death of a preborn baby.  It is an insult to women who have lost babies through actual stillbirth to refer to an abortion as though it were a natural loss of pregnancy.

A third undercover video was filmed at the late-term abortion facility of Dr. Leroy Carhart. Carhart was responsible for the deaths of two abortion patients, Jennifer Morbelli and Christin Gilbert, and has sent numerous women to the hospital.

In the video below, you can hear the undercover pregnant woman question Carhart about how her baby will be aborted. Here is an excerpt from that conversation:

Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry - Carhart

In addition to abortion providers using the term “baby” when talking to women, some abortionists have used the term in other contexts.

An anonymous abortionist was quoted in the book M.D.: Doctors Talk About Themselves by John Pekkanen:

This abortionist may not have expected pro-life activists to ever read what he said. His repeated use of the term “baby” show that he knows full well that each abortion he performs kills a child.

The late Dr. George Tiller had a message to women seeking abortions on his website. In the following quote he is addressing parents who are aborting their baby because of fetal anomaly. In these cases, the child would be born disabled, and the parents decide not to have him or her. Tiller’s website, now down, said:

In this passage, Dr. Tiller referred to the unborn child — who was deliberately killed, not ‘stillborn’ — as a “baby” over 10 times.

Incidentally, most babies aborted by Tiller in the third trimester were healthy.

An article in the American Medical News had quotes from abortionists and facility workers about the emotional impact their work had on them. One abortionist says:

He uses the words “fetus” and “baby” interchangeably. It’s a bald admission that he kills babies.

We need to teach the public what abortion doctors and clinic workers already know — that abortion scars women and does not remove tissue or “products of conception,” but kills babies… actual children. And abortion providers know this. Perhaps if they told the truth in public interviews, more people would realize that every abortion kills a developing baby.

Note: For more examples of abortionists and abortion facility workers admitting they know abortion is taking life, go here.