By the time the internet became widely available, Terzo was in college and had amassed a large list of abortion quotes by different abortion providers. She wanted to put this list on the web, but there was no such thing as WordPress or Blogger at the time. Terzo taught herself to build a website from scratch. Her hope was that pro-life individuals would go to the site and use the information she had compiled in their own articles, debates, speeches, and letters to the editor. She also hoped that pro-choicers would read the quotes and change their stance on abortion. And eventually, with the help of fellow pro-life activist Andrew Anderson, Terzo was able to build her blog, now ten times larger than the site she originally built.

In the seventeen years since, ClinicQuotes.com has featured thousands of quotes about abortion. Of all of them, Terzo says the one that stands out to her the most is from infamous late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, MD. She says that the “pure bluntness” of his remark is what really shocked her.

Carhart, while addressing the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in 2001, had said, “We’re not asking for the right to suck the brains out of every child that walks down the street, we need to continue to offer safe abortions to women who need them to be done.”

The casual use of the phrase “suck the brains out of every child” details the horror of what abortion truly is. And, like Carhart’s quote, each citation on ClinicQuotes.com helps readers to remove their abortion blinders. One such quote is from an interview of former abortionist Grant Clark, MD by Oregon Right to Life:

Interviewer: The women would actually see-

Doctor: Oh yeah.

Interviewer: Recognizable body parts?

Doctor: Oh yeah. And not very much fun for them or for anyone else. Um..that was probably the most difficult part of the abortion procedure with the suction abortions, you had to go through what you suctioned out of the uterus and identify perfectly formed little arms and legs and little hands, skulls were usually crushed. Eyes and cute little noses- you just killed a baby. And I don’t care what you do, you can’t bring them back.

But what may be even harder to turn a blind eye to than that, are the photos of the aborted babies. Each one so obviously human. So obviously a child. So apparently a person’s son or daughter, poisoned or torn apart because they didn’t fit in to their mother’s grand plan. Those photos alone are enough to make anyone stop and think.

Saline abortion victims.

Today, ClinicQuotes.com receives over 500 page visitors each day and refers 1 to 2 woman a day to a Crisis Pregnancy Center. Recently, Terzo has noticed an increase in the amount of women visiting her site who are considering abortion.  She is aware of at least five children whose lives were spared because their mothers, who had been considering abortion, changed their minds after visiting ClinicQuotes.com. Knowing she helped save those children makes it all worth it.

“If I work on it [her blog] too much, I tend to get nightmares,” says Terzo, “You would think that familiarity would make it easier, but often it doesn’t. What keeps me going is knowing that the site is having an impact, that it has changed minds and hearts. […] I take comfort in the fact that what I am doing is helping people. Reading the information and seeing the pictures makes me even more determined to do what I can. I know I am fighting for those children. Their deaths have not been in vain. As hard as it is, it makes me feel good to know I am having an impact.”

By the time the internet became widely available, Terzo was in college and had amassed a large list of abortion quotes by different abortion providers. She wanted to put this list on the web, but there was no such thing as WordPress or Blogger at the time. Terzo taught herself to build a website from scratch. Her hope was that pro-life individuals would go to the site and use the information she had compiled in their own articles, debates, speeches, and letters to the editor. She also hoped that pro-choicers would read the quotes and change their stance on abortion. And eventually, with the help of fellow pro-life activist Andrew Anderson, Terzo was able to build her blog, now ten times larger than the site she originally built.

In the seventeen years since, ClinicQuotes.com has featured thousands of quotes about abortion. Of all of them, Terzo says the one that stands out to her the most is from infamous late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, MD. She says that the “pure bluntness” of his remark is what really shocked her.

Carhart, while addressing the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in 2001, had said, “We’re not asking for the right to suck the brains out of every child that walks down the street, we need to continue to offer safe abortions to women who need them to be done.”

The casual use of the phrase “suck the brains out of every child” details the horror of what abortion truly is. And, like Carhart’s quote, each citation on ClinicQuotes.com helps readers to remove their abortion blinders. One such quote is from an interview of former abortionist Grant Clark, MD by Oregon Right to Life:

Interviewer: The women would actually see-

Doctor: Oh yeah.

Interviewer: Recognizable body parts?

Doctor: Oh yeah. And not very much fun for them or for anyone else. Um..that was probably the most difficult part of the abortion procedure with the suction abortions, you had to go through what you suctioned out of the uterus and identify perfectly formed little arms and legs and little hands, skulls were usually crushed. Eyes and cute little noses- you just killed a baby. And I don’t care what you do, you can’t bring them back.

But what may be even harder to turn a blind eye to than that, are the photos of the aborted babies. Each one so obviously human. So obviously a child. So apparently a person’s son or daughter, poisoned or torn apart because they didn’t fit in to their mother’s grand plan. Those photos alone are enough to make anyone stop and think.

Saline abortion victims.

Today, ClinicQuotes.com receives over 500 page visitors each day and refers 1 to 2 woman a day to a Crisis Pregnancy Center. Recently, Terzo has noticed an increase in the amount of women visiting her site who are considering abortion.  She is aware of at least five children whose lives were spared because their mothers, who had been considering abortion, changed their minds after visiting ClinicQuotes.com. Knowing she helped save those children makes it all worth it.

“If I work on it [her blog] too much, I tend to get nightmares,” says Terzo, “You would think that familiarity would make it easier, but often it doesn’t. What keeps me going is knowing that the site is having an impact, that it has changed minds and hearts. […] I take comfort in the fact that what I am doing is helping people. Reading the information and seeing the pictures makes me even more determined to do what I can. I know I am fighting for those children. Their deaths have not been in vain. As hard as it is, it makes me feel good to know I am having an impact.”

Analysis

She became pregnant after years of trying... and promptly aborted her baby

Analysis

She became pregnant after years of trying... and promptly aborted her baby