“In my facilities, I always gave option counseling. Of course you make the abortion the most appealing. I told them about adoption and about foster care and about [when there was welfare] assistance. The typical way it would go is, 'Well, you know you can place your baby out for adoption.' But then, in the second breath you would say, 'That's an option available to you, but you also have to realize that there's going to be a baby of yours out here somewhere in the world you will never see again. At least with abortion you know what's happening. You can go on with your life.' ... The longer I was in it, the less I cared, so I really didn't really care what my conscience said. My conscience was totally numb anyway. But what it did do was public relations-wise. You were able, when a reporter or TV crew came, to pull out a packet of information for the patients to read and they received it. So what can anybody say? Publicly it looked good -- in reality it was another tool that was used to force a woman into abortion. It's typical -- I would give them an option and then shoot it down. The only option you didn't shoot down, obviously, was abortion.”
– Former clinic owner Eric Harrah quoted by Dr. Jack Willke and Brad Mattes

Nina Whitten

“I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone. He took every one of our receptionists, nurses, and anyone else who would deal with people over the phone through an extensive training period. The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so that she wouldn't get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money.”
– Nina Whitten chief secretary at a Dallas abortion clinic under Dr. Curtis Boyd

“The pro-life movement is having a negative impact on abortion. Sometimes women change their mind on the operating table and then we lose money! We have to run a cost-effective termination service. We have abortion on request now. It's what I believe and what I practice. A woman has a right to abort - whether it's to go on a skiing holiday or whether the foetus is disabled.”
– Doctor John Parsons in an interview from Kings College Hospital, London. The Universe, Sunday 2nd March 1997

“They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heart beat, they wouldn't want to have an abortion.”
– Dr. Randall "Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet" by David Kuperlain and Mark Masters in October New Dimensions magazine

Carol Everett

“Every woman has these same two questions: First, Is it a baby? No, the counselor assures her. It is a product of conception (or a blood clot, or a piece of tissue) ... How many women would have an abortion, if they told them the truth?”
– Carol Everett former owner of two clinics and director of four, "A Walk Through an Abortion Clinic," by Carol Everett ALL About Issues magazine Aug-Sept 1991, p 117