Posted on 04/05/2006 11:39:05 AM PDT by Caleb1411
As the state of South Dakota prepares for a battle over a new law banning virtually all abortions, CNN conducted an interview with a woman who flies in from Minnesota to do abortions at the state's only abortion business, in Sioux Falls.
No one in South Dakota will do abortions so Planned Parenthood is forced to bring abortion practitioners in from out of state. Miriam McCreary, a 70 year-old retired abortion practitioner is one of four the abortion business brings in every Saturday to perform more than a dozen abortions each week.
"There is quite a need for somebody to come out here. We used to have a gentleman that worked in our clinic from Sioux Falls. And since he retired then there's never been anybody else from Sioux Falls who was willing to work at our clinic," she told CNN.
McCreary takes the 45 minute flight from Minneapolis, where she lives, and a 15 minute drive from the Sioux Falls airport to the abortion center.
When she arrives, women are waiting for the abortion, having already been prescreened by Planned Parenthood staff and completed and signed the forms required under current state pro-life laws before an abortion can be done.
McCreary claims she talks some women out of having an abortion who she thinks are not ready for it. She alleged she has told some to consider adoption rather than coming back for an abortion.
CNN talked with some of the women having abortions on the day they interviewed McCreary.
Some 16 women were there that day and the ranged in age from 18 to 34. Ten women have children already and one of them has five. Five of the sixteen said this was not their first abortion and one woman was having her fourth abortion that day.
Six of the women said they were having the abortion because they could not afford to have a baby at the time. That's the most common reason women typically give for having abortions, according to research from the Planned Parenthood-affiliated Alan Guttmacher Institute.
Asked whether she has any doubts about the abortions she continues to do, despite having five grandchildren, McCreary doesn't miss a beat.
"The only doubts I have are that I want the patient to be really sure that she wants this," she responded. "These women need somebody to provide this. If they don't have it, they'll go some place else and they may not have a safe abortion. And I want that to not happen."
Told by CNN that the state of South Dakota considered McCreary guilty of murder under its new abortion ban, she says that without her some children would be born into families who didn't want the child.
"I don't want children to be born into families where they are not wanted and where they can't be cared for properly," McCreary responded, citing a standard pro-abortion argument.
Ultimate, the abortion practitioner told CNN she feels good about doing abortions because, "I helped them out of a predicament that they were not happy to be in. If I wasn't here to do it maybe no one else would do it."
McCreary has been traveling from Minnesota to Sioux Falls for seven years to do abortions. She's ready to retire for good, but continues because no one is willing to take her place.
Asked if she'll come back again in a few weeks to do more abortions: "Oh yes."
Sigh. English language massacre ping.
Obviously, the author is a victim of public education.
Lime 5 (the book) talks about how MDs are forced to study abortion... and that no one really want to practice it as it's a lowly subject compared to Gastro, Neuro, Immuno and even Pediatric subjects....
It's a cash job... $350 - so, of course, it will draw some.
Wow, it takes a different kind of woman to travel over an hour just to butcher a baby.
Why doesn't she sever the sperm supply? That would eliminate the need for murdering infants.
Does this 70 year old monstrous C-word eat the fetus she cuts out so happily? Murderous old POS ,I hope when she faces her maker she is ready for big drop.
I always want to ask these creepy people what fate might befall such children that could be worse than the death sentence they are advocating.
["I don't want children to be born into families where they are not wanted and where they can't be cared for properly,"}
So she kills them instead.
For a published piece or the press these women are bold and defiant.
But, it's not until you get them in a quiet place, as if you are having a fireside chat with them, that they reveal their true feelings --- the hurt and the pain.
They cry and it's from deep down in them. There is no play on emotion --- it's just the reality.
A veritable Angel of Death, flying in to perform abortions!
Sounds like someone needs to arrest her for breaking the law.
Isn't she helpful? Well, there are so many other things she could do to help others out of their predicaments, like
Oh, but all those things would be illegal -- unlike being an accomplice in the serial murder of children.
To see it,you'd think that these people are all destined to hang *themselves* out of shame,guilt and remorse.It was on the Sundance Channel.
I'm waiting for a documentary which reaches the same conclusions about abortionists.
Wow! How does one get pregant that many times in one day let alone have that many abortions?
I think the folks at LifeNews.com need to hire an editor.
Prisoners killing others or an agent of the State killing Death Row prisoners?
I've seen a documentary on Brazilian prisoners and they appeared no different than animals from all the killing they did.
An agent of the state, I wouldn't think a Protestant agent of the state that off'ed Death Row inmates would have trouble - considering his philosophy. I.e. that a Man will Die By the Sword - if he lives by it.
The idea that God establishes Gov'ts and if you murder the Gov't will get you.
No doubt. I was commenting on the fact that the author massacred the sentence by using that atrocious, ambiguous clause about the woman who was having her fourth abortion. On first reading, one is caught in the ridiculous impression that the woman had had three previous abortions on that same day.
As for the old abortionist, her reward is assured and you and I know it won't happen in the bosom of Abraham.
No,it was about government employees (e.g.,prison wardens).
So this physician is now 70 years old, how many more years is she likely to be practicing? There are no younger physicians she is mentoring, who come along to share the burden she has taken up, so when she is gone, those handicapped with an unwanted pregnancy in South Dakota will have no legal option but to travel to another state where the procedure is being performed by licensed physicians.
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