Abortionist Admits Using Different Words if the Baby Was Wanted or Not

In her memoir, Christine Henneberg discusses her career as an abortionist. In the book, she says that a picture of a preborn baby on an ultrasound screen is “as familiar and interpretable to me now as the stone steps that curve through my garden.”

Henneberg knows the facts about fetal development. In her book, she describes watching a baby being aborted on the ultrasound screen and looking at the hands, feet, heads, and other dismembered parts of babies after abortions.

She writes about extracting second-trimester preborn babies with forceps, piece by piece, and crushing their skulls.

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But she doesn’t tell people who are having abortions about fetal development or show them their ultrasounds.

She explains how, in her practice, she uses different language to describe the preborn baby based on whether the woman is considering abortion. She says:

What I call [the baby], what words I choose to describe it to the person who lies on the table, bare and vulnerable, depends on forces more powerful and penetrating than any ultrasound wave. If I am unsure, I can always fall back on the safest word, the word that may be clinical and unfeeling but is at least always accurate: pregnancy.

These “powerful and penetrating” forces are the mother’s feeling of whether her baby is “wanted” or “unwanted.” This, of course, does not change the nature of the baby — only the way the child is viewed by his or her mother and by Henneberg.

Henneberg explains how she talks to women considering abortion. “Pregnancy” is the word she uses—not baby, or even fetus. She says:

[Pregnancy] is the word I use when [the mother’s] face is turned toward the wall, when she doesn’t want to know the details of what I found—only whether I can help her. ‘Yes, I see the pregnancy. It’ll be fine. We can do it today.’

In contrast, Henneberg’s entire demeanor is different when the woman wants her baby. She says (emphasis added):

And this is the word I use for an entirely different conversation, one that begins with, ‘Yes, I see it. Wonderful. Shall I show you?… That’s the embryo. I’m measuring it now. It’s about six weeks in size. That flicker—do you see it? That’s the heartbeat. Yes! Congratulations.’…

Choice of words. Knowing what to say and when. Different circumstances call for different explanations, and I know how to draw the boundaries.

When the baby is wanted, Henneberg shows the mother the ultrasound screen and the child’s heartbeat. When the baby isn’t wanted, she hides the truth from the pregnant person.

(Also, she admits that what she sees on the ultrasound screen at six weeks is a “heartbeat,” despite many pro-abortion outlets and activists refusing to acknowledge that reality.)

Henneberg is not the only abortion provider who doesn’t show the ultrasound to people considering abortion. Many post-abortive women have spoken out about this.

Is ignorance of fetal development really in an abortion-seeker’s best interest?

Henneberg may hide the biological facts of fetal development from the pregnant person while she’s on the ultrasound table and during her abortion. But Henneberg won’t be there for the rest of the woman’s life, censoring everything she sees.

Eventually, the post-abortive person will find out how developed her baby was. This may happen in a future pregnancy, when she sees the ultrasound, like in this case.

Or the post-abortive person may become curious and search for more information online, like a woman named Amanda did.

At the abortion facility, Amanda asked to see her baby on the ultrasound. The worker responded, “There isn’t anything to see. It’s the size of a grain of rice.”

Believing her, Amanda went through with the abortion. But when she came home, she did some research and discovered the truth about her baby’s development:

I went upstairs and hopped on my computer. I googled “nine-week baby.”

What popped up under images crushed me. I immediately started bawling; that was not just the size of a grain of rice like I had been told. I kept searching different websites, and finally really looked up the word “abortion” and I was sick…

There was plenty to see. A heartbeat, fingers, and toes were forming…

I had just killed a child. MY child! What the hell was I thinking? How come I hadn’t done any research before? Why wouldn’t that nurse let me see my baby?

Finding out the truth too late, after her baby is dead, can be deeply traumatic for the post-abortive person.

Henneberg may genuinely believe that it’s easier for someone having an abortion not to know the facts. Of course, it’s also true that abortion facilities don’t make money when pregnant people change their minds. Therefore, it is not in the best interests of the abortionist or the facility to tell them the truth.

Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood fight tooth and nail against laws that require abortion facilities to show ultrasounds or talk to abortion-seekers about fetal development.

And many former abortion workers have spoken out about how they withheld information from pregnant women or even lied about the development of their preborn children.

Source: Christine Henneberg Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother (San Francisco, California, 2022) 1-2, 3

LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here. This article originally appeared on Live Action News.

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