“Even though it kills a human life, abortion is, in fact, the moral choice to make when would-be mothers ascertain that their pregnant circumstances do not enable them to raise a would-be child responsibly. Contrary to popular accusation, it is not the decision to abort but the decision to have a child that is treated with insufficient gravity in our society.”
“I don’t actually think it is in the interests of feminism or the pro-choice movement to cling so rigidly to outdated notions of “life.” It no longer helps our cause to try to argue that the fetus is not “life.” The reason for this, as people have noted, is that technological advances, like sonograms, where you can see feet on a fetus in the first trimester, have made those claims clearly and patently hollow to even ardently pro-choice people who have seen the black and white staticky fuzziness take shape into human form. How can we possibly claim that the moving creature, with feet and toes that we can see, is not “life”?
Katie Roiphe “Preglimony and Pro-Choice Rhetoric” Slate July 10, 2012
Denise M Burke, ESQ “Abortion Clinic Regulations: Combating the True “Back Alley” on page 124 the author cites:
“In 1994, several women testified before the Gen. Assembly of the South Carolina legislature that when they walked into some of the states abortion clinics, they saw bloody, unwashed sheets, bloody cots in recovery rooms, and dirty bathrooms. Clinic workers testified that the remains of unborn children were not disposed of properly, but rather runs down sinks.”
Dial “Abortion: a Dirty Industry” Citizen Magazine, July 2001
“Women don’t choose abortion lightly. But their concern for the lifelong welfare and nurture of children leads them to abort. They have such a strong sense of love and responsibility for their potential baby that they want it to be raised with loving concern and promising opportunities for a good life.”
Rev. Edgar Peara “Abortion ban brings bad memories” The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) March 10, 2006
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“Once conception has occurred…. very few physicians afford the product of that conception “zero” value. It may be less valuable than other concerns surrounding the woman’s life, but it is never totally valueless. The conflict is thus between “reasonable” justification for abortion and the woman’s apparent lack of any regard for fetal life that has been begun in her. Physicians facing these “repeaters” in abortion clinics often develop the very uncomfortable feeling that their own value system has been co-opted by a valueless system.”
Russell L McIntyre “Abortion: Perceptions of the Clinical Perspective,” Dialog 17, no. 2 (Spring 1978): 106 quoted in James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982)
“go to great lengths to help a youngster through an abortion. Despite the emotional stress of the work, they are, as they say “there for her”…But if the same 15 year old becomes a repeater and returns at 16 and 17, and if she develops a cool attitude toward the counseling experience, the reaction is different. The counselor loses her own professional distance.”
Thelma McCormick and Gary Crum “of Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life” , University Press, 1992 104
Pro-lifers may point out that if it is wrong to abort a child (the second one) why is it ok to abort another child (the first one?) The sequence may be different, but the fetuses in the womb are the same. They are either both life, or both not life.
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“I do dislike a certain type of modern young woman who indulges promiscuously, uses contraceptives rather reluctantly, preferring repeat abortions, which she regards as lightly as tossing down a cocktail or a glass of whisky.”
If abortion is only an operation that makes a woman no longer pregnant, that removes a ball of cells and “terminates a pregnancy” why would an abortionist be angry at women who take it “lightly?” Abortion doctors see the bodies of aborted babies daily. Therefore, they sometimes feel frustrated when women do not treat their abortions with enough gravity, because the doctors know that abortion is nothing to take lightly.
The following quotes are from Planned Parenthood records which were discovered by pro-lifers after being discarded. They are a clinic worker’s notes on individual abortion cases. The attitudes shown in towards the women is, in my opinion, questionable.
On one woman:
“Very apathetic. Not concerned at all about birth control or repeat abortions. Made wisecracks in VPT [Voluntary Pregnancy Termination] room and laughed at inappropriate moments. Unaffected by entire procedure.”
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On another:
“Attitude too casual about VPTs. May be a typical repeater.”
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And on another:
“Acted twelve years old. Not very responsible for a seventeen year old. May be a repeater with a birth control attitude. Attitude towards birth control HORRIBLE. Says she’ll probably quit them but doesn’t want any other method. Very immature.”
Robert H. Ruff “Aborting Planned Parenthood: Documented Proof of Planned Parenthood’s Systematic Exploitation of Teenagers and Taxpayers” (New York: Life Cycle Books 1988) p 29-33
On her blog “RealChoice” Christina Dunigan quotes a letter a pro-choice columnist received from a nurse who works in an abortion clinic that does late-term abortions. She discusses the women who come to get them. The pro-choice columnist says of Kay’s letter:
“Kay doesn’t believe in criticizing or hounding women who have to make this extremely tough decision due to severe disability. Her feelings are reserved solely for those who use termination as a form of contraception. Women who, up until last week, I hoped were few and far between. But, according to Kay, these terminations far outstrip those carried out because of fetal abnormality or genuine emotional distress. She says:
“There are girls who come back five or six times demanding terminations and they get them. How can someone coming in for their fifth termination be allowed to keep saying it is due to emotional distress? I should imagine in ten year’s time the emotional distress of being allowed to have five terminations is going to take its toll. What is going on?”
“I’ve had lots of patients who come in for second, third, fourth, fifth, even one who had nine abortions.”
Harrison, however, had no problem with repeat abortions. When asked:
“Is that really appropriate?”
He replied:
“If she needs nine abortions, yeah….Basically, abortion is a method of birth control. You know, it’s not the best method of birth control. But all it does is stop the birth of a baby that a woman doesn’t want at a time she doesn’t want it.”
William Harrison, Interview on Nightline Nov 11, 2006
