They said it.
“I have put Mozart in a tape player and held it against a womb at, say, seven months, and the baby moved a little, but when I put Van Halen on, the baby was jumping all over the place.”
Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D. The Hand of God (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1996), 130
“Recently one of our friends gave a pair of Precious Feet to a pregnant, unmarried girl she knew…An abortion was being planned and the girl was receiving pressure to carry out those plans.
After seeing the feet she couldn’t believe them. The usual, ‘This can’t be true,’ and, ‘I don’t believe it,’ led to further research and examination of just what would be happening if the abortion were carried out. In other words – a life was saved!”
The Precious feet pins are little lapel pins of baby’s feet at 10 weeks, life size, similar to those in the picture
Ray in Springfield, Missouri
“In Retrospect: 40 Years of Abortion and What You Can Do” California Right to Life Newsletter, Feb 2013
Share on Facebook“I and my colleagues hear repeated stories about abortion procedures performed indifferently or with something bordering on malice.”
Suzanne T. Poppema, M.D., “Why I Am An Abortion Doctor,” Prometheus Books, 1996, p. 18-19.
Share on Facebook“I don’t see how anybody can not be pro-choice. I mean, I really – I don’t see it.”
clinic worker
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 112
The picture above is of a baby aborted at 24 weeks. The clinic worker quoted here works at a clinic that performs abortions up to 26
Share on FacebookIn a book that is meant to help women considering abortion, the author encourages teens not to tell their parents:
“However sad or angry you feel right now, keep in mind and not involving a parent is often a sign of maturity – that you are able to make and take responsibility for your own decisions. Keeping the pregnancy and abortion a secret may even turn out to be a positive experience. For many young women, it may be one of the first times they make an important or life-changing decision on their own, and they may feel more confident and better about themselves as a result.”
K Kaufmann. The Abortion Resource Handbook (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997)
Share on Facebook“The answer is that parental involvement laws to reduce teen abortion rates, by as much as 25% (Texas) and over 33% (Virginia and South Dakota)”
US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, Signs of Hope in 2006, “Signs of Hope in 2006” Life Insight volume 17, March – April 2006
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From one clinic worker:
“… workers in abortion clinics are often not pro-choice activists or “radicals.” Although most workers in these settings are committed to women’s access to legal and safe abortions, the cultural and religious ambivalence that surrounds abortion is also reflected in our daily struggles with the nature of our jobs.”
Sarah Todd “Abortion Providers Should Not Have To Work with Fear, Threats, and Violence” Lucinda Almond The Abortion Controversy (New York: Greenhaven Press, 2007) 137
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The Director of nursing at one abortion clinic said the following:
“I feel that up to 20 weeks you really push an abortion. Personally. And if they had modified that law I would be all for it. Because after that stage they’re getting pretty big. I mean, have you seen the 20 week ones? And I must say, it turns my stomach, and I agree with the staff in one way that they feel little repulsed when you get a big fetus. It’s very traumatic for the staff to pick this up and put it in a container and say, “Okay, that’s going to the incinerator.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 153 – 154
Share on FacebookJane was the name of the underground abortion network that was in place before Roe versus Wade. The feminists who ran the organization employed an abortionist who had no medical license, and later did the abortions themselves despite having no official medical training. While they claimed that their abortions were safe, they did not follow the women after they return to their homes, often many states away.
A teenager who had an abortion said the following to a woman who assisted it and was pregnant:
“The other was a high school student who had had a difficult time during her abortion. Afterword, as Deborah sat with her on the couch in the living room, she collapsed in Deborah’s arms, sobbing , “I killed my baby, but you’ll be a very good mother because you’re taking care of me.”
Deborah was horrified. The counseling session was the place to address these feelings. Hadn’t her counselor talk to her about this? Deborah asked, “If you felt that way, why did you do it?”
“My mother said if I have this baby, she’d see to it that the welfare people take it away from me, so what’s the point.” She hugged Deborah’s belly, “I killed my baby and here’s your baby. I’m glad you helped me, but I wish I could have a baby like you.”
Laura Kaplan The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (New York: Pantheon Books, 1995) 133
Share on FacebookThe National Catholic Reporter said the following about RU-486:
“[RU-486] reminds politicians and the chemical industry in Germany of their special historical and moral responsibility to such a topic. Among other things is certainly resurrected shadow of the German past when the Hoechst Company, a successor enterprise IG Farben [the German company that patented the poison gas Zyklon B used in the gas chambers during World War II] obtained the patent RU-486.”
Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne
Quoted in Mark Y Herring. The Pro-Life/Choice Debate (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003) 143
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