Pro-choice author HG Whittington, M.D. wrote the following about abortion counseling:
“The[ abortion] counselor must help the applicant face a painful existential dilemma; whether to kill one nascent human being in order to enhance the quality of life of another person… society legalizes abortion to enhance the quality of human life.”
This quote appears in Whittington’s essay “The Role of the Counselor in Abortion” Sarah LeWit , editor. “Abortion Techniques and Services: Proceedings of the Conference,” New York, New York; June 3-5, 1971, Amsterdam: excerpta medica. 1972.
