They said it.
A woman who is been in a self-described “abusive” relationship told the following story:
“He had gotten me pregnant twice, and when I told him, he basically muttered “take care of it!”. I went alone, had the abortion alone, and drove myself home, alone. He spent that night in the bar, and didn’t come home until 6:00 am.”
Woman’s story, cited in the blog JivinJosaphat. quoted from the blog Lucy’s New Life here
So often, abortion liberates men, not women.
Share on FacebookOne abortion clinic worker made the following statement:
“In Spain every single abortion is done under local [anesthesia]. It’s walk in, walk out. They come in at 4 clock, by 5 o’clock they have had the operation, the consultation, and are back home. And I was so impressed by it. I said, it’s not possible! I wouldn’t mind having 3 or 4 abortions like that rather than go to the dentist once every 5 years. They’ve mastered the technique, improved it, no fuss.”
Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 86
She would rather have 3 or 4 abortions than go to the dentist. This statement is even more shocking when you realize that she works at the clinic and sees bodies of aborted babies (like the one below) every day. Has abortion become so trivialized that going to the dentist is considered worse?
Author Miriam Jordan described this state of affairs in India in a 2000 article:
“In poor and backward places such as Bihar, however, where sonograms are still a rarity, it’s cheaper to kill a newborn girl that to travel to a city and pay for a gender test and an abortion. And Bihar’s gender rate is among the most lopsided in the country. The 1991 census in Bihar showed 912 women for every thousand men, down from 1054 women in 1901. In the district where Dewa is located, the ratio in 1991 was 819 women to 1000 men.
In some pockets of Bihar and Rajasthan, another poor state, the female to male ratio is a meager 600 to 1000. Last August, one village in Rajasthan witnessed its first Hindu wedding procession to a bride’s home in 110 years, because no other girl had been allowed to survive.
Miriam Jordan “Brief Lives” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2000
Share on FacebookLynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women [a project of the pro-abortion Women’s Law Center] described how the pro-choice side has been lacking passionate activists for their cause.
“There’s no radical left anymore screaming, `Free abortions on demand!'” The anti-abortion right scored its first public-opinion grab in 1995, with the bold war over so-called “partial-birth abortion.”
Sharon Lerner “A New Kind of Abortion War”, The Village Voice 12/26/2001
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From a clinic worker who is a blogger on The Abortioneers, who uses a pseudonym on the blog:
“A very important change is being able to say the “A” word in public.… You can’t just blurt it out in public. But now that I’m confident that I love abortion and will do whatever to defend it, I have no problem… “
Sarah Erdreich Generation Roe: inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013) 174
Share on FacebookMany people don’t know that the early feminists (those who fought for a woman’s right to vote in the 1800s) were mostly pro-life.
Mattie H Brinckerhoff was a popular lecturer in the Midwest on women’s suffrage and other women’s rights topics. Here is some of her writing on abortion. Her use of the term “voluntary motherhood” dealt with the choice women should have to refuse to have sex in order to avoid childbearing.
It’s hard to believe, but at the time, women had no right to refuse sex with their husbands- they could not prosecute him for rape, and culture dictated that they always be sexually available to him. This lengthy article discusses this and mentions abortion. I wanted to quote it in its entirety to give context to the part about abortion
“Woman and Motherhood” by Maddie H Brinckerhoff
“In number 25, volume 3D of The Revolution, I notice from the editor of a German paper in this state these words: “American women have long been ardently engaged in the endeavor to free themselves, in a mechanical way, from the discharge of those functions which are essential to the continuance of society, and which cannot be shared with them, or performed for them, by men.”
The gallant editor unquestionably refers to the office of maternity. This and similar articles have from time to time so ably answered in your paper, that it seems almost unnecessary to add anything further upon the subject; but the boldness with which many men blame women for the crime of infanticide without assuming themselves, in the case, a shadow of responsibility, I should think would rouse every mother, at least, to utter words in self-defense.
That American women are more guilty of this practice than women of any other nation, I do not doubt; but is there not a reason for this?
Knowledge and slavery are incompatible. Teach a slave how a read, and he wants to be his own master – and as the masses of American women not only know how to read and write, but so much of the “tree of knowledge” have many of them eaten, that they have learned it should be for them to decide when and how often they shall take upon themselves the sacred duties of motherhood, but as law and custom gives to the husband the absolute control of the wife’s person, she is forced to not only violate physical law, but outrage the holiest instincts of her being to maintain even a semblance of that freedom which by nature belongs to every human soul.
When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society – so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged. But the question now seems to be, how shall we prevent this destruction of life and health?
Mrs. Stanton has many times ably answered it – “by the true education and independence of woman.”
Our German writer seems to think that the whole aim of a woman’s life should be motherhood. Suppose this were true, is the mission of so little importance that no preparation be required to fill it?
If, to be a first-class artist, or lawyer, it requires years of thought and culture, what preparation should be made to carve the outlines and justly balance the attributes of an immortal soul. Are little children, the germs of men and women, of so little importance that it matters not whether their mother be physically healthy or unhealthy, cultivated or uncultivated mind; expanded or dwarfed in soul?
We are forced to ask, by what law shall we decide when women is sufficiently developed in body and mind to be a good mother? Before what tribunal shall she be judged? Does not reason answer, the council chamber of her own being?
… If we would make woman free, let us teach her the alphabet of human life, make her understand and value true womanhood. Then she will scorn to be man’s petted slave. She will scorn his smiles and courtesies, when they are proffered only as an excuse for justice.
Oh motherhood! Which are opponents say is woman’s holiest mission. We cannot have true mothers without having true womanhood first.
Let us see that our daughters are developed into true women, and the office of maternity will take care of itself. Remove woman’s shackles and she will soon create a public opinion that will declare it a disgrace for a man to outrage the woman he has sworn to protect.
Then, and not till then, will man’s shackles fall, for noble manhood must be the legitimate fruit of free and exalted womanhood. Brothers, ‘tis for you as well as ourselves we plead. Will you neglect so great a salvation?”
The Revolution 4 (9): 138 – 139 (September 2, 1869)
Thanks to Mary Krane Derr.
Share on FacebookA terrible proposal- using the egg cells from the ovaries of dead aborted babies to help infertile women have children- children whose biological mother would be an aborted child.
“Dr. Robert Gosden of Edinburgh University has requested permission to use aborted human fetal ovarian tissue to restore the fertility of sterile women. The technique involves taking ovarian cells from aborted fetuses (babies) and extracting the ova (egg cells). The ova would be cultured to maturity, fertilized by in vitro methods, and then implanted into the recipient mother… A paper written by Dr. Gosden in the April 1992 Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics reviews the outline of this research (i.e., how and why it will work for humans!) a full two years before his research proposal became news. This paper bases his proposal on prior work in which Dr. Gosden has extensively performed mouse fetal tissue transplants studies to restore the fertility of sterile mice. These studies included using mice fetal tissue to restore fertility to sterile mice, restore endocrine function to mice without ovaries, and freezing and storing mouse fetal ovarian tissue for later successful implantation. Dr. Gosden’s work promises to harvest eggs from aborted fetuses at the 12 to 16 week stage. They would then fertilize the eggs by in vitro methods and implant them into previously sterile women.… it would restore the fertility of women who have prematurely undergone menopause, thereby giving them extended years of childbearing.”
Lawrence Roberge “Transplantation of Aborted Fetal Ova: a Short Analysis” Wanderer, August 4, 1994
Another writer commented on this:
“Remember all the adopted children who grew up and strongly desired to seek out their birth parents? That is, adults who tried legal and other methods to obtain the identity of the true biological parents. Will this technology spawn a generation of “genetically adopted” children who will wonder who their real mothers are? What will these children grow up and feel? Will they wonder and strive to find out (by legal and other means) who the tissue donor (the aborted fetus) was? Will they strive to find their grandmother (the mother of the aborted fetus)? As their “grandmother” will be the one who aborted her “mother,” would this aggravate the “grandmother’s” post abortion trauma? Yes, this may sound confusing, but consider how confusing it will be for the “children” and “grandmothers”!
A pro-choicer defended the proposal in another article:
“Certainly there may be many emotions associated with the knowledge of being conceived outside sexual intercourse… [A] study concluded that “the majority [of children produced via IVF] were performing above the norm for the chronological age but were subject to a “significantly higher incidence of… behavioral and emotional problems…..
“There is no medical evidence which suggests that fetal ovaries or eggs are inferior to the eggs present in a healthy adult female.…
Furthermore, given the success of adoption and the similarities of adopted children to FEC, one can reasonably conclude that concerns of psychological harm resulting from a child knowing his genetic mother was an aborted fetus are overestimated.”
Jonathan M Berkowitz “Mummy Was a Fetus: Motherhood and Fetal Ovarian Transplantation” Journal of Medical Ethics 21:298 – 304 (October 1995)
Yet another writer defended the proposal:
Also, from Gina Kolata, New York Times, January 6, 1994
Share on Facebook“Dr. John Fletcher [an ethicist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville] said most of the ethical questions [concerning fetal ovary transplants] pale beside the good that can be done for infertile couples. For example, he said, even though a child might be troubled to learn that it’s genetic mother was an aborted fetus the child would almost certainly rather have been born from the featus’s eggs than not to have been born at all.
“The idea that you would be filled with self-loathing if 50% of your genes are from the ova of an abortus seems to me highly questionable,” he said.
An abortionist who seriously injured a woman made the following excuse:
“There isn’t any operation any doctor performs on any part of one’s body that can be done with guarantees of no complications.”
Abortionist Joseph Durante
Press Enterprise Lawsuit filed in abortion case; Woman says she suffered severe internal injuries: 7-28-1999
Indeed, many abortion injuries are horrible cases of malpractice where medical sloppiness is to blame. Read about some malpractice cases here (this section of the site only scratches the surface, as clinicquotes has not been gathering information on abortion injuries) see Life Dynamics And Operation Rescue for more info on more current injuries and deaths at clinics.
Share on FacebookThere was a National Institute of Health meeting that discussed the ethics of experimenting on human embryos.
Diane Irving, professor of philosophy , DeSales School of Theology, referred the panelists to her 400 page dissertation, which analyzed 23 articles claiming that “human personhood appears at some point after conception.” When she began her research, she expected to agree with the articles. However:
“To my own amazement, I discovered that in all 23 arguments, the science was incorrect, the philosophy was historically incorrect or indefensible and none of the conclusions followed logically from the premises.”
Richard Doerflinger , “the Human Embryo Research Panel: Creating Life to Destroy It”
Here are some quotes from medical textbooks and scientists saying that life begins at conception.
Share on FacebookMarleen worked in a hospital that performed abortions. After 30 years, she’s come forward with her story.
“My husband was a resident at a hospital and I just got “the job of my dreams” at a nearby Oakland hospital. I was very much a believer in the abortion issue and now I felt I was going to be part of it.
I got hired as a charge nurse at this clinic that did late term abortions. I spent about 30 days on the day shift getting familiar with everything. I would witness and assist the doctor in the actual procedure, injection of drugs to the fetus, the seaweed, etc. On the day shift I really never saw the actual start of the contractions or the termination process. I was uncomfortable, but I really thought to myself, this was something new and I needed to get more experience.
One evening a young girl was having a very difficult time. I was there with the doctor. I knew even though the doctor wrote this patient was 15 weeks, she was close to 30 weeks. This happened quite a bit, but no one ever said anything.
When she delivered this tiny baby (it looked full term to me) she was actually alive and crying. The doctor said to me, “Put it in the room and close the door. Do not enter til the morning shift.” I immediately took the crying baby and wrapped it up and laid it in a room. I then immediately started calling hospitals around (against the doctor’s wishes) to find someone that would take it. None around would take it cause they said it was not viable. I spent many hours trying. I just wanted to leave this place, but I knew I could not walk out and leave other patients without a charge nurse. Til this day I hear this crying infant in my head.
I wish others that promote abortion, especially late term would experience what I did. The next day, I terminated my employment immediately and landed a job in a pediatric unit at another hospital.”
Read more at Live Action.
Sarah Terzo ““Nurse quits abortion industry after baby born alive is left to die” Live Action April 10, 2014
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