“Although it is customary to divide human development into prenatal and postnatal periods, it is important to realize that birth is merely a dramatic event during development resulting in a change in environment.”
The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology fifth edition, Moore and Persaud, 1993, Saunders Company, page 1
“Enclosed is an article your staff should read. You people think you are saving babies, while you are condemning the world!
As for the woman on TV who feel so guilty about her abortion – who cares? We are sick of hearing about it. Many of us have had abortions and do not have these feelings. My abortion 30 years ago was the best thing for me and the child! I am glad I didn’t bring it into his violent, miserable world.
Lastly, your attempts to link abortion with cancer are pathetic. You people use anything to try to brainwash people.
I pity you all!”
Letter to the editor, in “Voices for the Unborn” 7, 13 Emphasis in original
“I predict the possibility that eventually coercion [in population programs] may become necessary. [Such force may be required] in areas where the pressure is the greatest, possibly in India and China.”
Planned Parenthood spokesman, quoted by Richard D Glasow, PhD “Ideology Compels Fervid PPFA Abortion Advocacy” March 28, 1985
Barbara Radford of the National Abortion Federation gave guidelines to pro-choicers on how to counter the graphic drawings of partial-birth abortions shown by pro-lifers who were protesting in support of the partial-birth abortion ban. She says:
1. Don’t apologize; this is a legal procedure
2. No abortion method is acceptable to abortion opponents
3. The language and graphics in the ad are disturbing to some readers.
Much of the negative reaction, however, is the same reaction that might be invoked if one were to listen to a surgeon describing step-by-step almost any other procedure involving blood, human tissue, etc.
Diane Gianelli “Shock Tactic Ads Target Late-Term Abortion Procedure” American Medical Association News July 5, 1993.
“It’s amazing, but more than half of the people we see are Catholic…”
Clinic Worker
Felicia Lowenstein. The Abortion Battle: Looking at Both Sides (Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, 1996) 98
Perhaps this number would be less if more priests and lay people were concerned with educating the congregation about abortion and abortion alternatives.
“Pressure from boyfriends and husbands to abort was a problem familiar to abortion clinic counselors. In a 1987, a study by Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 23% of abortion patients said they were having the procedure in part because their husbands or boyfriends wanted it. Among eighteen and nineteen year olds women, that figure soared to nearly 30%.”
Former clinic worker and owner Carol Everett on abortions for rape victims:
“Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to a woman when she needs help.The mother has already been the victim of that crime [rape], and we don’t traumatize that victim a second time by aborting her.”
William Saletan Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (Berkley: California: University of California Press, 2004) 172
“I think it’s wrong in an NHS hospital you can have a poorly baby which is born 20 weeks prematurely, and have the NHS throw everything they have at that baby in an attempt to save its life, and in the next room have a healthy baby being aborted at 24 weeks. That anomaly needs to be corrected, and I don’t think it can continue any longer.”
Barbara Radford of the National Abortion Federation gave guidelines to pro-choicers on how to counter the graphic drawings of partial-birth abortions shown by pro-lifers who were protesting in support of the partial-birth abortion ban. She says:
