They said it.
According to Randy Alcorn’s research:
women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtained 28.7% of all abortions
women with family incomes between 15, 000 – 29, 999 obtained 19.5%
women with incomes between 30, 000 – 59, 999 obtained 38.0%
women with family incomes over 60,000 obtained 13.8%
Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 147
Share on Facebook“My family would not support my decision to keep my baby. My boyfriend said he would give me no emotional or financial help whatsoever. All the people that mattered told me to abort. When I said I didn’t want to, they started listing reasons why I should. They said it would be detrimental to my career, and my health, and that I would have no social life and no future. But I actually keep it alone? I started feeling like maybe I was crazy to want to keep it.
I finally told everyone that I would have the abortion just to get them off my back. But inside I still didn’t want to have the abortion. Unfortunately, when the abortion day came I shut off my inside feelings. I was scared to not do it because of how my family and boyfriend felt. I’m so angry at myself for giving in to the pressure of others. I just felt so alone in my feelings to have my baby.”
David Reardon, Aborted Women Silent No More P31 quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Share on FacebookAn article in Planned Parenthood’s family planning perspectives gives the results of sociologist Donald Granberg study of the nation’s two largest groups supporting and opposing abortion. Of National Right to Life female membership 245,000 have had abortions, of NARAL’s membership 39,000 had abortions. Therefore:
women who had abortions are six times more likely to be pro-life activists than pro-choice activists
Donald Granberg “The Abortion Activists” Family Planning Perspectives, July – August 1991, 157 – 163
These statistics are from the early 90s, but there are still very many post-abortion women in the pro-life movement.
Using ultrasound techniques, it was detected that there was rapid eye movements (REM) indicating active dream state at 23 weeks.
Abortions are still legal at this time.
J.Birnhaltz “the Development of Human Fetal Eye Movement Patterns” Science, 1981, volume 213, pages 679 – 681
“… I submit that religion, philosophy, and private opinion have nothing to do with this issue. I further submit that it is a commonplace of modern biology, known to every high-school student and no doubt to you the reader as well, that the life of every individual organism, human or not, begins when the chromosomes of the sperm fuse with the chromosomes of the ovum to form a new DNA complex that thenceforth directs the ontogenesis of the organism…. [T]he onset of individual life is not a dogma of the Church but a fact of science.”
Walker Percy, “A View of Abortion, With Something to Offend Everybody, ” in Jeff McMahan The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)3-4
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“I support Roe versus Wade wholeheartedly. And I do so even when acknowledging to myself that at some point, perhaps even after the first trimester, abortion becomes infanticide…”
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch
Robert P. Casey Fighting For Life (Dallas, TX: Word Publishing, 1996) 250
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Pro-choice Senator LYN ALLISON
“It is galling listening to the men, and it is mostly men, who have such contempt for women who terminate unwanted pregnancies, who have neither the compassion nor the understanding of the huge and, for many, daunting task of taking an embryo the size of a grain of rice to adulthood.”
Stephanie Peatling “One in three Women Have An Abortion, and I am one of them” Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 9, 2006
In reality, polls show that women are more pro-life than men. A typical abortion is done on an unborn baby at 7-11 weeks. Here is an 8 week old unborn baby.
And here is what it looks like when an unborn baby of this age is aborted:
Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins:
“ I can’t tell you how many times women have said to me that they wouldn’t have had their abortion if only one person had encouraged them not to. Only a few kind words could have saved her baby. And you can do that, you can be that person or you can help empower a young person or someone else to do it on your behalf.”
Kristen Hawkins Courageous (Students for Life of America, 2012) 150
Pro-Choice activist Malcolm Potts, who campaigned to make abortion legal all over the world:
“Those who want the [abortion] law to be liberalized will stress the hazards of illegal abortion and claim that hundreds, or thousands, of women die unnecessarily each year when the actual number is far lower.”
Malcolm Potts, Peter Diggory and John Peel. Abortion. Cambridge University Press, 1970
See information about illegal abortion deaths here.
Share on FacebookIn China, party officials coerce women to abort if they do not have a permit for a baby. In most cases, women are only allowed one child. The Chinese abortionist quoted below wishes she did not have to do abortions, but she has no choice, as an OBGYN, but to perform them. She describes one scene of infanticide:
“Some women come to the clinic for an abortion with a pregnancy of eight or nine months. If she does not come with the family planning official, we usually do not perform a delivered [live birth] abortion. If she comes with the family planning official, we have no way out but performing the operation. In most situations of late abortion, the aborted babies are alive. We have to employ medical measures. We just wait for the appearance of the baby’s head [at the opening of the womb], then inject the medicine into the skull. We really cannot bear to see these children, but we have to do what is required. Otherwise we will break the rule and be punished.. From the humane perspective, we are unwilling to do what we have to do. But we are not allowed to have a live baby after an abortion [another doctor who was in the interview room interrupted at this moment and said, “By all means, it cannot be alive.”] But sometimes the baby is alive despite all the injected medicine. It seems that the child of elite abortion has great vitality. It was not unusual for child after regular delivery to not survive despite medical rescue measures. But the life force of these children [undergoing delivered abortion] is very strong. I have a true story.…
It was an abortion of late stage. The child was alive after the abortion. The child burst out crying, making the sound “wa wa.” The lying in woman raised her head: “Doctor, the child is alive?” I could not tell her the truth and just asked her to lie down on the bed without moving. I told her this had nothing to do with her. But the lying in woman sat up desperately and begged me. “Doctor the child is alive. Please leave it alone.” I replied to her, “You lie down.” Then I told the nurse on duty to fetch Dr. Guang, the supervisor of the department. I knew how to kill the child, but I just could not put my hand on it.
Soon the nurse came in with Dr. Guang. Dr. Guang was a senior doctor. As soon as I saw Dr. Guang, I said to her, “I will leave this to you.” She replied, “You cannot do it this way. The child was delivered by you. You cannot deliver it at this moment and then be out of charge of the mess. I will get a bucket and fill it with water. We drown the child to death by putting her head down into the water first.” She got a bucket of water and put the child into it.
After about half an hour, Dr. Guang drew the child out of the bucket and wanted to send it to the burning oven of the hospital. But the child got back its breath again and burst into crying. The life force of the child was too indomitable. Even being submerged in the water for half an hour could not kill her. I really felt that there was something very strange here. I said to Dr. Guang that I had to leave. But she did not allow me. She said to me, “I still need to do something.” She then fill the washing basin in the room, which was bigger than the bucket, and put the child into the water again for another half an hour.
After all this, I did not use the washing basin for a long time. For a long time, I felt terrible.”
Nie Jing-Bao Beyond the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005) 182-183
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