They said it.
Paul Ranalli, a neurologist at the University of Toronto:
“At 20 weeks, the fetal brain has the full complement of brain cells present in adulthood, ready and waiting to receive pain signals from the body, and their electrical activity can be recorded by standard electroencephalography (EEG).”
Quoted in National Right to Life Committee “Pain of the Unborn Child: What Does an Unborn Child Feel?”
Share on FacebookFrom the pro-abortion Ayn Rand Institute:
“[A]bortion rights advocates keep hiding behind the phrase “a woman’s right to choose.” Does she have the right to choose murder? That’s what abortion would be, if the fetus were a person. The status of the embryo in the first trimester is the basic issue that cannot be sidestepped.
The embryo is clearly prehuman; only the mystical notions of religious dogma treat this clump of cells as constituting a person.”
Leonard Peikoff “Abortion Rights are Pro-Life” Ayn Rand Institute, January 17, 2003
Below: Pictures of embryos/fetuses in the first trimester. Are these clumps of cells? Is it a “mystical motion” to see these babies as human?
From Caroline, an Australian post-abortive woman:
“I’m so sick of being told how I should or shouldn’t feel about my abortion. I remember being told by the clinic that I might feel a bit teary for a week or two but that would be normal; then I’d just be relieved like everyone else.
When I rang them six months later because I was STILL teary, they said that was unusual and wouldn’t be from the abortion, making me feel like there was something so wrong with me.”
Dr. Debbie Garratt, PhD Alarmist Gatekeeping: Abortion (2021) 46
Share on FacebookAn Irish nurse working at an abortion facility in London said the following in a pro-abortion book:
“I remember one girl in particular who came in for an abortion. She was about 24, and she’d had five abortions. Quite honestly, when she spoke to me, I couldn’t even answer because I was so mad at her.
She wasn’t sorry or sad. She was to blame, and I just couldn’t stand it. I refused to assist in her abortion. I resented her for her lack of feeling about the situation and the fact that she was more than likely going to go out and do exactly the same thing again.
All the nurses, even the most hardened ones, resented that girl. Many nurses resent girls coming back for a second time. Sometimes I do, but if she’s young, I can forgive her a second mistake, and of course, it depends on the circumstances. I try not to judge the girl, but it is difficult not to.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 105 – 106
Share on FacebookWhile advocating for legalized abortion, British politician Renee Short stated:
“We must consider what happens to some of the unfortunate unwanted children born into inadequate homes, disabled children, mentally defective children. They come into the care of the local authority.
A research project has been carried out by a Birmingham University social worker, who shows that it is not uncommon for a child of this kind to have up to 10 different homes in five years…
He believes the children coming into care in this way are often more difficult and more disturbed, and that they are the delinquent adolescents. The delinquent adolescents become the parents of more unwanted delinquent adolescent children in the next generation, generating another cycle of cruelty and neglect.”
Fran Amery Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020) 59
This politician seems to think that because the foster care system is inadequate, so-called “unwanted” children are better off dead.
Share on FacebookResearcher Maureen Muldoon put together a table documenting the number of deaths from legal abortion from 1970 to 1985.
Note that there were 39 illegal abortion deaths in 1972. Legal abortions were killing only slightly fewer women than illegal ones.
And there may have been more legal abortion deaths that weren’t reported.
United States’ Statistics
in 1970, there were 36 legal abortion deaths
in 1971, there were 54 legal abortion deaths
in 1972, there were 24 legal abortion deaths
in 1973, there were 25 legal abortion deaths
in 1974, there were 26 legal abortion deaths
in 1975, there were 29 legal abortion deaths
in 1976, there were 11 legal abortion deaths
in 1977, there were 17 legal abortion-related deaths
in 1978, there were nine legal abortion deaths
in 1979, there were 18 legal abortion deaths
between 1980 and 1985, there were 54 legal abortion-related deaths
Table 2: Number of Legal Abortions, Number of Associated Deaths and Mortality Rate Per 100,000 Legal Abortions
Maureen Muldoon Abortion Debate in the United States and Canada (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991) 9
Share on FacebookThe following case was discussed on NPR:
“Liang Yage and his wife Wei Linrong had one child and believed that – like many other couples – they could pay a fine and keep their second baby. Wei was seven months pregnant when 10 family planning officials visited her home on April 16.
Liang describes how they told her that she would have to have an abortion, “You don’t have any more room for maneuver,” he says they told her. “If you don’t go [to the hospital], we’ll carry you.”
The couple was then driven to Youjiang district maternity hospital in Baise city. “I was scared,” Wei told NPR. “The hospital was full of women who’d been brought in forcibly. There wasn’t a single spare bed. The family planning people said forced abortion and forced sterilizations were both being carried out. We saw women being pulled in one by one.”
The couple was given a consent agreement to sign. When Liang refused, family planning officials signed it for him. He and his wife are devout Christians – he is a pastor – and they don’t agree with abortion. The officials gave Wei three injections in the lower abdomen. Contractions started the next afternoon, and continued for almost 16 hours. Her child was stillborn.”
Louisa Lim “Cases of Forced Abortion Surface in China” Morning Edition (NPR) April 23, 2007
Share on FacebookCarol Jackson had a son before she had an abortion and twin girls afterward. In her memoir, she describes how having an abortion affected being a mother to her twins and made it difficult for her to hold babies:
“I took good care of them and loved them, but I never really allowed myself to enjoy the girls as babies like I had with their brother.
I’ve also realized that over the years I’ve avoided holding babies, and still generally don’t, except for my own grandchildren. I had an especially difficult time holding my first grandson who was born at 26 weeks, weighing under two pounds.”
Carol Jackson I’m Sorry: Recovering from the Right to Choose (2020) 23 – 24
Share on FacebookAbortionist Meera Shah says that women having abortions often bring their young children with them to the abortion clinic:
“… Most people choosing abortion are in fact already parents – more than six in ten of the women who have an abortion have one or more children. My waiting rooms are filled with children…
When patients come to me seeking an abortion, I take note that these patients may have brought children along who are waiting in the reception area. Childcare may have been challenging to find.”
Meera Shah You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press Incorporated, 2020) 17, 23
Share on FacebookFeminist Adrienne Rich:
“No free woman, with 100% effective, non-harmful birth control available, would “choose” abortion.”
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (New York, 1986) 269
Rich seems to admit that abortion is a bad thing that women don’t want to choose.
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