Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

Pro-life author Janet Morana told the following story. At the time she recalls, she was working as a teacher in a public school in New York City:

“My good friend and team teacher Denise would adamantly proclaim herself to be pro-choice, while I was the token pro-lifer in our school.

One spring semester, we decided to hatch chickens in our classroom. We ordered all the appropriate equipment, including our precious fertilized chick eggs…

One morning, when we entered the classroom, Denise and I noticed a problem with one of the eggs. The shell was cracked open and we could see a yellow yolk sac and a bloody mass pulsing like a beating heart. In fact, it was the beating heart of a chick that was not going to develop further.

Denise and I were both upset, not knowing what to do. Denise gasped, “It’s still alive!”

I knew that but also knew there was nothing we could do to save it. Within moments, the chick’s heart stopped beating. Denise was very upset at the loss of this chick in the very early stages of development.

So how can Denise be pro-choice on abortion? She was obviously a very sensitive person, but when it came to abortion, logic seemed to vanish.”

Janet Morana Everything You Need to Know about Abortion – For Teens (Gastonia, North Carolina: TAN Books, 2021) 1 – 2

Feminist 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.

A doctor who did illegal abortions drank a toast when abortion was legalized. He went on to commit abortion legally. According to a Newsweek article:

“In Beverly Hills, a respected gynecologist, who had been violating California law by doing abortions in his office, drank a cold duck toast over a newly arrived vacuum extraction device with which he would perform his first legal abortion in two years.”

Matt Clark “Abortion: What Happens Now?” Newsweek February 5, 1973

Pro-abortion author Johanna Schoen writes:

“If statistical information about women seeking abortion is almost nonexistent, statistical information about abortion providers is completely unavailable. We do not even know how many of them there are.

Only a fraction of physicians providing abortion care, for instance, are members of NAF [National Abortion Federation, an organization for abortionists], and its membership lists are, for security reasons, confidential.

Nor do we know what kind of abortion services abortion providers perform. Although there is aggregate data on the number of procedures performed across the country, for instance, there is no data that might tell us who performs these procedures – or where they are performed.

Proceedings of the annual meetings of NAF and information collected by the organization are confidential and cannot be disclosed outside the organization.

Sources about the two main participants in the abortion experience, then, are mainly anecdotal in nature, gleaned from correspondence, personal recollections and testimonies, and oral history interviews.”

Johanna Schoen Abortion after Roe (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University Of North Carolina Press, 2015) 17 – 18

Jeannie Jones counseled women and helped them get abortions both before and after Roe. She says:

“I became convinced within a year or two of doing abortion counseling to great numbers at Amherst Medical that the whole thing – society’s condemnatory attitude toward abortion – was going to change so dramatically because there were all these women of all ages who had abortions and members of their families who knew about it. They had this experience of making this tough decision. I thought that was going to change the political landscape and I can’t believe [that opposition to legal abortion] is still going on. There’s this enormous number of women having abortions still, but it’s like you had one and you don’t have any sympathy or concern for anyone else. Where is this enormous population of people who personally had this experience? Where are their families?”

It seems that society views abortion as a bad thing despite the fact that so many women have had abortions. Perhaps this means having an abortion is not an empowering experience, but a painful one- most women who have them aren’t celebrating their abortions or talking about them.

David P Cline Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961 – 1973 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) 206

Pro-life writer Jennifer Hartline relates a story told to her by Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director:

“She [Abby Johnson] told me of a conversation she had with a priest at a conference recently when she insisted that our priests need to be talking about abortion from the pulpit every week, and that the sanctity of human life needs to be mentioned in the Prayers of the Faithful every week.  This priest said, “C’mon, Abby, how often do we really need to include abortion in our homilies?”  She replied, “Well, we’d often have women come in for an abortion and lay on the table with a rosary in their hands.  I had two employees in my clinic who would help perform abortions on Saturday and be at Mass on Sunday receiving the Eucharist.  You tell me, how often do you think we need to talk about abortion?”

Jennifer Hartline “And Then There Were None: Abby Johnson Helps Abortion Workers Leave the Industry” Catholic Online 9/7/2012