Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

From a woman who had an abortion because her baby would have been disabled:

“These girls, they just don’t want their babies. And it’s a good thing; what kind of mothers would they be, anyway? They’re here for a 2^nd, maybe a 3^rd, abortion. They can’t be worried to do the right thing. Later, maybe later they’ll understand. But it’s just craziness for us, being put into a cattle car with them. It’s a real mill, and what makes it worse is, the rest of them just don’t want their babies.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 237

She feels that aborting a baby for fetal handicap is different from aborting for convenience. She also feels disdain for women who abort more than once. Surprisingly, this disdain is often shared by abortion providers. 

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A pro-choice author describes how couples often disagree about what to do with an unplanned pregnancy:

“Leslie Rotenberg, the director of social services in the Margaret Sanger clinic of Planned Parenthood of New York City, reported that, when a couple comes in together, in half the cases the woman wants a child and the man doesn’t and in the other half it is the opposite. When it is the woman who wants to have the child, the most common response from the man is: “it isn’t fair. I should have a say if I’m going to be a father.” Rotenberg explained as tactfully as possible that he had a choice before he had sex.”

Alexander Sanger Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21^st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2004) 154 – 155

Alexander Sanger is the grandson of Margaret Sanger, the birth control crusader who was also a eugenicist and racist.

Sometimes when a man wants the pregnancy and a woman doesn’t, he tries to force her into having an abortion. In some cases, he turns violent. Women who refuse to have an abortion have been murdered.

On the other hand, many men have suffered feelings of loss and grief after their partners had an abortion either against their will or without their knowledge.

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Pro-life activist George Grant describes this scene outside an abortion clinic where sidewalk counselors were trying to reach out to abortion minded women:

“Every 30 minutes for the next 2 ½ hours, we watched as a fresh clutch of doe–eyed girls were whisked into the clinic by “pro-choice escorts.” They met the girls at their cars and quickly aimed them up the sidewalk. They snarled at our offers of help and batted away our literature. If a girl displayed the least hint of hesitation, the “escorts” would take her by the arm and rush her toward the door. So much for “choice.”

When, despite their best efforts, a frightened and confused teen slipped their grasp and turned aside to talk to one of the protesters, to read a gospel tract, the “escorts” flew into a frenzied rage. They lunged at the picket line. Taunting, jeering, cursing, and reviling, they tried to recapture their prey. One turned her contorted, wild eyed gaze toward me.

“You pig,” she sputtered. “You damned, chauvinist pig. Let the girl go.”

I looked over my shoulder where the girl was kneeling in the grass, quietly praying with several picketers, utterly incognizant of the efforts of this thrashing, yammering champion for “choice.”

“Why don’t you go home? Mind your own business!” She was right in my face, yelling in my ear, shoving, red-faced, and livid. “You’re traumatizing the girl, you pig.”

She went on and on, clichés repeated like a worn-out record. But all to no avail. The girl was walking away, arm in arm with her newfound friends. She said she was keeping her baby.

Frustrated, the “escorts” retreated to the building. A quick conference ensued with the clinic director, 2 nurses, and a security guard. They were clearly disturbed and kept gesturing in our direction with stabbing fingers and malevolent stares. After a moment of haggling between themselves, they dispatched the guard, presumably to “restore order” to this now thoroughly unpleasant Saturday morning.”

George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 17

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From a woman who had an abortion because her baby was handicapped. This woman describes being at the abortion clinic and seeing all the women there who were having abortions because they didn’t want a baby. She thought that her situation was different because she wanted the baby until finding out the baby would have something wrong with it. She describes being in the recovery room:

“And what stands out in my mind is that there was this very young, beautiful teenager, a young Asian girl, and while I was resting, you know, recuperating, waiting to go downstairs, she got up from the cot and stepped on the scale, you know, to see if she’d lost any weight. I just about died. I felt so bad for her. Oh, Jesus! I just felt bad like, she missed the whole point. Maybe she’s lucky to have been, you know, so stupid. But it’s a fucking tragedy, to be so stupid about something so valuable.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 237

She considered the girl’s baby to have been valuable, because (she assumes) it had been healthy. Her own baby, of course, had ceased to be valuable as soon as she found out it would not be “normal.” But she also seems to realize the gravity of the abortion decision, while the “Asian girl” does not.

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