Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

Commenting on the high percentage of breakups in relationships after abortion, researchers said:

“If your partner was supportive of your decision to have an abortion, and then is surprised to find himself feeling angry, depressed or grief stricken, you may feel guilty. You also might find yourself feeling angry, betrayed and confused… You may be feeling guilty about hurting your husband or boyfriend because you did talk to him about the pregnancy and he wanted to keep the baby.”

Torre—Bueno A. Peace after Abortion (San Diego, California: Pimpernel Press, 1997) 45, 44

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Medical school asst. professor Jeffrey L. Johnson of The University of Southern California School of Medicine:

“The majority of people going into medicine are trained not to make moral judgments as to whether abortion is right or wrong, they are trained to avoid such moral judgments. This assists in dehumanizing the unborn, because people have never been expected to make a rigorous moral evaluation about them. Most people who go through medical school have not had their moral learning and capacity for ethical reflection keep pace with their medical and scientific training.”

Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) 5

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A few years after abortion was legalized, a doctor wrote this letter to the New England Journal of medicine explaining that women were no better off than they had been before.

“Ideally, the reform is designed to encourage women to take responsibility for this most important aspect of their lives, to give them freedom of choice, and to remove the decision from (usually) male authority figures. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily what happens…

Now that abortion is not only possible but fashionable, many young women do not experience themselves as having a choice in the matter any more than they did before. Whereas society once told them that they must have their babies whether they wanted to or not, it now seems to be telling them that they may not have their babies even if they wish to. Before the laws were liberalized in Massachusetts, Nadelson wrote of the mother applying for therapeutic abortion, “we rarely attend her welfare or that of her children; we do not consider her needs, her capacities or aspirations as she sees them.” Now that the laws have been changed, Nadelson’s statement unfortunately still stands.”

Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, letter to the editor, New England Journal of Medicine 292 no. 9 (February 27, 1975): 485

Has 40 years of legal abortion good for women? There are many thousands of women who regret their abortions and take part in postabortion ministries. Cases of eptopic pregnancy and premature births (which studies have shown increase in women who have abortions) have risen exponentially. And many women feel they have no choice but to have an abortion when they become pregnant. Men often coerce women into having abortions. Are things really better?

 

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Testimony of Eileen Roberts, founder, Mothers against Minors’ Abortions (MAMA) Hearing on the Child Custody Protection Act before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, House Judiciary Committee, May 27, 1999:

“… I am the mother of a daughter who at age 14 underwent an abortion without my knowledge…

… During my daughter’s rebellion towards our parental authority, my daughter was encouraged by her boyfriend, with the assistance of an adult friend, to obtain a secret abortion without my knowledge. This adult friend drove my daughter to the abortion clinic, 45 miles away from our home, and even paid for my daughter’s abortion…

… As a result of her depression, my daughter was hospitalized, at which time it was discovered that the abortion had been incompletely performed and required surgery to repair the damage done by the abortionist…

The following year my daughter developed an infection and was diagnosed as having pelvic inflammatory disease, which again required a two-day hospitalization for IV antibiotic therapy…

To add insult to injury, my husband and I were responsible for our daughter’s medical costs which amounted to over $27,000.

I am here today to ask this committee to reject the eccentric notion that any adult stranger has the right to abduct our minor age daughters and take them to another state for secret abortion. I speak today for those parents I know around the country, whose daughters have been taken out of state for their abortions. Many times these attempts to evade parental notification and consent laws are also attempts to conceal criminal activity, such as statutory rape…

Please allow parents the opportunity to put their arms around their daughters and say “I love you, we can work this through together,” which parental notification and consent laws restore in this legislation will protect…”

Mei Ling Rein. Abortion: an Internal Social and Moral Issue (Wylie, Texas: Information Plus Reference Series, 2000) 130 – 131

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Magda Denes spent time in an abortion clinic interviewing patients and witnessing abortion procedures. She talks about the dishonesty that she saw among the women having abortions and the people performing them. She says that they lied about not knowing the baby was human. She claimed that all of them, deep down, knew that babies were being killed:

“Oh yes, these people lie, they kid themselves, testify falsely, confess in bad faith, shirk responsibility, only pretend to honor, bracket the past, and invent their lives. And who among us does differently? Especially in times of crisis. Especially in times of irreversible choice.… Reality is a matter of courtesy. A matter of agreement not to rock the tempest torn boat.”

Magda Denes In Necessity and Sorrow (New York: Basic Books, 1976) 122, 6

There are many other quotes by Magda Denes on this site. Do a search for her name and you will find some of them

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Said one Christian woman who had an abortion:

“I knew I could have an abortion, then repent, and God would forgive me.”

Doctor Alveda King and Dr.La Verne Tolbert Life at All Costs: an Anthology of Voices from 21^st-Century Black Pro-Life Leaders (Xlibris Corporation, 2012)90

While from a Christian perspective this may be true, it becomes an excuse for the pregnant women to do something that she knows is wrong. Unplanned pregnancies and abortions happen even within evangelical churches – in fact, according to one study, one out of 5 women who have an abortion are an evangelical Christian, and a large percentage of women having abortions are Catholics.

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Maureen Freely, feminist:

“Our feminist canon tells us that an unplanned, unintended, unwanted or ill-timed baby is likely to “ruin” a mother’s life.  Any woman who is gone on to give birth to one of the above in spite of these warnings can tell you, actually, it’s not the baby who ruins your life.  It’s everyone else.”

Freely, M. “what about us?  An Open Letter to the Mothers Feminism Forgot  (Bloomsbury, London, 1995) 16

Every pro-lifer should support single mothers and poor families in our society, which often does not value children.A more positive attitude about babies and their mothers is important.

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This is an old quote, but I thought I’d put it up because many pro-choice people claim that abortion prevents child abuse. This researcher explains how wanted children are often the ones that are abused:

“Many young mothers who had every desire to get pregnant, with great expectations that the baby would resolve one of their many problems, find themselves even worse off than before. The baby does not – or is not able to meet these needs.”

Ray E Helfer “Diagnostic Process and Treatment Programs” (National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, 1975 [DHEW Publication OHD 75 – 69]) P. 28

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