They said it.
From a study on women having abortions:
“… half the sample endorsed being really scared and 40% agreed that they were scared that a termination might damage them emotionally or physically.”
Allanson S., Astbury J. The Abortion Decision: Reasons and Ambivalence. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology 1995 September; 16 (3): 123 – 36, P130
For many women, these fears were justified. Read about physical and emotional harm of abortions.
Share on FacebookFrederica Mathews-Green describes why there are so many children in foster care despite couples’ intentions to adopt them:
“There are roughly 400,000 children in foster care nationwide, with about 38,000 available for adoption. These children wait an average of 2 2/3 years to be adopted; the reasons vary. One is the lack of black adoptive couples: although only 14% of all children are black, they make up 38% of all children in foster care awaiting adoption. Some social workers will delay these children’s adoptions for years, searching for a black couple and turning away whites. Black children in foster homes, bonding with white foster parents, may be taken away if it is suspected that the parents will apply to adopt. The child will be moved to a black foster family, although it may have no interest in adopting.”
The National Association of Black Social Workers has fought the adoption of African-American children by white families for the past 30 years.
“Black children should be placed only with black families… [We will] work and this particular form of genocide.”
Elizabeth Bartholet Family Bonds (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), XX I
Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 133
Of course, things may have changed since 1994, but these quotes are still notable.
Share on FacebookDr. Bernard Nathanson, who was a founder of NARAL, a group that was active in the fight to legalize abortion:
“Of course, I was pleased with Justice Harry Blackmun’s abortion decisions, which were an unbelievably sweeping triumph for our cause, far broader than our 1970 victory in New York or the advances since then. I was pleased with Blackmun’s conclusions, that is. I could not plumb the ethical or medical reasoning that had produced the conclusions. Our final victory had been propped up on a misreading of obstetrics, gynecology, and embryology, and that’s a dangerous way to win.”
Bernard Nathanson, M.D. Aborting America (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1979) 163 quoted in Michael Spellman Love the Least (A Lot)
Nathanson later became pro-life
From the same book:
Justice Blackmun’s former clerk Edward Lazarus, who is now a federal prosecutor:
“What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the constitutional right purportedly interpreted… When Democratic Senators oppose a judicial appointment because of the nominees opposition to Roe, they not only endorsement make a litmus test out of one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era. They practically require that a judicial nominee sign onto logic that is, at best, questionable, and at worst, this disingenuous and results-oriented.”
Edward Lazarus “the Lingering Problems with Roe V Wade, and Why the Recent Senate Hearings on Michael McConnell’s Nomination Only Underlined Them” Findlaw, Thomas Reuters, October 3, 2002
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From an article where an author interviews women sitting in an abortion clinic waiting room
She was 12 weeks pregnant, though she had taken birth control pills as directed. “I feel pretty messed up,” she said after seeing the image. “It’s different, just knowing. My husband told me not to look. This changes my feelings, but I’m sticking by it. Damn it, $650, I’m sticking by it.”
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Kori, 26, who was having her third abortion, asked to watch the procedure on the ultrasound monitor. “I wanted to see what it was like,” she said. “It was O.K. to watch. Once you had your mind made up to do it, you just suck it up and go with it.”
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From a woman identified as“M”
“I’d lose my job,” she said. “My family’s reputation would be ruined. It makes me nervous even being in the waiting room. You don’t want to know who’s here, you don’t want to be recognized, and you don’t want to see them ever again. Because in society’s eyes, you share the same dirty secret.”
JOHN LELAND “Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly “New York Times September 18, 2005
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The founder of a crisis pregnancy center describes an occurrence at another center:
Carol was afraid. How could this happen to me? She looked in the Yellow Pages and found daybreak. Carol was a young professional woman and she was sure she wanted an abortion. She came in for a pregnancy test over lunch hour. She had questions about abortion procedures and their safety.
The counselor was able to connect with Carol closely enough to discuss risks, emotional scarring and the development of life inside her. Then she handed Carol a brochure full of great information that would further answer her questions. As Carol thumbed through the booklet, she seemed grateful for such accurate information… And then she turned to the last page. Across it was the name of the organization that printed the brochure. Among believers it was a reputable name. But because the word “Christian” stood out so clearly to Carol, she tossed the brochure into the garbage, and walked out. In that instant, our opportunity to reach her was gone.”
Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) 57 to 58
Perhaps religious rhetoric in the pro-life movement turns some women away who pro-lifers would otherwise be able to help.
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“Each country will have to decide its own form of coercion and determine when and how it should be employed. At present, the means available are compulsory sterilization and compulsory abortion. Perhaps someday a way of enforcing compulsory birth control will be feasible.”
Alan F. Guttmacher, M.D., former Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Medical World News, June 6, 1969
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A woman who became pregnant with twins while using in vitro aborted one twin and kept the other. She said:
“If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn’t have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there’s a natural order, then you don’t want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner – in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me – and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.”
Ruth Padawer “The Two Minus One Pregnancy” New York Times Magazine, August 2011
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They put me on hold for 30 minutes, didn’t return promised phone calls & generally treated me like meat. Yes, you can get free birth control from them but believe it or not there are OTHER free clinics where you’re not just a number. They just take a little more digging to find.
A patient’s complaint about Planned Parenthood,
http://www.yelp.com/biz/planned-parenthood-golden-gate-san-francisco
Share on Facebook“There is a contention that unwanted conceptions tend to have undesirable effects… The direct evidence for such a relationship is almost completely lacking, except for a few fragments of retrospective evidence. It was the hope of this article to find more convincing systematic research evidence and to give some idea of the amount of relationship between unwanted conception and undesirable effect on children. This hope has been disappointed.”
E. Pohlman. “Unwanted Conception, Research on Undesirable Consequences” Eugenics Quarterly, volume 14, 1967, P143
This statement was made around the time that pro-abortionists were advocating to make abortion legal. In reality, abortion itself is the ultimate child abuse – see below.
One study that relied on questionnaires showed that the total pain scores (given by women having abortions):
“found that the average abortion pain ranked higher than that experienced by people suffering from fractures, sprains, neuralgia, arthritis, and was equal to that reported by amputees experiencing phantom limb pain and patients with cancer.”
Belanger E., Melzack R, Lauzon P. Pain of the First Trimester Abortion: a Study of Psychosocial and Medical Predictors. Pain 1989 March; 36 (3): 339 – 50
This study seems to indicate that many women find abortion extremely painful.
And they are often quite painful for the baby:
