Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

A peace activist tells of her first Rescue – a sit in at an abortion clinic:

“My first rescue was because of an invitation by an acquaintance in 1989. The newspaper told me how judgmental and harassing these people were, and my giving sideline tips on nonviolent tactics prompted this invitation, which I reluctantly accepted. What I discovered during that six hour ordeal and the trial that followed was that these pro-lifers in their purity and absolute abandonment “knew” far more about nonviolence than I did. I learned more from them than I had within the peace movement for 15 years.

The difference was in their genuine concern and focus on the child and her mother. There was nothing even remotely resembling anger or hate toward the abortionist.… This is a purity almost nonexistent in the peace and justice movement, where publicity and long-term effectiveness are often central to an action.”

Carol Crossed “The Seamless Web: The Violence of the Abortion War and a Consistent Life Ethic”

Gary E. McCuen Abortion Violence & Extremism (Hudson, Wisconsin: GEM Publications, 1997) 54 – 55

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The American Medical Association supports legalized abortion, but it didn’t always.

“Physicians have now arrived at the unanimous opinion that the fetus in utero is alive from the very moment of conception… The willful killing of a human being at any stage of its existence is murder.”

Dr. Horatio Storer, Head of the American Medical Association’s Committee on Criminal Abortion.

Horatio Storer and Franklin Heard, Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence and Its Law (out of print); cited in Stephen Krason, Abortion: Politics, Morality and the Constitution (Lanham, M.D.: University Press in America, 1984), 171.

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Dr. Anthony Shaw, who allows disappointed parents of handicapped newborn children the right to have them deprived of medical care and thus eliminated, reports:

“As a surgeon whose natural inclination is to use the scalpel to fight off death, standing by and watching a salvageable baby die is the most emotionally exhausting experience I know. It is easy at a conference, in theoretical discussion, to decide that such infants should be allowed to die. It is altogether different to stand by in the nursery and watch as dehydration and infection whither a tiny being over hours and days. This is a terrible ordeal for me and the hospital staff – much more so than for the parents who never set foot in the nursery.… It seems to me that a society which does not provide for its defectives is less than humane.”

Anthony Shaw, “Doctor, Do We Have a Choice?” New York Times Magazine January 30, 1972 P 54

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“[Society’s] mistake was in… deciding that the fault lay with the woman, that she should be the one to change. We focused on her swelling belly, not the pressures that made her so desperate.”

Frederica Mathewes – Green

Stephen Currie. Opposing Viewpoints Digests: Abortion (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2000) 54

Another quote from an abortion advocate, in the same book, says:

“For a woman to give birth… can be a severe handicap in the workplace..… Few women who take maternity leaves are paid full wages for the time they missed; many find their jobs are not held open for them, or discover that they have been shunted to a less demanding and lower status “mommy track.”

Men, of course, are rarely treated this way. Men who start families may worry about how to feed and clothe their children, but their employers do not fire them simply for daring to bring babies into the world. Neither did they force male workers to take unwanted or unneeded time off nor demote them to jobs deemed suitable for employees more interested in raising their children than in taking on interesting and exciting projects at work.

Thus, the right to an abortion is basic. A woman who does not want to fall victim to discrimination and patronizing assumptions about her wishes and desires must have the ability to enter pregnancy.”

Rather than coming to the conclusion that women must kill their babies to be free of society’s injustices, why don’t we work to right the injustices so that women do not have to kill their babies?

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“I have put Mozart in a tape player and held it against a womb at, say, seven months, and the baby moved a little, but when I put Van Halen on, the baby was jumping all over the place.”

Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D. The Hand of God (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1996), 130

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The National Catholic Reporter said the following about RU-486:

“[RU-486] reminds politicians and the chemical industry in Germany of their special historical and moral responsibility to such a topic. Among other things is certainly resurrected shadow of the German past when the Hoechst Company, a successor enterprise IG Farben [the German company that patented the poison gas Zyklon B used in the gas chambers during World War II] obtained the patent RU-486.”

Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne

Quoted in Mark Y Herring. The Pro-Life/Choice Debate (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003) 143

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A poll cited by philosopher Dianne N. Irving:

“close to 30% of the respondents replied that they would abort their child if they knew in advance it would be obese.”

Dianne N Irving “NIH And Human Embryo Research Revisited: What Is Wrong with This Picture?” 1999

Quoted in

Stephen Currie. Opposing Viewpoints Digests: Abortion (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2000) 57

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“Abortions for teenagers that young are a tragedy. But abortion is a very safe medical procedure…safer than a delivery.”

Amy Coen, executive director of Planned Parenthood Chicago

Comments made after a 13-year-old girl died from her abortion in Chicago

“Officials probe cause of teen’s death at abortion clinic” United Press International, 9-7-1992. From Life Dynamics

Read about more legal abortion deaths here.

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“Although I was an emotionally abused child, and a sexually abused teenager, I believe the worst abuse was inflicted by the judicial system. In retrospect, I was exploited by two self-interested attorneys. Worse, the courts, without looking into my true circumstances and taking the time to decide the real impact abortion would have upon women, I feel used me to justify legalization of terminating of the lives of over 35 million babies. Although on an intellectual level I know it was exploited, the responsibility I feel for this tragedy is overwhelming.”

Norma McCorvey 
A.k.a. Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade Affidavit, March 15, 2000

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