Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

Many pro-choicers attack crisis pregnancy centers and sidewalk counselors and call them dishonest or demeaning towards women. But in reality, sidewalk counselors often offer women help with alternatives and crisis pregnancy centers provide many services to women, all for free. The abortion clinic will always take a woman’s money and sent her home to cope with the abortion on her own.

Pat Foley, who runs a crisis pregnancy center:

“We’re willing to offer to $200, $300, $400 on the spot, no strings attached [to help a woman considering abortion for financial reasons.] No life should end because of money.”

Pat Foley, quoted on Nancy Gibbs “One Woman at a Time” Time, February 26, 2007

Many pro-lifers are willing to sacrifice for pregnant women who may otherwise have abortions.

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According to the Dallas Morning News, (Abortion rights activist resigns as clinic director; Taft cites differences with Routh Street owner, 2/2/1995 ), a Planned Parenthood of Dallas and Northeast Texas employee told the press they were not going to refer abortion patients to abortion clinic owner Charlotte Taft because she stated:

“We were hiding . . . some pieces of the truth about abortion that were threatening….Abortion “is a kind of killing, and most women seeking abortion know that.”

Planned Parenthood of Dallas and Northeast Texas, put off by Taft’s honesty, stopped referring patients to her.

Though the group’s president, Jim Roderick, acknowledged the leadership Ms. Taft had provided to abortion rights supporters in Dallas he added,

“I took great exception to statements about the pro-choice community not being completely honest with women. We did have great philosophical differences with her, not only in the statements she made . . . but with some of the changes in how they went about serving clients we were referring to them.”

On November 2, 2006, The Dallas Observer ran a story entitled, Charlotte’s Web,  stated that  on January 30, 1995

This prompted the paper to wonder:

 “Did Taft resign voluntarily or was she forced out?”

The paper noted how Taft made some highly inflammatory remarks about the pro-choice movement in the local press, saying that the movement hadn’t been honest with women. She even called abortion “a kind of killing.”

The paper asked,

“Had Taft played right into the hands of anti-abortion zealots, adopting their very language as her own? Had she so betrayed the pro-choice community that she had to be sacrificed for the sake of themovement?”

quoted by life dynamics

If anyone doubts that pro-choice clinic workers lie to women, they need only look at this collection of quotes from current and former clinic workers.

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Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, in ruling against the PBA (Partial Birth Abortion) ban, makes this point:

“From the standpoint of the fetus, and, I should think, of any rational person, it makes no difference whether, when the skull is crushed, the fetus is entirely within the uterus or its feet are outside the uterus. Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged…. [T]here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice. No reason of policy or morality that would allow the one would forbid the other.”

Richard John Neuhaus “So What’s the Big Deal about Partial-Birth Abortion” : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life June 2000. : 84.

In essence, Judge Posner is right. Both the D&X (partial birth) abortion procedure and the D&E (dismemberment) abortion procedure are violent and brutal to the unborn baby.

Here is a diagram of a partial birth abortion, where the baby is delivered up until the head and then killed. This procedure is now illegal.

And a D&E abortion. This procedure is still legal.

 

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“… I submit that religion, philosophy, and private opinion have nothing to do with this issue. I further submit that it is a commonplace of modern biology, known to every high-school student and no doubt to you the reader as well, that the life of every individual organism, human or not, begins when the chromosomes of the sperm fuse with the chromosomes of the ovum to form a new DNA complex that thenceforth directs the ontogenesis of the organism…. [T]he onset of individual life is not a dogma of the Church but a fact of science.”

Walker Percy, “A View of Abortion, With Something to Offend Everybody, ” in Jeff McMahan The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)3-4

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Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins:

“ I can’t tell you how many times women have said to me that they wouldn’t have had their abortion if only one person had encouraged them not to. Only a few kind words could have saved her baby. And you can do that, you can be that person or you can help empower a young person or someone else to do it on your behalf.”

Kristen Hawkins Courageous (Students for Life of America, 2012) 150

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Pro-Abortion organizations accuse pro-life  crisis pregnancy centers of not caring about women and using propaganda and lies to convince them to have their babies. Often, however, these centers provide real help for women. Some centers have parenting classes, job training, and daycare, and others provide maternity clothes, diapers, referrals to affordable medical care, counseling, baby items, and more, all for free. An abortion clinic will take a woman’s money, do the abortion, and sent her home to cope. In this quote, Roderick P Murphy, founder of a large crisis pregnancy center, speaks:

“We’ve saved babies by making overdue car payments and more than once we have paid for a wedding with reception, so that the baby would live. We have bought airline tickets to Africa and South America so that an abortion pressured client could go home to her family instead of aborting her baby. No life should end in because of money.”

Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) 22

 

 

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Discover magazine had a cover story called “Surgery before Birth”:

“A precise dose of anesthetic had put both the mother and the 24 week old fetus safely and limply to sleep. And now, lifting the little arm gently to rotate the 1 pound body into position, pediatric surgeon Michael Harrison poised his scalpel just under the rib cage. This astonishing intrusion on an unborn life took place on June 15, 1989; it was necessary because this tiny patient’s diaphragm had failed to close as it should have.”

Pat Ohlendorf–Moffat, “Surgery before Birth” Discover, February 1991, 59

Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)

Surgeons can now perform delicate surgery in the womb. However, babies at 24 weeks can be aborted in any state in the United States.

See pictures of babies aborted at 24 weeks.

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Pro-Choice author Joyce Arthur talks about the Center for Bio ethical Reform’s GAP demonstrations, where activists on college campus set up photographs of aborted babies. She discusses the violence that sometimes surrounds these events, when pro-choicers attack the activists or the signs. However, she does not seem to be concerned about the morality of such attacks – rather, she blames the pro-lifers for inciting them. Tacitly, she excuses the pro-choice violence and vandalism.

“… The unstated goal is apparently to anger, offend, and incite violence – then use the ensuing publicity to make pro-choicers look bad.… The GAP display also has been met with pro-choice counter protests at almost every campus where it has appeared. On at least five campuses, violence and vandalism have occurred, with students attacking the displays or GAP staff members and volunteers. At Ohio State University, about 30 protesters rushed the display in an incident that Associated Press termed a “riot”; a female student was arrested after trying to slash a poster with a knife. At the University of Kansas, an African-American student rammed the display with his truck and a female Jewish student physically assaulted a GAP staffer; both were arrested. As Cunningham vowed at one campus, “We will make an example out of lawbreakers.”

“Abortion Is Not a Form of Genocide” Joyce Arthur in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)

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Right after Roe versus Wade, Robert Hall, whose Association for the Study of Abortion has struggled so hard to make abortion legal, was asked whether or not abortion clinics would “pop up everywhere.”

“Not very likely. We’re expecting to see about a million and a half legal abortions a year – about triple the number now. But instead of being concentrated in a few states, they’ll be distributed evenly among MDs in every state – probably about 20,000 in all. That’s an average of only a couple of abortions a week per doctor – hardly a big enough figure to constitute new specialty.”

Interviewed in Charlotte L Rosenberg “The Abortion Revolution: Don’t Rush It,” Medical Economics 5 no. 5 (March 5, 1973): 31 – 45

As we know, this abortion rights activist was very, very wrong. Legalizing abortion led to a huge jump in the number of abortions being performed. It opened the floodgates and allowed many women to have abortions who wouldn’t have before.

 

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