Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

Isaac Asimov said the following:

“Birth… Is only the moment you emerged from the womb. You existed as a genetically distinct individual from the moment of conception some nine months before. And you did not become an independently functioning member of society (a functional kind of birth) until you “came of age” some years after you emerged from the womb.”

Isaac Asimov “Coming Of Age” forward, and Jerry Grey, Enterprise (New York: Morrow, 1979) P7

Read scientific textbooks stating that life begins at conception.

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Commenting on the increased number of women who sought abortions after Roe versus Wade was decided,  Daniel Callahan said the following:

“A change abortion laws, from restricted to permissive, appears – from all data and in every country – to bring forward a whole class of women who would otherwise not have wanted an abortion or felt the need for one… Women can be conditioned (and are in many places) to want and feel the need for abortions. Evidence from those countries where abortion on request has been long available (Russia, Japan, Hungary for instance) shows that the subjectively felt stress that leads women to seek an abortion is socially influenced.”

Daniel Callahan, “Abortion: Thinking and Experiencing” Christianity and Crisis, January 8, 1973, 296

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s organizational documents, population control:

“[population control] is a most essential step, if not the most essential step… To solve the most critical problems of hunger, deprivation and the hopelessness of poverty, as well as deterioration of our water, land, and air.”

Schwartz “Bringing the Sexual Revolution Home: Planned Parenthood’s “Five Year Plan” America 138:6, February 18, 1978, 114 – 116

 

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The AMA’s official position on abortionists in 1871:

“There we shall discover an enemy in the camp; there we shall witness as hideous a view of moral deformity as the evil spirit could present… Men who seek not to save, but to destroy; men know not only to the profession, but to the public, as abortionists…

“Thou shalt not kill.” This commandment is given to all, and applies to all without exception… Notwithstanding all this, we see in our midst a class of men, regardless of all principal, regardless of all honor, who daily destroy that fair fabric of God’s creation; who daily pull down what he has built up; who act in antagonism to that profession of which they claim to be members…

It matters not at what stage of development his victim may have arrived – it matters not how small or how apparently insignificant it may be – it is a murder, a foul unprovoked murder; and it’s blood, like the blood of Abel, will cry from earth to heaven for vengeance…

Every practicing physician in the land (as well as every good man) has a certain amount of interest at stake in this matter… The members of the profession should form themselves into a special police to watch and to detect, and bring to justice these characters. They should shrink with horror from all intercourse with them, professionally or otherwise. These men should be marked as Cain was marked; they should be made the outcasts of society.”

American Medical Association statement on abortion, Medical Holocausts 1 (Houston, Texas: Nordland Publishing International, no date) 28 to 30 Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)

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D James Kennedy says the following:

“So many decisions for abortion are based on the “out of sight, out of mind” reasoning, not fully understanding what is really taking place or ever visualizing the child that is maturing in the sanctuary of the mother’s womb. But, through the use of a highly sophisticated microscope called a fetoscope, we can see this little baby beginning his growing adventure in life… This little fellow is only weeks old… But just a few years ago, these fiber-optic images were impossible to produce.

Note the blood vessels running under the delicate skin, the hand and the fingers. This thick, blue coiled structure is the umbilical cord. This is the child’s lifeline to the mother. This is a little boy. The ear is readily unidentifiable. It has been shown that in the later months of pregnancy the child will react to sound. There is the nose… The mouth. This little fellow can even be seen swallowing water. The eyebrows. And the eyelids are still closed.

Tragically, what you are watching is dramatic footage of preparation images for an abortion by dismemberment which abruptly ended this child’s life. I simply cannot show you the rest of this gruesome film. The visual details of this less than 8 minute procedure are inappropriate for television viewing. These scenes are excerpts from the film Eclipse of Reason… A startling look at the reality of abortion. The conclusion of that abortion procedure produced a bloody pile of rubble, destroying this young boys life.

Abortion is clearly the taking of a human life. Many have tried to dismiss the obvious scientific evidence of life’s existence from the point of conception by using an approach which is the equivalent of a theory that the Earth is flat. Through the discoveries of today’s medical science and technology, the understanding of life at conception is more vivid than ever before.”

This was a television segment.

D James Kennedy, Abortion, A Reflection on Life (Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Coral Ridge Ministries, 1989) P 4

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In Oregon, The House Judiciary Committee held an informational session on House Bill 3512, which would prohibit abortions once a pregnancy is in its 20th week, barring a medical emergency threatening the mother’s life. 

“Dr. Richard Thorne, a retired gynecologist and former president of Oregon Right to Life, testified that, under the federal Animal Welfare Act of 1966, animals enjoy more legal protection from pain than fetuses do under current federal abortion laws.

“Should animal rights trump human rights in regards to pain?” he asked the committee.”

Saul Hubbard “Panel airs anti-abortion bill” The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) April 7, 2011

Pro-Choicers vehemently fought this bill, and the bill was killed.

Read more about fetal pain

 

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Feminists for life is a pro-life feminist organization that seeks to empower women to choose life for their children. Members of Feminists for Life believe that abortion is often an easy way out for men man who impregnate women and can can escape the responsibility of parenthood, leaving the woman to deal with the emotional physical aftereffects of abortion. They  also argue that many women feel coerced into abortions by their life circumstances and are not choosing abortion freely. Finally, they believe that the legalization of abortion allows society to get by without putting policies in place to help mothers – things like availability of daycare, and and end to job discrimination against pregnant women or women with families, etc., because women are expected to simply “choose” abortion. Here are two quotes from the Feminists for Life debate handbook.

“This is not a choice between vanilla and chocolate. This is a choice like “Do you want me to break your arm, or your leg?” This is a choice that says, “Do you want to see your life derailed, see your dreams turn to ashes – or do you want to undergo humiliating, invasive operation and have your own child die?” “Do you want to sacrifice your life plans, or would you rather sacrifice your offspring?”  It’s a lousy choice. Women should not be forced into making such a choice. We should be able to keep both mother and child lives and bodies intact.”

Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 15

“If we could limit abortion to only those women who truly decided to have one, with adequate information without unfair and unjust pressures, we could cut the abortion rate dramatically.”

Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 12

Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 131

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In a trial about the partial-birth abortion ban, Judge Arnold explains why he feels that a common late-term abortion technique called D&E (dilation and evacuation) where the baby is torn apart with forceps could be mistaken for partial-birth abortion,where the baby is extracted feetfirst and then killed by plunging scissors into the skull and suctioning the brain. Judge Arnold supports the kind of abortion he is describing:

“In a D&E procedure, the physician inserts forceps into the uterus, grasps a part of the fetus, commonly an arm or a leg, and draws that part out of the uterus into the vagina. Using the traction created between the mouth of the cervix and the pull of the forceps, the physician dismembers the fetal part which has been brought into the vagina, and removes it from the woman’s body. The rest of the fetus remains in the uterus while dismemberment occurs, and is often still living…”

Richard Smith “Candor and the Court: The Supreme Court will confront as never before the violent nature of mid-and late-term abortion” America April 1, 2000

Here is the result of this type abortion at 16 weeks – keep in mind that this procedure is legal in every state of the country and is performed hundreds of times a day:

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Dr. Theresa Burke, from her book Forbidden Grief:

“Repeat abortions and replacement pregnancies are two common ways in which women reenact elements of their abortion trauma.”

Quoted in Father Frank A. Pavone “Ending Abortion: Not Just Fighting It” (New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Corp, 2006) 73

Quoted by Pavone also on page 73:

Dr. Philip Ney

“Tragedy is repeated not because we do not understand, but because we are trying to understand.”  Meaning that a woman is reliving her abortion experience trying to resolve the — a replacement child, but then realizes that the same reason she had an abortion before is still present.”

The quote is from Dr. Ney’s book Deeply Damaged.

From Dr. Pavone himself

“an underlying conflict, perhaps created by previous trauma, is unresolved.  We find we cannot resolve it by simply replaying it in our minds.  So we relive it.  This happens in many arenas of life.  The sexually abused child may become seductive; the child who lacked touch and affection may seek an emotionally cold partner, and so forth.  We repeat what we don’t understand, in the hopes of mastering it.

Repeat abortions can be repulsive even to people who call themselves “pro-choice” and even to those who work in abortion mills.  Sometimes the reaction is exasperated, indignant, “How could she do that??!!”  But we should change the question and ask instead, “How can I help you to heal?”  That question expresses the heart of the pro-life movement, a movement that knows that the destiny of mother and child are forever intertwined and that we can’t love one without loving the other.”

Read what abortion providers have to say about women who have repeat abortions here.

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One pro-life columnist says:

“… [Pro-choicers] cannot look at their handiwork or the handiwork they defend. Across the country, they shrink from photos of the babies killed in abortions. Through their mighty political groups, the pro-abortionists compel TV stations to refuse advertisements showing partial birth and other abortion artifacts. They will not even allow viewers (or themselves, I suspect) to see what their policies have wrought. They are, at least to my mind, like the Germans who refuse to think about what was happening in Dachau and then vomited when they saw – and never wanted to see again.”

Jewish columnist Ben Stein in the May 1998 issue of American Spectator magazine

Gregg Cunningham “Abortion Is a Form of Genocide” in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)

 

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