Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

When discussing abortion, many journalists act as though they don’t know whether an unborn baby/fetus is a human being, or whether abortion is murder. In some cases, they blatantly deny the humanity of the unborn child. But sometimes, in stories that are about babies but not about abortion, they let slip that they really know exactly what a “fetus” is.

A Time magazine article arguing against drug use during pregnancy says:

“Courts will never be able to ensure real protection to an unborn child. That will have to come from mothers who take responsibility for the lives they carry within them.”

Barbara Cornell, “Do the Unborn Have Rights?” Time, Special Fall Edition, 1990, 23

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

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Philip Ney developed a therapeutic treatment program called Hope Alive: Postabortion And Abuse Treatment, an inpatient program:

he says:

“People who have had an abortion are more likely to abuse their children and people who have been abused are more likely to have an abortion… Abortion results in more postpartum depression and therefore less bonding, less touching and less breast-feeding… It should be noted that one of the earliest arguments was that aborting unwanted children would diminish the incidence of child abuse. Statistics show precisely the opposite; that is, with more frequent abortions, all kinds of child abuse have increased.”

He added

“Child mistreatment and abortion are both cause-and-effect, one of the other. Abortion also runs in families, with mothers and grandmothers for three to four generations having had abortions often for the same reasons.”

Ney P, Peeters A. Hope alive: Postabortion And Abuse Treatment. A Training Manual for Therapists “Victoria, British Columbia: Pioneer Publishing, 1993)

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While many pro-choice activists have bemoaned the shortage of abortion providers, one abortionist thinks that new abortionists will step up to the plate after the present ones retire:

“Managed care is such a bad system, many physicians will get fed up with it. This is a cash business, and doctors can make as much doing this as in family practice. I just don’t think there’s ever going to be a shortage of providers.”

Dr. Tom Tvedten

“4 abortion providers in state refuse to let threats dictate practices Doctors face peril, continue work: Physicians perform procedure despite decades of violent opposition”Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) March 27, 2001

Abortion is very profitable for doctors. Working only a few hours a day, they can make as much money as they can with an ordinary career as a doctor.

Learn more about money and abortion here

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The 1871 statement of the American Medical Association (AMA) on abortionists defined them as

“Men who cling to a noble profession only to dishonor it. … false brethren … educated assassins, these modern Herods … These men who, with corrupt hearts and blood-stained hands, destroy what they cannot reinstate, corrupt souls, and destroy the fairest fabric that God has ever created … under the cloak of that medical profession … monsters of iniquity.”

Quoted in William Brennan, Ph.D. “The A.M.A. on Abortion: Anatomy of Contrasting Policy Statements.” The National Pro-Life Journal, Fall 1980. Pro-Life Publications, Inc, pages 16 and 17.

Now, of course, the American Medical Association supports abortion.

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A feminist who opposes prostitution speaks out on abortion:

“Women are still big business for men. Abortion now provides a new multimillion-dollar business in another kind of feminine prostitution. In the first form of prostitution women are paid by men. But when women prostitute themselves to what is called the “baby scrambler,” the suction machine for abortion, they give the money to men more often than not … If women were not so intellectually passive, they would be able to see through this so-called ‘liberation.'”

Anti-prostitution activist Mary Rosera Joyce. “The Sexual Revolution Has Yet to Begin.” In Thomas J. Hilgers and Dennis J. Horan (editors), Abortion and Social Justice. Thaxton, Virginia: Sun Life Publishers, 1980. Pages 224 and 225.

Read about abortion’s harmful effects on women here

 

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Feminist Daphne de Jong on abortion:

“If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic or social status, they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. Of all the things which are done to women to fit them into a society dominated by men, abortion is the most violent invasion of their physical and psychic integrity. It is a deeper and more destructive assault than rape …”

Daphne de Jong. “The Feminist Sell-Out.” New Zealand Listener, January 14, 1978, page 18.

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Under current US law, an unborn baby only becomes a person when he or she is born. Traveling down the birth canal a few inches means the difference between murder and simply a medical procedure. One pro-life activist makes the following argument:

“Recently, in San Francisco, an unborn child was partially removed from the womb in order to have a renal tract obstruction repaired. After the surgery, the child was replaced in the womb to continue the pregnancy. Was this a person while out of the womb and then a nonperson again when back inside? Or, since the procedure involves the removal of the lower half of the body from the womb, did the child achieve personhood for its buttocks but not for its brain? These are the scientific anomalies of the Supreme Court’s decision. No wonder [former Supreme Court] Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has said that Roe versus Wade is on a collision course with itself.”

Eugene F Diamond, “an Open Letter to the Open-Minded” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly volume 27, Winter 2004

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A woman who became an abortion activist explains why she got involved:

“They were out where you could see them, and you just [sighs and stutters]… I saw a lot of people who had abortions, and they said, this is what happened, this is what I killed. It was a very emotional experience for a lot of them… What I really saw was a lot of hurting people… I mean, the mothers is what really got me. When I saw all these women who were going through postabortion syndrome, and then most people don’t even recognize it is a real disease. I saw people that were really hurting and millions and millions upon millions more were doing this over and over… Seeing the babies – that made an impression on me that will probably stay with me forever – but I don’t think that was it. I guess a lot of it was hearing people stories… I was opened up to just really what abortion was doing to people. Especially to the mothers. So I decided that something needed to be done.”

She became involved in the Rescue movement, a movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s where large groups of pro-life protesters blocked abortion clinics in an attempt to prevent women from entering them and having abortions.

“When I go to a rescue, I’m trying to save people from hurt, trying to keep people from ruining their lives… I don’t think people know what the abortion is going to do to their child’s life and to their life. And to show them that they are valuable. Because people just do not feel valuable… When I see the women coming in. They’re thinking, “What about me? The most important thing is what situation I’m in, people aren’t going to help me, people aren’t going to love me. I’m going to be abandoned.” That’s really the first place to start. From there you can help the baby… It is a family problem, a social problem that can only be solved by dealing with the whole family… Not just to help the mother, but to help the whole family. Because if she’s going to keep that child, and if I don’t have a healthy mother, the child not going to feel good about themselves either. So by helping her, then I can help everybody.”

Carol JC Maxwell. Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning Motivation and Direct Action. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) 140 -143

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Feminist GERMAINE GREER:

“So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.”

GERMAINE GREER, Sex and Destiny 

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