Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

“… The struggle facing this branch of medicine [providing abortions] is most evident in the enormous difficulty many facilities have in finding an adequate supply of abortion providers. At the NAF [National Abortion Federation] meeting, some clinic administrators told of being able to offer abortion services only every other week. Other administrators recounted how they are forced to fly in physicians from halfway across the country in order to hold regular clinics. The director of one clinic related to colleagues that she recently sent out letters of inquiry to every single graduating resident of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) programs across the country and received no replies.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) page 3

In the following article: Paige Comstock Cunningham, Esq. “The Supreme Court and the creation of the two-dimensional woman” in Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion” (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) 107-108

Pro-choice feminist Caroline Whitbeck called abortion “a grim operation,”

“The literature of abortion shows that many people are readily able to imagine themselves in the place of the fetus but not in the place of the pregnant woman, but if one is able to look at the matter from the perspective of the pregnant woman, it becomes clear how much violence is done to the woman by abortion, and therefore that the woman self-interest would lead her to avoid [unwanted pregnancy and] abortion if she had other options generally available.”

Caroline Whitebeck “Taking Women Seriously As People” in the Abortion Controversy: 25 Years after Roe Versus Wade editor Lewis P Pojman and Francis J Beckwith (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998) 434

“I have interviewed abortion clinic workers who say that no abortions occur before six weeks, and most do not occur until the baby’s eighth week of development. Even when pregnancies are detected earlier, operators want to make sure the unborn is large enough to do a proper inventory of his severed body parts. (A hand or leg inadvertently left in the mother will cause a dangerous infection.)”

Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)page 67

Now that RU-486 is available, abortions can be done anytime after a woman finds out she’s pregnant. Most abortions, however, are still done surgically.

For more information on when abortions are performed, go here.

“Every woman I have seen who has had a termination has a difficult time subsequently. They have a grief process and sorting out time to go through. It certainly doesn’t leave them unmarked and I have never met a woman who has had one who would want to go through it again of her own free will.”

— Dr CHRISTINE FORSTER, Chairwoman, NZ Abortion Supervisory Committee, 1994-2001

Sunday-Star Times, 28 April 1996

In his book about abortion, Randy Alcorn tells the following story:

“A pro-life speaker was detained by police for carrying with him the preserved body of an aborted baby. He was told it was illegal to transport human remains across state lines without special permission. When he realized that this meant the state would have to argue in court that the bodies of aborted babies are in fact human remains, he welcomed prosecution! The state dropped the charges. Though they knew these were human remains, how could a state the defends and funds abortions publicly admit – much less attempt to prove – that abortion kills human beings?”

Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 97

Shortly after Roe versus Wade, the director of NARAL, an organization which was pivotal in legalizing abortion, said the following:

“Before you know it this will be past history and abortion will just be another medical procedure. People will forget about the whole thing.”

Obviously, NARAL underestimated the strength and conviction of the pro-life movement.

Rubin, Eva R., editor “The Abortion Controversy: a Documentary History” (Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994) 147, Quoted by Karen O’Connor in “No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes (Boulder Colorado: Westview Press, 1996) 63

Was Hitler pro-choice? Pro-abortion groups have often said that Hitler opposed abortion, because he encouraged Aryan women to have as many children as possible and forbade abortion for most Germans. However, Hitler was aware that legalized abortion was an excellent tool for weeding out undesirable races. According to a private conversation, Hitler said:

“If any such idiot tried to put into practice such an order [forbidding abortion] in the occupied Eastern territories, he would personally shoot him. In view of the large families of the native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. Active trade in contraceptives ought to be actually encouraged in the Eastern territories, as we could not possibly have the slightest interest in increasing the non-German population.”

Quoted from a table conversation with Hitler on 22 July 1942

Clarissa Henry and Marc Hillel. Of Pure Blood, translator Eric Mossbacher (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976) 148. Quoted by James Tunstead Burtechaell

Pro-choice author Linda Bird Francke interviewed a large number of postabortion women and couples said came to the following conclusion:

“The most critical factor in the decision to abort… is the relationship with a male partner.”

Linda bird Francke, The Ambivalence of Abortion (New York: Random House, 1978) 47 Quoted in James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982)

for more information on coerced abortions, go here.