Category: Miscellaneous Quotes

“I have been practicing medicine for nearly 50 years and have delivered babies on three continents, and never once has a woman said to me “Doctor, how is my fetus doing?”

Dr. Hymie Goldberg (Deceased), Director of The Department of Medical Genetics at the Mayo Clinic for 2 decades and later chairman of the Human Rights and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, on why he avoids use of the word “fetus.”

Phil Greenberg “To Life: A Collection of Editorials & Columns on Abortion, Life, and Choice” (Little Rock, Arkansas: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 1999) p 82

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From a column in The National Review:

“The campaign against partial birth abortion has revealed that the public’s moral sentiments, if not always its moral reasoning, remain healthy. It has revealed something, too, about the politicians, the writers, the judges, who support abortion on demand. They have watched a baby, partly out of the womb, have her skull punctured and her brains sucked out. They have been asked, “Must even this be tolerated?” and they have looked at this grisly scene and answered “yes. Even this.” The logic of abortion is merciless.”

“Ruling Without Mercy” The National Review, June 28, 2000

to read a first-hand account of a partial birth abortion, go here.

 

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Pro-choice author Janet Hadley says the following about the activists that originally campaigned to make and keep abortion legal:

“… some of the original campaigners for legalizing abortion advocated it as a potential tool for maintaining the social order. To put it bluntly, they urged society to adopt such measures not for the sake of the women themselves, but, crudely, to curb births among women in the “underclass”… Not surprisingly, there are times when doctors or social workers, in the belief that they know what’s best, push such women towards abortion. “

Janet Hadley “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press) 1996 p 88

 

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From an article by a doctor (Hanes Swingle) who takes care of women with high risk pregnancies:

“As a neonatalist who has cared for numerous spontaneously aborted and a few intentionally aborted fetuses in the past 20 years, I now realize that the difference between a fetus and a premature infant is a social distinction, not a biological and. If it is wanted, it is a baby: it is not wanted, it is a fetus.”

Hanes Swingle “A Doctor’s Grisly Experience With Abortion” the Washington Times, July 23, 2003 page a 18

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Pro-abortion former President of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Alan Guttmacher said:

“We find that when an abortion is easily obtainable, contraception is neither actively nor diligently used. . . there would be no reward for the woman who practices effective contraception. . . . Abortion on demand relieves the husband of all possible responsibility; he simply becomes a coital animal.”

According to studies, roughly half of all women who have abortions were not using birth control when they got pregnant.

Symposium, 27 March 1968,- “Rutgers Law Review,” vol. 22, 415-43.

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“Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no laws prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young, say, those less than 14 years.”

Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgeson

Statement made at the May 28, 1980 National Abortion Federation conference in Washington DC. Quoted In American Life League’s Abortion Encyclopedia

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The support of abortion between Republicans versus Democrats:

— If the life/health of the woman is in jeopardy abortion is approved by 90% of Democrats and 90% of Republicans

— If the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest abortion is approved of by 82% of Democrats and 82% of Republicans

— If the woman has low income are cannot afford more children abortion is approved by 48% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans

— If a woman is not married abortion is approved of by 44% of Democrats and 43% of Republicans

— Abortion for any reason is approved of by 40% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans

As you can see, 60% of Democrats support some restrictions on abortion. The margin between rank-and-file Republicans and rank-and-file Democrats on abortion is much narrower than many people think. If you’re pro-life Democrat, or at least a Democrat who feels there should be some restrictions on abortion, you’re in good company.

James A. Davis, Tom W. Smith, and Peter V. Marsden “General Social Surveys, 1972 2004 (Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, 2008)

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