They said it.
The Red River Women’s (abortion) Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota encourages women were told to express their feelings by writing in journals. Time magazine said they:
“write about nonsupportive husbands and boyfriends and ask God for forgiveness.”
Kate Pickett “What Choice?” Time, January 14, 2013
Quoted in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition
Share on FacebookA 1943 Planned Parenthood list of goals included:
“Foster selective pregnancy… and… seek to offer the eugenically unsound means to avoid bringing offspring into the world who would become social liabilities.”
Another outline in 1945 read:
“The weak and defective compose an alarming proportion of our present population… [The solution is] providing reliable contraceptive advice for those who, because of disease, defective, or deficiency, are unfitting to bear children.”
Robert Marshall, Charles Donovan Blessed Are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991) 280
Quoted in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition
Share on FacebookFeminist Dorchen Leidholt:
“Sexually liberal men support abortion for women not because they want women to be able to control their bodies because they know that unrestricted abortions heighten women’s availability to men for sex.”
Dorchen Leidholt, Introduction, The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (Pergamon Press, 1990) xv cited in René Denfield The New Victorians: A Young Woman’s Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
Quoted in: Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition
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Pro-Choice feminist Catherine McKinnon:
“[Abortion] does not liberate women; it frees male sexual aggression. The availability of abortion removes the one remaining legitimized reason women have had for refusing sex besides the headache.… The Playboy foundation has supported abortion rights from day one.”
Catherine McKinnon Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (Pres. and Fellows of Harvard College, 1987) 99
Share on FacebookFormer abortionist Bernard Nathanson:
There is simply no doubt that even the early embryo is a human being. All its genetic coding and all its features are indisputably human. As to being, there is no doubt that it exists, is alive, is self-directed, and is not the the same being as the mother–and is therefore a unified whole.
Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D., The Hand of God (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1996), 131.
Share on Facebook“That was probably the most disappointing thing about training residents [to do abortions]. You know, for what? To do nothing? I mean, they obviously would refer [their abortion] patients, and they would take good care of their patients, both pre-and post care. But, you know, it was disappointing to not have them have the guts to stand up and say, “I’m going to do it.”
Dr. Davis Chasey, retired founder and director of an abortion clinic, on how few of the residents he trained in abortion procedures went on to perform abortions
Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010)
Apparently, many medical students and residents trained to do abortions choose not to do them when they got their medical license and actually set up practice. Elsewhere in the same book, Friedman says that many people boycott OBGYNS who do abortions, so it is become a situation where what a doctor starts doing abortions, he generally ends up doing nothing but abortions. Partners don’t want a doctor who does abortions in their office, hospitals don’t want a doctor who does abortions among their staff, Prolifers picket and mobilize against abortionists, and the abortion procedures themselves are gruesome and emotionally difficult.
Share on FacebookFrom a resident who was in training to become an abortionist, but decided against performing abortions as a career:
“When I started residency, I was open to the possibility of providing terminations. I was and remain uncertain about when life begins… Increasingly, I have found myself caught up in an endless array of rhetorical questions. Is there not a more profound difference between 10 and 20 weeks than between 20 and 30? If my first task as a physician is to do no harm, how can I justify harming a fetus? I do not pretend to know the answers to these questions, but given what I perceived to be an abyss of ambiguity, I chose not to provide elective terminations…
Discussions with co-residents have helped me consider the individual woman who has the courage to request an abortion. Since opting out, I have realized that my line of thinking has been feto-centric at best and over-intellectualized at worst. Nonetheless, in the absence of a clear moral understanding of abortion, I can only do no harm.”
Singer, Janet MSN, CNM; Fiascone, Stephen MD; Huber, Warren J. III MD, PhD; Hunter, Tiffany C. MD; Sperling, Jeffrey MD, MS “Four Residents’ Narratives on Abortion Training: A Residency Climate of Reflection, Support, and Mutual Respect” Obstetrics & Gynecology: July 2015 – Volume 126 – Issue 1 – p 56–60
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“Rarely do girls come out of there happy. The majority of them come out of the clinic crying and upset. They even have a hard time walking.”
Sidewalk counselor Vicki Klein on the women who come out of the clinic after their abortions.
LINDSEY FRECHOU “The Sidewalk” Live Action News MAY 22, 2012
Share on FacebookFrom one woman who had an abortion:
“I did feel feminists were and are minimizing the sad feelings of having an abortion. Even though mine did not last, they were intense and deserved to be respected – or given attention.”.…
Two years after the abortion, she says, “I wish someone had told me that I would think about it, that I would wonder what that child would’ve looked like, been like.”
It seems like her feelings may have lasted longer than she wants to admit. It’s telling that her fellow “feminists” didn’t want to acknowledge negative feelings about abortion.
Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997)
Share on Facebook“[The pro-abortion groups] are dead. There is nothing going on. The only time we see them is when they are reacting to a Students for Life event.”
Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students for Life of America, describing how pro-abortion groups are not very active on most campuses
Kathleen Gilbert “NARAL head: ‘intensity gap’ between pro-lifers and pro-aborts could threaten future of abortion” LifeSiteNews May 14, 2012
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