Category: Quotes

Margaret Sanger: The “most urgent problem” is how to limit the “defective” from reproducing

From Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood:

“The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.”

Margaret Sanger Pivot of Civilization (New York: Maxwell Reprint Company, 1969 [originally published by Sanger in 1922]) 25

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Pro-abortion group: we are concerned about “choice”, not whether the choice is right

The pro-abortion group the Association for the Study of Abortion sent out a memo in 1972 where they came up with the term “pro-choice” to describe their movement. The memo said:

“A woman’s conscience may well tell her abortion is wrong, but she may choose (and must have the right to choose) to have one anyway for compelling practical reasons…

What we are concerned with is, to repeat, the woman’s right to choose – not with her right (or anyone else’s right) to make a judgment about whether that choice is morally illicit.”

Memorandum of the Association for the Study of Abortion, Jimmye Kimmey “Right to Choose Memorandum,” December 1972

in Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel, eds. Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2010)

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Pro-Choicer dismisses Asian immigrants

Pro-choice activist Noah Millman argued that pro-life legislation banning sex-selective abortions wasn’t needed because they weren’t happening, then contradicted himself by saying:

The problem with [the] proposal is that it’s not entirely clear there is a problem. Sex-selection abortion is a huge tragedy in parts of Asia, but to the extent it’s happening in this country, it’s mostly among Asian immigrants.

Noah Millman WHEN IS A PROBLEM NOT A PROBLEM? States News Service June 1, 2012

One wonders why Millman does not seem to think that Asian immigrants are very important.

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Pro-Lifers found 6 studies showing sex-selection abortions are happening in the US

When pro-lifers tried to pass PRENDA, the law that would have banned the abortion of babies on the sole basis of their sex, pro-choice activists managed to kill the bill. Pro-life legislators highlighted no fewer than six studies that showed that sex-selection abortions are taking place in the U.S.

This was documented in Cheryl Wetzstein “Bill to ban abortions for sex selection defeated; 246-168 vote far short of passage” The Washington Times June 1, 2012

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Pro-Choice Activist on Sex-Selection Abortions

A pro-abortion activist admits that abortions happen because the baby is a girl and the couple wants a boy:

As a movement, we need to have a social debate about the merits of abortion for sex selection in a world that not only privileges but “chooses” male babies … [T]he preference for male children is clearly alive and well domestically and abroad …

research suggests that there is indeed a cross-cultural preference for boys. It is irresponsible to promote sex selection without acknowledging the misogyny still rampant throughout our world and with no thought for what that could mean to future generations.

Pandora L. Leong “I’m Not Sorry” Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006)

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Abortion worker: Some staff working at abortion facility were “emotionally dead”

From abortion worker Judith Fetrow, who worked for Planned Parenthood:

“When I started at Planned Parenthood, I saw two types of women working at the clinic. One group were women who had found some way to deal with the emotional and spiritual toll of working with abortion. The second group were women who had closed themselves off emotionally. They were the walking wounded. You could look in their eyes, and see that they were emotionally dead. Unavailable for themselves, or for anyone else.”

“Is Abortion Good for Women” Rachel MacNair, Angela Kennedy. Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the Issue of Abortion (Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 1997) 82

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Abortion worker: “It looks like a baby”

Wendy Simonds is a pro-choice author who observed abortions and interviewed abortion workers for her book Abortion at Work. She included a chapter on how abortion workers fought against pro-lifers, who she calls “anti-choice.”

She quotes one abortion worker saying:

“It’s just- I mean it looks like a baby. It looks like a baby. And especially if you get one that comes out, that’s not piecemeal. And you know, I saw this one, and it had its fingers in its mouth…it makes me really sad that that had to happen, you know, but it doesn’t change my mind. It’s just hard. And it makes me just sort of stop and feel sad about it, the whole necessity of it. And also….it’s very warm when it comes into the sterile room because it’s been in the mother’s stomach. It feels like flesh, you know…”

“Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic” by Wendy Simonds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996

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Reporter summarizes abortion doctor’s gruesome testimony

Reporter Jo Mannies from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described a trial where abortionist Dr. Crist gave testimony about how he performed abortions.

She wrote:

“In testimony Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court, [abortionist] Crist said that it is not uncommon for second-trimester fetuses to leave the womb feet-first, intact and with their hearts still beating. He sometimes crushes their skulls to get the fetuses out. Other times, he dismembers them.”

Jo Mannies, “Abortion Doctor Gives Graphic testimony Describing Abortion Procedure,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 25, 2000

20 weeks. Many of the babies Crist aborts are this age.
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Abortionists know they end human lives, says pro-life activist

John Powell, SJ, observed:

“Then I actually began debating abortionists and found that no one ever questioned my assertion that every abortion kills an innocent human being. One doctor whom I debated simply said, “When you solve in some other way all the problems I can solve by abortions, I’ll be on your side.”…

When I realized that the doctors who perform abortions know that they are ending human lives, know that the fetus is not just a blob of protoplasm, I told myself that America is already operating on the principle of pragmatism. We have bought the idea that you can end a human life to solve a problem.”

John Powell “The Silent Holocaust” in Jeff Lane Hensley The Zero People (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1983) 9

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Abortion worker: Abortion providers “save women’s lives”

Marcy L Bloom, abortion worker at Aradia Women’s Health Center:

“I know that every day abortion providers throughout the world are saving women’s lives and helping women regain their destinies.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) xiv

Abortions are almost never needed to save women’s lives and only a tiny percentage of abortions are done for health reasons in the mother.

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