They said it.
From a book that told the stories of postabortion women:
“… One forty-four-year-old who had 3 abortion since her 20s notes, “it was like getting 4 molars pulled. I consider that a bigger deal, because you can’t eat for like 4 weeks.”
Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: a Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 28
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“We average two or three turnarounds per day. We average about 800 saves a year just at the mobile facility.”
Pro-Lifer Chris Slattery, president of EMC Frontline.
EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers has a van equipped with ultrasound machines. Volunteers park in front of abortion clinics and attempt to reach abortion minded women.
Jaboy Rivera is one such success story. She said that she owes her child’s life to Slattery’s mobile-ultrasound unit. Scheduled for an abortion, she had a pregnancy test and ultrasound on the bus and learned that she was 15 weeks pregnant. Her boyfriend wanted her to have an abortion.
“If I wouldn’t have seen the sonogram and my baby moving, I would have done it. I thank those with the bus for not letting me do it. I give thanks that I didn’t do it.”
Tim Drake “Ultrasound Hits the Road” National Catholic Register August 28-September 10, 2011
Share on FacebookFrom pro-abortion Methodist minister John M Swomley:
“Abortions after implantation are of two kinds: one is medically induced by pill, and the other surgically induced, in each case with the request or consent of the woman. Most of us do not believe consensual medical and surgical action is violence.”
John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: The War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 81
Below: “Not violence” at 14 weeks
Ann Furedi comments on late-term abortions and women’s reluctance to get them:
“Many women, who would have few qualms about opting for a pregnancy to be terminated in its early weeks, balk at the thought of ending a life they have felt move inside them.”
Ann Furedi “A Moral Defense of Late Abortion” Spiked December 20, 2010
Ann Furedi runs the largest chain of abortion clinics in Great Britain
she mentions that abortion is “ending a life.”
Share on Facebook“The staff in this office does sacred work and though you may hope to never come back, we return each day to hear your stories, hold your hands, and ease your fears. Our lives are consumed with caring for yours. In these walls and in our hearts you are forever valued, treasured, respected and safe.”
Sign in the waiting room of Summit Women’s Center, owned by David Lipton, an abortion clinic in Connecticut
Quoted in Eleanor J Bader “40 Years after Roe V Wade, Getting an Abortion Is Still a Major Challenge” On the Issues, Winter 2013
Read about abortion’s physical and emotional consequences for women.
This is some of the abortion clinics “sacred work” at eight weeks:
and at 10 weeks:
Ann Furedi is the director of the largest chain of abortion clinics in England. Here, she defends late-term abortion:
“We believe that the delivery of an abortion procedure in the second (and even third) trimester is preferable to its denial, since the denial of abortion has consequences for a woman’s life, for the lives that are touched by hers, and for the life of the child that will be born.”
Ann Furedi “A Moral Defense of Late Abortion” Spiked December 20, 2010
Above: eight month old unborn baby
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From pro-choice writer Emma Maniere:
“After a woman told me the sound of the suction device haunts her over 30 years after her abortion, I wondered why I care so much about being pro-choice.”
EMMA MANIERE “The Feminine Critique: Why I’m Pro-Choice” The Michigan Daily JANUARY 22, 2013
Share on FacebookFrom a pro-choice activist:
“Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.
When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born….
It seems absurd to suggest that the only thing that makes us fully human is the short ride out of some lady’s vagina. That distinction may apply neatly legally, but philosophically, surely we can do better. Instead, we let right-wingers perpetuate the sentimental fiction that no one with a heart — and certainly no one who’s experienced the wondrous miracle of family life — can possibly resist tiny fingers and tiny toes growing inside a woman’s body…
If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion.”
Mary Elizabeth Williams “So What If Abortion Ends Life?” Salon January 23, 2013
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Interview with a couple that wanted to have an amniocentesis to see if their baby had Down syndrome or another problem (with the intent to abort if he did) but were afraid of the test causing a miscarriage:
“Husband: we really want this baby…
Wife:… And if it’s a healthy baby I really hate the thought of losing this person.”
Barbara Katz Rothman. The Tentative Pregnancy: How Amniocentesis Changes the Experience of Motherhood (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1993) 6
Is a disabled baby not a person?
Share on FacebookDr. Leroy Carhart, late term abortionist:
“we are going to do everything in our power to ensure that women still have an option for late-second- and the early-third-trimester abortions that are medically indicated.”
Sarah Kliff “The Abortion Evangelist” Newsweek August 31, 2009
All too often, “medically indicated” means abortions for almost any reason. Emotional health usually counts as as reason for abortions. If a woman says her pregnancy makes her anxious or depressed, that could be considered a “medically indicated” reason for abortion. At other times, there is a health problem with the baby. For example, when the baby has Down syndrome he or she will be aborted 90% of the time, often in the second or third trimester.
