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Saying women should abstain unless they want children is “violence” says minister

From pro-choice Methodist Minister John M Swomley:

“There is also covert violence in the idea that women should not have sexual intercourse if they don’t want children. An act of sexual intercourse is not an implied contract to have children. While this may be the belief of those who accept the doctrine that every sexual act must be open to procreation, it would be violent for any government to decide that such a sectarian doctrine should be enforced against anyone, Catholic or non-Catholic, who does not accept that teaching.”

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: The War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 58

Suggesting a woman shouldn’t have sex is violence, but abortion is not? Look at the picture of an aborted baby (first trimester) below and ask yourself if a suggestion of abstinence is more violent than abortion.

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Abortionist practices “emotional distancing”

One abortionist says:

“In order to be attentive, focused, and disciplined, there is an emotional distancing. You cannot allow your own emotional vulnerability to get in the way of your own judgment and attention when you’re in the midst of the surgical procedure.”

Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: a Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 56

it is not surprising that an abortion provider would need to distance herself. After all, they see the torn apart arms and legs of babies (like the one below) during these procedures.

9 to 10 week (first trimester) unborn baby

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Planned Parenthood board member wants to charge families for excess children

Lawrence McKinney, at the time Planned Parenthood board member in upstate New York, said the following upon seeing a large family:

“All I do actually is to multiply them by $600, which is deductible from their income tax and realize that I, with only three children, am paying for them. The McKinney suggestion, which has and will go nowhere is: 1) give everybody a tax reduction for four children and after that make them pay $600 for every other child. The only trouble with my system is that since most of the explosive families are on relief anyway, there is nothing to deduct from or to tax with.”

Mary C Kahl Controversy and Courage: Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood from 1934 to 2004 (New York: IUniverse, Inc., 2004) 43

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Abortion justified by original sin?

Methodist minister John M Swomley who we’ve heard from before, disputes the belief that unborn babies are “innocent” and should not be killed:

“The first claim is that society should protect innocent human life that is unable to protect itself. The term “innocent,” originally used by various popes, refers to fetal life which has committed no sin. Yet the Roman Catholic Church has proclaimed only one person, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as having an immaculate conception and hence free from original sin. In any event, public policy cannot be founded on theological claims to innocence.

There is another meaning of “innocence” which comes from two Latin words, in (not) and nocere (to harm), and therefore means “not harmful or dangerous.” However, it is precisely the fact that some pregnant women (and their physicians) view the fetus as harmful or threatening to their health or welfare and hence leads them to consider abortion.”

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 14

Tiny remains of a baby aborted at 7 weeks

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Abortionist feels nothing for “child who does not exist”

Dr. Howard I Diamond, abortionist, when asked about abortionists who feel guilt:

“Why should they feel that way? Cultural – it’s all cultural. Like eating snake meat. If you tell yourself it’s disgusting, you’ll get sick….If I feel anything, I feel gratified. Abortion is much more important than the life of a child that doesn’t exist. When I saw how simple a procedure it was, I thought what a crime that women have suffered and gone down in shame. A fetus is nothing! The talk about abortion doesn’t touch on the reality of what goes on out there. It doesn’t touch on the 16-year-old whose mother took away her birth control pills because she did poorly on her examinations, does it?”

Norma Rosen “Between Guilt and Gratification: Abortion Doctors Reveal Their Feelings” New York Times April 17, 1977

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Postabortion woman: feminists minimize negative feelings after abortions

From 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)

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Kristan Hawkins, Students for Life director, on campus pro-choice groups

“[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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Pro-choice group: photos of aborted babies are “hilarious”

“Warning: lots of fake blood and phoney [sic] photos — if you can’t stomach Grade B horror movies, don’t go there. Otherwise, it’s hilarious!”

Pro-choice students at the Tennessee college MTSU on the Genocide Awareness Campaign. which displays photos of aborted babies on college campuses.

Tennessee Guerilla Women “Pro-Choice MTSU Students Stand Up for Abortion Rights in Tennessee” September 11, 2007

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Methodist pastor: caring about the unborn is “idolatry”

“Opponents of abortion in America have attributed to fetal life a sacredness that is actually idolatry… Fetal idolatry denies a woman’s right to control her body, her life, her destiny, all of which must be sacrificed to an embryo or fetus once she is pregnant…

Fetal idolatry shows no mercy. … One of the major critiques of idolatry about unborn life is its lack of concern for the abundant or purposeful life to which all of us should be called. No one of us should be an unwanted child or have to experience emotional abandonment or lack of compassion and love in childhood.”

Minister John M Swomley

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 78

Swomley is an ordained United Methodist minister, from 1960 to 1984 he was professor of Christian Ethics at St. Paul’s school of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. He’s also president of Americans for Religious Liberty and a longtime board member and sometimes vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union and chair of Church – State committee (at the time this book was written)

Is caring about unborn babies like the one below “idolatry?”

Are prolifers without mercy? what about the unborn baby’s right to live? Does that matter?

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi foe, on abortion

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who spoke out against the Nazis and was executed by Hitler:

“Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics, 175 – 176

Quoted in

Peter Barnes “The Silent Holocaust” The Banner of Truth Trust, in Free Grace Broadcaster – Issue 220 – Abortion Ezekiel Hopkins

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