Category: Quotes

Preborn baby has hormonal response to pain

In the book Post-Abortion Syndrome: Its Wide Ramifications Peter Doherty writes:

“That the fetus exhibits a stress response to invasive stimuli is shown by a study from Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, in which Professor Fisk and his colleagues presented their findings of a hormonal response in the fetal plasma following intrauterine needling…

[I]t is highly suggestive in that a similar hormonal response is mounted by older children and adults to stimuli which they find painful.”

Peter Doherty “Introduction” Peter Doherty, ed. Post-Abortion Syndrome: Its Wide Ramifications (Dublin, Ireland: Four CourtsPress, 1995) 11

Doherty cites the following study:

Giannakoulopoulos, et al., “Fetal Plasma Cortisol and Endorphin Response to Antruteine Needling” Lancet, vol. 344, July 9, 1994

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Pro-Choice Writer: Hyde Amendment Causes One Fourth of Abortion-Minded Women to Give Birth

Pro-Abortion writer Carole Joffe wrote about the Hyde Amendment:

“Researchers estimate that in the thirty-two states where Medicaid funds are banned for abortions, approximately one-fourth of Medicaid recipients who would have had abortions if subsidized gave birth instead.”

CAROLE JOFFE “Roe v. Wade and Beyond: Forty Years of Legal Abortion in the United States” DISSENT WINTER 2013

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Christian Pastor pressures niece into abortion

From pro-life author and speaker Karen B Stevenson, MD, M.Div.:

“One pastor admitted that she pressured her niece to have an abortion in order to “save face” in her religious community.”

Karen B Stevenson, MD, M.Div. Heart Cries & Healing: The Black Church, the Black Woman, and Healing the Hidden Pain of Abortion (Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., 2017) 37

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Pro-choice author admits abortion is “killing and dying process”

Pro-choice author Laurie Shrage, describing late-term abortion:

“dismemberment, craniotomy, or the injection of a chemical that causes cardiac arrest, whereas abortion in the first trimester involves a less physically violent killing and dying process.”

Lauri Shrage Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) 57

This pro-choice activist admits that abortion, even early abortion, causes a “killing and dying process.” She is under no illusions that abortion kills.

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Pro-abortion author: “there is no such thing as a baby”

Pro-Choice author Robert D Goldstein, who believes that infants after birth aren’t people, says in his book:

“To repeat, there is no such thing as a baby, there is only a dyadic mother – infant unit.”

Robert D Goldstein Mother – Love and Abortion: A Legal Interpretation (Berkeley, California: University Of California Press, 1988) 47

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Pro-choice authors compares early abortion to removing a wart

Pro-choice authors Jules Saltman and Stanley Zimbering write:

“In the earliest days of the existence of an impregnated egg, getting rid of it may be as simple as removing a wart from the side of the nose.”

Jules Saltman and Stanley Zimbering Abortion Today (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas Publisher, 1973) 15

There is no such thing as an “impregnated egg,” any more than there is such a thing as a “fertilized sperm.” The accurate term for a new human life just implanted in the womb is “embryo.”

Before this, the new human being is called a “zygote.” Calling an embryo an impregnated egg (or fertilized egg) is an attempt to muddy the waters and is scientifically inaccurate.

Although an early embryo may not yet look like a baby, the embryo is still a human being in a very early stage of development.

Life begins at conception.

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Pro-choice activist describes the effect of ultrasound on pregnant couples

Pro-choice author Lisa M Mitchell writes:

“For some parents, the ability to see fetal parts [in the ultrasound] – especially the beating heart – and to see the fetus sucking its thumb, kicking, excreting, and responding to external stimuli may demonstrate that the fetus is aware of its surroundings and has the potential for or actually possesses distinctive human consciousness and personhood.”

Lisa M Mitchell Baby’s First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects (Toronto: University of Toronto Press Inc., 2001) 6

Mitchell laments this fact throughout the book.

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Pro-Choice man says pregnancy turns a woman into a “broodmare”

Pro-choice activist Donald Regan:

“Pregnancy is painful. It involves a significant risk of death. It represents an intrusion into the most intimate parts of the woman’s body… Laws forbidding abortion involve the requisitioning of the woman’s body by the state… [The woman is] relegated to the status of a broodmare (for this is how the pregnant woman may well view the matter) by society at large.”

Many women would disagree with this man about pregnancy. This pro-choice activist, who is presenting pregnancy as a terrible violation, is not writing from any kind of experience.

Billions of women worldwide are or were mothers, and many of them embraced pregnancy.

Donald H Regan “Rewriting Roe V Wade” Michigan Law Review 77, no. 7 (1979): 1616 – 1617

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Woman calls her aborted baby a “magical little being”

A woman named Isa who had an abortion by pill said:

“It’s not a heartless decision at all. Some people say it’s just cells — it’s still definitely a magical little being.”

The article about Isa says:

“Isa said she had “baby fever” up until the time she would have given birth. Even so, she doesn’t regret her decision because she feels her baby’s spirit is still with her all the time. She said in a way she considers herself a mother and she believes her baby is at peace and is not angry with her.”

Isa says:

“My conversations with women about their abortions have been some of the most connective and beautiful conversations I’ve had.”

MAGGIE QUINLAN and RACHEL SUN “You Know Her: Six Pullman women tell their abortion stories” The Daily Evergreen May 23, 2019

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Pregnancy center worker tells of teen’s reaction to seeing her baby

A pregnancy center worker wrote:

“I’ll never forget the 15-year-old girl who, upon seeing her child’s ultrasound image, started crying. When asked why she was crying she said, ‘Everyone lied to me. They told me that I just had a blob of tissue and so it was no big deal. You are the ones telling the truth!’”

Cindi Adair of LifeLine Pregnancy Center in Wilmington, N.C.

Kirk Walden “They told me I just had a blob of tissue. You are the ones telling the truth!” Pregnancy Help News 10 March, 2015

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