“Women who have abortions are good women. Abortion, when desired by a woman, is a good procedure. Abortion itself holds no moral weigh except in the context of its usage. Therefore, in order to change to stories in our heads we must resist forces that tell us that abortion as a procedure is bad, shameful, or not to be supported…Each and every one of us needs to stop apologizing for abortion. ”
Mary Ann Sorrentino, was was the director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island for ten years, admits that “the hard cases” of abortion- rape, incest, health risk to the mother or handicap in the child, are rare.
14 weeks. Legal to abort in every US state
“I have never chosen to base my defense of abortion rights on that tragic group often referred to as “victims (or survivors) of rape and incest.” Of course I believe they should have access to abortions, but the number of patients coming forward for these reasons has always been such a small percentage of the total number of terminations performed, that its statistical and logistical significance is not so much influential, as tragic and dramatic.
Women whose health and lives are threatened by a pregnancy are also a small number, fortunately. …. It is important to reinforce the notion that a woman’s right to have or not have a child is important, personal, and valid, however the pregnancy came to be.…
The sperm donor is in most cases a boyfriend, fiancé, or husband. Less often, there are cases where a married woman has conceived outside her marriage, or where single women have been taken advantage of by rapists or pimps. Older men out for a good time may impregnate minors, and teen pregnancies sometimes result from incest and rape. But none of these groups, taken individually, are of statistical significance.
The facts always have been and still are, that most often, women seeking abortions come from a less dramatic and more average group and is often described by well-meaning advocates trying to make a case for legalized pregnancy terminations….
In some ways, the pro-choice movement has caved into the pressure from its opponents by basing its defense of all women’s reproductive rights on the backs of those few in the most dramatic circumstance.”
Mary Ann Sorrentino. The A Word: Abortion: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom (Great Barrington, MA: Gadd & Company Publishers, 2006) 4 – 6
The man involved is not a father. he is a “sperm donor.”
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Melaney Linton, who was chosen to oversee Planned Parenthood Gulf coast, on his “sacred duty” to promote abortion:
“I am honored and humbled to be entrusted with such a sacred duty…I pledge to do everything in my power to fight back against the ideological attacks on Planned Parenthood and women, so that no teen will ever say she didn’t know how she got pregnant, no one will ever be denied basic reproductive health care, and no woman will ever be forced to bear children she cannot adequately support.”
As of 2012, Linton managed 13 abortion and abortion-referring centers in Southeast Texas and Louisiana, as well as the largest abortion clinic in America, located in Houston, Texas.
LifeNews adds:
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast alone performed over 12,000 abortions in 2010 and banked over $17 million – 49 percent of which came from taxpayer dollars. Linton will succeed Peter Durkin, who earned over $200,000 in 2010 by performing this “sacred duty.
Pro-choice writer Katie Stack encourages women to speak out about their abortions (and thus eliminate “stigma”) but they should only tell their stories if they are positive ones:
“On the one hand, I have urged women to remain true to their own feelings. On the other, I have understood that the tone of our narratives could hold political consequences. For so long the rhetoric of the pro-choice Democrat’s position has focused on “safe, legal and rare” – with the “rare” reinforcing the idea that abortion, though permissible, should be shameful and undesirable. Nobody wantsto have an abortion, after all.”
Diagram of partial birth abortion, the abortion Dr. Weiss is describing
Dr. Gerson Weiss, abortionist, on what he tells women before he does an abortion:
THE COURT: Do you tell them that you are going to use a suction device and suck the brain out of the baby?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
THE COURT: You use simple words and tell them that?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
Dr. Gerson Weiss, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 7, 2004
Partial birth abortions are now illegal, but current methods of abortion, like the D&E method, are even more brutal.
“She was raped. I’m very sympathetic, but I can’t risk my medical license for someone who just didn’t get around to doing anything about it. I’ve done some cases over thirty-six weeks, but very few.”
Late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern, on how he refused to do an abortion on a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy
Note that his fear of losing his license is the main concern. He does not seem to have any moral qualms about doing an abortion in the days right before birth, and, in fact admits that he has done them.
An article in the Wall Street Journal describes how some Indian couples are committing infanticide of baby girls, actually killing them outside the womb, rather than screening their pregnancies and getting sex selection abortions.
“In poor and backward places such as Bihar, however, where sonograms are still a rarity, it’s cheaper to kill a newborn girl that to travel to a city and pay for a gender test and an abortion. And Bihar’s gender rate is among the most lopsided in the country. The 1991 census in Bihar showed 912 women for every thousand men, down from 1054 women in 1901. In the district where Dewa is located, the ratio in 1991 was 819 women to 1000 men.
In some pockets of Bihar and Rajasthan, another poor state, the female to male ratio is a meager 600 to 1000. Last August, one village in Rajasthan witnessed its first Hindu wedding procession to a bride’s home in 110 years, because no other girl had been allowed to survive. ”
Miriam Jordan “Brief Lives” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2000
An article in Salon magazine reveals that women seeking late term abortions are often wealthier than those who have early abortions.
“If they’re having abortions after 16 weeks, they tend to be slightly more affluent.This was a slightly surprising finding of the study – that “women with family incomes 200-plus-percent of poverty were more likely than poor women to be second trimester abortion patients obtaining abortions at 16-plus weeks.”
Herald Sun writer Evelyn Tsitas mocks women who grieve or suffer from guilt and regret after their abortions:
“Abortion can be an emotional subject – particularly for people who choose to get upset about it. There is a movement taking hold called: “I’ll always regret what I did and want to burn in hell for it.”
“The power of the uterus,” the Herald Sun, March 18, 1998, 19
Despite pro-choice mockery of women who experience abortions and later come to regret them, many women have stepped forward to give their testimonies of how abortion hurt them. There are a few of these testimonies here. Organizations like Silent No More have compiled thousands of them.
