Category: Quotes

Geneticist testifies about when life begins

The late Dr. Jerome Lejeune, one of the world’s foremost authorities in genetics and discoverer of the cause of Down’s Syndrome, testified in the Municipal Court at Morris County, New Jersey, on April 13, 1991:

“Each of us has a very unique beginning, which is at the moment that all the information necessary and sufficient to be that particular human being, which we will call later Peter or Margaret, depending on its own genetic make-up, when this whole necessary and sufficient information is gathered. And we now know from experience both in animals and now in human beings, that this moment is exactly the moment at which the head of the sperm having penetrated inside the ovum, then the information carried by the father encounter[s] in the same recipient cell, the information carried or transmitted by the mother; so that suddenly a new constitution is spelled out….

Now we know, and I think there’s no disagreement among biologists everywhere in this world, that after fecundation no new information goes in. Everything is there … just at the moment, after the entry of the sperm, or it is not enough, and it will fail. Either the whole information for the human being is there and the human being can develop and organize, or it is not there, and no human being will develop at all.”

Elana Muller Garcia, “A Symphony of Two Hearts,” The Human Life Review XVIII, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 32

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Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade admits she lied about rape

Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy nationwide, admitted that he lied when she claimed her pregnancy resulted from rape. Her lawyers, she says, were aware of the lie:

“The affidavit did not happen the way I said it did, pure and simple. I lied! Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee needed an extreme case to make their client look pitiable. Rape seemed to be the ticket. What made rape even worse? A gang rape! It all started out as a little lie. I said what I needed to say. But my little lie grew and grew and became more horrible with each telling. …It was good for the cause! It read well in the newspapers. … The lie became the truth these past twenty-five years. …

Sarah knew the truth, the real truth, long before she ever went to the Supreme Court in 1971. Yes, the stated reason for my abortion is based upon a lie, a great lie. So the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.”

Norma McCorvey Won by Love (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997), p. 241

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Abortionist tells of living aborted baby delivered into toilet

Abortionist Dr. Kathi Aultman writes about one woman’s abortion experience:

“For years I performed abortions before becoming pro-life. While I was actively practicing as an OB-GYN, a woman came to me suffering from prolonged bleeding from a late-term abortion.

What she told me was shocking. She described being given medication and then being left in a cold room overnight with no blanket or call button. The next day, she was given more medication, and eventually told to sit on the toilet and push. She delivered a living 20-week-old baby boy into the toilet, where he drowned.

The experience traumatized her, and she described having emotional problems following the abortion. I knew from experience that this was not an isolated case.”

Aultman says:

“At the time, only six states required abortion clinics to report babies born alive after an abortion attempt to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Florida was not one of them. This meant that cases of infant death after abortion were not included in the agency’s widely quoted 2015 “Abortion Surveillance” report.

Of the six states that did report these numbers between 2003 and 2014, 143 babies were recorded as having died after being born alive after an abortion attempt.”

Kathi Aultman and Rep. Russ Fulcher “Abortion Survivors Deserve a Voice” The Daily Signal June 21, 2019

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Pro-choicer: pro-choice activists are afraid to give any value to babies lost in miscarriages

Pro-choice activist Linda Layne wrote:

“Because antiabortion activists base their argument on the presence of fetal, and even more importantly, embryonic personhood, feminists have studiously avoided anything that might imply or concede such a presence.

The fear, in the context of pregnancy loss, is that if one were to acknowledge that there was something of value lost, something worth grieving in a miscarriage, one would thereby automatically accede the inherent personhood of embryos and fetuses.”

Linda Layne Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (New York: Rutledge, 2003) 240

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Pro-choice activist: Men Oppose Abortion Because they are Parasites

Pro-choice activist Marilyn Frye writes about why she thinks some men are pro-life:

“The parasitism of males on females is, as I see it, demonstrated by the panic, rage, and hysteria generated in so many of them by the thought of being abandoned by women…

The fetus lives parasitically. It is a distinct animal surviving off the life (the blood) of another animal creature. It is incapable of surviving on its own resources, of independent nutrition; incapable even of symbiosis.

If it is true that males live parasitically upon females, it seems reasonable to suppose that many of them and those loyal to them are in some way sensitive to the parallelism between their situation and that of the fetus.

They could easily identify with the fetus. The woman who is free to see the fetus as a parasite might be free to see the man as a parasite…

They do not worry about murder and involuntary sterilization in prisons, nor murder in war, nor murder by pollution and industrial accidents.

Either these are not real to them or they cannot identify with the victims; but anyway, killing in general is not what they oppose. They worry about the rejection by women, at women’s discretion…

I discuss abortion here because it seems to me to be the most publicly emotional and most physically dramatic ground on which the theme of separation and male parasitism is presently being played out…

Male parasitism means that males must have access to women; it is the Patriarchal Imperative. But feminist no–saying is more than a substantial removal (redirection, reallocation) of goods and services because

Access is one of the faces of Power. Female denial of male access to females substantially cuts off the flow of benefits, but it is also the form and full portent of assumption of power.”

Marilyn Frye “Some Reflections on Separatism and Power” Sinister Wisdom no. 6, Summer 1975, pp. 33 – 35

Above: 16 weeks. Are men who oppose killing babies like this one parasites? And what about pro-life women?

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German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer on abortion

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for opposing Hitler and plotting, with others, to assassinate him. He said the following about abortion:

“Destruction in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life… 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 [translated by Neville Horton Smith] (New York: Macmillan, 1955) 131

Quoted in Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier Not My Own: Abortion & the Marks of the Church (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995)

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Abortion was historically illegal in England

Early American abortion law was based on British law. Abortion was illegal in England before the time of the colonies. Here is the abortion law 1290s England:

“He, too, in strictness is a homicide who has pressed upon a pregnant woman or has given her poison or has struck her in order to procure an abortion… if the foetus was already formed and quickened… A woman also commits homicide if, by a potion or the like, she destroys a quickened child in her womb.”

Fleta (c. 1290) vol. 2, Book 1, Ch. 23 Publications of the Selden Society (London: 1955 ed. and transl. HG Richardson and GO Sayles) vol. 72, 60

At this time, scientists didn’t know that life began at conception. They had not yet identified the reality of the sperm and egg, or known how they combine to create life. Therefore, both the scientific community and the public believed that life began when the baby started to move- quickening, when the woman felt the baby’s movements. We now know that preborn babies move long before the woman can feel them moving.

This laws is significant though, because it shows that British law  protected preborn babies as soon as it was believed they had independent life. Now that we know more about the beginning of life at conception, to follow the spirit of the law, abortion would be illegal.

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Abortionist discusses possible complications, including “most embarrassing” – a baby that doesn’t die

Abortionist Jane Hodgson wrote about the instrument used to perform early abortions:

“The Karmann cannula is a soft, flexible cannula… However, it is not totally innocuous. I have known of perforations to occur with its use. Another disadvantage is the fact that with a small flexible cannula like this, it is very easy to slip over the implantation site. Continuing pregnancy may result. This is a most embarrassing complication. Also, there is a higher instance of retained tissue.”

Abortionist J Hodgson, MD “First Trimester Abortion” in Warren Hern and Bonnie Andrikopoulos, eds. Abortion in the 70s: Proceedings of the Western Regional Conference on Abortion, Denver, Colorado, February 27 – 29, 1976 (New York: National Abortion Federation, 1977) 21

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Pro-Choice abortion worker contemplates telling the public about former patients’ abortions to shame them if they are now pro-life

Pro-Choice former abortion worker Robin Dizard is so frustrated that some post-abortive women become pro-life that she contemplated “outing” her former patients.

“[I]t’s something that has been used very effectively in outing [of gay people], for example. I’m not in favor of it but look what it does. And look what happens when the hypocrites who are holding elected office get found out: “Oh, Senator whoever you are, your office is full of pornography, that’s very interesting,” and then the guy pipes down a little bit.”

David P Cline Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961 – 1973 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) 207

This former abortion worker seems to think betraying the confidences of abortion patients who are pro-life will shame them into not opposing abortion. Fortunately, Hippa Privacy laws make this illegal.

It’s rather interesting that this pro-choice former abortion provider compares abortion to pornography.

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Abortion counselor surprised that attitudes haven’t changed on abortion

Jeannie Jones counseled women and helped them get abortions both before and after Roe. She says:

“I became convinced within a year or two of doing abortion counseling to great numbers at Amherst Medical that the whole thing – society’s condemnatory attitude toward abortion – was going to change so dramatically because there were all these women of all ages who had abortions and members of their families who knew about it. They had this experience of making this tough decision. I thought that was going to change the political landscape and I can’t believe [that opposition to legal abortion] is still going on. There’s this enormous number of women having abortions still, but it’s like you had one and you don’t have any sympathy or concern for anyone else. Where is this enormous population of people who personally had this experience? Where are their families?”

It seems that society views abortion as a bad thing despite the fact that so many women have had abortions. Perhaps this means having an abortion is not an empowering experience, but a painful one- most women who have them aren’t celebrating their abortions or talking about them.

David P Cline Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961 – 1973 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) 206

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