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Disability rights activist speaks out against aborting disabled babies

Disabled woman and activist Marsha Saxton:

“The message at the heart of widespread selective abortion on the basis of prenatal diagnosis is the greatest insult: some of us are “too flawed” in our very DNA to exist; we are unworthy of being born… Fighting for this issue, our right and worthiness to be born, is the fundamental challenge to disability oppression; it underpins our most basic claim to justice and equality – we are indeed worthy of being born, worth the help and expense, and we know it!”

Marsha Saxton “Disability Rights and Selective Abortion” Ricky Solinger, ed. Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950 – 2000 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University Of California Press, 1997) 391

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Abortionist describes women throwing up after their abortions from “emotional feeling”

Abortionist William J. Sweeney III writes:

“Consider five patients going up to the operating room for a dilation and curettage [for a non-abortion reason]: we put them to sleep and do the procedure: then they go to the recovery room and everything’s fine. But if we take five women upstairs to have abortions by suction curette, at least four of them will vomit as they’re waking up in the recovery room. Now although an abortion is a more delicate procedure technically, it’s practically the same operation as a D&C when you assess what has been done to the patient: same anesthesia, same operating room, same nurses, same doctors. Yet only an occasional D&C patient is nauseated whereas the vast majority of abortion patients will vomit. I think they throw up because of an underlying emotional feeling. Maybe they’re trying to get rid of the baby or their guilt. Or maybe they’re punishing themselves… Legal or not, an abortion is still a traumatic experience for most women.”

William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 209

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Prominent Indian feminist defends sex-selective abortion

Nivedita Menon, Indian feminist scholar:

“[W]e cannot hold simultaneously that abortion involves the right of women to control their bodies, but that women must be restricted by law from choosing specifically to abort female fetuses. We seem to be counterposing the rights of (future) women to be born against the rights of (present) women to control over their bodies.”

Nivedita Menon “Abortion As a Feminist Issue: Who Decides, and What?” Outlook India May 12, 2012

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Police caught “twisting the arms and gouging the necks” of peaceful pro-life protesters

The Charlotte Observer reports:

“Charlotte police officials had seen what had happened in Atlanta, where police were widely criticized earlier this month for twisting the arms and gouging the necks of hundreds of antiabortion demonstrators who were nonviolently resisting arrest.”

The Charlotte Observer November 16, 1988 in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 123

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Reverend admits to the “sanctity of unborn life” but is still pro-abortion

The Seattle Times said:

“… A salute is due a local group of Christian, Unitarian and Jewish clergy for coming together in a recent collective expression of support for choice on the matter of abortion.”

Pro-choice clergymen Reverend Bruce Parker, district superintendent for the United Methodist Church:

“said his church supports the sanctity of unborn life, yet is “equally bound to respect the sacredness of the life and well-being of the mother, for whom devastating damage may result from an unacceptable pregnancy.”

The Seattle Times, October 9, 1989 in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 106

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One third of South Asian immigrants dealt with physical abuse or neglect for not bearing a son

A study done on a group of South Asian immigrants living in the United States found that one third of them had experienced physical abuse and/or neglect for failing to conceive and give birth to a son. The sample was recruited from a clinic that did sex determination tests. It is implied that many of the women were learning the sex of their unborn children in order to have an abortion if they were female. This statistic suggests that up to 1/3 of Asian American women who abort their pregnancies because of sex selection may be abused and/or coerced.

Sunita Puri et al., “There Is Such a Thing As Too Many Daughters, but Not Too Many Sons: A Qualitative Study of Son Preference for Fetal Sex Selection among Indian Immigrants in the United States” Social Science and Medicine 72, 1169 – 1170 (2011)

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Pro-choice feminists would vote for Bill Clinton even though he’s a rapist

The following conversation on The View between pro-abortion feminist shows that they are willing to support politicians who abuse women just because they vote pro-choice:

JOY BEHAR: Hillary is in a quandary in my opinion, because she’s talking about violence against women and sexual harassment and all that stuff and her husband has a checkered past to put it mildly, so she is in a bind…..

PAULA FARIS: There are accusations but there are three women that claim that he did things to them that they didn’t want. One of them is Paula Jones…. Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey. They say that he either exposed himself to them, raped them or groped them. These are three accusations….

BEHAR: It puts her in a bind. On the other hand, it’s her policies that really matter. Like, Republicans have voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Now, that to me, is more important than anything that Bill Clinton did or didn’t do because it’s what she’s going to vote for, how she’s going to lead the country that matters more than that. On the other hand, he is a dog. Let’s face it. …

People have to understand, it’s policy. Teddy Kennedy. Remember Chappaquiddick? Am I the oldest person in the room? Chappaquiddick. I mean, a girl drowns and he abandons her and she drowned and women still voted for Teddy Kennedy. Why? Because he voted for women’s rights. That’s why. That’s the bottom line of it in my opinion. I mean, I don’t like either one of them, to tell you the truth, Teddy or Bill. They’re both dogs as far as I’m concerned. But I still will vote for Bill Clinton because he votes in my favor.

AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO “‘The View’ Co-Host: I’d Vote For a Rapist Over A Conservative” Daily Wire January 5, 2016

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Woman watches her abortion on ultrasound

Kori, 26, who was having her third abortion, asked to watch the procedure on the ultrasound monitor:

“It was O.K. to watch. Once you had your mind made up to do it, you just suck it up and go with it.”

JOHN LELAND “Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly” New York Times SEPT. 18, 2005

 

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Head of chain of abortion clinics says abortion is a “bad experience”

Anne Furedi runs a chain of abortion facilities in England. She says:

“Even those of us who believe that abortion is ‘a right’ understand that women do not exercise their right to abortion in the same way they exercise their right to vote. We can acknowledge that access to abortion is a social good while acknowledging that it’s a bad experience for an individual woman to have one.”

Anne Furedi “Abortion: some messages can’t be massaged” Spiked 20 November 2006

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Pro-Choicer: Infants lack identity and existence

From pro-choice author Robert D Goldstein:

“… The fetus and then infant, utterly and helplessly dependent, lacks an identity and existence apart from its relationship with the mothering one who chooses to care for it.”

Robert D Goldstein Mother – Love and Abortion: A Legal Interpretation (Berkeley, California: University Of California Press, 1988) 2

Even born babies, to this pro-abortion author, aren’t really people with identities or existence.

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