They said it.
From one Abortionist:
“[You] have a hard time answering the questions that other people ask you about what you do… You come to not feel so good about what you’re doing even when you thought you were doing something wonderful.”
American Medical News, July 19, 1993
Quoted by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in Access: Key to Pro-Life Victory
Share on FacebookFrom a proabortion clergy member:
“Clearly, giving a woman the right to abortion is a compassionate stand, and anytime compassion rules over judgment, we see the kingdom of God.
I can’t get any of these Bible thumping, antiabortion people to show me any place at all scripture where Jesus ever says, “You made your bed, now lie in it. Too bad…”
I see Jesus as being outrageously gracious, outrageously forgiving. If Jesus were right here today, I think he would say, “I’m sad that anyone has to have an abortion. I’m sad that has to be a choice. But you’ve been created as human beings… You’re going to make mistakes. Yes, I do value life, I do value babies, but I don’t use babies for punishment.”
The Rev. Christine Gimbol
Quoted in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991)87
Share on FacebookGita Aravamudan wrote a book about the gender imbalance in China, India, and a number of other countries, brought about by the infanticide and abortion of girl babies. She describes the coming crisis as more and more men are unable to find partners, and chronicles how population control activists helped fuel the crisis. From her book:
One Indian woman, Lakshmi who had a living 4-year-old daughter and whose 2nd daughter died under mysterious circumstances (suspected infanticide) was 7 months pregnant and considered “high risk”was interviewed by the author. One of the men standing around her said:
“Look at her. If she has one more girl what will she do? Think of all the expenses. Think of all the clothes she will have to buy, the jewelry she will have to make. Think of the coming of age ceremony she will have to perform, the varadatchinai and seer varisai she will have to give. Where do you think the money will come from? One girl is bad enough…”
From Lakshmi herself:
“It is all very well for you town people to speak. You can afford to have yourself tested by machines and kill the girl child even when it is in the womb. In what way is that less of a crime? Is that not also killing? Has any town woman been arrested for that?”
Gita Aravamudan Disappearing Daughters: the Tragedy of Female Foeticide (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2007) 10-11
Lakshmi has a point. Is it so different to kill a baby right before birth or to kill her right after? Abortions for sex selection are by definition late-term abortions because the sex of the baby cannot be determined until 18 – 20 weeks.
Pro-life author Randy Alcorn talks about how pictures show the humanity of the unborn child, and how pro-choicers don’t like to face their reality:
“Still, denial remains surprisingly strong. When I showed an intrauterine photograph of an eight-week unborn child to a pro-choice advocate—an intelligent college graduate—she asked me, “Do you really think you’re going to fool anyone with this trick photography?”
I told her she could go to Harvard University Medical School textbooks, Life magazine or Nilsson’s A Child Is Born and find exactly the same pictures. She didn’t want to hear it. Why? Because she was really saying, “That’s obviously a child in this photograph, and because I don’t want to believe abortion kills a child, I refuse to believe that’s a real photograph.”
Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)
This photo from The Endowment for Human Development, a site affiliated with the Department of Health, which is not a pro-life or religious site. It is pictures like these that abortion proponents claim are false. See more pictures like this one as well as videos of unborn babies at the Ehd site.
Share on Facebook“I am mindful of what was brought out by our psychologists… That in almost every case, abortion, whether legal or illegal, is a traumatic experience that may have severe consequences later on.”
Dr. Mary Calderone, medical director of Planned Parenthood
Mary Calderone, “Illegal Abortion Is a Public Health Problem” American Journal of Pub. health 50 (July 1960): 948
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According to Thomas Glessner, “Prior to ultrasound technology, pregnancy centers reported that of the abortion-minded’ women who came in for testing and advice, about 20 percent to 30 percent decided to remain pregnant. With pregnancy centers using ultrasound machines, that proportion has jumped to 80 percent or 90 percent.”
Jennifer Kabbany “Abortion vs. UltraSound,” Washington Times, October 29, 2003
Share on Facebook“I think it’s a form of cruel and unusual punishment to make a woman pregnant if she doesn’t want to be,”
Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who does abortions in the third trimester.
“Dr. Defiance“ People, , 12/25/2000 Vol. 54, Issue 27
Carhart injects the baby with poison, Or sometimes dismembers him/her.
Is pregnancy cruel and unusual punishment, or is abortion?
Share on FacebookA woman discusses her pregnancy and ultrasound:
“… What is a sonogram? A picture, produced by sound waves. It is a factual thing, a part of reality, difficult to manipulate. Which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t involve emotion. When I saw James’s [her son’s] first sonogram, at 4 ½ months, I fell hopelessly in love. I could hardly feel him moving inside me yet, and I had been worried, after my miscarriage, that there would be something wrong. But on the screen my husband and I saw a perfectly round head, beautiful spinal cord, legs kicking, and hands grasping.. As we watched, the baby (we didn’t know the sex) opened its hand and proceeded to suck its thumb… What makes a sonogram so dangerous and emotionally troubling for abortion advocates is the obviousness of a separate life inside a woman’s body, not an appendage. The fetus seems so happy in its own little world, so safe and unconcerned in a close, warm womb where all its needs are automatically met.
The view of the womb we get from a sonogram illuminates what ought to be the safest time in a human’s life. Instead, the sanctuary of the womb is invaded routinely, with the support and even encouragement of society. The Planned Parenthood clinic across the street from our apartment offers abortions up to 16 weeks – just about the age of James’s first photo, which I have lovingly placed in his first photo album. In the sonogram, he held his hand with his thumb out and his fingers tucked in; he still holds his hand that way. In my womb he was active at night and had hiccups several times a day; he still does. His sonogram was simply an introduction to the person we are getting to know. How can doctors deliberately tear our little beings who are able to move around and suck their thumbs? And how can their mothers allow it?
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Now that I have James, I see myself quite differently. I have someone who thinks the world of me! I have someone who, as long as he lives, will be able to say “my mother…” and mean me! I have someone who must be put first, and that is a relief. And I have someone who, God willing, will live beyond me, which makes the world seem a more comfortable place. And right now I have an adorable baby whose smiles melt my heart and whose perfect little face brings tears of joy. I wouldn’t have missed this experience for anything.
Maria McFadden “Motherhood in the 90s: to Have or Have Not” Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996)117-119
Share on FacebookDr. Dr. Kenneth L Wright testified in a court hearing that he received $200 per abortion was able to perform 60 per day, yielding $12,000 worth of business every day.
Catholics United for Life Newsletter October 1981 Quoted in David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 235
This was in 1981 – nowadays, abortionists are paid even more– The average abortion in 2014 costs 400 – $500 In the 1st trimester and up to over $1000 in the 2nd and 3rd.
To read more about people making money through abortion, go here
Share on FacebookA researcher who sat in on sessions where “genetic counselors” spoke to pregnant women, describes how the counselors explained the risks of genetic abnormalities:
“… the very fact that risks can be expressed in numeric form allows counselors, if they choose, to merely pass information on to clients in an objective fashion; for example, “The normal population risk is 3%. Your risk is 6%.”… Such risk statements without elaboration are rare… For example, consider the difference between the following statements, each of which is correct: “Your risk is 3% greater than that of the general population” and “Your risk is double that of the general population.” Risk statements of the latter form are more common than bare, unelaborated numbers, despite the counselors’ commitment to not intruding on the privacy of patient decision-making.”
Charles L Bosk All God’s Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992) 28 – 29
So we see how hospitals, perhaps because of fear of malpractice, sometimes use subtle ways to overstate the risks of a child developing a genetic problem. This may lead to more abortions as parents overestimate the risks and abort healthy children.
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