They said it.
Dr. Cassing Hammond, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004
THE COURT: You explain [to the abortion patients] what a compression of the calvarium is?
THE WITNESS: Yes, sir; that I do explain.
THE COURT: That that’s crushing the skull?
THE WITNESS: I explain that, yes.
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“The not-so-concealed theme of some major figures in NARAL [National Abortion Rights Action League] and NOW [National Organization for Women] was that abortion should be legal because the most prolific breeders were welfare mothers from the dangerous classes … the leader of NARAL in New York lobbied against the provisions to protect poor minority women from involuntary sterilization, and so did Planned Parenthood.”
Alexander Cockburn, quoted in Proletarian Revolution, Fall 1989, page 28
Share on Facebook“in today’s world many who see themselves as progressive attack adoption as an exploitive institution.”
Elizabeth Bartholet, Family Bonds (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), XX I
Quoted in Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 130
This may explain why so few women put babies up for adoption.
Is adoption really a worse choice than abortion?
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From a study on women having abortions:
“… half the sample endorsed being really scared and 40% agreed that they were scared that a termination might damage them emotionally or physically.”
Allanson S., Astbury J. The Abortion Decision: Reasons and Ambivalence. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology 1995 September; 16 (3): 123 – 36, P130
For many women, these fears were justified. Read about physical and emotional harm of abortions.
Share on FacebookFrederica Mathews-Green describes why there are so many children in foster care despite couples’ intentions to adopt them:
“There are roughly 400,000 children in foster care nationwide, with about 38,000 available for adoption. These children wait an average of 2 2/3 years to be adopted; the reasons vary. One is the lack of black adoptive couples: although only 14% of all children are black, they make up 38% of all children in foster care awaiting adoption. Some social workers will delay these children’s adoptions for years, searching for a black couple and turning away whites. Black children in foster homes, bonding with white foster parents, may be taken away if it is suspected that the parents will apply to adopt. The child will be moved to a black foster family, although it may have no interest in adopting.”
The National Association of Black Social Workers has fought the adoption of African-American children by white families for the past 30 years.
“Black children should be placed only with black families… [We will] work and this particular form of genocide.”
Elizabeth Bartholet Family Bonds (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), XX I
Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 133
Of course, things may have changed since 1994, but these quotes are still notable.
Share on FacebookAccording to Dr. Mark Evans, (Wayne Scott University. Detroit) obgyn
“Probably 99% of nonmedical requests for prenatal diagnosis are made by people who want a boy.”
Christopher Farley “The Debate Over Uses of Prenatal Testing” USA Today Feb 2, 1989 1D
He does not go on to say how many women then abort the girls that they do not want.
Quoted in Francis J. Beckwith “Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights” (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1993)
Share on FacebookDr. Bernard Nathanson, who was a founder of NARAL, a group that was active in the fight to legalize abortion:
“Of course, I was pleased with Justice Harry Blackmun’s abortion decisions, which were an unbelievably sweeping triumph for our cause, far broader than our 1970 victory in New York or the advances since then. I was pleased with Blackmun’s conclusions, that is. I could not plumb the ethical or medical reasoning that had produced the conclusions. Our final victory had been propped up on a misreading of obstetrics, gynecology, and embryology, and that’s a dangerous way to win.”
Bernard Nathanson, M.D. Aborting America (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1979) 163 quoted in Michael Spellman Love the Least (A Lot)
Nathanson later became pro-life
From the same book:
Justice Blackmun’s former clerk Edward Lazarus, who is now a federal prosecutor:
“What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the constitutional right purportedly interpreted… When Democratic Senators oppose a judicial appointment because of the nominees opposition to Roe, they not only endorsement make a litmus test out of one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era. They practically require that a judicial nominee sign onto logic that is, at best, questionable, and at worst, this disingenuous and results-oriented.”
Edward Lazarus “the Lingering Problems with Roe V Wade, and Why the Recent Senate Hearings on Michael McConnell’s Nomination Only Underlined Them” Findlaw, Thomas Reuters, October 3, 2002
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A former abortionist describes a first trimester abortion:
“With suction, a plastic hollow tube (vacurette) is used, with the caliber varying to match the tightness of the cervix. A clear plastic tube leaves from the vacurette to one empty bottle where the bodily remains are trapped in a gauze bag; the blood seeps into the bottle below. A second bottle sets up the suction. With the vacurette, the operator quickly pulls the conceptus from the wall of the uterus. If this is done after about 10 weeks, one can see identifiable parts of the fetus’s body dismembered and trapped in the gauze bag, which caused some reaction from nurses in the early years. The later one gets into the “first trimester” (the first 12 weeks) the more likely the suction must be alternated with the hand-operated forceps to dismember the fetal body in the womb and extract pieces, working blindly in that large, soft chamber.”
Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) 73
From an article where an author interviews women sitting in an abortion clinic waiting room
She was 12 weeks pregnant, though she had taken birth control pills as directed. “I feel pretty messed up,” she said after seeing the image. “It’s different, just knowing. My husband told me not to look. This changes my feelings, but I’m sticking by it. Damn it, $650, I’m sticking by it.”
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Kori, 26, who was having her third abortion, asked to watch the procedure on the ultrasound monitor. “I wanted to see what it was like,” she said. “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.”
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From a woman identified as“M”
“I’d lose my job,” she said. “My family’s reputation would be ruined. It makes me nervous even being in the waiting room. You don’t want to know who’s here, you don’t want to be recognized, and you don’t want to see them ever again. Because in society’s eyes, you share the same dirty secret.”
JOHN LELAND “Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly “New York Times September 18, 2005
Share on FacebookProf. Jon Shields quotes a campus organizer for Planned Parenthood telling him that she “discourages direct debate”
NARAL’s Campus Kit for Pro-Choice Organizers contains the phrase
“Don’t waste time talking to antichoice people.”
Roderick P Murphy. Stopping Abortions at Death’s Door (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Taig Publishing 2009) 9
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