They said it.
“It’s amazing, but more than half of the people we see are Catholic…”
Clinic Worker
Felicia Lowenstein. The Abortion Battle: Looking at Both Sides (Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, 1996) 98
Perhaps this number would be less if more priests and lay people were concerned with educating the congregation about abortion and abortion alternatives.
Share on FacebookA British doctor said:
“I think it’s wrong in an NHS hospital you can have a poorly baby which is born 20 weeks prematurely, and have the NHS throw everything they have at that baby in an attempt to save its life, and in the next room have a healthy baby being aborted at 24 weeks. That anomaly needs to be corrected, and I don’t think it can continue any longer.”
Nadine Dorries MP
The Great Abortion Divide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mQkCpQbp4
In most states and in Canada, abortion is legal at this age.
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Dr. Warren Hern, who has been providing abortions, including late term abortions, for years, instructs pro-choicers:
“Television interviews, in particular, should focus on the public issue involved (right to confidential medical care, freedom of choice, and so forth) and not on the specific details of the procedure.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) 323
Suction abortion procedure:
Remains of a baby aborted by suction at 7 weeks:
Abortion by D & E (which Hern performs)
Picture of sixteen week old baby aborted by D &E
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“They [the aborted babies] were next to the garbage cans in paper buckets, like the take home chicken kind. I looked inside the bucket in front of me. There was a small, naked person in there, floating in bloody liquid.”
Clinic worker Susan Lindstrom, MSW
Magda Denes, PhD “Performing Abortions” Commentary Oct 1976 35- 37
“The thing I like about the procedure [abortion] is that… When you feel like you are indeed a talented abortionist, you can get through the difficult cases… It’s getting through a difficult canal; it’s dealing with a fibroid in the uterus; knowing what to do if you have an infection on the cervix, or if someone has put laminaria in there… When they really shouldn’t have because the cervix was friable, then knowing how to do this with such delicate precision that you don’t injure the cervix. Those kinds of things help me feel like I have really mastered something that I’m very proud of… In the past year, I’ve probably done close to 5000 procedures, which is more than many people do in 10 years of work.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 68
The clinic where this abortionist works does abortions up to 26 weeks.
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It is important to understand that while abortion does involve the taking of a human life because all life that is in and of a human being is human life in order to call it murder we would have to believe that prenatal life in the early stages of pregnancy is a human person and that there were absolutely no reasons that justified the taking of that life … [However], you may feel you have reasons that justify abortion regardless of your beliefs about personhood.
Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire of ‘Catholics’ for a Free Choice
Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire. “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions.” ‘Catholics’ for a Free Choice,” September 1983
Share on FacebookFrom former abortion clinic administrator Charlotte Taft:
“I was shocked by how many who seemed fine during the (abortion) procedure were now having thoughts and feelings that no one had anticipated.”
The biggest thing she noted was that women felt sadder than they had anticipated.
Taft went on to say “They wondered, How can I feel sad about something I chose?”
Jennifer Baumgardner “A new wave of abortion rights activism is spreading across the country–from zines to documentaries– that focuses on telling women’s stories rather than spouting stale feminist aphorisms” Fairfield County Weekly May 26, 2005
Taft later got in trouble with Planned Parenthood and was forced to resign for telling her patients that abortion was “killing.” see here.
Share on FacebookOne pro-choice feminist said the following
“Even feminists, even pro-choice activists can be heard to say, “Well, of course abortion is a terrible thing, but it’s better than…” or “Sometimes it’s necessary,” or “It is the better of two terrible choices.” Once we say yes, of course abortion is terrible, we have conceded the question, for expediency is not a sufficient moral counter to evil. In fact, there are good reasons to think that abortion is not terrible, not merely expedient. There are many reasonable, ethical people who believe that although abortion may be emotionally trying, it can be a most positive, moral, life loving choice.”
Sheila Ruth “Sexism Realized: Women’s Lives in Patriarchy” Issues in Feminism 3rd Edition, 230
Share on Facebook“[Children at our office] are both a nuisance and a safety/liability risk. Children will not be allowed in any patient service area, and they may not be left unattended in the waiting room. If a client arrives with a child or children but without a caretaker, her appointment will be rescheduled. For obvious public relations reasons, we will not be posting the policy, but we need to translate it into a message that can be given to patients when making an appointment over the phone.”
Syracuse Planned Parenthood memo, described in “PP: Kids Are Nuisance” People Concerned for the Unborn Child, July – August 1992
Share on FacebookEdward R Frizell, M.D., PhD:
“Pro-Abortion views regarding human development err in that they fail to grasp the facts as a whole. Their approach to human development typifies people who either have a very superficial knowledge of embryology or base their beliefs on the opinions of healthcare professionals who profit from performing abortions… It is essential to understand that science does not use developmental landmarks to “bestow” humanity… Human development is continuous process that begins with fertilization and ends with death… The presence or absence of a feature during human development allows us to say that an individual human being is more or less developed, but not more or less human.”
Edward R Frizell, M.D., PhD The Providence Evening Bulletin, 6/15/92
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