They said it.
“I object to the monopolization of the term pro-life by groups whose agenda is to make abortion illegal and deny women the right and responsibility to decide this very personal matter. I am certainly not “antilife,” nor am I proabortion. I am for choice. The issue is whether women should have that freedom.”
Buchanan, J. M. (2012, Mar 07). Life and health. The Christian Century, 129, 3-3.
Below: Aborted at 10 weeksClick here to see what other babies look like aborted at this age.
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and a leader in the women’s equality movement for more than 30 years, said religious groups and feminists have often been “on a collision course,” but they need to work together for reproductive choice. 
“I feel we’re missing the boat in not taking back the moral high ground on this issue.”
Supporters of legal abortion talk strategy. (2001, Apr 11). The Christian Century, 118, 10-10.
Can pro-choicers really have the moral high ground?
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From a pro-choice blog that can be found here.
Here is a picture of a nine week old unborn baby. 42% of all abortions are done LATER than nine weeks.
Here are some pictures of babies aborted at nine weeks.
“(Live births) are little known because organized medicine, from fear of public clamor and legal action, treats them more as an embarrassment to be hushed up than a problem to be solved. It’s like turning yourself in to the IRS for an audit.” Cates said. “What is there to gain? The tendency is not to report because there are only negative incentives.”~
Willard Cates, M.D., former head of the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service as quoted in “Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” ; Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 2, 1981
Much thanks to the blog Saynsumthin for the image! You can read more about the “dreaded complication” here!
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Makeka, former patient of abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell:
So when I got pregnant again I went to the clinic and I asked them… “Is it OK that I get, you know, another abortion?” ”Fine, fine”. They even like had this woman sit down and she told me that women in Brazil have at least twenty-one abortions, and she’s like, “They’re still able to conceive…” And, that was it for me. That was where I basically said, you know what, this has to be OK. It was the norm for me after she had coached me into believing that that was the norm. I would say the next fourteen years… within that time I had eight abortions. Eight. And I look back at it and it’s like God, what was I thinking? It just seemed like it was OK, it was so OK to go in there and get it done as long as you had the money.
Quoted by Lauren Enriquez, “Recapping the Gosnell saga: 11 eye-opening testimonies and quotes” Live Action April 30, 2013
A cofounder of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, an organization that referred women to illegal abortionists before Roe versus Wade and which helped thousands of women get abortions said the following:
“In my religious tradition, birth was never seen as anything but a gift… To speak of being born as a right is to jar the sensibilities and strain the moral syntax of existence.”
The Rev. Howard Moody in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991) 192
Moody has also said that he believes abortion destroys a life, but is pro-choice anyway.
From the blog of abortion clinic workers, the Abortioneers. Screen capture:
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Nicholas von Hoffman on how abortions reduce crime:
“Free, cheap abortion is a policy of social defense. To save ourselves from being murdered in our beds and raped on the streets, we should do everything possible to encourage pregnant women who don’t want the baby and will not take care of it to get rid of the thing before it turns into a monster… “
Nicholas von Hoffman, “Understand That Pro-Abortion Is Pro-Life and Vice Versa” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 1992
From Slate:
“Just snuff the little buggers and let’s get on with it… The bumper sticker on the back of my car reads “Caution! The fetus you save will grow up to mug you!”
Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 65 – 66
Click here to see what this baby looks like after being aborted
Share on FacebookFrom a pro-choice nun:
“Every woman has a free will. God gave us free will… That’s what separates us from the beasts. Free will is guided by conscience, and conscience is formed not by dogma, what organized religions tell us, but by experience. A woman will answer to God for one thing: Has she followed her conscience in carrying out God’s will? It’s nobody’s right to tell her what her conscience said to her. That’s what men want to take from us… the right to follow our own conscience.”
Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler quoted in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991) 64
Here is an ad, courtesy of Priests for Life, advertising to do abortions up to 28 weeks- the third trimester.
Here is a picture of a 28 week old baby
