They said it.
Caitlin Moran, columnist for the Times of London:
“By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world.”
Lauri S Friedman. Abortion (San Diego, CA: Reference Point Press 2009)20
Here is a picture of a 10 week-old unborn baby (12 weeks gestation)
Here is what he or she looks after an abortion:
Many pro-choicers attack crisis pregnancy centers and sidewalk counselors and call them dishonest or demeaning towards women. But in reality, sidewalk counselors often offer women help with alternatives and crisis pregnancy centers provide many services to women, all for free. The abortion clinic will always take a woman’s money and sent her home to cope with the abortion on her own.
Pat Foley, who runs a crisis pregnancy center:
“We’re willing to offer to $200, $300, $400 on the spot, no strings attached [to help a woman considering abortion for financial reasons.] No life should end because of money.”
Pat Foley, quoted on Nancy Gibbs “One Woman at a Time” Time, February 26, 2007
Many pro-lifers are willing to sacrifice for pregnant women who may otherwise have abortions.
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“Abortion is undeniably the taking of potential life. It is not pretty. It is not easy. And in a perfect world, it would not be necessary.”
Bart Slepian, quoted in Amanda Robb “Last Clinic Standing” Marie Claire, October 2006
Dr. Slepian uses the term “potential life” to soften the impact of what he is saying. However, some abortionists have come out saying that abortion takes a life without using the word “potential.”
Share on FacebookOne former clinic worker made the following comments in personal correspondence with the webmaster of clinicquotes:
When I first started out nursing in the late 70’s I was working for the Ob/Gyn physicians in this hospital. My duties were not only to care for those that were in for abortions, I also cared for the older folks having hysterectomies and so forth. I didn’t have a personal opinion on abortion until I saw how many were done and for the multitude of ridiculous reasons. Not to mention the actual procedure itself and the “aftermath”. It wasn’t until a few years afterwards that I started to feel this wasn’t right. That is when I transferred to a different department and hospital completely. . . Plus you must understand, I worked for a hospital smack dab in the middle of NYC, I got to know some of the girls getting these abortions on a first name basis, since they had them so often. That really got under my skin, seeing these girls using it as a birth control measure. And why shouldn’t they? The state paid for it anyway! Just not right!
Planned Parenthood claims that the Catholic Church is waging a “war on women” by fighting against abortion:
“The opinion and actions of the Holy See in regard to sexual and reproductive health and rights are seen by many as a kind of war, a war that contributes to the suffering and deaths of millions of innocent people, a war not conducted with guns and fire but with condemnation and psychological torture.“
“Planned Parenthood Says Vatican Waging War on Women” EWTN news brief Jun 27, 2000
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“We do have bad practitioners. And it’s affecting all of us. And we have been reluctant to do anything or say anything or whatever because of the physician shortage. We don’t want bad press, but when something happens, under our breaths we all say, ‘Well, it was just a matter of time.'”
National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar participant September 1994
Share on FacebookOn late term abortions:
Even abortion-rights advocates are beginning to say that late abortions pose special problems. Compared with early abortions, post-20-week procedures are four times more costly, seven times more likely to lead to medical complications, and far more physically and emotionally traumatic to the woman. In recognition of these problems, more and more clinics are offering counseling before the abortion. “I don’t want laws to stop abortion at 20 weeks,” says Charlotte Taft, an abortion counselor and consultant in Santa Fe, N.M. “But I’d like us to consider how we, as a society, can take responsibility for the denial and ambivalence” that lead to late abortions.
Lavelle, Marianne, Glastris, Paul, Gerson, Michael J., Daniel, Missy, Meyer, Michele “When abortions come late in a pregnancy” U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 01/19/98, Vol. 124, Issue 2
Share on FacebookPro-choice writer Katha Pollitt, writing in The Nation, discusses reasons why women get late term (second trimester or later) abortions. The majority are NOT done because of maternal health or defect in the baby. Here are the statistics from 2003:
71% didn’t realize she was pregnant
48% difficulty making arrangements
33% afraid of telling parents or partner
A little less than 2% of all abortions take place after 20 weeks…this still adds up to thousands a year.
Katha Pollitt “In the Waiting Room” The Nation April 21, 2003
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In Atlanta Georgia, a U.S. District Court ruled that WAGA-TV could refuse to air a four minute pro-life commercial. The commercial showed footage of aborted babies. According to the Court in Gillet Communications vs Becker, 1992, the commercial was “patently offensive”:
“It [the commercial] contains graphic depictions and descriptions of….the uterus, excreted uterine fluid, dismembered fetal body parts, and aborted fetuses.”
The commercial, which was intended to be aired only after midnight so that children would not see it, was never shown. Would there be the same outcry at depictions of another surgical procedure?
(Gillett Communications v. Becker, 1992, p. 763).
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