Category: Quotes

According to the Dallas Morning News, (Abortion rights activist resigns as clinic director; Taft cites differences with Routh Street owner, 2/2/1995 ), a Planned Parenthood of Dallas and Northeast Texas employee told the press they were not going to refer abortion patients to abortion clinic owner Charlotte Taft because she stated:

“We were hiding . . . some pieces of the truth about abortion that were threatening….Abortion “is a kind of killing, and most women seeking abortion know that.”

Planned Parenthood of Dallas and Northeast Texas, put off by Taft’s honesty, stopped referring patients to her.

Though the group’s president, Jim Roderick, acknowledged the leadership Ms. Taft had provided to abortion rights supporters in Dallas he added,

“I took great exception to statements about the pro-choice community not being completely honest with women. We did have great philosophical differences with her, not only in the statements she made . . . but with some of the changes in how they went about serving clients we were referring to them.”

On November 2, 2006, The Dallas Observer ran a story entitled, Charlotte’s Web,  stated that  on January 30, 1995

This prompted the paper to wonder:

 “Did Taft resign voluntarily or was she forced out?”

The paper noted how Taft made some highly inflammatory remarks about the pro-choice movement in the local press, saying that the movement hadn’t been honest with women. She even called abortion “a kind of killing.”

The paper asked,

“Had Taft played right into the hands of anti-abortion zealots, adopting their very language as her own? Had she so betrayed the pro-choice community that she had to be sacrificed for the sake of themovement?”

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If anyone doubts that pro-choice clinic workers lie to women, they need only look at this collection of quotes from current and former clinic workers.

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Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, in ruling against the PBA (Partial Birth Abortion) ban, makes this point:

“From the standpoint of the fetus, and, I should think, of any rational person, it makes no difference whether, when the skull is crushed, the fetus is entirely within the uterus or its feet are outside the uterus. Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged…. [T]here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice. No reason of policy or morality that would allow the one would forbid the other.”

Richard John Neuhaus “So What’s the Big Deal about Partial-Birth Abortion” : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life June 2000. : 84.

In essence, Judge Posner is right. Both the D&X (partial birth) abortion procedure and the D&E (dismemberment) abortion procedure are violent and brutal to the unborn baby.

Here is a diagram of a partial birth abortion, where the baby is delivered up until the head and then killed. This procedure is now illegal.

And a D&E abortion. This procedure is still legal.

 

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“… I submit that religion, philosophy, and private opinion have nothing to do with this issue. I further submit that it is a commonplace of modern biology, known to every high-school student and no doubt to you the reader as well, that the life of every individual organism, human or not, begins when the chromosomes of the sperm fuse with the chromosomes of the ovum to form a new DNA complex that thenceforth directs the ontogenesis of the organism…. [T]he onset of individual life is not a dogma of the Church but a fact of science.”

Walker Percy, “A View of Abortion, With Something to Offend Everybody, ” in Jeff McMahan The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)3-4

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