Category: Quotes

Pro-Choice author Joyce Arthur talks about the Center for Bio ethical Reform’s GAP demonstrations, where activists on college campus set up photographs of aborted babies. She discusses the violence that sometimes surrounds these events, when pro-choicers attack the activists or the signs. However, she does not seem to be concerned about the morality of such attacks – rather, she blames the pro-lifers for inciting them. Tacitly, she excuses the pro-choice violence and vandalism.

“… The unstated goal is apparently to anger, offend, and incite violence – then use the ensuing publicity to make pro-choicers look bad.… The GAP display also has been met with pro-choice counter protests at almost every campus where it has appeared. On at least five campuses, violence and vandalism have occurred, with students attacking the displays or GAP staff members and volunteers. At Ohio State University, about 30 protesters rushed the display in an incident that Associated Press termed a “riot”; a female student was arrested after trying to slash a poster with a knife. At the University of Kansas, an African-American student rammed the display with his truck and a female Jewish student physically assaulted a GAP staffer; both were arrested. As Cunningham vowed at one campus, “We will make an example out of lawbreakers.”

“Abortion Is Not a Form of Genocide” Joyce Arthur in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)

Right after Roe versus Wade, Robert Hall, whose Association for the Study of Abortion has struggled so hard to make abortion legal, was asked whether or not abortion clinics would “pop up everywhere.”

“Not very likely. We’re expecting to see about a million and a half legal abortions a year – about triple the number now. But instead of being concentrated in a few states, they’ll be distributed evenly among MDs in every state – probably about 20,000 in all. That’s an average of only a couple of abortions a week per doctor – hardly a big enough figure to constitute new specialty.”

Interviewed in Charlotte L Rosenberg “The Abortion Revolution: Don’t Rush It,” Medical Economics 5 no. 5 (March 5, 1973): 31 – 45

As we know, this abortion rights activist was very, very wrong. Legalizing abortion led to a huge jump in the number of abortions being performed. It opened the floodgates and allowed many women to have abortions who wouldn’t have before.

Isaac Asimov said the following:

“Birth… Is only the moment you emerged from the womb. You existed as a genetically distinct individual from the moment of conception some nine months before. And you did not become an independently functioning member of society (a functional kind of birth) until you “came of age” some years after you emerged from the womb.”

Isaac Asimov “Coming Of Age” forward, and Jerry Grey, Enterprise (New York: Morrow, 1979) P7

Read scientific textbooks stating that life begins at conception.

Commenting on the increased number of women who sought abortions after Roe versus Wade was decided,  Daniel Callahan said the following:

“A change abortion laws, from restricted to permissive, appears – from all data and in every country – to bring forward a whole class of women who would otherwise not have wanted an abortion or felt the need for one… Women can be conditioned (and are in many places) to want and feel the need for abortions. Evidence from those countries where abortion on request has been long available (Russia, Japan, Hungary for instance) shows that the subjectively felt stress that leads women to seek an abortion is socially influenced.”

Daniel Callahan, “Abortion: Thinking and Experiencing” Christianity and Crisis, January 8, 1973, 296