They said it.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s organizational documents, population control:
“[population control] is a most essential step, if not the most essential step… To solve the most critical problems of hunger, deprivation and the hopelessness of poverty, as well as deterioration of our water, land, and air.”
Schwartz “Bringing the Sexual Revolution Home: Planned Parenthood’s “Five Year Plan” America 138:6, February 18, 1978, 114 – 116
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From pro-choice speaker Barbara Ferrero:
“We believe that the decision to have an abortion could be a good moral decision. We believe that women need to be seen is making good moral decisions for their own lives.”
Speech delivered at Marquette University, November 2, 1987 quoted in Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012) 65
Henry P David, psychologist active in the international abortion movement, said the following:
“[the decision to have an abortion] represents a healthy coping with reality, a maturing experience.”
Henry P David, “Abortion: a Continuing Debate” Family Planning Perspectives 10, no. 5 (September – October 1978) 313 – 316
In reality, abortion often leads to emotional distress and mental health issues in women. Read some of the studies about abortion’s psychological impact here.
Share on FacebookDirector of nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where they did abortions:
“Most nurses find the destruction of life the very antithesis of what they believe… Nurses in delivery rooms had been accustomed to every conceivable effort to save babies, even those of 1 to 3 pounds, and they found that sometimes they were “salting out” bigger babies than those they had worked to save.”
The hospital hired a psychiatrist to bring them around, to help them see that, “physicians help people in what they need, and a nurse should feel that way.”
Enid Nemy, “From Saving Life to Ending Them: Why Many Nurses Shun Abortion Duty” New York Times February 1, 1972, P 32
“Salting out” is another name for the seeming abortion method, were concentrated salt solution is injected into the gestational sac, mixing with the amniotic fluid and slowly poisoning the baby and burning it skin over the course of several hours. The mother then goes into labor and delivers a dead baby. The technique caused so many live births and was so dangerous to women that it was abandoned in the 1990s. Now a D&E is the most common procedure for late abortions.
Share on FacebookThe late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-life:
“On Operating Room schedules, the pre-Blackmun term that was written down was “therapeutic abortion”; after Blackmun it became “elective abortion.” Now it is “termination of pregnancy,” the ultimate euphemism, almost Huxleyan in its finesse. To the gynecology residents, it remains “scraping it out.”
Bernard Nathanson, with Richard Ostling, Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979) 177
Legalized abortion did not prevent many abortion deaths from happening. Read more about the era of illegal abortion here.
“One obstetrician reported treating 54 teenagers for significant abortion complications which, because the patient had not returned the physicians who performed the abortions, never appeared in the official statistics.”
Matthew J Bulfin “A New Problem in Adolescent Gynecology” Southern Medical Journal 72, no. 8 (August 1979): 967 – 968
Share on FacebookThe AMA’s official position on abortionists in 1871:
“There we shall discover an enemy in the camp; there we shall witness as hideous a view of moral deformity as the evil spirit could present… Men who seek not to save, but to destroy; men know not only to the profession, but to the public, as abortionists…
“Thou shalt not kill.” This commandment is given to all, and applies to all without exception… Notwithstanding all this, we see in our midst a class of men, regardless of all principal, regardless of all honor, who daily destroy that fair fabric of God’s creation; who daily pull down what he has built up; who act in antagonism to that profession of which they claim to be members…
It matters not at what stage of development his victim may have arrived – it matters not how small or how apparently insignificant it may be – it is a murder, a foul unprovoked murder; and it’s blood, like the blood of Abel, will cry from earth to heaven for vengeance…
Every practicing physician in the land (as well as every good man) has a certain amount of interest at stake in this matter… The members of the profession should form themselves into a special police to watch and to detect, and bring to justice these characters. They should shrink with horror from all intercourse with them, professionally or otherwise. These men should be marked as Cain was marked; they should be made the outcasts of society.”
American Medical Association statement on abortion, Medical Holocausts 1 (Houston, Texas: Nordland Publishing International, no date) 28 to 30 Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Share on FacebookEstelle Sylvia Pankhurst 1882 – 1960, suffragist movement, worked for peace causes, post-World War I, started the Toy factory out of concern for women’s inadequate wages, and “price cost restaurants” with the hungry could order inexpensive meals. Supported birth control and sex education.
She also opposed abortion.
“Increasing numbers of people argue that, when faced with undesired pregnancy, women will procure abortions by hook or by crook; therefore the law should permit abortion, provided it be done under state supervision with strict aseptic precautions… It is grievous indeed that social collectively should feel itself obliged to assist in… abortion in order to mitigate Its crudest evils. The true mission of society is to provide the conditions, legal, moral, economic, and obstetric, which will assure happy and successful motherhood.”
“Abortion” by Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Save the Mothers (London: Knopf, 1930) 108 – 110
Rachel McNair, Mary Krane Derr, and Linda Naranjo-Hubbl. Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today (New York: Sulzburger & Graham Publishing, Ltd.) 131
Share on FacebookDr. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first American woman to earn and M.D. She was active in abolitionism and other women’s causes. She was also pro-life. Here she describes the unborn baby and why it should be protected:
“Look at the first faint gleam of life, the life of the embryo, the commencement of human existence.
We see a tiny cell, so small it may be easily overlooked; the anatomist may examine it with scapel or microscope, and what does he discover? Nothing but a delicate, transparent membrane, containing one drop of clear water; the chemist may analyze it with the most scrupulous care, and find nothing but the trace of some simple salts.
And yet there is in that same germ cell something wonderful – life – it is a living cell; it contains a power progressive growth, according to laws, according, towards a definite type, that we can only regard with reverent admiration.
Leave it in its natural home, tended by the rich life of the healthy maternal organism, and it will grow steadily into the human type; in no other by any possibility.
Little by little the faint specks will appear in the enlarging cell, which marked the head, the trunk, the budding extremities; tiny channels will groove themselves in every direction, red particles of inconceivable minuteness will appear in them – they move, they tend towards one central spot, where a little channel has enlarged, has assumed a special form, has already begun to palpitate; finally the living blood in the small arteries joins that in the heart, and the circulation is established.
From every delicate incomplete part, minute nerve threads shoot forth, they tend invariably towards their centres. They join the brain, spinal marrow, the ganglia. The nervous system is formed. The cell rapidly enlarges, it attaches to the maternal organism become more powerful… The human type is surely attained, and after a brief period of consolidation the young existence, created from that simple cell, will awake to further development of independent life.”
“Look at the First Faint Gleam of Life…” By Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., the Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Education of Girls, (New York: Putnam and Sons, 1852) 70 – 73
Rachel McNair, Mary Krane Derr, and Linda Naranjo-Hubbl. Pro-Life Feminism: Yesterday and Today (New York: Sulzburger & Graham Publishing, Ltd.) 28 – 29
Share on FacebookDr. Albert Altchek who had done 5,000 abortions, on Roe Vs Wade in 1973 editorial:
“As one who was active in promoting [legal abortion] I was elated. However, in a short while an inner deep concern developed. The Court indicated that first-trimester abortion may be performed by any physician without any government restriction. This opinion was based on …. The Court’s finding that such abortion is safer than regular childbirth. The latter observation, based on a carefully controlled series of abortions performed in New York state, may not necessarily hold true if the floodgates of completely unsupervised abortion are suddenly opened nationwide. I predict that within one year our profession will sadly record a far greater morbidity and mortality rate than has been reported so far.”
Albert Altchek, M.D. F.A.C.O.G. “Editorial: Abortion Alert” Obstetrics and Gynecology Sept 1973
And, indeed, legalized abortion has ushered in a new era of complications in abortion deaths. Read about some of these deaths here.
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