They said it.
Feminist and pro-choice author Naomi Wolf:
“When someone holds up a model of a six-month-old fetus and a pair of surgical scissors, we say “choice” and we lose.”
Naomi Wolf “Pro-Choice and Pro-Life” the New York Times, April 3, 1997
It is not easy defending something as horrific as abortion.
One pro-life columnist says:
“… [Pro-choicers] cannot look at their handiwork or the handiwork they defend. Across the country, they shrink from photos of the babies killed in abortions. Through their mighty political groups, the pro-abortionists compel TV stations to refuse advertisements showing partial birth and other abortion artifacts. They will not even allow viewers (or themselves, I suspect) to see what their policies have wrought. They are, at least to my mind, like the Germans who refuse to think about what was happening in Dachau and then vomited when they saw – and never wanted to see again.”
Jewish columnist Ben Stein in the May 1998 issue of American Spectator magazine
Gregg Cunningham “Abortion Is a Form of Genocide” in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)
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When discussing abortion, many journalists act as though they don’t know whether an unborn baby/fetus is a human being, or whether abortion is murder. In some cases, they blatantly deny the humanity of the unborn child. But sometimes, in stories that are about babies but not about abortion, they let slip that they really know exactly what a “fetus” is.
A Time magazine article arguing against drug use during pregnancy says:
“Courts will never be able to ensure real protection to an unborn child. That will have to come from mothers who take responsibility for the lives they carry within them.”
Barbara Cornell, “Do the Unborn Have Rights?” Time, Special Fall Edition, 1990, 23
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Share on FacebookPhilip Ney developed a therapeutic treatment program called Hope Alive: Postabortion And Abuse Treatment, an inpatient program:
he says:
“People who have had an abortion are more likely to abuse their children and people who have been abused are more likely to have an abortion… Abortion results in more postpartum depression and therefore less bonding, less touching and less breast-feeding… It should be noted that one of the earliest arguments was that aborting unwanted children would diminish the incidence of child abuse. Statistics show precisely the opposite; that is, with more frequent abortions, all kinds of child abuse have increased.”
He added
“Child mistreatment and abortion are both cause-and-effect, one of the other. Abortion also runs in families, with mothers and grandmothers for three to four generations having had abortions often for the same reasons.”
Ney P, Peeters A. Hope alive: Postabortion And Abuse Treatment. A Training Manual for Therapists “Victoria, British Columbia: Pioneer Publishing, 1993)
Share on FacebookAbortionist Tommy Tucker (read a first-hand account from one of his clinic workers here) opened his own Birmingham clinic, four years prior to speaking with The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. The paper reported that Tucker spends thousands of dollars lobbying the Alabama Legislature and fighting abortion restrictions in Mississippi:
“It started out as a financial thing,” Tucker told the paper, “But I got heavy into the [abortion rights] movement and realized there was a lot of need for physicians. We’re trying to make the people that are here on the earth have a better chance at success in life. We think we help a lot of people.”
The article describes Tucker as a person who considers himself as much a capitalist as a crusader and says he makes about $ 200,000 a year, which he says is low for obstetricians. He hopes income from all six clinics will eventually push his annual income to $ 700,000.
Tucker described himself to the paper as having
“a tremendous ego but being tremendously insecure,” and he says much of that insecurity is rooted in fear of financial ruin.”
“Abortion doctor says it’s the cause, and the cash that keeps him driving” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, May 16, 1993
Dr. Tucker eventually lost his license for a fatal botched abortion where he refused to help a woman who was bleeding to death, leaving her with an untrained clinic employee. Read the story here.
Quoted by Life Dynamics
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Dr. James Pendergraft IV has a sign outside his clinic advertising late-term abortions. The sign reads:
“Women’s Gynecological Services Terminations from 3 to 28 weeks.”
Wanting to hide the fact that third trimester abortions were taking place in the facility, some pro-choice activists wanted him to remove the sign. He refused:
“Change my mind? No. It’s a free country… It doesn’t matter if there’s a sign out there or not. People know what I do.….”.
Later in the article, he states:
“If I weren’t here, these women wouldn’t have this choice. A lot of doctors and hospitals won’t deal with abortions.”
Dr. Pendergraft performs abortions at four different clinics.
“ABORTION DOCTOR’S SIGN STIRS CONTROVERSY” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA), Oct 31, 1998 pA3
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Share on FacebookThe medical textbook, Before We Are Born – Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects, states:
“The zygote and early embryo are living human organisms.”
Keith L. Moore & T.V.N. Persaud Before We Are Born – Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects (W.B. Saunders Company, 1998. Fifth edition.) Page 500
A zygote is a newly conceived life – it is the name for the developing human at the stage where the sperm has just met the egg.
Share on FacebookThe entry for “Fetus” in the Encyclopedia of Human Biology says the following:
“[in the third month] Electrical activity of the nervous system is discernible… Attempts to suckle have been seen in utero and in aborted fetuses of 3 months.”
“Fetus.” By Frank D. Allan in the Encyclopedia of Human Biology. Academic Press, 1997. Volume 3. Page 962
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On what the unborn baby feels:
“At 7.5 weeks’ gestation, reflex responses to somatic stimuli begin, and touching the perioral region [mouth] results in a contralateral bending of the head. The palms of the hands become sensitive to stroking at 10.5 weeks, and the rest of the body and hindlimbs become sensitive at approximately 13.5 weeks. Shortly after the development of sensitivity, repeated skin stimulation results in hyperexcitability and a generalized movement of all limbs. This hyperexcitability has been interpreted as evidence for the presence of a functional pain system, reflecting an immature but intact pain response with early hypersensitivity to stimulation.”
Derbyshire, Stuart W.G. PhD. “Fetal ‘Pain’-A Look at the Evidence.” American Pain Society Bulletin. July/August 2003. Vol. 13, Num. 4. http://www.ampainsoc.org/pub/bulletin/jul03/article1.htm
Share on FacebookRick Harris, Alabama Bureau of Health Provider Standards director, discusses the closure of abortion clinics in Alabama:
“This will make three clinics on probation and one that has lost its license. When four out of ten of the industry gets licensing action, that’s a high number. That’s a real high number.We’re doing a lot more enforcement of other facilities, too. You don’t hear about it very much, but it’s going on.”
The Associated Press, Health dept. wants probation for Birmingham abortion clinic, 11/17/2006
The national news very seldom covers the deaths of women from legal abortion or the closing of clinics due to filthy or dangerous conditions.
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