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As a student, New York Times reporter urged classmates to assault pro-lifers

A pro-life student group at SUNY-Buffalo set up a “cemetery of the innocents” — 4,000 wooden crosses symbolizing the number of unborn children aborted in one day.

Pro-choicers stormed the exhibit and kicked the crosses down.

Michelle Goldberg, then a writer for a campus paper, urged readers to “do your part and spit at [the pro-lifers]. Kick them in the head.”

Goldberg now writes for the New York Times.

Rod Dreher “RIGHT-THINKER’S WRONG TO TAKE PAGE FROM THE LEFT” New York Post December 19, 1999

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Resident talks about abortion stigma

In a Glamour magazine article, an OB/GYN resident says that she sees the abortion stigma in school administrators, faculty, and their peers who give the impression that:

“abortion is a sleazy and offensive procedure… A doctor who does abortions – even if they are only a small part of her practice – is known as an abortionist. This label is supposed to be the kiss of death for any professional hopes she might have.”

Anonymous “Why I Am an Abortionist” Glamour October 1993

Quoted in Mark Crutcher Lime 5: Exploited by Choice (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics, Inc., 1996) 178

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Abortionist: “I feel that abortion involves taking a human life”

One abortionist was quoted saying the following in a pro-choice book about abortion counseling:

“I feel that abortion involves taking a human life, irrespective of the gestation.

I feel that there are circumstances where it is clearly inhumane to ask a woman to carry on with the pregnancy, for example, if child abuse or rape had occurred. Having decided that taking a life by abortion is sometimes the lesser evil, I do not feel able to judge between one woman’s need and another – this would be completely unacceptable ethically.

I would also find it personally difficult to wash my hands of a woman wanting abortion just in order to protect my own moral purity. I will therefore do any abortion at any gestation if the woman is sure herself that abortion is her only option.

I think that I would not find an abortion possible for myself, and would not have antenatal screening for fetal abnormality.”

Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 166 – 167

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Abortionist; “My heart was beating in my mother’s uterus”

Abortionist Bruce Steir says, in his memoir:

“I am 77 years young and my heart and its valves have been working nonstop since my days as an embryo in my mother’s uterus.”

Bruce Steir Jailhouse Journal of an OB/GYN (Bloomington, Indiana: Author House, 2008) 81

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Abortionist calls abortion a “lonely experience” for the abortionist

British abortionist RFR Gardner described doing abortion in the third person, describing what it is like for abortionists:

“It is a lonely operation. Although dilatation of the cervix, the neck of the womb, is an operation he performs many times a week [for D&C’s on nonpregnant women or women whose baby has died in utero], on this occasion it will be different. He takes the first dilator and is tinglingly aware that he is about to seal the fate of a fetus, that he is about to alter history. In other operations the cervix will dilate up readily, but in this operation it will fight, grip the end of the dilator and force it back into his hand. And then at last he will win, and as he does so he will wonder who has lost.”

RFR Gardner Abortion: The Personal Dilemma (Exeter, Great Britain: The Paternoster Press, 1972) 14

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Pro-Abortion lobbyist uses racism to support abortion

Author Gene Burns, who wrote a book about the legalization of abortion and birth control wrote:

“There was an instance, in Georgia, of a pro [abortion] reform lobbyist attempting to sway right-wing Governor Lester Maddox by raising the specter of white women becoming pregnant as a result of rape by black men.”

Gene Burns The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005) 188

This was cited in:

Sager C Jayne and Lauren F Gooch Georgia Abortion Act of 1968: A Study in Legislative Process (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Department of Health Administration, School of Public Health and Carolina Population Center, 1972) 57

Despite this revelation, Burns does not believe that racism was a main reason behind legalizing abortion.

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Feminist activist urges violence

Pro-abortion activist Meredith Talusan writes:

“We must take to the streets not merely to chant and make ourselves feel better, but to risk and anticipate confrontation.

We should not be afraid to throw a brick if a brick needs to be thrown. There are times when a single instance of violence is a justifiable response to pervasive and encompassing oppression by the state.”

Meredith Talusan “We’ve Always Been Nasty” in Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America (New York: Picador, 2017) 205

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Indian feminist speaks out in support of sex-selection abortions

Nivedita Menon, Indian feminist scholar:

“[W]e cannot hold simultaneously that abortion involves the right of women to control their bodies, but that women must be restricted by law from choosing specifically to abort female fetuses. We seem to be counterposing the rights of (future) women to be born against the rights of (present) women to control over their bodies.”

Nivedita Menon “Abortion as a Feminist Issue: Who Decides, and What?” Outlook India May 12, 2012

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A doctor discusses the fetal heart and organs at 4 weeks

In an essay about fetal development, a doctor and scientist wrote:

“The pulsating heart is at first most of all in the service of the rapidly growing brain… With its own growth, the heart acquires a central significance in the vascular system.

At the beginning of the 4th week, the young embryo is about three millimeters in size. Now even a layman has no difficulty in recognizing it as a human being, because brain, spinal cord, heart, viscera with stomach, intestines and liver, as well as the first layouts of upper and lower extremities are discernible. All these organs are already functioning, that is, corresponding to their respective properties that have developed at this stage. We do not find any single functionless organ. All organs as part of the whole exercise formative functions, and in this process, the brain functions as the center of growth.”

E Blechschmidt, MD “Human Being from the Very First” in Thomas W Hilgers, Dennis J Horan, David Mall New Perspectives on Human Abortion (Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, Inc., 1981) 18

These facts about fetal development are not newly discovered. Fetal development information has been around for a long time, just ignored and denied by pro-choice activists.

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Pregnant mother given little information about down syndrome

Dee Bird was told her baby had Down syndrome and that she only had a 1% chance of surviving until birth. Abortion was suggested, but Bird decided to have her daughter Amellia. She says:

“As long as Amellia is healthy and strong, she was showing me that she was putting up a fight, to beat those odds, then I wasn’t going to take that away from her.”

Bird says doctors gave her very little support when she decided to carry to term:

“The midwife I was talking to, she was able to give me this folder, like a little binder folder… and another pamphlet on two organizations that deal with pregnancy loss and they help out with funerals, and it’s got all the planning, so I had all the information possible if she didn’t make it, but they weren’t even able to refer me to Down Syndrome Victoria. Everything was worst case scenario and I think that was the hardest thing to deal with.”

Australian show Lateline with Barbara Miller,  22 Nov 2016,

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