Category: Quotes

A Portland Oregon Feminist Women’s Health Care Center worker, who expected and prepared for an Operation Rescue demonstration that never happened, had this to say:

“The lesson I learned is that it’s still terrorism whether or not the threat is ever realized.”

She calls simple picketing “terrorism.” In the statistics of “Pro-Life” violence, picketing and leafleting are generally included.

From “The Clinic Attack That Wasn’t.” Feminist Women’s Health Center Newsletter [Portland, Oregon], Summer 1993, page 8.

“Every time someone says something inflammatory i.e. ‘Abortion kills babies. Abortion doctors murder babies’ they contribute to another clinic bombing. … If people want to think horrible things about abortion, that’s their business. But I want it to become politically incorrect and socially unacceptable to say such inflammatory things.”

Michelle Farley, administrator of the “New Woman All Women Health Care” abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, quoted in Jennifer Gonnerman. “Cheerleaders For Violence.” The Village Voice, November 3-9, 1998.

The vast majority of pro-lifers oppose all forms of violence against abortion providers, and must continue to do so if the movement is ever going to win over the hearts of everyday people. It is very important to oppose violence in the pro-life movement both on a large scale (bombing, murder) and on a small scale (insults, hatred, vicious comments). But abortion providers like Michelle Farley are attempting to force pro-lifers to abandon their cause, using the pretense that simply being pro-life and speaking out against abortion is causing violence. Violence in the abortion debate is tragic, whether perpetuated by pro-choicers or pro-lifers – but the answer is not to abandon the movement.

“Got a Tech 9 [gun]. Every gynecologist needs a Tech 9, so I could have more rounds, ’cause they were bringing me more Christians. There’s a Smith and Wesson .40 and a few rifles, for crowd control down at the [abortion clinic] office. Ya ever looked down [the barrel of] a gun? C’mon, it’s fun. … Pretend the Catholic hordes are after you.

Children of the Rosary is usually a very virulent, malicious group of harpies for Jesus. Kathy S— [leader of the group] is a double-butt ugly mean-spirited bitch. It’s reasonably apparent that she’s physically challenged. She’s just unattractive. Really, really unattractive. And I don’t understand why she has this hatred for women, but she’s one of these really mean-spirited Catholic misogynists who doesn’t like women.

Now you just have a bunch of Wal-Mart shoppers showing up out front. Retirees – it’s obvious just looking at them they’re retirees. They’re on a budget, they don’t have a lot of money, they have a lot of free time. And they’re looking for an ego feed. ‘Somebody tell me I’m important, please.’ They’ve never been important in their lives at all. So they come down here to my office, and they prey on people.

I’m smarter than the pro-lifers, I can form abstract thoughts. I’ll talk to the media and explain to them what’s going on.

Not all abortionists are champions of women – Dr. Finkel attacks a female protester by mocking her appearance. This Arizona abortionist Brian Finkel, is quoted in Amy Silverman. “The Terminator.” Downloaded from www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999/061799/feature1-1.html to feature 1-7.html, the online edition of the weekly Phoenix New Times, on June 21, 1999
(Finkel was later convicted of molesting women who came to him for abortions)

“Anti-choicers have declared war on women. Now it’s up to us to fight back. If that means guarding the [abortion] clinic doors with Uzis, then that’s what will have to be done. Just once, I’d like to see someone blow up one of those churches.

This week is anti-choice week at UB [University of Buffalo]. If you see one of them showing their disgusting videos or playing with toy fetuses, do your part and spit at them. Kick them in the head. Give them the name of your therapist. They call it “Cemetery of the Innocents.” I call it graveyard of the oppressed. Their God is worth nothing compared to my body.. The anti-choice movement is like self-help for them. Too bad there’s no “Fanatics Anonymous” to give them the help they need.”

Michelle Goldberg, Feature Editor. “Rant for Choice.” The Spectrum [State University of New York at Buffalo], quoted in “Student Editors Print Threats Against Pro-Lifers.” HLI Update, November 1995, page 1; Operation Rescue Newsletter, November 25, 1995.

“Protesting or praying outside women’s health centers by cardinals and other church leaders, no matter how non-violent it appears, offends and hurts women.”

Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), quoted in Cathleen Falsani. “Abortion Foes Gather to Pray: Cardinal Bernardin Leads Mass at Chicago Clinic.” Daily Southtown, June 27, 1999, pages 1 and 10

Frances Kissling says that even peaceful pro-life activism hurts women. She ignores the many pro-life people who devote their entire life’s work to helping women deal with their crisis pregnancies. A network of hundreds of crisis pregnancy centers throughout the country help women with practical support and counseling as well as material items and services they need to carry their pregnancies to term. Those who intervene at abortion clinics and do so peacefully have been responsible for steering potential abortion patients away from the abortionist’s curette. Many of these mothers are later very grateful that someone was there to reach out to them in front of the clinic.

“With powerful backing from the Catholic Church and Christian evangelicals, abortion opponents dress themselves up in the moral garb of saints and lambaste the other side as murderers, creating a poisonous atmosphere in which terrorism against abortion providers is not only tolerated but in some circles esteemed as some sort of holy act.”

Washington Post columnist Judy Mann, in the October 28, 1998 issue of the paper. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism

One way that pro-choice individuals try to “shut up” pro-lifers is to accuse them of supporting violence. Even though violence is very rare in the pro-life movement and those who have engaged in violent behavior have been roundly condemned by every pro-life group in the country, some pro-choice activists blame pro-lifers for every act of vandalism or violence that is perpetuated by lone fanatics. If all animal rights activists were condemned because of the terrorist actions of a few, if civil rights activists were told to go away because of the actions of the Black Panthers, if Vietnam War pacifists were told that they were all to blame for they handful of bombings perpetuated by extremists in their movement, perhaps it would make sense for the pro-life movement to be as demonized as it is.

And let’s not forget the real violence here:

“There’s a qualitative difference in the nature of their [pro-life] involvement … It’s a life and death issue for them, and that creates a zealousness about it, about their work, that I don’t think is matched quite on our side. The strength of the [pro-abortion] movement really resides in the mainstream view that government has no role in this decision.”

Kate Michelman, President of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), quoted in Brigid Schulte of the Knight-Ridder News Service. “Abortion Foes Mix Passion, Technology.” The Oregonian, February 19, 1995, page A14.

Having been in the pro-life movement for years, I agree with Kate Michelman. The passion that pro-lifers show for the abortion issue is greater than that that most pro-choice or show – we pro-lifers know the were fighting for the lives of unborn babies – that makes us realize how incredibly important it is to stand for life.

“Who are the opponents of the right of women to control their reproductive capacity, to become equal to men, to acquire safety, dignity and self-respect? The answer lies in fundamentalist religion. …  It is not surprising that most of the opposition to women’s rights comes from fundamentalist religious groups, be they Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Muslim. … These anti-women philosophies are akin to the fascist, dogmatic movements that resulted in the Holocaust and the Second World War, which claimed millions of innocent victims.”

Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler, quoted in “Fascist Fundamentalism.” The Human Quest, September-October 1992, page 23.

Morgentaler is a late term abortionist. Here is a picture of a late term abortion. Morgentaler has his own victims.