They said it.
“Some may find it paradoxical that after 23 years of legal abortion, this question [is abortion morally right?] has not been resolved. Why? Teaching people that fetuses are not persons, that they may morally be terminated, and that values suggesting otherwise are false and outmoded is hard work.”
Abortion Rights Advocate Thomas W. Flynn “Defend Abortion, Not Just Choice” Free Inquiry, Summer 1996 page 31
One woman who had an abortion says:
“My decision to have an abortion was a decision I made to care for the child that was within me. To adopt that child would be more cruel to me than just ending it, because it’s giving the child no help. It’s like saying “Well, it’s not my problem.” My decision to abort will affect my child in a humane manner, because I’ve got my child’s interests at heart. That is why I decided to terminate, for that child’s sake.”
Quoted in Leslie Cannold “The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality and the Hard Choices Women Make” (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) p xviii
Joseph Feldman, who runs an abortion clinic in Phoenix, says the following after he and the parents of one aborted child baptized the remains of the baby they killed.
“…inside the clinic, we know we are doing God’s work.”
Quoted in Gloria Feldt “Behind Every Choice is a Story” (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002) p 168
“How come they [pro-lifers] don’t get upset over a little kid having its tonsils out? That’s worse than having an abortion any day!”
“Abortion Eve” comic book by Chin Lyvely and Joyce Sutton, distributed to teens by Planned Parenthood on the eve of Roe V. Wade (1973) Quoted in “Abortion Encyclopedia” by American Life League
“Anti-abortionists claim that fetal personhood is a biological fact, rather than a theological perspective. However, the fetus is human only in the sense that any part of the human body is human. Every cell carries the full genetic code…”
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. “Respecting the moral agency of women” educational pamphlet by the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights. Quoted in American life league, the pro-life Encyclopedia
“[the idea of] dismembering a baby and pulling it out in pieces… is obviously horrific. But at the same time, it is easy to get caught up in that emotion.”
Pro-choice activist and producer of the pro-abortion movie “My Fetus” Julia Black in an interview with ABC’s Tony Jones From Ed Vitagliano “Murder: So What? Film Reveals Growing Callousness Toward Abortion” AFA Journal Nov/Dec 2004
“A woman may feel utterly devastated by the thought of a child, a bit of herself, put out for adoption and never seen or heard from again. She may therefore want not merely that the child be detached from her, but more, that it die. Some opponents of abortion are inclined to regard this as beneath contempt- therefore showing insensitivity to what is surely a powerful source of despair.”
Moralist and abortion rights supporter Judith Jarvis Thompson in her essay “Abortion” from the book “Contemporary Issues in Bioethics” Tom Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters. 2003 p 209
“So, what if abortion IS killing a human being? Evidently it’s one of those millions of human beings who are simply destined to never see the outside of their wombs. And what’s so wrong with that? We have too any people on the planet as it is. Why all the mourning for what amounted to a clump of cells, whether or not it DID have a soul?…So what are we mourning, anyway? If the fetus I chose, at age 19, to abort at 6-12 weeks (I honestly can’t remember how far along I was. I just remember the indescribable RELIEF when I wasn’t, anymore) WAS an actual human being, with a soul, then I imagine that human being with a soul had somewhere ELSE to go…”
Maryscott O’Conner “Abortion, Murder and Moral Relativism” Mon Jan. 23, 2006
“There are some cells in my uterus at the moment that aren’t usually there. I call these cells “my baby”, and spend much of my time planning the future that they may have, once they’ve finished developing into a human being. Other women, with similar cells, plan how to remove the cells as quickly and painlessly as possible.”
Blog post (Alas, a Blog) “Pro-Choice and Pregnant” July 12, 2005 by Nikki Kiddle
“While in the womb, you are in a privileged safe place. In fact your Status is rising all the time. As far as the no-choice crowd is concerned, you outrank your host, the woman in whose womb you are the budding guest. Some no-choice pickets even have posters that put you on a cross, giving you a kind of divine dignity. You are so important that for some people there is no other issue on which they vote. They’re called the “single issue” people. They call themselves “pro-life” even though they have a passion for war and capital punishment. These “pro-lifers” particularly love to invade small countries with weak armies, places like Iraq or Grenada. I admit that is a bit weird, but they happen to be in charge right now, so we have to worry about them.
As long as you don’t get born, however, you don’t have a worry in the world…unless, of course, you are in one of the small countries the “pro- lifers” happen to be bombing.”
“Fetus Alert!” by Daniel C. Maguire in The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics
