Category: Quotes

Prayer used at a National Abortion Federation (NAF) conference:

“Greetings, little one.
Little sister, little brother,
Great wise ancestor.
You want to come to our house,
Maybe you think we would make
good parents for you
Well, the food is short now
The winter was too long,
and the summer too hot.
We have too many mouths to feed.
My husband works too hard already.
We cannot open our home to you now.
Try again later, little one,
or find a better place.
Go in peace now, go in peace.”

“No Caption Necessary.” Life Activist News [Life Dynamics, Inc.], Spring 1997, page 9

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From abortion clinic worker Dora Greenwald:

“It’s a really interesting thing that is happening. It’s fascinating, when you think about it clinically and not get involved in the babies, or the people. … Several times as a really beautiful things happen, I mean, it’s physically beautiful. Sometimes you can see the vagina opening up and the entire thing coming out at once… it’s a really interesting thing and it got me very excited.”

Quoted by Magda Denes, “Performing abortion” Commentary, October 1976, pages 33 to 37.

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“To bring an unwanted child into the world is the greatest obscenity.”

Robert McClure, former Moderator of the United Church of Canada, quoted in Blodwen Piercy. “Who Are the ANTI-CHOICE and Why Do They Do What They Do?” Humanist in Canada, Autumn 1989, pages 3 to 5

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“Personhood begins when the bearer of life, the mother, makes a covenant of love with the developing life within her to bring it to birth. It is in the nature of things that woman creates the ‘soul’ just as much as she nourishes the body of developing human life.”

Abortion advocate Marjorie Reiley Maguire, in the March/April 1984 ‘Catholics’ for a Free Choice (CFFC) newsletter Conscience. Also quoted in Mary Meehan. “The Maguires Bring Abortion Issue to a Turbulent Boil.” National Catholic Register, May 27, 1984, pages 1 and 7

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“I don’t care if you are in high school or the fetus is unhealthy or it’s a boy and you want a girl. If you don’t want your baby, I don’t want your baby.”

Copy Editor Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post, quoted in Stephen Settle. “There’s No Middle Ground.” National Catholic Register, April 25, 1993, page 5

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“What kind of “respect for life” is it that justifies making women into breeders against their will? The real “disrespect for human life” is the harm done to women, to whole families, and to unwanted children by anti-abortion laws.”

Essays by Caroline Lund entitled “Why Abortion is Not Murder” and “Abortion and Respect for Life” in a 24-page booklet entitled “Abortion Rights in Danger!” [New York City: Pathfinder Press], December 1976

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“Abortion is never a single issue. It is a complex tapestry of all the things we believe about race, class, gender, and justice. It is also about sexuality, relationships, and love.”

Pro-Choice activist Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), quoted in “The Future of Roe v. Wade: Political.” Ms. Magazine, January/February 1998, page 77

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“Pregnancy begins when a woman is comfortable with its beginning. It depends on your own personal views and what you want to believe.”

Jennifer Kessell, a spokeswoman for Roberts Pharmaceuticals, the Canadian manufacturer of Preven, quoted in Celeste McGovern. “Marketers of the Preven ‘Morning After Pill’ Are Engaged in Re-Defining Pregnancy.” The Report News magazine, December 6, 1999. Also quoted in the December 9, 1999 issue of American Life League’s Communique.

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[Opposing abortion] is the same mind-set that opposes the notion of women working. It’s a view that doesn’t reflect reality and ignores the concept that women are contributing members of society.”

Excerpts from Jane Fonda’s keynote speech during the annual Utahns for Choice dinner at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 27, 2000.

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“To sentence a woman to bear a child against her will is an unspeakable violation of her rights…Such a sentence represents the sacrifice of the actual to the potential, of a real human being to a piece of protoplasm, which has no life in the human sense of the term. It is sheer perversion of language for people who demand this sacrifice to call themselves ‘right-to-lifers.’ “

Leonard Peikoff in his book Objectivism in the Chapter on Government

 

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