“As the procedure was performed, basking in the supportiveness of the female nurses, I felt I was acting in synch with a grand tradition of women before me.”
My husband and I have been together for over three years, we love each other very much, we have a beautiful home, and almost everything we ever wanted. I say almost because we are young, there are so many things we want to do with our lives before we settle in to raise a family. Neither of us are ready to have a child, so we chose to end my pregnancy, we didn’t have to discuss this decision for days, it was the right one. I don’t believe that I should carry a child to term if I don’t want to, people preach about adoption. Not an option. I didn’t want anything growing inside me. I didn’t want to deal with the changes to my body, my lifestyle, my hormones, my job.”
“Myself, I’d as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over [“My abortions! All five of them.”] I had a choice, and I chose life – mine.”
Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, from “Abortion: still a dirty word” in The Guardian, 5/25/2005
“I’m pro-choice because I couldn’t fully enjoy sex were I consumed with worry about the potential consequences. I’m pro-choice for all my friends who’ve had abortions and gone on to do great things, who are better women for being childless (for now). I’m pro-choice for the new moms and dads I know who were able to actively choose to become parents. I’m pro-choice for all those babies… born knowing they’re 100 percent loved and wanted.”
Rachel Kramer Bussel, “I’m Pro-Choice and I F*ck”, Village Voice, January 13, 2006
“An embryo is a potential human being. It can, granted the woman’s choice, develop into an infant. But what it actually is during the first trimester is a mass of relatively undifferentiated cells that exist as a part of a woman’s body…. The embryo under three months is something far more primitive than a frog or a fish. To compare it to an infant is ludicrous… That tiny growth, that massive protoplasm exists as part of a woman’s body.”
Leonard Peikoff, quoted in Daniel Leone. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press) 2002
“We should not be surprised to find a human fetus looks like us; rather we would be amazed if it resembled an elephant…It is a fact that the fetus is human life, but when do we accept that developing human life as a fellow human being? That question can only be answered according to our individual beliefs.”
National Abortion Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America). Looseleaf booklet entitled “Organizing for Action.” Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, no date.
“Those of us who are pro-choice are also, passionately, pro-life. Most of us love babies, love children, and love our liberty – not to mention loving sex and our right to have it when, how, and with whomever we choose.”
Rachel Kramer Bussel, “I’m Pro-Choice and I F*ck”, Village Voice, January 13, 2006
“This ruling [Roe v Wade], our country’s greatest step forward in social and moral progress since the abolition of slavery, must be protected politically by the activism of individuals who write letters to legislators, attend hearings, visit their Congresspersons, and support groups working to keep abortion safe and legal. …”
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Anne Nicol Gaylor, founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Abortion is a Blessing [New York City: Psychological Dimensions, Inc.], 1975. Downloaded from the Web site of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF)
“A baby is a part of you, which leaves the decision of its life in your hands. If you do not feel that you are able to support this new life, then you should have the right to not do so.”
Pro-choice supporter, from National Abortion Federation Website, touted as the Voice of Abortion Providers site
“Working in the autoclave room was never, ever easy. I saw my lost child in every jar of aborted baby parts.
One night after working autoclave my nightmares about dead babies were so gruesome and terrifying and intense I met with the clinic’s director to talk about my feelings.
She was very understanding, open and honest, and painfully forthright when she told me, “What we do here is end a life. Pure and simple. There is no disputing this fact. You need to be OK with this to work here.”
After a few days rotated out of the autoclave room, I felt I was OK with this, and God help me, I went back.”
Related by Kristen Walker, Live Action blog, July 20, 2011
