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Clinic escort pretends to be woman seeking abortion for media

Randy Alcorn, who participated in pro-life rescues, told the following story:

“A Minneapolis pastor told me of an incident at a rescue he observed firsthand. While rescuers were blocking access to an abortion clinic, news cameras arrived. A young woman then tried to make her way into the clinic and was peacefully prevented by the locked arms of the rescuers. She sobbed, right in front of the television cameras, “I’m just here for a Pap smear – why won’t you let me in?” obviously, this made ideal footage to discredit rescuing.

A little while later, the pastor saw the same woman wearing one of the clinic’s “escort” vests. She had been working for the abortion clinic all along! The entire drama had been staged and the woman was an actress, a phony. When the pastor pointed this out to the news crew, its members didn’t care. They said, “We have our story.” And they put it on the news that evening. Though they knew it was absolutely false, it served their purposes.”

Randy C. Alcorn Is Rescuing Right? (Downers Grove, Illinois, Inter-Varsity Press, 1990) 135

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Abortion clinic where 4 women died is “less than admirable”

Deborah Ruhe, New Hampshire Feminist Health Center, administrative and outreach director, on an abortion clinic that was closed after 4 women died there of botched abortions:

“There are probably some abortion providers who are less than admirable, but I don’t see that as the norm.”

Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion: And It’s a Big Business” Observer-Reporter January 18, 1983

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Children at pro-abortion march wear “I’m a choice” pins

Sarah Weddington wrote about the people she saw at The March for Women’s Lives, a pro-abortion march in Washington DC:

“I remember various images from that day… A man in a big cowboy hat carrying a sign that read: “Cowboys for Choice”; a number of older women identifying themselves as “Menopausal Women Nostalgic for Choice,” and younger ones calling themselves “NY Yankee Fans for Choice.” I was buoyed up by the pageantry of young people holding up placards… “Stand UP for Choice,” and “We Will Not Go Back.” Children wore pins that said “I’m a Choice,” and families carried placards announcing: “This Family Is Pro-Choice.”

Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 233

Parents were advertising that they “chose” to let their children live, and they were marching for the right to be able to have chosen to kill them. What message does this send to children?

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Pro-Choice activist: it’s wonderful to share abortion experience with friends

From pro-choice activist Maria Romero:

“Sometimes I’m kind of lazy about using my cervical cap … I think it’s wonderful to share the [abortion] experience with my friends.

Janice Perrone. “Controversial Abortion Approach.” American Medical News, January 12, 1990

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Pro-abortion writer: abortion takes a human life

Pro-abortion writer John A Robertson writes:

“… Abortion destroys an embryo or fetus, and thus displays a willingness to take human life.”

John A Robertson Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994) 48

He is one more person active in the pro-choice movement who believes abortion is killing.

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Planned Parenthood escorts “step on” pro-lifers

An article talked about the way clinic escorts at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa dehumanize pro-life sidewalk counselors:

“It tells the escorts to tape the name of a pro-lifer to the bottom of their shoes and then sing to themselves “Every step you take, every move you make, I’ll be squishing you.” Susan Gellinger of Planned Parenthood says that “This is a very empowering yet non-confrontational thing to do. You know you’ll be symbolically stepping on that person all day.”

Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa’s The Source, Fall 1992. Quoted in the Prayer & Action Newsletter, September 12, 1992.

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Pro-choice activist compares preborn baby to rapist

From pro-choice activist Eileen L McDonagh:

“… A fetus making a woman pregnant without consent is similar to a rapist intruding upon and taking another’s body in pursuit of his own interest, to the detriment of the woman’s interests…

Were the fetus to articulate its intentions, presumably it would intend to make and keep a woman pregnant to serve its own interests.”

She also says:

“Even if the fetus were a person, a woman is justified in killing it because of what it does to her when it imposes wrongful pregnancy, whatever might be her personal reasons for doing so…

The distinction between reasons vs. justification for stopping the fetus from imposing pregnancy parallels the distinction between reasons and justification for a woman stopping a man from imposing sexual intercourse on her…

What justifies her right to use deadly force to stop a man from raping her, according to law, is not the reasons she may have for saying no to his imposition on her, but rather the invasiveness of the imposition itself….

Even if the fetus is constructed to be a person, it gains no right to take over a woman’s body against her will… The fetus’s status as human life actually justifies the use of deadly force to stop it from imposing wrongful pregnancy…

Some might suggest that the solution to coercive pregnancy is simply for the woman to wait until the fetus is born, at which point its coercive imposition of pregnancy will cease.

This type of reasoning is akin to suggesting that a woman being raped should wait until the rape is over rather than stopping the rapist.”

Eileen L McDonagh Breaking Abortion Deadlock: from Choice to Consent (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 44, 10, 11 – 12

Is the baby below equivalent to a rapist?

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Doctor defends doing experiments on living aborted babies

Dr. Kirt Hirshorn of New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, on research using living aborted babies :

“I don’t think [research on an aborted baby, which he calls a “nonviable fetus”] is unethical. It’s not possible to make the fetus into a child, therefore we can consider it nothing more than a piece of tissue.”

Steven Maynard – Moody The Dilemma of the Fetus: Fetal Research, Medical Progress, and Moral Politics (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995) 25

Doctor experimenting on living aborted baby in perfusion tank

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Reporter criticized for writing story that hurt the pro-choice cause

An article in the LA Times on media bias in the abortion issue said:

“When reporter Susan Okie wrote on Page 1 of the Washington Post last year that advances in the treatment of premature babies could undermine support for the abortion-rights movement, she quickly heard from someone in the movement.

“Her message was clear,” Okie recalled recently. “I felt that they were . . . (saying) ‘You’re hurting the cause’ . . . that I was . . . being herded back into line.”

Okie says she was “shocked” by the “disquieting” assumption implicit in the complaint–that reporters, especially women reporters, are expected to write only stories that support abortion rights.”

DAVID SHAW “Abortion Bias Seeps Into News” Los Angeles Times JUL 01, 1990

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Neurologist: Both preborn and premature babies feel pain

Dr. Paul Ranalli, Professor of neurology at the University of Toronto, has stated, in reference to the pain felt by premature babies:

“The only difference between a child in the womb at this stage or one born and therefore in an incubator, is how they receive oxygen – either through the umbilical cord or through the lungs. There is no difference in their nervous systems.”

Dr. Donald DeMarco Why I Am Pro-Life and Not Politically Correct (Corpus Christi, Texas: Goodbooks Media, 2017) 12

23 week old baby born premature. Abortions are legal at this stage in many parts of the US.

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