They said it.
President of Catholics for Free Choice, Frances Kissling:
“The Catholic religion makes the fetus into an icon, a figure of religious veneration, which I think is sick, really sick.”
Ron Brackin. “‘Sister’ Frances Kissling: Cardinal of Death.” Liberty Report, January 1987.
Share on FacebookLaw Professor John Hart Ely, who is affiliated with Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School says the following about Roe v. Wade:
Roe “is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be….What is frightening about Roe is that this superprotected right is not inferable from the language of the Constitution, the framers’ thinking respecting the specific problem in issue, any general value derivable from the provisions they included, or the nation’s governmental structure. Nor is it explainable in terms of the unusual political impotence of the group judicially protected visàvis the interest that legislatively prevailed over it.… At times the inferences the Court has drawn from the values the Constitution marks for special protection have been controversial, even shaky, but never before has its sense of an obligation to draw one been so obviously lacking.”
“The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade,” 82 Yale Law Journal 920, 935937 (1973)
He is pro-choice.
Share on FacebookIn a book that is intended to train abortion clinic workers, there is this statement on a D&E abortion:
“Identifiable fetal parts are removed. This technique requires skill and is seen as being technically and aesthetically difficult.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 49
A diagram of a D&E
Mary Ann Bailey, pro-choice, commenting on aborting babies with down syndrome:
“Most people are not analytical thinkers; they tend to know what they want to do and then look for justifications.”
Mary Ann Bailey “Why I Had Amniocentesis” in E Parens and A Asch (eds.) Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000) 70
She explains how many women having abortions want to abort, and make the decision, and then look for reasons to support that decision.
Share on FacebookPro-Choice activist Virginia Ramey Mollenkott writes:
“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 a human body is human: Every cell carries the full genetic code (a severed hand is genetically human, as well, but we do not call it a person)….six hundred million sperm are “aborted” in every masturbation or wet dream.”
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott “Respecting the Moral Agency of Women.” Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights pamphlet
Below: picture of preborn baby at 10 weeks, still in the first trimester. Is he the same as a severed hand?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
“Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court. … Heavyhanded judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”
North Carolina Law Review, 1985
Quoted in:
TIMOTHY P. CARNEY “In criticizing Roe, Sessions aligns with most legal scholars” Washington Examiner 1/10/17
Share on FacebookJoan Appleton, former head nurse at the Commonwealth Clinic in Falls Church, Virginia (an abortion clinic):
“We had several rescues at our clinic. There was never any violence. One time we had 250 of them removed — there must have been more than 500 at the clinic that day. But there was no violence. I called some of my friends and asked them to come through the line of protesters, one at a time. ‘I’ll give you a Pap smear and charge you a nickel,’ I told them. That way, we could record business transactions during the days of protest and report to the media that the clinic was open for “business as usual”…..
There was no way our clients were going to come. So we planted a couple of women from NOW in a car in the parking lot. They pretended they were distraught, and so frightened by the protesters that they didn’t dare get out of the car. The media were all over, taping this whole thing.”
Lis Trouten, “It Wasn’t Supposed to Happen That Way.” Minnesota Christian Chronicle, January 19, 1995, pgs 1, 4, 5.
Share on FacebookOn fetal development:
“By the time a woman confirms that she is pregnant, at five weeks, the baby is already 1/3 inch tall, with a steadily beating heart, a developing brain and nervous system. The first brain waves can be detected during the 6th week of pregnancy. “
“What They Never Told You About the Facts of Life” brochure, published by the Human Development Resource Council, Inc., Norcross, GA. 2001.
From one woman who had an abortion:
“I feel proud of myself that I made the choice to have an abortion and finish college. I never made a decision before that said I was the most important person. Choosing abortion is about empowerment. It’s about making a choice in favor of myself and my own future. It was giving myself a vote of confidence.”
Anonymous woman
Quoted in The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves. (Touchstone Books, 1992) 369.
Two abortionists describing selective abortions done on multiple pregnancies:
“Using ultra-sound to locate each fetus, the doctors would insert a needle into the chest cavity of the most accessible fetus and place the needle tip directly into the heart of the baby. Potassium chloride was then injected into the heart and the heart was viewed on the ultrasound screen until it stopped beating.
Even at 9 weeks, 3 of the 12 fetuses selected for elimination presented problems. The heart continued to beat and the procedure had to be repeated.”
“Selective Abortion, AKA Pregnancy Reduction.” New England Journal of Medicine, April 21, 1988
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