They said it.
An abortionist says:
“The little biological body [of a preborn baby] is not a human soul and it doesn’t bother me taking a little biological life. I am opposed to destroying a living thing, I hate to shoot a bird or step on a bug or cut a beautiful plant, but I do. These things [abortions] are not done lightly. A lot of consideration and prayer is called for.”
Jonathan B Imber Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986) 66
Author Misty McBeth describes what happened when she talked about abortion to a co-worker. McBeth had been arguing the pro-life side:
“Perhaps topics like this should be left out of the workplace,” I thought as I argued my view of the debate. Too late, the guns had been loaded and ready to aim. Unfortunately they were aimed at me, or so I thought. This coworker roared at me like a fierce lion protecting her cubs, firing every shot she could at me. Oh, and did I mention this was at six in the morning and I had just signed into my phone to receive inbound calls? Lucky for me, the first few minutes of her rampage the phone was silent, no calls. I tried to politely interrupt her and let her know I was signed in to work but to no avail, the bullets kept flying. Her face was beet red and her arms were flaying and pointing in my direction. Then a call came in. I answered with my usual customer greeting, fully aware that the customer could probably hear the ruckus in front of me. When the customer questioned what the background noise was I simply asked if I could put them on brief hold. How was I going to defuse this bomb that had gone off? Nothing I said or did mattered, she was visibly upset and was taking it out on me. Finally after what seemed like hours my coworker grabbed her stuff and huffed off. I then was able to deal with the customer and finish the call. It wasn’t until years later that I realized that I may have been the first to fire a shot and perhaps the bullet went a little too deep.”
Misty McBeth Anti Abortions: Behind the Signs (Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2013)
Share on FacebookA book written by and for abortion clinic workers says the following about women coming in for abortions:
“Clients come in for counseling [at the abortion clinic] worried that a foetus will suffer during an abortion.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 38
Share on FacebookPro-choice Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee:
“The date at which a foetus might be viable has nothing to do with a woman’s right to choose.
Someday an embryo might be reared in a test tube to full-term, but that changes nothing for a woman’s right not to be a mother.”
Polly Toynbee “On abortion, the media need to reflect what is happening in the real world” Guardian August 31, 2014
Toynbee apparently supports killing the baby even if the child could be raised in an artificial womb.Even if the mother didn’t have to carry the baby in her womb, this pro-choicer still thinks abortion should be available.
This implies that the purpose of an abortion is not to end a woman’s pregnancy, but to ensure that her baby dies. The right to “not be a mother” entails the right to kill the child, whether or not the child needs the mother’s body to survive.
Share on FacebookA book by abortion workers gives the case history of one woman who came to the clinic:
“Nancy had been through a turbulent adolescence, lack of caring for herself during her teens had resulted in two terminations and an episode of gonorrhea. She had taken on board the messages that her fertility could be affected which she felt would be deserved punishment for her past mistakes. She was now 23 and in a steady relationship. She was no longer able to stand the agony of not knowing if she could get pregnant, nor was she able to verbalize the distress, so she started having unprotected sex while her boyfriend still thought she was taking the pill. She got her answer to her doubts when she became pregnant and after some initial euphoria had to face up to the fact that she was still not yet in a position to be a mother. She decided to have a termination and also for the first time started being able to reflect and talk about herself.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 19
Share on FacebookBarbara Chishko of Oklahoma, who works in a crisis pregnancy center, told the following story:
“The images seen through ultrasonography of unborn babies leave indelible imprints on the hearts and minds of all who see them. A young woman came to our office. She wanted to abort her baby.
We explained fetal development at which time she told us we were lying about the developing baby. We offered an ultrasound to confirm her pregnancy and she accepted.
Upon scanning her abdomen she immediately saw her baby sucking its thumb. Her words were, “look at my baby, it is perfect.” Needless to say she continued her pregnancy.”
Terry Ianora Ordinary Heroes: Creating a Culture of Life (Eugene, Oregon: Camel Heart Media, 2013) 47
Share on FacebookA clinic worker at Northern Women’s Clinic, a privately owned abortion clinic in New England said:
“We began to feel we were on an assembly line. You have no real contact with the whole woman… One person prepped her, one took tests, one did counseling… We couldn’t give the abortion patient enough time. When we really tried to get into people’s feelings about the abortion, the management ridiculed us.”
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 111
Share on FacebookFrom a woman in California who was shown her ultrasound while she was considering an abortion:
“They let me listen to the heartbeat, then they showed me my baby moving inside me, then they asked me whether I wanted to terminate the pregnancy – how could they do that?”
Camille S. Williams “Feminism and Imaging the Unborn” Brad Stetson, ed. The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) 69
Some women might prefer not to face reality or know the facts about fetal development.
Share on FacebookAbortionist Henry Morgentaler describes the following case in his book.
“Muriel is mentally retarded, but well-developed physically. She lives in the country with her parents. One day when she was home alone, her uncle seduced her. Her mother decided to have her aborted after consulting their parish priest who considered the abortion justified under such circumstances and showed his moral support by accompanying them to the abortion clinic.”
Henry Morgentaler Abortion and Contraception (New York: Beaufort Books, Inc., 1982) 40
Many people feel that abortion is justified in cases of rape or incest. However, having an abortion often traumatizes a rape victim further. Read some stories of womenwho became pregnant through rape to get an idea of their perspective.
The preborn baby that was the victim of this abortion may have looked like the one below:
The pro-life site JivinJeoshaphat gives the following quote from an article in the Kansas City Star (article now off-line). It is a quote from a parent explaining abortion to her child:
“Recently, my parenting skills were tested with the question, “What is an abortion?” This question was difficult enough to answer, but the follow-up question of “why” was nearly impossible.”
Posted on November 29, 2010
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