They said it.
From Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood:
“No matter how much they desire children, no man and woman have a right to bring into the world those who are to suffer from mental or physical affliction.
It condemns the child to a life of misery and places upon the community the burden of caring for it, probably for its defective descendants for many generations.”
Margaret Sanger “When Should A Woman Avoid Having Children?” Birth Control Review, Nov. 1918, 6-7
Share on Facebook| Dr. Hymie Gordon, chief geneticist at the Mayo Clinic, said that the complexity of the zygote (the human right after conception) “is so great that it is beyond our comprehension.” |
| Thomas W Hilgers, Dennis J Horan Abortion and Social Justice (Thaxton, Virginia: Sun Life, 1980) 5 |
Abortion is now legal in Ireland. But in the past, women had to travel to England to have abortions. Pro-choice author Judith Orr wrote:
“Doctors in Northern Ireland may recommend an abortion to women who discover that their foetus has a severe or fatal abnormality, but not actually offer one. In such cases, a woman’s pregnancy may be too far advanced for a medical termination with pills, so women are forced to travel to a strange city and clinic in Britain – often at a time of great grief at the prospect of losing a wanted pregnancy – and, until a change in government policy in 2017, pay many hundreds of pounds for an abortion. Couple sometimes want to bury the remains back home, or want a postmortem examination to find out the cause of a fatal foetal anomaly and have been known to be left with no alternative but to carry them back in a picnic cool bag.”
Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 24
Below: baby aborted at 6 months
Pro-Life author Mary Meehan wrote:
“Many white voters believe abortion is a solution for the welfare problem and a way to slow the growth of the black population. I worked two years for a liberal, pro-life candidate who was appalled by the number of anti-black comments he found when discussing the issue. And Representative Robert Dorman of California, a conservative pro-life leader, once told his colleagues in the House, “I have heard many rock-ribbed Republicans brag about how fiscally conservative they are and then tell me that I was an idiot on the abortion issue.” When he asked why, said Dorman, they whispered, “Because we have to hold them down, we have to stop the population growth.” Dorman elaborated: “To them, population growth means Blacks, Puerto Ricans, or other Latinas,” or anyone who “should not be having more than a polite one or two “burdens on society.”
Mary Meehan “The Left Has Betrayed the Sanctity of Life: Consistency Demands Concern for the Unborn” in Rachael McNair and Stephen Zunes, eds. Consistently Opposing Killing (Bloomington, Indiana: Author’s Choice Press, 2008, 2011) 22 – 23
Share on FacebookWalker Piercy, doctor and well-known author, said:
“Any doctor can tell you that an unborn child is fully human. There is no difference between a child five minutes before birth and five minutes after birth. What about a month before birth? Same. How about eight months? How about one day after conception? Sure. It’s a separate organism. Any doctor will tell you that it’s all standard biology: the fetus is a separate genetic structure, a separate immune system… A separate creature.”
The Register, January 11, 1989 (Santa Ana, California)
Quoted in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 114
Share on FacebookAn interviewer asked pro-abortion activist Judith Arcana whether or not showing pictures of starving children is a good tactic to argue for legalized abortion. (the idea is to convey that there are many starving children in the world and abortion would prevent that.)
Arcana replied:
“Surely the outcome of that approach is to make the case less woman-centered. Surely the child is really irrelevant to the issue.”
Judith Arcana ““Feminist politics and abortion in the US,” Psychology and Reproductive Choice
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Share on FacebookA woman named Charity explains why she had an abortion:
“My decision to have an abortion was a decision I made to care for the child that was within me. To adopt a child would be more cruel to me than just ending it, because it’s giving the child no help. It saying “Well, it’s not my problem.”
My decision to abort will affect my child in a humane manner, because I’ve got my child’s interests at heart. That’s why I decided to terminate, for that child’s sake.”
Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) xviii
This is what she did to her preborn baby. Is this really humane? Is this better then giving the baby to a loving adoptive home?
Patrick A Trueman, who helped prepare a 1975 brief before the Illinois Supreme Court on the unborn child:
“We introduced an affidavit from a professor of medicine detailing 19 textbooks on the subject of embryology used in medical schools today which universally agreed that human life begins at conception… Those textbooks agree that is when human life begins. The court didn’t strike that down – the court couldn’t strike that down because there was a logical/biological basis for that law.”
Television program transcript “Abortion” Chattanooga, Tennessee, the John Ankerberg Evangelistic Association, 1982, 2 in John Ankerberg The Facts on Abortion (Smashwords Edition 2011)
Share on FacebookGillian, who is pro-choice, when asked how she feels about an athlete who gets pregnant to enhance her performance, then aborts.
In this scenario, the athlete would deliberately become pregnant for the hormonal boost, with the intention of aborting after the athletic event.
[When you abort] “you’re thinking of yourself and you’re thinking about the baby.. It’s not a cold decision.
But getting pregnant in order to kill the baby! Doing it intentionally just doesn’t seem right. Having a baby to kill it, there’s no you in that. You’re just setting out to murder, [to commit] premeditated murder.”
Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) xx
This pro-choicer seems to admit that abortion is the killing of a human being- murder. She excuses abortions on women who are pregnant accidentally but calls it “murder” when the abortion is intended before the pregnancy. What is the difference to the babies?
Share on FacebookJudith Arcana, who was active in the organization JANE, which performed illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade, was interviewed. She and the interviewer made reference to the reluctance of doctors to do abortions:
Interviewer: There is a similar trend [in England], where younger doctors are also not opting enthusiastically for abortion work. The reasons may be different though. It perhaps is not because of the level of risk involved, but because abortion work is perceived as boring, unchallenging and also unglamorous, compared say to working in infertility, providing IVF.
Judith: That also is why in the past not many doctors in the US got involved in abortion work, even in the first few years after Roe… Abortion – who wants to do that? … It is not like brain surgery, or anything like the high-tech reproductive medicine that can be done now.
Judith Arcana ““Feminist politics and abortion in the US,” Psychology and Reproductive Choice
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