They said it.
In Minnesota, a minor seeking an abortion who does not want to tell her parents must go to court to get a judicial bypass. The Minneapolis Star and Tribune states:
“From 1981 to 1986, Minnesota judges granted all but 15 of the 3573 petitions for abortions without parental notification.”
Minneapolis Star and Tribune August 11, 1988, quoted in Oliver Trager Abortion: Choice & Conflict (New York: Facts on File, 1993) 9
Share on FacebookIn her book, pro-choice author and Christian theologian Beverly Wildung Harrison writes:
“Abortion is and always has been a means of birth control… And I believe we must continue to assert that, given the limits of birth control technology, it will remain the birth control method of last resort for many women, whether or not it is legal and/or safe. In fact, for many women it is the most reliable, and, at least when used infrequently, it is safe.”
Beverly Wildung Harrison Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1983) 162
Abortionist David Paintin says the following about late term abortions:
“I have done terminations which I wouldn’t have done if I had been the pregnant woman, but of course my personal decision would depend on my own system of values and not that of the woman.”
Abortion: Medical Progress and Social Implications, CIBA Foundation Symposium 115 (London: Pitman, 1985) 16
Writer and embryology expert William M Connolly describes the stages of the process of conception.
“Shortly after Fertilization:
DOUBLING: Several hours after conception, the sperm’s chromosomes are doubled inside the sperm’s nucleus, which had been within the sperm’s head, which entered the ovum. The sperm’s head dissolves after penetration of the ovum. The nucleus (pro–nucleus) remains intact. The nucleus travels across the egg’s cytoplasm toward the egg’s nucleus (pro-nucleus). The chromosomes inside the ovum’s nucleus double also.
RELEASE: When the nucleus with the male’s chromosomes nears the ovum’s nucleus, the nuclei’s walls seem to touch, almost fuse, then seem to weaken and dissolve into the fertilized egg’s cytoplasm, while the sperm’s and egg’s two sets of 23 chromosomes are released into the cytoplasm.
DOCKING: The result is four sets of 23 chromosomes in the cytoplasmic sea, not adrift, but drawn together, as if grappling hooks bound them. It is as if tethered ropes held them fast, and the great fleets of chromosomes were tugged towards each other, and pulled alongside each other. Ship to ship, as if the anchors were dropped and each ship of the fleet made its berth next to a sister ship alongside a magnificent, long, extended dock, jutting halfway across the intracellular sea. All the chromosomes are now lined up.
INTERLOCKING: Next, within the very first few hours of new human life, comes the amazing event of the interlocking of the sperm’s and egg’s chromosomes. After gracefully traversing intracellular space, avoiding impediments – sailing past Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, the internal structures of every human cell – maintaining stability, rapidly restoring internal functioning to any genes damaged by ionizing radiation or mutagenic chemical interlopers, after the two fleets of chromosomes have met in flight in intracellular space and docked, an amazing interlocking process begins. Information is lined up. Lifelong links are firmly forged. Interlocking is completed.
DIVISION: The living processes continue, until the first human cell of this new, unique, human being becomes two cells, each with the identical genetic material of the first, each with 46 chromosomes. From now on, immediately before each cell division, which is known as a mitotic division, the 46 chromosomes are doubled. Each of the two new cells will have the same 46 chromosomes. Two cells become four, then eight, etc.
DIFFERENTATION: Mitotic divisions continue. Soon, a ball of cells is formed at the 16th cell stage; then a larger ball. Then comes differentiation, as cells begin to change detectably, to specialize, and transform gradually and gracefully, first into different tissues, ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm, then into more specialized cells, nerve, muscle and bone, each with that unique 46 chromosomes of the original life form – the human life, the human being, the person.”
William M Connolly One Life: How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 227-229
Share on FacebookA doctor identified as Mrs. D.F recounts the following incident, that took place when she was an intern:
“At the guard in the delivery room, a woman was in labor as part of an abortion on medical grounds at 5 months pregnant. The birth was imminent, and the gynecology interns were prepared. The senior gynecologist of the guard who is about to return to her bed, approaches the interns and said in a low voice, but loud enough for me to hear: “If the child is breathing on arrival, you press hard here on the trachea until it completely stops breathing,” and turning to me: “And you, you did not hear anything.”
Grégor Puppinck PhD (Dir.), Claire de La Hougue PhD, Andreea Popescu, Christophe Foltzenlogel “Late Term Abortion & Neonatal Infanticide in Europe” Petition for the Rights of Newborns Surviving Their Abortion ECLJ (European Centre for Law and Justice) June 2015
A clergyman spoke out against a law restricting abortion by saying:
“Our moral imperative is to commit ourselves to the care of the born.… We should create laws that promote the common good and not narrow, extreme political and religious ideologies.”
Rev. Patrick Hurley, president of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado and retired pastor Presbyterian Church, Pueblo
Wendy Norris “Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment” Rh Reality Check June 2, 2008
Is it a “narrow, extreme political and religious ideology” to oppose this?
Above: Abortion at 11 weeks
Share on FacebookFormer abortion clinic worker Jo Ann Appleton says her clinic performed ultrasounds only when the woman requested it.
“We didn’t show it to them. The idea was to keep their anxiety at a lower level.”
Mark Stricherz “Bonding with Baby: Why Ultrasound Is Turning Women against Abortion” Crisis DECEMBER 2, 2002
Share on FacebookPro-Abortion activist Henry Piper argues that God allows abortion. He says because of the Fall in the Garden of Eden, abortion is permissible
“The basic idea of an anti-abortionist is that when an abortion is performed, we are going against God’s will….God has already decided. When he expelled mankind from the Garden of Eden, he said the woman would have responsibility for childbirth.
The Lord has spoken.”
Henry Piper “Letter: God has already spoken on women’s right to choose” State Journal Register Sep. 22, 2016
Below: 9 week aborted baby
Debbie Gillmore, New Life Pregnancy Center in Tempe, Ariz, says that a woman wanting an abortion went to her center.
The woman declined the center’s gift of a baby hat, saying, “No. I’m not so sure I want to go through with this,” Gillmore recalled.
Later, the woman saw her baby on an ultrasound:
“The ultrasound technician displayed on the monitor her unborn child, arms and legs moving. When the beating heart appeared on the monitor, the woman blurted out, “There it is,” Gillmore reported in a written account.
The technician gave the pregnant woman a model of an unborn baby about the developmental age of hers that she had just observed. Holding the fetal model, the woman looked at the face and paused before telling the technician, “Well, I guess I’d better start thinking about a name.”
Tom Strode, “Gift of ultrasounds reaps life-saving benefits” Baptist Press December 19, 2014
Share on FacebookA woman who flies from clinic to clinic doing abortions told a reporter about the pain her own abortion caused her. Abortionist “Clara” had an abortion when she was younger, and does abortions. now. “Clara” recalls:
“I felt fine when I walked in the room, laid down, and then all of a sudden I had pain that I didn’t know was possible. Labor pain starts slowly and goes on and on and on. This is much shorter. You feel absolutely fine, and then you suddenly feel attacked by this person between your legs.”
Now she is the attacker.
Sharyn Jackson “Undercover” The Santa Fe Reporter October 5, 2011
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