They said it.
Francis Kissling, head of Catholics for Choice, says the following:
“I’ve thought about the morality of this ad nauseam for 35 years and come to the conclusion that making the choice [to have an abortion] can be a profoundly morally correct decision. It can be morally incorrect too, but so can having a baby.”
REBECCA TRAISTER “Morality play” Salon February 9, 2005
One person wrote about their conversion from pro-choice to pro-life. They had seen pictures of aborted babies on the Priests for Life website. This is the message:
“The saying a picture is worth a thousand words is true. I cannot tell you, or you probably already know how I feel. About 2 weeks ago I was pro-choice. Now two weeks later after visiting this website and liberty ministries, and reading the story of Roe vs. Wade, I am now PRO-LIFE.”
Pro-choice to Pro-life: Comments From Our Visitors Regarding the Graphic Photos of Abortion on our Website Priests for Life
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Share on FacebookAbortionist William J. Sweeney III, MD comments on the medical difficulty of abortion:
“The first reason I don’t like abortions is technical: it’s such a blind procedure. You can’t see what you’re doing, and you can’t really feel what you’re doing. Abortion is certainly not the simple, obvious process people have been led to believe.”
He recalls a conversation with a colleague who also did abortions. The other doctor says:
“My wife said to me the other night, “It’s just like a D&C, isn’t it?” So I told her, “Hell, no.”
“Hell, no” is right,” I replied. As interns we did D&Cs, where we dilate the cervix and scrape the lining of the uterus. But a nonpregnant uterus is a rather firm organ. Put a curette inside and at least you can feel the uterine walls. A pregnant uterus on which you perform an abortion is soft. You can’t feel the top of it. It’s like curetting a cloud. You could perforate that uterus without ever knowing it and then have to go back and operate abdominally to repair the damage you might have done.”
William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 204, 205
Share on FacebookAmicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court before Roe V Wade, submitted on October 1971 by a group of 220 physicians, scientists, and professors:
“In its seventh week [the preborn child] bears the familiar external features and all the internal organs of the adult… The brain in configuration is already like the adult brain and sends out impulses that coordinate the functions of other organs… The heart beats sturdily. The stomach produces digestive juices. The liver manufactures blood cells and the kidneys begin to function by extracting uric acid from the child’s blood… The muscles of the arms and body can already be set in motion. After the eighth week…everything is already present that will be found in the full-term baby.”
Motion filed in the Supreme Court of the United States, October 15, 1971 these re-: no. 70 – 18 and no. 70 – 40) Motion and Brief Amicus Curiae of Certain Physicians, Professionals and fellows of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Support of Appellees, Dennis J Horan et al., United States District Court 1971, P 19, 29 – 30
On the Priests for Life website, people post reactions to the graphic photos the site shows. One woman became pro-life after seeing photos of first trimester aborted babies. She says:
“I have always believed that an early abortion was just removing a mass of tissue. I realized after looking at this site I have been so wrong. Thank you for showing this to help people understand innocent children are being killed no matter how early the procedure is done. I will share this information with everyone I know. – Julie”
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Share on FacebookPro-abortion attorney Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued Roe vs. Wade before the Supreme Court, says in her book that the pro-choice movement had nothing powerful enough to counter the pictures of aborted babies that pro-life activists show:
“Pro-choice groups such as NARAL worried about the tactics of the opposition; according to one NARAL mailing, “Rational arguments have limited impact against the opposition’s emotional frenzy.
It is time to meet shock with shock.” But advocates of choice never came up with symbols as powerful as the opposition’s.”
Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 192
She is really saying that the emotional impact of pictures of aborted babies is powerful and hard for pro-choicers to argue against.
Although pro-choicers claim they are using “rational arguments” all the rational-sounding, euphemistic words that pro-choicers use to deny the true nature of abortion are ineffective against the reality shown in the photos.
Pro-choicers have no visual aides as striking as what pro-lifers can show. They have no good visual rebuttal to the photos and can only accuse people who show them of engaging in an “emotional frenzy.”
Share on FacebookHere are some of Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary’s definitions of words pertaining to pregnancy and preborn children.
Embryo:
“The early or developing stage of any organism, especially the developing product of fertilization of the egg. In the human, the embryo is the developing individual from one week after conception to the end of the second month.”
Fetus:
“The unborn offspring of any viviparous animal; the developing young in the human uterus after the end of the second month.”
Zygote:
“1. The cell resulting from the fusion of two gametes; the fertilized ovum.
2. The individual developing from a cell formed by the union of two gametes.”
Gamete:
“Either of the two mature cells (ovum or sperm) which, when they unite, form a zygote which is a new individual.”
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (24th edition, 1965) 478 – 479, 547
This textbook was popular around the time of Roe V Wade. Pro-Life author William M Connolly wrote:
“Why didn’t the Supreme Court quote these definitions from Dorland’s work which made clear that from the moment of conception, a developing individual exists? The Supreme Court repeatedly quoted Dorland’s in Roe v. Wade.”
William M Connolly One Life: How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 401
Pro-life writer William M Connolly, in his book One Life:How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion, cites a textbook’s explanation of when life begins.
“A baby begins life as a single cell, smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and would be only barely visible to the naked eye. This cell is created by the union of two parent cells: the female egg cell or ovum, and the male sperm cell.”
Geraldine Lux Flanagan The First Nine Months of Life (Simon & Schuster, 1962)
William M Connolly says the following about Flanagan’s book:
“Simon & Schuster published her book in 1962. So her intent in writing, it seems clear, was merely to be accurately descriptive, and not to weigh in on the abortion controversy…
Ms. Flanigan was educated at Vienna Gymnasium and Radcliffe College. She was a reporter for Life Magazine.
Her husband Dennis Flanagan was the editor of Scientific American. With clear, crisp photography and prose, her 1962 book beautifully illustrates the life of the developing human being from conception, to the first “cleavage” or cell division of the zygote, and at every stage thereafter…
Her book was praised by George W Corner, MD, Former Director of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and professor Emeritus of Embryology at Johns Hopkins University, who wrote the book’s forward.”
William M Connolly One Life:How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 109
Supreme Court Justices had this book at their disposal, but could not come to a conclusion as to whether a fetus was a person.
Share on FacebookLauren Metz, 18, was participating in a counter-protest at a pro-choice march. She describes the way she and other pro-lifers were treated.
“As we were screamed at, called names, spit on, sexually harassed, and censored by the covering of our signs, the fact that the march was for complete and total abortion freedom was indisputable. A male feminist…called me a piece of s*** and worse. He got within an inch or so of my face, continuing his harassment, exclaiming that he did not want to talk to me, only to harass me.”
| Dorothy Cummings McLean “A ‘male feminist called me a piece of s***’: pro-life youth share horror stories from Women’s March” LifeSiteNews Jan 30, 2018 |
What Martin Luther King, Jr. thought about abortion was revealed in his advice column in Ebony in June 1958. He referred to a post-abortion man’s decision as “a mistake.” This indicates that he did not approve of abortion. It is impossible to know for certain, but he may have been pro-life today.
Here is the letter from the post-abortion man and King’s reply:
“Question: About two years ago, I was going with a young lady who became pregnant. I refused to marry her. As a result, I was directly responsible for a crime. It was not until a month later that I realized the awful thing I had done. I begged her to forgive me, to come back, but she has not answered my letters. The thing stays on my mind. What can I do? I have prayed for forgiveness.
Answer: You have made a mistake. This you admit. Your admitting this fact is very wholesome, for it is the first step in the process of repentance and personality integration. One can never rectify a mistake until he admits that a mistake has been made.
Now that you have prayed for forgiveness and acknowledged your mistake, you must turn your vision to the future….Now that you have repented, don’t concentrate on what you failed to do in the past, but what you are determined to do in the future.”
Martin Luther King JR. advice column Ebony, June 1958, p. 118
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