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New York Times: some couples choose the sex of their babies

In a New York Times article, doctors who do fertility treatments say some couples want to create a baby of a certain sex. The article says:

“There is evidence that some Americans want to choose their babies’ sex. At the Fertility Institutes, a set of clinics in Los Angeles, New York and Guadalajara, Mexico, 85 percent of roughly 500 couples each year seek sex selection, although three-quarters of them come from overseas, said Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, the medical director.”

The article also quotes Dr. Steinberg, whose clinics determine sex through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, an embryo screening:

“It’s jumped over the past four years. If a woman calls to make the appointment, the couple almost always wants a female. If a man calls, they almost always want a male.”

Pam Belluck “If You Really, Really Wanted a Girl …” The New York Times August 20, 2011

These parents choose to implant embryos of the preferred gender and dispose of the ones of the “wrong” gender.

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Abortionist describes removing baby’s spine

Amna Dermish late-term abortionist at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, describes how she does an abortion:

“I’ll remove the extremities first – the lower extremities – and then go for the spine and sort of break it down that way… I always try to aim for a spine to bring it down.”

Kristi Burton Brown “10 horrifying things Planned Parenthood says about abortion” Live Action News May 25, 2017

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Pro-choicers call homeless shelter for pregnant women “an outrage”

Pro-abortion writer Judith Orr describes how feminists were angry that a pro-life group was using tax dollars to build a shelter for pregnant homeless women. They would rather homeless women be on the street than be helped by a pro-life organization.

“… There was so much anger in March 2017 at the news that the Tory government had given 250,000 pounds raised from taxes on tampons and sanitary pads to the antiabortion organization Life. Life said it would fund a homeless shelter for pregnant women. Pro-choice campaigners argued that it was bad enough for necessary sanitary items to be taxed as “luxury” products, but for money generated by this “tampon tax” to be given to an organization that declares it won’t give up until “abortion is a thing of the past” was a “bloody outrage.”

Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 91

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Pro-Choice demonstrators make their children wear “I’m a Choice” pins

Pro-Choice lawyer Sarah Weddington, who argued the Roe Vs. Wade case before the Supreme Court, writes about a pro-abortion demonstration she went to. It was called the March for Women’s Lives She recalls:

“I remember various images from that day… A man in a big cowboy hat carrying a sign that read: “Cowboys for Choice”; a number of older women identifying themselves as “Menopausal Women Nostalgic for Choice,” and younger ones calling themselves “NY Yankee Fans for Choice.”

I was buoyed up by the pageantry of young people holding up placards… “Stand UP for Choice,” and “We Will Not Go Back.”

Children wore pins that said “I’m a Choice,” and families carried placards announcing: “This Family Is Pro-Choice.”

Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 233

Can you imagine a woman forcing her child to wear a button saying “I’m a choice?” These parents are emphasizing the fact that they could have killed their children. How is that child going to feel growing up, knowing he or she could just as easily have been killed in the womb?

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Director of National Abortion Federation: Abortion is profitable

Uta Landy, then executive director of the National Abortion Federation, said:

“Abortion certainly is profitable…Making money is not a bad thing.”

Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion: And It’s a Big Business” Observer-Reporter January 18, 1983

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Pro-Choice feminist Naomi Wolf on pro-lifers

In an interview pro-choice author Naomi Wolf admitted that she had “been raised all her life” to “demonize” pro-lifers.

She says:

“I have to reckon with the fact that many of the people I’ve heard from on that side [pro-life] of the divide are thoughtful, ethical people who respect women and who believe that it is a deep moral concern and even a deep religious concern to raise the status of women in society.”

The interview took place with William F. Buckley on the TV show “Firing Line.”

Carole Novielli “Pro-choice feminist: Abortion leads to ‘cheapened view of human life’” Live Action News December 15, 2017

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Abortionist experiences feelings of remorse

In a book on abortion counseling, one British abortionist said:

“I occasionally feel pangs of remorse and have to remind myself of the consequences of the woman’s continuing with the pregnancy.”

Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 175

Prebon baby at 10 weeks, legal to abort in both England and the US

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Parents call baby with Down syndrome the “greatest joy of our lives”

The parents of a child with Down Syndrome shared the following:

“Three years ago we had a child with Down syndrome, a closed esophagus and leukemia. After months of heartache, long hours at the hospital, not to mention unpaid bills, today he is the greatest joy of our lives. Anyone whose mischief can make me laugh before I’ve had my first cup of coffee in the morning can’t be all bad.… Who is more severely handicapped, someone who asks for nothing but hugs and cookies, or the person who would deny him an existence because he will never be a doctor or a lawyer?”

Randall J Hekman Justice for the Unborn (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1984) 56

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Abortion doula encourages 14 year old girl having abortion

An abortion doula, who encourages women while they have abortions, recalls talking to a girl about to have an abortion:

“Another patient asks, “Do you think I’m too young for an abortion?” I tell her no; I think she’s making a really responsible choice. She looks at me, says, “Do you even know how old I am?” I shake my head no. “I’m 14,” she says.”

Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Above: most abortions take place around this time.

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Abortion clinic supervisor on women’s choices

A supervisor at an abortion clinic says the following:

“I feel it’s important for women to acknowledge that sometimes they have got a choice, even though it’s not a very good one. Like living on welfare, it is a choice, even though it’s not attractive. You acknowledge that people have got a choice, even if it is a very small amount of choice because of their circumstances…

Women may say, oh, I don’t want to have a baby because I haven’t enough money, or my partner and I haven’t known one another very long. When I feel it’s good just to say, I don’t want a baby at the moment. I think that’s perfectly all right. There’s nothing stronger than that, when you think of what it takes to have a baby.”

Patricia Lunneborg Abortion: A Positive Decision (Westport, Connecticut: Bergen & Garvey, 1992)

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