They said it.
Pro-life author William Brennan cited the following quote:
Psychiatrist Jerome M Kummer compared abortion to “an appendectomy for acute appendicitis or amputation to remove a gangrenous or cancerous limb.”
Robert E. Hall, ed Abortion in a Changing World (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970) 1: 99
From William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983)
Is this baby really equivalent to an appendix or infected limb?
Share on FacebookAbortionist Dr. Michael S Burnhill referred to abortion as:
“A consistently high quality, humane service.”
Michael S Burnhill “Humane Abortion Services: A Revolution in Human Rights and the Delivery of a Medical Service” Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 42 (September/October 1975): 950
Pictures of aborted babies at 10 weeks. Was this humane?
BJ Williams, adoption director for San Diego Pregnancy Services, explains how many counselors are biased against adoption:
“So many counselors believe that only someone who doesn’t love the child will place for adoption. Adoption is looked on as a failure, a last-ditch effort.”
Susan Olasky, Marvin Olasky More than Kindness: A Compassionate Approach to Crisis Childbearing (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway books, 1990) 55
Is adoption a better choice than abortion for a baby like this one?
Share on FacebookWhitney, a doula at an abortion clinic, writes about how abortion workers casually chatted right before an abortion. The woman was asleep on the table, prepared for surgery:
“In the background, music is playing. The doctors talk quietly about their upcoming vacations and the weather.
The doulas almost all say that they expect a certain reverence to fill the OR during an abortion, an air that is hushed, respectful, sometimes somber, and maybe even celebratory…We are often surprised when we see that for some people, especially the doctors and the nurses who do surgeries and abortions all day, every day, sometimes it’s just a job.”
Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 93
Share on FacebookExcerpts from this California Medicine article on abortion has been frequently shared by pro-lifers. The California Medicine article on abortion was written while the push to legalize abortion was first starting. It was 1970, and abortion had been legalized in several states. The article was commenting on how “semantic gymnastics” were used to hide the fact that life begins at conception, which “everyone really knows.”
“The traditional Western ethic has always placed great emphasis on the intrinsic worth and equal value of every human life regardless of its age or condition. The ethic has had the blessing of the Judeo-Christian heritage and has been the basis for most of our laws and much of our social policy. The reference for each and every human life has also been a keystone of Western medicine and is the ethic which has caused physicians to try to preserve, protect, repair, prolong, and enhance every human life which comes under their surveillance. This traditional ethic is still clearly dominant, but there is much to suggest that it is being eroded at its core and may eventually even be abandoned…
What is not yet so clearly perceived is that in order to bring this about hard choices will have to be made with respect to what is to be preserved and strengthened and what is not, and that this will of necessity violate and ultimately destroy the traditional Western ethic with all that this portends. It will become necessary and acceptable to place relative rather than absolute values on such things as human lives… This is quite distinctly at variance with the Judeo-Christian ethic…
The process of eroding the old ethic and substituting the new has already begun. It may be seen most clearly in changing attitudes toward human abortion. In defiance of the long-held Western ethic of intrinsic and equal value for every human life regardless of its age, condition, or status, abortion is becoming accepted by society as moral, right and even necessary. It is worth noting that the shift in public attitude has affected the churches, the laws, and public policy rather than the reverse. Since the old ethic has not yet been fully displaced it has been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra-or extra uterine until death. The very considerable semantic gymnastics which are required to rationalize abortion as anything but taking a human life would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under socially impeccable auspices. It is suggested that this schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is necessary because while a new ethic is being accepted the old one has not yet been rejected.”
“A New Ethic for Medicine and Society” California Medicine 113 (September 1970): 67-68
This California Medicine article on abortion comments on the how euphemisms were used to “rationalize abortion as anything but killing.” It sums up the abortion issue very well.
An abortion doula, who comforts women as they kill their babies, says:
“I’ve been taught to follow the patient’s lead. If she calls it her baby, then I do too. But with the next patient, just as far along, it’s fetal tissue, it’s the products of conception. One stumbles over her words, says “all the stuff inside,” and that feels right, too. “
Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Is this a baby? Or “fetal tissue?”
Abortionist Dr. Malcolm Potts claimed:
The logic that set up the concentration camps was “ferociously anti-abortion.”
Malcolm Potts “Abortion in Europe” Newsweek January 28, 1980, p 6
Quoted in: William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983) 17
Share on FacebookDr. David Grundmann, the medical director for Planned Parenthood of Australia, wrote a paper on partial birth abortions where he stated the reasons why he performed them. The paper was titled “Abortion After Twenty Weeks in Clinical Practice: Practical, Ethical and Legal Issues.” From National Right to Life:
Dr. Grundmann wrote that in Australia, late-second-trimester abortion is available “in many major hospitals, in most capital cities and large provincial centres” in cases of “lethal fetal abnormalities” or “gross fetal abnormalities,” or “risk to maternal life,” including “psychotic/suicidal behavior.” However, Dr. Grundmann said, his Planned Parenthood clinic also offers the procedure after 20 weeks for women who fall into five additional “categories”: (1) “minor or doubtful fetal abnormalities,” (2) “extreme maternal immaturity i.e. girls in the 11 to 14 year age group,” (3) women “who do not know they are pregnant,” for example because of amenorrhea [irregular menstruation] “in women who are very active such as athletes or those under extreme forms of stress i.e. exam stress, relationship breakup…,” (4) “intellectually impaired women, who are unaware of basic biology…,” (5) “major life crises or major changes in socio-economic circumstances. The most common example of this is a planned or wanted pregnancy followed by the sudden death or desertion of the partner who is in all probability the bread winner.”
“For what reasons are partial-birth abortions usually performed?” National Right to Life” Here Visited 12/3/2017
Any of those reasons could be given for aborting a baby like the one above.
Share on FacebookOn the same day that Roe vs. Wade was decided, a lesser-known court ruling, Doe vs. Bolton, was also passed. This case pertained to another woman who lawyer said wanted an abortion. In reality, the woman, Sandra Cano, was never seeking an abortion and was tricked into signing the papers. The case resulted in a decision that said states could never restrict abortion in any way unless there was an exception for the woman’s health. However, Doe vs. Bolton defined “health” very broadly, including emotional health and the women’s age.
It seems that the Chief Justice had doubts about the validity of the case from the beginning, but because he intended to legalize abortion, he ignored them:
“In his notes to [Justice] Blackmun, [Justice] Brennan expressed doubts that “Mary Doe” actually existed and observed that because she was “apparently a resident of Georgia, she seems to lack standing to raise the rights of nonresidents…It may be best to finesse that question.”
David M. Wagner “Roe v. Wade and the Deformation of Constitutional Law” Washington Watch Quoted in:
Troy Clark, Ph.D. Abortion Every 90 Seconds: The Whole Story (Kindle, 2015)
Share on FacebookFrom Jerry, whose wife had an abortion against his will:
“I can’t understand how my wife could do such a thing. We didn’t have money problems. We didn’t have family problems. Our two existing children were at school so there was no reason why we couldn’t have had the baby. Except that she didn’t want it. Something died in me that morning and I can’t see my wife the way I used to see her. I don’t know if we can survive this.”
They later divorced.
Anne R Lastman Redeeming Grief: Abortion and Its Pain (Balwyn, Vic: Australia: Gracewing, 2013) 122
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