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Woman brags that she will have an abortion if she gets pregnant

Pro-abortion activist Amanda Marcotte explains why she will have an abortion if she gets pregnant:

“You can give me gold-plated daycare and an awesome public school right on the street corner and start paying me 15% more at work, and I still do not want a baby. I don’t particularly like babies.

They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.

No matter how flexible you make my work schedule, my entire life would be overturned by a baby. I like my life how it is, with my ability to do what I want when I want without having to arrange for a babysitter.

I like being able to watch True Detective right now and not wait until baby is in bed. I like sex in any room of the house I please. I don’t want a baby…

And don’t float “adoption” as an answer. Adoption? Fuck you, seriously.

I am not turning my body over for nine months of gaining weight and puking and being tired and suffering and not being able to sleep on my side and going to the hospital for a bout of misery and pain so that some couple I don’t know and probably don’t even like can have a baby. …

I like drinking alcohol and eating soft cheese. I like not having a giant growth protruding out of my stomach. I hate hospitals and like not having stretch marks.

We don’t even force men to donate sperm—a largely pleasurable activity with no physical cost—so forcing women to donate babies is reprehensible.

This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.

AMANDA MARCOTTE “The Real Debate Isn’t About “Life” But About What We Expect Of Women” Raw Story 14 MAR 2014

This is what Marcotte wants to do to her babies because she doesn’t want to delay watching True Detective or get stretch marks.

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Head of abortion chain: abortion is needed with contraception

Ann Furedi, is the head of a chain of abortion clinics in England called the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. They do 60,000 abortions each year. Furedi says that contraception will not replace abortion. Abortion is needed regardless of whether women use contraception, because contraception fails. She says:

“The answer to unsafe abortion is not contraception, it is safe abortion. When you encourage women to use contraception, you give them the sense that they can control their fertility – but if you do not provide safe abortion services when that contraception fails you are doing them a great disservice.

Our data shows women cannot control their fertility through contraception alone, even when they are using some of the most effective methods.

Family planning is contraception and abortion. Abortion is birth control that women need when their regular method lets them down.”

Steve Doughty “New boss of leading abortion provider says terminations should be regarded as ‘just another type of birth control” Daily Mail July 6, 2017

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Abortion clinic worker; some women come back 5 times

Abortion clinic worker Sallie Tisdale says:

“I see women who berate themselves with violent emotions for their first and only abortion, and others who return three times, five times, hauling two or three children, who cannot remember to take a pill or where they put the diaphragm.”

Sallie Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Tale” Harper’s Magazine, October, 1987, 66-70.

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Abortionist believes in the cause, just like in the military

Abortionist Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who performs late-term abortions into the third trimester, says:

“I totally believe in this cause every bit as much as I did believe every morning when I got up in the military that I was doing the right thing.”

CBS Evening News, Dec. 4, 2009

22 to 24 week preborn baby. Carhart kills babies at this age.

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Late-term abortionist lives “affluent lifestyle”

Reporter Dave Daley comments on the wealth of a late-term abortionist:

“[Late term abortionist Martin Haskell ] drives a Jaguar, lives about a mile down the road from former baseball superstar Pete Rose in Cincinnati’s Indian Hills suburb, and enjoys an affluent lifestyle from his two abortion clinics. Haskell, 43, wouldn’t say how much he earns from his two clinics, but said he employs up to 40 people and has a separate accounting office.”

From Dave Daley in Dayton Daily News 1989

Quoted in David Andrusko “SHOCKED SPEECHLESS: The Death of Conscience” National Right to Life News, February 23, 1993

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Abortion doula: “women scream and cry”

An abortion doula, who volunteers at an abortion clinic and comforts women while they’re having abortions, says:

“Some of the first-trimester patients scream and cry and shake”

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

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Author explains her unexamined pro-choice views

A pro-choice author, Cara J. Marianna, who interviewed dozens of postabortion women for a book she was writing, explains why she was pro-choice before she began the writing project.

She says that because of her feminism and basic political persuasion, she assumed that she should be in support of legalized abortion.

Her self-identified feminism and the other opinions she held were what prompted her to be pro-choice, not an honest examination of the abortion issue. She never claims to have been converted to the pro-life side, but clearly has some ambivalence by the end of the book.

She gives the insight that she was pro-choice even though she didn’t know that much about abortion, just because it seemed like she was supposed to be.

“As I moved further into the writing process, as I continually referred to women’s stories—read and reread their personal narratives—I became ever more aware of my own assumptions about the issue.

I came to see my own position as a set of beliefs built upon certain cultural scripts that I happen, probably for a great variety of reasons, to identify with.

According to those generally feminist and politically liberal narratives, there are certain things I am supposed to think about abortion: Abortion is a political, rather than religious or moral issue, and is a matter of human liberty, in general, and women’s equality, in particular.

Legal abortion is fundamental to reproductive freedom and women’s health and well-being. Like a religious person who opposes abortion, I take my beliefs to be articles of faith.”

Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) Xiv

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After Roe V Wade, Supreme Court Justice denies the law creates “abortion on demand”

Supreme Court Justice Warren Berger voted in favor of legalizing abortion in Roe V Wade. On the day of the ruling, the dissenting Justices claimed that striking down restrictions on abortion would lead to women having abortions in abortion clinics across the nation from an abortion industry that would spring up. Women, they said, would decide to have abortions on their own, without discussing the matter with their doctors, and then go get them. The dissenting Justices called this “abortion on demand” – meaning a woman could have an abortion on request simply because she wanted it done. Abortions, the dissenters thought, would be common. Berger, in contrast, believed after Roe abortions would be extremely rare and would only be done for serious health reasons, when doctors thought they were needed.

On the day of the Roe V Wade decision, Berger wrote:

“I do not read the Court’s holding today as having the sweeping consequences attributed to them by the dissenting Justices; the dissenting views discount the reality that the vast majority of physicians observe the standards of their profession, and act only on the basis of carefully deliberated medical judgments relating to life and health. Plainly the Court today rejects any claim that the Constitution requires abortion on demand.”

Doe vs. Bolton, 410 US 179 at 208

Quoted in: Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984)

Obviously, Berger turned out to be wrong – over a million abortions were soon taking place every year as women chose to have them for any reason they wanted. Doctors set up abortion facilities across the country, doing any abortion a woman requested as long as they were paid. Berger later admitted he had been wrong in his prediction.

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Woman who aborted disabled child: “we used euphemisms”

A woman whose baby had severe health issues and was scheduled for an abortion, writes about the euphemisms she and the medical professionals were using. These euphemisms hid reality. A few days before her scheduled abortion, a friend asked her a question that made her confront what she was doing:

“So when do you go for the abortion?” My friend asked, her voice sympathetic. “Wednesday,” I replied, and then hurriedly got off the phone. I called Mike, my boyfriend, in tears, complaining about how inconsiderate people are, how no one thinks before they speak. The truth was, and until I heard the word “abortion,” it hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually having one.

I was, of course. But we’d been using euphemisms for days, ever since my doctor called to say my amniocentesis results “weren’t good.” We’d say “when we go to the hospital” or “the appointment” or “after the procedure, we can try again.”

Maria Eftimiades “One Woman’s Choice” The Washington Post, November 15, 2003

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