From Steven Mosher:
Over 10% of all baby girls conceived in China are aborted
Steven W. Mosher Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008) 18
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Woman has abortions because there are interesting things to do
A woman named Sarah who had 3 abortions gives her reasons:
“The first one, I was a student and I didn’t want to interrupt my studies. The second and third, I had plans for my life. I had real definite plans for my life that did not include totally changing them to marry someone that would not fit into my vision of myself and my future.”
The interviewer says:
Motherhood had never appealed to Sarah. She was always more interested in education and career, travel and adventure. Pregnancy and motherhood were incompatible with the goals she set for herself and the basic vision she had of her life. There was simply no room in her life for a child….
Sarah noted, continuing a pregnancy ‘would have been more of a decision about giving up what I had planned. And I really did view myself as kind of an adventurous young woman. There are so many more interesting things to do than have a family and kids.”
Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 99
“Tremendous cost” of treatment influenced choice to abort disabled baby
A couple chose to abort their baby (by D&E) at just under 20 weeks when the child was diagnosed with severe kidney disease. He would have needed a kidney transplant and dialysis. The woman says:
“We did not explicitly consider the potentially tremendous cost of pursuing aggressive treatment … but in retrospect those concerns were implicit in our decision-making”
Phoebe Day Danziger “A Peaceful Death” Slate FEB. 5 2014
Below: chart of how a D&E abortion is performed
Woman feels baby kick before her abortion
From a woman who had an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with kidney trouble. He may have been on dialysis or needed a kidney transplant:
“It was a Friday afternoon, and we scheduled the dilation and evacuation for Monday morning. It was surreal … to walk around feeling our baby kick his little legs and flip around, knowing that after Monday I would never feel him again…Our daughter understood only that the little baby in Mommy’s tummy was very sick”
Phoebe Day Danziger “A Peaceful Death” Slate FEB. 5 2014
Share on FacebookPost-Abortion woman: there is more abortion stigma now
From a woman who had abortions in the 1970s and early 1980s:
“There was much less stigma related to abortion than there is now. In fact, it was almost an act of liberation.”
Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 53
Share on FacebookWoman having abortion concedes there is “a baby”
From one woman who had an abortion:
“Once I was committed to having an abortion, I almost couldn’t stand knowing a baby was growing inside me. My mother-in-law gave us the $500 cash we needed (she is an unequivocal pro-choice advocate).
I went through the time between making the appointment and the appointment itself like an automaton, doing everything exactly, thoughtlessly, numbed. I don’t believe I allowed myself to consider my own feelings about abortion until it was over.”
Helen Susan Edelman, “Safe to Talk: Abortion Narratives as a Rite of Return,” Journal of American Culture 19, no. 4 (1996)
Share on FacebookResearcher suggest abusive men have rage at babies
Catherine Coyle, PhD says:
“Some clinicians have observed that batterers often beat their pregnant partners’ bellies and display regressions that seem to indicate rage at the fetus they believe competes for their partners’ love. Such observations appear to be supported by women who were queried about their beliefs as to why their partners beat them.”
Cambell, JC, Garcia-Moreno C., & Sharps, P. “Abuse during pregnancy in industrialized and developing countries” Violence Against Women 10 (7) 2004
Quoted in Catherine Coyle, PhD “Intimate Partner Violence” Rachel M. MacNair, editor Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion (Kansas City, MO: Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Association, 2016)
Share on FacebookThose who commit infanticide get lenient sentences
An article in The American Feminist says:
Nearly five infants under the age of 1 are killed in the United States each week, according to a 1997 CNN review of FBI statistic.
The article goes on to say:
“However, if criminal penalties assigned to perpetrators of infanticide are any indication of how society views the crime,the “slippery slope” concern is quite valid. After Louise Woodward was convicted of the murder of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen, Judge Hiller Zobel reduced her sentence to time served on the grounds that “she was ‘a little rough with him,’ under circumstances where another, perhaps wiser, person would have sought to restrain the physical impulse.” Most recently, Marie Noe was given 20 years’ probation for killing eight infants. Would she have been given the same penalty for killing eight adults? Not likely.”
Laura Ciampa “INFANTICIDE: Children as Chattel” The American Feminist Volume 6, Number 4 Winter 1999-2000
Does the ready availability of abortion contribute to a climate where the lives of babies are not respected as much as the lives of adults?
Share on FacebookPro-Choicers threw urine on pro-lifers
Abortionist Dr. William Harrison on what was done to pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors outside his clinic:
“While I definitely did not encourage it, young people began to curse our pickets, several of whom had buckets of urine, and worse, thrown on them as they prepared to listen to a group of smiling young people who seemed to have slowed to tell them how much they supported what they were doing….
On rainy days, water was splashed on them as they stood on the narrow sidewalk in front of my office. In winter, they were splashed with slush. Their churches began to lose members. The ministers in other churches began to speak in support of me and what I do. My community began to seriously support what I did….I was supported by the mayor, the city board, police, the courts, the prosecutors and judges simply because they did their jobs.”
“A Fayetteville doctor, himself a target of abortion protesters, says law officers failed to protect Dr. George Tiller” Arkansas Times JUNE 11, 2009 Here
See what this baby would look like after an abortion.
Share on FacebookMother of mentally challenged son speaks out
From the mother of a developmentally delayed child:
“As the parent of a disabled child, I have experienced firsthand the transformed perspective on life possible when one is given the opportunity to live with those who confound our expectations, who have too much or too little of a range of expected human traits, who experience life in a way that must remain opaque to the majority of normally functional human beings.
What my parents’ generation would have called Declan’s “mental retardation,” we termed his “developmental disabilities.”
But what was neither retarded nor disabled was an infectious enthusiasm for life which illuminated any interaction with him, an ability to give and receive love that was uncomplicated by the egoism, self-awareness, or self-consciousness of a “typical” child.
Parenting this child forced us to reconsider our conception of what qualities and capacities made life worth living; they joy my son clearly took in life and the joy he gave us compelled such a reevaluation.”
Shelley Burtt “Which Babies?” Tikkun January 2001
Quoted in Christine Watkins, ed. The Ethics of Abortion (New York: Greenhaven press, 2005) 72
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