They said it.
According to research done in 2014, 13% of women having abortions are self-proclaimed Evangelical Christians.
Jenna Jerman, Rachel K. Jones and Tsuyoshi Onda “Characteristics of U.S. Abortion Patients in 2014 and Changes Since 2008” Guttmacher Institute May 2006
Share on FacebookHere is some information about what percentage of abortion clinics do abortions at different stages of pregnancy:
In 2012:
95% of abortion clinics did abortions at eight weeks
72% of them did abortions at 12 weeks
34% did abortions at a 20 weeks
16% did abortions at 24 weeks
J Jerman and RK Jones “Secondary Measures of Access to Abortion Services in the United States, 2011 and 2012: Gestational Age Limits, Cost, and Harassment” Women’s Health Issues (2014) 24 (4):e419–e424
Share on FacebookBritish Pro-choice author Fran Amery admits:
“The drive for reproductive rights has historically been interwoven with racist and ablest ideologies. Early birth control advocates utilized the language of eugenics in order to legitimize the movement, arguing that unrestrained reproduction would result in “racial decay.” Contraception was figured as a way to prevent the “unfit” from breeding. Margaret Sanger herself gradually shifted away from her initial feminist defense of contraception towards advocacy of contraception as a means to control poor, minority, disabled and immigrant populations.
Similarly, the British contraception campaigner Marie Stopes espoused an outright eugenicist position, advocating against the right to reproduce of the “feebleminded” and “racially negligent” among others. Such moves by contraception advocates lent legitimacy to the forced sterilization campaigns imposed on minority women.”
Fran Amery Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020) 24
One of the largest chains of abortion clinics in Great Britain is named after Marie Stopes
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Rosalind Petchesky writes:
“For a Native American woman on welfare, who every time she appears in the clinic for prenatal care is asked whether she would not like an abortion, “the right to choose an abortion” may appear dubious if not offensive.”
Rosalind Petchesky Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom (London: Verso, 1986) 8
This author is acknowledging that minorities, especially poor minorities, are often pressured to abort their children.
Share on FacebookAlthough he admits being “extremely conflicted” about abortion, Brent Elisens writes:
“consciousness cannot emerge before 24 gestational weeks… To me this would mean that abortions before 16 weeks (giving the 24 weeks a wide berth) would be morally sound.”
He also supports eugenics:
“Eugenics is a controversial subject. Often an offensive one. However, only for delicate people… Obviously, saying that a specific race or class of people is not allowed to reproduce is morally disgusting… [But] why are welfare people allowed to have four, five, and six kids? While on welfare?”
Brent Elisens The Adoption Option With a Portion of Abortion (2021)
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Pro-life author S. Nye reveals:
“In a series of focus groups conducted around the United States by antitrafficking activist Laura Lederer in 2014, over 25% of survivors of domestic sex trafficking who responded to the question reported that they had been forced to have an abortion.”
Source: Laura J. Lederer and Christopher A. Wetzel “The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities” Annals of Health Law Vol 23, 2014
S Nye Whose Child? UK Abortion, a Gospel Matter (undated) 84
Share on FacebookFeminist Catherine McKinnon writes:
“[Abortion] provides a moment of power in a life otherwise led under unequal conditions that preclude choice in ways [women] cannot control… [Abortion is] a window of relief in an unequal situation from which there is no exit.”
Catherine McKinnon Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005) 141
Any “power” abortion gives a woman is the power to kill her vulnerable child. No human being should have that power over life and death for another.
Share on FacebookBishop Kevin Vann from the diocese of Orange in California, telling the story of a couple whose baby, Rylei was diagnosed with severe disabilities in the womb:
“Given the choice to abort, the parents, Krysta and Derek, decided instead that their daughter Rylei should be born and that her organs would be donated upon her natural death. She lived for only a few days. But she transformed the lives of her parents – who were forever changed by knowing her – and the lives of all the infants who received her donated organs, not to mention their families, friends and so on.
These infants will go on to have lives like the rest of us, full of dreams and joys among the disappointments and sadness. Such is the human experience… But all of this is made possible because of the life of this one child who only lived for a few days outside her mother’s womb.”
Rick Garrett The Duping of America (Maitland, Florida: Liberty Hill Press, 2021) 134 – 135
Share on FacebookA doctor who did illegal abortions drank a toast when abortion was legalized. He went on to commit abortion legally. According to a Newsweek article:
“In Beverly Hills, a respected gynecologist, who had been violating California law by doing abortions in his office, drank a cold duck toast over a newly arrived vacuum extraction device with which he would perform his first legal abortion in two years.”
Matt Clark “Abortion: What Happens Now?” Newsweek February 5, 1973
Share on FacebookIn May of this year, an arsonist set a pregnancy resource center on fire. Live Action News covered the story:
“In the early morning hours of May 3, the Women’s Care Center of Peoria, Illinois, part of a national chain of pregnancy care centers based out of South Bend, Indiana, was targeted by an arsonist who set fire to the locked building…
The Women’s Care Center provides free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds to over 500 women in the local community each year, with 13 women served per day, 1,000 ultrasounds performed annually, and 596 babies saved in the last year, according to the center’s website…
While the fire was contained largely to one main room, heat and smoke damage throughout the building rendered the property a total loss, estimated at $250,000.”
The article referred to director of client care Connie McClure:
“McClure told the Post that counselors were already on the phone Monday morning speaking to some of the center’s 500 current clients expecting babies in the coming days and months, promising that their care would continue. “It may look a little different, but we’ve made a promise we will be there to support them.”
Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN “Illinois pregnancy center set ablaze by arsonist, but knows ‘good will come’” Live Action News May 6, 2021
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