They said it.
A man with Huntington’s chorea in his family was asked if he would have wanted to be aborted. Huntington’s chorea usually strikes at age 40 or so, and causes rapid degeneration of mind and body. It is hereditary. The man with the disease said he would not have wanted to be aborted.
“Better a short life and a happy one than none at all. Better take the chance to live well until you’re 40!”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 136 – 137
Share on FacebookRosemary Radford Ruether from Woman-Church provides a new prayer for a woman who has had an abortion:
The article in First Things says:
“Woman-Church, provides the “new words, new prayers, new symbols” that will free women from patriarchy and allow them “to live the new humanity now.” Her community prayer for the rite of healing from an abortion.”
This is the prayer:
“O great Mother and Father, power of all life and new life, we are sorrowful this day . . . we are also angry. . . . We are surrounded by a world in which vast numbers of people go to bed hungry and where many children come into the world unwanted and without the most minimal opportunities for love and development. We don’t want to create life that way. We want to create life that is chosen, wanted, and can be sustained and nourished. Our sister has made her hard choice. . . . We affirm and uphold her in her ongoing life, as she gathers her life together and centers her energies on how she is going to continue to sustain her own life and the lives around her which it nourishes.”
Camille S. Williams “Abortion and the Actualized Self” First Things November 1991
Sometimes abortion clinics close not because of pressure from pro-lifers but because of competition with other abortion clinics.
“We would not be closing today if Planned Parenthood had not started providing abortion services in the same town.”
Cindy George, “Planned Parenthood debuts new building”, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, May 21, 2010
Share on FacebookDr. Albert W. Liley, a widely recognized authority in fetal medicine, explains why conception, not quickening, should be the deciding factor in when a preborn baby should be protected:
“Historically, “quickening” was supposed to delineate the time when the fetus became an independent human being possessed of a soul. Now, however, we know that while he may have been too small to make his motions felt, the unborn baby is active and independent long before his mother feels him. Quickening is a maternal sensitivity and depends on the mother’s own fat, the position of the placenta and the size and strength of the unborn child. Quickening is hardly an objective basis for making a decision about the existence or the value of the life of the unborn child.”
H.M. Liley, Modern Motherhood (1969), cited by Heffernan, “Early Biography of Everyman,” p.18
From a woman whose husband tried to force her to get an abortion
“… It has also made me rethink the whole business of abortion.… Because I found that when I became pregnant with Sam that abortion was used against me as a real weapon… He was able to say, “I want you to have an abortion and if you don’t, I don’t want to have a child with you” – to say appalling and dreadful things to me to try and force me to have an abortion.
And I felt, then – all the years of struggling uphill to try and attain some sort of equality and pull my own weight and be an equal with men! It was as though I had landed on a snake and gone right down to the bottom of the board, with a man saying to me, exercising a supreme male prerogative, “If you don’t do this thing, you will be punished and you will always realize that you are being punished.…
He was going on at me up until I was seven months pregnant. When I was nearly 7 months, he phoned me up and said he had found someplace that would do abortions at this stage. He was all the time going on about it. Seven months pregnant!…
In this, Andrew – who was involved with a left-wing political scene – was aided and abetted by feminist friends….
When I was pregnant with Sam, he spoke to a lot of women about it. Mostly a lot of women in their early 30s with no children.… I felt: these young women who certainly say they believe in equality, yet somehow they fail to understand what equality means …there was an acceptance by them that abortion was the only thing.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 278-280
Share on FacebookFrom a woman who had an abortion:
“It was reasonably pleasant..…It only took three minutes. You come around virtually immediately. Just feeling a bit woozy. And then, there we were in the next room, in a row, like factory farming, everybody sort of groaning because the one thing they don’t tell you is that there is a degree of pain afterwards.…. It cost $125 at the time – fantastically reasonable. Abortion is a competitive business in America and that keeps the prices sharp….. There was no question of counseling or anything like that: it was purely physical.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 275 – 276
What this child would look like after an abortion:
Liz Deaves, abortion clinic director at Marie Stopes, describes what it’s like in the recovery room, at the end of the day after the women have all had abortions:
“You can feel the tension disappearing as they sit up in bed and chat with one another. Sometimes boyfriends bring champagne and there is an atmosphere of celebration.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 148-149
A former clinic worker, however, paints a very different picture of what women were like after their abortions.
See what this baby would look like after an abortion.
Share on FacebookRex Brinkworth, the founder of the Down’s Children Association, has a Down syndrome daughter named Francoise. When she found out about the test for Down syndrome and the fact that some women aborted babies like her, she said:
“Does this mean they kill Down’s babies? They would have killed me, though. Will they try to kill me now?”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 145 – 146
Share on FacebookBritish proabortion activist Ann Kellecher on what to do when babies are found to be disabled in the womb:
“The rational policy would be to allow the foetus to be born (if you suspected it was unacceptable) and then to kill it if it was affected. But probably the better thing to do would be to allow the foetus, the child, to reach a certain age, whatever age that it might be expected to understand these things, and then ask it if it wanted to go on living.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 235-236
In the article “Fetal Psychology” scientists explain how a baby learns to differentiate between voices while in her mother’s womb. This article appeared in the reputable publication Psychology Today.
“Along with the ability to feel, see, and hear comes the capacity to learn and remember. … For example, a fetus, after an initial reaction of alarm, eventually stops responding to a repeated loud noise. The fetus displays the same kind of primitive learning, known as habituation, in response to its mother’s voice, Fifer has found.
But the fetus has shown itself capable of far more. In the 1980s, psychology professor Anthony James DeCasper, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, devised a feeding contraption that allows a baby to suck faster to hear one set of sounds through headphones and to suck slower to hear a different set. With this technique, DeCasper discovered that within hours of birth, a baby already prefers its mother’s voice to a stranger’s, suggesting it must have learned and remembered the voice, albeit not necessarily consciously, from its last months in the womb. More recently, he’s found that a newborn prefers a story read to it repeatedly in the womb – in this case, The Cat in the Hat – over a new story introduced soon after birth.
DeCasper and others have uncovered more mental feats. Newborns can not only distinguish their mother from a stranger speaking, but would rather hear Mom’s voice, especially the way it sounds filtered through amniotic fluid rather than through air. …
By monitoring changes in fetal heart rate, psychologist JeanPierre Lecanuet, Ph.D., and his colleagues in Paris have found that fetuses can even tell strangers’ voices apart.”
Janet L. Hopson “Fetal Psychology” Psychology Today, Sep/Oct98, Vol. 31 Issue 5, p44, 6p, 4c.
