They said it.
In an interview, an abortion clinic worker from Paris who counsels women before their abortions, explains that she never looks at the aborted babies. She says:
“As for me, I never wanted to see it. I prefer not to look, otherwise it’s not going to help me listen to the women.”
Luc Boltanski The Foetal Condition: A Sociology of Engendering and Abortion (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013) 149
Share on FacebookMSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry said on her show:
“When does life begin? I submit the answer depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents. A powerful feeling – but not science.”
Cassy Fiano “Abortion-backer Melissa Harris-Perry: Life begins whenever you feel like it does” Live Action News July 24, 2013
See quotes from medical textbooks saying that life begins at conception.
Share on FacebookJoseph Fletcher, ethicist, justifying abortion in cases of rape:
“The embryo is no more innocent, no less an aggressor or unwelcome invader [than the rapist]!”
Joseph Fletcher Situation Ethics (Philadelphia: the Westminster Press, 1966) 39
Is this baby as guilty as a rapist?
Share on FacebookValerie Miller Coleman, minister of Community Engagement, Plymouth United Church of Christ:
“Our faith demands a compassionate response to the hardships our most vulnerable neighbors face… We’ve had record giving every time we tell our congregation their gifts will support Planned Parenthood…
Women’s health is a crucial piece in a strong, healthy society, and we have a broad understanding of that.
As people of faith, we believe that abundant life is a gift from God which belongs to all people. Ensuring that all women have full access to excellent health care is essential to that vision of abundance.
We are proud to support the mission and work of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.”
“A Matter of Faith” The Source Planned Parenthood Fall 2013
Rev. Debra McKnight, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church in Omaha:
“God is a life-giving presence, which means we can and should care for each other with compassion. Faith isn’t just an hour on Sunday morning, but in your everyday life. So, we hope people are thinking about what is life-giving …
I believe that being absolutely pro-birth isn’t always the most life-giving choice. The church needs to be there to support people, not moralize about those choices…we acknowledge that an absolute ban [on abortion] is not necessarily the most life-affirming stance…because it doesn’t take into account the circumstances of the woman and her family.
People of faith can take courage from the prophets of ancient stories and speak up. They can let the world and our leaders know that reproductive rights are sacred and women’s health means healthy families, workplaces and communities.”
“A Matter of Faith” The Source Planned Parenthood Fall 2013
Below: baby at 10 weeks. Before and after abortion. Is this choice “sacred?”
From one pro-choice activist:
“The underlying emotion of “prolife” people is not love but fear, which is at least as strong a motivator but is less comfortably admitted….
[I]f we continue to be respectful and legitimate, we soon may be scouring the closet for metal [coat] hangers. … If their side airs commercials with cuddly babies, how about a few with terrified teenagers — children like your own — encountering filthy back-alley abortionists? … How about hooded Inquisitors stretching women on the rack: “Who did it? Where do we find him?” Or Gestapo types breaking into a sterile operating room, destroying science?”
Robin Tolmach Lakoff “The Rhetoric of Reproduction.” Conscience (newsletter of Catholics for a Free Choice), Summer 1992 [Volume XV, Number 1], pgs 4 – 12.
Share on FacebookFrom pro-choice author Beverly Wildung Harrison:
“Proponents of safe, legal abortion…often remain silent on the question of the value of fetal life.”
Beverly Wildung Harrison Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1983) 17
When asked about why Catholics for Free Choice, a pro-abortion group, took money from the Playboy Foundation, president Francis Kissling said:
“I’ve never felt that by taking money from someone indicates that we support them.”
Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), when questioned about Playboy Magazine funding of CFFC. Quoted in “Playboy Funds Pro-Abortion Group” National Federation for Decency Journal February 1985, page 16
Share on FacebookFrom pro-choice activist Joyce Arthur:
“Abortion is a major blessing, and a sacrament in the hands of women…. Now, a flake of dandruff from my head is human, but it is not a human being, and in this sense, neither is a fertilized egg.”
Joyce Arthur. “The Fetus Focus Fallacy.” Pro-Choice Press [Pro-Choice Action Network], March 2005. Downloaded on December 31, 2007.
Princeton Philosopher Peter Singer:
“Because people are human does not mean that their lives are more valuable than animals. Some nonhuman animals are more like normal human beings than are some seriously damaged members of our own species.”
Quoted in “American Bioethics Advisory Commission Demands Resignation of Princeton Professor” The Wanderer December 8, 1998, p. 11
Singer is a strong supporter of legal abortion.
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