They said it.
A pro-abortion writer tries to explain why pictures of aborted babies generate so much sympathy for preborn babies:
“The story and reasons of the aborting women unknown, the fetus found in a plastic bag in a dumpster is seen to be as alone and abandoned as a half- grown Christmas puppy.”
Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) 36
Share on FacebookSarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade, defends abortion:
“Indeed, in the face of two difficult, unresolvable choices – to destroy life potential in either a fetus or its host – the choice can only be left to one of the entities whose potential is threatened.”
Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 106
Why only the woman’s “potential” is threatened, and not the baby’s, she does not explain.
Below: 8 week baby after abortion (lower torso and legs)
This pro-abortion writer feels that the abortion pill should be available online to send to women anywhere. This is incredibly risky for the woman. It is essentially supporting the same “back-alley” type abortion that pro-choicers claim legalizing abortion stopped.
“The Internet has often been described as the new backstreet, but this virtual backstreet is different from the literal one of the past. If women use reputable web sources, then they can access reliable abortion medication…
The opportunity to use the Internet to buy abortion pills has opened up new possibilities.
Even women in countries where abortion is legal sometimes try to buy pills online if access to the standard abortion services is denied or difficult. Buying abortion pills online does leave women open to being sold ineffective or even dangerous medical treatments: two safe and recommended websites are [names two websites]…
Buying pills from reputable websites is incomparably safer than the old backstreet.…
Where these services act in place of legal provision, buying pills online has been a lifesaver for women – despite the danger that they might accidentally use a disreputable site.”
Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 18, 36, 37
Share on FacebookTalcott Camp, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Health Freedom Project., on abortion procedures:
“I’m like — Oh my God! I get it! When the skull is broken, that’s really sharp! I get it! I understand why people are talking about getting that skull out, that calvarium.”
ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS “‘I Might . . . Pull Off a Leg or Two’ National Review May 25, 2017
Share on FacebookThe following dialog took place on The View:
JOY BEHAR: Hillary is in a quandary in my opinion, because she’s talking about violence against women and sexual harassment and all that stuff and her husband has a checkered past to put it mildly, so she is in a bind…..
PAULA FARIS: There are accusations but there are three women that claim that he did things to them that they didn’t want. One of them is Paula Jones…. Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey. They say that he either exposed himself to them, raped them or groped them. These are three accusations….
BEHAR: It puts her in a bind. On the other hand, it’s her policies that really matter. Like, Republicans have voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Now, that to me, is more important than anything that Bill Clinton did or didn’t do because it’s what she’s going to vote for, how she’s going to lead the country that matters more than that. On the other hand, he is a dog. Let’s face it. …
People have to understand, it’s policy. Teddy Kennedy. Remember Chappaquiddick? Am I the oldest person in the room? Chappaquiddick. I mean, a girl drowns and he abandons her and she drowned and women still voted for Teddy Kennedy. Why? Because he voted for women’s rights. That’s why. That’s the bottom line of it in my opinion. I mean, I don’t like either one of them, to tell you the truth, Teddy or Bill. They’re both dogs as far as I’m concerned. But I still will vote for Bill Clinton because he votes in my favor.”
AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO “‘The View’ Co-Host: I’d Vote For a Rapist Over A Conservative” Daily Wire January 5, 2016
Share on FacebookFrom pro-choice activist Maria Romero:
“Sometimes I’m kind of lazy about using my cervical cap … I think it’s wonderful to share the [abortion] experience with my friends.
Janice Perrone. “Controversial Abortion Approach.” American Medical News, January 12, 1990
Share on FacebookPro-abortion writer John A Robertson writes:
“… Abortion destroys an embryo or fetus, and thus displays a willingness to take human life.”
John A Robertson Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994) 48
He is one more person active in the pro-choice movement who believes abortion is killing.
Share on FacebookFrom pro-choice activist Eileen L McDonagh:
“… A fetus making a woman pregnant without consent is similar to a rapist intruding upon and taking another’s body in pursuit of his own interest, to the detriment of the woman’s interests…
Were the fetus to articulate its intentions, presumably it would intend to make and keep a woman pregnant to serve its own interests.”
She also says:
“Even if the fetus were a person, a woman is justified in killing it because of what it does to her when it imposes wrongful pregnancy, whatever might be her personal reasons for doing so…
The distinction between reasons vs. justification for stopping the fetus from imposing pregnancy parallels the distinction between reasons and justification for a woman stopping a man from imposing sexual intercourse on her…
What justifies her right to use deadly force to stop a man from raping her, according to law, is not the reasons she may have for saying no to his imposition on her, but rather the invasiveness of the imposition itself….
Even if the fetus is constructed to be a person, it gains no right to take over a woman’s body against her will… The fetus’s status as human life actually justifies the use of deadly force to stop it from imposing wrongful pregnancy…
Some might suggest that the solution to coercive pregnancy is simply for the woman to wait until the fetus is born, at which point its coercive imposition of pregnancy will cease.
This type of reasoning is akin to suggesting that a woman being raped should wait until the rape is over rather than stopping the rapist.”
Eileen L McDonagh Breaking Abortion Deadlock: from Choice to Consent (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 44, 10, 11 – 12
Is the baby below equivalent to a rapist?
Garrett Hardin, pro-choice activist
“Most women who would have abortions want them, and for the best of all possible reasons: because they love children.”
Garrett Hardin Stalking the Wild Taboo (Los Altos, California: William Kaufman Inc., 1973) 29
Below: preborn child, before and after abortion
Dr. Christopher Tietz, who is senior consultant for the Population Council of New York and a pro-abortion researcher:
“Biological life of the individual begins at the union of ovum and sperm… At what point does this life deserve the respect and protection that we accord people? Such respect and protection become appropriate when the fetus has obtained viability, that is when it has become capable of surviving and eventually maintaining a meaningful, independent life.”
quoted in John O Anderson Cry of the Innocents: Abortion and the Race towards Judgment (South Plainfield, New Jersey: Bridge Publishing, Inc., 1984)
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