Pro-Choice Quotes Archives - Page 14 of 82

Pro-Choice pamphlet acknowledges abortion is “taking a human life”

A pamphlet put out by Catholics for Free Choice entitled “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions” says:

“It is important to understand that while abortion does involve the taking of a human life because all life that is in and of a human being is human life in order to call it murder we would have to believe that prenatal life in the early stages of pregnancy is a human person and that there were absolutely no reasons that justified the taking of that life …

[However], you may feel you have reasons that justify abortion regardless of your beliefs about personhood.”

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire of Catholics for a Free Choice.

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire. “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions” Catholics for a Free Choice, September 1983

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Liturgy on abortion by Catholics for Free Choice

Catholics for Choice (then called Catholics for Free Choice) has the following liturgy to celebrate abortion:

“Praised be you, Mother and Father God, that you have given your people the power of choice. We are saddened that the life circumstances of (aborting woman’s name) are such that she has had to choose to terminate her pregnancy. We affirm her and support her in her decision.”

The litergents then”sprinkle flower petals, or share dried flowers.”

CFFC brochure entitled “You Are Not Alone” quoted in Mary Meehan. “How Can They Be Called Catholic?” National Catholic Register, November 19, 1989, page 5.

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Woman threatens to kill her kids to get abortion

Helen Bayley was a member of the local League of Women Voters in New York, and she became active in the pro-choice movement after being forced to have two psychiatrists pronounce her mentally unstable in order to have an abortion.

(In the 1960s, in some states, a woman had to claim mental illness in order to be granted and abortion) From the book Before Roe:

“I’m going to kill my kids,” I raged. I said I’ll go berserk. I felt that way. I felt like a tigress. I felt I was clawing my way out of a thicket.”

The book goes on to say:

“Bailey became a vocal supporter of abortion reform, testifying in a legislative hearing in Albany in the spring of 1968 and lobbying legislators.”

Rosemary Nossiff Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2001) 91, 92

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Pro-Abortion advocate talks about change in the way women view abortion

Judith Arcana was an abortionist before Roe v. Wade with the organization JANE and is currently a pro-abortion activist. She talks about how women seem to have different feelings about abortion now than they did when it was first legalized:

“The young American women I have encountered, and those asked in surveys, are now starting to say something they never used to say in the 60s and 70s. Now they say ‘I think abortion should be legal, but I could never have one’….

with abortion, something has changed the other way, gone backwards, so to speak. A US generation has grown up in a context where abortion is a negative word.

Granted, abortion was never a jolly subject, but simply thinking and talking about abortion is once again something people do not want to do, something fraught with guilt and fear and shame.”

Judith Arcana ““Feminist politics and abortion in the US,” Psychology and Reproductive Choice

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Grandmother of aborted baby describes saying “goodbye to tiny soul”

At an event commemorating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a social worker, Gianna, read a letter from the mother of a young girl who had an abortion. The woman wrote:

“It hurts me to see her hurt the turmoil she must have gone through before even telling me. She was further along than 15 wks. So that is why we are here….At any age this decision to terminate is difficult and at 15- she is still a child- cartoons all day. I was with her during the procedure and it was difficult for me. To see my child having this done and saying goodbye to a tiny soul.”

Amy’s Roe Speech Abortionclinicdays

After 15 weeks, the “little soul” would be at least this developed:

The child would have been dismembered in the abortion.

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Abortion clinic owner: Abortion is an act of love and sacrifice

Merle Hoffman, who owned an abortion facility, writes:

“Abortion is a mother’s act. It is an act of sacrifice, love, power and necessity…

It does stop a beating heart, but it also keeps another one going: the heart and the life of each woman who chooses it. It does that too.”

Merle Hoffman, On the Issues, Winter 1996

Quoted in Tamara A. Roleff Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997) 55

Act of love at 8 weeks

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Australian study: 60% of women believe life begins at conception

From pro-abortion activist Eileen Fairweather:

“One Australian study [found] 60% of women believe life begins at conception (compared with 36% of men). That doesn’t stop [women] having abortions… It is possible for people to support a woman’s right to choose whether they believe abortion is killing or not.”

Eileen Fairweather “Abortion: The Feelings behind the Slogans” in Women’s Health: A Spare Rib Reader, ed. S. O’Sullivan (London: Pandora, 1987) 199 – 200

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Pro-Choice author: Pictures are “vital tool” for pro-lifers

Pro-Abortion author Judith Orr writes:

“The use of new technology to view a developing embryo and foetus has become a vital tool for the antiabortion lobby – and not just in pickets outside clinics, with their giant posters. For example, the antiabortion calls for mandatory viewing of ultrasound images of their pregnancy for women requesting abortion, and supposedly “4D” videos of foetus are used [sic] to build opposition to abortion.”

Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 91

Even pro-choice people acknowledge that pictures like the one below are powerful pro-life tools.

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Pro-Choice author: Abortion is a “positive moral good”

Pro-abortion author and Christian theologian Beverly Wildung Harrison writes:

“Many people may deny what I hold to be true; that the act of abortion is sometimes, even frequently, a positive moral good for women; but those who empathize with the realities of women’s lives usually recognize that a specific choice for abortion is often the least wrong act under the circumstances.”

Beverly Wildung Harrison Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1983) 16

Below: A “positive moral good” at 10 weeks