They said it.
Pro-choice author Rene Denfeld says:
“Recently, however, pro-choice supporters have realized that proving the fetus is alive and that abortion kills it does not prove that abortion is wrong.”
Rene Denfeld “Forward” in Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) xvii
Rev. Owens, who is pro-choice, gives his views about abortion:
“There is a spiritual force within a woman when she’s pregnant and people of great spiritual sensitivity have to deal with the reality of that potential life, and a lot of people don’t think there is this kind of subtlety, and when they do, I’m very supportive of them.
Yes, there’s a spiritual issue involved. I take the idea of ending the life of the fetus very, very gravely.
I’m troubled by that, but this doesn’t in any way diminish my conviction that a woman has the right to do that, but I become distressed when people regard pregnancy lightly and ignore the spiritual significance of a pregnancy…
I remember giving a talk, that I thought that one of my roles was to be an advocate for the fetus, and for the fetus’s right not to be born…
In this sense, that I think if I had my druthers I would probably pursue a course which would, as I do advocate verbally, the need for licensing pregnancies, which seems to contradict what I’ve just said, but I don’t think it really does.”
Kristin Luker “Abortion and the Meaning of Life” in Sidney Callahan and Daniel Callahan, eds. Abortion: Understanding Differences (London: Plenum Press, 1984) 41, 43
Share on FacebookPro-choice feminist Jane English:
“Antiabortion forces are indeed giving their strongest arguments when they point to the similarities between a fetus and a baby, and when they try to invoke our emotional attachment to and sympathy for the fetus.”
Jane English “Abortion and the Concept of a Person” in Marty Vetterling–Braggin, Frederick A. Elliston, and Jane English, eds., Feminism and Philosophy (Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield Adams, 1977) 410
Pro-choice activist Judith Arcana, who has performed abortions, gave the reasons why she thinks the pro-life movement has been so successful in the US. This is one of the reasons she mentioned:
“Third, there is science, the technology of pregnancy. People can now make fetuses live, keep them alive outside of a woman’s body, from far earlier in pregnancy than was ever imagined by us, thirty years ago.
Rapid changes in medical technology have changed pregnancy utterly.
We can now watch babies growing, virtually from the beginning of pregnancy, throughout their development; one result of this is that women relate to the fetus quite differently – primarily after the third or fourth month of course…
Judith Arcana ““Feminist politics and abortion in the US,” Psychology and Reproductive Choice
Visited 9/2/2017
Share on FacebookReporter Kate Pickert describes the abortion clinic Red River, which is the only abortion clinic in North Dakota:
“…inside, on the second floor, the waiting room is filled with sunlight. Lush houseplants are perched everywhere, and signs and posters decorate the walls: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. WE TRUST WOMEN. WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN RARELY MAKE HISTORY.”
Kate Pickert “What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They’ve been losing ever since” Time Jan. 14, 2013
Below is a picture of the ugliness that is actually taking place in this clinic. This is an abortion at 10 weeks:
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Pro-choice activist Amy Richards, co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation:
“Older women have always been more likely to talk about abortion because for them it was something heroic. Younger women, we don’t have to talk about it. That doesn’t mean we’re ashamed, but it’s the same way I don’t talk about having warts removed.
REBECCA TRAISTER “Morality play” Salon February 9, 2005
Below: preborn baby at 10 weeks – is killing him the same as removing a wart?
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Francis Kissling, head of Catholics for Choice, says the following:
“I’ve thought about the morality of this ad nauseam for 35 years and come to the conclusion that making the choice [to have an abortion] can be a profoundly morally correct decision. It can be morally incorrect too, but so can having a baby.”
REBECCA TRAISTER “Morality play” Salon February 9, 2005
Pro-abortion attorney Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued Roe vs. Wade before the Supreme Court, says in her book that the pro-choice movement had nothing powerful enough to counter the pictures of aborted babies that pro-life activists show:
“Pro-choice groups such as NARAL worried about the tactics of the opposition; according to one NARAL mailing, “Rational arguments have limited impact against the opposition’s emotional frenzy.
It is time to meet shock with shock.” But advocates of choice never came up with symbols as powerful as the opposition’s.”
Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 192
She is really saying that the emotional impact of pictures of aborted babies is powerful and hard for pro-choicers to argue against.
Although pro-choicers claim they are using “rational arguments” all the rational-sounding, euphemistic words that pro-choicers use to deny the true nature of abortion are ineffective against the reality shown in the photos.
Pro-choicers have no visual aides as striking as what pro-lifers can show. They have no good visual rebuttal to the photos and can only accuse people who show them of engaging in an “emotional frenzy.”
Share on FacebookPro-Choice writer Janet Harris explains why her abortion was not a “difficult decision”:
“Often, abortion isn’t a difficult decision. In my case, it sure wasn’t.
When I was 18, my boyfriend, whom I was with for more than a year, frequently pressured me into having sex. At the time, I lacked the maturity and experience to exert more control over the situation.
For more than 10 weeks, I progressed from obliviousness about my pregnancy to denial to wishful thinking: Maybe if I ignored that I missed two periods, that pesky little fact will go away.
Once I faced reality, though, having an abortion was an obvious decision, not a difficult one. The question wasn’t “Should I or shouldn’t I?” but “How quickly can I get this over with?”…
An unwanted pregnancy would have derailed my future, making it difficult for me to finish college and have the independent, productive life that I’d envisioned.”
On using the word “difficult” to describe abortions:
“…there’s a more pernicious result when pro-choice advocates use such language: It is a tacit acknowledgment that terminating a pregnancy is a moral issue requiring an ethical debate.
To say that deciding to have an abortion is a “hard choice” implies a debate about whether the fetus should live, thereby endowing it with a status of being. It puts the focus on the fetus rather than the woman.”
Janet Harris “Stop calling abortion a ‘difficult decision’ The Washington Post August 15, 2014
11 week old preborn baby after abortion:
Should aborting this baby be a “difficult” decision?
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Claire Andersson says:
“Funding abortion is no different from funding a war in the Mideast. For those who are opposed, the place to express outrages in the voting booth.”
She is a pro-choice author who advocates for abortion funding through Medicaid.
Claire Andersson The Book About Abortion: Everything You Need To Know Before Making A Decision (Kindle Edition 2017)
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