They said it.
Pro-abortion philosopher Peter Singer explains how cannibalism is acceptable if the victim is “mentally defective”:
“Mental defectives do not have a right to life, and therefore might be killed for food – if we should develop a taste for human flesh – or for the purpose of scientific experimentation.”
As cited by Martin Maywer in Fundamentalist Journal, June 1988
Quoted in: John Ankerberg The Facts on Abortion (Smashwords Edition 2011)
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Karen Kissane:
“Any woman who has felt a baby stir inside her [and] any man who has seen the tiny heart pulsing on an ultrasound screen, knows that abortion is about ending a life.”
Karen Kissane “Abortion Doubts Redefine Debate” The Age October 25, 1995, P 19
Share on FacebookPro-Choice feminist Kathleen McDonnell wrote in her book on abortion:
“… Developments in medical technology are radically changing the nature of the abortion debate. Our expanding knowledge of fetal physiology and psychology makes it more and more difficult to simply dismiss the fetus in the abortion discussion.
The fetus is literally becoming a “patient” while still in the womb, the recipient of surgery and other therapeutic techniques at gestational ages well before the cut off point for abortion.”
Kathleen McDonnell Not an Easy Choice: Re-Examining Abortion (Canada: Second Story Press, 2003) 24
Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, an organization dedicated to fighting laws against abortion:
“Technology has clearly helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being.”
Sarah Kliff “Remember Roe!” Newsweek April 16, 2010
Share on FacebookPro-life writer William Brennan wrote:
“At a National Abortion Federation meeting in May 1982, Alfred Moran, Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood of New York, warned his cohorts that “we are prepared to begin to recognize that technology and medical sciences and perceptions of fetal viability are radically changing in our society.”
He was particularly horrified by the consequences of the new life – enhancing fetal technology – “we begin to see the fetus as a patient, which tends to personalize it” – for jeopardizing the right to abort.
He even went so far as to rate technological changes designed to aid the unborn as “more powerful” than legislative attempts to outlaw abortion “because they are human personifications.”
William Brennan The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution (St. Louis, Missouri, 1983) 181, cites
“Technological Advances to make Pro-Abortion Position Tougher, Planned Parenthood Official Tells National Abortion Federation” National Right to Life News October 14, 1982, P8
Share on FacebookPro-Choice lawyer Sarah Weddington, who argued the Roe Vs. Wade case before the Supreme Court, writes about a pro-abortion demonstration she went to. It was called the March for Women’s Lives She recalls:
“I remember various images from that day… A man in a big cowboy hat carrying a sign that read: “Cowboys for Choice”; a number of older women identifying themselves as “Menopausal Women Nostalgic for Choice,” and younger ones calling themselves “NY Yankee Fans for Choice.”
I was buoyed up by the pageantry of young people holding up placards… “Stand UP for Choice,” and “We Will Not Go Back.”
Children wore pins that said “I’m a Choice,” and families carried placards announcing: “This Family Is Pro-Choice.”
Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 233
Can you imagine a woman forcing her child to wear a button saying “I’m a choice?” These parents are emphasizing the fact that they could have killed their children. How is that child going to feel growing up, knowing he or she could just as easily have been killed in the womb?
Share on FacebookFrom one pro-choice article:
“Banning abortion is like rape – the violent assertion of male domination and male supremacist society over women, forceful and violent control of women’s bodies, in the most personal dimensions.
Banning abortion means suppression of women by force of law and the state. It is institutionalized violence against women.”
Revolutionary Worker “A Revolutionary Communist Viewpoint on Abortion and Women’s Liberation” January 15, 1995
Below are diagrams of the two most common abortion procedures. Is opposing these procedures equivalent to supporting rape?
Olivia was 17 when she had her abortion. She says:
“I couldn’t even conceive of having a child then; of being a pregnant highschooler; of letting my family down; of the shame I would feel if anyone else knew; of not going to college. There were so many reasons to have the abortion, in my mind, and virtually no reason not to have one.”
She went on to study medicine. She describes how the death of her baby “motivates” her to be a better person.
“I try to let [the abortion] motivate me to help others, so that that tiny life that was beginning inside of me will continue to teach me for the rest of my life; so it will motivate me to be the best person I can be and to help others do the same for themselves.”
Johannah Haney The Abortion Debate: Understanding the Issues (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2009) 44 – 45
Olivia knows that her baby was a “tiny life.” On some level, she may feel guilt, and tries to give her lost baby meaning by using his/her death to inspire her to be “the best person” she can be.
7 1/2 weeks. Most abortions happen at this time in pregnancy or later.
Share on FacebookBritish birth control pioneer and abortion advocate Marie Stopes, who has a chain of abortion clinics named after her:
“Society allows the diseased, the racially negligent, the thriftless, the careless, the feebleminded, the very lowest and worst members of the community, to produce innumerable tens of thousands of stunted warped and inferior infants.”
J Weeks Sex, Politics and Society (London: Longman, 1981) 190
Share on FacebookWilliam Brennan reveals that the medical textbook Williams Obstetrics says:
“For some women pregnancy is a venereal disease.”
Jack A Pritchard and Paul C McDonald Williams Obstetrics 15th ed. (New York: Appleton–Century–Crofts, 1976) 842
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