Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

Alan Guttmacher, who became president of Planned Parenthood in 1962 was also the Vice President of the American Eugenics Society until 1963, He said:

“I would like to give our voluntary means of population control full opportunity in the next 10 to 12 years. Then, if these don’t succeed, we may have to go into some kind of coercion, not worldwide, but possibly in such places as India, Pakistan, and in Indonesia, where pressures are the greatest… There is no question that birth rates can be reduced all over the world if legal abortion is introduced.”

Alan Guttmacher “Family Planning: The Needs and the Methods” The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 69, no. 6 (June, 1969)

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Rev. Yvonne Delk, director of the Office of Church and Society of the United Church of Christ, said the following during her speech at the March for Women’s Lives, a pro-abortion demonstration:

“What we say and do today has long reaching implications, not only for the women of color in this nation and for women of color throughout the globe, but it is our legacy to the generations of women who are yet unborn.”

Yvonne Delk “The Time Has Come to Stand Up” Common Ground, Different Planes (Washington DC: Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, August 1989) 5

{Emphasis mine}

The legacy of abortion is good for unborn women? I don’t think she thought that speech through.

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Alan Guttmacher, former president of Planned Parenthood on how pregnancy does not worsen psychological problems. This is in conflict with the belief that abortion is necessary for a woman’s mental health.

“There is little evidence that pregnancy itself worsens a psychosis, either intensifying it or rendering the prognosis for full recovery less likely.”

Alan F Guttmacher “Therapeutic Abortion: The Doctor’s Dilemma” Journal of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, 21:1954

Around this time and shortly afterward, however, pro-abortion activists were encouraging states to legalize abortion for mental health reasons. this quote shows that they were aware such reasons had no validity.

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Trish, who had an abortion:

“Some women, even those who are very pro-choice, talk about having dilemmas and guilt. I didn’t feel anything. No regrets whatsoever. I don’t mean to sound crass, but frankly, it wasn’t any more psychologically damaging or soul-searching than a dental extraction.”

Trish later was unable to conceive a child. The pro-choice author of the book claims:

“Trish’s fertility problems are not related to her past abortion.”

Anna Runkle In Good Conscience: A Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Guide to Deciding Whether to Have an Abortion (San Francisco: Jossey–Bass Publishers, 1998) 42

Is tearing apart a baby like this no different than having a tooth extracted?

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Mary Ann Warren, ethicist and textbook writer

“It remains true that, on my view, neither abortion nor the killing of newborns is obviously a form of murder.”

Mary Ann Warren “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” from Biomedical Ethics, 4^th ed., T.A. Mappes and D DeGrazia, eds (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1996)

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From one pro-choice activist:

“Pretty soon you can imagine legislation prohibiting the washing of hands because thousands of cells are flaked off that could be turned into a stem cell and you can grow a foetus – so you’re killing a person. It’s attacks on women’s rights.”

Prof Noam Chomsky, speaking at a reception in UCD’s O’Reilly Hall. He was awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal, the university’s highest honour.

Colin Gleeson “Chomsky criticises restrictive abortion laws” The Irish Times Apr 3, 2013

In reality, biologists understand that there is a crucial difference between skin cells, which are a part of a human organism, sperm cells and egg cells, which are reproductive parts of human organisms, and zygotes, embryos, and fetuses, which are human organisms.

   “Traditional ways of classifying catalog animals according to their adult structure. But, as J. T. Bonner (1965) pointed out, this is a very artificial method, because what we consider an individual is usually just a brief slice of its life cycle. When we consider a dog, for instance, we usually picture an adult. But the dog is a “dog” from the moment of fertilization of a dog egg by a dog sperm. It remains a dog even as a senescent dying hound. Therefore, the dog is actually the entire life cycle of the animal, from fertilization through death.”

Scott Gilbert, Developmental Biology 6th edition (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 2000)

“Fertilization – the fusion of gametes to produce a new organism – is the culmination of a multitude of intricately regulated cellular processes.”

Marcello et al., Fertilization, ADV. EXP. BIOL. 757:321 (2013)

“Human life begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon development) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.” “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”

Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2.

 

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Gloria Feldt, then president of Planned Parenthood, compares abortion to segregation while taking about a pro-choice litmus test for judicial nominees:

“The Right has long complained that Democrats and pro-choice Republicans have used Roe as a litmus test for court appointments. Well, Roe’s the law of the land, and because it protects a fundamental human and civil right, it should be a litmus test. There is no way it would be acceptable to put someone on the court who said they were fundamentally opposed to Brown vs. Board of Education, the decision that ended segregation in the schools. Why should we allow someone on the court who would take away a woman’s civil right to have control over her own body? No one who opposes a fundamental right and is opposed to a core constitutional holding – privacy – can be impartial and fair-minded on the bench.”

Gloria Feldt The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back (New York: Bantam Dell, 2004) 118

Is the right to kill this preborn baby really equivalent to the right of African Americans to go to the same schools as white children?

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