Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

One woman who had an abortion said that the father of the baby wanted to marry her.

She says:

“… He woke me up in the middle of the night telling me that maybe he wanted to give up acting and wondered if we should get married. I said, “Why don’t we break up instead?” Does he think that because I accidentally got pregnant I’m supposed to sort of accidentally get married?

It’s out of the question. There’s no way I want to marry Rick or to have a baby with him. First of all, we can barely survive ourselves. But more than that, he just can’t handle it. He’s not ready to be a father and certainly not ready to help me to have an abortion. Does he have any idea of what it’s like for me?

I’ll pay for the abortion myself… I’ll keep him informed; I guess he deserves that much. But who needs his hassles in addition to everything else?”

Myron K Denney, M.D. A Matter of Choice: An Essential Guide to Every Aspect of Abortion (New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1983) 87

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Pro-abortion activist Bill Baird:

“So far no one has firebombed a Right to Life headquarters, no one has firebombed a Birthright headquarters, no one has firebombed a Roman Catholic headquarters, but that does not mean that persons are not contemplating the possibility.”

“Catholic Church Spurs Violence, Pro – abortionist Says” Cleveland Plain – Dealer, February 20, 1981, 1

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Gloria Steinem said on TV in 1981 that women should have a right to abortion just as she has a right to remove “any parasitic growth” from her body.

The Freeman Report, Cable News Network, Washington DC, September 9, 1981

Is this a “parasitic growth” or a person?

Most abortions happen around the seventh week.

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One man discusses his girlfriend’s abortion:

“I wasn’t in a position emotionally, financially, or physically to father a child. I knew that I didn’t want to have a baby by her or anybody at that point… I probably would have shot myself if my girlfriend had decided to have the baby… My girlfriend was upset when I took her home after the abortion because I had made a prior arrangement to attend a concert which I was determined not to miss. She wanted me to stay with her to take care of her and give her the support she needed, but that night I simply said that the concert came first. She was very hurt. I guess it was childish of me, but she wasn’t on her death bed and I was not going to miss that concert for anything less than a matter of life and death… After the abortion she was very upset and emotional.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 97 – 90

They broke up a year later.

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Pro-Choice author Rob  Deters says:

“A woman’s right to choose is based on a simple premise: A fetus is not a person until it can live outside the womb. Until that point, it is up to the woman, for health, personal, economic or social reasons, to either carry to term or terminate the pregnancy. There is no “child” and there is no “person” – there is a thing.”

Rob  Deters “Women Should Have Right to Choose” The Badger Herald October 30, 2000

Is the baby below (legal to abort in all US states) a person or a thing?

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Pro-Choice author Miriam Claire on her abortion:

“I was performing as a singer in “Evita” in London in 1984 when I discovered that I was pregnant… By coincidence, a colleague with whom I shared a dressing room discovered that she was pregnant at around the same time. She and her husband were thrilled with their news, but she became distressed at the thought that I was going to have an abortion. In total sincerity, she asked me if I would consider having the baby and letting her adopt it. I was utterly distressed at the thought of possibly giving up a child of mine for adoption. I thanked my colleague for her offer and tried to explain to her that just as her maternal instinct prompted her to make such an offer, my maternal instinct could never let me accept it. While I do believe that adopting out a child can be an expression of maternal protectiveness and caring, it was not my choice…

My experience was a struggle because I had not anticipated the terrible sense of emptiness that followed the abortion. It is probably difficult for those who are against abortion or who have not had one to understand that one can have an abortion without regret and yet still feel a deep sense of loss.… Abortion produces many conflicting emotions that are not necessarily reconcilable or logical… It is virtually impossible to know how you are going to react physically and emotionally after the abortion.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 11-12

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