Pro-Choice Quotes Archives - Page 30 of 82

Failure to provide abortions is “depraved indifference to life”

From a pro-choice writer:

“A government’s failure to provide abortions constitutes depraved indifference to human life. … We look forward to a world in which every woman is guaranteed her right to an abortion whenever she wants, for any reason “

Colin McSwiggen, Fatima Hussain “Opinion: A fundamental right for women” The Tech Nov 5 2010

So refusing to let a woman abort is “depraved indifference to life?” I would think that abortion itself would be depraved and be indifference to the life of the baby.

The baby below (aborted at 11 weeks) was the victim of an abortion. Would preventing his death be “depraved indifference?” Or was the abortionist himself indifferent to this child’s fate?

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Feminists are reluctant to talk about the fetus

From a pro-choice feminist:

Feminist reluctance to engage in reflexive discussion of fetuses has been a prudential response to the politics of abortion. To talk about fetuses has been thought to cede to the pro-life movement its major premise, and so to foreclose the feminist insistence on reproductive freedom for women. Given the antagonisms that continue to erode whatever small ground we’ve gained in the struggle for reproductive control, it is understandable that feminist scholars and activists have tended to work around rather than through the fetus…

Talking about the fetus, she says:

necessarily forces us into dangerous territory.

Lynn M Morgan and Meredith W Michaels eds. Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) 1-2

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Peter Singer: refusing to kill a baby is “horrific”

Pro-choice professor Peter Singer, who supports infanticide:

“If one accepts abortion … killing other human beings, in certain circumstances … is not something to be regarded with horror… . On the contrary … it is the refusal to accept killing that, in some cases, is horrific.”

Quoted in Serrin M Foster “Refusal to Accept Killing” The American Feminist Winter 1999 – 2000

Above: preborn baby at 10 1/2 weeks. Below: picture of 10 week baby afterabortion

Is the killing of this baby horrific? Or is it horrific to refuse to kill a baby like this, as Peter Singer says?

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Pro-choicer: banning sex selection abortion is ‘brutality’

Pro-choice activist Sarah Ditum arguing in favor of sex selection abortion:

In a world where it’s possible to end a pregnancy safely and legally, it seems like rank brutality to force anyone to carry to term against her will.

And as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t matter why any woman wants to end her pregnancy. As the conscious and legally competent entity in the conception set-up, it’s the woman’s say that counts, and even the most terrible reason for having an abortion holds more sway than the best imaginable reason for compelling a woman to carry to term.

Sarah Ditum “Why women have a right to sex-selective abortion” The Guardian 19 September 2013

Since sex cannot be determined on ultrasound until the 18th to 20th week, babies aborted because they are girls are at least 18 to 20 weeks old and often more than that. The baby below is 20 weeks old.

Is passing a law against killing this baby brutality? Or is killing the baby like the one below brutality?

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Pro-choicer: say the word abortion

Pro-choice writer Jessica Arons acknowledges the euphemisms used in the abortion debate when she says:

As we approach the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion, I urge people who care about this issue not to shy away from the word “abortion” itself. We should resist the urge to hide behind allusions to “women’s health,” “choice,” and “Roe” when we’re really talking about abortion only.

Jessica Arons “It’s Time for the Pro-Choice Community to Embrace the Word Abortion” The Daily Beast 01.22.13

Even the word itself carry so much stigma that abortion clinics are giving euphemistic names, such as Women’s Center, Women’s Health Clinic, etc.

Below: potential victim of abortion at 9 – 10 weeks. 42% of all abortions take place at this time or later

See what this baby looks like after an abortion

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Prochoicer glad she could have aborted her son

I have been fortunate not to need abortion services thus far in my life. But when I was pregnant with my son I was comforted to know that should I encounter any complications, any decisions would be left to me and my husband and any care I needed would be covered by my health insurance.

Pro-choicer Jessica Arons

“It’s Time for the Pro-Choice Community to Embrace the Word Abortion” The Daily Beast 01.22.13

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Pres. Clinton on conception and biology

“Everyone knows life begins biologically at conception. But, no one knows when biology turns into humanity.”

Bill Clinton

William Clinton My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004) 229

9-10 weeks. Not life, according to President Clinton

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It’s ok to kill both fetuses and infants, says article

“The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual.”

Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva “After Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” Journal of Medical Ethics (2011)

Quoted in Rev. Frank Pavone Abolishing Abortion: How You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson Books, 2015) 153 – 154

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Actress Margot Kidder on abortion

Actress Margot Kidder:

“Abortion might be killing a life. But if there is a sin, it is the sin that we adults perpetuate on the children of the earth – who truly are innocent and defenseless – by bringing those children into the world when they will not be cared for.”

Paul M Clark “The Source of Human Dignity” in Paul T Stallsworth The Right Choice (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1997)

Is this less of a ‘sin’ than allowing the baby to be born?

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Planned Parenthood president: abortion needed for women to be equal

Pamela Maraldo former Planned Parenthood President:

“Abortion is where the rubber hits the road, the line in the sand for women to become fully equal citizens.”

Richmond – Times dispatch, December 3, 1992

Quoted in Elizabeth Achtemeier “Speaking the Unspeakable: a Demonstration” in Paul T Stallsworth The Right Choice (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1997) 20

Pre-born baby at 9 to 10 weeks – 42% of abortions happen at this time or later

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