Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

The following is from an interview with Molly Yard, then president of the National Organization for Women:

Q: When a public opinion poll asks, “Is it a woman’s right to choose abortion?” Approximately 67% of Americans say yes. Yet, if the same group is asked, “Is abortion murder?” The same percentage says yes. Why is that?

A: I think it depends entirely on how you ask the question. When you put it in terms of individual rights, people come down on the side of the individual and against the government.

That’s what they’re really saying, that it’s a woman’s right and it’s not the business of the government interfere. They may think it’s murder, but they also don’t think the government should interfere in somebody’s life.

“Voices of the Abortion Debate” New Dimensions, 1990

Is murder a woman’s right?

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Post-abortion woman:

 “I’ve always been pro-choice… If you did the one thing and said, yes, I’m going to go through with this abortion, are you going to feel guilt for the rest of your life? Because I have a lot of nagging thoughts that go on in my head, and this isn’t one of them. I have what I hope is a strong faith in God and I was happy to learn that He, at least in my mind – I really didn’t think that God was going to punish me. And I didn’t have any of those problems that a lot of people say is part of the problem, that this is killing and all that sort of thing. I really felt that God or whatever was as sorry as I was, but that was part of the forgiveness process was forgiveness for yourself. To say, I’m sorry I have to do this to myself, and I don’t have to ask anybody else for forgiveness… I felt that it was okay, I didn’t have any question about being an okay person for making that choice because it was important for my life.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 101 – 102

There is no mention of the baby at all. The baby that was left looking like the one below:

 

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Jo,  on her abortion:

“If I have any guilt at all, it’s that I should have guilt [laughs]. There’s no bad in this. It’s fucking, and it’s fun. You get pregnant, you get pregnant, come on. God makes it so much fun to get pregnant because it is such a hard row to hoe, once you get a kid. I was married; I could’ve done it. I’m a good mother, I make great babies, and I planned another baby after Marie…”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 42

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Pro-Choice author Sumi Hoshiko  says:

“Besides the difficulty of raising a child by oneself, being a single mother has definite implications for the relationships a woman can find. It sharply curtails her flexibility and freedom, closing off opportunities for the activities and full social life which would enable her to find a mate. If she is housebound with young ones in playpens or highchairs, even seeing friends, taking a class, or going to a party pose logistical challenges. If she does decide to try, the cost of a babysitter may make an evening out so expensive it becomes a luxury reserved for rare occasions… She may find being confined to the house makes her more awkward and shy on the occasions she finds herself in an adult social situation. This uncertainty of whether she is a desirable partner may then become a barrier to meeting someone new.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 19

She gives this as reasons for a woman to get an abortion.

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From a woman who aborted her four-month-old child:

“I really believe in God… I feel like I was compromising my religion a little bit, because I know that sacrificing a life or a baby, and I believe that I was carrying one, is sort of a Satanic way of demeaning God, not being true and not really believing in God. Those things all entered my mind, and I just had to shut them out of my mind and just pray hard, hard, and just talk to God, and say that I want you to take my baby, keep it until I can take care of it. Just really pray hard. That I was doing the right thing and try not to let darkness or evil enter into it. But I just pray continually. I think it’s okay, though, because everything is okay with me now, and I feel happy and I’m strong and I feel great. And I’m getting on with my life and I’m doing exactly what I want to do.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 145

Below: method of abortion used in the fourth month

 

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For many women the regrets and wistful what-ifs they indulge in after an abortion rank slightly below, say, “What if I had chucked economics and majored in art?” Ask around, and you’ll find that more than a few women have abortions and get on with their lives – sometimes both in the same day,…

take the local lawyer who, at 27 with a great job and a devoted boyfriend and potentially doting grandparents nearby, chose to abort when she became pregnant after accepting a better job. Any regrets?

“Actually, I barely remember it. When people ask me if I’ve had one, my first instinct is to say no – not because I’m blocking it, but because, as opposed to all the emotional accounts I’ve read about abortion, mine was a non-event.”

Carolyn Hax, “No Birth, no Pangs; for Many Young Women, Abortion is a Given.” The Washington Post Mar 21 1993

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From one woman who had an abortion:

“For me there wasn’t a moral question… I don’t have a problem with this fetus thing, either – if it dies or lives and all this sort of thing. I mean, I don’t ever remember wondering if the fetus thing lives, but I believe that the self is the most important thing…. And I think my friend Jenny said that a baby isn’t a baby until you love it, and I think that that’s a part of it. It wasn’t a person yet. It was a possibility that was on its way, but one that I couldn’t have then.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 95

Above: If I love this being above, does that make him a baby? If I stop loving him, does he go back to not being a baby again?

See here what a baby this age looks like after an abortion.

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