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Pro-choicer: Abortion pictures humanize the unborn

“The entire pro-life movement has made substantial gains in humanizing a fetus at every stage of pregnancy and helping to establish personal rights for the unborn. Enlarged pictures of aborted fetuses and other graphic illustrations are commonly displayed at protests and may help contribute to a changing, more humanized, conceptualization of a fetus and in turn help sway public approval against the permissibility of using elective abortion services to resolve unwanted pregnancies.”

Alesha E Doan Opposition & Intimidation: The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Of Michigan Press, 2010) 161
She is referring to pictures like this one ,the arm and hand of a baby aborted at 9 weeks

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Minister: Life Begins with Breathing

“Moreover, the Vatican idea that human life begins with conception is an attempt to override the biblical idea that human life begins with breathing. The Hebrew word that describes a human being is naphesh– the breathing one. It occurs 775 times in the Hebrew Bible. It is obvious that in Hebrew thought a fetus is not a living human being because it does not breathe on its own.

Pro-life groups mistakenly apply one of the 10 Commandments – “you shall not kill” – to a fetus… It is desperation that makes “pro-lifers” apply the commandment to an embryo or fetus because there is no explicit reference in the entire Bible that is antiabortion or pro-life with respect to a fetus.”

John M Swomley, ordained United Methodist minister

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 85 – 86

According to Swomley, this peborn baby is not alive because although he has been breathing amniotic fluid since the 11th week, he is not breathing air.

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Is abortion necessary?

“[A]bortion is not, as Ms. [Naomi] Wolf maintains, ”a necessary evil.” There is nothing at all ”evil” about it for the simple reason that abortion is necessary for women to have control over their lives. The fetus as potential human being should never take priority over the life of the existing human being, the woman.

… I maintain that upholding abortion on demand and without apology is profoundly moral because it puts women first.”

MARY LOU GREENBERG “Without Abortion Rights, Women Aren’t Equal” New York Times April 6, 1997

Below; Aborted at 10 weeks. Do women need to do this to our preborn babies?

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Pro-abortion protester on racism

From an African American abortion clinic escort who is a “faith leader in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church”

“Every Friday, a group of people gathers outside the Planned Parenthood clinic where I volunteer, holding signs that shame the women who visit with slogans like “Your mother kept you” and pictures of babies that say “I want to live.” These signs and their presence may seem peaceful because the protesters don’t (typically) threaten or physically assault visitors. But their very presence is violent, their words often cruel, and their motives are to intimidate and scare away people seeking health care.

When I was at the clinic last month, the protesters were mostly Black and from one church in Raleigh. They held signs that said “Fetus lives matter” and “The most dangerous place for a Black child is in the womb.”

As a Black woman, seeing those signs made me angry. They make it seem as if Black women do not make our own decisions, that we are simply pawns in America’s racist society….

The leader of the protesters targeted me toward the end of their demonstration. I was one of two Black women volunteering as clinic greeters. He said, “I want to talk to the young sister over there. You are on the wrong side with those White people.” Then, addressing the police officer standing near me, he said, “We respect the cops. Blue lives matter.”

Of course, he couldn’t tell that I too am a Christian, and a minister… I didn’t need to look like a faith leader to demonstrate my faith. I am a clinic greeter because of my faith, which teaches me how important it is to provide care for my community. For me, that means ensuring that women have safe access to their health care facilities.

Ironically, at the clinic, I am not only under threat of violence from shooters — I am also threatened by discrimination from the faith communities to which I belong.

EMMA AKPAN “Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Just Another Form of Racism” Bustle Dec 14, 2015

Aborted at 21 weeks — Abortion victim, second trimester. 21 weeks. Most abortions at this time are for elective, not health, reasons

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Erica Jong is “appalled abortion is under attack” but wouldn’t have one

Erica Jong said in an article she was:

“appalled that abortion remains under attack.”

But at the same time, she expresses reservations about abortion. She says:

“As a 17-year-old freshman at Barnhard, I got my first diaphragm from Planned Parenthood (a college tradition). I never got pregnant accidentally because I knew that an abortion would make me terribly sad. I loved children, dogs, cats and other living things, and I understood that terminating a pregnancy would be extremely hard for me emotionally.”

Erica Jong “If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would Be a Sacrament” Huffington Post.com, January 21, 2008

Quoted in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

Does she understand that abortion is killing a “living thing?” If so, why does she support it?

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Feminist recalls her abortion as a poor inner-city teen

J Victoria Sanders, on why she had an abortion at 15:

“I was just a confused black girl in the Bronx, but I was smart enough to know I couldn’t care for a child then… No one on the corner had swagger like Bronx girls, but it had to be shitty to push a baby carriage around alone. I could barely take care of myself.”

She describes how had once sympathized with the prolife position but changed her mind when she became pregnant.

“In the 1980s and 1990s, pro-life propaganda was hard-core. Sometimes it was just a glimpse of a pink fetus against a black backdrop on a commercial with the loud sound of a beating heart. Other times, protesters carried rosaries, like my mother’s, making it clear: abortion is murder.

When I was younger and more serious, before I got pregnant, I agreed with these people. Because I knew Jesus and I thought they were doing God’s work, saving the babies. What kind of woman killed her child?…

I was given a choice to choose myself over my mistake, this unwanted baby. What would God have me do? To bring a baby to term and leave it at a firehouse was not an option – we did not have Baby Moses laws then. If I became a teenage mother, I feared as a girl that I would always be a statistic, I would never leave the Bronx, and I would never leave my mother. I would always be tethered to the needs of my mother and the needs of my child…..

Later she says:

I follow Jesus’s example, basically…”

J Victoria Sanders “Grown-Up Woman Swagger” in Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition

Why Sanders thought that the only way to give a baby up for adoption was to bring him to a firehouse is never explained.

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Woman has three abortions- but can buy herself shoes

Karen [last name withheld] was considering abortion. When asked by a social worker if she was sure she didn’t want her baby, she said:

“No, I need things. When mommy needs shoes and baby needs shoes, you know who gets the shoes. No, I don’t want no kids.”

She aborted, then went on to have 2 more abortions. When she finally did marry a man who wanted children, she was unable to have them,

Kate Maloy and Maggie Jones Patterson Birth or Abortion? Private Struggles in a Political World (New York: Plenum Press, 1992) 118

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Abortionist: “Every time I do an abortion, I save a woman’s life”

One abortionist said:

Hillary can say anything she wants about whether an abortion is a tragedy. What I know when I perform an abortion for a patient is that the overwhelming feeling is one of relief. Because the abortion has solved a huge problem in her life, whether it’s because she couldn’t afford another child, couldn’t afford to be a good mother to another child, or doesn’t have the money to raise a child. Every time I do an abortion I save a woman’s life. If you want to call that a tragedy—I don’t consider it a tragedy, I’m sorry.

Ryan Lizza “The Abortion Capital of America” New York Magazine

Read about abortion’s actual psychological risks here. Women who have abortions have a 6-7 times higher suicide rate. (in teens that is 10x) They also have higher rates of substance abuse, depression, psychiatric hospitalizations, and anxiety.

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Gloria Steinem: abortion is “moral decision”

“Every child has a right to be born loved and wanted. And a woman who decides that this is not the moment when she can provide that for a child is making, to me, a profoundly moral decision.”

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem My Life on the Road., teaser quote

Aborted baby in the first trimester- 11 weeks

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Pro-Choice feminist; death of fetus in abortion is “real death”

“Clinging to a rhetoric about abortion in which there is no life and no death, we entangle our beliefs in a series of self-delusions, fibs and evasions. And we risk becoming precisely what our critics charge us with being: callous, selfish and casually destructive men and women who share a cheapened view of human life…we need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death.”

Pro-Choice feminist Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” The New Republic, October 16, 1995, 26.

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