They said it.
Frances Kissling, a longtime abortion-rights advocate and former president of Catholics for Choice.
“The established pro-choice position–which essentially is: abortion should be legal, a private matter between a woman and her doctor, with no restriction or regulation beyond what is absolutely necessary to protect the woman’s health–makes 50% of the population extremely uncomfortable and unwilling to associate with us,”
Kate Pickert “What Choice?” Newsweek Jan. 14, 2013
Share on FacebookA woman who decided to have an abortion talks about how she and her partner weren’t ready for a child:
“Neither of us is anywhere near baby time right now. We argue over who will take the dog out some days, so I don’t think the diaper changing would go much better.”
The baby they aborted was six weeks old.
Kate Pickert “What Choice?” Newsweek Jan. 14, 2013
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Below is an except from the blog The Left Hand of Feminism where a woman describes the two abortions she had followed by a pregnancy she kept.
She first got pregnant as a teenager:
“Of course I was going to have an abortion. My parents were certainly not going to let me have a baby, and I knew I wasn’t ready. I had taken care of my sister since she was born and had a very good grasp of how much work, money, and commitment was involved, and I knew I wasn’t old enough to take it on by myself. Being pregnant felt a lot like being infected with a horrible disease. I was sick and wanted the source of the nausea out, fast. I didn’t think I had a “baby” inside of me. I knew very well that, at about six weeks, what was growing was a mass of cells about 1/6 of an inch long and presently much more like an insect or a worm than a human being.
My parents were Seventh-Day Adventists from a medical family who themselves had come from pragmatic farm folk. An abortion of a human fetus in the first trimester was not a lot different from the abortion of an unwanted litter of kittens: regrettable and sad, but necessary. Unfortunate, not tragic. My parents made me and my boyfriend pay for the procedure to teach us to be more careful in the future.
I was, for the most part. But I was also extremely fertile, I guess, because I got pregnant again, at college,… I did not choose lightly or cavalierly, but also did not think that I had been immoral or that it terminating it was anything like murder. I had been thinking a lot about infanticide, ironically, since I was currently reading all of Euripides and had become especially enthralled with Medea. I toyed romantically and self-destructively with the idea of myself as a Medea but never really believed my own hype….
It would have been far worse to give birth to a child and release him or her into the uncertain fate of adoption, or try to take care of a kid that I resented and wasn’t mature or economically steady enough to support in a positive and wholesome environment.
I’m really lucky. No one shamed me. No monsters stood outside the clinic and screamed names at me. No judge forced me to develop a fertilized egg that I didn’t want in my body. No one wrote nasty letters or emails to me. No one denounced me. No one made me feel bad about myself for taking what I knew was the most responsible and ethical decision for me at the time….
The next time I got pregnant I meant to. … I did not enjoy being pregnant. I felt invaded by an alien life form. I had been invaded by an alien life form, albeit one who shared some of my genes. But I choose to bring it to term, and I was very lucky that he turned out to be healthy and beautiful and himself.”
KIMBERLY LATTA “I had two abortions and I am not ashamed” The Left Hand of Feminism FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Share on FacebookIn this way, my belief in God has boosted my enthusiasm for the pro-choice movement. When I found the reproductive justice movement, I found God’s calling for my life. God’s purpose for our lives isn’t to spend our time hurting people, lying, and gossiping like many anti-choicers do. Instead of hurting, lying, and gossiping, wouldn’t it make more sense that God wants us to fight, with love and passion, for the rights of all people, women included? Isn’t that who God really is?
Who God Really Is” Abortion Gang Oct 15 2010
Accessed 10/6/2015
This pro-choice activist wants to fight “with love and passion” to take away the right to life of babies like the one below.
See what a baby around this age looks like after being aborted
Share on Facebook“I do not intend to respond to your question which has no basis in what public policy we do here.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, responding to a reporter who asked her this question:
“Leader Pelosi, in reference to funding of Planned Parenthood, is an unborn baby with a human heart and a human liver a human being?”
Pelosi also said:
“I am a devout, practicing Catholic. A mother of five children. When my baby was born, my firth child, my oldest child, was six years old. I think I know more about this subject than you, with all due respect.”
Which, of course, is no answer at all.
Kelli “VIDEO: Nancy Pelosi skirts question on whether a preborn child is a human” Live Action News, OCT 1, 2015
Below: A human being?
“Do unto others as they want you to do unto them. It’s called the Platinum Rule. In this moral universe, real people count more than potential people, hypothetical people or corporate people….
I’m pro-abortion because I believe in mercy, grace, compassion, and the power of fresh starts.”
VALERIE TARICO “I am pro-abortion, not just pro-choice: 10 reasons why we must support the procedure and the choice” Salon APR 24, 2015
Where is the “mercy” and “compassion” for the unborn victim who is torn limb from limb in an abortion?
See what abortion really does to children (GRAPHIC)
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“Abortion might be killing a life. Bu 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.”
Actress and pro-choice supporter Margot Kidder
Paul M Clark “The Source of Human Dignity” quoted in Paul T Stallsworth The Right Choice (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1997)
Which is a worse “sin”?
Killing a baby to prevent her from being unwanted?
Or letting her live?
From a pro-choice commentator on an article here.
Like pregnancy, the bubonic plague is a natural phenomenon that we, fortunately, now have a way to control and contain. Both the bubonic plague and pregnancy, though obviously to different statistical degrees… can cause death. Before modern medical interventions and the advent of reliable birth control methods, it was common for women to die in childbirth, especially because of the complications that would arise from having had multiple pregnancies. Just because childbirth is natural does not mean that it is always a great experience for the mother…
She is not the only prochoicer I’ve heard calling pregnancy an illness that can be “treated” with abortion.
Share on FacebookProlife author Dave Sterrett said:
“A Presbyterian minister in my city once said that he would support his teenage daughter to get an abortion. When another pastor asked him, “When do you believe a human person begins to exist?” The Presbyterian minister replied, “I think someone becomes a person when they are loved.”
Dave Sterrett Aborting Aristotle: Examining Fatal Fallacies in the Abortion (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2015) 96
The baby below died in an abortion clinic. He was never loved. Was he therefore never a person?
This other baby, around the same age as the aborted one, was wanted and loved, but was stillborn. Was he a person because his mother loved and wanted him?
In a 2012 post, an abortion clinic worker over at Abortion Gang complains about problems with the pro-choice movement:
A co-worker once told me that in her 10+ years of working in the reproductive health field, her peers in other movements validated time and again that our movement is the most f@cked up. Not f@cked up because we don’t have our hearts in the right place (we do) or because we don’t have science on our side (we do), but because of the way we treat each other, and the way our intra-movement politics operate.
Every so often several friends and I debate the merits of “outing” certain organizations for their legendary bullshit. Everyone knows that organization A has an executive director who’s a megalomanic. Everyone knows that two particular organizations bully other smaller organizations. Everyone knows that organization B likes to fire (almost) everyone every couple of years. Everyone knows that certain national organizations have less than cordial relationships with their local affiliates. Is there merit in pinning a name to these claims? What would happen to the person who decided to to do so? Would she be ex-communicated from the movement? Lose the ability to work or volunteer in the movement ever again?
She then goes on to describe what it’s like to work in an abortion clinic, all the faults of the administration:
In an effort to be less vague, let me make it painfully obvious. Here are a few clues that the reproductive health, rights, or justice organization you work at may be a toxic work environment:
o You’re expected to treat your members/patients/donors better than the way your boss/upper management treats you.
o You’re afraid to confront your co-worker/your boss about something racist/classist/transphobic/etc she said for fear of losing your job.
o You don’t get insurance coverage. The insurance coverage you get doesn’t cover pre-natal care, contraception, or abortion. You don’t get decent maternity or paternity leave. Yet these are all values your organization supposedly champions.
o There is frequent turn over and burn-out because of low pay and high stress.
o Your volunteers, interns, or anyone with “assistant” in their title are treated as a commodity.
o Young people, people of color, and/or queer folks are not valued, are not expected to be leaders, and are tokenized.
o When you give thoughtful feedback about your job or about the organization in general, no one takes you seriously.
o Your organization primarily works with or on behalf of low-income communities, communities of color, and/or young people, yet those folks are not represented on the staff or on the board. And there are no conversations about class, race, or privilege among staff. Ever.
o You see young people being encouraged to take on responsibilities for which they are not being paid, for the good of the organization and therefore the movement.
o You find yourself having to mask your work conditions, including poor communication, bad management, and unclear organizational goals, while selling your organization to donors and supporters.
o You are underpaid and are made to feel uncomfortable for any mention of that, or for requesting to be paid fairly, because times are tough/the economy is bad/you should be putting the organization’s needs before your own.
o Your organization only cares about marginalized people in a marginalized place (hello, low-income Texan women!) when your org stands to make a buck off of promoting their rough situation.
Toxic Work Environments in the Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice World Abortion Gang 2012/04/25/
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