They said it.
“What is aborted is a protoplasmic mass not a real, live, grown up individual.”
From doctors Dr. JP McDermott and Dr. WF Char in an effort to pacify nurses at a Hawaiian hospital when they became extremely upset by “dead fetuses and pieces of limbs, fingernails and hair” in the operating room.
“Abortion: the Hidden Holocaust” Heritage House ’76, Inc. February 2, 2011
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A pro-choice writer in Salon admits that abortion ends a human life:
“When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born.”
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS “So what if abortion ends life?” Salon JAN 23, 2013
Yet she still supports killing those fetuses.
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Ridiculous pro-abortion quote of the day:
“If it is a terrible thing to play God by terminating physical life, it is also a terrible thing, in another sense, to play God by imposing as a divine absolute a prohibition that may cause immense suffering to both individuals and society.”
Pro-choice activist
Edward Batchelor, Jr. ed., Abortion: the Moral Issues (New York: Pilgrim, 1982) 109
Apparently, dismembering a baby like the one below in an abortion is playing God, but preventing someone from dismembering the child is playing God… Even more?
Remains left behind after an abortion at nine weeks
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Episcopal Bishop George Leslie Cadigan:
“It is at once the glory and the burden of each of us that we are called upon to make such difficult personal decisions according to our conscience. When we deny that liberty to any one of our number, we give away a part of our own birthright. When, more specifically, we condemn a woman for making an independent judgment according to her own conscience, relating to her reproductive life, we denigrate her personhood.
The “rightness” or “wrongness” of abortion as the solution of a problem pregnancy is not the critical issue here. The issue is the larger ethical one: can any one of us stand in the role of judge for the personal decisions of others? What robes shall we wear? Greater than the debatable immorality of terminating an undesired pregnancy is the immorality of refusing a woman access to medical help when she has determined that she needs it.”
John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 21
So the rightness or wrongness of abortion is not the issue? One would think that if abortion was wrong, it would be wrong because it’s killing of the child. Like the one above, at 9 to 10 weeks. See what a 9 week old baby would look like after an abortion. Killing a child is wrong – wrong in every way – and it should be condemned.
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“A woman would have the right to abortion just as she has a right to remove any parasitic growth from her body.”
Gloria Steinem, author and feminist leader, on CNN, September 9, 1981
Quoted in “Abortion: the Hidden Holocaust” Heritage House ’76, Inc. February 2, 2011
Is the picture above of a growth or of a baby?
(see what a seven week old embryo looks like after an abortion here)
Above: from a “growth” at 14 weeks. (see what he or she would look like after an abortion) Thousands of babies are aborted at this age every year in the US
Share on FacebookIn a take-off of 40 days for life, pro-choice activists have written their own prayer. This actually happened a while ago, but I just found out about it. An abortion clinic worker talked about the 40 days of prayer for choice and reproduced the prayer on her webpage.
I have decided to post it here- and intersperse it with pictures of what they are REALLY praying for.
40 Days of Prayer to Keep Abortion Safe and Legal
Day 1: Today we pray for women for whom pregnancy is not good news, that they know they have choices.
Day 2: Today we pray for compassionate religious voices to speak out for the dignity and autonomy of women.
Day 3: Today we pray for our daughters and granddaughters, that they will always know the power of making their own good decisions.
Day 4: Today we give thanks for the doctors who provide quality abortion care, and pray that they may be kept safe.
Day 5: Today we pray for medical students who want to include abortion care in their practice. May they receive good training and find good mentors.
Day 6: Today we ask for blessings upon the women who pass through hostile protesters on their way into an abortion clinic. May they be shielded from physical and emotional harm from those who do not know them.
Day 7: Today we pray for the 45 million American women who have had safe, legal abortions. May they stand tall and refuse shame.
Day 8: Today we pray for elected officials, that they may always support a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions.
Day 9: Today we pray for women who are afraid of their lovers. May they find the confidence to turn away from abuse and take care of themselves.
Day 10: Today we pray for women who were joyfully expecting a child, but have learned that the pregnancy is not sustainable.
Day 11: Today we pray for better access to all forms of birth control.
Day 12: Today we pray that women know the power of their own stories. May they find their voices and tell their truths.
Day 13: Today we pray for the men in our lives, that they may offer their loving kindness and support for women’s difficult decisions.
Day 14: Today we pray for Christians everywhere to embrace the loving model of Jesus in the way he refused to shame women.
Day 15: Today we pray for parents whose teen daughters are pregnant. May they help their daughters through this difficult time with kindness and openness.
Day 16: Today we pray for the counselors in abortion clinics that they may listen with their hearts and offer wise guidance.
Day 17: Today we pray for increased financial support for low income women to access contraception, abortion, and childcare.
Day 18: Today we pray for all the staff at abortion clinics around the nation. May they be daily confirmed in the sacred care that they offer women.
Day 19: Today we pray for all pregnant women. May they be surrounded by loving voices.
Day 20: Today we pray for the families of yesteryear who still mourn the loss of their mothers, sisters, and aunts due to illegal abortion.
Day 21: Today we pray for women in developing nations, that they may know the power of self-determination. May they have access to employment, education, birth control, and abortion.
Day 22: Today we pray for an end to all violence against abortion providers.
Day 23: Today we give thanks for the strong women in our lives who have given us examples of good decision-making.
Day 24: Today we pray for an end to hateful language that diminishes the dignity of women.
Day 25: Today we pray for women who have been made afraid of their own power by their religion. May they learn to reject fear and live bravely.
Day 26: Today we give thanks for the intelligence, talent, wit, and wisdom of all the women and girls in our lives.
Day 27: Today we give thanks for abortion providers around the nation whose concern for women is the driving force in their lives.
Day 28: Today we pray for the women who travel hundreds of miles to get an abortion. May their determination be rewarded with spiritual strength.’
Day 29: Today we pray that all women will know that they are created in the image of God, good and holy, moral and wise.
Day 30: Today we pray for women to throw away their secrets and claim their histories with power and truth.
Day 31: Today we pray for all discrimination against women to cease.
Day 32: Today we pray for an end to the stigma perpetrated against women who have abortions.
Day 33: Today we offer a prayer of remembrance for abortion providers who lost their lives because of their commitment to women.
Day 34: Today we give thanks for abortion escorts who guide women safely through the hostile gauntlets of protesters.
Day 35: Today we pray for girls everywhere, that they may have every opportunity for education, sport, health, art, and vocation.
Day 36: Today we pray for the families we’ve chosen. May they know the blessing of choice.
Day 37: Today we pray for women to claim their equality and demand their rights as citizens.
Day 38: Today we pray for a cloud of gentleness to surround every abortion facility. May everyone feel calm and loving.
Day 39: Today we pray for a contagious love to overflow from our spirits.
Day 40: Today we give thanks and celebrate that abortion is still safe and legal.
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“Because the fetus feels no pain, a function of the brain as yet undeveloped, and the woman acts under her own will and conscience, it is still not violence to a human being.…
It is not enough to say that abortion is not violent. Abortion is a positive decision and not a lesser evil. It gives women control over their lives, their fertility, their education, their vocations, and their responsibility to their families, and is therefore profamily and pro-life.”
Pro-choice Methodist pastor John M Swomley
John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 82
this isn’t violence?
Share on FacebookPro-choice activist Ellen Willis, whom the book Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement describes as a “well-known feminist journalist,” was interviewed in 1996. She said that her early abortion rights work was about:
“asserting autonomy and subjecthood; it was about the right to have sex, play God, to bring life into the world.”
Jennifer Nelson Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2003) 3
Share on FacebookFrom pro-choice Methodist Minister John M Swomley:
“There is also covert violence in the idea that women should not have sexual intercourse if they don’t want children. An act of sexual intercourse is not an implied contract to have children. While this may be the belief of those who accept the doctrine that every sexual act must be open to procreation, it would be violent for any government to decide that such a sectarian doctrine should be enforced against anyone, Catholic or non-Catholic, who does not accept that teaching.”
John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: The War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 58
Suggesting a woman shouldn’t have sex is violence, but abortion is not? Look at the picture of an aborted baby (first trimester) below and ask yourself if a suggestion of abstinence is more violent than abortion.
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Lawrence McKinney, at the time Planned Parenthood board member in upstate New York, said the following upon seeing a large family:
“All I do actually is to multiply them by $600, which is deductible from their income tax and realize that I, with only three children, am paying for them. The McKinney suggestion, which has and will go nowhere is: 1) give everybody a tax reduction for four children and after that make them pay $600 for every other child. The only trouble with my system is that since most of the explosive families are on relief anyway, there is nothing to deduct from or to tax with.”
Mary C Kahl Controversy and Courage: Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood from 1934 to 2004 (New York: IUniverse, Inc., 2004) 43
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