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Abortion justified by original sin?

Methodist minister John M Swomley who we’ve heard from before, disputes the belief that unborn babies are “innocent” and should not be killed:

“The first claim is that society should protect innocent human life that is unable to protect itself. The term “innocent,” originally used by various popes, refers to fetal life which has committed no sin. Yet the Roman Catholic Church has proclaimed only one person, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as having an immaculate conception and hence free from original sin. In any event, public policy cannot be founded on theological claims to innocence.

There is another meaning of “innocence” which comes from two Latin words, in (not) and nocere (to harm), and therefore means “not harmful or dangerous.” However, it is precisely the fact that some pregnant women (and their physicians) view the fetus as harmful or threatening to their health or welfare and hence leads them to consider abortion.”

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 14

Tiny remains of a baby aborted at 7 weeks

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Pro-choice group: photos of aborted babies are “hilarious”

“Warning: lots of fake blood and phoney [sic] photos — if you can’t stomach Grade B horror movies, don’t go there. Otherwise, it’s hilarious!”

Pro-choice students at the Tennessee college MTSU on the Genocide Awareness Campaign. which displays photos of aborted babies on college campuses.

Tennessee Guerilla Women “Pro-Choice MTSU Students Stand Up for Abortion Rights in Tennessee” September 11, 2007

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Methodist pastor: caring about the unborn is “idolatry”

“Opponents of abortion in America have attributed to fetal life a sacredness that is actually idolatry… Fetal idolatry denies a woman’s right to control her body, her life, her destiny, all of which must be sacrificed to an embryo or fetus once she is pregnant…

Fetal idolatry shows no mercy. … One of the major critiques of idolatry about unborn life is its lack of concern for the abundant or purposeful life to which all of us should be called. No one of us should be an unwanted child or have to experience emotional abandonment or lack of compassion and love in childhood.”

Minister John M Swomley

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 78

Swomley is an ordained United Methodist minister, from 1960 to 1984 he was professor of Christian Ethics at St. Paul’s school of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. He’s also president of Americans for Religious Liberty and a longtime board member and sometimes vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union and chair of Church – State committee (at the time this book was written)

Is caring about unborn babies like the one below “idolatry?”

Are prolifers without mercy? what about the unborn baby’s right to live? Does that matter?

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Abortion-rights the “cornerstone of the woman’s movement” says feminist

Rickie Solinger quoted another pro-choice feminist saying the following:

“I consider the right to elective abortion… the cornerstone of the women’s movement… Without that right, we’d have about as many rights as the cow in the pasture that’s taken to the bull once a year.”

Rickie Solinger Beggars and Choosers (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001) 4

below: pieces of aborted babies between 6 and 11 weeks

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Pro-abortion writer admits life begins before birth

Pro-Abortion author Katie Roiphe admits that abortion kills a life, and people know it:

Preborn baby's toes at 7 weeks — Preborn baby’s toes at 7 weeks

“The idea that “life begins at birth” is useful politically, but as many have pointed out, in the age of sonograms, of cloudy little hands and feet coming into focus at nine weeks, how many people actually believe it?

Our language betrays our desire. A cluster of cells that is wanted is a “baby,” and one that is unwanted is a “fetus.” One never hears excited parents-to-be referring to the “fetus”; the leap of imagination from fetus to baby is so ordinary, so automatic, so universal that we cannot pretend, even in the realm of political expediency, that it is not so. We can’t try to argue that some clusters of cells are not “life” if we are, say, busy calling our own cluster of cells a baby….

Let’s imagine a scenario in which we admit that abortions may involve an obliteration of something that could legitimately be called life but that they are done to protect something that could also be called life. Planned Parenthood is, after all, in the business of protecting women’s lives, their futures, their ability to pursue education, to establish security, to have homes filled with future children, and their freedom to decide how best to use their short time on earth.”

Katie Roiphe “Good Riddance, “Pro-Choice” Slate JAN. 16 2013

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Minister: Planned Parenthood is doing “sacred work”

From Tom Davis , who is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ and a chaplain and professor at Skidmore College:

“I contend that Planned Parenthood is engaged in a form of sacred work, the work, that is, of securing reproductive justice for women… Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is thoroughly secular. But when it comes to the issue of sacred work, that doesn’t matter. The scripture is clear about one thing: sacred work, the work of justice, is sacred no matter who does it.… In the biblical view, sacred work is love, and in practical social realities, sacred work is justice.”

Tom Davis Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005) 6 – 7

Below: some “sacred work” at 9 weeks

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Which life takes priority? in abortion

“Having looked at the facts, uncomfortable as they are, you have to make up your own mind as to which life takes priority. That decision is a moral one, that only you can make.”

Pro-choice filmmaker Julia Black

ABC.net: Religion and Ethics:12-28-2005

She admits that there are two lives involved in an abortion.

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Abortion, like war, is “taking of life”

“I think abortion belongs in the same context as assisted suicide, euthanasia, even war and domestic self-defense – all situations that require the taking of life with moral, ethical knowledge and acceptance of responsibility.”

Pro-choice activist Judith Arcana

“Feminist politics and abortion in the US” Psychology and Reproductive Choice

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Pro-choicer: don’t debate with pro-lifers, they are like Nazis.

“Along with most other pro-choice groups, we do not engage in debates with the anti-choice … Simply put, the right to abortion is not a debatable issue. Access to legal, safe abortion is a fundamental human right, one that should be safeguarded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Would you have a debate on whether people have the right to freedom of religion? Or the right to equal protection under the law? Or the right not to be held in slavery or servitude? … Would a Jew debate a Nazi? “

Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network.

“Why Pro-Choice Supporters Do Not Debate the Anti-Choice.” Quoted in “To Debate or Not to Debate.” The Caleb Report [Life Decisions, Inc.], July-August 1999, pages 3 and 4.

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Pro-choice activist condemns Planned Parenthood for demanding high cash contributions

A pro-choice activist complained about how Planned Parenthood discounted volunteers like her and pressured its supporters for money. She explains why she will no longer volunteer at PP:

“I have been volunteering for Planned Parenthood for the past three years. … I cannot afford to attend $85 luncheons, let alone write a $250 check. The core volunteer group that I work with has similar motivations – we love Planned Parenthood, but sometimes it feels like our contributions are completely overlooked, especially when we constantly get emails from PPFA asking for more and more money.

My problem doesn’t just reside with Planned Parenthood. Every nonprofit that I have ever worked for, either as a volunteer or a staff member, seems to discount the donor who can only afford to give $5 or $10. Volunteer hours are never calculated in terms of their economic value to the organization. And staff who already contribute to the organization by working long hours for very little pay are also disrespected when they are hit up for money by the development officers. When you’re only making $27,000 a year, how in the hell are you supposed to afford spending $250 a month in financial contributions to your employer?

Here’s the scoop: if PPFA didn’t spend so much money on fancy pink posters and snazzy T-shirts, they might not need to shake the money tree so often….

My tenure as a Planned Parenthood volunteer is rapidly coming to a close.”

“How effective is corporate feminism?” Abortion Gang Nov 21 2011

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