Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

Pro-choice blogger Valerie Tarico describes how abortionists who kill disabled children are doing “God’s work:”

“The human body fends off most infections and cancers, but not all. It spontaneously heals most broken bones and closes many wounds but not all. Similarly, it spontaneously aborts most problem pregnancies, but not all. Nature tends to abort pregnancies where there are problems with cell division or fetal development, where there is little chance for a fetus to become a healthy, thriving person. Through medical or surgical abortion, as through every other medical procedure, doctors and healers extend the work of nature—of God, if you will—to promote health and wellbeing. By ending pregnancies that don’t have a good chance to turn into thriving children and adults, they are—literally or metaphorically–doing God’s work.”

Valerie Tarico “Abortion as a Blessing, Grace, or Gift: Changing the Conversation on Reproductive Rights and Moral Values” RH Reality Check April 3, 2014

So what exactly is a “thriving’ child or adult? A child who isn’t dependent on others? A child who isn’t blind or physically handicapped? A child who is smart enough to make a great deal of money? Eliminating the “imperfect” and disabled is not “God’s work” to pro-lifers.

Thanks to LifeNews for this quote.

Longtime pro-abortion activist Lawrence Lader praises the abortion pill and talks about how it is one of the best inventions science has ever come up with:

“RU-486 [The abortion pill] presents a classic case of how scientific progress can revolutionize our lives. Within the last century, the railroad opened up Western America and became a major factor in turning the United States into an economic colossus. The elevator was essential to the development of the skyscraper, the vertical city, and the concentration of businesses and services in a unified geographic area. The automobile give us more than speed; it opened up the suburbs and the possibility of combining a rural or semi rural lifestyle with employment in the central city. The cathode ray tube made television possible. Antibiotics and other pioneering drugs extended our lifespan and improved the quality of these added years. But when it comes to making an impact on our personal relationships, the science of controlling human reproduction must be considered unique. No other development – not even the telephone, with its advantage of bringing families and friends together – as so drastically changed our lives….

With the development of RU-486, scientific progress has reached a whole new stage.”

Lawrence Lader, RU-486: The Pill That Could End The Abortion Wars And Why American Women Don’t Have It (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991) 19

So apparently, a pill that allows women to kill their unborn babies at home (which is an extremely painful and upsetting experience for them) is an invention on par with the telephone and the automobile. Perhaps a better comparison would be the guillotine and the electric chair.

Carol Westfall, abortionist and executive director of the Akron Women’s Medical Group abortion clinic Ohio, said the following when a judge ruled that an informed consent law, which required a 24 hour waiting period for abortions, could go into effect. The law ruling meant that a days’ worth of abortion procedures would have to be rescheduled at Westfall’s clinic.

`This ruling came out at quarter to five on a Thursday night. It was impossible to get a hold of these patients,” Westfall said. “My opinion is, the judge should be lynched.’

“Lynch the Judge?” JivinJehoshaphat September 13, 2005

The quote appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal, but the original article now appears to be offline.

From the book Abortion: a Positive Decision:

“There was a window of time when we decided to have the child. It was beautiful, I felt so at peace, I had never felt that way before. I had always struggled to take care of myself, and suddenly that was 2^nd to this child. A child by a man who I love very much, so it was a real beautiful thing. It lasted about a week and half, and then reality began to set in. I had to decide at that point that if I am going to keep this baby, then I have to start making changes in my life. I have to start telling my work and my family and the university and on and on. I began to see the implications of keeping the baby, that I would continue to work for low wages, if I could work at all, and he would continue to work for low wages.

What helped me make the decision the most was we literally put it down on paper. We said this is what we want, if we keep the baby, if we don’t keep the baby. We decided it would be much better if we could wait. Waiting was a much better choice. It just seems that obvious. It’s been a very difficult thing, because of my feelings for him and my feelings for the baby. But I don’t regret it. In the long run it has been good. I will finish my program and we’ll buy a house…”

Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 35 – 36

It is a pity that this woman had an abortion even though she acknowledges that she was pregnant with a “child.” The reason she gives, are they really reasons to kill a baby? The baby below is 8 weeks old, right around the time when most abortions are performed. Was her abortion justified?

Below is a picture of the foot of an 8-week-old aborted baby, left behind after the suction tore the child apart: