Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

Gloria Feldt, then Pres. of Planned Parenthood, described how she was asked to go on television after the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian by an antiabortionist assassin.

“After Slepian’s murder, I was asked to appear on a network TV show to discuss the killing and its implications. I was told it would not be a debate. And how could it possibly be a debate? Is there “other side” to the issue of cold-blooded murder?

But by air time, the host had found a representative from the National Right to Life committee to oppose me. “To be fair,” she explained… Fairness, my eye. Would you have gay bashers on to “debate” the murder of Matthew Shepard? Give Al Qaeda operatives airtime to present their views in defense of the bombing of the World Trade Center? Sociopaths don’t deserve this kind of attention.”

Gloria Feldt the War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back (New York: Bantam Dell, 2004) 184

Every single known pro-life group condemned the murder of Doctor Slepian by a lone abortion fanatic. National Right to Life is completely unaffiliated with any type of violence and had nothing to do with the murder. Feldt’s comparison of a National Right to Life representative to “gay bashers” and “sociopaths” is the worst kind of rhetoric demonizing pro-lifers.

Especially considering that babies like the one below represent the cause of the pro-choice movement. Planned Parenthood performed hundreds such abortions on the day of the debate.

One woman had several abortions because she was an actress and didn’t want to be pregnant and have to take a leave of absence from the shows she was performing in. She says:

“It’s always been unfortunate that every time I’ve been pregnant I’ve always been involved in a show, and that always takes priority… [Before I had the 2^nd abortion] I went to see a show which I liked, it was very physical and I thought, “I’d like to do something like that, maybe I’ll do a street show.” And then I thought, “oh no! You’ll be 8 months pregnant by then, and it went pow! In my head. It was that night I made the decision.”

Mary Pipes Understanding Abortion (London: The Women’s Press, 1998) 49 – 50

Most abortions are performed between 7 and 12 weeks. Here is a picture of part of the baby aborted at 7 weeks. This is what her decisions have destroyed.

A pro-choice author describes explains how most members of the public oppose most abortions:

“The reasons for which the American public at large is most approving of abortion are not the foremost reasons why women have abortions. Women, in the main, do not have abortions because of rape, incest, deformed fetuses, or because their physical life is in danger. But these are the most appropriate reasons in the eyes of the American public. Being poor, too young, unmarried, and not wanting a baby are deemed less valid in public opinion polls. We have a huge disjunction here that needs to be resolved. And the pathetic thing, in terms of public opinion, is that “I don’t want a baby at the moment” isn’t considered the most valid reason at all.”

Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 33