Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

Senator Shirley Smith, on a visit from children bearing gifts of teddy bears to Senators in order to promote the heartbeat bill: (The children were sent into the offices of proabortion Senators with little teddy bears and a brief message asking them to vote to restrict abortion after the heartbeat can be detected)

“I’m not at all supportive of the bill, and I’m not supportive of them sending kids in my office with a teddy bear that mimics a heartbeat, either. I thought that was a very cheap exploitation of kids.”

Laura Bassett, “Antiabortion Group Sends Children with Teddy Bears to Lobby Lawmakers,” Huffington Post, January 12, 2012

From Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio:

“I think a lot of our folks looked at the flowers and other things as stunts. I think that was how it was received in a lot of the Senate offices as well. The one that got a little different reaction was when they had the children come and lobby and deliver the teddy bears. One of the Senate staffers told me that it kind of disturbed them because some of the kids were quite young. Their family walked them to the door of the Senate office, but didn’t go in with them. She told me that the kids that walked into her office looked pretty scared and intimidated. So I think that was received with a little more concern, how the kids may have been exploited.”

Robin Marty, Jessica Mason Pieklo Crow After Roe (Brooklyn, New York: ig Publishing, 2013) 43 – 44

So a child being sent into an office for a few minutes while his parents wait outside his exploitation, but abortion, which actually kills children, is perfectly okay? What about this child: he was legally killed by an abortion in the first trimester. Was he not “exploited” and mistreated?

Or this one, aborted at 21 weeks:

NARAL Pro-Choice argues for keeping 21 week abortions legal. According to them, it is perfectly all right to abort these babies – but not to send children into a senator’s office with a gift of a teddy bear

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Lovely.

I suppose someone who advocates doing this to a baby….

doesn’t really flinch all that much at strangling an adult.

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The Abortioneers is a blog written by abortion clinic workers. One clinic worker discusses what happens when women miss their abortion appointments because of natural disasters:

“When Hurricane Katrina hit I was working in the South at an abortion clinic. I remember hearing stories through our networks of women desperately trying to find an abortion clinic after they were evacuated because the hurricane caused them to miss their appointment. … At my clinic when there were a few times we were forced to close due to circumstances beyond our control, we would “freeze” the fee for women so that they did not have to pay the extra money it would cost them to wait a week. That is one thing clinics can do, but what about women who have reached the limit of what is legal in their state? What happens to them? My heart breaks for any woman who tried to get an abortion this past weekend and will now have to carry to term. I wonder if they see this Hurricane as a sign that they were not meant to abort?… I am exhausted and sad just thinking about it.” 

“Hurricane Weather Report” The Abortioneers Aug 31, 2011 

This clinic worker is “exhausted” and “sad” at the thought that some women might decide to keep their children instead of aborting them. Her heart breaks that babies like the one below might be allowed to live and grow up rather than being torn apart by abortion clinic instruments.

Thank you to Secular Pro-Life, and Eleanor S.  who wrote an article on this quote.

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