From a pro-choice publication on debating the abortion issue:
The [pro-life] opposition will hammer away at life and murder themes —matters of theology and faith, rather than fact and reason. Dispose of these as quickly as possible (avoid the “When does life begin?” discussion) …
Looseleaf workbook “Organizing for Action.” National Abortion Rights Action League, 1974, page 31. “Introduction to Debating.”
Linnea House, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota, speaking to about 60 pro-choice activists at an event:
“I’ll be blunt. These are going to be incredibly challenging times for us…And our opponents are organized, they’re funded and they are ready to go.”
ERIC ROPER Abortion foes begin new battle at Capitol; Efforts to restrict abortion gain strength across U.S Star Tribune January 23, 2011
Pro-life activists are passing laws that restrict abortions at record speed over the past three or four years. A recent poll showed that 58% of Americans are against abortion in all or most cases. The tide is turning.
Postabortion women and pro-choice activist Sue Nathanson regrets her abortion – but she does not seem to regret the death of her unborn baby, but rather the way her child was killed, or as she says it, “sacrificed.” She would rather have had her child killed at home than in a clinic – that is what she says it this truly bizarre quote, in which she seems to be saying that she wishes she could’ve killed the baby herself, with her “own hands”:
“I wish now that my fourth child could have been sacrificed with my love and tears, even with my own hands, in a circle of a family or community of women, in a circle of a compassionate and loving community of men and women who might be able to perceive my vulnerability as a mirror of their own, and not as it was, in a cold and lonely hospital room with instruments of steel.”
Sue Nathanson Soul Crisis (New York: New American Library, 1989) 217 – 218
Image of an unborn baby at 10 weeks – would it be “love” to kill him?Typical remains from an abortion at this stageShare on Facebook
This is what Smith’s “God given” mission is, according to her:
First trimester unborn baby (9 to 10 weeks)Babies dismembered at 9 weeks by an abortionAborted baby at 10 weeks – 40% of abortions are done at this time or laterBaby aborted in the first trimester, around 7 weeks after conceptionShare on Facebook
“Some abortion advocates refuse to participate in debates with pro-life representatives unless the pro-life side is prohibited from showing any pictures either of fetal development or the results of abortions.”
Camille S Williams “Feminism and Imaging the Unborn” in Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) 69
In an article in Reason magazine physicist Winston L Duke said the following. This quote is from just before Roe versus Wade, when pro-choicers were first beginning to advocate legalizing abortion:
“It should be recognized that not all men are human… It would seem to be more inhumane to kill an adult chimpanzee than a newborn baby, since the chimpanzee has greater mental awareness.”
Winston L Duke, “The New Biology,” Reason, August 1972 Quoted in Paul B Fowler Abortion: Toward an Evangelical Consensus (Portland, Oregon: Multnomah Press, 1987)36
7 weeks – most abortions are done at this time or later
From a booklet handed out by Planned Parenthood:
“Is the fetus alive? Is it alive? Algae is alive, and earthworms, and your appendix. Mold on the bread in the refrigerator is alive. People are not agreed on what a life is … If you look at pictures of human, chicken, pig, and turtle embryos at the same stage of development, it is difficult to tell them apart.”
“Let’s Tell the Truth About Abortion.” Pamphlet distributed by Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood. 1985, 22 pages. Fight Back Press, Post Office Box 61421, Denver, Colorado 80206. Pages 3 and 4.
“Here is a startling revelation: I am a mother of two and a woman who earlier in her life had an abortion. I am unapologetically pro-choice. And I knowlife *begins* at conception …. because I kinda already knew that having a child required, as a first step, the successful integration of a sperm and an egg, or fertilization.
In other words, “life” begins at conception, if by “life,” we mean the essential starting place of a potential human being. Neither my 16-year-old daughter nor my 13-year-old son would be here if they were not first conceived,if the fertilized eggs had not gone through the process of cell division, successfully implanted in my uterus and developed into healthy embryos, and subsequently gone successfully through the many other phases of development leading to their births.
[commenting on a quote from Congressman Paul Ryan, where he said that seeing his unborn baby on the ultrasound screen, convinced him that life began at conception]
“I understand that seeing the sonogram of a wanted child is a powerful thing and a connection to the potential person whose birth is much awaited. But if it took Paul Ryan to see a sonogram of his daughter in utero to get him to believe his wife was pregnant and that his daughter’s “life” began with conception, the state of GOP knowledge on sex and biology is even worse than I thought.”
A while back, Live Action News posted an article about the “Bro- Choice” movement, I commented on an article that appeared in the pro-choice blog ”BurntOrangeReport” (Orange was the color that pro-choicers chose to wear when they arrived at the Texas Capitol building to protest a law banning late-term abortions, pro-lifers were dressed in blue) Ben Sherman in the blog entry the reasons why men should be pro-choice:
“Forcing women to adhere to the anti-choice attitudes of state legislators forces men to do the same, and will have serious consequences both on men’s lives and lifestyles.”
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“Your sex life is at stake. Can you think of anything that kills the vibe faster than a woman fearing a back-alley abortion? Making abortion essentially inaccessible in Texas will add an anxiety to sex that will drastically undercut its joys. And don’t be surprised if casual sex outside of relationships becomes far more difficult to come by.”
It is clear that Sherman wants women to be able to have abortions so that there will be no consequences when irresponsible men get them pregnant.
As he says, his ability to have “casual sex” is at stake. The sad thing is, it is women who are left to deal with the emotional impact of abortion. You can read here about some of the studies that have been done linking abortion to depression and suicide in women. Here you can read stories of women who have suffered after their abortions.
Unborn potential viction of the bro-choice mentality
