They said it.
Cindy Pearson, an advocate of women performing “do-it-yourself” abortions, said the following about performing abortions:
“this is so fun; this is so great, that we can do this ourselves … It’s just joyful.”
Candy Berkebile. “Feminists Teach “Do-It-Yourself” Abortions.” Quoted in Family Voice [a publication of Concerned Women for America], June 1992, pages 12 and 13.
From pro-choice author Sarah Erdreich:
“I remember a button that my mother had when I was young, 3 words in white font on a magenta background: “Pro-Child, Pro-Family, Pro-Choice.” To me, that seems to sum up the entire pro-choice argument very succinctly: it was not about being anti-children, it was about supporting families, children, and choices.”
Sarah Erdreich Generation Roe: inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013) 186
Is this pro-child?
Share on FacebookAlexander Sanger, abortion advocate and descendent of Planned Parenthood founder and controversial figure Margaret Sanger, said the following:
“Reproductive freedom is vital to humanity. It is even more vital than all the other freedoms that we cherish – freedom of religion, freedom of thought and speech, and the freedom to live our lives as we see fit. Humanity has these freedoms, or should have them, because they add to human happiness and make for a better world. So does reproductive freedom.”
Alexander Sanger Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2004) 70
The unborn baby below is 12 weeks old, still in the first trimester, when most abortions take place. Thousands of babies are aborted at his age every week. Click here to see pictures of what babies this age look like after an abortion.
Is the right to kill children like him really more important than the right to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc.?
“This is not a new tactic. It is the same people under different names. These people are like Nazi youth, like Hitler youth.”
Angela Bocage, spokeswoman for the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights on the teenage members of a pro-life club in a local high school.
Tonya Schevitz Wills “Teenagers Organize to Protest Abortion” San Francisco Examiner, August 23, 1993
Poem by Anne Baker and Gene Stewart Berg from the Hope (abortion) Clinic for Women:
“… When others use television commercials, billboards, bumper stickers, speeches, and sermons to make us feel guilty about having an abortion,
We women know the truth:
That given certain circumstances
Abortion is the most morally responsible
And loving choice we can make.
Krista Jacob Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion (Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, 2002 – 2004) 5
Share on FacebookFrom pro-life author Randy Alcorn:
“When a pro-life candidate ran television ads showing aborted babies, people were outraged. A CBS Evening News reporter declared the abortion debate had reached a “new low in tastelessness.” Strangely, there was no outrage that babies were being killed… only that someone had the audacity to show they were being killed.”
Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)
People are often enraged when encountered with the horror of abortion. This has led some pro-lifers to feel that pages of aborted babies should not be shown to the public. They worry that this will make people more entrenched into their positions because they cannot process the horror of what they are seeing and instead take their anger out on the messenger. However, people are often swayed by the pictures when they see them on the Internet. Read some testimonies here.
See pictures of abortions at different stages here
Share on FacebookFrom an interview with pro-life activist Joe Scheidler:
Q: When you debate leaders on the proabortion side, and you show them these pictures of what are clearly dead, and mutilated corpses of unborn children, how do they respond?
A: They say, “You have broken the rules. We’re not supposed to show pictures.” They say that we paint these pictures, or that it was really a baby that was killed and some other way. They’ll try anything when confronted with it to try to divert attention from it. If you get on a television talk show, they will not let you use the pictures, but I always have them lying there are in a folder nearby to keep them nervous.”
David Kuperlian and Mark Masters “Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet” New Dimensions, 1990
An unborn baby at 8 weeks:
A photo of a baby aborted at this age:
From a proabortion clergy member:
“Clearly, giving a woman the right to abortion is a compassionate stand, and anytime compassion rules over judgment, we see the kingdom of God.
I can’t get any of these Bible thumping, antiabortion people to show me any place at all scripture where Jesus ever says, “You made your bed, now lie in it. Too bad…”
I see Jesus as being outrageously gracious, outrageously forgiving. If Jesus were right here today, I think he would say, “I’m sad that anyone has to have an abortion. I’m sad that has to be a choice. But you’ve been created as human beings… You’re going to make mistakes. Yes, I do value life, I do value babies, but I don’t use babies for punishment.”
The Rev. Christine Gimbol
Quoted in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991)87
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Pro-life author Randy Alcorn talks about how pictures show the humanity of the unborn child, and how pro-choicers don’t like to face their reality:
“Still, denial remains surprisingly strong. When I showed an intrauterine photograph of an eight-week unborn child to a pro-choice advocate—an intelligent college graduate—she asked me, “Do you really think you’re going to fool anyone with this trick photography?”
I told her she could go to Harvard University Medical School textbooks, Life magazine or Nilsson’s A Child Is Born and find exactly the same pictures. She didn’t want to hear it. Why? Because she was really saying, “That’s obviously a child in this photograph, and because I don’t want to believe abortion kills a child, I refuse to believe that’s a real photograph.”
Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011)
This photo from The Endowment for Human Development, a site affiliated with the Department of Health, which is not a pro-life or religious site. It is pictures like these that abortion proponents claim are false. See more pictures like this one as well as videos of unborn babies at the Ehd site.
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Ann Furedi, former director of the British pregnancy Advisory Service, England’s largest provider of abortions
“Perhaps it is time to conclude that abortion has become as much a part of contemporary life as email, espresso, and Lyrcra.”
Abortion: Whose Right? Institute of ideas capitalized (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002) 45
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