Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

From a 38-year-old woman who had 3 abortions:

“Abortions aren’t anti-life. Abortions are pro-life, my life.”

Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 58

“That means something like 400 [pregnant women] have had their life substantially disrupted… “It means that 400 real children at the end of those pregnancies are going to be born into families that may have, at very realistic levels, said that, ‘We can’t afford another mouth to feed,’ or ‘I can’t afford child care.’,”

Bryan Howard, president of Planned Parenthood Arizona, on the drop in abortions by 400 after a pro-life law took effect. A law requiring a medical doctor to perform every abortion and meet with the patient 24 hours before the operation to offer her a chance to see the ultrasound.

Jill Stanek “Abortion numbers down in AZ, but Planned Parenthood still does 90%; laments 400 “real children” who may survive”

HOWARD FISCHER “Cause of abortions drop in state disputed”  Yuma Sun Oct. 12, 2011

This quote shows that laws offering women the chance to see an ultrasound of their baby reduce the number of abortions and save children’s lives. This is why Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics usually turned the ultrasound away from women and discourage them from seeing the images. Here we see that Planned Parenthood is unhappy about the babies who have been born alive because of the laws. Whether this unhappiness springs from loss of revenue or from anti-child sentiment is unclear.

Community Abortion Information and Referral (CAIR) gives women money that they put towards getting their abortions. They only pays part of the abortion cost. These are the things that the author of this article says she tells women who cannot afford their abortions.

“I had to ask women who weren’t as far along if they could delay their procedure another week or two. I counseled one woman to put a $3,000 procedure on her credit card–even though she was unemployed and had no way of making payments…One woman got a payday loan at a 322 percent annual interest rate. I had to ask women if they had any valuables they could sell to the pawnshop, or if it was possible to put off paying some bills for the month.”

Leela Yellesetty Abortion rights and the ballot box , Socialist worker December 13, 2012

Advising women to drive themselves into poverty in order to avoid giving birth to an unwanted child (who could always be given up for adoption) does not truly help them.