Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

Pro-Choice Activist: Pro-Lifers Have a Stronger Position

From her former pro-life activist who now considers herself pro-choice:

“Pro-Lifers have the much stronger rhetorical position, both verbally and visually.… They compare abortion to the Holocaust – a metaphor no one for choice can rival. They have pictures of what they claim are aborted fetuses, fetuses that appear both human and violently damaged. Such pictures appeal to pathos in a way no logical pro-choice argument can hope to…. [There is] no image to rival the visual horror of the aborted fetus; instead there are only sterile, unemotional concepts in which to believe: privacy, choice, legalization. While feminists may feel the rightness of choice, that rightness can’t compare, on an emotional level, to the emotions associated with the implied opposite of pro-life (pro-death) or with the images of bloody fetuses.”

Elizabeth Wardle, PhD “The Rhetoric of Abortion: Reflections from a Former Pro-Life Activist” Quoted in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 90

This pro-choice activist admits that pro-lifers have a more persuasive case. Perhaps this is why so many young people are becoming pro-life. Read more about pro-choicers comments on abortion pictures here.

See some pictures of abortions here.

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Pro-Choice Activist Justifies Abortion Violence

Abortion related violence is always wrong, whether it’s a pro-choice activist doing it or pro-life activist doing it. The media has reported extensively on antiabortion activists who assaulted abortion doctors or clinic workers or bombed abortion clinics, but has been, for the most part, completely silent about pro-abortion violence against pro-lifers. Cars have been set on fire, picketers have been assaulted and hit by cars, and crisis pregnancy centers have been firebombed. People have been threatened and attacked. Yet the media is silent. This website document some of these cases of violence

One pro-choice activist justified violence against pro-lifers in the following quote, which was cited by Carolyn Gargaro:

“Don’t even suggest that there is ANY comparison between the violence wrought by pro-choice activists and the violence wrought by the anti-abortionists…. the fundamental drive of your violence is the aggressor. Our’s is not. Those of the pro-choice views commit violence because they feel that their human rights and freedoms are threatened by your cause. It’s much like a tigress or lioness becomes violent when her cubs are threatened.”

Apparently, according to this activist, violence against pro-lifers is justified.

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Killing to Spare a Baby Suffering

“The majority of women who abort do so because they know that the unwelcome child, born of constraint or misfortune, will be wounded in some unacceptable way. As Artemis might kill a wounded animal rather than allow it to limp along miserably, so a mother wishes to spare the child painful destiny.”

Ginette Paris, the Sacrament of Abortion (translated by Joanna Mott) (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1992) 146 – 147

abortion at 10 weeks- justified to save the baby pain?

 

 

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Catholics for Free Choice President Admits That Abortion Takes a Life

Frances Kissling, President and CEO, Catholics for a Free Choice:

“I agree that the way in which the arguments for legal abortion have been made include this inability to publicly deal with the fact that abortion takes a life.”

Speaking Frankly,” Ms., May/June 1997, page 67

 

 

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Beverly Wildung Harrison: Abortion Is a “Genuine Moral Blessing”

“The existence of a safe, surgical, legal abortion is often a genuine moral blessing, despite a degree of moral ambiguity that needs to be acknowledged.”

Beverly Wildung Harrison

Our Right to Choose: toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon press, 1983) 18 Quoted in  Germain Kopaczynski No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1995) 150

abortion at 14 weeks – legal in every state in the United States
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Planned Parenthood Doctor: Abortion Makes Women’s Problems Worse

At a 1955 conference on induced abortion held by Planned Parenthood, Dr. Iago Gladston:

“It is of course true that both the person and the situation may be relieved and somewhat ameliorated by the abortion,just as an individual suffering from a gangrenous foot may be relieved by the amputation of the affected member, but I would like to go on record that in numerous instances both the individual and the situation are actually aggravated rather than remedied by the abortion. Bad as the situation was initially, it not infrequently becomes worse after the abortion has taken place.”

Iago Gladston, M.D., at the 1955 conference on induced abortion held by Planned Parenthood. Quoted in Mary Calderone, M.D., Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (editor). Abortion in the United States. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1956. Page 117.

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Pro-Choice Activist: Life is Not Sacred

“There clearly is no logical or moral distinction between a fetus and a young baby; free availability of abortion cannot be reasonably distinguished from euthanasia. Nevertheless we are for it. It is too facile to say that human life is always sacred; obviously it is not.”

“The Unborn and the Born Again” editorial, New Republic, July 2, 1977, 6

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Student Compares Unborn Baby to Tapeworm

“If anything, a fetus is merely a parasitical creature that uses the mother as its host.Tapeworms are parasites that house themselves in the intestinal tracts of humans, feeding off the food the host consumes. Comparatively, a fetus is little more than a tapeworm. It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?”

MSU State News:Wad of cells does not equate to human life, abortion isn’t murder:7-26-2006

abortion at nine weeks – is this the remains of a tapeworm?
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Naomi Wolf on Abortion

Feminist and pro-choice author Naomi Wolf:

“When someone holds up a model of a six-month-old fetus and a pair of surgical scissors, we say “choice” and we lose.”

Naomi Wolf “Pro-Choice and Pro-Life” the New York Times, April 3, 1997

It is not easy defending something as horrific as abortion.

Aborted baby at six months. Abortions at this age are Legal in the US
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Abortion As a “Sacred Act of Compassion”

In The New Age Journal, Brenda Petersen wrote the following:

“I approach this abortion as a sacred act of compassion and letting go. Many mothers before me, and grief and with wisdom, have made holy the sacrifice.”

Brenda Petersen, “Moon Times: a Meditation for Spiritual Healing from Abortion” The New Age Journal September/October, 1993 page 65 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)

11 weeks – a sacred act of compassion?

 

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