Category: Pro-Choice Quotes

Vegetarian: Killing Animals “Immoral”, Killing Babies “A Right”

One pro-choice activist says the following:

“I am a vegetarian. The killing of sentient, biologically autonomous birds or mammals who have done nothing to me, solely to satisfy a completely unnecessary (and unhealthy) lust for artery-clogging animal fat, is something that I personally consider to be immoral and unethical…  even if the embryo is human, it still would not have the right to force the mother to use her body to keep it alive against her will. If the decision to give birth is what she wants, then “life” is a “beautiful choice.” But it is her choice; she cannot legally be forced into it….” [Emphasis in original]

TF Barans “Women’s Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro-Choice Right to Abortion” copyright 1999-2007

week 10 – is this as bad as killing a chicken?
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Pro-Choice Author: Ultrasound Is “Torture Weapon”

Many women who go to crisis pregnancy centers change their minds about having abortions when they see their baby on the ultrasound screen. Some estimates say that up to 80% of women who see their baby moving on the ultrasound screen choose to give birth rather than have abortions. For this reason, abortion clinics routinely turn the ultrasound machine away from women.

Planned Parenthood another pro-choice organizations vehemently fight laws that would require a woman to see the ultrasound of her baby before an abortion, and even fight laws that would simply give her the option to do so without requiring it.

One pro-choice author, commenting on a proposed law in Louisiana which required a woman to see an ultrasound image of her baby before aborting it, called the ultrasound a “torture weapon.”

12 weeks

Is it really best for women to be kept in the dark about their pregnancies? Any pro-lifer who has listened to postabortion women talk has realized that many of them are traumatized when they are told by clinic workers that their unborn babies are simply collections of cells and then later see a baby on the ultrasound screen, perhaps a subsequent pregnancy. Is it better to keep women in the dark to “protect” them, or to give them all the information about what is going on in their own bodies?

 

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Judge Calls Unborn Baby a “Growth”

An article in The Human Life Review quotes judge Lewis Powell describing a woman’s right to an abortion this way:

 “The abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus…but also has a right to a dead fetus.”

Hadley  Arkes “Slouching Towards Infanticide” The Human Life Review Summer 1998

Calling a fetus, which is an unborn baby, a “growth” shows a remarkable ignorance of biology. An unborn baby is not a growth – here she is a living organism with a heartbeat and circulatory system and DNA that is distinct from the mother. Below is a picture of a sonogram of a “fetus” in the first trimester. Does it look like a growth?

Go here to see a picture of what a “fetus” looks like after an abortion  in the first trimester (at 10 weeks)

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A Saltwater Creature?

One doctor says the following:

“I prefer to look at the problem [of abortion] through the eyes of Darwin and evolution. Why not permit abortion in the first trimester, when the embryo is still a salt water creature …?”

George Crile, Jr., M.D., retired head of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. “When Does Human Life Begin?” Guest editorial in the Medical Tribune, March 6, 1985

an unborn baby at nine weeks, well within the first trimester.

Is this a saltwater creature? It’s hard to believe that a doctor could be so poorly informed about fetal development. Perhaps he knows the facts and is just using propaganda to support abortion.

Here is a picture of what this unborn baby looks like after a nine week abortion:

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Adoption is Inhumane, Says Planned Parenthood

A publication put out by Planned Parenthood in Chicago said the following:

“But aren’t there alternatives to abortion? Yes, there are. A pregnant women can carry the baby to term and she can then keep it or relinquish the baby for adoption. Relinquishment is often not a very humane procedure.”

“Let’s Tell the Truth About Abortion.” Booklet distributed by Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood. Fight Back Press, 1985.

Is this more humane than giving the baby to a loving couple?

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“We Must Be For Abortion” Says Pro-Choicer

12 week old unborn baby

“Nobody is for abortion,” at least one speaker will intone at any pro-choice rally. The implication is that decent people will always disdain it. That is precisely the attitude we should be fighting to change … We must be for abortion …”

Tom Flynn. “‘Pro-Choice:’ Wrong Turn for Abortion Rights?” Free Inquiry (“An International Secular Humanist Magazine”), Winter 1991/92, pages 6 and 7.

Pieces of a 12 week old aborted baby

 

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Pro-Choice Woman Horrified at Abortion Film

Julia Black Is a British Pro-Choice Activist Who Made a Film Entitled “My Fetus” which recorded abortions in progress. It is usually pro-lifers who want to show the world how bad abortion is by showing the actual procedures. In this case, the maker of the film is pro-choice and she’s trying to desensitize viewers and defend abortion.

The film shows graphic pictures of aborted babies.

According to an article about the documentary:

“The film is apparently staggering in its emotional impact. One pro-abortion journalist, Lauren Booth of the Daily Telegraph (London),who has herself had an abortion, watched the documentary and wasstunned. “My hand flew to my mouth in shock,” she said. “I swallowed. I didn’t want to say it, but the word `murder’ came to my lips.”

Black said that she made the film:

“[to] “reclaim the most powerful weapon the anti-abortion groups currently have – the fetus and the baby.”

Ed Vitagliano MURDER:SO WHAT? Film Reveals Growing Callousness To Abortion  AFA Journal News Editor Wed Feb 14, 2007

 

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Catherine Weiss, Head of the Reproductive Freedom Project, Defines Abortion

On legislation banning partial birth abortion, which is a technique of abortion where the baby is delivered up to the head and killed partially outside of the woman’s body:

“The elements of this crime are the elements of abortions, namely that the fetus comes out through the vagina and is killed. That’s what an abortion is.”

Catherine Weiss, head of the Reproductive Freedom Project of the American Civil Liberties Union

Melanie Conklin, “Lights out on Abortion,” The Progressive July 1998

There is no doubt that abortion kills a “fetus.” A fetus is merely a human being in an early stage of development.

28 week fetus – legal to abort in every state in the United States
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Like Brushing Your Teeth?

One pro-choice activist said the following:

“A set of blueprints is not a house; the DNA of a zygote is not a human being. There is no moral obligation to conserve DNA if there was, no man would be allowed to brush his teeth and gums, for in this brutal operation hundreds of sets of DNA are destroyed daily.”

Garrett Hardin, professor of biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Quoted in Redbook Magazine, May 1967. Also quoted on page 101 of Ruth Barnett.They Weep On My Doorstep. Beaverton, Oregon: Halo Publishers, 1969.

remains of an abortion at nine weeks

 

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Naomi Wolf On Pictures of Aborted Babies

While most pro-choice activists deny that pictures of aborted babies are real, one pro-choice feminist admits that they are and speaks out against the hypocrisy of pro-choicers  who want to hide them:

she is referring to pictures like this one

“So what will it be: Wanted fetuses are charming, complex, REM-dreaming little beings whose profile on the sonogram looks just like Daddy, but unwanted ones are mere ‘uterine material’? How can we charge that it is vile and repulsive for pro-lifers to brandish vile and repulsive images if the images are real? To insist that the truth is in poor taste is the very height of hypocrisy. Besides, if these images are often the facts of the matter, and if we then claim that it is offensive for pro-choice women to be confronted by them, then we are making the judgment that women are too inherently weak to face a truth about which they have to make a grave decision. This view of women is unworthy of feminism.”

Naomi Wolf,  feminist author and advocate of legal abortion, in “Our Bodies, Our Souls”, The New Republic, 10/15/1995

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